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[00:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Also In Japan - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:43] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a recent story about this same problem in Japan: http://www.japantimes.co.jp [japantimes.co.jp]. ... Yet the achievements of Ohsumi, 71, and other recent laureates seem increa...
[00:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also In Japan - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:44] <exec> 08└─I've spoken to a Japanese post-doc applying for faculty positions in the US and he said that, even though it is incredibly competitive in the US, there is at least a chance at a future as an independent scientist. In Japan, he says, seniority is the most important thing and that junior and more seni...
[00:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Counterexample - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:46] <exec> 08└─It seems we can spend trillions of dollars on wars, or on science, but not both.
[00:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Counterexample - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:49] <exec> 08└─That cost $26 billion in 2016 dollars...
[00:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Armies of overeducated people - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:51] <exec> 08└─And they're competing for the few positions that will let them do speculative research. How many of them only did their PhD because their families expected it?
[00:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Armies of overeducated people - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:53] <exec> 08└─only did their PhD because their families expected it
[00:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old Labs Versus New - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:55] <exec> 08└─An article in Nature from a few months ago calculated the numbers and found that ~55% of people graduating with a PhD 40 years ago attained a faculty position and that number today is around 10%. The percentage of NIH grants funded is also around a third of what it used to be. Establis 2f3e hed labo...
[00:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I was going to go into it - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 2227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:57] <exec> 08└─For me, it would have been a mid-career shift. I actually started - got back into studies, made sure the numbers lined up and all that, so I could get into the right places, started getting to know professors - all the stuff you'd expect. Then I realised a few key facts: First, science only pays for...
[00:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I was going to go into it - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:59] <exec> 08└─" Third, most actual academic science is incredibly bound up in politics (the usual sort), academic politics (of course), and turf wars (kind of overlaps the academic politics, but makes it damn near impossible to do sensible cross-disciplinary work). "
[00:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02So educating tha masses not so good? - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:02] <exec> 08└─...a ludicrous over-supply of postgrads...
[00:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:15] <exec> 08└─or keeping seals vacuum-tight on a partially rotating craft?
[00:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:16] <exec> 08└─I came here to say much the same thing. It's by no means a technically challenging project to create a crew habit with rotation. It's literally in nearly every single space movie simply because it's so logical to provide. I'm sure we originally got the idea from NASA. Your point is pretty good becau...
[00:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Back to SciFi - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:26] <exec> 08└─Few if any stories have gone in depth on the changes the human body will undergo in different environments. But, when man moves off of the earth, he WILL adapt. Arguably, mankind's greatest talent is manipulating his environment, but we don't have the tools or the knowledge to do a lot of manipulati...
[00:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One size fits all - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:54] <exec> 08└─No, because you don't actually get an education from state programs, or even from private schools.
[00:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah right - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:15] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound like an IOT appliance to me. Perhaps one of us misunderstands something.
[00:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap IoT is borderless. - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:24] <exec> 08└─I don't think smartphones count as IOT devices. As for the rest of your comment...you left out lots of possibilities. Washers, refrigerators, and TVs are ones that I've heard of recently. I think someone mentioned air conditioners a month or so back. Basically anything that uses electric power is a...
[00:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:We accept this - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:29] <exec> 08└─In the US, yes. In Britain, I don't think so. Laws change from country to country, so If you're in Canada or Mexico, you'd better check the local definition before you mention unkind truths. P.S.: In the US it's not unknown for companies to file suits against people that are saying unkind truths, an...
[00:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:Vampire current is a non-problem. - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:52] <exec> 08└─Was given a Bunn coffee pot as a gift, and I thought it was great until I realized that it *always* keeps the water hot. Even at two pots-per-day, that seems like a lot of energy waste. What's great as the workhorse of a ship's coffee mess doesn't necessarily apply at home. Now I'm curious to know h...
[00:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score:2) 02in-home waste is not the problem - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:00] <exec> 08└─Turn off those all-night illuminated stores in just a couple malls -- and kill the damn parking lot lights once the cleaning crew goes home -- and you've saved far more megajoules than a zillion (statistically made-up number) homes.
[00:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not any different than 230 years ago.... - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:35] <exec> 08└─They basically pulled this on the Revolutionary Army vets who returned from the war only to have the merchants of America (who many of them were indebted to since they were mostly subsistence farmers) demand repayment since trade with Europe came to a halt over the merchants defaulting on THEIR many...
[00:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics of Government - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:43] <exec> 08└─Saying that we are living in a post-ethical society implies that at one point we lived in an ethical society. I believe that history doesn't reveal such a period. There are certainly periods when people *believed* that their government was acting ethically, but that's a separate event. What needs to...
[00:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There is a way. - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:45] <exec> 08└─But it requires patriots to give up being American in order to go create an example of what America should be instead of what it is. Have YOU found any Americans willing to make that sacrifice?
[00:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:A different question - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:55] <exec> 08└─If you placed value on being accurate, you could not accept the policies of the political group called conservative in the modern US. I'll go further. I know of NO political party that places much value on being accurate or which practices accuracy. NONE! It doesn't sell well.
[00:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:A different question - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:59] <exec> 08└─Agreed that it's extremely unlikely to happen, but Congress could point out the concerted effort by the executive to manufacture evidence that the war was necessary. Meanwhile, the authorization act itself only authorized military action necessary to the defense of the U.S. By manufacturing evidence...
[00:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Why waive it? - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:06] <exec> 08└─It is said that there were soldiers that knew the amount they were given was not an amount they qualified for. That should need to be proven in each separate case, but in those cases I wold accept the requirement to repay as reasonable. BUT IT SHOULD NEED TO BE PROVEN IN EACH INDIVIDUAL CASE!
[00:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Why waive it? - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:10] <exec> 08└─No, "they" realized that they offered the soldiers more than they intended to. But nevertheless, it was an offer that was made and accepted.
[00:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:''boots on the ground'' - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:16] <exec> 08└─I don't know who invented the term "boots on the ground", but Kipling seems to have been familiar either with it, or with some term substantially equivalent. Read his poem "Boots".
[00:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Decades-old storm rages for decades! News at 11 - 06Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Has Changed From Blue to Gold - and No One Knows Why - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah sure, but has it been raging all the time? :-)
[00:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wedding photography - 06Swedes Ban Camera Spy-Drones for Anything but Crime Fighting - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:09] <exec> 08└─woosh
[00:14:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] 02Re:You sorely underestimate... - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 908 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:25] <exec> 08└─okay, so we know a 'solution' to the two-party duopoly (actually two hydra-heads of the same Korporate Money Party) is twofold: 1. ensure transparent and trustworthy elections 2. enact instant runoff/ranked choice voting methods these two steps *might* give us a fighting chance to (re?)establish a f...
[00:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:You sorely underestimate... - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:32] <exec> 08└─I don't know what Florida is doing for election this year, but I do remember some hanging chad. Apparently, an extremely poor method of voting helped to lead to a very narrow race, and both parties wanted to take advantage of any doubt. The R candidate won that election because he did and end run on...
[00:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:You sorely underestimate... - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:34] <exec> 08└─I'll tackle number 2: Counting first-past-the-post is difficult, but a known process and easy to audit. Instant run-off is literally exponentially more difficult.
[00:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''the extreme left-wing party Syriza'' - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:42] <exec> 08└─SYRIZA (it's an initialism) isn't "extreme left". Hell, they aren't Left at all. Their -rhetoric- during the campaign was Left. As soon as they took office, they immediately showed that THEY ARE ACTUALLY PRO-AUSTERITY.[1] They took out *new* loans which went right into the hands of their creditors;...
[00:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Vote third party - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:45] <exec> 08└─You are largely correct. I live in a Western democracy which had first past the post voting and two dominant parties until the 1970's when two (completely different) potential third parties arose and gained (at times) up to 20% of the vote, but no seats in parliament. While this was fundamentally un...
[00:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:Four years is lame - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:51] <exec> 08└─Drumpf
[00:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03guizzy [5021] (Score:1) 02Re:The Only Feature That Matters - 06Apple Watch Leads the Dying Smartwatch Market - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:36] <exec> 08└─Until tech companies realize this, they will keep failing. Pebble had it right, from the start. People THINK they want a fancy watch with a bright vibrant color screen that can do everything from play games to show maps. These features are mostly unused after couple of months. Then the person start...
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[01:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obviously... - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:55] <exec> 08└─Japanese Scientists need to read the entire story archive of BOFH. Then combine it with any number of snuff/horror movie plots from Japan, and their opportunities to rise will increase! At the very least, they might be able to place a boss with seniority who will understand that autonomy will be bes...
[01:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Also In Japan - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:57] <exec> 08└─If your Japanese post-doc can speak English without sounding like s/he has 10 dicks in his/her mouth, then they already have a significant advantage. Even with advanced degrees, here in America FOB-speakers are relegated to the bowels of process engineering trying to figure out what a "GPIB" is for...
[01:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Counterexample - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:01] <exec> 08└─And was part of a war...
[01:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:I was going to go into it - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:08] <exec> 08└─The Watson guy is an idiot... While speaking at a conference in 2000, Watson had suggested a link between skin color and sex drive, hypothesizing that dark-skinned people have stronger libidos.[86][87] His lecture argued that extracts of melanin – which gives skin its color – had been found to...
[01:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I was going to go into it - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 1726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:10] <exec> 08└─Generally speaking, you don't see as many uncivilized Asians as you do uncivilized Africans nowadays. A major exception is in China, where people literally defecate in the middle of shopping malls, but that's a problem of overpopulation per Calhoun's mouse experiments rather than an inherent barbari...
[01:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I was going to go into it - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:12] <exec> 08└─Ah, I'm not surprised to see your Nazi scientist side finally come out. Eugenics is bad for a variety of reasons, and only arrogant blowhards think differently.
[01:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I was going to go into it - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:15] <exec> 08└─"They" didn't do anything to Watson or Shockley, both of them said some stupid racist shit that wasn't backed up by scientific evidence. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and controversial extraordinary claims with a long, dark history require incredibly convincing evidence of the...
[01:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:So educating tha masses not so good? - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:18] <exec> 08└─Read again. Nowhere did I propose not educating the masses. In fact, I proposed fixing high schools; raising their standards to the point that all those prerequisites in current colleges are superfluous. What we currently think of as AP courses should be the norm. To think of it another way, if a ba...
[01:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So educating tha masses not so good? - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:20] <exec> 08└─95% of the population is already trash, since we provide them with an abysmal level of education. A grand majority of colleges--and certainly K-12 schools--are horrendous; only people without a proper education don't see this.
[01:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:So educating tha masses not so good? - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:22] <exec> 08└─dunno, if we speak about the "civilized" world and not the "devastated/colonialised", the education if good. I come from commie country, and education was good. Now live in scandinavia, and education is good... Compared to the problems they inherited, chine and most of asia is also ok. Usa and Canad...
[01:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So educating tha masses not so good? - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:24] <exec> 08└─The problem is that people who received a terrible education are less likely to recognize that their education was terrible, so you end up with uneducated people defending abysmal school systems which rely too much on rote memorization and refuse to recognize the rote memorization. The gap in qualit...
[01:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So move into industry with your PhD - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:26] <exec> 08└─Oh gross.. and work for those greedy soulless bastards? Well there you go. Adult life is different from what they tell you when you're 9 years old.
[01:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:41] <exec> 08└─And the best bit is you probably don't need the full 9.8ms^-2 to lose most of the harmful effects of zero G.
[01:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:42] <exec> 08└─And here I thought it was in every space movie because the actors are easier to film that way
[01:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:''Inversion tables only work with gravity'' - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:50] <exec> 08└─Martian Women have an interesting adaptation to the problem, their backs are stronger than human woman because they have three [mondocine.net] breasts rather than just two. The extra support as a result of that adaptation counteracts the effects of different gravity on their physiology.
[01:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Inversion table? - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:53] <exec> 08└─That's the genius of it. When you use an inversion table in space you're hanging upside down no matter which way you're pointed. Couldn't be easier to use.
[01:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Back to SciFi - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:59] <exec> 08└─You're really not too adept at that whole "adapt" thing, are you?
[01:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Insightful) 02 - 06American Academy of Paediatrics Changes Infant Screen Time Advice - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:09] <exec> 08└─This is true, whether or not the gadget is a tablet or smartphone. I am not a parent, but many of my friends are, and they've fallen into the trap of distracting their kids with kid-oriented phone apps. Take away the phone, and the kid starts screaming. Back when I was a kid, when I did anything lik...
[01:11:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Not so much about the *time* - 06American Academy of Paediatrics Changes Infant Screen Time Advice - 3919 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:16] <exec> 08└─I really wish this sort of recommendation would stop being phrased in terms of amount of screen TIME. If you even read the report, you discover that there are a lot of other factors at play. Put bad parenting and inappropriate content together, and they reinforce bad results. Put good parenting and...
[01:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea but poor plan - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:30] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the chance of winning the lottery when you buy one ticket is far greater than the chance when you buy none.
[01:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They do... - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:07] <exec> 08└─When you think about how easy it is for any government to get into them while online and crack their security. Hint: If you haven't powered them off they are susceptable to attack, airplane mode or not.
[01:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:They do... - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:09] <exec> 08└─I think you should be reasonably safe from remote attack if you disable both radios. Modern smart-phones have plenty of storage to record audio and upload later though.
[01:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:No legal basis? - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:13] <exec> 08└─Based on the way things have played out so far, that's not how it's working. Nobody who works for government is "high priced," at least until they get into congress or leave and become lobbyists. Anyway, this is how it works - You threaten them with legal action, they offer concessions, and you take...
[01:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:A different question - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:37] <exec> 08└─If you placed value on being accurate, you could not accept the policies of the political group called conservative in the modern US.
[01:14:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02Re:Proof - 06Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Has Changed From Blue to Gold - and No One Knows Why - 96 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─Clearly Saturn's Hexagon is made from the same material as that damn dress from early last year.
[01:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''an extremely poor method of voting''... - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:10] <exec> 08└─an extremely poor method of voting helped to lead to a very narrow race [in Florida] A major element that you didn't mention was the confusing "butterfly ballot". The Blues -could- have objected to that and a bunch of lawyers whom I have heard on the subject say the Blues would have prevailed in cou...
[01:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:You sorely underestimate... - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:12] <exec> 08└─Australian elections, along with most of the world, have much simpler elections. In an election you vote for 1 or possibly 2 representatives. I assume that Australia is like Canada, where there is a Federal election and a separate Provincial/State election and also separate municipal elections. One...
[01:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03000 y t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Vote third party - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:21] <exec> 08└─Representative democracy is simply oligarchy by another name. Someone who stands to gain power and influence will tell any lie to get elected, and exploit the "us vs. them" mob mentality that rules human social behavior. It only works when there is a high level of political awareness and involvement...
[01:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:At the risk of winning a Godwin - 06Judge Orders FBI to Reveal Whether White House Launched 'Tor Pedo' Torpedo Exploits - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:04] <exec> 08└─Romani or Roma, not Gypsies. Just like it is Jews, not Kikes. Sadly the Roma are still persecuted in too much of Europe. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The joke on the Nazi's was that the Roma are pure Caucasian.
[01:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:At the risk of winning a Godwin - 06Judge Orders FBI to Reveal Whether White House Launched 'Tor Pedo' Torpedo Exploits - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:12] <exec> 08└─I think that you are a poor judge of what is becoming.
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[02:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02The Giant Sucking Sound - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:42] <exec> 08└─This is what Ross Perot warned us of.
[02:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Spaceballs thought of it first - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:44] <exec> 08└─This [imgur.com] is what I imagined on reading the title of the story.
[02:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Runs android" - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:51] <exec> 08└─Don't want. This is a camera that will report back to google where you are and what you are taking pictures of and anything else google can hoover up.
[02:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Also In Japan - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:03] <exec> 08└─The post-doc could speak fine, but he has been a post-doc in the US for almost 12 years.
[02:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So move into industry with your PhD - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:23] <exec> 08└─The industry job market is also incredibly competitive because that is the next obvious option. Now, an academic post-doc of at least a couple years is required for most entry-level PhD jobs. Part of the problem with the situation is that new graduates, who always wanted to go into industry, have to...
[02:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2) 02That why I went full nihilist - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:24] <exec> 08└─Once uppon a time I was a researcher it. But then I saw the light and I became a member of the bureaucracy, I traded some sense of purpose for stability but kept most of the perks of academia.....
[02:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:42] <exec> 08└─There are the small issues of significantly accelerating the whole structure towards its destination, and negatively accelerating it when you get there, which interfere with building laterally. Solvable, but expensive. There is also the issue of a submerged submarine being exposed to temperatures va...
[02:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Fully weaned off the glass teat. - 06American Academy of Paediatrics Changes Infant Screen Time Advice - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:06] <exec> 08└─My kids can't seem to hang onto their tablets. The behavior degenerates whenever they get them back, so we keep taking them away.
[02:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:My experience - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:36] <exec> 08└─I honestly do not want my kids wasting time doing wood burning, basket weaving, pottery, and singing when they could be doing educational electives. I wouldn't mind a few here and there, definitely would not mine a survival course, but I really doubt these would happen.
[02:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not All Conspiracy Theories are Now True - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:54] <exec> 08└─Just because some conspiracies are true doesn't make all conspiracy theories true. This one does not pass the laugh test because its so egregious. We know how the NSA likes to backdoor hardware and they certainly don't do it like this. These are the guys who deliberately weakened a random number gen...
[02:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Anti-SLAPP - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:12] <exec> 08└─We have anti-SLAPP [anti-slapp.org] laws for that.
[02:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:A different question - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:39] <exec> 08└─Agreed that it's extremely unlikely to happen, but Congress could point out the concerted effort by the executive to manufacture evidence that the war was necessary. Meanwhile, the authorization act itself only authorized military action necessary to the defense of the U.S. By manufacturing evidence...
[02:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wedding photography - 06Swedes Ban Camera Spy-Drones for Anything but Crime Fighting - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:48] <exec> 08└─*boom*
[02:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:You sorely underestimate... - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:15] <exec> 08└─I have just voted in my Local body Elections, which is a combination of First-past-the-post, single transferable and mixed member voting. I voted for (something like) 30 candidates in about 8 different races. Counting was completed over the weekend. The US could easily change their electoral system,...
[02:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Vote third party - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:22] <exec> 08└─In direct democracy, the people who can afford to take the time and effort to do so represent themselves.
[02:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Four years is lame - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:31] <exec> 08└─You know, I can call my buddy an asshole or cunt, with a smile on my face, when he does something stupid and he laughs. If I call a stranger an asshole or cunt, it is considered quite insulting.
[02:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Four years is lame - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:35] <exec> 08└─Wow, look at that. It's exactly the kind of partisan dipshittery that the previous posters were warning against.
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[03:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The black clothing crowd - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─At Silicon Valley just exclaimed: "Oh.... We've been trying to create products that didn't suck."
[03:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farkus888 [5159] (Score:2) 02Rain? - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─Don't rain clouds need dust in the air to seed themselves? That is just the first unintended consequence to come to mind.
[03:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2) 02The Dutch know better than to use coal. - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:47] <exec> 08└─"All they need now is to build another two dozen coal-fired power plants to run the vacuums." Although lagging behind the rest of Europe as renewable go, they only have 5 coal plants, and although non-binding, their parliament just voted for reductions that would require them to be shut down. ht...
[03:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Probably won't buy - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:56] <exec> 08└─I'm a keen hobby photographer, and use my DSLR every weekend ( at least). If I had a dollar for every "new technology" that was going to take over from DSLRs I'd have about $8. This looks like all of them, kind of interesting in a new tech sort of way, but it's still just a phone camera. Also there'...
[03:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably won't buy - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:58] <exec> 08└─Not so sure. I carefully read the whole thing, and the approach is amazing. I would even say this is an entirely new class of camera. To take pictures at 70 mm, we move the mirrors so that the five 70-mm modules now point straight out from the camera; all of them cover approximately the same field...
[03:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Armies of overeducated people - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:17] <exec> 08└─How true. I had some profs asking me to stay after grad school.. I had a funny feeling they wanted more cheap labor. Luckily I didn't stay.. somehow the dream of being able to roll around in a pile of cash didn't seem likely in academia and research. Still not that I'm rolling in a pile of cash now,...
[03:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I was going to go into it - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:25] <exec> 08└─Ironically, Shockley probably started to suffer from the effect of heavy metals poisoning right around the time he decided to abandon semiconductor research.... As you probably know semiconductor manufacturing was quite messy....
[03:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Back to SciFi - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:05] <exec> 08└─Here's one. [soylentnews.org]
[03:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03scruffybeard [533] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea but poor plan - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:39] <exec> 08└─You make good points. Governing means prioritizing some things over others. I would argue that removing a law via a ballot measure is not simple. It is a process that can take years. During that time the legislature's hands are tied. Now one or two measures like this do not pose much of a problem, b...
[03:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:My experience - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:48] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately by wood burning I meant using a device much like a soldering iron to burn letters into wood. I agree that ceremics, firemaking, survival, even weaving are desirable to learn to some extent, but I do not want my kids doing a half hour a day course in each for three months.
[03:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score:2) 02Re:You sorely underestimate... - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:28] <exec> 08└─Australian elections, along with most of the world, have much simpler elections. In an election you vote for 1 or possibly 2 representatives. I assume that Australia is like Canada, where there is a Federal election and a separate Provincial/State election and also separate municipal elections. ......
[03:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:At the risk of winning a Godwin - 06Judge Orders FBI to Reveal Whether White House Launched 'Tor Pedo' Torpedo Exploits - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:41] <exec> 08└─Fucking useless dipshits have arrived to parrot the talking points of their masters! Good chimp!
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[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Spaceballs thought of it first - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:49] <exec> 08└─I'm glad I'm not the only one.
[04:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Depends - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:53] <exec> 08└─If your vacuums clean up more particulates from the air than the coal plants used to power them produce, then you still come out ahead.
[04:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Disappointing - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:55] <exec> 08└─Dutch and air pollution in the headline and nobody makes a dutch oven joke? You sadden me, guys.
[04:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably won't buy - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:06] <exec> 08└─If this thing is affordable for the masses, we will be able to see for ourselves how good it is.
[04:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Big Crunch by David Goodstein - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:41] <exec> 08└─https://www.its.caltech.edu/~dg/crunch_art.html [caltech.edu]
[04:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02tax caps, whoa is us - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:56] <exec> 08└─Property tax caps "forced" school districts to scrap this program. I don't suppose there were certain other portions of the budget which ballooned during this time. A school district where I used to live scrapped marching band and gave the superintendent a five-figure raise.
[04:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:No legal basis? - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:38] <exec> 08└─No, you don't, you have to know who was responsible for that and make them pay.
[04:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:A different question - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:02] <exec> 08└─Bush was making oblique references to invasion before he was even elected. He said a number of things off hand that only made sense if invasion was a foregone conclusion (Honestly, I don't remember exact details but that was the impression I got at the time). But yeah, as I said, it'll never happen....
[04:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Silos - 06Apple Watch Leads the Dying Smartwatch Market - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:18:43] <exec> 08└─Well I didn't say nobody found a use for 'em, I said the days of everybody wanting a tablet are as dead as disco. Its the same as netbooks, they still make netbooks, hell you can buy Win 10 netbooks for like $200 and they still sell, its just the "ZOMFG you HAVE to have one of these!" is over, too m...
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[05:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Why? - 06North Carolina Libraries to Lend Out Motion-Activated Cameras for Backyard Wildlife Tracking - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:39] <exec> 08└─Is this a big sport or something? Thousands of pictures of stray cats and dogs and urban deer hardly seem worth the effort. Put them out in the woods and fields where they belong.
[05:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06North Carolina Libraries to Lend Out Motion-Activated Cameras for Backyard Wildlife Tracking - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:40] <exec> 08└─Oh for sure there will be a bunch of that. But in NC you *will* get other things.
[05:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Rain? - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm also curious about where they're getting the energy to build these devices and run them once installed. This could be a useful way of dumping some excess electrical capacity, but I can't imagine how this is going to be efficient enough to be worthwhile when compared with technologies to jus...
[05:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sarasani [3283] (Score:2) 02Re:Rain? - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:54] <exec> 08└─compared with technologies to just not emit the stuff in the first place
[05:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Rain? - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:56] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I was thinking. Dust is a self solving problem. I thought we were supposed to be working on CO2 extraction from the air? http://www.sciencealert.com [sciencealert.com] https://www.technologyreview.com
[05:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Depends - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:01] <exec> 08└─Not really, that ignores the things like carbon dioxide that aren't particulates, but are effectively pollutants.
[05:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Almost nobody... - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:04] <exec> 08└─knows what a dutch oven is anymore. Either the literal one or the figurative one.
[05:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably won't buy - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 2127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:15] <exec> 08└─Well, $64 for the cameras and lenses - the actuated mirror system probably adds at last several bucks to that. And then there's the LCD display, and fast enough processor and RAM to capture, analyze, and merge between 4 and 16 simultaneously taken 13MPixel images into a single final image in near re...
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[05:10:16] <exec> 08└─Good point, but at that price point we may find at least enough buyers to verify some of the claims. If you had a major photography magazine for instance, this guy will probably send it there. Let's wait and see. On paper it looks good, and it didn't clock in at some insane price point like $50k or...
[05:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Crunch by David Goodstein - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:53] <exec> 08└─Mod the parent up. The linked piece is actually insightful unlike the links in TFS.
[05:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 1308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:11] <exec> 08└─It's not really gravity though on a large enough scale it is pretty hard to tell the difference. The problem is that it won't be on that large of a scale. It has to be large enough that your head and feet (when standing) are moving about the same speed, otherwise you'll sense the difference, which l...
[05:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02so... Jupiter then? - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:27] <exec> 08└─If a lack of gravity is unhealthy, then extra gravity must be extra healthy. When does Jupiter open for medical tourism?
[05:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Users fault - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:47] <exec> 08└─I'm sure some people would like to change the default password, if only the instructions were actually translated into something approximating English. Not Engrish, not Chinglish, but English. If that means having to hire one translator to take the manual from Chinese to Chinglish, and then hiring a...
[05:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score:1) 02Re:How about just solving poor design? - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:05] <exec> 08└─Today is possible to have a sleeping power off less than 2mW, 20mw if you add a led, for a cost of less tan 5$ and that don't add much to the price of most appliances. Well the cost in practice can go down to 1$ if some custom hardware is developed.
[05:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Ethics of Government - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:09] <exec> 08└─I think it's a straw man to claim we can't be in a post-ethical problem just because there was no mythical golden age when everyone and everything was perfect. Back in the 1970s, Richard Nixon might not have felt like he could do anything wrong, and most of DC might well have agreed with him, but he...
[05:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:''an extremely poor method of voting''... - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:58] <exec> 08└─I have a weird feeling he may have had a partial change of heart over the last couple of months. Unlike some of the real no-hopers (Kyuubey, you still here, ya weaselly little bastid?) he never struck me as completely unreasonable. Whatever's going on I hope it continues. *stands by waiting for the...
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[05:16:03] <exec> 08└─Thanks for clarifying. I obviously made a few assumptions which were wrong. Here in Canada, the present government has promised to get rid of the current first past the post system. With what remains to be seen. My Province had a referendum on changing the voting but it failed with like 59% in favou...
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[05:16:06] <exec> 08└─You're rather missing the point here...just because ol' pumpkin-head hasn't YET done any of those things is no guarantee he won't. Furthermore, given the 35+ years we've had to observe him in public, smart money is on him being far worse. In the words of today's kids, "he has no chill." Can you seri...
[05:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:At the risk of winning a Godwin - 06Judge Orders FBI to Reveal Whether White House Launched 'Tor Pedo' Torpedo Exploits - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:02] <exec> 08└─That is true, but that's more or less my point. If the Chinese government had been overthrown, it's highly likely that there'd be more awareness of that in general. I doubt very much that most Chinese distinguish between the dead from Mao's leadership and the dead from the typical famines that ravag...
[05:17:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:At the risk of winning a Godwin - 06Judge Orders FBI to Reveal Whether White House Launched 'Tor Pedo' Torpedo Exploits - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:03] <exec> 08└─In China, they haven't forgotten such atrocities as the rape of Nanking. The atrocities committed by the communist government get a lot less lip service, primarily because the communists are still officially in charge.
[05:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:At the risk of winning a Godwin - 06Judge Orders FBI to Reveal Whether White House Launched 'Tor Pedo' Torpedo Exploits - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:17:22] <exec> 08└─Fucking useless racists have arrived to parrot the men's right points of their dominatrixes! Good Republican!
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[06:10:05] <exec> 08└─Or more importantly, the heart attack causing NOx - thank you Volkswagen! The easiest way to clean the air is not polluting it in the first place, and planting vegetation like trees that actually cleans the air of the bad gasses not just particulates.
[06:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Also In Japan - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:33] <exec> 08└─When the truck and taxi drivers are put out of work by automation they're supposed to reeducate for higher positions, but apparently there's already a glut of doctorates. What hope do they have?
[06:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Armies of overeducated people - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:40] <exec> 08└─Not me.
[06:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Crunch by David Goodstein - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:00] <exec> 08└─They did fix the PhD pipeline, which is the problem. Today, if you stick around long enough at a University, you get a PhD. It actually means nothing, except that you stuck around long enough. So yes, it is quite difficult for PhDs to get jobs these days because there is 5 or 10 for a job in their f...
[06:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:19] <exec> 08└─Indeed. See "Smarter Every Day: Seven Holes In The International Space Station".
[06:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Blinding - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:32] <exec> 08└─How are blind people supposed to accurately assess results? And wouldn't it be cruel to blind them? /s
[06:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:We accept this - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:45] <exec> 08└─In GB you cannot just say someone is a lousy Doctor without some proof other than your opinion. You can say however that you did not like someone as a Doctor, but you cannot impugn their ability/skill without some supporting facts. Not sure myself where Canada fits in on this scale myself though.
[06:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Vampire current is a non-problem. - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:13] <exec> 08└─Or 600 dollars over 10 years. Hmmm more interesting. Over a lifetime, 4800 bucks. Yeah fuck that noise. Just toss that money away. Here is a tip on investing. Slow and steady wins the race there are no homeruns.
[06:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''boots on the ground'' - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:36] <exec> 08└─And hackers are not criminals? Words change meaning every once and awhile. The one that drives me bonkers is 'fail'. But that is just me getting old and conservative.
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[07:09:48] <exec> 08└─Hogs
[07:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02The quest for pure air - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:10] <exec> 08└─The quest is folly. The earth has probably never had "pure air". We've known for a long time that we could cause it to rain by seeding the clouds with particles. All it takes is the right kind of particles, in the right quantity, right place at the right time. Volcanos, to sand/dust storms, the air...
[07:10:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02Re:Counterexample - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:37] <exec> 08└─That cost $26 billion in 2016 dollars...
[07:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Armies of overeducated people - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:42] <exec> 08└─No, not all professors. I'm tenured faculty at an R1 university. Yes, good PhD students are a godsend, but it does no good to mislead them or give them bad career advice. And certainly, I am not so removed from practice that I can't give them good advice, either (I co-founded a successful start-up b...
[07:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Not the only problem - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:04] <exec> 08└─I think a more serious consequence is a long term institutional dishonesty driven by the internal dynamics of academia. Not only do you have publish or perish pressure to incentivize fraud and irreproducible research, but a good portion of academia needs to create an oversupply of doctorates in orde...
[07:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Back to SciFi - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:38] <exec> 08└─*groan* To make matters worse, I commented on a spam site with terrible spelling and grammar recently.
[07:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Back to SciFi - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:41] <exec> 08└─Aye, I thought that was a pretty good story, you old story teller! ;^)
[07:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Users fault - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:03] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. If you want to change the password, you can change the password. If your excuse is a poor troll of laziness and covert bigotry, then well, that's what it is.
[07:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:The entire Universe, dude! - 06Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Has Changed From Blue to Gold - and No One Knows Why - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:09] <exec> 08└─KHALLOW! You are not helping! How am I supposed to tell the difference between a hexagon, and a Hex-be-Gone, that my preacher assures me will block the warts sent to me by my wicked half-brother/quarter cousin, Mighty Buzzard? What about the dodecahedrons? Oh, crap, they do not teach basic solids ge...
[07:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:At the risk of winning a Godwin - 06Judge Orders FBI to Reveal Whether White House Launched 'Tor Pedo' Torpedo Exploits - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:14] <exec> 08└─In China, they haven't forgotten such atrocities as the rape of Nanking.
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[08:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02don't forget - 06Samsung Posts 30 Percent Profit Plunge on Note 7 Crisis - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:34] <exec> 08└─The exploding washing machines, and historically the tellies that spy on you and send everything you say to a remote server. If you keep burning the chips, you'll get booted out of the kitchen.
[08:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Oh well.. - 06Samsung Posts 30 Percent Profit Plunge on Note 7 Crisis - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:36] <exec> 08└─Return it like this guy: https://www.thesun.co.uk [thesun.co.uk]
[08:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06North Carolina Libraries to Lend Out Motion-Activated Cameras for Backyard Wildlife Tracking - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:52] <exec> 08└─Possibly. Here is the conversation I had with my new neighbor a few years ago. I had not mowed my yard short enough (for him) as I was letting it grow a bit because it was newly seeded. I found him bashing his lawn mower on the side of my house. Considering I was napping and it was an odd sound to c...
[08:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rain? - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:08] <exec> 08└─Particulate mater is not exactly 'self solving'. Right after it rains it is ok. But eventually guess what drys out and gets blown around again?
[08:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The quest for pure air - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:16] <exec> 08└─there isn't a lot that grows in those environments. The more pure the air gets, the more sterile the environment is. You have it backwards. The air is more sterile because there is nothing growing there not because the env is sterile. Plants and animals shed LOTS of stuff more than you would think....
[08:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:29] <exec> 08└─Not sure how large it should be and it is shame that they aren't taking advantage of the space station to do some experiments.
[08:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tech advice from pediatricians - 06American Academy of Paediatrics Changes Infant Screen Time Advice - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:05] <exec> 08└─Increasing "away from screen time"[1] is probably more important than limiting screen time. [1] Sleep, exercise, interaction with real people, playing[2], getting outside. [2] The accepted term for the most efficient way of learning.
[08:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Could end up like PE - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:12:34] <exec> 08└─Depends a lot on how it's done. I'm worried that this would end up like PE, which for many kids only teaches them to hate exercise. I know it did for both my brother and me - and I bet it did the same for most people posting here. We would have a lot less overweight people if we didn't teach them to...
[08:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about just solving poor design? - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:24] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing there are a variety of scenarios that all lead to "electrical fire". Bad circuit design, flaw in wiring insulation, appliances that can't handle a power surge, etc.
[08:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How about just solving poor design? - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:28] <exec> 08└─It used to be possible to get down to zero with a simple power switch. With some device. including PCs, most have the power button where the power switch used to be. The only "advantage" for most people is that they get to hold the power button down for eight seconds whenever Windows freezes. Those...
[08:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''he may have had a partial change of heart'' - 06 Iceland's Pirate Party Tops Polls Ahead of National Elections - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:16:23] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's it. We just happened to hit a subject where the logic is blindingly obvious. When you go to a sporting event, you want the match to show who is the better contestant on that day--starting with the old level playing field. ...and elections are more important than any ball game. -...
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[09:09:55] <exec> 08└─Because existing unemployed citizens don't need such opportunities
[09:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Educational level? - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:57] <exec> 08└─When will people stop with the fantasy that IT can employ everybody? First, IT takes a particular mindset, which only a minority of people have. Second, an IT education relies on a solid primary and secondary school education - which few refugees have (n.b.: Syria is better off here than most countr...
[09:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Educational level? - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:59] <exec> 08└─> When will people stop with the fantasy that IT can employ everybody? Probably never. The evidence is there, yet PHBs have been unsuccessfully trying to get rid of their workers for years. Women/Colored people In Tech is just a new fad, like outsourcing or RAD.
[09:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rain? - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:25] <exec> 08└─From what I understood, heard. CO2 is a problem ofcourse, but the fine particulates from car exhaust are much worse for public health than C02. It's this kind of particles that cause reduced air quality in cities, not so much CO2. (Your lungs aren't worried to much when they see CO2, the other stuff...
[09:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02The iPhone 7 foreshadowed this - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 4052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:47] <exec> 08└─For those who aren't already aware, Apple recently bought a company (LinX Imaging) that was making a multi-lens camera system for mobile devices. The system had the capability to take input from lenses with different focal lengths and combine the data into a clearer, brighter, or higher resolution i...
[09:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Armies of overeducated people - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:07] <exec> 08└─I had a funny feeling they wanted more cheap labor.
[09:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:45] <exec> 08└─And the best bit is you probably don't need the full 9.8ms^-2 to lose most of the harmful effects of zero G.
[09:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sounds like work - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:54] <exec> 08└─I can mimic a log pretty well, does that count?
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[10:09:54] <exec> 08└─Dude... check your privilege. All white people should be excluded from education [zerohedge.com] so that "people of color" have safe spaces for their degrees in "diversity studies".
[10:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:Spaceballs thought of it first - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:18] <exec> 08└─There are three of us.!
[10:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Re:Armies of overeducated people - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:09] <exec> 08└─While I agree on the general stance, I believe that it cannot be emphasized enough that any student needs to take in the fact that as you move upward one step 70%-90% of your cohort have to leave science. This makes it hard to keep students passionate - even those who make it in the end as they have...
[10:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:54] <exec> 08└─I'm an old fart. Argggh, My Back! Don't need to go to Mars for that.
[10:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:To be fair - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:08] <exec> 08└─In any case the headline is wrong, the Ministry of Justice had nothing to do with it, it was a bad translation from the Chinese original [krebsonsecurity.com].
[10:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:Vampire current is a non-problem. - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:02] <exec> 08└─We use a Bunn at our house. Thing to remember is it's more efficient to achieve and maintain a stable brewing temperature with than to heat from ambient on demand. Also, cold-start elements use much more power to brew quickly. The actual difference in total power consumed is actually very little. Fu...
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[10:17:00] <exec> 08└─That would almost seem to be a knock against your argument for parliamentary systems. Perhaps the built-in inertia of the two-party system helps dampen out the reactionary response you're talking about.
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[11:09:36] <exec> 08└─What the kind of living beings, are they!?
[11:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I don't want to talk about Facebook - 06Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by Old Footage of the ISS - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:43] <exec> 08└─However, any organization engaging in media activities should come under scrutiny for bias. Whether that involves news from space, or footage of a children's school being bombed from the air. If something is reported, it happens (as in this fake facebook case). If not reported, the children's school...
[11:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Racist - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:59] <exec> 08└─Wow! So! Black people CAN be racists! Who knew?!? Seriously, if that was white people blockading blacks they would have been arrested. If it was to block muslims people would have died. but no. It was to block white people. Must not be an issue then cause everyone knows those whities are racists and...
[11:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dear Germany - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:03] <exec> 08└─I come to Germany for handouts and benefits - not to actually WORK. Love, A "Syrian" refugee from Pakistan.
[11:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Runs android" - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:47] <exec> 08└─Only if it has Google Play Services and everything else. If this is supposed to be a just a camera, then they might just be using Android as an embedded OS. The AOSP core of Android has nothing that inherently ties it to Google. The Kindle Fire is an example of an Android device with no ties to Goog...
[11:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not the only problem - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:38] <exec> 08└─I think a more serious consequence is a long term institutional dishonesty driven by the internal dynamics of academia. Not only do you have publish or perish pressure to incentivize fraud and irreproducible research, but a good portion of academia needs to create an oversupply of doctorates in orde...
[11:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:06] <exec> 08└─If you're on a multi-month trip to mars, just rotate the whole damn craft.
[11:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so much about the *time* - 06American Academy of Paediatrics Changes Infant Screen Time Advice - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:44] <exec> 08└─"most parents LIKE stuff like that "junk TV"" As time passes, you see more and more parents who like that stuff, not because it's a substitute baby sitter, but because THE PARENTS LIKE IT! My own relationship with cartoons, over time: At ages 3 through about 8, I lived for Saturday morning and Hanna...
[11:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this part of tech bubble 2.0 ? - 06Google's "Jamboard" Takes on the Giant Touchscreen Workplace Niche - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:40] <exec> 08└─Things like this are good for scrum boards and the like. You get the physical action while maintaining the advantages of having everything tracked, recorded, and data mined (something you do want to do when managing projects). It also lets you keep everything in sync with another office if your dev...
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[12:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What are they... - 06Researchers Figure Out How to Perform a Hostile Takeover of a DSMx Controlled Drone - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:46] <exec> 08└─Male bees, [wikipedia.org] of course.
[12:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Theft? - 06Researchers Figure Out How to Perform a Hostile Takeover of a DSMx Controlled Drone - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:48] <exec> 08└─Isn't that theft? Time to put a hidden GPS tracker in mine.
[12:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Theft? - 06Researchers Figure Out How to Perform a Hostile Takeover of a DSMx Controlled Drone - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:50] <exec> 08└─No need. I steered it out into the ocean. That's where it it.
[12:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Truth in advertising - 06Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by Old Footage of the ISS - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:59] <exec> 08└─Hey, the events were happening at the exact same time that the recording was made ... that's the very definition of "live" !
[12:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Truth in advertising - 06Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by Old Footage of the ISS - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:01] <exec> 08└─That's live recording, not live broadcast.
[12:10:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Educational level? - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 959 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:18] <exec> 08└─When will people stop with the fantasy that IT can employ everybody? First, IT takes a particular mindset, which only a minority of people have. Second, an IT education relies on a solid primary and secondary school education - which few refugees have (n.b.: Syria is better off here than most countr...
[12:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear Germany - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:21] <exec> 08└─Love, A "Syrian" refugee from Pakistan.
[12:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Depends - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 0 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:55] <exec> 08└─
[12:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The quest for pure air - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:00] <exec> 08└─I roll coal because I love Mother Nature.
[12:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably won't buy - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:15] <exec> 08└─Not that new: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And that's not including those creatures with compound eyes :).
[12:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:25] <exec> 08└─Shaft seals are completely different from a rotating crew compartment. How many wires and tubes are connected between the rotating section and the non-rotating section? The submarine would have few if any. A space station would need a lot going through that rotating connection. We can do that, but i...
[12:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blinding - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:40] <exec> 08└─It looks like they're measuring something physical. When a pre-aligned ruler says 8 inches, does it really matter if the person reading that measurement knows what category they're measuring? Knowing if someone is on a diet or not doesn't change what their scale says. Well, you can press more agains...
[12:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:How about just solving poor design? - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─lightning safety
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[13:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:48] <exec> 08└─This would be sad news if Google Fiber had been slated to come to my city soon, but it seems they were never going to come to NYC anyway. Verizon and Time-Warner have a lock on the political class here. It must be some free market thing I don't understand.
[13:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Insightful) 02AI - 06Researchers Figure Out How to Perform a Hostile Takeover of a DSMx Controlled Drone - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:00] <exec> 08└─Soon we can upload them with AIs, show them a picture of the objective, and no amount of jamming or hijacking will prevent the rise of the machines.
[13:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Widely used protocol? - 06Researchers Figure Out How to Perform a Hostile Takeover of a DSMx Controlled Drone - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:01] <exec> 08└─Is this the same kind of protocol researchers have been using for demonstrating takeovers on cars? If so, has anything been done to improve it or are there holes waiting to be exploited?
[13:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:don't forget - 06Samsung Posts 30 Percent Profit Plunge on Note 7 Crisis - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:19] <exec> 08└─also their printer eula insists that before you can install a laser printer driver, you must allow them to spy on you and even your print documents! I don't allow it. I send print jobs from linux to that printer where I am not bound to have to accept any eula 'license' bullshit. I generally avoid sa...
[13:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06North Carolina Libraries to Lend Out Motion-Activated Cameras for Backyard Wildlife Tracking - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:45] <exec> 08└─It's surprising the guy was bashing his lawnmower against your house, in a state with pretty high gun ownership. Was he from Connecticut or something?
[13:10:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Spaceballs thought of it first - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:55] <exec> 08└─This [imgur.com] is what I imagined on reading the title of the story.
[13:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Spaceballs thought of it first - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:59] <exec> 08└─As long as she doesn't go from suck to blow, we're okay.
[13:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Rain? - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:05] <exec> 08└─Hmm, perhaps they're thinking that they can use the particulates they filter out of the air as more landfill to expand the homeland. Those wily Dutch...
[13:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The quest for pure air - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:19] <exec> 08└─The earth has probably never had "pure air".
[13:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blinding - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:59] <exec> 08└─In their own reference it says this is an issue. The focus of that paper they cite is on the importance of blinding, it is in the title of the paper. Yet they do not mention blinding! Did they not read their own reference, is this a call for help, or what? Besides that, I have done work like this (a...
[13:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Vampire current is a non-problem. - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:59] <exec> 08└─I think those set top boxes/satellite/cable TV stuff use a lot more than 1W.
[13:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this part of tech bubble 2.0 ? - 06Google's "Jamboard" Takes on the Giant Touchscreen Workplace Niche - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:22] <exec> 08└─Speaking of memories of the 90s its basically the trek TNG UI. Knock two zeros off the price and I'd line my hallways with it. Note that HDTV screens are cheaper than windows (probably because of ever increasing standards for window insulation. One of my long term "spare time" projects is implementi...
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[14:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:57] <exec> 08└─Higgs had reffered to it as "the goddamn particle" expressing his (and collegues') frustration of not being able to find it. Or something. The editor said they wouldn't publish a book with a "swear word" in it, so they edited it into this now-famous phrase of "God particle". Because, you know, relig...
[14:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:59] <exec> 08└─This. And while I got nothing but respect for Higgs (listen to him on the radio, he's like the world's most likeable scientist), and have no desire to diminish his contributions, I don't particularly like the "Higgs" name, which is even less fair than the corresponding Nobel, given the massive numbe...
[14:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:01] <exec> 08└─How about "No Spin Particle"?
[14:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but the Jacob-Marley-Fytrfg-Ksfbh-Hasiugf-Msdvcak-Nadlyjvgf-Walsdgf-Xsdkjf-................. particle just doesn't roll off the tongue as easily, and can you imagine how long the papers would be? Heck, just refer to the particle by name and you've exceeded the 20 page minimum for your undergra...
[14:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:05] <exec> 08└─You're thinking Leon Lederman, not Higgs.
[14:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reads like a personal ad - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:07] <exec> 08└─"New god particle," yeah. What is this, the guy's resume? Looking for a stable gig, eh.
[14:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Sterile? - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:10] <exec> 08└─If they're sterile we should call them "neutered neutrinos".
[14:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sterile? - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:12] <exec> 08└─No, that would be claiming they had some explicit procedure to neuter them, as opposed to being naturally sterile.
[14:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:22] <exec> 08└─And it's not like Verizon is actually *deploying* FIOS on any scale in NYC [theverge.com] either. You'd think that in a city the size of NYC, you should be able to get excellent connectivity. And you can, if you are willing to pay commercial [pilotfiber.com] prices [stealth.net] for it [towerstream....
[14:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:24] <exec> 08└─Dude NYC is probably THE WORST place to run fiber in the country. If you dig one foot down anywhere you probably will hit 4 cables, a pipe, and 2 subway lines ff6 . You might do better in the outside boroughs, where you can run wires above the street, but I am more than certain all those poles are a...
[14:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, in the Land of the Free Market and the global leader in technology, we pay twice as much for half the speed of Internet service as customers in east Asia and Europe. Don't understand, you say? Well, that is of course easily spotted sarcasm. We're not supposed to understand, but we do anyway. I'...
[14:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:28] <exec> 08└─their real agenda was handing the rich a massive tax cut in the form of lowering the capital gains tax rate to 15% I'm a wage earner. I set aside some of what I earn, and invest it. That's money on which I already paid income tax. But if I am lucky enough (or careful enough) to make a good investmen...
[14:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─Verizon and Time-Warner have a lock on the political class here. It must be some free market thing
[14:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I guess - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:32] <exec> 08└─I guess their UTILITY became FUTILITY! You really showed those ISPs huh Google? The silver lining in this is that we now see what arm-chair quarterbacking nets you. Everyone likes to talk shit how easy something is even thou they have no fucking clue about it. I hate the current ISPs as much as the...
[14:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Truth in advertising - 06Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by Old Footage of the ISS - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:54] <exec> 08└─Even live broadcast has some kind of delay. The one you cannot avoid is the speed of light. For modern digital broadcasting, there is a frame-buffer, which will delay you at least 1 frame. Streaming on the Internet will typically add another 30 seconds or so.
[14:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Truth in advertising - 06Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by Old Footage of the ISS - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:56] <exec> 08└─Whoosh ... see drussel's comment :-P
[14:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02Live - 06Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by Old Footage of the ISS - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:58] <exec> 08└─Well, it was LIVE at the time, wasn't it? :) LOL Gullible people are easily misled... Full story at 11:00... :)
[14:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't forget - 06Samsung Posts 30 Percent Profit Plunge on Note 7 Crisis - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:09] <exec> 08└─My friend works as a low-level drone for them in the US, that company has really toxic culture. I am steering clear of their products from now on. I used to talk shit about apple, but at this point they are looking a lot better for handsets, I don't trust google one bit not to data-mine the shit out...
[14:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Racist - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:19] <exec> 08└─If you have a laptop computer you already have access to more learning material in almost any "hot" subject than you can ever use. Time to get to work.
[14:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Armies of overeducated people - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:46] <exec> 08└─I didn't say all professors - I said that the number of students that went on to a PhD because their undergraduate research advisor encouraged it exceeds the number that pursue a PhD because their family expected it (this is in contrast to those who pursue an MD). I should've prefaced my post with t...
[14:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Not the only problem - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:09] <exec> 08└─says the Anom
[14:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Publish or Perish - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:11] <exec> 08└─I think it was about 15 years ago, when I read an interesting Post-Doc job application. Unfortunately, at the bottom of it was the requirements: IIRC "give us an A4 with at most 60 of your most important papers". OK.. Perish it is, then :-/ I'm trained to solve problems, but I'm not good enough to w...
[14:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Blinding - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, you're talking about double-blind experiments. Here I thought you were talking about retinal flares [wikipedia.org] for the first half of your post.
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[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─How about "No Spin Particle"?
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:S ff6 terile? - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─Neuterinos
[15:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Sterile? - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─"The Flanders Particle"
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02blasphemy - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─Two God particles???!!!
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:blasphemy - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─Of course physics is polytheistic. Does that really surprise you?
[15:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:18] <exec> 08└─Justin Case you weren't aware, you are only taxed on the profit you made from an investment, and you can deduct your losses. It's not free to provide a market and the legal safety for you to be able to consider making investments.
[15:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Wireless fiber? Bullshit. - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:21] <exec> 08└─"Telecom geeks call it "wireless fiber," because it provides a fixed location (again, such as a home or business) with all the capacity of a Google Fiber or Verizon Fios connection but without the need to plug a cable directly into the building." Uh, no they don't, this is clearly something some idi...
[15:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02junk imho - 06Samsung Posts 30 Percent Profit Plunge on Note 7 Crisis - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:58] <exec> 08└─if a device has a non-removable battery it is (expensive) junk. if the device requires a battery present to function even if connected to mains it is junk (that is, battery is removed but charger is connected will NOT work). i cannot stop laughing REALLY hard at samsung for selling a 800 dollar phon...
[15:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03C R Johnson [5368] (Score:1) 02Not particularly a new thing - 06North Carolina Libraries to Lend Out Motion-Activated Cameras for Backyard Wildlife Tracking - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:25] <exec> 08└─My wife brought home one of these from the Ann Arbor Public library recently. I gather they have been available for some time. It didn't work too well for her as the birds were not particularly interested in using the new feeder she put out. Much cooler are the fossils (Ok, replicas) they lend out....
[15:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rain? - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:43] <exec> 08└─I remember reading about a small dry valley in northern Africa. Dust that is picked up from there is a major source of minerals for large areas of the Amazon forest canopy.
[15:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Rain? - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:45] <exec> 08└─That's a fair point, but there again, it would make more sense to spend that money not buying things from countries with terrible environmental practices.
[15:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Depends - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:55] <exec> 08└─C02 was just the first to spring to mind, there's all sorts of them like the NOX, methane and ozone that aren't particulates, but cause a lot of harm when breathed in anyways. As somebody else stated earlier, the dust itself is a self-solving problem. The moment people stop releasing it into the air...
[15:12:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:Probably won't buy - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 654 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:11] <exec> 08└─Not so sure. I carefully read the whole thing, and the approach is amazing. I would even say this is an entirely new class of camera. To take pictures at 70 mm, we move the mirrors so that the five 70-mm modules now point straight out from the camera; all of them cover approximately the same field...
[15:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Come on and ride the Train - 06Beijing Threatens Legal Action Over Webcam Claims - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:06] <exec> 08└─At least it runs on time.
[15:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:A different question - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:55] <exec> 08└─you uphold 2500 year old pacifism ideals
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[16:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02I for one welcome our new overlords - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:56] <exec> 08└─I am very much in favor of Tesla's mission, and hope very much that they succeed.
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just imagine - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:57] <exec> 08└─Even AMD can post a quarterly profit once in a while.
[16:10:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02Sterile? - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:13] <exec> 08└─If they're sterile we should call them "neutered neutrinos".
[16:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:Sterile? - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:15] <exec> 08└─The hinny particle?
[16:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02What I want to know is - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:21] <exec> 08└─How exactly do they plan on detecting it?
[16:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:32] <exec> 08└─Dude NYC is probably THE WORST place to run fiber in the country. If you dig one foot down anywhere you probably will hit 4 cables, a pipe, and 2 subway lines. You might do better in the outside boroughs, where you can run wires above the street, but I am more than certain all those poles are at cap...
[16:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:I guess - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:39] <exec> 08└─don't be daft... it isn't 'complicated' and 'hard' because of technical or physical limitations, or someone just can't do the super-difficult calculus problem: it is 'complicated' and 'hard' because of the interference, regulatory capture, complicit municipal pols, and TOTAL OBSTRUCTIONISM of the mo...
[16:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Wireless fiber? Bullshit. - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:42] <exec> 08└─A quick googling didn't bring up any articles other than this one that even refer to it as "wireless fiber." I did see many references to optical wireless, but this article is so lean on technical details they may be talking about RFC 1149 [ietf.org] for all we know.
[16:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02No - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:35] <exec> 08└─Can't we have it both ways ? Couldn't a high-quality yet still-tiny camera somehow be fit into a mobile device ?
[16:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not the only problem - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:23] <exec> 08└─All you have to do is read the papers in a skeptical manner (eg that astronaut spinal cord one). If these problems were limited to the particular area related to my project, it would be a different story. It is the same issues, over and over, everywhere you look in biomed.
[16:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oblig. - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:59] <exec> 08└─"You Have Died of Dysentery"
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[17:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02McStopit - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:51] <exec> 08└─Getting so tired of journalists and their goddamn ridiculous article titles.
[17:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I for one welcome our new overlords - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:59] <exec> 08└─Have you been to Florida? Leaving them underwater isn't necessarily a bad idea.
[17:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:14] <exec> 08└─No they won't. I've never seen a whiny, red-faced, apoplectic Higgs boson before.
[17:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump Particle - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:26] <exec> 08└─'God Particle' is taken. How about 'Satan Particle?'
[17:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 0 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:43] <exec> 08└─
[17:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Google is going to change the world - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:48] <exec> 08└─Just not with the product or service they rolled out a year and a half ago. Or six months before that, or a year before that, etc.
[17:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02When you say control... - 06Researchers Figure Out How to Perform a Hostile Takeover of a DSMx Controlled Drone - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─...do you mean making it stop it's current task or deviate from course? Because there's a lady in Virginia that can do that with a shotgun! Controls it to dive right in to the ground! Not much research needed there other than googling a gun shop.
[17:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02On Failbook - 06Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by Old Footage of the ISS - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:16] <exec> 08└─Lying people and stupid people... and you?
[17:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Matter of perspective... - 06Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by Old Footage of the ISS - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:17] <exec> 08└─If an event is not being liked on FB and retweeted, is it really happening? It's not live unless the social media have it trending.
[17:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Time to buy some stock. - 06Samsung Posts 30 Percent Profit Plunge on Note 7 Crisis - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:30] <exec> 08└─Samsung isn't going away any time soon, so enjoy the dip and profit from it. /wallstreetlogic
[17:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02guess we were wrong to ban "colored" entrances - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:40] <exec> 08└─These students made themselves a "colored" entrance. They made white people go around. They have also gotten special dorms and other areas. Eh, OK. There was a time when that was considered wrong, and before that there was a time when it was normal. Fads come and go I guess, in cycles. It's like ski...
[17:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02so they won't need Hacking Team - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:47] <exec> 08└─Hacking Team sells, well, malware. They sell it to governments all throughout the middle east, particularly to brutal repressive governments like Sudan. Now these places will have their own people to invent that stuff. It won't just get used to identify dissidents for execution. It'll also be used t...
[17:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Tech advice from pediatricians - 06American Academy of Paediatrics Changes Infant Screen Time Advice - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:43] <exec> 08└─Are children considered technology now? Should I be referring to my local IT geek for child rearing tips?
[17:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea but poor plan - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:01] <exec> 08└─Not really. I think you are greatly overestimating your chances of winning the lottery (which is how the lottery traps even moderately educated people).
[17:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:How about just solving poor design? - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:14] <exec> 08└─You don't need to unplug things. If you want to really stop the "vampire" energy usage, you just use a simple power strip that you can get for $5. This has the bonus effect of giving you more outlets, since house-builders *still* haven't figured out that 2 outlets every 20 feet or whatever it is is...
[17:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Vampire current is a non-problem. - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:29] <exec> 08└─Why did you buy that microwave? You should have taken that back as soon as you found that out about it. Any decent microwave oven will just show 0s when the time isn't set (and the date shouldn't even apply to a microwave). Lots of people simply never bother to set the clocks on their microwaves.
[17:16:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:in-home waste is not the problem - 06A Complete Waste of Energy - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:41] <exec> 08└─That would definitely help, though those are private property so it's not that easy to force correct behavior. However, another good place to save energy and taxpayer money is with street lighting; we don't really need the streets lit up like it's daytime; that's why cars have headlights. It's bad f...
[17:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:A different question - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:42] <exec> 08└─If you say that defense contractors and oil companies like Halliburton are completely innocent of that push to invade, then I say that is willfully obtuse.
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[18:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:McStopit - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─And are they REALLY selling these CPUs for something like $5? I don't think so, but if they told you the price, they wouldn't have been able to put in the McDonalds reference.
[18:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one welcome our new overlords - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:31] <exec> 08└─I'm worried about getting sued by the WWF for endangering the alligators with the excessively fat food.
[18:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just imagine - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:34] <exec> 08└─This. Methinks that a Tesla quarterly profit at this time is "interesting". Tesla stock fell on the announcement of the merger with Solar City some weeks back...
[18:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Just imagine - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:36] <exec> 08└─Didn't Tesla just change their reporting methods.... ah wait here it is: "Tesla Earnings Smash Expectations After Dramatic Change In Reporting Methodology" http://www.zerohedge.com [zerohedge.com] Seems to...
[18:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sterile? - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:57] <exec> 08└─"The Flanders Particle"
[18:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:16] <exec> 08└─Look our your unbroken window through the non-smog at the non-dirt road on which no Canadian soldier is talking to a non-existent homeless sick elder while no analphabet child scapes a living off cutting your non-exposed copper used to power your obviously-working internet. Congrats, you paid taxes.
[18:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Wireless fiber? Bullshit. - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:24] <exec> 08└─Which mean bastard fed fiber to the pigeons? As if they needed better transit times...
[18:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fill in the blank article title - 06Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by Old Footage of the ISS - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:53] <exec> 08└─Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by ______
[18:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear Germany - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:22] <exec> 08└─It's only the the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. [amnesty.org.nz] 190,000 men, women and children dead. Fuck those guys though, amiright, they're just looking for handouts, not fleeing the threat of death.
[18:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06North Carolina Libraries to Lend Out Motion-Activated Cameras for Backyard Wildlife Tracking - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:36] <exec> 08└─Why? It's called science. Once upon a time so-called nerds were into that sort of thing.
[18:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02false alarms? - 06North Carolina Libraries to Lend Out Motion-Activated Cameras for Backyard Wildlife Tracking - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:38] <exec> 08└─Last fall I drove across central Maine on 2-lane, a delightful road trip through the woods. The V1 radar detector squawked/flashed for X-band radar a few dozen times. There wasn't any traffic and I never saw any cops by the side of the road. Some research suggested that what I was detecting was the...
[18:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06A Pocket Camera with Many Eyes - Inside the Development of Light - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:30] <exec> 08└─Unless you've got a total lens area that's the same as a DSLR, you just won't get the same amount of light in, and there's nothing you can do about that.
[18:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:38] <exec> 08└─An excellent point. Given that Mars gravity is ~0.4G (3.711 m/s2), probably something like 0.5 or 0.6G would be sufficient.
[18:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:47] <exec> 08└─Should I go over keeping panels facing the sun on a completely rotating craft, or keeping seals vacuum-tight on a partially rotating craft?
[18:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Republican counterproposal - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:43] <exec> 08└─I would point out that you are lying. [ballotpedia.org] Supporters Officials Gov. Kate Brown (D)[8] Bend City Council[9] Parties Democratic Party of Oregon[9] College Democrats of Oregon The Deschutes County Democrats Marion County Democrats Multnomah County Democrats Tillamook County Democrats Wash...
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[19:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:56] <exec> 08└─People keep complaining about how evil Google is these days, but while that may be true, Oracle sure seems at least a couple orders of magnitude more evil every time I read about them.
[19:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03steveha [4100] (Score:2) 02Or, put them into inexpensive microservers - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:07] <exec> 08└─I'm very fond of my HP microservers using old AMD Turion II "mobile" processor: http://n40l.wikia.com [wikia.com] I would very much like an update with a faster CPU. HP's current microservers [hpe.com] are using Intel chips, but I am hoping that they will have AMD model...
[19:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02about time, AMD - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:09] <exec> 08└─AMD really fell behind. While Intel is cranking out 14nm CPUs now, AMD isn't even at 22nm, no they're still stuck at 28nm at best. Zen is a big jump to 14nm, but they'll still be behind as Intel plans to have 10nm CPUs coming out about the same time. I am really liking the 14nm stuff. Takes such lit...
[19:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:about time, AMD - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:11] <exec> 08└─Bought one of those ECS Liva's, the XBat or whatever its called. 1.5GHz dual core Atom, 64GB eMMC, and 2GB RAM in what 100x50mm?. Runs Linux Mint perfectly and a USB 3.0 hub connected to HDD's, keyboard and mouse. Runs a web browser just fine and a few other desktop applications. For $100, its a goo...
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:I for one welcome our new overlords - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:21] <exec> 08└─I'm worried about getting sued by the WWF for endangering the alligators with the excessively fat food.
[19:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Just imagine - 06Tesla Reports First Quarterly Profit in Three Years - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:26] <exec> 08└─Actually, it's the opposite way around. The SEC complained that they were using too many non-Generally Accepted Accounting Principle cost exclusions in their reporting. Meaning, they weren't counting certain costs when comparing it to income to determine profit. Try a less motivated source....
[19:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:What I want to know is - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:51] <exec> 08└─Since the Neutrinos are already excessively hard to detect, the trick is to properly sort the things you don't find.
[19:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I know WHO has a solution for this naming problem - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:54] <exec> 08└─To that end, new disease names should not include geographic locations; the names of people, occupations, animals, or food; or “terms that incite undue fear” (such as unknown, fatal, and epidemic). Instead, the names should use generic descriptions of symptoms (respiratory disease or watery diar...
[19:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I know WHO has a solution for this naming probl - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:56] <exec> 08└─Seasonal-Alpha-2-Watery-Alpha-1-Diarrhea-Omega-3/2-Gamma-1 particle
[19:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:12] <exec> 08└─You missed a "non": Non sequitur. I'm responding to someone saying 15% tax is too low for money that has already been taxed multiple times. You're responding as if I said nothing should ever be taxed at all. So if we're going to play absolutist games, can I put you down for supporti 436a ng 100% tax...
[19:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Shocking ... - 06Researchers Figure Out How to Perform a Hostile Takeover of a DSMx Controlled Drone - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:35] <exec> 08└─Researchers find and exploit hole in communication protocol that some people thought was somewhat secure... 21st-century problem.
[19:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sideways tangent - 06Facebook Live Viewers Tricked by Old Footage of the ISS - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:51] <exec> 08└─Facebook is performing censorship. The big pipeline protests had people live streaming before they jammed cell signals, and those videos were subsequently altered just minutes later to be scrambled beyond use. The police state is fully realized, no quibbles or quabbles. So far at least we don't have...
[19:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Dear Germany - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:21] <exec> 08└─Just wait until one of them rapes you or your wife because of a "sexual emergency," then firebombs your favorite grocery store and slits a few throats in the street. Boo-fucking hoo. Those military-aged males with designer jackets and iPods are cowards who left their wives and kids behind, and they...
[19:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06North Carolina Libraries to Lend Out Motion-Activated Cameras for Backyard Wildlife Tracking - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:35] <exec> 08└─Drunk people and naked teens?
[19:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Spaceballs thought of it first - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:52] <exec> 08└─I've seen much scarier oversized vacuum devices behind the red windows of downtown Amsterdam.
[19:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:I was going to go into it - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:04] <exec> 08└─You're trying too hard, Eth. Good trolling is very much fire-and-forget. You want easily and quickly-reproducible snippets you can more or less cut-and-paste. This looks like you got entirely too invested in it. Careful, or you might start believing what you post; there is a reason drug dealers don'...
[19:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:43] <exec> 08└─Citation please?
[19:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:44] <exec> 08└─I thought it was because it was the only technically reasonable method (currently) to establish gravity in outer space, which is quite helpful to us. Yes, it does make it easier to film since we don't have Hollywood studios in orbit. You could just 'Star Trek' it and vaguely refer to the "gravity ge...
[19:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blinding - 06 I've Returned from Mars... Argggh, My Back! - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:09] <exec> 08└─How would you blind the astronauts as to whether it is before/after they have been in orbit? It makes sense it was not double blind, it is a travesty it was not single blind though.
[19:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:A different question - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:18] <exec> 08└─It's too bad you can't mod an unmodified comment at underrated, or I would have so modified your comment. Nothing else seems appropriate.
[19:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:A different question - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:21] <exec> 08└─Push to invade is not a war crime and had nothing to do with the lying to the public to rationalize the war.
[19:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:A different question - 06Congress Calls for Waiver of Enlistment Bonus Repayments as White House Resists - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:24] <exec> 08└─initiating an armed conflict
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[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─I hope they can shed some light on the mystery. Since they have only observed a dimming and not seen any planetary transits my bet is on this star being in a transition period we have yet to understand. Or a really odd set of planetary orbits. But hey, if its a Dyson sphere I'll happily be wrong!
[20:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:50] <exec> 08└─Which is why Java and MySQL are basically no-gos for me now. I don't want to encourage them.
[20:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:52] <exec> 08└─Java died for me the first time I save the red logo...
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─When there are no more Goyim to Jew, the Jews resort to Jewing each other. This is a clash of the titans extraordinary in magnitude, and will leave in its wake a second shoah.
[20:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Just ship the chips please - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:06] <exec> 08└─Just ship the chips please, i'm ready to build a new gaming machine. Stop wasting time hiring these sales people and hire some truck drivers to move product to newegg, asap : )
[20:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Trump Particle - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:48] <exec> 08└─You think it's orange?
[20:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:07] <exec> 08└─The point is that the money that was taxed multiple times still does not yield enough for a government running a giant deficit. So, either you can list which expenses the government should stop making, or you need to point out where the money should come from instead. For a given amount of required...
[20:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Dear Germany - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:16] <exec> 08└─I worry more about cowards like you than I do brown people.
[20:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea but poor plan - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:46] <exec> 08└─Not overestimating at all, but it's a choice between zero chance and a very tiny chance the universe could throw you a bone.
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[21:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Even if - 06"Breakthrough Listen" to Search for Alien Radio Transmissions Near Tabby's Star - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:48] <exec> 08└─Even if we find proof, so many people wont believe it until the aliens land and say hi. Even then, they may not. World is full of idiots.
[21:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:58] <exec> 08└─Once their main lines of business start sinking like Larry's yachts, they'll go full SCO on everyone.
[21:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because the vendors controlling .NET and MariaDB [infoworld.com] are much less greedy.
[21:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:03] <exec> 08└─The lesser of two evils thing isn't a great argument. Oracle I think is struggling to maintain relevance and engaging in shitty business tactics, but so has Google. The bigger issue is how large and pervasive Alphabet has become, and what the massive amount of data they collect gets used for (aside...
[21:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:05] <exec> 08└─>Google [is struggling to maintain relevance] >... how large and pervasive Alphabet has become I don't think those words mean what you think they mean.
[21:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02̶S̶C̶O̶ Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:07] <exec> 08└─Tech Dirt reports that Off We Go: ̶S̶C̶O̶ Oracle Officially Appeals Google's Fair Use Win: It was only a matter of time until this happened, but ̶S̶C̶O̶ Oracle has officially appealed its fair use Java API loss [PDF] to the Federal Circuit (CAFC [US Court of Appeals for the Fede...
[21:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, thanks.
[21:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:49] <exec> 08└─How about the 'Limbo' particle. Implying those of virtue prior to Christ. Not a bad place, not Heaven, just sort of there. It seems appropriate. http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu [utexas.edu]
[21:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Depends - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, but this technology does nothing to help with the pollutants that we most need removed from the atmosphere. And the energy necessary to run these machines is going to set us back in terms of climate change. Even under the best case scenario it's carbon neutral.
[21:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea but poor plan - 06Oregon Weighs Whether All Kids Should Get Outdoor Education - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:01] <exec> 08└─There are ways to win the lottery without explicitly buying a lottery ticket, for example finding one on the ground. It's a choice between functionally zero chance and functionally zero chance. You can consider winning the lottery to be a glitch in the matrix for all intents and purposes.
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[22:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Only for Broadband? - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:35] <exec> 08└─If my ISP offered service in my area that means the minimal federal limit to be called "broadband," I'd be excited about this. But they don't, so I'm not.
[22:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Nearly meaningless - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─Since in almost every case the ISP's are a duopoly at best, and a monopoly as a rule, what choice do we have but to accept (and then fight the fuck out them forever on the tech level)? These things cannot be solved legally as long as AT&T exists as a monopoly, set to become even bigger after eating...
[22:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Nearly meaningless - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:39] <exec> 08└─ADBB your ISP can be BADD (Broken Access to Disrobed Damsels).
[22:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mesh Networking Can't Come Too Soon - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:41] <exec> 08└─I mean... It's time for a nationwide deployment of Mesh Networking.
[22:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 2208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:00] <exec> 08└─Oracle has been about getting those multi million dollar contracts for a long time. I have seen no less than 3 projects to remove them out of the picture just on cost alone. Not technical. Oracle DB is a fairly good piece of software if a bit esoteric to use. The mid end and low end is lost to Oracl...
[22:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Evil - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:04] <exec> 08└─Oracle is struggling to maintain relevance Alphabet is large and pervasive If you can't parse these ideas / words then I don't know how to help you. If you just disagree then that is your right.
[22:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:about time, AMD - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:18] <exec> 08└─Many times the cost of those chips is not the chip themselves. I can usually if I get something off market for half of the cost of a in market price. This is the whole gamut of hardware. I pay extra for 'you will fix this in 2 hours or less'. That means they have to keep a spare (that works) on the...
[22:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score:2) 02Re:PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:45] <exec> 08└─Sell corporate naming rights to the particle. If we can't have good names for these things they may as well at least get some funding out of it.
[22:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Ultimate particle? - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:06] <exec> 08└─call it, say, "42"? :)
[22:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''list which expenses gov't should stop making'' - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:24] <exec> 08└─I'll take that one: Militarism. Estimates range between 54 percent and 59 percent of the USA's discretionary budget. (Note that, when ALL related expenditures are counted, -none- of the totals are below 50 percent.) That could easily be cut by 40 percentage points and leave a more-than-adequate defe...
[22:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This Would Be Sad News - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:26] <exec> 08└─I'm a wage earner. I set aside some of what I earn, and invest it. That's money on which I already paid income tax. But if I am lucky enough (or careful enough) to make a good investment, I get taxed again. Oh, and the company I invested in, that made me some return? That got taxed too. I'm only tax...
[22:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wireless fiber? Bullshit. - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 1409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:35] <exec> 08└─something some idiot in marketing came up with ding ding ding! we have a winner. I sat in a few 'rollout' meetings where terms like this come up. We all looked at each other like 'wtf is that? oh marketing'. So glad I no longer work at that telecom. The BS is too much. They honestly 100% do not unde...
[22:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear Germany - 06Coding Classes Open New Doors for Syrian Refugees - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:36] <exec> 08└─Sweden? Hello friend! Can I smoke some of what you've got! In pretty much any "best country in the world" list since forever - including 2016 (which I believe is this year unless I've been mooching too much off your 2nd hand smoke) - Sweden comes out in the top 10 and more often the top 3.
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[23:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Only for Broadband? - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:46] <exec> 08└─There should be a blanket law like this for all data collected for all services, not just for broadband. As an example, having your car serviced. It's the garage's policy to collect information about your vehicle. Know who ends up with that data? That's right, your auto insurance company, and they w...
[23:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Only for Broadband? - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─There should be a blanket law like this for all data collected for all services, not just for broadband.
[23:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Nearly meaningless - 06FCC Approves Proposed Broadband Privacy Rules - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─ADBB to JEWS (Just Eschew Web Services).
[23:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I've got an alien transmission - 06"Breakthrough Listen" to Search for Alien Radio Transmissions Near Tabby's Star - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:02] <exec> 08└─I've got an alien transmission for you - point that thing under my duvet and turn the sensitivity to maximum... listen close, it's coming real soon. Where's my $100m?
[23:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02SETI - 06"Breakthrough Listen" to Search for Alien Radio Transmissions Near Tabby's Star - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:04] <exec> 08└─The Search for Extra Telescope Income. Internet billionaires, proceed directly to the front of the line. No waiting.
[23:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re: ̶S̶C̶O̶ Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 06Oracle Appeals in Case Against Google - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:22] <exec> 08└─it actually turned out that ̶S̶C̶O̶ Oracle's lawyers had simply failed to read what Google had, in fact, handed over.
[23:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Since nobody else broached the subject... - 06AMD Will Sell Server CPUs at Happy Meal Prices So You Can Supersize Servers - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:37] <exec> 08└─How many of you really trust AMD chips now that they have an AMD-signed TrustZone kernel running on them potentially spying on everything you do, or at least allowing malicious software a chance to exploit the system at a higher than hypervisor/supervisor level of control? AMD with FM2+ has gone to...
[23:10:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mtrycz [60] 02PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 494 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:58] <exec> 08└─Higgs had reffered to it as "the goddamn particle" expressing his (and collegues') frustration of not being able to find it. Or something. The editor said they wouldn't publish a book with a "swear word" in it, so they edited it into this now-famous phrase of "God particle". Because, you know, relig...
[23:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PSA: There is no "God particle" - 06Scientists Narrow Search for a New 'God Particle' - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:06] <exec> 08└─The "Cut his mike!" Particle.
[23:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:''list which expenses gov't should stop making' - 06Google Fiber to Pause Rollout, Lay off 130+ employees - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:44] <exec> 08└─> could easily be cut by 40 percentage points And cause one hell of a recession in the process... The main advantage of being paranoid about building weapons is the amount of domestic work it creates, typically in good stable jobs. Should it be cut? Sure, but the only reasonable approach would be to...
[23:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:don't forget - 06Samsung Posts 30 Percent Profit Plunge on Note 7 Crisis - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:33] <exec> 08└─lp0 on fire
[23:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The quest for pure air - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:49] <exec> 08└─Wait, no, NONSENSE!!! Socialism, mainstream media, WW3, abortions.... whatever it will take to avoid the facts?
[23:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:The quest for pure air - 06 The Dutch Are Tackling Air Pollution With Another Giant Vacuum Device - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:50] <exec> 08└─I've breathed "pure air". You find it near the Arctic Circle, and way up high in the mountains. Oddly, there isn't a lot that grows in those environments. The more pure the air gets, the more sterile the environment is.
[23:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Armies of overeducated people - 06Young, Talented, and Fed-up: Scientists Tell Their Stories - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:33] <exec> 08└─You must be thinking of physicians. With Ph.D.s, one's family is very proud of them for graduating college, but when it comes to going after a Ph.D., it is the opposite. They pressure you to go and get on with your life, to get a "real" job, etc., etc. "Are you going to be a student forever?"
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