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[00:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:12] <exec> 08└─This case is really shaking things up.
[00:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:13] <exec> 08└─Not too soon. Just not good enough. -1
[00:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:29] <exec> 08└─Good thing the EPA has been keeping an eye on these things. Hope we give them more money to keep up the great work.
[00:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:30] <exec> 08└─Fresno? Nobody goes to Fresno anymore.
[00:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:33] <exec> 08└─replace dangerous bridges (a message from the Trolls' United Bridge and General Infrastructure Replacement League)
[00:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:35] <exec> 08└─"data was released by the California Department of Public Health"
[00:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <exec> 08└─Scott Pruitt, is that you?
[00:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:39] <exec> 08└─This has been a community announcement from Darth Cheeto.
[00:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─Of course this article has nothing to do with politics
[00:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:44] <exec> 08└─Shut up Ethanol.
[00:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Geely Opens UK Plant for Electric London Taxis - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:12] <exec> 08└─These electric taxis can be powered by Hinkley Point Unit C. Good for the UK, good for China, and good for France (for the other nuclear powers, not so much perhaps).
[00:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Geely Opens UK Plant for Electric London Taxis - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:13] <exec> 08└─Thank goodness for the centrists who made it all happen, eh?
[00:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:28] <exec> 08└─The OP's points, it seems to me, were that the pound is a unit of force, not a unit of mass, and that we tend to forget this because of our shared experience of the Earth's gravity.
[00:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:29] <exec> 08└─What's the percentage of world population who believe metric is hard?
[00:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:07] <exec> 08└─Well, all this talk of expensive meat got me feeding my mealworms again: one stalk of celery divided between 2 farms and cut up. Not expensive. Popped a live mealworm into my mouth and chomped. Bleh... It is like poor man's corn: tastes like thick almost tasteless corn kernel-paste, but the outer 's...
[00:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Deformable Thermoelectric Materials Add a New Twist to the Design of Energy-Scavenging Devices - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:34] <exec> 08└─KAUST is the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. It's in Saudi Arabia. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.kaust.edu.sa [kaust.edu.sa]
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[01:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:16] <exec> 08└─Almost made the first bad pun, but I was biting my tongue.
[01:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:17] <exec> 08└─Triggered?
[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:19] <exec> 08└─The animated GIF that Rivello allegedly tweeted was a generic one that had already been posted on places such as 4chan for years.
[01:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:22] <exec> 08└─A well-known principle in jurisprudence, meaning: “the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty.” Sending a seizure-inducing image to an epileptic is like giving someone with a serious peanut allergy a milkshake made with peanuts. If someone did the latter while knowing beforehand that the...
[01:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:44] <exec> 08└─I look forward to reading about the Governor switching the water supply to save a few pennies which brought this about. And advising family members to drink bottled water but not everyone else. Sorry, got sidetracked: LEAD LEAD LEAD. SEE EVERYONE'S BAD NOT JUST US.
[01:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:46] <exec> 08└─If by now you don't think Trump deserves quite a bit of mockery, then you should pull your head from out between your cheeks and say "heewwwoooo" to the world.
[01:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:48] <exec> 08└─There is nothing in the article to say how he led exposure is happening. There are lots of things it could be, but what is the mechanism?
[01:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:50] <exec> 08└─The Fresno Chamber of Commerce begs to differ. Check out the calendar of events [fresnochamber.com]!
[01:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:35] <exec> 08└─About o.o4%, I'd estimate.
[01:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:36] <exec> 08└─o.O
[01:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:15] <exec> 08└─You didn't say how much you have to buy to get the price. In a recent week, I saw chicken "quarters" (thigh and drumstick, joined) for $0.49/lb in 10-lb bags, frozen. I see $0.69/lb on that fairly regularly. Defrost, bake the lot, put the portions in serving-size containers, and freeze them. Yeah, i...
[01:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:17] <exec> 08└─Vegetarianism isn't an option for me yet; tried it and got really anemic and weak and irritable, and that's *with* zinc and B-complex supplements You didn't mention an iron supplement, generally recommended for women. Iron deficiency is a major cause of anemia. [webmd.com] Another cause is vitamin d...
[01:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:41] <exec> 08└─And there's something fishy about this app...
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[02:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Chemical Reactions 'Filmed' at the Single-Molecule Level - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:22] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU5itkZ_GNM [youtube.com] I didnt see a video link in the article and this appears to be the same research from the screenshot.
[02:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Reactions 'Filmed' at the Single-Molecule Level - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:24] <exec> 08└─That's an impressive video. The ability to resolve chemical reactions at intermediate states has been advancing by leaps and bounds. Most of those are spectroscopic methods but this is (fairly) direct imaging and in real time.
[02:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chemical Reactions 'Filmed' at the Single-Molecule Level - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:26] <exec> 08└─Cuz this sounds a lot like molecular pr0n to me. / then again, I'm not a scientist // slashies are for another website /// slashies, um, err, brrrrrr
[02:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:05] <exec> 08└─"No level of lead exposure is safe" Then you're unsafe. No matter who you are. No matter where you are from on earth. And this isn't a new thing. You can go back to Australopithecus and Lucy would have had some lead in her body. This is a meaningless phrase as there has never been a human with zero...
[02:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:06] <exec> 08└─Digging up the street to replace old pipes costs money. Same with bottled water. Generally, running your tap water through a filter would be a lot more cost effective, since you can get 1,000 gallons or so before you have to replace filter cartridges. I'm not sure how well these setups would handle...
[02:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:08] <exec> 08└─Because we should get our news from unfunny comedians. Next up Larry the Cable Guy will be laying some serious knowledge on us about SpaceX's latest launch.
[02:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:10] <exec> 08└─Amen! And when you combine that attitude of "any amount is unacceptable" with the ever increasing ability of labs to measure ever smaller concentrations it creates whole new levels of stupid. Everything is a balance. Too much of most things is bad. Low enough and it isn't, or sometimes even good. Do...
[02:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:29] <exec> 08└─The radio is always kept isolated to prevent the insecure Android side from possibly being able to get at the physical interface of the radio. Putting an entirely separate CPU, RAM and FLASH, often with only a serial link to the main CPU is secure, especially since the radio processor tends to only...
[02:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:31] <exec> 08└─Which is great if your program only need run a few times. Otherwise if it runs ten times slower it requires ten times the electricity and ten times the data center capacity. So many people make that mistake, deploying scripting and other toy/fad/academic languages into production and only when the c...
[02:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Geely Opens UK Plant for Electric London Taxis - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:43] <exec> 08└─No product "Mad in China" enters my house. Especially foodstuff.
[02:16:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 566 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:42] <exec> 08└─Ask the French (and less spectacularly other Euro countries). The people working for the entity called government should be afraid of the People. If your government is not afraid of the people it serves, and feels impunity for the shit it does (like 95% re-election rates), then you are right to call...
[02:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:44] <exec> 08└─The submitter and possibly the author of the article (I didn't read it) is confusing patent law and copyright law. Printer companies use copyright law for their printers, because patents only last 20 years, while corporate copyrights last 95. Patent law has nothing to do with use after purchase, but...
[02:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:45] <exec> 08└─Domesticated animals basically made a deal with humans: The humans help keep them alive, in exchange for being able to eat them later.
[02:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Backwards Boards to King-Flipping, Hollywood Can't Get Chess Right - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:36] <exec> 08└─You do realize that Star Trek was appointment TV for MLK? Back in the '60s, the few black woman on TV were maids, and she was a fricken *Star ship officer*. Nichelle Nichols wanted to quit Star Trek so she could pursue a Broadway career, but MLK talked her out of it.
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[03:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:01] <exec> 08└─from the onions-have-layers dept. Sort of like: the onions have onions... i guess it's onions ALL the way down (in?) :)
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[03:14:02] <exec> 08└─Please file form I-385 and K-5512 to enable download of this webpage for viewing, A-21 to save to disk. It is only for your own safety comrade-citizen-brother. </sarcasm> because some people will sure to miss it.
[03:14:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 930 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:23] <exec> 08└─A well-known principle in jurisprudence, meaning: “the act is not culpable unless the mind is guilty.” Sending a seizure-inducing image to an epileptic is like giving someone with a serious peanut allergy a milkshake made with peanuts. If someone did the latter while knowing beforehand that the...
[03:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:24] <exec> 08└─The first one we should be observing is the InfoSec angle. Guy used a burner phone. Didn't help. Keep that in mind next article extolling BitCoin, Tor, VPNs, SSL everything, blah blah. You have to have iron discipline and if the Feds want you even that probably ain't saving you. There is a world of...
[03:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:56] <exec> 08└─One of the key signs of an empire in terminal decline is that only its fools and jesters dare to tell the truth to a wide audience. We are officially at the point where satire writes itself; ergo, the kind of mind that, as Franken said, specializes in pointing out absurdity for a living becomes, if...
[03:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:31] <exec> 08└─Iron supplement, probably. I usually have very light periods so I didn't think one was necessary, and was eating lots of spinach too.
[03:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:26] <exec> 08└─At the Linux Mint forum recently, phd21 had a good answer for this. So, pretty much all changed over to Linux Mint, but... [linuxmint.com] My usual lotsa-answers place [alternativeto.net] was disappointing on this one. . family members [...] If they insist on using Windows, let them, and let them de...
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[04:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:20] <exec> 08└─Some say security by obscurity is no security at all. I say, an FTP server configured on port 21 goes down about 1000 times faster than one configured on port 21345. Sure, it's better to use a secure protocol like ssh, but, similarly, a secure protocol on a non-standard port number gets even less ex...
[04:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:22] <exec> 08└─Mostly because devs and implementors are generally more concerned with getting whatever it is "up and running" rather than designing security into their stuff. What makes more sense is to take security into consideration during the design and development stages, which would greatly assist with "defe...
[04:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:24] <exec> 08└─Just install Windows 10 and it should be OK.
[04:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:26] <exec> 08└─Should I also install Ubuntu on Windows 10 so I get systemd?
[04:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:48] <exec> 08└─He used his real name and address for itunes. And WTF was that driver license picture idiocy?
[04:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 1407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:49] <exec> 08└─For obvious reasons they aren't giving details. Like how an iPhone got into the picture. Did he think he just needed the burner to sign up for Twitter initially and then did his day to day activity on the iPhone? If so that was major league dumb. But we just don't know. He could have only signed int...
[04:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:22] <exec> 08└─Oh yea, feel the fear, see the courage of the few willing to speak "Truth to Power", see them pat themselves on the back and hand each other awards for their bravery. Lemme give you a hint. When people are putting on bumper stickers about "Bush Hitler" and waving signs about how Trump is "Literally...
[04:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:24] <exec> 08└─The article repeatedly mentions lead paint as a factor.
[04:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:26] <exec> 08└─"Recent" as in "recently mede it into the news", and/or "not forgotten be everyone (yet)"
[04:19:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Linux-Using Mates Gone AWOL? Netflix Just Added Linux Support - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:53] <exec> 08└─Bay Trail is terrible on Linux and a complete anomaly. Intel basically gave up on it while usually they offer all sorts of patches for the chips to run well. There is no x86 system with worse support than Bay Trail, and it does boot and mostly function... (long time Linux user and not so happy T100...
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[05:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:04] <exec> 08└─Well I will have electric flights going to the moon in 10 years. The thing that is the same is that they are equally likely. Seriously, take a look at the website for Wright Electric [weflywright.com]. Completely devoid of content. I have seen Kickstarter scams that have looked more viable.
[05:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:05] <exec> 08└─They're emerging from stealth mode! Seriously though, companies that get venture capital funding but aren't widely known tend to have very sparse info on their websites.
[05:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:07] <exec> 08└─[startup] ntends to offer an electric-powered commercial flight from London to Paris in 10 years.
[05:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DoctorVoodoo [6498] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:09] <exec> 08└─I reckon it would take a strong swimmer/walker 5-6 days. But train is quicker. I could live with 10 days to moon. But I'd be wanting Uranus, if not interstellar, for 10 year journey.
[05:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:11] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't want a 10 year journey anywhere - unless I get to live at least 1 million years. There is [realistically] nothing on the other end that is worth 10 years of life to me.
[05:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:24] <exec> 08└─Isn't this obvious? The "cold" attacks are essentially lazy, mostly-deterministic spray'n'pray batches. Firewall at the WAN interface, firewalls on each node, principle of least privilege, don't run anything as a service that doesn't need to run, etc. This sounds almost tautological, like saying "if...
[05:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 3749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:26] <exec> 08└─I believe this whole security fiasco is the result of special interest's need of controlling things after the sale and installation on the customer machine. I also believe the only solution is to make an OS that has absolutely NO remote arbitrary code execution capability. That is to say the OS bec...
[05:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:51] <exec> 08└─so, if I shoot somebody with a gun who has not been known to harm anyone when used on a boatload of people, I am still taken seriously? This story is suspect.
[05:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:52] <exec> 08└─Photosensitive epilepsy isn't terribly common. Mine is triggered by boredom. (Honest.) I keep aksing for special accommodations, but people keep sending me boring shit.
[05:15:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 416 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:24] <exec> 08└─One of the key signs of an empire in terminal decline is that only its fools and jesters dare to tell the truth to a wide audience. We are officially at the point where satire writes itself; ergo, the kind of mind that, as Franken said, specializes in pointing out absurdity for a living becomes, if...
[05:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:28] <exec> 08└─The Brita filter is the kind of thing that someone who already has good quality water will afford/think to buy. And they have better access to bulk discounts through their collection of Costco, Amazon, etc. memberships.
[05:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:30] <exec> 08└─Someone sounds just a liiiiiiittle triggered :) Go have a spell on yon fainting couch, J-Mo. Nothing you said invalidates my point.
[05:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:32] <exec> 08└─The pipes were installed by developers. Should they be liable? If they are dead, maybe their heirs could pay? The houses are owned by people, some of whom are landlords. Some of these people have replaced some of the pipe, while others did not. If government now pays, it is not fair to the people wh...
[05:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:35] <exec> 08└─Virtue Signalling refers to the public expression of an opinion on a given topic primarily for the purpose of displaying one’s moral superiority before a large audience to solicit their approval.
[05:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:37] <exec> 08└─Charcoal does nothing for lead. It really does nothing for much of anything except chlorine. For this kind of thing you'd need a rather expensive reverse osmosis setup.
[05:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Geely Opens UK Plant for Electric London Taxis - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:10] <exec> 08└─So, have you checked *every* component of every device you own? Or do you leave some things (lightbulbs, leds, printers, toasters...) outside, so you don't break your rule?
[05:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Geely Opens UK Plant for Electric London Taxis - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:11] <exec> 08└─> ... and you get reliable fighter jet engines. Doesn't matter, fighter jets are for fighter jocks (and the ex-fighter jocks that command the fighter squadrons). Missiles (nearly) always can out turn and maneuver human piloted aircraft, so the missiles win.
[05:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China's Geely Opens UK Plant for Electric London Taxis - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:16:13] <exec> 08└─Yep.
[05:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:12] <exec> 08└─IP stands for "industrial protectionism"
[05:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:14] <exec> 08└─Why not just set up a government though voluntary interaction?
[05:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:16] <exec> 08└─No, Lexmark uses Patent law. The reason is that Patent law allows you to prohibit others from using your patented invention. With copyright laws, Independent development is a defence. My best guess is that they consider a simple print-out manufacturing. As such, they are able to require a patent lic...
[05:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 1246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:18] <exec> 08└─Copyright is supposed to be exhausted upon purchase (first sale doctrine). As such, copyright can not be use to impose terms after sale. That is why copyright-based EULAs say something like: "by clicking 'agree'...". Around Windows Vista or 7. Microsoft changed their EULA to read: "By using the comp...
[05:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:20] <exec> 08└─I don't even know where to begin.
[05:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Cowherd [3699] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:23] <exec> 08└─Such products already exist. http://www.memphismeats.com [memphismeats.com] http://beyondmeat.com [beyondmeat.com] Can't remember the guy's name but there was this fireman who stopped eating meat because the smell of meat cooking reminded him of a guy who died burning in a fire that the fireman co...
[05:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:18] <exec> 08└─"I put my hands and pressed hard. All I could think of was, Candy Crush."
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[06:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:06] <exec> 08└─you can cool to absolute zero. the secret is using a time machine. also there seem to be some time violations when fissioning uranium so there might be a way to use it to attain absolute zero tho the universe as a whole will not recognize it as so but humans will consider it as reached even tho only...
[06:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:08] <exec> 08└─I get the idea if things are in discrete quanta, it oughta be able to quieten every one of 'em. Like getting every last marble out of a jar. For this thought to be valid though, the quanta have to be indivisible. Otherwise, its like trying to get every last speck of marble dust out of a jar. The d...
[06:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:10] <exec> 08└─stopid tor time-out, sigh. outline: using uranium to get to absolute zero works like this: cool to maximum the uranium atom. the energy movment is near zero tho there is energy as mass to the einstein equation. no split uranium into two atoms A and B ... and radiation AND NEUTRINOS. we cannot intera...
[06:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:12] <exec> 08└─But Ms. Frizzle said never say never.
[06:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:14] <exec> 08└─I get the idea if things are in discrete quanta, it oughta be able to quieten every one of 'em. Like getting every last marble out of a jar. For this thought to be valid though, the quanta have to be indivisible. Otherwise, its like trying to get every last speck of marble dust out of a jar. The div...
[06:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:26] <exec> 08└─The thing that is the same is that they are equally likely.
[06:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:42] <exec> 08└─You might be right. But 1000 times 35 ms is still only 35 seconds. Port scans are automated, so you are only wasting your time and the time of everyone typing that port number into their ftp client.
[06:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:09] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin should actually work, so long as you mine it on your ghost VM, and you accept that multiple expenditures by your ghost identity can be linked to each other. Mining bitcoin on CPU (VM or not) is hardly profitable, but it's not unreasonable as a way to convert dollars (spent on electric bill)...
[06:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:10] <exec> 08└─You are trying to argue with a fact. You are suspect.
[06:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:12] <exec> 08└─Let's just get this out of the way: I don't condone this jerks actions, but... I also don't think it's in our best interests if the legal system is able to set the precedent that sending a person who has epilepsy a flashy GIF image is a form of assault; regardless of the sender's intentions. It seem...
[06:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:14] <exec> 08└─Dumb jokes never die, they just migrate to other websites.
[06:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China's Geely Opens UK Plant for Electric London Taxis - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:16:30] <exec> 08└─Gee, you sound almost like the bunch of local business folk around the east coast of North America 245 years ago. They were protesting the multinational corporation East India Company.
[06:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:35] <exec> 08└─Naw...that sound is your bank account being drained by the swamp pump.
[06:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:39] <exec> 08└─http://robotchicken.wikia.com/wiki/Transcription:This_Deal's_Getting_Worse_All_The_Time [wikia.com]
[06:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Giant Magnetic Fields in the Universe - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:50] <exec> 08└─How does it imply that universe has a direction?
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[07:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:07] <exec> 08└─think of the flaslight as a radio. the universe works faster then light. however we are made of the universe .., we are embed in it. i believe the receiving elektron "knows ahead of time that a photon will hit. just "seconds" before you turn on a flashlight all elektrons in the universe jump to an u...
[07:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:08] <exec> 08└─But your flashlight does create thrust, just a very very small amount of it. Photons carry momentum, which you can easily derive using the Planck-Einstein relations: E = pc for photons, so the momentum of an individual photon would be p = E/c. However, the energies of visible light photons are very...
[07:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:10] <exec> 08└─A slight miscalculation there. 15 lumens has a thrust of about 6.8×10-11 N. The value of 4.6×10-12 N was for 1 lumen. Still doesn’t change the argument.
[07:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:12] <exec> 08└─Apparently less than zero is still possible though: That a system at negative temperature is hotter than any system at positive temperature is paradoxical if absolute temperature is interpreted as an average kinetic energy of the system. The paradox is resolved by understanding temperature through i...
[07:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:25] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't want a 10 year journey anywhere - unless I get to live at least 1 million years.
[07:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:09] <exec> 08└─That's not epilepsy, that's a tantrum.
[07:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:11] <exec> 08└─I don't mind as long as the precedent is they still have to be able to prove you already knew there's a high chance of causing harm to your specific target and that was why you sent that particular image to him. And all that seems to be the case. So I'm fine with such stuff as being classified as as...
[07:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:52] <exec> 08└─I picked the wrong day to quit licking lead
[07:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:16:14] <exec> 08└─If you think that's bad, consider what will do systemd on that platform. On odroid (arm) systemd is not able to systematically close the network connection before rebooting, so the ssh client is left waiting half of the time. The good news is that if you are into genetic algorithms you can write jav...
[07:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:35] <exec> 08└─Is this a statement about... the necessity of mortgages? Zoning laws/building codes meaning you don't "own" real estate? Are you serious? If so, what absolutist, no-real-scotsman are you putting forth?
[07:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Sperm Count? There's (gonna be) an App for That - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:34] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of that B movie starring Monica Vitti (must be Amori Miei), something along the lines of: - "Honey you should really test your fertility" - "Darling, spare me that, it is embarassing" - "Nooo, honey, there are new methods, they make a tiny tiny puncture on the finger, extract a little blo...
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[08:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:28] <exec> 08└─I get the idea if things are in discrete quanta, it oughta be able to quieten every one of 'em. Like getting every last marble out of a jar. For this thought to be valid though, the quanta have to be indivisible. Otherwise, its like trying to get every last speck of marble du...
[08:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:29] <exec> 08└─No need to take such detailed assumptions. From E=pc you get dE/dt = c·dp/dt. Now dE/dt is the power of the light (which is upper bounded by the electric power you put into generating it), and dp/dt is the force generated. So if you've got a one watt light source, neglect any losses, and assume per...
[08:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:31] <exec> 08└─Errr … s/the power you get/the force you get/
[08:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:33] <exec> 08└─actually the problem comes from trying to define temperature for a system that is not at thermodynamic equilibrium. For any system that is at thermodynamic equilibrium, you can define a temperature using statistical physics, and it will be positive. You can then derive the relationship between the t...
[08:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:36] <exec> 08└─Well, a zero-energy photon is known as "no photon". OK, strictly speaking, the no-photon state would still have the zero point energy, but that isn't accounted for in the temperature so we can neglect that here. And yes, if the universe would be globally at temperature zero, it would remain at tempe...
[08:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:38] <exec> 08└─When Zeno of Elea learned to do stand-up comedy, he would prove that motion is impossible. The paradoxes are well known, the Arrow, Achilles and the Tortoise, the Moving Ranks; but when it came right down to it, and people said, "Yeah, but things still move!", Zeno's reply was, "Who you gonna believ...
[08:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the "what" is great, just don't ask us about the "how" part. We've got a canned "with electricity" response prepared, but fear that you'll just come back with another "how?" question, so let's not even start that cycle.
[08:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:07] <exec> 08└─What about doing "reverse port knocking": If some IP address accesses unused ports, it gets blocked for a short time, that increases with each tried access to unused or currently blocked ports.
[08:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:39] <exec> 08└─What did he post? An ad?
[08:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 1334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:21] <exec> 08└─Side effects of lead exposure include: - Rigid, inflexible problem-solving abilities - Delayed general intellectual abilities - Problems controlling behavior (e.g., aggressive, impulsive) - Poor language understanding or usage Really only half joking. The behavioral changes throughout t...
[08:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:45] <exec> 08└─I think they are still making those, they are used in a couple of the $150-$200 BLU phones I've been looking at as well as some Alcatel One Touch models. IIRC the new ones are octocores and have 2 of the ARM 7s for low power tasks like checking email with the screen off, 2 of the ARM 9 for phone tas...
[08:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:46] <exec> 08└─Nit - it's big.LITTLE, not BIG.little. And yes, I know how you're supposed to make use of it in theory, but my point is that it's still not delivering all of the benefits that were promised. "Customising the scheduler" isn't something that you can just do on a lazy friday afternoon, teams of dozens...
[08:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:12] <exec> 08└─I love sushi, but I know not to try to make it at home, I would just mess it up.
[08:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Publishes Developer-oriented Preview of Android O - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:28] <exec> 08└─...in Kansas City, Missouri
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[09:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:39] <exec> 08└─London and Paris are well connected by trains and flying between the two is annoying because of the distance between the city centre and the airports. It doesn't sound like a great place for a startup to trial these flights. London to Edinburgh is a lot more annoying by train and might be a better i...
[09:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:57] <exec> 08└─Could be defeated by using a different source IP to check each port number.
[09:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:36] <exec> 08└─I have an idle long-term plan for that: Build an auditable computer from scratch. Would probably take decades though. It would involve fuse ROMs programmed through CRC protected toggle switches. Then using those ROMs to build periperals like keyboards and monitors that you can trust. Would involve c...
[09:18:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:13] <exec> 08└─Asked what prompted them to eat less beef, 37 percent of consumers surveyed cited its price as the No. 1 reason in research published in January by Mintel, a consumer research firm. Thirty-five percent of the respondents said they were eating more protein from other sources, like chicken or tofu. Bu...
[09:19:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:03] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure. I think it was during /Fast Food Nation/ when I saw a poor-ish family doing a food shop, and they claimed they had enough money for maccy-d's (containing beef) all round, but didn't have enough money for broccoli - the segment was attempting to answer the question "why don't you coo...
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[10:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:33] <exec> 08└─I get the idea if things are in discrete quanta, it oughta be able to quieten every one of 'em. Like getting every last marble out of a jar.
[10:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:49] <exec> 08└─London to Edinburgh
[10:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:07] <exec> 08└─But still means that you're keeping out the script kiddies, which sounds like that's all the OP wants to do.
[10:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:40] <exec> 08└─Mine is triggered by boredom. (Honest.)
[10:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:23] <exec> 08└─they aren't that expensive http://bestreviews.io [bestreviews.io]
[10:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:11] <exec> 08└─That's how imaginary property laws have gotten to the state they're currently in. People try to meet the abusers at a half way point that's "fair and equitable to all involved". Then 6 months later the abusers are back demanding even more. It's not being unfair to stop giving in to bullies. (I don't...
[10:18:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:26] <exec> 08└─A common misconception. Kiwis taste like mutton, Britons like cod, and Americans like bacon. Chinese are the best but you're hungry again an hour later.
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[11:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Wasn't the Money: Wozniak on Robots, Design, and Apple's Origins - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:11] <exec> 08└─So what open software/hardware has Woz contributed to society in the last 20ish years? Genuinely wondering if he started out as one of 'those impressionable youths'.
[11:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Wasn't the Money: Wozniak on Robots, Design, and Apple's Origins - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:12] <exec> 08└─I wonder what would have happened if Wozniak hadn't met Jobs. Given that there were no restriction on using the design, would we have gotten a competitive market of "Apple" computers (not under that name, of course), similar to the PC clone market? Or would it have become an obscure computer known o...
[11:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:48] <exec> 08└─Came to this thread expecting to find lots of ex-wife jokes. Pleasantly surprised.
[11:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:06] <exec> 08└─There's some talk in the press at the moment about London becoming an independent city-state, and it's currently polling higher among Londoners than independence is in Scotland, so it might be the other way around. That said, the simplest solution to the whole mess would be for all of the leave-voti...
[11:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:25] <exec> 08└─Most of these scans come from botnets. They'll try 2-3 from one IP, then a few from another, and so on. Botnet machines are something like 5¢ on the open market: well within the price range of most script kiddies.
[11:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:27] <exec> 08└─Some say security by obscurity is no security at all.
[11:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:44] <exec> 08└─Because refusing to pay enough taxes to maintain infrastructure, or replace dangerous bridges and pipes (especially in impoverished neighborhoods) has nothing to with politics.
[11:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06China's Geely Opens UK Plant for Electric London Taxis - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:27] <exec> 08└─He said "Mad in China", you see. This implies taking things into the house and putting them into the madness detecting device (known also as a microwave elsewhere). If the product exhibits mad behavior, it is brought back for replacement. If it passes the test, well, he sniffs it out to see whether...
[11:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:36] <exec> 08└─"If you refill the ink in your printer cartridges, you will go to jail?" THEN FUCKING SHOOT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SUING YOU OR ARRESTING YOU UNTILL THEY ARE DEAD. Is it that hard? Men used to kill for much less. Low-T women's nation. Just kill your enemies: you have nothing to live for anyway: women ba...
[11:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:37] <exec> 08└─Men used to kill there enemies, you know.
[11:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:45] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the social contract.
[11:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:19:46] <exec> 08└─I suppose if you get annoying enough, the admins can just ban your address block. Seems like an ugly kludge, when you could just not post crap in the first place.
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[12:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:09] <exec> 08└─I'm flat fed up with hearing "I don't make enough money for doing <blah>". You know, there is and always has been a solution to that: do something else that pays better. The performance of some jobs simply is not worth paying much for and the incessant whining over not making $15/hr for flipping bur...
[12:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:11] <exec> 08└─When I was younger, I worked 50, 60, 70, 80 hrs/week. And I earned great money too back in the days - unlike the Uber slaves. And you know what? My company tanked, I thought back on my workaholism, and I thought: what's the point? I'm not taking whatever I gained from working extra-hard to my grave....
[12:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:13] <exec> 08└─You aren't disagreeing with nitehawk214. Existence of VC funding doesn't mean that the company isn't vaporware or a scam. The VC could be in on it or a patsy.
[12:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:15] <exec> 08└─And they're going to break up California into five pieces of nirvana - well four pieces of nirvana and Los Angeles.
[12:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:37] <exec> 08└─That should actually be pretty safe. Who in their right mind would want to break into, or steal, a system running that sucking-chest-wound of an OS?
[12:18:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 2111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:14] <exec> 08└─There are so many screwy laws and contracts that are nothing more than outrageously unfair transfers of public wealth into private pockets. Feels like America has become more corrupt. Our publicly funded law enforcement is routinely used against us. I'd really rather not be a law breaking rebel pira...
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[13:14:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 955 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:20] <exec> 08└─When I was younger, I worked 50, 60, 70, 80 hrs/week. And I earned great money too back in the days - unlike the Uber slaves. And you know what? My company tanked, I thought back on my workaholism, and I thought: what's the point? I'm not taking whatever I gained from working extra-hard to my grave....
[13:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:22] <exec> 08└─The thing is, working your ass off during your 20s is an outstanding idea. You should pull all the overtime you can so you can sock away all that extra money you're making for retirement. By your 30s though you should be working smart rather than hard. Which isn't to say you shouldn't put in a day's...
[13:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:24] <exec> 08└─I have pulled my fair share of overtime (almost 40% of my billable total). If you're doing that and aren't able to at least survive on your earnings, then some personal reflection is in order. Despite the fact that we can't all be brain-surgeons and news-anchors, there's still a wide variety of mark...
[13:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:26] <exec> 08└─taking ride requests while she was in labor!—is an “exciting” example of how seamless and flexible app-based employment can be.
[13:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:41] <exec> 08└─I can almost hear the liberal sound of exploding heads on the West Coast. "Won't someone please think of the children, refugees, muslims, bears and wolves!"
[13:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Piece of Mind: Engineers can Take Pictures of Mouse Brain with Surgical Needle and Laser Light - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:48] <exec> 08└─Didn't see any mention of where the needle goes. I'm guessing they can't just go through the skull. I can imagine that a very, very, very small probe could get through a hard substance, but I strongly suspect their microscopic needle is nowhere close to small enough to pass through bone. Also, does...
[13:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:13] <exec> 08└─"the universe as a whole will not recognize it as so but humans will consider it as reached" Sure, that sounds like a sane and meaningful thing to say.
[13:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:14] <exec> 08└─Friendly reminder that whoever states movement is an illusion deserves an imaginary kick in the balls.
[13:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds like an atomic version of Zeno's paradox.
[13:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:19] <exec> 08└─There is a much simpler way to achieve the same, without the need for time travel: just let parliament or congress redefine what "Absolute Zero" means, and you don't even need a "lab" to reach it "only on paper" in your own kitchen/basement/mancave/asshole/wherever.
[13:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:34] <exec> 08└─Since the sender clearly considered it a form of assault (based on his comments surrounding his action) and we know it had the potential to act as one in this case, I see no reason why we shouldn't treat it as one. Also based on surrounding comments, we know there was malice. Had any of those elemen...
[13:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:19] <exec> 08└─Of course Flint is not the only place where lead poisoning is a major problem. The reason Flint got famous is that the government knowingly made specific decisions that they knew would increase the level of lead in the drinking supply, without telling anybody, and then tried to cover up that fact. Y...
[13:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:12] <exec> 08└─Buy cheap HP printers off QVC network specials and such. When they run out of ink, recycle the old printer and buy a new one. Much cheaper than new cartridges, and your printer never wears out. Depending on where you live, the old printers might make a nice deductible charitable donation, further ec...
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[14:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:31] <exec> 08└─As long as there IS something that pays better, that's fine. But perhaps you didn't notice that there are a lot of crappy jobs and not a lot of good jobs to be had out there. If a job is important enough that the employer would be in trouble if it couldn't get anyone to do it, then the job is worth...
[14:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─All-male White House health bill photo sparks anger [bbc.com] You goddamned feminists out there think you can just heap all the blame for what's going to happen on assigned males, don't you. You fucking voted for Trump for this solitary reason. You want to control my body? You can have my cold, dead...
[14:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 2740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:35] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree with you Buzzard. But, realistically, we need to be mindful of today's job market. There are a lot of people with degrees who can't find jobs. True, many of those people are idiots for having pursued the wrong degrees, as well as paying premium prices for mediocre educations. Still -...
[14:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:37] <exec> 08└─Uhhhh - nobody WANTS your fucking corpse. Please, just die quietly, so we can screw you into a hole in the ground and forget about you.
[14:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 2290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:39] <exec> 08└─This viewpoint ignores a very important fact of human biology. People can, and do, die from overworking. From lack of sleep. From eating improperly. From using stimulants to meet outrageously unrealistic work schedules. They get heart disease. They have strokes and brain aneurysms. They just up and...
[14:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:41] <exec> 08└─incessant whining over not making $15/hr for flipping burgers
[14:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:44] <exec> 08└─Clearly, they aren't getting paid that much, because it isn't worth that much. The labor supply is too big; there are too many people, especially low quality people.
[14:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:46] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of people with degrees who can't find jobs. True, many of those people are idiots for having pursued the wrong degrees, as well as paying premium prices for mediocre educations.
[14:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:48] <exec> 08└─IANAPornstar, but bear in mind that even not really regulated, porn is not for everyone. It requires a lot of learning, training and hard work. Just like any good job.
[14:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:50] <exec> 08└─Note that there is pretty good evidence that working night shifts shortens telomeres (I'm not a biologist, I probably read about it here somewhere).
[14:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:52] <exec> 08└─It won't bother me if they are upset. Being upset is their problem, not mine. I can live the rest of my life quite happily if they are upset. It won't even bother me if they are offended. Being offended may destroy their lives, but it won't affect my life at all.
[14:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:54] <exec> 08└─"working your ass off during your 20s" Working your ass off is a damned good prescription for half of America. Obesity is out of hand.
[14:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:57] <exec> 08└─Burger flippers should be glad they still have a job. It is ripe for automation. Many jobs have been replaced by automation. A guy once worked on an auto assembly line. His job was replaced by robots. So he changed to become a truck driver. A much safer choice. After all, those trucks aren't going t...
[14:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:59] <exec> 08└─Those children who you worry about starving to death? Yeah.... why do they exist in the first place?
[14:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Wasn't the Money: Wozniak on Robots, Design, and Apple's Origins - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe his airplane accident affected him a fair bit? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Wozniak sustained severe face and head injuries, including losing a tooth, and also suffered for five weeks after the crash from anterograde amnesia, the inability to crea...
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[14:15:18] <exec> 08└─i like my guns and hunting but i only hunt for food. these people who kill as many coyotes as possible are idiots. i'd hate to see this indiscriminate killing return for wolves and bears. at the same time we don't need the freaking feds telling us what we can hunt.
[14:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:20] <exec> 08└─I'm in agreement there. But, let me add, hunters don't hunt from airplanes. I don't care if they are hunting for food, hunting for trophies, or working at pest control - a HUNTER doesn't hunt from an airplane. That's just pathetic. I also have a strong aversion to "hunters" going into the woods on 4...
[14:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:37] <exec> 08└─There are 10,000 script kiddie attacks flying around for every serious hack. Serious hacks tend to be more targeted, deliberate, focused. Yes, you should be resistant to them, but ultimately - if someone within your organization fails to resist some social engineering, no amount of technical securit...
[14:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:38] <exec> 08└─Why can't my OS tell me exactly what programs are asking of it
[14:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:14] <exec> 08└─And you're hanging out here?
[14:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:00] <exec> 08└─Under the current administration, lead is to be recognized as an important mineral and nutrient. The FDA is directed to come up with RDA guidelines for lead.
[14:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:02] <exec> 08└─I doubt the EPA is tasked with protecting our plumbing. Rivers, yes.
[14:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM's DynamIQ Introduces Variable Core-Configuration Clusters - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:29] <exec> 08└─I considered snarking on BIG.little... but it's practically a marketing term. To the extent that smartphone buyers have actually heard of it.
[14:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:02] <exec> 08└─slaves are always spewing government propaganda. speak for yourself loser. i don't abuse my neighbors and i don't need some pigs to keep me on the straight and narrow. keep your statist lies to yourself.
[14:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:04] <exec> 08└─i agree with the killing part but i don't see how it's women's fault. it's greedy man-whores who are ruining the nation/world, women are just now getting their turn in smallish numbers.
[14:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Ate 19% Less Beef From 2005 to 2014, Report Says - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:15] <exec> 08└─Just so you know, that is spamming. SN admins take spam seriously.
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[15:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Darkness vs SADness -- How Sunlight Affects our Mood - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:24] <exec> 08└─https://intermountainhealthcare.org/blogs/2013/01/getting-vitamin-d-during-the-dead-of-winter/ [intermountainhealthcare.org]
[15:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 LinkedIn Starts Piping Sales Data to Salesforce and Dynamics - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:31] <exec> 08└─What? So does this have privacy implications? Who is this for? Very poor summary. As well as clearly not belonging in its own paragraph, is this meant to read "to their CRM"? Which LinkedIn has now fixed with a new "CRM Sync" feature that lets LinkedIn users send activities in the network with thei...
[15:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─When I was younger I worked in a small company probably 60 hours a week. I was single. So was the other software developer I worked with. We had a lot of fun. I rarely took vacations. I grew older. The company grew. By my 30s I only worked 40 hours a week. Eventually the company was acquired by a la...
[15:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's all men in that photo deciding to remove maternity coverage as part of new health 'care' bill. But the astute will also observe that no dark-skinned people are present. Unknown: are they also all christian, heterosexual, and wealthy?
[15:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:02] <exec> 08└─Up mod +5 Insightful
[15:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:04] <exec> 08└─I think the article was a whole lot funnier when it comes to lyft. I am sure a lot of the people on here have done independent contractor work, I have not but I dealt with the awful tax side for some of my wife's jobs. There are some pretty clearly defined boundries for what is and is not an employe...
[15:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:06] <exec> 08└─...those trucks aren't going to drive themselves.
[15:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:08] <exec> 08└─And this is significant because we all know that vegan trans female moslems of color are SO much more intelligent, compassionate, and taste good with or without sprinkles?
[15:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:11] <exec> 08└─At present, the powerful people being upset probably won't affect you. But don't assume it must remain that way forever. Bad things could happen.
[15:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:13] <exec> 08└─I was completely aware of self driving trucks when I wrote that line. It was intended to be funny. But more seriously, the burger flippers could be replaced by automation. In fact a huge amount of human labor could be automated. This is a bigger issue that doesn't seem to get enough discussion. Mean...
[15:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:15] <exec> 08└─Or, you know, she could have gone to the hospital. Nothing requires her to take on more clients. She can't get canned for not taking on clients because she is in labor. The choices made were all hers to make, then she blaimed it on someone else. If you are a worker who is unable or too unskilled for...
[15:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:17] <exec> 08└─But we must let all the Muslims and Mexicans in! It is the RIGHT thing to do! /s
[15:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:19] <exec> 08└─Performing on command is probably no fun. Especially with people you may not be attracted to. What happens off screen is probably not so glamorous. Takes and re-takes. Anxiety over failed performances. Sometimes doing things you may be repulsed by. But most inevitably, youth and beauty do not lost l...
[15:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:21] <exec> 08└─You mean like this: https://www.engadget.com [engadget.com]
[15:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:24] <exec> 08└─Your insightful comment may be true today. But tomorrow corporations may indeed want your corpse. It could be a valuable food additive so that people can eat 19% less beef. And, it won't take up real estate. What you call a cemetery plot, corporations call floor space for 2 more bunk beds.
[15:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:26] <exec> 08└─Please be aware that those brightly colored sprinkles are made from insect parts. Look it up.
[15:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:28] <exec> 08└─So let's say the fry cooker at McDs (the device, not the operator) requires 10 KW to operate. What would you say to the manager if he said it's only worth 5 KW, let's crank the voltage down to 60? How about he further argues that it's up to the rest of society to provide the other 5KW?
[15:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:30] <exec> 08└─That's not the point. This is part of the “misogynerd narrative.” It's all about the evil assigned males who keep women out of programming jobs at Lyft with a grand conspiracy to make computers inaccessible to womyn-born-womyn forcing pwecious innocent Hunnies to drive while they're in labor. Wh...
[15:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:32] <exec> 08└─Is that saying we've overpopulated? I see two basic futures for humanity. 1) Endless cycles of overpopulation followed by war, famine, and epidemics. Or, 2) we curb our greed and competitiveness, keep a lid on population, and enjoy lives of peace and plenty. The second can be done. The first is hars...
[15:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Wasn't the Money: Wozniak on Robots, Design, and Apple's Origins - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:43] <exec> 08└─Need a combination of people and they have to sort of work as a team. The following might not be 100% applicable all the time there are some truths (I can't find the actual article I'm looking for so this will have to do :) ): https://www.virgin.com
[15:15:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 540 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:52] <exec> 08└─I'm in agreement there. But, let me add, hunters don't hunt from airplanes. I don't care if they are hunting for food, hunting for trophies, or working at pest control - a HUNTER doesn't hunt from an airplane. That's just pathetic. I also have a strong aversion to "hunters" going into the woods on 4...
[15:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:55] <exec> 08└─I don't hunt personally, but I too am agreement on all the above points. Height of irresponsibility is demonstrated by some yahoos.
[15:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:57] <exec> 08└─It's funny how once in a while, Runaway1956 says something that I can completely agree with. "Hunting" from a vehicle is just lazy and pathetic. Last I heard, over here in Virginia, it's even the law: you can get your vehicle confiscated if you shoot a game animal from it.
[15:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:59] <exec> 08└─The major concept of feds saying what you can and can't hunt it to make sure you don't "locally extint" a species. Don't be such a fool. You obviously do need feds telling you that. Of course, as demonstrated here, feds don't always know what the fuck they are talking about. If one can't hunt with h...
[15:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:53] <exec> 08└─Wright Electric said by removing the need for jet fuel, the price of travel could drop dramatically.
[15:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:19] <exec> 08└─> if someone within your organization fails to resist some social engineering, no amount of technical security can resist that. I thought that was the point of having layered defences (or network zones, or whatever) - so only a very few privileged actors have access to your golden data e.g. customer...
[15:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:56] <exec> 08└─It’s like giving a peanut shake to someone with a peanut allergy. If I can show that I didn’t know the victim had a peanut allergy, or otherwise gave him the peanut shake in good faith without intention to cause harm, then there is no guilty mind (mens rea), they can’t establish a case. But th...
[15:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:47] <exec> 08└─While the other 99.06% don't find it useful to relate to everyday experience.
[15:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patents Are a Big Part of Why We Can't Own Nice Things: The Supreme Court Should Fix That - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:43] <exec> 08└─including for bad grammar
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[16:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Darkness vs SADness -- How Sunlight Affects our Mood - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:27] <exec> 08└─So this wasn't common knowledge already? This has been a thing up in the north of the world for years. They even have "lightrooms" in the hospitals - around 2000-4000 lux and you spend a few hours in there. For those pesky times of the year when the sun can barely make it across the horizon. Perhaps...
[16:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Darkness vs SADness -- How Sunlight Affects our Mood - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:29] <exec> 08└─Our brains, while amazingly smart compared to other animals, is still basically akin to that one software project you started 20 years ago, with each new feature haphazardly hacked into the existing framework wherever it fits. Face facts, no matter how smart you think you are, your brain is a giant...
[16:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Darkness vs SADness -- How Sunlight Affects our Mood - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:31] <exec> 08└─bright light—particularly when delivered in the early morning—seems to reverse the symptoms.
[16:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 LinkedIn Starts Piping Sales Data to Salesforce and Dynamics - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:40] <exec> 08└─Linked-In is trying to become a paid-for-service CRM interface, using it's own network of users and also customer data from company sales people using the CRM. I don't see anything really "evil" in this. Anyone who is stupid enough to still be on LinkedIn has already given up their rights to not be...
[16:14:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RedBear [1734] 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 2290 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:58] <exec> 08└─This viewpoint ignores a very important fact of human biology. People can, and do, die from overworking. From lack of sleep. From eating improperly. From using stimulants to meet outrageously unrealistic work schedules. They get heart disease. They have strokes and brain aneurysms. They just up and...
[16:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, there is. And when people doing far more valuable jobs for less than $15/hr are bumped up beyond it, they might actually have a point. Right now they're just being exactly what the topic says.
[16:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:27] <exec> 08└─"colored sprinkles are made from insect parts" I knew it! A sprinkle bigot!
[16:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:29] <exec> 08└─Wow, that's an incredibly stupid analogy. I feel dumber just for having read it. Congrats, you win 5 Internets for the Daily Dipshit competition.
[16:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:31] <exec> 08└─In order to achieve a robust society, that society must be allowed to evolve by variation and selection, a process which is best implemented as a free market: Individuals must be allowed to make bets on what they think are the best ways to exist; through this competition of ideas, society as a whole...
[16:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:33] <exec> 08└─There is always something that pays better. You just have to be able to do the job. If you lack the skills, that's on your dumb ass for failing to acquire any marketable skill during your entire life.
[16:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:36] <exec> 08└─Yet you offer nothing to refute it.
[16:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:38] <exec> 08└─But most inevitably, youth and beauty do not lost long. They are very fleeting. Then you're back to considering what opportunities are available to you.
[16:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:40] <exec> 08└─Hahaha you SIG is hilariously ironic...
[16:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:42] <exec> 08└─People also cry like little girls over hard work. Nobody said to kill yourself but if you're not willing to bust your ass for a decent life, you're damned well not going to have one. If you do only what is required of you right now, then you have nothing for later when you eventually will need it. F...
[16:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:44] <exec> 08└─It refutes itself. You made a wholly worthless analogy.
[16:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:46] <exec> 08└─I see, so when a kid goes to school as required by law and come out of it without enough knowledge to pass a GED because the school is sub-standard, that's all his fault? Shoulda picked wealthier parents who live where the schools are good? Where there's a library close enough to get to? Shoulda pic...
[16:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:48] <exec> 08└─At the root of this is the American obsession^Wdelusion with self-reliance, which makes it more acceptable to applaud an individual for working himself to death than to argue that an individual working himself to death is evidence of a flawed economic system. *This* is the takeaway from this (with m...
[16:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:51] <exec> 08└─War is peace, love is murder, idiots are insightful.
[16:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:53] <exec> 08└─If you think so, you're likely part of the problem. I've assigned no caricature to anyone today. You've assigned it to yourself.
[16:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:55] <exec> 08└─Mmmm-hmmmm. No matter how bad things MIGHT get, I refuse to live in fear. The bastards can kill me, but they can't break me. ;^)
[16:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:57] <exec> 08└─And this is why no one in their right mind would work for you. Only naive and desperate people... How long have you retained the same employee before? Your self serving "logic" is extremely naive.
[16:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:59] <exec> 08└─No, someone has to get off their lazy butt and refute it if they want it refuted. The problem you're having is that you desperately don't want it to be true but you cannot seem to find a way to break it.
[16:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:02] <exec> 08└─Firstly, as the device requires 10 kW to operate, it won't work on 5 kW; so, what is the manager actually saying? What he's saying is that this aspect of his business is eating into his profits too much, and he wants to reduce that cost (at least as far as it costs himself). How can this be achiev...
[16:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:04] <exec> 08└─You're an ass with a vastly over inflated sense of self worth. Seriously you're a terrible human being who, by logical extension, greatly approves of near-slave labor. Do you do a mental celebration every time you buy cheap manufactured crap? Do you not tip at restaurants cause they just carry food...
[16:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:06] <exec> 08└─Ummm "they are all whiny entitled little bitches" yaaaa. Not a caricature AT ALL! you are so blinded by your own bullshit. I know you're not an idiot, but you're making me doubtful.
[16:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:08] <exec> 08└─How do you actually justify people working full time jobs for less than a living wage?
[16:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:10] <exec> 08└─If the manager raised prices on patrons, he might lose patrons, so this forces the manager to find other ways of reducing costs, perhaps leading to a more energy-efficient device. Yet, this motivation is removed: The government's coercive powers mean that the welfare programs guarantee a subsidy for...
[16:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:12] <exec> 08└─Dude, you would have done better with a car analogy. Comparing the situation to things that do in fact get upgraded in efficiency when customers show a demand for such makes zero sense and in fact refutes your point.
[16:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:15] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I'd like to know. Are you just being cute, or do you really not comprehend the point that OP is making?
[16:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:17] <exec> 08└─Sure Uzzard, 'cause there's so many jobs out there. Just falling offa trees waitin' for people to pick 'em up. Dipshit. I could forgive this if you were actually retarded, but you're bright enough to code competently which means you're evil. Die in a fire, then continue burning in hell fire.
[16:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:19] <exec> 08└─Speaking of an ignorant shithead... You need to get out of your bubble, plenty of people work hard and can barely get by. Your solution is work harder? Lose the few years they have while their kids are still kids? Or shall we expect more crappy logic and victim blaming? There simply aren't enough go...
[16:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:21] <exec> 08└─I'm in fact an extremely easy person to work for if you are of any value at all to society. If you are valuable to me, you're paid and treated like it. If I can replace you with an untrained teenager for the same day for the same pay, you're also paid and treated like it.
[16:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:23] <exec> 08└─You're fucking delusional, Kurenai. You're describing one small, loud, overprivileged set of white radfems. Most of us are *nothing* like this. I keep offering you an olive branch, I keep telling you I'm trans-inclusive, and you just shit all over it by saying *all* feminists are evil manhating tran...
[16:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:25] <exec> 08└─Should have used his spare time to learn something useful instead of hanging on the street, playing vidya, or chasing tail. People do it every day. And they make a better living than you do.
[16:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:27] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone has some personal problems leaking into your online politics. My guess is high employee turnover for some very specific reasons, and now you're a bitter troll trying to convince internet strangers (and secretly yourself) that you are correct and righteous. Get bent.
[16:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 2613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:30] <exec> 08└─> So let's say the fry cooker at McDs (the device, not the operator) requires 10 KW to operate. What would you say to the manager if he said it's only worth 5 KW, let's crank the voltage down to 60? How about he further argues that it's up to the rest of society to provide the other 5KW? I may be mi...
[16:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:32] <exec> 08└─Which is why I plan to be cremated when I die. Just sayin'.
[16:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:34] <exec> 08└─Jobs are a business relationship. Give value if you want to receive value in return. Give the bare minimum of usefulness and effort and you should absolutely be paid like it.
[16:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:36] <exec> 08└─There are over five million skilled labor positions out there in need of filling. Most of them are going to pay very well compared to unskilled labor in the area. Of course this doesn't fit your narrative so you'll refuse to believe it.
[16:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:38] <exec> 08└─They do exist. I haven't assigned said caricature to anyone in particular though. Thank you for saving me the trouble with your entitled whining though.
[16:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:41] <exec> 08└─Sure, outline further how you're a complete dick with no empathy. Know what happens when your shitty philosophy gets to run things? Slavery and eventually revolt. So you cause horrors, then those horrors revolt and your types get hammered by a lot of angry people. It would be better if we skipped th...
[16:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Wasn't the Money: Wozniak on Robots, Design, and Apple's Origins - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:52] <exec> 08└─it's just "Woz" at least you didn't capitalize "The"
[16:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Wasn't the Money: Wozniak on Robots, Design, and Apple's Origins - 2629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:54] <exec> 08└─I have been reading old BYTE magazines. You can get them from here [archive.org] and here [americanradiohistory.com]. Also Popular Electronics issues are here [americanradiohistory.com] in case you want the Jan 1975 issue. Starting with the first BYTE, in about Sept 1975, or even the contemporary is...
[16:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:29] <exec> 08└─Very true, first consider the integrity of the user and the power of the key before putting them together... However, in this context, I think they're referring to "layered" as in onions, which means scanning attachments for viruses at multiple points in the stack, with multiple types of scanners, o...
[16:20:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Landslides Observed on Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:58] <exec> 08└─Only the ones who are bad at maths.
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[17:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Darkness vs SADness -- How Sunlight Affects our Mood - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:31] <exec> 08└─We know about it. But is is tricky to figure out if somebody is simply depressed by the lack of sunlight or not. Seasonal variations are probably the biggest clue.
[17:14:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 2740 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:55] <exec> 08└─I tend to agree with you Buzzard. But, realistically, we need to be mindful of today's job market. There are a lot of people with degrees who can't find jobs. True, many of those people are idiots for having pursued the wrong degrees, as well as paying premium prices for mediocre educations. Still -...
[17:15:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 1208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:23] <exec> 08└─Is that saying we've overpopulated? I see two basic futures for humanity. 1) Endless cycles of overpopulation followed by war, famine, and epidemics. Or, 2) we curb our greed and competitiveness, keep a lid on population, and enjoy lives of peace and plenty. The second can be done. The first is hars...
[17:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:00] <exec> 08└─Please, see my reply [soylentnews.org].
[17:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:02] <exec> 08└─Why programming jobs? Because feminists know that nobody is going to stand up for dorks. Like any bully, they pick on those who cannot defend themselves.
[17:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:04] <exec> 08└─Guess again. I've never had anyone quit a job with me who wasn't moving on to something better because of the skills they'd picked up working with me. And I don't for a second begrudge them that. If they become worth more than I'm paying, and I pay what the job is worth, then they should absolutely...
[17:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:06] <exec> 08└─For someone with a functional brain you sure choose to not use it sometimes. Anyone who wants a living wage for their work is a whiny little bitch? Ya, not a caricature at all! I mean, you provided an exhaustive list of every job and thoroughly debunked every complaint so that your broad statement o...
[17:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:08] <exec> 08└─Fuck empathy. Empathy has no place in business. Only value does. Thank you for highlighting the greed that is the basis of socialism and their economy of perceived need though.
[17:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:11] <exec> 08└─And by all reports the unemoyment rate is way higher than that, so we're still short millions of jobs. Oh wait, that doesn't even begin to account for the many more millions of shit jobs out there. So some people could get better jobs, but the vast majority will still be plagued by poverty level wag...
[17:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:13] <exec> 08└─I think the lack of "extra money" is the point.
[17:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:15] <exec> 08└─He's not an idiot. He's evil. He's one of SN's top coders and if the site's performance is any indication he is damn good at what he does. Thing is...that's *all* he's good for. INT and WIS, as I've said about a zillion times, are separate stats.
[17:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:17] <exec> 08└─I don't believe in "remaining civil" with people like this. They sacrificed their humanity in the red-hot hands of whatever Moloch-idol it is they worship, and are intrinsically opposed to us now. They are monsters, and there is only one thing to do with monsters.
[17:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:19] <exec> 08└─No, you're a delusional crazy person that has no clue what's going on. You can't just work harder to get a better job. In the past that largely worked because the wealth was more evenly distributed, but with 10% of the population having more than the total had by the lowest 90%, you're not reasonabl...
[17:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, but if you don't pay people what they need to survive then you're a shortsighted psychopath. If you need work fine badly enough to pay somebody for it, then you need it don't badly enough to pay a wage that at least covers room, board, medical care and a minimal vacation time. That's the bare m...
[17:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:24] <exec> 08└─You assume that there's negotiation going on. There's enough people needing jobs and a small enough number of employers that the employers set the pay. For better jobs there note negotiation, but there's even more people that want those jobs. There's a reason why civilized countries require sick and...
[17:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 1494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:26] <exec> 08└─No, it means that if you want to solve the problem you fix/nuke the government schools. Demanding that employers pay the marching morons coming out of them 15/hr so you who advocated for the government monopoly on education don't have to accept the guilt for your actions won't work. As for the poor...
[17:16:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:28] <exec> 08└─There's a chronic CDL/Hazmat driver shortage in the U.S. and probably in many places in the world. It's not easy to drive an 18-wheeler like it is to drive a taxi or Uber. You can get sign-on and relocation bonuses because employers are desperate. It will take longer to automate than Otto and others...
[17:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:54] <exec> 08└─Yup... it's like fishing with hand grenades. Wow, teh challenge! I could only see that or hunting from a helicopter/plane if you were starving to death and were just a lousy hunter/fisher, lol.
[17:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:55] <exec> 08└─Tell that the all the rich idiots who drop five or six figures to mount a head on their wall, so they can talk about it at parties (and post on Facebook that they are more rich/manly than their friends). "It's always been my dream to hunt a lion [with a 0.50 cal from an RV platform with champagne gl...
[17:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 1795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:32] <exec> 08└─errr .. no exactly not. the more the difference between the hot and the cold the more efficient is the cooling, as in more bangs for bucks. if the hot side and the cold side are very very near and as stated, the cold state has a "absolute" minimum, you cannot extract or remove anymore energy (or hea...
[17:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:33] <exec> 08└─there's also a famous story about "hand-me-down paper" -VS- "believe your own eyes (and mind)" with the actors name being Galileo or Copernicus?
[17:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:21] <exec> 08└─Then some exec fails to connect using the default ports, gets blacklisted, grabs his phone to give you an earful, because he needs a cute door with a doormat and a key that fits His keychain, to get into your fortress, and he need it right now...
[17:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Defence in Depth: a 'Layered' Strategy Can Repel Cold Attackers - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:22] <exec> 08└─So, the ultimate security is Windows ME, because nobody in their right mind would trust it to hold important information?
[17:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:00] <exec> 08└─Math. BTC is currently over $1000 and is 'uneconomical' to mine on standard Intel/AMD devices. Do you know how long it would take a single CPU to consume $1000USD of electricity at the $0.11 rate I pay? And finding a coin is a binary thing, you throw the electricity at it and maybe you find one and...
[17:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:50] <exec> 08└─If you pay high taxes and don't get proper services (especially life-saving ones), you start chopping heads... at the ballot box, then literally. I'm getting really tired of Americans telling the world they have the best system, but the worst government. Kicking butt around the world but being sheep...
[17:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:52] <exec> 08└─AC, that was awesome :D I actually laughed out loud reading that. Thank you! The one thing J-Mo and his kind cannot *stand* is being ridiculed.
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[18:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Infectious Laughter" and Play Behavior Observed in New Zealand Kea Parrot - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─Can this "laughter" thing spread to humans? Is there a potential for developing a vaccine?
[18:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Infectious Laughter" and Play Behavior Observed in New Zealand Kea Parrot - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:44] <exec> 08└─You have to ingest the vaccine. Roast Kea - tastes like chicken.
[18:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Darkness vs SADness -- How Sunlight Affects our Mood - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:57] <exec> 08└─It's [bleep]ing winter! You should be saving energy, and your brain knows it. Millions of years of "if the sun isn't there much, and it's cold, don't go running around wasting your reserves" natural selection. And that's only because we're too dumb to hibernate. Ain't no [bleep]ing disorder, it's a...
[18:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Darkness vs SADness -- How Sunlight Affects our Mood - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:58] <exec> 08└─We've just had our first sort of legitimate sunny days this week after a pretty constant 6 weeks of grey. It's been kinda rough.
[18:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:46] <exec> 08└─No, you are trying to rationalize why you are a failure. Only 2.9% of American jobs pay minimum wage, including those that include tip income. If you goal is to merely be a worker bee then yes, you depend on the wealth of others and your labor is a mere commodity increasingly being forced to compete...
[18:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 3298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:48] <exec> 08└─Mr. Buzzard, just stop it. I rarely say anything like this, but I don't get why you're trolling this story's comments so much. Unless you sincerely believe what you're saying, in which case you've proven yourself to be much less intelligent than I thought. I came from family of blue-collar workers w...
[18:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:50] <exec> 08└─How do you actually justify people working full time jobs for less than a living wage?
[18:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:52] <exec> 08└─Remember well the words you say.
[18:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:54] <exec> 08└─In Europe, animals apparently have more rights than humans do in the USA: The European Union (EU) is a political and economic organization of 27 countries with a standardized system of laws. The EU has adopted legislation that leads the world in protecting farmed animals. In 1998, the Council of the...
[18:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:56] <exec> 08└─Did you not hear him? "Fuck empathy". His mindset is 100% the reason the US is failing, and I'm sure he can't see past his own nose but it is why corporations globalized and are bringing in H1Bs. If we all boil down to a spreadsheet then why stop at just one human rights violation? He is only capabl...
[18:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:58] <exec> 08└─You say that like it is a bad thing...
[18:17:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:01] <exec> 08└─And if you wonder why the US fails humanity compared to the EU care of animals then look no further than TMBs extensive posts this morning. The culture that led up to his existence is pervasive and they use some type of Darwinian social selection that turns humans into predators / prey. It is a reve...
[18:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:03] <exec> 08└─Nobody said to kill yourself but if you're not willing to bust your ass for a decent life, you're damned well not going to have one.
[18:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Wasn't the Money: Wozniak on Robots, Design, and Apple's Origins - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:17] <exec> 08└─The tech guru has jumped the shark?
[18:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:34] <exec> 08└─The idea that there is honor in using ineffective methods that are dangerous is just wrong. You should use overwhelming force to win, with minimal cost to your own side. Humanity can and should strike down dangerous animals by the most effective means possible. For example, to get a bear you may tie...
[18:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:35] <exec> 08└─"Hunting" from a vehicle is just lazy and pathetic.
[18:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:37] <exec> 08└─First, there are no animals on this earth that pose a threat to people - especially people in cities. No animal is dangerous to mankind. Some animals may pose a threat to some few individuals, if the individuals don't respect those animals. The number of competent people killed by animals in a year...
[18:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:15] <exec> 08└─Was gonna make one about Congress, but they switched from deep freeze to a clearly agitated status when the black anticatalyst got removed..
[18:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:37] <exec> 08└─Easyjet turns their planes around in 20 minutes. That's how they make money off cheap flights. The electric flight will be slower. Sure, you save fuel, but you need to pay the people longer, cutting into the gains significantly. Therefore, you don't want to make the stops longer. Short of having a 3...
[18:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:39] <exec> 08└─But I'd be wanting Uranus
[18:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jrmcferren [5500] (Score: 1) 02 - 06London-Paris Electric Flight 'in Decade' - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:41] <exec> 08└─The goal wouldn't be to recharge in 20 minutes, especially not at first. They can do a few things. They can offer electric as a budget option flying infrequently, or they could design the plane to have the battery modules easily swapped. If the latter is the case, all Easyjet would need to do is hav...
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[18:18:43] <exec> 08└─Reliably swapping giant batteries? Buying many giant batteries? Yup, that's a total non-starter as a commercial thing. And it's green tech, so it's a total non-starter a a USG thing. Go ask the Chinese government if they want a way-ahead-of-its-time prestige proto...
[18:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epilepsy-Triggering Suspect Charged, More Details on the Arrest - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:50] <exec> 08└─What if I know someone has a severe anger problem and are likely to erupt if I say the right words to trigger them? Is posting a comment with the intention of evoking an excessive emotional responses now going to be considered assault? If so then which other mental/psychological conditions are we go...
[18:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:41] <exec> 08└─John Oliver wouldn't know what Journalism was if it bit him on the butt and neither would his writers. His network would be angry if he wasted their valuable airtime on serious journalism even if he outsourced the writing to someone competent to do the work.
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[19:14:07] <exec> 08└─That the application's user interface has an explicit export and import for both workspaces and projects, why would you ever trust your OS to do it right? And if all you want to do is troll, eclipse will let you install arbitrary python scripts into the engine Window->Preferences->Scripting->Script...
[19:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biopesticide Could Defeat Insecticide Resistance in Bedbugs - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:14] <exec> 08└─Fast forward 25 years where fungal biopesticide is finally acknowledged as the primary cause of Zombie Apocalypse.
[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biopesticide Could Defeat Insecticide Resistance in Bedbugs - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─Seal up whatever they are infesting in a container. Evacuate said container or fill with a high density non-oxygenated inert gas. Give it a few minutes/hours. Remove from container. Assuming you did this with all infested materials at once, or used an 'airtight' covering for something too large to p...
[19:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Infectious Laughter" and Play Behavior Observed in New Zealand Kea Parrot - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:26] <exec> 08└─> developing a vaccine to laughter EZ, just think the total debt of planet earth is over $230 000 000 000 000 Whom do we owe it to? Saturn? HAHA O wait... (freely stolen from http://me.me [me.me] the reference to saturn is more apt than it seems)
[19:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 LinkedIn Starts Piping Sales Data to Salesforce and Dynamics - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:48] <exec> 08└─THB, I'm not even sure how to think about privacy implications on LinkedIn. It's a site specifically for people to fluff their professional image in hopes that their next boss (and next HR department) see them.
[19:16:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 3298 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:25] <exec> 08└─Mr. Buzzard, just stop it. I rarely say anything like this, but I don't get why you're trolling this story's comments so much. Unless you sincerely believe what you're saying, in which case you've proven yourself to be much less intelligent than I thought. I came from family of blue-collar workers w...
[19:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:35] <exec> 08└─I disagree with TMB in general on the "just get a better job" point and do feel that Lyft, Uber, etc are engaging in some shady labor practices; but seriously that your fry-cooker analogy is beyond useless to illustrate the point you're trying to make. After reading it over several times, I still ha...
[19:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:37] <exec> 08└─Flawed for who? Certainly not the sociopaths in charge, they are making lots of money in this system.
[19:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:39] <exec> 08└─I work for a city government and we just switched from a assured step to a merit event. Its amazing. No more 10 year government workers collecting that maxed out paycheck who can't be fired regardless of poor performance, at least now they can be refused raises if they are not performing giving a li...
[19:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you're already broken, we know. At least you have enough shattered splinters of conscience left to point out to the people even worse than you when they're being shitheads.
[19:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Wasn't the Money: Wozniak on Robots, Design, and Apple's Origins - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:56] <exec> 08└─He was a founding member of the EFF, providing both funding and serving on the Bored of Directors for them. However nothing other than dating history mentioned for the past 26 years.
[19:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:16] <exec> 08└─Now we can finally actually repeal Obamacare, and replace it with shipping sick people to Alaskan wildlife refuges, where they can take over, stand up to the Feds, assert their Freedumbs, and be shot from the air like a wolf or a bear. I knew the Republicans had an answer for everything!
[19:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:17] <exec> 08└─Well, that would be interesting I think. But given humans' lack of natural weapons (other than fists) I think that's a bit extreme. Maybe we should just go back to using spears.
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[20:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:13] <exec> 08└─I think to really get the implication of this story, you have to make it about Windows rather than about Eclipse. Windows has a built-in file compression menu option that is broken because it silently excludes files that are important to some applications, Eclipse being one example. I wonder what el...
[20:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:14] <exec> 08└─That, and how is the above a prank? That just sounds like being a dick. Usually a prank on a computer has an "uninstall" feature, while years later, the above has no recourse. What if that was the only copy? I came here thinking that somebody had some scripts for Eclipse to mess with a coder in subt...
[20:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:16] <exec> 08└─Reasons you haven't switched to Linux (cont.): 1. Why would I downgrade from FreeBSD?
[20:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:18] <exec> 08└─horribledisgustinginhumanporn.jpg->7-zip->compress and send to->Boss's wife Thanks 7-zip!
[20:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:21] <exec> 08└─Windows hasn't been a superior devlopment platform for a very long time. All the can really clain superiority for is the availability of games and malware.
[20:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:23] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of ways to create folders that start with periods... mkdir .test
[20:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:25] <exec> 08└─Pssh, just plug everyone's mouse into someone else's USB port. Hail Eris!
[20:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:27] <exec> 08└─utility has a mandatory optional feature
[20:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:29] <exec> 08└─> What other issues have you found with how Windows handles filenames? People coding FPGA tools which organize IP files for you in neat unnecessarily long directory names containing multiple times the name of the IP. They test on Linux and see no issue. You test the default project on Windows, and t...
[20:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:32] <exec> 08└─is another ballache with Windoze, and with the Mac too. Things get real interesting when source control don't get told by the OS that the file "Title" is different than the file "title" or the file "TITLE".
[20:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:34] <exec> 08└─why would you ever trust your OS to do it right?
[20:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:36] <exec> 08└─Hey, look, the software is going to get the wrong answer either way, so my goal is now to get the wrong answer in the least amount of time.
[20:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:38] <exec> 08└─Better if you control the mouse while watching them and their screen and can approximate their movements. If you're good enough you can keep them going for a little while.
[20:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:40] <exec> 08└─Symbolic links have long been source of major schadenfreude in Windows. Not sure if that got finally improved.
[20:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:43] <exec> 08└─As for Windows and superior development platform, you've no doubt seen that VS Code, when idle, uses 13% cpu time to blink the cursor. Kill two birds with one stone. That is a statement of efficiency. Inspired, Microsoft created Windows 8. Its new interface kills desktop computing, while its require...
[20:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:45] <exec> 08└─Moving a project from a non case sensitive OS to a case sensitive one is very painful. IIS will gladly serve up pages while ignoring case. Apache? not so much.
[20:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:47] <exec> 08└─2. Output of the "ls" command is too different from the output of DIR. 3. Eclipse doesn't have a plug in to support QuickBasic.
[20:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:49] <exec> 08└─While I would discourage the use of Windows in the strongest terms, there is this [microsoft.com]. There are three types of file links supported in the NTFS file system: hard links, junctions, and symbolic links. This topic is an overview of hard links and junctions.
[20:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Biopesticide Could Defeat Insecticide Resistance in Bedbugs - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:59] <exec> 08└─Even the eggs?
[20:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biopesticide Could Defeat Insecticide Resistance in Bedbugs - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:01] <exec> 08└─>any pest you needed that was not anaerobic/suspended animation capable in nature. There's a surprising number of those. Most of your crusty shelled insects can go for long periods with no air, and extremely long periods with just a little available oxygen. You'll find that the nitrogen generators u...
[20:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biopesticide Could Defeat Insecticide Resistance in Bedbugs - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:03] <exec> 08└─Please send your recommended procedure to all hotels with bed bug infestations.
[20:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─This comment was just awful. Why did you spend time writing and posting it?
[20:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lead Poisoning in Some California Neighborhoods Exceeds Levels in Flint, Michigan - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:02] <exec> 08└─Interesting that despite both lead issues happening in heavily democratic locations, they STILL manage to blame Republicans for their problems.
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[21:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenSSL Re-Licensing to Apache License v. 2.0 - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:16] <exec> 08└─What amount of code included in a commit could reasonably be considered non-creative and thus not subject to copyright? Has there ever been a legal test created for creative extent in software? Is that even the right phrasing? If not, can I go ahead and copyright "for(int i=0;icount;i++)" and "if(va...
[21:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenSSL Re-Licensing to Apache License v. 2.0 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:17] <exec> 08└─As part of this effort, the OpenSSL team launched a new website.
[21:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:44] <exec> 08└─Sometimes the games are malware. See SecuROM.
[21:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:46] <exec> 08└─Meh, too much work. At one of the first jobs I worked when I was 16, my boss decided to prank the secretary one day. He installed VNC on her computer and would move the mouse (remotely, from his computer running VNC viewer) when she wasn't moving it.
[21:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:48] <exec> 08└─I know they exist, but until XP at least, they were implemented in a quite confusing and dangerous way for those who expect Unix-like behavior. I'm assuming/hoping that they fixed that to support the new linux subsystem.
[21:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:50] <exec> 08└─Visual Studio still has a strong lead in debugging tools, and, of course, delivery of code to the Windows platforms. Personally, I think it's a bloated whale carcass that should be dynamited for entertainment, but when you have as many bugs as Windows developers do, you need a good debugging tool.
[21:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─>I'm assuming/hoping that they fixed that to support the new linux subsystem. Oh, dear child, don't you know how these things are done? The new Linux subsystem was patched to work with Windows 10 style symlinks. It will continue to work with 97.44% compatibility until such time as they decide to not...
[21:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:54] <exec> 08└─> Do you want a chair thrown at you? Impact in 3 seconds ... 7 minutes ... 15 seconds ... 42 hours ... 1 second ...
[21:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:57] <exec> 08└─>Impact in 3 seconds ... 7 minutes ... 15 seconds ... 42 hours ... 1 second ... Oh how I miss the days of Disk Defrag....
[21:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Darkness vs SADness -- How Sunlight Affects our Mood - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:33] <exec> 08└─I know, its so bright out. It hurts my eyes.
[21:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Darkness vs SADness -- How Sunlight Affects our Mood - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─I wish I had the disorder that causes people to behave like hyper caffinated gerbils even in winter time. Then again I also wish I were a sociopath. I didn't realize until too late in my life that sociopathy is the best way to make money. Sociopaths also seem to behave like hyper caffinated gerbils...
[21:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Piece of Mind: Engineers can Take Pictures of Mouse Brain with Surgical Needle and Laser Light - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:16] <exec> 08└─If you must know, the brain is removed from the animal. They probably use a little guillotine [kentscientific.com] to chop the head off then come in from the neck hole using rongeurs [kentscientific.com] to crack the skull off piece by piece. Also, these mice were genetically modified to have genes...
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[22:14:16] <exec> 08└─Non-creative is usually those that don't require any sort of human judgment because of the problem domain. So, things like short phrases, familiar symbols, or forced designs. This means that means that simple if statements or for loops are not copyrightable on their own. This could arguably extend t...
[22:14:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:30] <exec> 08└─Pssh, just plug everyone's mouse into someone else's USB port. Hail Eris!
[22:14:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 139 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:36] <exec> 08└─Hey, look, the software is going to get the wrong answer either way, so my goal is now to get the wrong answer in the least amount of time.
[22:14:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:48] <exec> 08└─> Do you want a chair thrown at you? Impact in 3 seconds ... 7 minutes ... 15 seconds ... 42 hours ... 1 second ...
[22:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:50] <exec> 08└─Whatever stuck-on-stupid gone-full-retard stuff Windows does with filenames is annoying as hell. I once sftp'd a directory from a Linux server (full of porn) that had a file so fucked up, that the file once into a Windows workstation was dead on arrival. Absolutely no part of Windows had a program t...
[22:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:52] <exec> 08└─This is the funniest thing I have read on SN so far. Congratulations :)
[22:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03HyperQuantum [2673] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:55] <exec> 08└─Microsoft .NET has an API to get all files in a specified directory that match some search pattern (Directory.GetFiles(String,String) [microsoft.com]). If you try to use it, though, you might encounter the following nasty surprise: Note: Because this method checks against file names with both the 8...
[22:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:57] <exec> 08└─On someones Linux PC or someone who hates Win10, load this webpage and fullscreen it then call the owner over. http://fakeupdate.net [fakeupdate.net]
[22:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah you realize once you booted to a sane system you didn't have to delete the file, you could have just renamed it to something Windows wouldn't choke on? (Yeah I've had to do this a few times.)
[22:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biopesticide Could Defeat Insecticide Resistance in Bedbugs - 2466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:11] <exec> 08└─Bedbugs are easy to be rid of, if you are diligent and patient. 1) get a small(500 ml) bottle of ivermectin pour-on for livestock, and use it on ALL household members. About 5mls for the avg. adult.(1 ml per 50 lb's) Test by using a few drops on back of hand/arm, observing several hours...
[22:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biopesticide Could Defeat Insecticide Resistance in Bedbugs - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:12] <exec> 08└─It was proposed in a 1995 National Review article, and is now legal in Oklahoma. I'm not aware that it's actually been used. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Infectious Laughter" and Play Behavior Observed in New Zealand Kea Parrot - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:23] <exec> 08└─...must have this sound. [npr.org] Also kookaburras. So cute!
[22:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Congress Repeals Hunting Restrictions on Alaskan Bears and Wolves - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:15] <exec> 08└─Real hunters wrestle their prey to the ground with their bare hands!
[22:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:55] <exec> 08└─obviously we haven’t reached zero absolute ... there's a "memory" (mention) of "it" : )
[22:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Physicists Prove that it's Impossible to Cool an Object to Absolute Zero - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:56] <exec> 08└─just to put the thread into perspective: your post was before "alien from mars that didnt encounter salat containing chlorophyl" so ... the movie is called "life". dont watch it. it sucks BALLS!
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[23:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building an Underground Savings Account to Bolster Water Supply - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:57] <exec> 08└─I have often wondered about the utility and cost of building a large water tank underneath a family home. The tank could serve as a reserve of heat (for winter), or perhaps cool (for summer), while also providing an emergency water supply. Maintenance might be a problem, though: it would have to be...
[23:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building an Underground Savings Account to Bolster Water Supply - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:59] <exec> 08└─it would have to be kept clean and free of algae
[23:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Building an Underground Savings Account to Bolster Water Supply - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:01] <exec> 08└─That's exactly what some countries do, large underground cisterns for each house. You can't do this in the USA though thanks to the EPA and other govt interfucktance.
[23:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building an Underground Savings Account to Bolster Water Supply - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:03] <exec> 08└─You can't do this in the USA though thanks to the EPA and other govt interfucktance.
[23:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Building an Underground Savings Account to Bolster Water Supply - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:05] <exec> 08└─Growing up, most of our neighbors had Open Air Firefighting Water Reservoirs. Mr Taxman would occasionally fly by and re-register them in the correct and less tax-friendly category.
[23:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 1) 02 - 06OpenSSL Re-Licensing to Apache License v. 2.0 - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:16] <exec> 08└─OpenSSL - that's the security software which had some Heartbleed [xkcd.com] in it? The security software which silently let attackers read back the unencrypted contents of arbitrary server memory [wikipedia.org], which could and did include encryption keys? Hm. Wikipedia claims LibreSSL [libressl.or...
[23:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenSSL Re-Licensing to Apache License v. 2.0 - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:19] <exec> 08└─If it is not creative you can rewrite it. I despise copyright in general, but if the deal is: "I give you this code and you put this under this license", YOU DO NOT ALTER THE DEAL UNILATERALLY. It took time to give you the code, no matter the quality. Get it under the agreed upon terms or Write Your...
[23:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenSSL Re-Licensing to Apache License v. 2.0 - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:21] <exec> 08└─Come on, cut them some slack. They code mere crypto stuff, while incorporating a FOSS comment system is HARD.
[23:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06OpenSSL Re-Licensing to Apache License v. 2.0 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:23] <exec> 08└─Hm try looking into void linux package. Since they use it as the main SSL offering I guess they took care in unearthing the license.
[23:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:01] <exec> 08└─This is super fun when everyone uses the same brand wireless mice. Just swap the receivers!
[23:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:03] <exec> 08└─Back in the PC Anywhere days, one of my co-workers used to do something like that. Whenever the victim would try to login, he would press an extra character to ensure the password was always wrong.
[23:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Silently Corrupting an Eclipse Workspace: The Ultimate Prank - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:05] <exec> 08└─Back in the bad ol' days of SecuROM (Starforce, et al), one of the many wonders of the Internet was roaming groups of software pirates who would crack and remove the copy-protection, thus enabling the consumer to obtain a superior product. I'm sure I'm not the only one whose bought-and-paid-for copy...
[23:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Infectious Laughter" and Play Behavior Observed in New Zealand Kea Parrot - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:29] <exec> 08└─Happens to humans, unfortunately with negative feelings as this story [soylentnews.org] demonstrate.
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