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[00:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catching a Real Ball in Virtual Reality - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:05] <exec> 08└─He/she could kick balls, with haptic feedback.
[00:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catching a Real Ball in Virtual Reality - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:07] <exec> 08└─The 8 bit Nintendo and the power glove for the breakout type game after about 20 minutes I could feel the ball hitting my hand or catching and throwing it. The brain is weird.
[00:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:30] <exec> 08└─fedex misdelivered my stuff twice in the past year. one even required signature confirmation. They eventually did find the packages but something like this should never have happened.
[00:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:05] <exec> 08└─Their tracking is sometimes not perfect, so you were in the vicinity of a few stores and they ask which one, and then you do a survey. Sometimes I get a survey just because I drove past a place.
[00:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:06] <exec> 08└─My friends and I use it for a variety of purposes. My female-unit uses it to reduce worry when I'm out on the motorcycle and am late or something. My friends know whether I'm working at home or not, if they're in the area and feel like dropping by. I use it in a similar manner. I've used it to find...
[00:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06"Purest" and Most Massive Brown Dwarf Discovered - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:19] <exec> 08└─In case you were wondering (as I was)... Smallest [ignited] Star [yet discovered] in the Universe [bellaonline.com] to find the smallest red dwarf and test the mass limit [...] a group at Georgia State University in the USA, led by Sergio Dieterich, took up the challenge [...] The smallest star so f...
[00:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:57] <exec> 08└─And subsequently part of why his party successor lost the election.
[00:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:59] <exec> 08└─...is that more than 100 people attended the inauguration.
[00:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tomorrow's Cities: Are Your Shoes Giving Away Data? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:59] <exec> 08└─Only women born women get pregnant.
[00:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Species Got Smarter: Through a Rush of Blood to the Head - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:18] <exec> 08└─Men have a saying: two heads are better than one.
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[01:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:57] <exec> 08└─I'm all for things which negate ruby.... ;)
[01:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:30] <exec> 08└─I had the same thing happen to me and signature confirmation was required because the item was quite expensive. Well, Fedex tracking emails me saying it is delivered. I called the shipper right away and told them it was stolen. We do a conference call with Fedex, who claims they will "investigate."...
[01:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:32] <exec> 08└─What a piece of shit Edge must be: Chrome, Firefox, Palemoon, etc are all multi-platform/OS browsers. Pffft... Windows only: arcane monkey-poo browser. Talk to us again when it will run natively on linux.
[01:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:34] <exec> 08└─Man! Love the way you think. Got a newsletter? :)
[01:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:36] <exec> 08└─Windows 10 only.
[01:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Genome Assembly Could Create a Human Reference Genome for Under $10,000 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:48] <exec> 08└─I wonder how good gene sequencing really is. How do you test it? Perhaps sequence the same organism multiple ways and cross check. Do they actually do this?
[01:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:13] <exec> 08└─what's with the leading slashes?
[01:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fails to Stop Major Brands From Pulling Ads From YouTube - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:04] <exec> 08└─Ah, isn't binary thinking great?
[01:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Fails to Stop Major Brands From Pulling Ads From YouTube - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe he doesn't care about the ad revenue but does care a bit about debunking the arguments of the perpetually offended.
[01:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Senate Votes Against FCC Internet Privacy Rules - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:31] <exec> 08└─Yes. I hate neocons. Be they John "NDAA detention without the 4th" McCain, Graham, Pelosi, or Reid. But I am a greedy vengeful person who prefers freedom to corporate power and peace to war. Convenient how the same people tend to alwyas tow the line when it comes to ruining those things.
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[02:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:10] <exec> 08└─I don't know Ruby or Japanese, so maybe someone can explain in straightforward English how the computer is supposed to evaluate something if it's not provided with critical details, like operators.
[02:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:48] <exec> 08└─I talked with one fedex delivery guy here in Canada: Their hand held scanners have no way of tracking a parcel to a specific target delivery address: if they go to address A with a parcel for address B and they scan it to deliver it to address A, the scanner will not inform them it is going to the w...
[02:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:49] <exec> 08└─The online payment portal for paying fines is IE 6 only and requires Flash.
[02:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:21] <exec> 08└─All 'Right Thinking People' had drunk the Flavor-Aid and believed demographic destiny had already come. After Obama would be Hillary (of course) and then a never ending string of vibrant diversity hires as far as the eye could see. No Republican would ever have the White House again, and soon even t...
[02:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:22] <exec> 08└─If you try, you can probably make a case that conservatives are statistically more likely to resort to violence than progressives and liberals.
[02:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:25] <exec> 08└─Rioters were arrested. I know that normally doesn't happen, but is it shocking when the police actually do their job? Anything a criminal is carrying when arrested is seized as evidence, this tradition is very old so this can't be the story we are supposed to discuss, right? The police even went to...
[02:16:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06XFCE Default Desktop Startup Screen Indirectly Causing Damage to Monitor - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:49] <exec> 08└─In /usr/include/X11/bitmaps/ you will find a selection: root_weave is strong, with a few small holes, whilst 2x2 is strong but has many large holes and 1x1 is delicate with many small holes.
[02:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Our Species Got Smarter: Through a Rush of Blood to the Head - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:48] <exec> 08└─Twisted! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[03:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:51] <exec> 08└─Mineral supply for sustainable development requires resource governance.
[03:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:53] <exec> 08└─To quote the sentence from the summary immediately prior to the one you quoted, The study showed that mining exploration is not keeping up with future demand for minerals and recycling in and of itself would not be able to meet the demand either.
[03:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:55] <exec> 08└─s/t
[03:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:04] <exec> 08└─I don't know Ruby or Japanese, but in Perl For example, /(?v:ruby)/ would match anything that /ruby/ didn't.
[03:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:07] <exec> 08└─Only if there was only one instance of "ruby" in the string.
[03:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:09] <exec> 08└─Ah, I see - you want the whole CPAN module right now :-)
[03:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Purest" and Most Massive Brown Dwarf Discovered - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:38] <exec> 08└─That should be about 83 Jupiter masses. Which means some brown dwarfs have larger masses than the smallest red dwarfs.
[03:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Purest" and Most Massive Brown Dwarf Discovered - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:39] <exec> 08└─Is there any reason to think ordinary objects we just haven’t seen yet might be all we need to explai the anomalous rotation rates of the outer reaches of galaxies? No need to postulate exotic new undiscovered particles?
[03:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:22] <exec> 08└─There is some organization of some protesters, but in more than a few cases the violent aspects of the protest were organized not by any protest organization but by the police. This well known agent provocateur tactic has been around since at least the 1960's: the idea is to put a few undercover cop...
[03:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:24] <exec> 08└─H guilty of what, exactly? Doing her job as SofS without following IT security procedures? As Secretary, it is bloody well at her discretion if she should follow procedure, or just rewrite them to except herself. There are enough laws in any country over 100 years old that _everybody_ breaks laws on...
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[04:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:07] <exec> 08└─Did you expect me to read the *entire* summary?
[04:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:08] <exec> 08└─Let the market do what the market does best: Manage complex flows of resources. There are too many people; the world doesn't need, say, 2 billion Indians. The world does need that! "Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor". Smacks of bullshit.
[04:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:21] <exec> 08└─Ah, ruby and perl, the scrapple of computer languages.
[04:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:22] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't read perl code on a full stomach. Ulp.
[04:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:02] <exec> 08└─Did they outsource whoever coded the backend, replacement of frontend is shit and FedEx is now unable to get a new full system fast enough get out of the mess?
[04:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:03] <exec> 08└─It's also very popular to just checkmark "Nobody at home" and throw the package back into the truck - it will be rescheduled for another day and maybe even for another delivery man. Great for job security (more work that you don't have to do) and for your performance (delivery attempted in 10 second...
[04:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Genome Assembly Could Create a Human Reference Genome for Under $10,000 - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:17] <exec> 08└─I think the summary got the article's claim slightly wrong. I do not have access to the article tax payers already paid for, will have make do withe the abstract for now. Full article will have to be for tomorrow. Here we go: The authors used existing draft assemblies in combination with their own s...
[04:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:43] <exec> 08└─H guilty of what, exactly? Doing her job as SofS without following IT security procedures? As Secretary, it is bloody well at her discretion if she should follow procedure
[04:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:45] <exec> 08└─Fake News.
[04:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fails to Stop Major Brands From Pulling Ads From YouTube - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:47] <exec> 08└─One guess as to how he ended up blind. /joke
[04:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 067,000 Underground Gas Bubbles Poised to 'Explode' in Arctic - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:05] <exec> 08└─Because the climate deniers don't believe that's necessary.
[04:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 067,000 Underground Gas Bubbles Poised to 'Explode' in Arctic - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:21:06] <exec> 08└─>Couldn't you try rational argument and evidence? Have you met a climate denier before?
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[05:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:13] <exec> 08└─How about this to version which achieves the same objective, but also allows for multiple instances of "ruby": s/ruby//g;
[05:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:14] <exec> 08└─I may not be understanding the issue, but it would likely be simpler in Perl to just do ( !~ /ruby/ ) Not sure why Ruby wouldn't have something like this, but I haven't played with Ruby.
[05:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 063D Genome Assembly Could Create a Human Reference Genome for Under $10,000 - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:09] <exec> 08└─The base-call accuracy of Illumina sequencing is very high, typically 1 in 1000 [mostly random] errors. Illumina doesn't have an accuracy problem, but it does have issues with read length. These length issues are mostly dealt with by Hi-C, but not entirely. A few structures remain that are impossibl...
[05:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunsetting SixXS - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah. All the major ISPs in Canada all go "what's that" when you ask about IPv6. They are still proud about how, for the first IPv6 day, they made their home page (and only that page) accessible via IPv6 FOR THAT ONE DAY. Since then, NOTHING. Of course, they still need to jack up the rates after yea...
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[06:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demonoid Returns After Two Months Downtime - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:53] <exec> 08└─I forgot it had returned. You need to read TF to keep up with the Site Clone Wars, like with 123movies.
[06:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:05] <exec> 08└─If you're already going all the way to Mars, might be easier to just keep moving until you reach the Belt. Then there would be no need to lift the resources out of that pesky planetary-scale gravity well.
[06:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:06] <exec> 08└─Honestly, he should feel lucky that we bothered to read his whole comment--well, at least enough of it to appear that we read it all. Look, verbally dense prose is an art appreciated by only the educated and cultured. If you really want to convey your thoughts.Use no more than one or two sentences a...
[06:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:09] <exec> 08└─The Belt is rather far away, and even there the asteroids really aren't very densely packed despite what Hollywood would have you believe in "The Green Lantern". There's plenty of asteroids that cross Earth's orbit or come relatively close, so if we're going to start exploring the idea of mining ast...
[06:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:24] <exec> 08└─How about: grep -v ruby
[06:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catching a Real Ball in Virtual Reality - 1119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:35] <exec> 08└─This research is why I think augmented vs virtual reality is somewhat of a nonstarter. Augmented reality is fundamentally a subset of virtual reality. Interestingly enough this whole issue even applies to the human brain and perception. A related article is 'The Evolutionary Argument against Reality...
[06:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06XFCE Default Desktop Startup Screen Indirectly Causing Damage to Monitor - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:12] <exec> 08└─Thunar crashing is scary. Also "all the Desktop icons are rearranged every time you login" yeah some windoze builds have the same symptom...
[06:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Sunsetting SixXS - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:27] <exec> 08└─A competitive choice of ISPs doesn't do anything in this regard, if none of the several available ISPs offer IPv6. That is the case for way too many people considering it's year 2017.
[06:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tomorrow's Cities: Are Your Shoes Giving Away Data? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:53] <exec> 08└─> Only women born women get pregnant. So far! Also, that's not what GP meant by labour rates.
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[07:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game-Changing Balloon Technology Enables Near-Global Flight - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:53] <exec> 08└─"good to go for a destination on pretty much any continent you want." Subject to winds, storms, food, frostbite, and a an almost complete absence of any ability to steer* *unless you have access to detailed wind maps. Good for atmospheric science, though.
[07:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game-Changing Balloon Technology Enables Near-Global Flight - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:55] <exec> 08└─Internet! From the sky!
[07:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demonoid Returns After Two Months Downtime - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:03] <exec> 08└─I love the smell of torrenting in the morning. It smells, like victory. Well played, Demonoid. In the meantime, the people who have to pretend that they actually care about the people with the money are busy putting Digital Remonstration Muck into the html standard, and we all have to say, bittorr...
[07:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:18] <exec> 08└─Cheap platinum would have uses in electronics, but not as a conductor. The second best known conductor is silver, with copper just behind. The best conductor, at room temperature, is graphene, but we don't really know how to use it practically.
[07:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:19] <exec> 08└─Too long. Better: How to convey your thoughts: No complete sentencesBullet points (→PowerPoint)Argument needs >3min → too complex; don't presentOmit actual content; nobody cares about facts anyway :-)
[07:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:17] <exec> 08└─Last I was paying attention, verified malware installs that paid were hovering around $1/install with $2/install being way over on the high side. What the hell, FedEx? To be slightly more serious ... what's your value proposition here beyond (literally) buying time on a site redesign?
[07:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:19] <exec> 08└─I had business I have patronized for years suddenly start insisting I conform to their business model... which included words like "hold harmless" for whatever I encountered in order to comply with their business demand. This almost always resulted in my finding a new supplier. Its one of the neat t...
[07:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:21] <exec> 08└─You would sure think that with the GPS tracking technologies we have today, errors like you described would be a thing of the past. My phone sure knows when I am home. Damn near shows me which room I am in.
[07:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:02] <exec> 08└─Oh, really? How about, you are partisan, and you choose which storied to believe, and which to not believe. Soros is dirty, like the Koch brothers are dirty. Soros stirs the cesspool in the US, the Koch brothers stir the cesspool in Ukraine and eastern Europe. WTF did you think people DO with all th...
[07:18:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Google Fails to Stop Major Brands From Pulling Ads From YouTube - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:50] <exec> 08└─you watch videos of bouncing boobs on youtube even though you've gone blind? old habits die hard.
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[08:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game-Changing Balloon Technology Enables Near-Global Flight - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:00] <exec> 08└─One football stadium size, about the only time it is appropriate to compare such yay.
[08:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:25] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that my comment is verbally dense? There's not even an entire sentence before the quote. I enjoy reading all sorts of things, including novels, news articles, electronics datasheets, and file format specifications. It greatly surprises me when my coworkers don't read or complain ab...
[08:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:27] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance_of_elements_in_Earth%27s_crust [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org(data_page)#Sun_and_solar_system [wikipedia.org] Iron seems to be abundant, period. I see no reason why copper, gold, tantalum couldn't be found in roids. T...
[08:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Catching a Real Ball in Virtual Reality - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:54] <exec> 08└─You can already catch real objects in VR. It's quite easy to catch the Vive controllers, for example.
[08:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:30] <exec> 08└─Knowing how some businesses operate... likely got the lowest bidder contract, got it out fast, taught the company man how to get at the data files it created, and the relationship with the software guy terminated. Now, nobody knows how it worked. And the software guy starved. Doing something else...
[08:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:11] <exec> 08└─I'd like to use it to find my phone!
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[09:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game-Changing Balloon Technology Enables Near-Global Flight - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:01] <exec> 08└─I"m too tired to look it up. Not sure what a "super pressure" balloon is. It holds gas at significantly higher pressures than atmospheric pressure? But that would make it heavier and not able to lift as much weight. Or it has some sort of rigidness so it can have less than atmospheric pressure insid...
[09:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:15:29] <exec> 08└─The less Microsoft puts in other platforms, the better. For the other platforms.
[09:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06XFCE Default Desktop Startup Screen Indirectly Causing Damage to Monitor - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:17:37] <exec> 08└─Milliseconds. 4,294,967,296 seconds is 136 years.
[09:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tomorrow's Cities: Are Your Shoes Giving Away Data? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:18] <exec> 08└─"No root firewall"
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[10:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:28] <exec> 08└─You miss the point. The point was that if one is considering mining in Mars he/she might as well mine it in the belt. Getting to the Mars _surface_ adds a lot to the costs. Mars doesn't have that much atmosphere so reliable aerobraking is not trivial. Getting back up again is even worse. The asteroi...
[10:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:46] <exec> 08└─The operator isn't absent, it's an operator to match something being absent. From the github issue [github.com]: It seems that (?~expr) is different from (?:(?!expr).)*. \A(?~abc)c should match abc (because (?~abc) matches ab), but \A(?:(?!abc).)*c doesn't match.
[10:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:48] <exec> 08└─Well, the article goes into depth why it is not a negation operator. For example, if you don't require a full-string match, matching on "(absent ruby) on rails" does give you a match for "ruby on rails", as e.g. "uby on rails" is a substring that starts with something not matching "ruby" and continu...
[10:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:50] <exec> 08└─Not familiar with ruby, but wasn't that what {0} suffixes did in most languages? That is, match the absence of a character? Or is there a tacit assumption in the semantics of {0} that it's meaningless, since it matches zero characters, rather than being declarative of an absence?
[10:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:19] <exec> 08└─There's a really useful app that does this already. It's called Glympse, and you can set yourself visible for up to 3 hours at a time and select who you want to see you. I use it with my brother regularly, as I'm often in his neighbourhood and he's in and out of the house. So if I'm swinging by I ca...
[10:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:21] <exec> 08└─I use ublock origin, noscript, clean links, request policy, self-destructing cookies and random agent spoofer.
[10:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:23] <exec> 08└─It's just a ploy to con more people into leaving tracking on permanently.
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[11:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:13:59] <exec> 08└─This is seriously #notcool by Dries Buytaert (buy-tart? does he engage sex-workers? the community evidently needs to know about such "deviances"!) Seriously, live and let live, people! What people do outside their coding is their own damn business.
[11:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:40] <exec> 08└─I'd love to see a direct line back to Soros himself and him in orange but unless he is a moron that won't happen.
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[12:14:00] <exec> 08└─That said, have you ever Norman's books? They're terrible. The guy should have been fired for having dreadful taste, if anything.
[12:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:01] <exec> 08└─The first paragraph is a gem: The Drupal community is committed to welcome and accept all people. That includes a commitment to not discriminate against anyone based on their heritage or culture, their sexual orientation, their gender identity, and more.
[12:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:04] <exec> 08└─So...Drupal is an SJW-converged community, complete with a code of conduct, where "inclusiveness" is more important than competence. Great. Reading the linked articles, and the forum discussion: Crell was put up in front of the committee that enforces the code of conduct, and they determined that th...
[12:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Demonoid Returns After Two Months Downtime - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:33] <exec> 08└─You do know Prima Nocte was never a real thing...
[12:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:53] <exec> 08└─Then, the shift in materials used has to be made. Copper as conductor will have to be replaced with Aluminum, one of the most abundant elements on Earth, or with graphene. New technologies to achieve same ends will have to be acquired. Good bye soldering with tin, hello micro-welding, or conductive...
[12:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:55] <exec> 08└─language bad. 1. Kiss friends 2. kill enemies 3. growl menacingly 4. ??? 5. profit!
[12:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catching a Real Ball in Virtual Reality - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:27] <exec> 08└─Exactly what I came to say. If you have never used the Vive this may seem fanciful. But when setting users up to use the Vive I always make sure the headset is comfortable and then tell them to take the controllers from me. They can always do this consistently because of the near perfect tracking.
[12:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:17:53] <exec> 08└─What exactly is happening here that's "how it's supposed to work". These phones were seized/stolen months ago, without any warrants. If these people were 'violently protesting' then I assume the cops have evidence of that BEFORE they arrested all of them and before starting to seize property. Since...
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[13:14:04] <exec> 08└─We'll grow our own Negroes!
[13:14:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 537 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:15] <exec> 08└─So...Drupal is an SJW-converged community, complete with a code of conduct, where "inclusiveness" is more important than competence. Great. Reading the linked articles, and the forum discussion: Crell was put up in front of the committee that enforces the code of conduct, and they determined that th...
[13:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:16] <exec> 08└─Nuhuh. His BDSM is straight, so not protected by any of the above. It probably involves shackling females, and therefore is the embodiment of evil to feminazis.
[13:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:18] <exec> 08└─The Gorean community may well practice consensual BDSM, but John Norman's Gor books depict overt, endemic domination by males, and it's not consensual in the slightest. -- hendrik
[13:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:21] <exec> 08└─hendrikboom writes: "John Norman's Gor books depict overt, endemic domination by males, and it's not consensual in the slightest." So what? They're fantasy novels. In mystery novels, people get murdered left and right, and nobody gets upset. So why does it matter what happens in Gor? The Gorian soci...
[13:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocks That Tell Our Industrial History - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:33] <exec> 08└─http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3554 [smbc-comics.com]
[13:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rocks That Tell Our Industrial History - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:34] <exec> 08└─"A rock! A rock! A great, big, beautiful rock! Oh, the pioneers used to ride these babies for miles, and it's in great shape."
[13:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game-Changing Balloon Technology Enables Near-Global Flight - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:46] <exec> 08└─It means the balloon can contain gas at a (small) positive gage pressure, with the envelope carrying tensile stress. Traditional balloons contain gas at the same pressure as outside, and expand as they go up in altitude; when they reach the max size of the envelope, they have to vent off some gas to...
[13:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:36] <exec> 08└─Well, this new operator basically does to a general regex what [^abc] does to [abc] at the single-character level.
[13:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:38] <exec> 08└─You've not understand the objective, partly because context wasn't properly provided. If you think you can solve a problem really trivially, then the chances are you've not understood the problem. If it's similar to the issue that perl went through ages back (yay - lets reinvent the wheel!), then th...
[13:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The New ‘Absent Operator’ in Ruby's Regular Expressions - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:40] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between "not something" and "thing that is not something". nothing is "not something", nothing is not a "thing that is not something".
[13:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Genome Assembly Could Create a Human Reference Genome for Under $10,000 - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:44] <exec> 08└─Thanks, Given the number of base pairs in a human, 10**-3, while amazing, does not sound like a reliable tool yet. In a diagnostic situation, seem like an incorrect read might head a diagnosis down a false path. On the other hand, it does provide insight into an area of near cluelessness.
[13:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:20] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, perhaps not... some readers would take the "oh so absolutely guilty" at face value.
[13:19:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] 02 - 06Google Fails to Stop Major Brands From Pulling Ads From YouTube - 2355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:50] <exec> 08└─I can visit Youtube as a guest (not logging in) & view hours of uninterrupted content that includes foul language, bouncing boobs, gratuitous violence, & damn-near every depravity imaginable (don't look at me, I was searching for porn I swear! I have no idea how that cat video got there!), and never...
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[14:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:32] <exec> 08└─its all just talk. the continued h1b abuse is the elephant in the room that still gets next to no talking-time. you can have all the misdirected 'concern' about minority students not wanting to enter the geek field (hey, I don't blame them! why study all those years just to be outsourced by someone...
[14:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─Wait, hiring low cost H1B Indians isn't diverse enough?
[14:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:35] <exec> 08└─I mean, I'm guessing that Google's campus has underused capacity, and if Google were to rent that capacity to another business, the investor media would wonder whether Google has lost its sense of innovative growth; the only strategic way, then, to rent out that capacity is to make it good publicity...
[14:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:37] <exec> 08└─That explains everything.
[14:14:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:48] <exec> 08└─Nuhuh. His BDSM is straight, so not protected by any of the above. It probably involves shackling females, and therefore is the embodiment of evil to feminazis.
[14:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sorokin [187] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:51] <exec> 08└─This is what I don't understand in western culture. In my opinion employees/colleagues should be judged based on their technical skills and merits. Their personal life shouldn't matter as far as it doesn't affect their work. For some reason in western culture people think it is O.K. to fire people b...
[14:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:54] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's worse than that, it involves _consensual_ domination of females which is not just evil it is impossibly evil since no female could possibly consent to be dominated by a male, or *shudder* enjoy it. The victims therefore cannot possibly be both female and consenting, because all females are...
[14:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 1837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.garfieldtech.com/comment/2542#comment-2542 [garfieldtech.com] This comment summed it up pretty well imo: None of the above is anyone's business but yours (and those you're in adult consensual relationships with). Let's all repeat that for the folks in the cheap seats: WHAT TWO OR MORE CO...
[14:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:58] <exec> 08└─I might have a hard time working with you if you support cutting up little boys' penises in order to please the creator of the universe.
[14:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:00] <exec> 08└─They're fantasy novels. In mystery novels, people get murdered left and right, and nobody gets upset.
[14:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:02] <exec> 08└─I can tell you that those who have reviewed Larry's writing, including me, suffered from varying degrees of shock and concern.
[14:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game-Changing Balloon Technology Enables Near-Global Flight - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:29] <exec> 08└─Thank you, I even read the article and still didn't understand how this works, now I do.
[14:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:15] <exec> 08└─Is it really cheaper to pay people $5 to make their system insecure than to spend that money on fixing their borked website? Dear FedEx, if I re-enable Flash, and get malware that is proven to have been delivered by Flash, will you pay for all of the ensuing costs? Malware removal, reinstallation, o...
[14:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, Google already knows where you are, all the time. The purpose of this is to make you feel good about Google knowing everything there is to know about you. A couple weeks ago I was on a cruise. I had an internet package. And GPS location worked great. Google Maps could show me a map that I'm in...
[14:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:03] <exec> 08└─Don't need GPS for a teenager. Just text them, ask where they are at. I'm at the library. Okay, please text me a picture of the library. Or bring up Google Maps, screenshot, and text me the screenshot. As for wandering alzheimer geezer, if it ever comes to that, maybe I could wear 3D VR glasses. Whe...
[14:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Purest" and Most Massive Brown Dwarf Discovered - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:20] <exec> 08└─I see you met my next-door neighbor Phil.
[14:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Fails to Stop Major Brands From Pulling Ads From YouTube - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:22] <exec> 08└─It's a pity there's no more 'web-like' solution than YouTube recommendations. Or if there is, no-one uses it. Instead, essentially the whole world of free-to-view Internet videos is locked away in the incestuous YouTube ecosystem. YouTube doesn't link outside YouTube. There's nothing stopping you ho...
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[15:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:12] <exec> 08└─If this were a common collision between two human drivers, we would conclude it was the other driver's fault for failing to yield. But we may never know if a human driver in full control of the Uber would have been able to observe "that guy is an asshole who isn't paying attention" and practice defe...
[15:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:13] <exec> 08└─The Uber car had a human driver on board. He wasn't able to avoid the collision.
[15:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:15] <exec> 08└─He wasn't driving.
[15:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:17] <exec> 08└─If I were a Master of the Universe, a two-pronged strategy would be best to take down Uber. First there is the sexual harassment stuff, which works wonders. Now that Uber's been softened up by that, which is guaranteed to mute the response of misogynerds who might point out the flaws with the next p...
[15:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:20] <exec> 08└─The other car was piloted by a 100% human driver who was unable to avoid the collision, in fact, may have been the cause of the collision in the first place! Had the other car been computer-controlled, would the accident have occurred? You are completely correct, all you need is one cheater to ruin...
[15:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:22] <exec> 08└─Indeed, but it's not like he was asleep in the back seat. It seems he was behind the wheel and could not react in time. Now not having your hands on the wheel does take some time to react and maybe he isn't as engaged in the driving as you would be if you were actually driving. I have to agree from...
[15:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:34] <exec> 08└─Don't hire people because of skin colour; hire them because they are the best candidate. Hiring due to skin colour is prejudiced against the more qualified and the company gets a less skilled worker.
[15:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:36] <exec> 08└─Yep. And of course nobody wants to bring up or address the cultural causes of the lack of diversity in certain races. It's easier to ignore them and blame hiring practices (which probably *are* at least a small part of the problem).
[15:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:38] <exec> 08└─They aren't hiring anybody, just giving them some free XP. Maybe they'll prove themselves qualified at the time they reach the interview. Of course, rubbing shoulders with GOOG imagineers is going to give you a clear advantage at that GOOG interview. Now picture this. A white student [theodysseyonli...
[15:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:40] <exec> 08└─Very happy to hear this. Glad the 1% is starting to wake up to the real problems that have been plaguing the West since Colonization started, namely, the refusal of the "upper crust" to directly invest in PoC (like me!) Now we just have to deal with Trump...
[15:14:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 1837 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.garfieldtech.com/comment/2542#comment-2542 [garfieldtech.com] This comment summed it up pretty well imo: None of the above is anyone's business but yours (and those you're in adult consensual relationships with). Let's all repeat that for the folks in the cheap seats: WHAT TWO OR MORE CO...
[15:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:01] <exec> 08└─Pretty much tells you everything you need to know about the difference between 3rd Gen Feminists and 2nd Gen Feminists. 2nd Gen-ers were about equality and liberty regardless of gender. 3rd Gen-ers are opposed to both regardless of gender.
[15:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:03] <exec> 08└─I don't think enough attention has been paid to the Klaus guy. Looking at his web stuff, you can see what looks like evidence of "virtue signalling". First time I've used that loaded term IIRC. His Twitter also went silent on the 22nd (as has Dries post-blog [twitter.com]). https://klau.si [klau.si...
[15:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:05] <exec> 08└─The real question is: are Mormons welcome at Drupal? They have some interesting attitudes towards women... "Gorean" attitudes?
[15:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:07] <exec> 08└─I don't recall where I saw it - might have been a comment. It was something along the lines of "he was always wearing a leather vest, but no one thought anything of it".
[15:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:09] <exec> 08└─Side note: there appears to be 3.3 million Muslims [wikipedia.org] in the U.S., and maybe 6.5+ million Mormons [wikipedia.org] in the U.S. (with more Mormons living outside the U.S. than in).
[15:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 2237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:12] <exec> 08└─I practice D/s in my current relationship (and have, to varying degrees in all my relationships). I am a Dominant. This means that I derive sexual satisfaction from exerting control over my partner. My current partner (as well as everyone I've ever engaged with in this way) is a willing participant...
[15:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:14] <exec> 08└─Larry Garfield (apparently) kept his private life private and was "outed" for unknown reasons. This is the opposite of inclusiveness. In fact, it smacks of small-mindedness and bigotry.
[15:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:16] <exec> 08└─In mystery novels, people get murdered left and right, and nobody gets upset. Didn't anyone ever watch "Murder, She Wrote" and wonder how some small town in Maine doesn't have federal investigators crawling all over it for having, by far, the highest homicide rate in the world?
[15:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:18] <exec> 08└─Bingo! The correct answer! You win an internet! I would have awarded you two internets, but you didn't use the trigger word "rape." Obviously, this BDSM group is engaged in human trafficking and sex slavery. Because no womyn-born-womyn would ever voluntarily be a part of it. Because reasons.
[15:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:20] <exec> 08└─Emphasis altered slightly because we have no underline. Who is this 'w̲e̲', kemosabe? ;-) *Yes, I cheated with Unicode.
[15:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:22] <exec> 08└─𝕿𝖍𝖆𝖙'𝖘 𝖘𝖔𝖒𝖊 𝖘𝖙𝖆𝖓𝖐 𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖗𝖑𝖎𝖓𝖊, 𝖞𝖔. 💩
[15:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:25] <exec> 08└─This is so backwards. So much for tolerance in the Age of Trump.
[15:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:23] <exec> 08└─So what would dirt-cheap platinum be good for?
[15:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:25] <exec> 08└─I didn't miss the point about the gravity well. You're missing *my* point: why bother going all the way to the belt when there's plenty of asteroids right here?
[15:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:27] <exec> 08└─Actually, wouldn't platinum be a better conductor than aluminum? Dirt-cheap platinum, therefore, could be a good replacement for aluminum for electrical wiring (such as the stuff used for wiring my oven and HVAC).
[15:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:29] <exec> 08└─Well gold isn't very useful, it's copper that is really useful for practical applications. The only thing gold is good for is corrosion resistance, so it's used for plating contacts. But gold-plated contacts today are pretty cheap, so there's no shortage of gold (thanks to gold's extreme malleabilit...
[15:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:31] <exec> 08└─You guys know that aluminum weighs much less than platinum, right? Platinum being used in the place of aluminum would need to be done based on the intent and purpose. Don't wire your plane with platinum and gold because your fuel costs will skyrocket. Same for any transportation costs that seek to r...
[15:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:46] <exec> 08└─If courts are involved it will probably require a specific version of Java from 2003. And the form you have to submit with the fine will be a WordPerfect document.
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[16:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks for posting, this kind of history is always fun. Some later Atari games had a unique anti-pirating mechanism -- if certain pins were shorted on the mother board it would start a small program that played with the processor to broadcast a message in Morse code, that could be heard on an AM rad...
[16:14:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 790 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:33] <exec> 08└─If this were a common collision between two human drivers, we would conclude it was the other driver's fault for failing to yield. But we may never know if a human driver in full control of the Uber would have been able to observe "that guy is an asshole who isn't paying attention" and practice defe...
[16:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:40] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I feel like one of the biggest misconceptions about self-driving cars is that it's reasonable for them to be "partially autonomous," with the expectation that some sort of alarm could ring in a bad situation and the human driver could take over to handle things. To my mind, that's why peopl...
[16:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:42] <exec> 08└─> The Uber, you see, expected other drivers would play by the rules, ... Are you certain about this? I have no inside information about Uber, but if I was designing self-driving software, I would certainly scan cross street traffic before entering intersections, even when the light was green for me....
[16:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:44] <exec> 08└─I'd much sooner trust a validated algorithm in control of a steering wheel than 90% of human road users.
[16:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:47] <exec> 08└─The obvious impossible solution is to remove the cheaters from the equation.
[16:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:49] <exec> 08└─if I was designing self-driving software, I would certainly scan cross street traffic
[16:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:51] <exec> 08└─The good news is, self-driving cars have excellent telemetry so they can replay the accident and decide whose fault it was. Uber might even be able to publish the telemetry (not sure legal status there) in order to show that it was the other car's fault, which doubtless it was.
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:53] <exec> 08└─"partially autonomous" is reasonable, but a bit differently. Fully able to drive on a well lit freeway during the day, only capable of providing driver aids (lane change warnings, assisted braking, collision warnings etc) raining at night on a country lane, with full driving areas increasing each ge...
[16:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 1982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:55] <exec> 08└─https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/16/uber-recode-leaked-autonomous-vehicle-data/ [techcrunch.com] This report on Uber's progress isn't too encouraging. It seems like the different kinds of fails are varying somewhat at random, not coming down as one would hope for software under development -- Uber’...
[16:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:58] <exec> 08└─Since Uber does not use aircraft, does that mean that nothing has really changed? Well, I suppose one thing. Uber vehicles should remain firmly on the ground. No crashing with such force to result in a vehicle flying through the air.
[16:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:00] <exec> 08└─A self driving car is still just an algorithm: a GPS in control of a steering wheel. What could possibly go wrong?
[16:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:02] <exec> 08└─Humans would soon learn that and come to expect that they could run red lights with impunity, because the SDC will flinch.
[16:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:04] <exec> 08└─I think we will have 100% self driving cars eventually. There was probably a time when people said we would never have 100% of these new fangled auto mobile thingies. After all, autos are unreliable. Difficult to start. You can even break your arm if it backfires while you are cranking. They are noi...
[16:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:21] <exec> 08└─Google was framing about this as fulfilling a need to find those hard-to-find black and Latino software developers. But that turns out to be nonsense: As NPR reported [npr.org] just a couple of days ago, 18% of new CS graduates are black or Latino, while only 5% of people actually working in tech ar...
[16:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:23] <exec> 08└─Even relatively large companies will sometimes refuse non-white candidates because of concerns about "cultural fit" and other such nonsense.
[16:15:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:33] <exec> 08└─The first paragraph is a gem: The Drupal community is committed to welcome and accept all people. That includes a commitment to not discriminate against anyone based on their heritage or culture, their sexual orientation, their gender identity, and more.
[16:15:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03choose another one [515] 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:40] <exec> 08└─Nah, it's worse than that, it involves _consensual_ domination of females which is not just evil it is impossibly evil since no female could possibly consent to be dominated by a male, or *shudder* enjoy it. The victims therefore cannot possibly be both female and consenting, because all females are...
[16:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:57] <exec> 08└─He probably forgot to post anonymously by accident once :p
[16:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:59] <exec> 08└─This is what I don't understand in western culture.
[16:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:01] <exec> 08└─*snort* Bwahahaha! Let's count how many times this attempts to divide by zero. Just like dividing by zero, the question of what the answer would be is itself meaningless. So, I can't use the word “unpossible” below, because that would imply both sarcasm and that it is actually possible. I've kn...
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[16:16:03] <exec> 08└─Because at its heart, feminism is about choice and equality.
[16:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:05] <exec> 08└─Oh look, rectangles.
[16:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:07] <exec> 08└─To be clear, you don't actually disagree with what the comment says, and are just taking this opportunity to snark at your oppressors, right? Like "liberal", "conservative", "libertarian", or "fascist", "feminism" has about as much definition as a screeching noise. The worst thing you can say about...
[16:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:09] <exec> 08└─You're only just noticing that SJW's are authoritarians, claiming victim status for themselves in some vainglorious attempt to bully others? Some may find this amusing given your age of Trump quip but Identity Politics should be dealt with the same way as Narcissistic Personality Disorder [helpguide...
[16:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03EEMac [6423] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millions of Functional Human Cells Can be Created in Days With OPTi-OX - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:18] <exec> 08└─This sounds VERY, very cool. It was good to see this story on the front page!
[16:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Functional Human Cells Can be Created in Days With OPTi-OX - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:20] <exec> 08└─Could facilitate vat grown meat?
[16:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:16] <exec> 08└─Right; there are some nice alternatives. I have been using ceramic or Aluminum-polymer capacitors instead of Tantalum ones in electronic designs.
[16:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:18] <exec> 08└─You've also been able to do this with G+ for years. Not sure what the big deal is.
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[17:14:19] <exec> 08└─Not sure how that works as an anti-piracy feature...
[17:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:20] <exec> 08└─It allows you to check the authenticity of a board, but does not prevent someone else from creating a different board that ran the game.
[17:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:22] <exec> 08└─Someone with access to the rom needs to start searching for the Hi Ron! text. It's probably not straight ascii, but rather indexes to specific sprites, but it should be findable. 10 internet points to whomever finds it first.
[17:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:24] <exec> 08└─You just need to read the ROM backwards.
[17:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:27] <exec> 08└─It would make a dramatic courtroom demo. Bring in a Race Drivin' machine and the competitor's suspiciously similar driving game, turn on a radio and attach one jumper lead to the DSP chip in the knockoff, and it starts tapping out "C O P Y R I G H T 1 9 8 8 A T A R I G A M E S" in Morse code.
[17:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─While the article was interesting what really brings it home is that Ron answers in the comments. The messages exchanged there makes it a whole lot more interesting.
[17:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:54] <exec> 08└─Oh, one more thing. To have a safe internet, get rid of human participants. 100% chat bots will make the internet safe.
[17:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:56] <exec> 08└─Just wait til a company offers 5 bucks if you turn off a needed safety feature so your car can give them a nice benefit and you a more easily hacked car.
[17:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:58] <exec> 08└─Legal status of publishing telemetry will be no obstacle if a corporation can make profit from it. Just start a new reality tv show: Beware of Human Drivers!
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:00] <exec> 08└─There is possibly a third prong to your two pronged tragedy to take down Uber. Google's lawsuit over stolen self crashing car tech.
[17:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:02] <exec> 08└─> Just start a new reality tv show: Beware of Human Drivers! Youtube's got that cornered, under the heading "Russian Dashcam".
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─"Nobody knows how to write reliable software. It is an unsolved problem." Eh, the basics are definitely known, the problem is the market rarely appreciates or develops that sort of development, so it gets less funding less press less exposure etc. The reason that we've become accustomed to the idea...
[17:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:06] <exec> 08└─Some scenarios that I doubt an automated car would handle in time: - avalanche/mud slide - falling rocks - emergency landing of a small aircraft on the road All of these scenarios are potentially something you can see happening in the distance giving you enough time to react. By the time a self-driv...
[17:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:09] <exec> 08└─But... Gubmint Bad Inefficient Wasteful! Let them crash and the market will short the survivors! It actually cracks me up (sadly) that Uber, and many similar Silicon Valley shops, treat regulation with such contempt in the rush for profit, that they become a poster child for the need for regulation....
[17:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:11] <exec> 08└─I think we will have 100% self driving cars eventually. There was probably a time when people said we would never have 100% of these new fangled auto mobile thingies.
[17:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:13] <exec> 08└─As has been posted here before, the required mileage to truly "prove out" an AI driver is enormous -- many times greater than combined efforts of all the various companies engaged in this research.
[17:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:15] <exec> 08└─They are quite something to watch. But there are far fewer American Dashcam videos. That fact alone says a lot. People invest in the dashcams because they believe they need the evidence. Imagine if everyone had a dashcam++ built in to their car. Oh, imagine if video were captured by every self drivi...
[17:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:17] <exec> 08└─The reason that we've become accustomed to the idea that software is buggy is because the market is oriented towards producing something marketable quickly, and then patching bugs as necessary later. This seems to be mostly for social, rather than technical or even properly economic, factors, but th...
[17:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:19] <exec> 08└─By the way, one thing that might help in this transition would be more clearly marked AI vs. human-driven vehicles... somewhat akin to the rules for horses, e.g., buggies generally need to have markings indicating a slow-moving vehicle, or my personal favorite -- this New Jersey statute [uvm.edu]:...
[17:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:38] <exec> 08└─Wait, hiring low cost H1B Indians isn't diverse enough?
[17:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:39] <exec> 08└─"PoC" need White Man to show them how to exist properly, eh? This is no trolling! That is how your reply sounds to me.
[17:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:42] <exec> 08└─This is no trolling!
[17:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:44] <exec> 08└─Yep. And of course nobody wants to bring up or address the cultural causes of the lack of diversity in certain races.
[17:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:46] <exec> 08└─A lot of this may not be intentionally "racist" in any meaningful sense. People are just hiring based on recommendations from friends they trust or whatever. But just because of the cultural association of golf and its informal connection to certain professions, more white people get hired or promot...
[17:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:48] <exec> 08└─> That is how your reply sounds to me. You hear what you want to hear.
[17:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:50] <exec> 08└─I must be the one who has the wrong ideas. It must be me.
[17:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:52] <exec> 08└─They fucking love golf.
[17:16:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 248 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:01] <exec> 08└─This is seriously #notcool by Dries Buytaert (buy-tart? does he engage sex-workers? the community evidently needs to know about such "deviances"!) Seriously, live and let live, people! What people do outside their coding is their own damn business.
[17:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:33] <exec> 08└─That said, have you ever Norman's books?
[17:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:34] <exec> 08└─but John Norman's Gor books depict overt, endemic domination by males, and it's not consensual in the slightest.
[17:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:37] <exec> 08└─Yes humans are often authoritarian about issues they care a lot about. It isn't just SJWs, it is every walk of life. Co servative, liberal, kink or Bible thumper you get the same problems. This is a particular horrible display of hypocrisy and it usually results in the fragmentation of the community...
[17:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:39] <exec> 08└─Here's a real gem: Go easy on this code review, she is a woman after all. [klau.si]
[17:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:41] <exec> 08└─Well, they ARE serious. They seem incredibly either myopic or disinterested in their own hypocrisy. But they are serious.
[17:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:43] <exec> 08└─WTF? Would it kill you to use a car analogy so the rest of us can understand what you're talking about?
[17:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:45] <exec> 08└─Next thing you know, Buytaert will be asking about pizza place basements...
[17:16:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:47] <exec> 08└─You know, have you ever, have you ever, he says knowingly? Does your wife go? Say no more! Say no more!
[17:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:49] <exec> 08└─Nice find! Klausi's gonna get laid tonight! That's a good boy, Klausi, a good, obedient boy!
[17:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:52] <exec> 08└─But loli haet pizza. :(
[17:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:54] <exec> 08└─While your beliefs align. You'll be ostracised rather quickly when the PC stream shifts and starts standing for positions you can't support.
[17:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:56] <exec> 08└─I think it's a combination of open source projects wanting to be inclusive, and the fools-gold attraction anything computer related now has, that has attracted the political types and the train of SJWs, virtue signalers and "women coders". Politicize processes, install a "code of conduct", perhaps p...
[17:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions of Functional Human Cells Can be Created in Days With OPTi-OX - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:07] <exec> 08└─By the accounts I've seen, lab-grown meat was already under $100/kilo from naive estimates of hundreds of thousands per kilo. And that's still on the research lab scale. Is it believable? Have they factored in the scientists' salaries and the coffee budget? Beats me. http://www.sciencealert.com
[17:17:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deadstick [5110] 02 - 06Game-Changing Balloon Technology Enables Near-Global Flight - 678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:26] <exec> 08└─It means the balloon can contain gas at a (small) positive gage pressure, with the envelope carrying tensile stress. Traditional balloons contain gas at the same pressure as outside, and expand as they go up in altitude; when they reach the max size of the envelope, they have to vent off some gas to...
[17:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game-Changing Balloon Technology Enables Near-Global Flight - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:28] <exec> 08└─"So here's the Greatest plan: we inflate our Best spy balloons, folks. Then we launch them, they drift over Bad Iran, Evil China, and Failing Kim, and if they complain we tell them we obviously can't steer. Losers!" "But, sir, you're cutting the funding for atmospheric sciences. How will we plan the...
[17:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:07] <exec> 08└─Let the market do what the market does best: Manage complex flows of resources.There are too many people; it is not the case that the world needs, for example, 2 billion Indians. The world doesn't need that!"Blue and Gold Distinguished Professor". Smacks of bullshit.
[17:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:22] <exec> 08└─These big companies are the stupidest of fucks. They think they can stay in the 90's forever with their scum soaked websites. They hire the wrong firms(whatever windows using, idiotic slaveware peddling whores the other big companies hired) , pay them too much, don't get source code and then want to...
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[18:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:20] <exec> 08└─People and businesses should create a Consortium for Open Printing, whereby open, patent-free standards are defined for printing hardware and software. This shouldn't be difficult, and would allow for a community of enthusiasts to innovate new ways of doing things, as well as to promote a culture of...
[18:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:21] <exec> 08└─While it seems like bullshit that is Lexmarks entire business plan - make and sell really cheap printers then gauge customers on the super expensive toner cartridges. Someone else stepping in and selling cheaper or refilled cartridges really screws with their business plan. That said I don't know if...
[18:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:23] <exec> 08└─Their competition is composed of vendors who have different business models.
[18:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:25] <exec> 08└─I guess the Lexmark solution will be to sell printers with built in ink cartridges that can't be replaced. So once you run out of ink you have to toss it all away and buy a new printer. Utterly wasteful but at least they won't have competition.
[18:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:28] <exec> 08└─> open, patent-free standards are defined for printing hardware So... Set the standards now, and wait for 20 years before using them, then. You can be sure the incumbents would sue everyone they could to protect their business. They're sitting on piles of patents (more or less trivial/valid), just i...
[18:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:30] <exec> 08└─There is something fundamentally wrong with the printer industry. I stopped printing anything a few years ago rather than use their products.
[18:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:32] <exec> 08└─There's enough printer users out there that a Consortium could raise enough money to buy those patents and essentially nullify them.
[18:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, I print as little as possible. PDFs are already like the nearly ideal form of electronic paper. Right down to the page layout that is faithfully reproduced. You can email PDFs. File them away. Save them forever. They don't deteriorate.
[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─I totally gave up on inkjets, after spending hundreds of dollars per year for maybe 40 pages printed. I switched to a Canon laser printer 3 years ago, still on the first toner cartridge.
[18:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:51] <exec> 08└─If you RTFA, they did just that and it appears to be straight ASCII.
[18:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:52] <exec> 08└─TFA? Who got time for that? ...minutes later. This article is great! Thanks "exec" for sending this in.
[18:15:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 1329 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:07] <exec> 08└─Exactly. I feel like one of the biggest misconceptions about self-driving cars is that it's reasonable for them to be "partially autonomous," with the expectation that some sort of alarm could ring in a bad situation and the human driver could take over to handle things. To my mind, that's why peopl...
[18:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:33] <exec> 08└─I'd just like to add that driver attention span is a problem. If you are actually driving, you are involved in the process, and paying attention is easy. If you are not driving, but just observing, it is psychologically much more difficult to keep your attention focused on the (entirely potential) t...
[18:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:34] <exec> 08└─Heh yup! But they're so smart, no need to regulate people who totally know what they're doing ;) This coming from a west coast liberal.
[18:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:36] <exec> 08└─A lot of these tech firms are really just finding ways to avoid existing laws and regulation. Uber pretends not to be a taxi service and also avoid employment laws. AirBnB avoids rental laws and hotel laws. Amazon in the US did well as you can order out of state and avoid GST. Although other busines...
[18:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:39] <exec> 08└─I suspect that software is now complex enough that carefully designed, and validated software will get to market faster than software developed ah-hoc. The reason is abstraction leakage. Nobody knows modern systems top-to-bottom. Coding to an interface is hard enough, but when you run into undefined...
[18:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 1038 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:41] <exec> 08└─I see the logic and it makes sense on the surface. However in case after case I have seen this backfire. A properly economic evaluation would, I strongly suspect, result in a different balance - yes some things are obviously going to be done cheap and dirty but not so much, not everything which seem...
[18:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:43] <exec> 08└─And people would never obscure their license plates: that would be illegal!
[18:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:45] <exec> 08└─Or maybe all of those classic racing simulations will be correct in that you can drive with the arrow keys :)
[18:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:47] <exec> 08└─Uber resumes self-driving car tests following crash [engadget.com] The ridesharing firm tells Engadget that it's "resuming our development operations" in San Francisco as of this morning -- you should see test cars back on the streets very shortly. The Arizona and Pittsburgh cars are still idle as o...
[18:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:13] <exec> 08└─I mean, come on. White people worship high quality people. Get the hint?
[18:16:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:15] <exec> 08└─It strikes me that the difference between the SJWs of the world and rest of us is this: They are just sooooo interested in your skin color, in your genitals and in your sexual proclivities. It's prurient at best, disgusting at worst. The flip side of the SJWs are the professional victims, who flaunt...
[18:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:08] <exec> 08└─The takeaway is demonstration of the impossibility of SJW convergence. As soon as SJWs take over an organization it ceases to be dedicated to the original goal. As soon as the sort of people who talk about CoCs as a good idea appear you must fight them, drive them out if you can. You can allow them...
[18:17:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:09] <exec> 08└─Off the top of my head: - Arwen, elf, the girl with the golden hair, evening star - Galadriel, elf, the morning star - Éowyn, human, a tomboy who wants to ride with the Rohirrim (also killed the Witch-King of Angmar, yay for fictitious strong women!) - Shelob, great spider in Mordor (does a giant s...
[18:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:12] <exec> 08└─It's on his own time. Company should have no input.
[18:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:14] <exec> 08└─My reaction, as well. Klausi is obviously a pussy whippped douche.
[18:17:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:16] <exec> 08└─Live and let live - agreed. Private matters should not affect employability - agreed. However, this public posting would seem to be a willing "outing" of his sex life - making it no longer private. I didn't ask, but he told anyway... that would seem to be soild grounds for dismissal.
[18:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:18] <exec> 08└─To me when "private views become public" - they're not private anymore. If someone else "outed" him, that's one thing, but if he's going to the office dressed in stereotyped clothes and telling anyone who asks what it's about - that's not private behavior.
[18:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you're not alone in observing that large chunks of the so-called 3rd wave are somewhere between farcical and outright traitorous. The anti-trafficking stuff I do runs into this bizarre and obvious fifth column that's inserted into the "sex-positive" contingent of the third wave that has this u...
[18:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:23] <exec> 08└─Shit like this is why people think of transwomen as hysterical drama queens, Kurenai. Congratulations, you're setting your whole group back 5 years every time you post, not to mention alienating the vast majority of feminists, who are *not* TERFs. Get over yourself.
[18:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:25] <exec> 08└─Leaves a bad taste? Stop sucking the damned thing!
[18:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:27] <exec> 08└─They have "not discriminate against anyone based on their heritage or culture, their sexual orientation, their gender identity" but there are heritages and cultures that discriminate against all of the above. They therefore must simultaneously support and oppose. Muslims get the quantum treatment? M...
[18:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:29] <exec> 08└─Nope, not gonna shut up lol. You folks already have bathroom laws on the books. What's going to be the group punishment when abortion is banned? I imagine you can't post about that in a forum that's open to other castes besides yours. I might accept that there's possibly some way of promotion from t...
[18:17:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:31] <exec> 08└─Three, indeed. I'd count only compatible characters who contribute to the plot. Shelob sex is inconsequential to the story, Goldberry and Rose Cotton do not influence the story line. > I'm also not counting all kinds of Hobbits if you peruse the Shire family trees Until you get to the Silmarillion,...
[18:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:33] <exec> 08└─To be clear, you don't actually disagree with what the comment says
[18:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:35] <exec> 08└─This is so fucked up. I'm in complete agreement with both you and the woman whose comments were quoted above: so long as business and home life are kept separate, WHO CARES what two consenting adults do in the bedroom?! Now I hope he doesn't actually believe the central hypothesis of the Gor univers...
[18:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:38] <exec> 08└─And I'm not asking you to. I'm telling you back the hell off and realize most of us feminists are *on your side.* The TERFs and the selfish rich white haters are the classic small but loud group, like Westboro is compared to Christianity in general. If you want to keep (most of) us on your side, you...
[18:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:45] <exec> 08└─It's hard, dense, and difficult to corrode, so: frying pans, barbeque grills, piston rings, exhaust valves, boat anchors, boat propellers, bridges over saltwater, keys, locks, pool equipment, armor, armor-piercing bullets, gun internals, grounding rods
[18:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Catching a Real Ball in Virtual Reality - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:21] <exec> 08└─Something the summary said tweaked my interest: predictive modeling of where the ball will be - is this something that you can "tune" in Vive? Can the VR give you a "present" image (which would be somewhat predictive also) plus a "one second in the future" predictive ghost?
[18:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 840 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:52] <exec> 08└─> What exactly does this contribute to society except for "making us social"? My other half is utterly incapable of giving clear directions, or receiving them, when she wants to meet friends. Many of her friends are the same. I can't fathom how they ever met, before they had cell phones to call each...
[18:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Maps Will Now Let You Share Your Location With Friends and Family - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:53] <exec> 08└─I don't let google track me since I use a dumbphone, so it makes no difference to me directly.
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[19:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:14] <exec> 08└─Only a government, which declares its income by decree, doesn't care that it squanders resources digging multiple times.
[19:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:30] <exec> 08└─For one, its amazing how many "official" (even governmental) PDFs are produced with fonts that are neither embedded nor universally available. On top of that, the PDF format is horrendously complicated, and includes the ability for code to be executed. I don't know for sure, but I suppose that somet...
[19:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:32] <exec> 08└─For one, its amazing how many "official" (even governmental) PDFs are produced with fonts that are neither embedded nor universally available.
[19:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:34] <exec> 08└─[meme-tag] Can't tell if serious... [/meme-tag]
[19:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:36] <exec> 08└─its amazing how many "official" (even governmental) PDFs are produced with fonts that are neither embedded nor universally available.
[19:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 2728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:38] <exec> 08└─I've read a bit of the legal commentary about this case, but I haven't delved into all the detailed briefs. What I don't really understand from a basic perspective, however, is how Impression Products (the company reselling refilled cartridges) is being sued here. The argument, as I understand it, s...
[19:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:40] <exec> 08└─Money in hand now may be worth more to, say, Lexmark than hoping to milk patents in the future.
[19:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:56] <exec> 08└─Dave Johnson, my former employer, and Bob were among Atari's first game designers. (That's what they were called, not programmers.). Bob maintains a website [polaro.com] about his work with video games.
[19:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:57] <exec> 08└─"There's more to life than Internet points." -- Some guy at Hacker News.
[19:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chasing the First Arcade Easter Egg - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:00] <exec> 08└─Paul is not dead.
[19:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:49] <exec> 08└─We're talking about Uber. Should they ever come to down to earth, it'll be big news.
[19:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:51] <exec> 08└─we *do* know how to make highly reliable and secure software - start by defining specifications
[19:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:53] <exec> 08└─Nobody knows modern systems top-to-bottom.
[19:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:55] <exec> 08└─The Uber, you see, expected other drivers would play by the rules, and all you need is one cheater to ruin it for everyone.
[19:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:57] <exec> 08└─I have a CDL although I don't use it. One thing I learned while getting it is that when there is an accident, the commercial driver is considered almost always at fault, even if the truck was where it was supposed to be, even if it wasn't moving. The reason for this is because the commercial driver...
[19:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:59] <exec> 08└─If the humans obscured their license plates so that they can continue to drive and deliberately violate traffic rules, especially serious ones, like running red lights, then that provides huge ammunition to accelerate the process of removing all human driven vehicles from public roads. The humans wh...
[19:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:01] <exec> 08└─"Another reason a "modern system" cannot be reliable." So just to be clear, are you saying z/OS isn't "modern" or isn't "reliable?"
[19:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:04] <exec> 08└─Depends on where it comes back down to earth. Uber vehicle crashes with enough force to go airborne. It lands on a crowded bus shelter.
[19:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:33] <exec> 08└─then you're broadcasting the fact you support the ritual genital cutting of baby boys. That could make it difficult for some people to work with you, so how should that situation be dealt with?
[19:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:34] <exec> 08└─If only you actually had enough self-reflection to see your own shit in the mirror.
[19:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:37] <exec> 08└─Yay for tokenism. By that logic, Pakistan has more gender equality than the US since they had a female head of state decades before the US.
[19:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:39] <exec> 08└─> I don't care what color someone's eyes are, how their ears are shaped, or who they have sex with. JFC, one of the biggest bigots on the site tells an obviously bald-faced lie and gets modded up for it. Suckers.
[19:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:41] <exec> 08└─This is correct. It can work the opposite way too-- notice how there are so many PoC/minorities in sports like basketball or baseball? It's because those sports are played in areas where they cannot afford golf courses, because economically they are not feasible, which is the long product of years a...
[19:16:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 1527 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:57] <exec> 08└─hendrikboom writes: "John Norman's Gor books depict overt, endemic domination by males, and it's not consensual in the slightest." So what? They're fantasy novels. In mystery novels, people get murdered left and right, and nobody gets upset. So why does it matter what happens in Gor? The Gorian soci...
[19:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─Who was ever on my side? On the side of docile, submissive trans women, I'm sure! lol. Half the human race isn't evil for being born one way or another. They're more like poisonous mushrooms, er, skittles, er M&Ms! But we've been over that before, and that's exactly the opinion feminists act on expl...
[19:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:52] <exec> 08└─That said, have you ever Norman's books?
[19:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:54] <exec> 08└─I didn't ask, but he told anyway... that would seem to be soild grounds for dismissal.
[19:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:57] <exec> 08└─"Would it kill you to use a car analogy so the rest of us can understand what you're talking about?" A car analogy? Sure, I can do that for you. Think about the cars people drive. Some people own sedans: plain, practical, and comfortable. Other people own race cars: fast, hot, but maybe a bit tricky...
[19:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─That isn't even close to what I said, and either you know it and are being a troll, or you're too hysterical to reason with. I'm really not sure which at this point.
[19:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:01] <exec> 08└─He "told" because he was fired for his sexual preferences, and told to keep the reason quiet. "Telling" the real reason he was fired, rather than quietly disappearing, is his only possible defense. WTF else was he supposed to do. BTW, it took a lot of guts to out himself.
[19:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 1092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:03] <exec> 08└─Christ, you didn't even understand what the fucking article you linked said! Let me simplify it: it is true that not all men, indeed very few men, are actually rapists, misogynist murderers, etc. The worst most of them do comes more from ignorance and privilege than actual ill intent. What #yesallwo...
[19:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:05] <exec> 08└─However, this public posting would seem to be a willing "outing" of his sex life - making it no longer private. I didn't ask, but he told anyway... that would seem to be soild grounds for dismissal.
[19:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:07] <exec> 08└─Whether or not you care, the phrase "woman suit" sounds very creepy.
[19:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:10] <exec> 08└─My guess is they found some of the posts on the private forum where Larry says things which are probably quite disturbing to someone NOT in the culture. These people get off on giving and receiving pain, and do so consensually. I don't want to read or hear the things they say to get in the mood, and...
[19:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:12] <exec> 08└─What do you expect from the secret leader of the Reptilians?
[19:18:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sgleysti [56] 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:59] <exec> 08└─To quote the sentence from the summary immediately prior to the one you quoted, The study showed that mining exploration is not keeping up with future demand for minerals and recycling in and of itself would not be able to meet the demand either.
[19:19:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:21] <exec> 08└─One is all ready to go, the other I still need to take the hard drive out.
[19:19:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:23] <exec> 08└─But, far more useful than the copper/tantalum/etc. would be to drop the asteroid on a mineral rich area of earth that is presently politically uncooperative. After the asteroid strike, whether or not the asteroid was rich in anything, the local populace where we _know_ abundant supplies of copper, t...
[19:19:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 3570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:25] <exec> 08└─the parent post to mine is moderated as troll, but they make a good point. What we need here is one of those forms like we have for email. [craphound.com] That one could be adapted here pretty well, though, see below. Seriously, the solution to inefficient use/distribution of resources has never bee...
[19:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:27] <exec> 08└─Verbally dense, no, your comment is not. My thoughts started out as a cynical reflection in regards to reading comprehension on the internet in general and devolved from there into the MBA/Trump briefing format of my post and the preposterous accusation that your post was long winded. I know it is t...
[19:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Genome Assembly Could Create a Human Reference Genome for Under $10,000 - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:03] <exec> 08└─Really? I thought the MinION would have too much trouble in the highly-repetitive regions due to its relatively short read length. I guess it is debatable if those regions are important enough for a "human reference genome", but that is the only drawback of MinION that comes to my mind.
[19:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Data From the Phones of Over 100 Alleged Inauguration Rioters to be Extracted - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:49] <exec> 08└─Man, 30 rounds is really going to stress that mag spring. Maybe 28 (max)? Unless you really do rotate them and exercise them regularly.
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[20:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:20] <exec> 08└─The original comment was modded "Redundant", so I've posted this second comment to make that moderation truthful. ------------ Only a government, which declares its income by decree, doesn't care that it squanders resources digging multiple times.
[20:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:22] <exec> 08└─Disagree. The empty conduit will show up as an asset on the company's balance sheet, and it will not look like money was wasted. Only if the company has a cash-flow problem (like governments often do), will they choose the cheapest road-building option.
[20:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:24] <exec> 08└─Gesundheit! (sorry couldn't resist)
[20:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:26] <exec> 08└─An empty conduit is not an asset on a balance sheet. The potential for the empty conduit to start producing dollar signs, which is a function of conduit continuity and places served, is an intangible asset which a monetary value can be attached to, when discussing company value. An imminent use of t...
[20:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:28] <exec> 08└─Really? Most likely response to road boss telling CEO he wants to put in pipe while building the road. Private Road Company CEO: "You want to spend how much money putting EMPTY pipes in the road? Are you insane? The Board would fire me for wasting money that."
[20:14:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 2728 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:49] <exec> 08└─I've read a bit of the legal commentary about this case, but I haven't delved into all the detailed briefs. What I don't really understand from a basic perspective, however, is how Impression Products (the company reselling refilled cartridges) is being sued here. The argument, as I understand it, s...
[20:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:51] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be easier to ship something less buggy? One of my work sites is essentially airgapped with no external access and we operate in airplane mode (not cloak and dagger stuff, actually much more boring related to being in the basement of a telecom facility in the absolute middle of nowhere, a...
[20:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:53] <exec> 08└─Get a dozen large customers of laser printers into a room, U.S. Gov btw is a really big customer. Hammer out a standardized toner cart, printer tech is end stage and not innovating anymore so this should not be a problem. Same for a drum unit the standard toner tank attaches to. Submit the standard...
[20:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:55] <exec> 08└─When a font cannot be found, most PDF viewers silently substitute something else; in most cases, this works without anybody noticing. So, in the grand scheme of things, it's not a huge problem; however, strictly speaking, it does mean that the PDF ecosystem cannot be described as providing "faithful...
[20:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:57] <exec> 08└─Wow -- what precisely did I do to cause such animosity? I never suggested that PDF was a fantastic format (in fact, I said EXPLICITLY in my previous post that there were legitimate criticisms of it). Yes, it certainly is, even if you don't like that being the case. It points out a (minor, avoidable...
[20:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:00] <exec> 08└─It doesn't really work like that with COTS stuff WRT military NSNs and whatever GSA uses for non-military purchases http://www.armyproperty.com [armyproperty.com] You request a printer like requesting a vehicle part, like getting issued a power cable. The way supp...
[20:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:02] <exec> 08└─Given my extremely low print volume, I tent to buy a $30 printer (with a free scanner attached), and when it's empty throw it away and buy a new one. Replacement ink costs more than a new printer.
[20:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:04] <exec> 08└─Sooo.. Really its just someone splitting hairs.
[20:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:06] <exec> 08└─How does this fit in with Gorsuch being confirmed (or, theoretically, not)? With respect to scheduling etc. Is he excluded by not being a member right now, or if he were confirmed in time he could participate or ... If you want to see something funny which appears to be true: Senator Flake then ask...
[20:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:08] <exec> 08└─And businesses lament all the time why they are subject to so much regulation. This is a perfect example of why. Because they can not be trusted to not try to rip off their customers. The reason they are subject to so much regulation is because they did stupid stuff in the past, a sufficient number...
[20:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:11] <exec> 08└─So why are they even a party to this lawsuit?? Two reasons : 1 - Easier to bring 1 party to court than all of your infringing consumers, and stifle the competition to their ink business 2 - A lot harder to collect damages from a group of consumers than a single company (that probably has the cash) N...
[20:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:13] <exec> 08└─It came to my attention when an important diagram was not rendered faithfully across devices.
[20:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 1002 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:15] <exec> 08└─What Lexmark, and quite a few other companies, are really after is the First Sale Doctrine. That's the legal principle that once you buy something, it's yours, and you can do whatever you damn well please with it. There's similar disputes going on related to John Deere, because they're doing everyth...
[20:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:17] <exec> 08└─How do they handle ordering something like printer paper? I know it all doesn't come from the same manufacturer. I mean they cant have a different NSN for different brands of letter sized paper of a standard weight. If they can manage that then you should be able to have a generic laser printer with...
[20:16:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:33] <exec> 08└─Statistically, self driving cars will be safer than human drivers. Over all. So they already will be at a higher standard. Once they are a reality. Thinking that self driving cars should be automatically responsible for an accident is wrong. You can't build self driving cars that can avoid every pos...
[20:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:34] <exec> 08└─From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: IBM releases ... corrections ... (a.k.a. PTFs) for z/OS.... IBM labels critical PTFs as "HIPER" (High Impact PERvasive). IBM also "rolls up" multiple patches into a Recommended Service Update (RSU).
[20:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:36] <exec> 08└─My current vehicle (bicycle) is pointless if retrofitted to remove the driver.
[20:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there are times when you can recognize a bad driver and hopefully avoid them, but in other cases (like this one), where someone simply fails to yield, you don't get a chance to size up their driving before the accident.
[20:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:12] <exec> 08└─China, Japan, and South Korea are the 1st/2nd, 3rd, and 11th largest world economies. You will invite them from overseas to do business with them. You will play golf with them and let them win. You might even suck their dicks to close the deal.
[20:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:13] <exec> 08└─s/t
[20:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:15] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, black people reflect even less light than white people.
[20:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:17] <exec> 08└─At least I'm actually using logic.
[20:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:37] <exec> 08└─How so? Does his sex life off the clock affect his coding while on the job? Can you give us any examples?
[20:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:39] <exec> 08└─You'll be ostracised rather quickly when the PC stream shifts and starts standing for positions you can't support.
[20:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:41] <exec> 08└─$$$$$ working on finding a different area to work in, but should I drop linux because Torvalds can be a mean code dictator? Shall I never use windows because MS is evil? Shall I just quit life since a lot of humans are bent on destroying the planet and generally acting like demon spawn? The actions...
[20:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:43] <exec> 08└─Backdrop is the fork of Drupal, maybe this bullshit along with the Drupal 8 fiasco will give Backdrop a nice bump in it's userbase.
[20:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:45] <exec> 08└─This is what I don't understand in western culture. In my opinion employees/colleagues should be judged based on their technical skills and merits. Their personal life shouldn't matter as far as it doesn't affect their work. For some reason in western culture people think it is O.K. to fire people...
[20:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:48] <exec> 08└─Do you get it now?
[20:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:50] <exec> 08└─I get that I'm an outside observer, getting slanted dribs and drabs of an incomplete version of the whole story. I did garner a bit about wearing leather to work. I perceived a willingness, even eagerness to discuss the whole thing in the writing that I read. It could be that he was absolutely silen...
[20:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:52] <exec> 08└─Um, I was hoping for the car's seat belts to represent some of the BDSM elements of his post.
[20:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:54] <exec> 08└─I don't have a problem with most of your post. But here: I've been called, get this, "whore-phobic" for wanting the Nordic Model (or to be more precise, a sensical, reasoned version of it that doesn't accidentally enable pimps).
[20:18:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:56] <exec> 08└─We'll make the seat belts out of studded leather.
[20:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:59] <exec> 08└─This is so fucked up. I'm in complete agreement with both you and the woman whose comments were quoted above: so long as business and home life are kept separate, WHO CARES what two consenting adults do in the bedroom?!
[20:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:01] <exec> 08└─And guess what we call consensual master/slave relationships.
[20:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:03] <exec> 08└─Didn't anyone ever watch "Murder, She Wrote" and wonder how some small town in Maine doesn't have federal investigators crawling all over it for having, by far, the highest homicide rate in the world?
[20:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:05] <exec> 08└─virtually all women have or will, at some point, experience at the very least threats.
[20:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:07] <exec> 08└─I did garner a bit about wearing leather to work.
[20:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 063D Genome Assembly Could Create a Human Reference Genome for Under $10,000 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:54] <exec> 08└─does not sound like a reliable tool yet
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[21:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Savvy Kids Defeat Biometric Lockouts, Use Parents' Fingerprints to Unlock Phones - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:10] <exec> 08└─> used her thumb's fingerprint to unlock her iPhone and used the 'Siri' app to dial the UK's emergency number 999 I thought iphones, like all androids, let you call emergency numbers even when locked. Remember to tell that to your kids, just in case your fingerprint is with you at the bottom of a we...
[21:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:25] <exec> 08└─An empty conduit is not an asset on a balance sheet.
[21:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─from Comcast.
[21:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:28] <exec> 08└─Don't see why they would complain. It is the "last mile" that is the problem (and that municipalities get sued for solving).
[21:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:30] <exec> 08└─Except that it isn't. Bell dug up my entire neighborhood in the '90s to replace the cable they laid in the '70s. They did not use conduit either time. Even though switching from copper to fiber was all over the tech news at the time, they just ripped out the old copper and buried new copper.
[21:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:07] <exec> 08└─and TIL why the game Super Duck Punch [kongregate.com] exists... I had no idea that this was a meme. [duckduckgo.com]
[21:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:09] <exec> 08└─I'm kinda curious what SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch thinks about it, although I'm pretty sure nobody bothered to ask him.
[21:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Funny) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:11] <exec> 08└─[coded message follows] SJW Special Task Force, jmorris Division, progress report addendum. Mission may be complete sooner than estimated. Subject now advocating tyrannical government imposition of standards on printer manufacturing. Support for single payer health insurance is not far off. [end cod...
[21:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:13] <exec> 08└─I had no idea that this was a meme.
[21:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:15] <exec> 08└─Not proposing a generic standardized printer, only the toner and drum. Once those are a standard commodity the printers can't lock you to their consumables but can be as innovative in other ways as they want to be. MFP devices for example.
[21:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:10] <exec> 08└─> I don't care what color someone's eyes are, how their ears are shaped, or who they have sex with. You will, when they bring it up. These sorts of things are core to peoples identity. They bring it up all the time. Not all people do it. But some like the idea that they chose to be different than ot...
[21:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:12] <exec> 08└─Right or it could be that those students graduate with 2.0 gpa. Good luck getting a job running cable with those grades, let alone writing software. NPR is a leftist propaganda outlet, I would not believe it if they said water is wet. The standard M.O. of the left is find something which does not ha...
[21:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:14] <exec> 08└─NPR is a leftist propaganda outlet, I would not believe it if they said water is wet.
[21:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:49] <exec> 08└─[coded message follows] SJW Special Task Force, jmorris division, status report: Convergence of subject near complete. Has been successfully diverted. Reduced to repeating "SJW", "CoC" and other acronyms. Soon jmorris will be successfully forked. [end coded message]
[21:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:50] <exec> 08└─Oh, christ, consensual? I've read that all consensual activity between a man and a woman is rape!
[21:18:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:52] <exec> 08└─Midsomer's smaller
[21:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:54] <exec> 08└─Have you ever taken a look at Drupal's internal database structure? Now that's kinky! SadoMasochistic even. I wish you well.
[21:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:56] <exec> 08└─Having said there is no such thing as "fair," let me follow up with: there is such a thing as "karma." Karma doesn't work reliably, or always visibly, or fairly, but it does tend to move people from where they are, closer to where they probably deserve to be. As you said, exiting Drupal is probably...
[21:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:59] <exec> 08└─Wait, you mean "Gorean" is not "based on VP Al Gore"? Oh, my, I may have committed a terrible faux pas!
[21:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:01] <exec> 08└─?? Slavery! There are some things to which even mentally competent adults cannot consent.
[21:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:03] <exec> 08└─Oh shit, u went there. I think the search term you want is probably "all PIV is rape" (exact phrase), with PIV meaning "penis in vagina". Warning, you may be triggered by the opinions you find.
[21:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:05] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the black slacks! One can almost hear the whip cracking!
[21:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:07] <exec> 08└─What I wonder is: why, in the age of "employment at will" clauses, did Drupal give any reason for dismissal? The top two explanations I can think of are: A) they're seeking attention from the ensuing outrage, and B) they're idiots. Note, these are not mutually exclusive options.
[21:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:09] <exec> 08└─Erm, this is 4th generation now, isn't it? Or is it even 5th? The first two were before my birth, and I remember several.
[21:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:12] <exec> 08└─khallow!!! Did I give you permission to comment in this thread? No? Hold out your hands! Where did I leave that riding crop? No, I will not listen to your latest appeal to the pedant's dictionary! You need to be punished, on your obvious rebutt.al. Leave? There is no "leave". Now, hold out your ha...
[21:19:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of Functional Human Cells Can be Created in Days With OPTi-OX - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:23] <exec> 08└─so SPAM(R) would change from meaning "SPiced hAM" to "Synthentically Produced hAM" ?
[21:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:26] <exec> 08└─The study showed that mining exploration is not keeping up with future demand for minerals and recycling in and of itself would not be able to meet the demand either.
[21:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03laserfusion [1450] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Purest" and Most Massive Brown Dwarf Discovered - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:52] <exec> 08└─TRAPPIST-1 is also smaller than this brown dwarf, at 84 Jupiter masses [wikipedia.org]. The TFA says that the metallicity of a brown dwarf affects the minimum mass for hydrogen fusion. That's one reason for the overlap between brown dwarf and red dwarf sizes.
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[22:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Savvy Kids Defeat Biometric Lockouts, Use Parents' Fingerprints to Unlock Phones - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─A 4 year old may not be able to read yet. Good suggestion.
[22:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tech Savvy Kids Defeat Biometric Lockouts, Use Parents' Fingerprints to Unlock Phones - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:17] <exec> 08└─If you teach your 4-year old to read, they can text for you while you drive too.
[22:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tech Savvy Kids Defeat Biometric Lockouts, Use Parents' Fingerprints to Unlock Phones - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:19] <exec> 08└─Bonus: most texting already looks like a 4-yr old wrote it.
[22:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:37] <exec> 08└─So YOU'RE the AC who's all about violently imposed monopolies! I am so very not surprised.
[22:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:38] <exec> 08└─It provides access for competitors, they wouldn't like that one bit. If all someone needs to do is come up with the cost of the fiber plus some equipment closets and NOT jump through various regulations just to get their cables in the ground, then you will see competition. Telecoms love their monopo...
[22:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:41] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure it was marked redundant because it is an obviously dumb point to make. Also, it is only a slight variation from your "violently imposed monopoly" which so many people are tired of hearing that in any given thread you can expect downmodding when using such phrasing. Perhaps it won't get d...
[22:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:23] <exec> 08└─Get yourself a laser printer. B&Ws can be had for under $60 and you don't have to worry about nozzles getting clogged up when you don't use it for awhile.
[22:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:24] <exec> 08└─No, I'm proposing that the customers of these products come together and, since the manufacturers have no incentive to, propose a standard which they would all then mandate on their suppliers. In exactly the same way almost everything that gets standardized is done, one end or the other of the suppl...
[22:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:26] <exec> 08└─How do they handle ordering something like printer paper? I know it all doesn't come from the same manufacturer.
[22:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:28] <exec> 08└─Patent protection is just more regulation.
[22:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:30] <exec> 08└─Tomato tomato Using financial clout to force a standard is basically the same thing. It just makes you feel better because it is done with "market forces" and we all know you believe "market is God".
[22:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 1479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:33] <exec> 08└─How many of these problems are problems introduced by Adobe? How many of these can be traced directly to a crappy company that co-opted an open format to force their crap software into everyone's computers? The only thing wrong with PDF is Adobe. If you create a properly standards-compliant PDF it i...
[22:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why You Should Care About the Supreme Court Case on Toner Cartridges - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:35] <exec> 08└─Plan too eventually. Haven't needed a printer in a couple years though. I've actually gone into Office Max I think twice to pay a few cents for a few copies rather than buy another printer.
[22:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:53] <exec> 08└─In a post self driving car world, things could get a lot better for pedestrians and bicyclists. In a 100% self driving car world we don't need stop signs or traffic signals. Cars going multiple directions could use the intersection at the same time if they can coordinate their efforts. But wait! Ped...
[22:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:54] <exec> 08└─There is a school of thought that bicycles should emulate (slow moving) vehicles as closely as practical. I have on occasionally treated a red light that fails to trigger as a 4-way stop (inoperative signal); rather than lean over, push the button, and wait up to 124 seconds. (You are only supposed...
[22:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:57] <exec> 08└─One thing I learned while getting it is that when there is an accident, the commercial driver is considered almost always at fault, even if the truck was where it was supposed to be, even if it wasn't moving. The reason for this is because the commercial driver is held to a higher standard than the...
[22:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Howard University West to Open at Google's Mountain View Headquarters - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:39] <exec> 08└─Black *AND* Brown folk look the same. Apparently Howard University agrees!
[22:19:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:26] <exec> 08└─Oh, look, the unicode consortium has confused different fonts for different characters. (The prior post was simply a sentence in gothic[*] script.) However, they've also confused crappy ( http://fatphil.org - don't bother going there, it's probably just a big rectangle) clip-art libraries...
[22:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:28] <exec> 08└─Wow, overgeneralize much? "A pedestrian got hit with a car, which PROVES that cars are not safe. We have to ban them all!" Do you have any studies or metrics on how Codes of Conduct typically impact projects? I'll also add that context matters a lot, as does the Code of Conduct being proposed. For e...
[22:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Drupal Fires Contributor for Practicing BDSM - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:30] <exec> 08└─See also Dianic Wicca [wikipedia.org] for the metaphysical.
[22:20:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:46] <exec> 08└─Why would a free market solution not work here? This seems like the exact kind of "problem" which free markets are ideal to solve. From my perspective, as supply goes down (without an equivalent drop in demand), price goes up. As price goes up, previously unprofitable mines now become worth producin...
[22:20:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:48] <exec> 08└─Electrodes and contacts are the only electrical uses I'm aware of for platinum.
[22:20:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Warning of Shortage of Essential Minerals for Laptops, Cell Phones, Wiring - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:50] <exec> 08└─Aluminum is not only lighter but is a 3-4 times better conductor by volume.
[22:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FedEx to Give $5 Discount for Re-Enabling Flash in Chrome or Safari - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:06] <exec> 08└─You are assuming that the discount actually costs them money. It's a top-line discount, not a bottom-line one, like those "save $1 if you by ABC brand frozen dinners this week." It's entirely possible that they are still making a profit. Imagine the average package costs them $10 to ship, and they c...
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[23:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Releases 2017 Developer Survey Results - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:01] <exec> 08└─Stack Overflow, the world's largest online community for programmers to learn, share their knowledge and level up their careers, today released the Stack Overflow Annual Developer Survey results
[23:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Releases 2017 Developer Survey Results - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:02] <exec> 08└─And no matter the language in question, you know at least one neckbeard is going to chime in with "Well if you were doing it in perl you would just...".
[23:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Releases 2017 Developer Survey Results - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:04] <exec> 08└─well... if only they implemented SO in perl, they wouldn't have had this issue because then they could easily write regex'es to flag posts for removal...
[23:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stack Overflow Releases 2017 Developer Survey Results - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:07] <exec> 08└─Aye, SO isn't for learning as much as crowdsourcing answers to common but specific problems in limited domains. Treating it like a general forum will earn you negative feedback. Once I figured that out, I found SO a very useful place -- but I don't go there to "learn".
[23:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:37] <exec> 08└─So YOU'RE the AC who's all about violently imposed monopolies! I am so very not surprised.
[23:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:39] <exec> 08└─> The obvious rebuttal *Drinks* Hey, the road is empty, I won't hurt anyone.
[23:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:41] <exec> 08└─The telecom industry was built on government-granted monopolies, including essentially guaranteed income. So, that's not really a good example.
[23:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:43] <exec> 08└─First, does the road belong to the company? Usually not, so not an asset. Second, if the conduit is a mandatory feature of the road, is the conduit considered a separate asset? I'll got for "unlikely" Third, can you even depreciate conduit? Your rack of servers (you're fired for having spent CapEx w...
[23:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06“Dig Once” Bill Could Bring Fiber Internet to Much of the US - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:45] <exec> 08└─Only a government, which declares its income by decree, doesn't care that it squanders resources digging multiple times.
[23:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nobuddy [1626] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Self-Driving Test Car Involved in Crash in Arizona - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:54] <exec> 08└─|if you rear-end somebody, you are automatically considered at fault (for following too close). Common misconception. In most states, this is not at all automatic. Most times the one who rear-ended the car in front is held at fault- but that is because they were at fault. If the lead car was determi...
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