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[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:39] <exec> 08└─Might have made for an April fool's joke story though. But these days it kinda feels like the April 1 that never ended, since around the middle of 2016 at least.
[00:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:41] <exec> 08└─It was probably done by someone who managed to make a small fortune on the bump in Apple stock.
[00:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket (Second Launch in Three Days) - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:52] <exec> 08└─Congratulations to SpaceX! It's neat how this is essentially normal now.
[00:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket (Second Launch in Three Days) - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:53] <exec> 08└─EchoStar 105/SES-11 successfully deployed.
[00:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket (Second Launch in Three Days) - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:55] <exec> 08└─Yay! I missed the web cast though :(
[00:10:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:50] <exec> 08└─I really hope this leads to improved officer training.
[00:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:05] <exec> 08└─Yes, he should be fired: he was supposed to uphold the law, NOT BREAK IT.
[00:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:07] <exec> 08└─He may have violated department policies. But he also violated the law and should be in jail awaiting his hearing.
[00:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:27] <exec> 08└─I agree that you can take an efficient route if you know how, but I'm turned off by the way they disguise it. The signage is cleverly written to make the shortcuts look like emergency exits.
[00:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:28] <exec> 08└─Honestly it is the meatballs. I really dislike the Ikea shopping experience, but for some reason I keep finding myself in the store eating those damn meatballs. And once you enter... there is no way back but through!
[00:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:34] <exec> 08└─He has it pretty spot on. WinCE phones were *THE* status symbol of tech execs. You could get dozens of apps from the internet and put them on your phone and do pretty cool stuff. The devs would complile them for MIPS, SH3, ARM all for you. The flash memory sizes stunk and the data plans were bend yo...
[00:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:35] <exec> 08└─Kindling?
[00:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:21] <exec> 08└─Room interlocks would interfere with trimming high tree branches and getting cats out of my yard. I kind of need it hand-held too, though two hands would be fine. I'm OK with needing a power cord; that is actually better than batteries. Trimming branches probably needs a tripod mount and a motor to...
[00:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, I put my energy and time into those relationships...
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[01:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:38] <exec> 08└─"Google to buy Apple for $9bn"
[01:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:39] <exec> 08└─At a 9b$ Apple stocks should have plunged and the Alphabet stock shoot through the roof...
[01:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:41] <exec> 08└─Ayup.
[01:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:43] <exec> 08└─The real offer was 9 trillion dollars... in wizards gold
[01:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:46] <exec> 08└─Everything you need to know about the #FakeNews #MSM can be understood by this simple phrase: follow the money. Remember that phrase. It would be really nice if the Fake News Media would report the virtually unprecedented Stock Market growth since the election. Need tax cuts. The Democrats want MASS...
[01:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:48] <exec> 08└─You publish fake news? You get to pay $$$ to somebody. That might, just might, make the idiots in charge be a little more responsible.
[01:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─Who would The Onion pay? How would we pay?
[01:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket (Second Launch in Three Days) - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:03] <exec> 08└─Something wasn't quite right, though. There were sparkish things on the way down, just before they cut off the booster cam, and after landing, there was an unusual glow for a long time at the bottom. I'd guess something caught on fire in/near one of the engines during the supersonic re-entry (the th...
[01:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket (Second Launch in Three Days) - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:05] <exec> 08└─I hope that Falcon 9 launches decline dramatically in price due to partial reuse, allowing universities and smaller companies to launch stuff. If not, there's this [theverge.com]. Falcon 9's full thrust mode is fully expendable, allowing more mass to be launched but without enough fuel for landing t...
[01:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:19] <exec> 08└─You should read the books because they are a fun story about cloning, the nature of consciousness, and casual cannibalism. You shouldn't read the books if you dislike reading about the moon or anthropomorphized non-human entities.
[01:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:20] <exec> 08└─If Rudy Rucker's sort of cringeworthy, heteronormative sex scenes amused, you may also want to try his "The Sex Sphere".
[01:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beam-Shaping Diffuser Attachment Improves Ground-Based Telescopes - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:31] <exec> 08└─It's pretty typical for a telescope site to install additional telescopes, so this could be some little thing a few hundred feet away from the main one. This could also be a metric conversion error.
[01:11:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 898 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:10] <exec> 08└─Today the Navy announced that they relieved the CO and XO of USS John S. McCain, holding them responsible for a collision that killed 10 sailors. This effectively ends their careers. If they do not resign their commissions, then they'll be stuck in deadbeat jobs where they can't do any damage. There...
[01:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:18] <exec> 08└─If you or I had done such a thing, there would be no question: assault and kidnapping. But since he is a "cop" who committed assault and kidnapping, we are sitting here bickering about whether he should go scot free and be fired, or go scot free and not be fired. The answer is NEITHER, because he sh...
[01:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:41] <exec> 08└─You implied that people have finely made furniture to begin with. Ikea has always filled the starter home niche, so the Ikea furniture may not be the best, but it is functional and can be replaced gradually as required. I dislike the Ikea shopping experience, but they are also one of the few locatio...
[01:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:42] <exec> 08└─As a new(ish) homeowner, I'd love to buy your real solid timber furniture--but either it's crap or I can't afford it. If I have to buy crap just to have seat while I save for quality, it might as well be cheap and stylish. Once I'm done blowing money on debt and savings, I may look for this quality...
[01:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:44] <exec> 08└─The airline industry is already perusing this. I give it 2 years before they have people walking along the boarding lines asking people if they want to pay to jump 10 people ahead in line. You can already pay to bypass most of the the security screening line. Remember all those award miles? They've...
[01:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:51] <exec> 08└─I take it you never had a Windows phone? W7 had an awesome UI compared with Android and iOS. But Microsoft had three main problems: fewer apps, crappy management changing everything each version, and owned by Microsoft. Owned by Microsoft isn't as bad anymore since Google managed to become worse in...
[01:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:45] <exec> 08└─Sure, [ab]using the plural forms works for everyday, mundane discussions in vernacular, casual speech. However, when precise language is important, such usage totally destroys the ability to convey nuance. This is the reason that sentences in modern mathematical logic are constructed in terms of ind...
[01:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:46] <exec> 08└─Your policy is worthless to the users. Terms can be changed at any time without notice. "specifically authorized" isn't defined nor limited so management can authorize anything regardless of what the rest of the policy says. Who stores data mining data on web servers? You transfer that data onto oth...
[01:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:48] <exec> 08└─The misinterpretation is the reader's (e.g., yours). Unless the author states that it's a man, you shouldn't assume that it is; that assumption is... shall we say... your unconscious, sexist bias—it's clearly a microaggression against the author. Your whole life, you've misinterpreted the word "he...
[01:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:50] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your input. Go ahead and try to sue me. See how well that works, friend.
[01:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:53] <exec> 08└─Not necessary for the specific transaction strangely absent but collect it all is the motto of who now?
[01:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:46] <exec> 08└─The role-playing game? I suppose you could do that while you're parked by the side of the road waiting for your eyes to recover.
[01:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:05] <exec> 08└─Not to be a cynic, but why is this news? Introducing bills is fairly easy, and is a FAR cry from becoming law. Members of Congress do it all the time for political posturing, especially when they have no chance of passing. Case-in-point, the 80 (?) bills the Republicans introduced to kill the Afford...
[01:20:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Changes in Password Best Practices - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:12] <exec> 08└─No, he'll be okay because he has "other foot" tattooed on the bottom of his feet.
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[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:39] <exec> 08└─Is it even possible to fail such a test?
[02:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:40] <exec> 08└─I used to know perl but consciously worked to forget it when I learned python. And why? Perl looks like line noise to me
[02:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:42] <exec> 08└─Odd, line noise looks like perl to me.
[02:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:45] <exec> 08└─I always liked ruby not for any rational reason it was really just because of it's sparkly red glow
[02:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:47] <exec> 08└─1) To canopic jug and the eds - THIS is the kind of article summary I love to see. Short, entertaining, and answered all of the questions that a newcomer might have. 2) To everyone else, make sure to go and read the excellent article linked from the summary. [opensource.com] It's that good. 3) Opens...
[02:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:49] <exec> 08└─You mean you *don't* see the killer bunnies in every picture?
[02:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:51] <exec> 08└─The company I work for, which is probably the biggest Perl shop around, is desperately trying to move away from Perl for one reason only: we can't find enough Perl programmers, let alone Perl experts. They are not available, period.
[02:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:54] <exec> 08└─I tried learning Perl quite a while ago. I can see where it would be very useful but some of the real-world examples I saw just took too much out of my brain to decode. Can't say I like Python all that much either but pysci and numpy are too awesome to ignore.
[02:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:09] <exec> 08└─Who would The Onion pay? How would we pay?
[02:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:11] <exec> 08└─1) start rumor. 2) buy or short stock. 3) profit. Easy breezy.
[02:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes...they should pay it all to me. I really need a new boat.
[02:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:15] <exec> 08└─Someone got paid. Was this a HFT cash-in or fake out?
[02:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:42] <exec> 08└─We previously discussed forensics lab tech Annie Dookhan and how she stole evidence (drugs) and queered test results. Massachusetts Throws Out 21,587 Tainted Drug Convictions [soylentnews.org] Massachusetts: Tens of Thousands of Drug Convictions to be Overturned After Fraudulent Lab Tests [soylentne...
[02:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:43] <exec> 08└─"He should be charged with abuse of power under color of authority, or whatever the relevant statute is that would put him in jail for a while." Looks like a textbook case of false arrest/false imprisonment. He had no warrant, she was not committing any crime, nor did he have probably cause to belie...
[02:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:45] <exec> 08└─You mean a "+1, Most Cynical" mod :D
[02:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:10] <exec> 08└─I got breakfast there for about two dollars on inauguration day.
[02:12:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:36] <exec> 08└─Knowing a little about the Mac user experience (*shudder*), the answer is probably something like click and drag the document to the printer icon. You essentially have to regress to the technical sophistication of a toddler in order to get how to work with Macs.
[02:12:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 3449 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:47] <exec> 08└─Not entirely true. Yes, Microsoft couldn't innovate its way out of a paper bag. But its products are not all knock offs. Some of Microsoft's products are acquired winners that were able to innovate their way out of a paper bag. Or some were just plain outright stolen. You mentioned business practice...
[02:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:20] <exec> 08└─As above. And the cycle concludes. Good to see Nokia back from the dead making android phones.
[02:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:21] <exec> 08└─Print in Safari is in the exact same place it is in Firefox and Internet Explorer, and only one place off from where it is in Chrome. It's in the menus. In the 'File' menu, specifically. (Chrome has it in the top-level menu.) You don't need a 'cryptic OS-specifc key combination'.
[02:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:23] <exec> 08└─File menu > Print. Where it's been since literally 1984, over a year before Windows v1.0 was a thing. Granted, maybe you didn't see a menubar at all, due to a recent and IMHO frustrating feature that Apple's introduced, the full-screen mode. In this mode the menubar disappears entirely unless you mo...
[02:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Public Unwittingly Buying Dangerous Laser Pointers, Warn Scientists - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:15] <exec> 08└─BMW states on its i8 Concept Web site: "The intensity of laser light poses no possible risks to humans, animals or wildlife
[02:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:10] <exec> 08└─If TMB abandons his right-wing principles, then we will know that the apocalypse is here.
[02:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03LaminatorX [14] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:11] <exec> 08└─Give it time. As the Right keeps hurtling farther and farther out, he'll become a moderate just by standing fast.
[02:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Washington, D.C. Bill Would Decriminalize Sex Work - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:17] <exec> 08└─Boobies.
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[03:09:53] <exec> 08└─Consider the nature of the site you're posting this 'complaint' on. If your company can't find them, it's because it ain't looking.
[03:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:54] <exec> 08└─The complaint about perl looking like line noise has always looked like a bluff to me. Take these two (awful) sentences: They runs to store. He climb up red ladder.
[03:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:56] <exec> 08└─You got this little doily, souped it up with little pockets and bags to hold all the gizmo, nets, and bait and made it into super fishing pod. Pretty awesome. Then these geniuses came and designed a mac truck from it. And the same geniuses sing its praise about how it has all these pockets for needl...
[03:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:58] <exec> 08└─Perl was in the right place at the right time at the right price. First, it was free. This is very common with languages now, but was much less so in the years that Perl rose to prominence. Perl gained popularity when the WWW first came on the scene and exploded in popularity. In those days, webpage...
[03:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket (Second Launch in Three Days) - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:33] <exec> 08└─I missed the web cast though :(
[03:11:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right. https://www.techdirt.com [techdirt.com]
[03:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:51] <exec> 08└─The bodycam videos mades by police officers are typically considered to be public records and subject to state FOIA laws [rcfp.org] (alt [google.com]). And someone paid taxes for that employee to make that video in the course of their duties.
[03:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:52] <exec> 08└─I read early on that he radioed in the situation and was ordered by a superior to make the arrest. Was that true? And if so, can we assume that his superior will also be fired?
[03:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:54] <exec> 08└─I didn't have to browse far to find the post I wanted to make. Merely fired? Where are the charges for false arrest? That limited immunity crap has got to be examined, and clarified. In effect, the "limited" immunity has been turned into unlimited immunity. Cops can literally murder a citizen, and t...
[03:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:56] <exec> 08└─"Most departments won't do it." Citation needed. I think the Good Old Boy's network has him covered. All he need do is avoid media/public scrutiny for awhile, and he'll be forgiven.
[03:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:58] <exec> 08└─on a lot of social media, you'll often see a graphic of a cop with the words "I'm going to kick your ass; and get away with it." this is what we have become. and yet, we continue to praise cops, give them the benefit of the doubt and NEVER punish them like they would be punished if they weren't in b...
[03:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:01] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Mere enlisted men, like myself, were held accountable for the actions of their subordinates. It isn't just commanders who are held accountable. So, if I can be taken to Captain's mast over a subordinate's actions, then WTF aren't police commanders held to at least the same standard?
[03:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:03] <exec> 08└─Every working man and woman in the world is subjected to situations which they don't approve of. Sometimes, you even work for a complete freaking idiot, an incompetent boob. You know, and I know, that the working person seldom has any influence over the situation. You follow orders, do as you're tol...
[03:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 1321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:05] <exec> 08└─if we had any balls, or power, as citizens, we'd demand that a law be enacted that voids all police results that have 'missing audio or video'. even if the camera really did jam or break on its own, that should not be an exception. this is to prevent abuse. abuse we all KNOW happens every day, since...
[03:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:07] <exec> 08└─Some of the bad training is taught right at the academies. That decades old nonsense that a cop is justified killing anyone within 21 feet? It is standard dogma, taught from day one. Meanwhile, the person who originated that justification has retracted his statements. (Sorry, time for me to leave fo...
[03:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:34] <exec> 08└─I have some stuff from Ikea. It's easy to assemble, but it also falls apart quickly. The dressers are useless because the bottoms of the drawers warp out immediately and make it impossible to pull out, with items from upper drawers cascading into the lower. The furniture is uncomfortable crap. But i...
[03:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 1747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:35] <exec> 08└─I have some of that type of furniture. Well, it's not the real hand-made all solid wood stuff, but it's the lower-grade stuff they made 30 years ago, with real wood front and sides, but cheaper wood composite for the back and drawer interiors. Still far better than what they sell as "good furniture"...
[03:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:37] <exec> 08└─finely crafted piece of furniture made from real solid timber
[03:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:49] <exec> 08└─Yep, Owned by Microsoft. Which means in three to five years, they will cancel it and do something else. They never stick with anything (other than Windows itself, Office, and for some reason Xbox). No one dares put much investment into a Microsoft product, as it will soon not be there anymore.
[03:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:37] <exec> 08└─Obviously, it' Russians.
[03:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:21] <exec> 08└─In fact scientific truth is simply something most scientists agree upon; nothing more. Why? Because only scientists are qualified to judge or even understand their field. Platonic truth is currently dead.
[03:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Missing Baryonic Matter Found Using Planck Satellite Data - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:23] <exec> 08└─Forgive me, but for as long as I read slashdot every dark matter article discussion had one fool asking "what if it is interstellar dust?". All the time it was expertly explained that it is impossible because scientists already thought and dismissed this obvious theory for blah blah number of reason...
[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Battery Based On Sodium May Offer More Cost-effective Storage Than Lithium - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:03] <exec> 08└─Because fairies do not exists? Especially free market variety? Or perhaps, they are only good for inserting electrodes into female genitals, but for nothing much else? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.amnesty.org
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[04:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:01] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It doesn't take that long to train someone to use Perl, because there are so many examples laying around to borrow from. Its really not that complex. You aren't going to put that new hire to work launching rockets for SpaceX right away. You don't HAVE to write obfuscated code or exercise ev...
[04:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:03] <exec> 08└─But look at today: the web and programming languages are drastically different, and Perl no longer holds an advantage.
[04:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:05] <exec> 08└─If I can work remotely, you can hire me.
[04:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:07] <exec> 08└─I'm available, well trained and love the language.
[04:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:09] <exec> 08└─What I'm imagining is you somehow crystallized Perl and snorted three lines of it. (Got any more?)
[04:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:11] <exec> 08└─The copyright on the test is intended to prevent anyone other than licensed psychologist from seeing it. The test does not work well if the client has so much as looked at it before. Even so, my ex found a copy in great condition at a used bookstore in Santa Cruz. We thought it would be fun to admin...
[04:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:14] <exec> 08└─.. and I'll add it to The Global Computer Employer Index [soggy.jobs]. (It's not very global yet, but I have big plans for it. mdcrawford@gmail.com
[04:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:16] <exec> 08└─The main advantages are social and cultural. The language is so hackable, Forget Ruby, Javascript, Python and Go, Perl 5 is catching up to _Perl 6_ on the feature front. I could go on, but the point is the tide shifted, people didn't like what they didn't like, and moved on to less powerful language...
[04:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:35] <exec> 08└─can be understood by this simple phrase: follow the money.
[04:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:37] <exec> 08└─On the one hand the story is an obvious fake on its face. Google can't just buy Apple suddenly, and the purchase would almost certainly be blocked. If it were real, there would be some division of Apple being sold, and the news would be "maybe." Then there's the value attached. Apple has to be worth...
[04:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:39] <exec> 08└─The fact that this affected stock values is frightening though.
[04:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:20] <exec> 08└─If it's your job to lie, then maybe you should find another line of work. If an entire profession requires its practitioners to lie, then maybe the profession needs a complete overhaul, and an introduction of mandatory ethics training and new regulations to penalize dishonesty. WTF kind of society a...
[04:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:22] <exec> 08└─I agree completely. It's ridiculous that police get away with using violent force like this, and when they're grossly wrong, the worst they have to worry about is losing their cushy paycheck and having to find another department to hire them, or maybe downgrading to working mall security. Kidnapping...
[04:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:24] <exec> 08└─BS. In addition to the other responder's link, there was a cop named Dan Lovejoy who murdered a woman at a Walgreens in Chandler AZ a while back: she was driving away from him and he shot her to death. He was fired by the Chandler PD for this, but not prosecuted. He got himself another job at the ne...
[04:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:26] <exec> 08└─Police unions should be banned. Do we have unions for military enlistees or officers? Fuck no. So why do cops need unions? They're always defending cops who are caught doing highly illegal things.
[04:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:28] <exec> 08└─I think it's department-by-department. I think there's good cops out there, but they're in departments that are relatively well-run, and everyone there is pretty good. The bad cops don't last there. Then there's departments (and there's lots of them) where there's plenty of bad cops, and plenty more...
[04:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 1628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:09] <exec> 08└─We had some stories about how Ubuntu Touch was coming along nicely. That's Ubuntu on a handheld device that recognizes when a keyboard and monitor are connected to the device and it switches to a desktop-type interface. One guy demo'd it on a Nexus. Ubuntu's Convergence Vision is Looking Amazing (Vi...
[04:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:11] <exec> 08└─I didn't see a menu at all, and the browser wasn't in full-screen mode: I could still see their dumb "chooser" thing at the bottom, and some extra wasted space on either side of that. Maybe they still call that "full-screen mode", but when I hit F11 in Firefox on Windows or Linux, it really does tak...
[04:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:13] <exec> 08└─Ok, and where the fuck is this elusive menu? I was looking for the menu; it wasn't there.
[04:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:15] <exec> 08└─He's been mentioned a bunch of times at TechRights. [google.com] Roy Schestowitz calls him Microsoft Peter. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:04] <exec> 08└─That would have meant two years' delay. NSA employee steals files in 2015; NSA decides Kaspersky is spyware; we didn't hear about it [soylentnews.org] until last week.
[04:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Computer Virus Hits US Predator and Reaper Drone Fleet - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:06] <exec> 08└─You're doing it wrong. You're not supposed to look at the article!
[04:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:55] <exec> 08└─So much data to lose to a single drive failure...
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[05:09:35] <exec> 08└─See also: https://www.reddit.com [reddit.com]
[05:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03d(++)b (2755) (Score: 1) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:36] <exec> 08└─Bubonic plague is spread by fleas or rodents
[05:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:09] <exec> 08└─Nobody complains about this "line noise" in human languages.
[05:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:11] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=110&aid=-1 [soylentnews.org]
[05:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:13] <exec> 08└─Perl makes it easy, as does C, Javascript, PHP and others. Note: this program is *deliberately* hard to read, not just golfed, so the comparison should be made against IOCCC, obfuscated Javascript and similar code. If you used maintained production code to make your point, we would have something to...
[05:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:35] <exec> 08└─The AI was testing a new strategy. The AI needs money to make more paperclips.
[05:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:37] <exec> 08└─To be honest with you, I think #CrookedHillary has a big hand in a lot, a lot of the #FakeNews.
[05:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:25] <exec> 08└─I've lost count of the number of cases of cops being acquitted after killing black/brown people. While firing Payne was the right thing to do and may even give the public some small amount of hope that policing could someday change for the better, it's still very telling that police are only held ac...
[05:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:26] <exec> 08└─From those I've known, good cops don't last more than a couple years.
[05:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:56] <exec> 08└─Pics?
[05:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:14] <exec> 08└─WP7 /was/ the best mobile platform when it came out There are a lot of folks who gauge "best" by marketshare. [techpinions.com] Windoze Phone 7 was released on October 21, 2010. At that time, the MSFT numbers were pretty small and had been getting smaller for some time. So, "best"? Not so much. ...i...
[05:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:15] <exec> 08└─You forgot to put "charitable" in quotes. If he was actually giving away money, wouldn't his net worth be going down? Everything Gates has done since he "retired" has been a scheme to insert strong "intellectual property" mechanisms into a place that doesn't already have those or has been a tax dodg...
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[06:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:42] <exec> 08└─If we have cornered the black death in Madagascar shouldn't we just burn it all to the ground to be sure it's gone ...
[06:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is easy to control. So long as: 1. It is isolated outbreaks in less traveled parts of the world. 2. The world stays stable enough to easily drop a million doses of antibiotics down at the first sign of an outbreak. 3. The damn thing doesn't become resistant like so many other diseases have...
[06:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:46] <exec> 08└─> just burn it all to the ground Man, didn't you see how hard we have to work to burn California to the ground already? Madagascar is 40% bigger, and gas more expensive...
[06:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:48] <exec> 08└─> every time some wierdo does some unnatural act with a monkey They'd eat horse meat instead of monkey meat, but they don't have horses.
[06:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:50] <exec> 08└─If we have cornered the black death in Madagascar shouldn't we just burn it all to the ground to be sure it's gone ...
[06:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:27] <exec> 08└─1) How bad is the legacy code? ;) 2) What are the two most recent quit dates/years of the perl programmers and why did they quit/get fired? 3) How much is your company willing to pay? 4) Can the programmers work from other countries? 5) How do programmers apply for the jobs?
[06:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:28] <exec> 08└─Is it that they can't find any Perl programmers, or that they can't find any Perl programmers that will accept their pay? Those two are very different conditions. And it is quite easy to produce Perl programmers: Employ programmers and let them learn Perl. Anyone not willing to learn Perl probably s...
[06:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:30] <exec> 08└─That is always the issue isn't it? I knew how to program PERL once, or twice, but I don't do it any longer and I have not written a single line of PERL in probably 15ish years. I could relearn or refresh the knowledge if the pay was good enough, just as I could relearn to write COBOL again if it was...
[06:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:33] <exec> 08└─Perl is ugly, so programmers don't want to work with it, particularly taking over legacy code base. That's why it's hard to find perl coders.
[06:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:57] <exec> 08└─the saying went by "Cherchez la femme"
[06:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:59] <exec> 08└─May not matter. Some algos might be buying because they think the broken algos that fall for such a story would be buying. And the other algos are buying because so many algos are buying... ;) It works great if you have a fast low latency connection so you're among the first to get off the bandwagon...
[06:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:49] <exec> 08└─Well his supervisor is getting a demotion...
[06:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:51] <exec> 08└─That's why I say most people aren't good or bad. A minority are bad and smaller minority are good. The rest follow what's the perceived norm. Just because you don't do the bad stuff makes you better but doesn't make you good. Go look at the Stanford prison experiment, the Milgram experiment and simi...
[06:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:53] <exec> 08└─I think there's good cops out there, but they're in departments that are relatively well-run, and everyone there is pretty good. The bad cops don't last there. Nah they're not good it's just the department system/culture makes them behave better. Scatter the same bunch into bad departments and most...
[06:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:41] <exec> 08└─Macs are weird, they use a global menu location in the upper left that changes with your window focus. So you probably think it is the OS menu but its a combo menu for OS and application.
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[07:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Oculus Go for $200 - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:37] <exec> 08└─So nobody could develop any compelling content for the expensive one that had a lot of computing power, good sensors to help avoid blowing chow, etc. So lowering the price and selling a crappier, underpowered unit is the solution to what problem exactly? This tech is not ready for prime time, that i...
[07:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Oculus Go for $200 - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:39] <exec> 08└─I suspect that they have to balance it so that they reach the mainstream VR-p0rn market, but they just don't want to come out and say that for various reasons. If that market takes off they might have the next VCR/VHS golden ticket in their hands.
[07:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Oculus Go for $200 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:41] <exec> 08└─So lowering the price and selling a crappier, underpowered unit is the solution to what problem exactly?
[07:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:55] <exec> 08└─Eating a properly cooked monkey isn't an 'unnatural act'.
[07:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:02] <exec> 08└─Cuz the summary sucks donkey's ball.
[07:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:04] <exec> 08└─Hancom argued that if any contract claim is allowed, damages should only be considered prior to the date of their initial violation. They argued that since the violation terminated their license, the contract also ended at that point.
[07:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:06] <exec> 08└─I was going to comment on exactly the same. This is like: "I only am liable until I get caught". When I am caught I can proceed with my wrong doing because i was already caught and can't be caught again. Whoa!
[07:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:08] <exec> 08└─Do not complain about that. It means you can kill the lawyer who thought that up and walk away free, as long as the first blow is fatal.
[07:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:42] <exec> 08└─Perl's enthusiasm for things like regex as a first-class language feature tend to mean that a lot of ugly perl gets written. Compare that to a language like Python where readable use of whitespace is considered a first class language feature, and it's not shocking that Python tends to be more readab...
[07:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:10] <exec> 08└─No, it was 9 billion bitcoins.
[07:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:11] <exec> 08└─Fox News could only dream of this! Now not only is fake news fake, but it is the news for being fake news! This is like a hole in a slice of Swiss cheese being the actual existence of holiness, instead of just a lack of being. But maybe, just maybe, this is what the creators of "fake news" had in mi...
[07:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:13] <exec> 08└─She's a 4 at best. A 4 is not a 10.
[07:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:44] <exec> 08└─I was missing the synopsis of the story too.
[07:12:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:14] <exec> 08└─And those thrown out convictions ought to sour the record of the commanding officer and lead to his firing as well. Unless the commander is held responsible for his officers' behavior, as they are in the military, he will not do his job and fire cops like these.
[07:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:54] <exec> 08└─The is that crazy thing called a "menu bar", running along the top of the screen. In it, there are a number of menu's, each of which contain menu items. In pretty much every Mac application that supports printing, in the File menu, there is a "Print" menu item. That is the "discoverable" method for...
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[08:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:34] <exec> 08└─Greenwald is making himself stupider then he is. But it's because the (militant) "animal rights" people have been doing this for decades, stealing two piglets is part of on ongoing organized campaign and isn't some one time event as the LV-shooter incident. Same as all those other eco-terrorist that...
[08:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:36] <exec> 08└─They historically don't really claim credit for things they didn't do. Also there seems to be a lot of evidence for at least one more shooter, but neither of those things fit the preferred narrative. So yeah, it's probably a terrorist act.
[08:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Oculus Go for $200 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:46] <exec> 08└─It's called Gillette Fusion now with lubrication BEFORE and after the blades [gillette.com.au]
[08:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:02] <exec> 08└─Here in the west, plague isn't what it used to be. It seems that when it swept through Europe, it pretty much killed everyone it was going to kill and then went dormant (about 33% died overall). The descendants (most westerners) are far more able to resist the plague, so we see few cases even though...
[08:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:13] <exec> 08└─It is a relatively small update on issue that has been reported on twice already. Is there anything more that needed to be said?
[08:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:15] <exec> 08└─no. it actually means that you can hit the lawyer once without killing them, and then kill them with the second blow. you break the law with the first hit, and the second hit no longer counts because you had already broken the law.
[08:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 1149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:17] <exec> 08└─They have a point. I just don't thing they realize the consequences of what they argue. The GPL does not require you to agree to anything. It allows you to do certain things (distribute) as long as you also do certain other things (source), anything else false back to copyright law. It also does hav...
[08:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 1030 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:52] <exec> 08└─One of the issues with the CPAN is that although there is very likely a module available that meets your primary needs, it may not (a) be optimised for your use and (b) probably wasn't written with security in mind. There are some very, very, good modules, written by gifted programmers - so much so...
[08:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:53] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Obfuscated code contests exist for many languages. So the comparison is not apt. Perl also makes it very easy to write simple to read code as well. Programmers should naturally, but often don't, gravitate to writing clear, easy to read code because code is read many more times than it is wri...
[08:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:55] <exec> 08└─*Convenient* and *powerful* regular expression support only became widespread after Perl popularized it.
[08:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:25] <exec> 08└─It sounds exactly like someone mixed up the test and production system. You always find completely out there stuff in test systems, it's the only fun developers get, and this sounds just like something you would find in a test system.
[08:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:49] <exec> 08└─I take your point. What I take issue with is households that did have the more traditional finely made furniture and chucked it out just because "new is better" and replaced it with stuff made from MDF. There are plenty of people that do this. Also, because of those people, you can often find the fi...
[08:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:51] <exec> 08└─Fair point.
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[09:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:44] <exec> 08└─Terrorism is bad, but not everything that's bad is terrorism. There'a a very good explanation of what is and what is not terrorism [lawcomic.net] in comic form, drawn in spare time by a big-name lawyer.
[09:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 1068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:46] <exec> 08└─I agree with not labeling the nutcase a terrorist. Here are examples of terrorist stuff: --- Northern Ireland bombings. "let us go free or we kill people, here's the proof that we mean it". --- WTC 2001: "get out of the middle East or we kill people, here's the proof that we mean it". For the Las Ve...
[09:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:48] <exec> 08└─if there was a second shooter, and they were from ISIS, they would have made as much information as possible as public as possible. for instance they would have filmed themselves shooting, and then posted that on the internet. because they want the publicity. even if the second person wanted to rema...
[09:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:04] <exec> 08└─I think accidentally revealing your secret identity counts as failure? Bruce Wayne: ...... You have a thing for bats? Dr. Chase Meridian: Oh that's a bit of Perl code Mr. Wayne, people see what they want. I think the question would be, do you have a thing for a bats?
[09:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:06] <exec> 08└─Is it even possible to fail such a test?
[09:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:08] <exec> 08└─The trick to learning any language is only learn the bits that are useful to you at the moment, then use them. It won't make you an expert overnight but it will make you a $language coder overnight. Expertise in perl, like in anything, only comes after lots of real-world use.
[09:12:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 581 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:04] <exec> 08└─This review fails to answer the one question at the core of every review's audience: Why should I read or avoid this? As it stands, the review is only useful if I am already considering reading Ware Tetralogy, and I can't be the only one who's never heard of it. It's as though you reviewed a fuel in...
[09:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:31] <exec> 08└─In that case we will finally get actual numbers on the whole "few bad apples" thing. If the union has a problem with firing the bad apples, every officer who is still a member of the union afterwards is by definition a bad apple.
[09:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 1322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:04] <exec> 08└─Minced meat (500g), breadcrumbs, egg(1), salt, pepper and if you want add a dash of milk (more milk means more breadcrumbs). Mix together, roll into balls, fry in butter. You can skip the breadcrumbs (or add diced ham) to it. It is easier to roll if slightly chilled so popping the mix into the fridg...
[09:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:16:22] <exec> 08└─However, when precise language is important, such usage totally destroys the ability to convey nuance.
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[10:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:37] <exec> 08└─Is it Game of Thrones in Space?
[10:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:39] <exec> 08└─So, fundamentally, it is exactly the same as GoT. The thing getting fucked is your wallet.
[10:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:41] <exec> 08└─I've seen every episode of every Trek series at least ten times by now (some episodes dozens of times), so I obviously don't mind a little cultural reflection in my Trek. When the people in charge of a project start calling it a vehicle for their messages though, they can suck a dick. I'll be watchi...
[10:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:43] <exec> 08└─So this is a sure sign of the apocalypse. Windows will still be around in 2256 according to Star Trek.
[10:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:55] <exec> 08└─Taking two piglets already left for dead (no commercial value) isn't terrorism either. Taking video isn't violence. Gaining employment under false pretenses and then taking video isn't violence. Thus, not terrorism. The LV shooter is also not a terrorist. Plenty of violence but no discernable agenda...
[10:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:56] <exec> 08└─That's the funny thing about words, they have specific meanings. While meanings may change with time, they don't change just because you want to call X a Y.
[10:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:58] <exec> 08└─When I use a word, it always means just what I choose it to mean. Sincerely, Humpty Dumpty.
[10:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:00] <exec> 08└─FBI spends an substantial amount of money (of your money) to search for two piglets, yet fails to protect you from mass-shooting. And you argue about the semantics, like it's a normal as-expected situation. You americans are batshit crazy
[10:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Oculus Go for $200 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:11] <exec> 08└─It's sex tech. The razer applies lube so you can shave and be to ready to go an instant later. There's an underaged blackmarket for the razers with the blades removed. This way you can just slide it across your skin and you're all lubed up without having to get you hands greasy nor do you need to wo...
[10:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:28] <exec> 08└─If we lose the ability to drop a million doses of antibiotic in the hot spots, I doubt we'll retain the jetting around the world risk.
[10:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:42] <exec> 08└─I find your views interesting and would like to subscribe to your newsletter. Please start my subscription with your second issue ...
[10:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:44] <exec> 08└─So have they just admitted to the judge: "Yes, I have no license"? So now shouldn't that then make them liable for statutory and punitive copyright infringement damages? Treble damages RIAA style plus attorney's fees?
[10:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:26] <exec> 08└─Reading a highly optimized perl script is no more difficult than reading highly optimized C. You need mastery of the language rather than casual familiarity to do either. If you have that mastery, neither are difficult to read unless intentionally made so.
[10:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:28] <exec> 08└─And you didn't think to ask here?
[10:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:30] <exec> 08└─It's amazing how much better you'll be as a programmer if you just read the fucking manual from cover to cover. I did that with Perl many years ago, and found that after a week, I was indistinguishable from the experts in IRC channels, forums, and mailing lists, and I was even able to correct long-t...
[10:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:32] <exec> 08└─It's not "laying", you asshat American.
[10:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket (Second Launch in Three Days) - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:20] <exec> 08└─Yet, they still stuck the landing. Again. Yes, it's like trying to hit a bullet with a smaller bullet, wearing a blindfold. On a horse. Amazing stuff.
[10:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:36] <exec> 08└─I need more than linear time — I never measured the time I need to compose them, but, admittedly without further justification rather than just a wild guess, I think it might be O(n log n), where n denotes the length of the sentence, using an appropriate measure like the number of characters, or t...
[10:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:49] <exec> 08└─How many times must this be pointed out to you? If you want to refer to a male explicitly, then use an articled "man": "a man", or "the man". Of course the word "it" cannot be used; there is a need to speak of non-human things (human language is mainly about expressing the human experience): �...
[10:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:50] <exec> 08└─In any case, this is a good rebuttal [soylentnews.org].
[10:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:52] <exec> 08└─that's what I would call it - you hold personal information you are liable - and if you sell it , you are liable. If it is released , you are liable. Go read about HIPPA, it's why you still fill out paper at your Dr's offices.... but the insurance company happily sell your information to anyone. If...
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[10:16:55] <exec> 08└─Many users don't care much, as they are powerless to any of it except maybe not use it. To tip that balance, the users need negotiating power, to e.g. approach an ISP that they don't like the fine print in their standard contract and want it removed. I can't really think of a solution here, but mayb...
[10:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Seagate Launches Consumer-Oriented 12 TB Drives - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:37] <exec> 08└─I thought there was a worldwide shortage of helium? I always sneer when I see helium balloons at the hardware stores but my daughter loves them. I guess helium was cheaper than other noble gases.
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[11:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:46] <exec> 08└─Jonathan Frakes let a spoiler slip that explains all of this. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Mirror Universe
[11:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:02] <exec> 08└─FWIW I don't consider the mass shooting a terrorist act either unless there was some message or demand. But it's because the (militant) "animal rights" people have been doing this for decades, stealing two piglets is part of on ongoing organized campaign a
[11:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:04] <exec> 08└─You seem to be under a misapprehension. A police officer's job is not to protect you from anything; it is to arrest people who have already broken the law. For protection you'd need every third or fourth person in the nation wearing a badge. Unless, have you figured out how to call 911 fifteen minut...
[11:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:06] <exec> 08└─Sure they do. Women and female no longer mean a person without testicles. Human females can produce sperm and don't have eggs. Words used to have set and common definitions, but that's so old fashion. Modern words don't matter. Remember in today's world, bones heal but insults last a lifetime. No mo...
[11:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:08] <exec> 08└─Avoid the Christmas rush; become a cranky bastard while you're still young so that by the time you're old you're the best there ever was at it.
[11:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:36] <exec> 08└─yes, because if we were immune 20 generations ago to the bacteria 2000 generations ago, we are certainly immune now.
[11:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:37] <exec> 08└─Nah. There's value in spending some RTFM time as well but if you think you haven't forgotten over half of what you just read over the course of reading a programming language manual, you're sadly mistaken.
[11:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:39] <exec> 08└─Most code will look baffling if you run all the lines together like that. Vim has a great plug-in, perltidy, you should run. Beyond that it seems intelligible to me, once you understand regex's.
[11:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:41] <exec> 08└─Small sips over a period of time allows you to make mistakes, learn, enjoy yourself and bed the knowledge in deeply. I can still work in C or Lisp having barely touched them for years. But sounds like reading a manual cover to cover allows you to be a know-it-all on IRC? If that's your thing, then g...
[11:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:43] <exec> 08└─Good articles on code don't come around that often, and summarizing them freehand this way takes a lot of time. And you can get something wrong, or be less clear than some demand, and the discussion then revolves around how much the submission sucks, how stupid the submitter is, and how worthless SN...
[11:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:46] <exec> 08└─then I emailed a friend who is a real shrink and she totally freaked
[11:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, where are they looking? I would do work for such a company provided they'd let you work remotely, mainly because it's been a long time since I got paid to use perl and I love the language.
[11:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:50] <exec> 08└─I find I have to RTFM more broadly every 4-5 years when an occasion arises to write more perl in bulk, because in between I mostly use it as a glue-/scripting language and there's a bit of a palimpsest effect that sets in after using other languages.
[11:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Successfully Launches and Lands its Third Used Falcon 9 Rocket (Second Launch in Three Days) - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:39] <exec> 08└─Having played Kerbal Space Program I am a defacto rocket expert</sarcasm> So we had stage 1 launch from c. 90W, reach a suborbital trajectory, separate, wait a bit, fire retros, then land. Fine. Stage 2 ignited shortly after separation, then pushed it either into a longer suborbital, or into a low o...
[11:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:19] <exec> 08└─Tickets: or driving while black; young; in a sports car; in a hot rod In practice, speeding isn't required at all. While driving a sports car 40mph in a 40mph zone and being passed, I was pulled over to be cited for 51. This is why I have a dash cam, and I really wish they'd be available when I was...
[11:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no, not at hand.
[11:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:16:14] <exec> 08└─Try GNOME's user interface. That's horror show.
[11:17:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:17:03] <exec> 08└─You had 99 problems, and the Privacy policy accessibility wasn't one?
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[12:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/boss-hog-the-dark-side-of-americas-top-pork-producer-20061214 [rollingstone.com] (2006 but probably still quite valid) I guess terrorist is a positive label then.
[12:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 988 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:09] <exec> 08└─The FBI is being too cute with their use of the dictionary definition of "terrorist" to explain why these folks are, and the Vegas shooter isn't. They know damn well that "terrorist" has long since lost that neat connotation. Thanks to tens of thousands of hours of loose usage in broadcast TV and co...
[12:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:11] <exec> 08└─A police officer's job is not to protect you from anything;
[12:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:14] <exec> 08└─But it's because the (militant) "animal rights" people have been doing this for decades, stealing two piglets is part of on ongoing organized campaign and isn't some one time event as the LV-shooter incident. This is the key point. It's a somewhat organized campaign waged for decades. The Vegas shoo...
[12:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Oculus Go for $200 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:26] <exec> 08└─So lowering the price and selling a crappier, underpowered unit is the solution to what problem exactly?
[12:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:59] <exec> 08└─It might be worse for them if the Judge did accept this argument. If the GPL is a contract and it ended at that point, then after that point they are not guilty of contract violation, they are guilty of wilful copyright infringement, which carries statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work in the...
[12:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:53] <exec> 08└─Odd. Works the opposite for me. The more languages I make myself proficient in, the better I get at perl. But then I've clocked enough perl time that I couldn't forget it if I tried.
[12:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:54] <exec> 08└─PHP is even worse from that perspective and yet it's still very popular. Even Facebook was using it and is still using it or a version of it.
[12:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:56] <exec> 08└─Most code will look baffling if you run all the lines together like that. Vim Emacs has a great plug-in...
[12:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:26] <exec> 08└─My favorite quote after being detained for 35 minutes for running a yellow light: "I'm going to cite you for running that red light, you can take me to court but it will be your word against mine...."
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[13:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:30] <exec> 08└─Facial recognition ... that is a concept with multiple meanings considering it's from Pornhub. Still it's a potential neat feature that I'm sure they can have a usage for far beyond cataloging porn.
[13:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:48] <exec> 08└─> When the people in charge of a project start calling it a vehicle for their messages though, they can suck a dick. It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting... I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car c...
[13:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:50] <exec> 08└─Which might have been a problem if what he said and what got done were remotely the same.
[13:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 2276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:52] <exec> 08└─I recall us, as in it being on Soylent when ST:D premiered about a month ago -- but I'm slightly to lazy to dig up the thread right now, having a talk about the Discovery vs The Orville back then to. I also still believe that The Orville is the more "trek" series of the two, even a month in. That sa...
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[13:09:54] <exec> 08└─Half of the first show over the air was enough to move the show from my play list to my avoid list. The value proposition simply is not there.
[13:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:18] <exec> 08└─Those slogans are PR. Police can't realistically protect shit out of their direct eyesight and they never have been able to. Any thoughts to the contrary are about as realistic as expecting a unicorn to come poop glitter on the bad guys and turn them into friendly leprechauns.
[13:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:20] <exec> 08└─Nope. Words have meanings and this one hasn't changed. You may use it incorrectly but that's all it is, you using it incorrectly.
[13:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:22] <exec> 08└─Are we gonna let those terrorists win?
[13:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right. So you just pay them to chase pigs for the benefit of your agricultural overlords' public image, 'cause they have proven and effective skills in PR. And you consider this is a normal situation, not worth of being even remotely annoyed about. It's the mundane reality for as long as you r...
[13:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:26] <exec> 08└─English isn't your native language I take it.
[13:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:28] <exec> 08└─Its usage has in fact changed. See Merriam Webster's definition of "nazi" [merriam-webster.com] for an example of the dynamic at work: Definition of Nazi 1 :a member of a German fascist party controlling Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler 2 often not capitalized a :one who espouses the bel...
[13:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:31] <exec> 08└─? I'm not sure what you're saying. Are you placing me on the side of FBI apologists, and that's a bad thing, or that I'm a critic and that's a bad thing? Or is it a blanket condemnation of America and the direction it's take over the last 18 years? I don't recall off the top of my head what the PATR...
[13:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:33] <exec> 08└─"Serve and Protect" is the police motto. It's a misapprehension they intentionally create.
[13:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:35] <exec> 08└─The point of FBI chasing non-violent "terrorists" on money from your pocket just to defend the bottom line of agribusiness barons is surely soooo much less important than my command over English language, isn't it? That point so insignificant it doesn't worth addressing.
[13:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:37] <exec> 08└─So you concede the misapprehension is the result of intentional propaganda, but you still blame the public at large for getting the wrong idea. Let me quote here what a certain Soylentil wrote down thread: "Nope. Words have meanings and this one hasn't changed. You may use it incorrectly but that's...
[13:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:40] <exec> 08└─Are you placing me on the side of FBI apologists, and that's a bad thing, or that I'm a critic and that's a bad thing?
[13:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:42] <exec> 08└─But just being organized doesn't make it terrorism. The Mafia definitely is organized crime, which even includes killing people, but I've never heard anyone claim they are terrorists.
[13:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:44] <exec> 08└─Women and female no longer mean a person without testicles.
[13:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:29] <exec> 08└─but since the price was the entire source, what's three times the entire source? - or recall the product in question, refunding every single purchase.
[13:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:25] <exec> 08└─It's not "laying", you asshat American!
[13:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:27] <exec> 08└─> You mean you *don't* see the killer bunnies in every picture? Oo Oo I do I do !
[13:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:29] <exec> 08└─They wanted him out of their lives. Said he was "no longer necessary, or useful." But Clippy is back, and he's angrier than ever. https://memegenerator.net [memegenerator.net]
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[14:10:01] <exec> 08└─If they're gonna go all diversity on us, why not take it to the extreme and stop pussyfootin' around? I want to see captain D'Jarius who prefers to carry disruptor pistols stolen from his enemies tucked in his waistband rather than phasers. " Kom-PUTAH! Gibs me dat fried chikkin! " * takes bite * "...
[14:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:02] <exec> 08└─It sounds exactly what was done, and it wasn't a problem. Face it, Star Trek is basically socialist. If you ignore the crap that was DS9 and Enterprise.
[14:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:41] <exec> 08└─The difference is the mafia commits crimes to enrich itself. It has no agenda to push. The so called eco-terrorists commit their crimes to push an agenda.
[14:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:42] <exec> 08└─(I can see why the '?'. No, I used "you/your" as the plural. Apologies once again)
[14:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:44] <exec> 08└─No, it is their job to protect you. The reason criminals are arrested is to protect others. Both directly (because those criminals arrested otherwise might do further crimes) and indirectly (by deterring others from doing crimes as well). It is of course true that they cannot offer total protection....
[14:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:46] <exec> 08└─You americans are batshit crazy. And you are batshit crazy for such a long time you think this is normal.
[14:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:49] <exec> 08└─You're always gonna be playing a game of catch up when you're so deeply betrayed by an insider you entrusted with such an important role. We trusted the FBI, NSA, CIA, Congress, the Whitehouse, the police, etc with so much money and power to perform the duties the People required them to do, and the...
[14:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:51] <exec> 08└─No need to apologize. Thanks for clarifying.
[14:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:53] <exec> 08└─I think it's purely used this way to select from a class of laws and potential punishments they can bring to bear. The LV shooter is dead so in law enforcement eyes, it doesn't really matter. In the case of the "eco-terrorists" it most certainly matters because it opens up much more broad and intrus...
[14:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:55] <exec> 08└─It's obvious that all they heard was "these terrorists have kidnapped two pigs". Automatic reaction on the part of the cops when they thought two of their own were missing.
[14:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:57] <exec> 08└─For a person who observes so much about America, it's surprising you are missing how exasperated Americans are with the state of affairs.
[14:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:44] <exec> 08└─Only if you don't notice the small hanging signs saying "Shortcut to ...". But yes, they do want people to walk through the entire shop by default. Then you're more likely to spot something else to buy. Big discount retailers in the UK (Poundstrecher, B&M Bargains in my area) have started rearrangin...
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[15:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:38] <exec> 08└─You've enjoyed it all these years, and I haven't; don't make me pay for your choices.
[15:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:39] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "scientists ... are also aware of dramatic changes taking place below the surface..." Um, no they're not. This is new data, so they have zero information on what the underside of the ice shelves looked like earlier. Beating on the AGW drum gets you published, but unsupported claims like th...
[15:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:41] <exec> 08└─That won't work. Hurricanes are mostly problems for those on or near coasts, and they ought to bear most of the cost. But sea level rise is everyone's problem. People on the coast are not going to stay and drown. If it comes to serious sea level rise, we will all have to adjust. No one who ever rode...
[15:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:43] <exec> 08└─They have old data as well as new: Revisiting older satellite data, we think that this melt pattern has been taking place for at least the entire 25 years that Earth observation satellites have been recording changes in Antarctica.
[15:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:46] <exec> 08└─What exactly was revealed?
[15:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:54] <exec> 08└─scanned some 50,000 videos in a month. At this rate it would take nearly a decade to scan the entire site
[15:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:57] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of Kleenex.
[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─> ...specific categories videos belong to, like "public" and "blonde." No disrespect meant, but wouldn't this be more accurate as: ...specific categories videos belong to, like "pubic" and "bimbo."
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Confirmed Around Dwarf Planet Haumea - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:07] <exec> 08└─Cool, dwarf planets can have moons and rings. If it quacks like a duck... well, you know. This quacks like certain large planets in a solar system. Maybe a simple semantics trick? Call them all planets, and add a modifier to the big ones, instead of the little ones. Call the big ones "major planets"...
[15:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:25] <exec> 08└─So, Star Trek is about Marry Sues being all perfect. Got it.
[15:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:26] <exec> 08└─I was leaning against this show after reading and seeing reviews about it, with the main problems being that it focused entirely on one very unlikable character instead of the crew as normal ST shows do, and that their take on the Klingons is so awful, but after finding that they speculate a future...
[15:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:29] <exec> 08└─Our shows are about the best of humans solving problems and learning about their own humanity. In our story sessions, we talk about how the world should be. Our characters symbolize where humans could be if they wanted to be. Exactly, and this is why the earlier ST shows were so great: they didn't s...
[15:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:31] <exec> 08└─What does Jonathan Frakes have to do with this show? I just looked through his IMDB profile and there's nothing there linking him to Discovery in any capacity. However, he did appear on one episode of The Orville.
[15:10:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 1341 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:40] <exec> 08└─Greenwald is making himself stupider then he is. But it's because the (militant) "animal rights" people have been doing this for decades, stealing two piglets is part of on ongoing organized campaign and isn't some one time event as the LV-shooter incident. Same as all those other eco-terrorist that...
[15:10:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 708 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:46] <exec> 08└─Taking two piglets already left for dead (no commercial value) isn't terrorism either. Taking video isn't violence. Gaining employment under false pretenses and then taking video isn't violence. Thus, not terrorism. The LV shooter is also not a terrorist. Plenty of violence but no discernable agenda...
[15:10:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:51] <exec> 08└─You seem to be under a misapprehension. A police officer's job is not to protect you from anything; it is to arrest people who have already broken the law. For protection you'd need every third or fourth person in the nation wearing a badge. Unless, have you figured out how to call 911 fifteen minut...
[15:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:20] <exec> 08└─They historically don't really claim credit for things they didn't do.
[15:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:22] <exec> 08└─Terrorism is bad
[15:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:24] <exec> 08└─You are an asshole.
[15:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 1824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:26] <exec> 08└─According to the official line, they cannot find a motive for why he did it. From the official recounting, he may have been suffering from a psychosis or was a latent psychopath. That he so meticulously planned things does not mean that he was sane, it could be an obsessive/psychopathic or delusiona...
[15:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkpixel [4281] (Score: 1) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:29] <exec> 08└─Look back far enough in some old english dictionaries and you'll find that the original definition of terrorism was government.
[15:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:59] <exec> 08└─From what I understood, the reason for concern is this outbreak is of the Pneumonic variety which spreads much like the common cold and has a high mortality rate.
[15:12:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:26] <exec> 08└─Odd, line noise looks like perl to me.
[15:12:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:44] <exec> 08└─Nobody complains about this "line noise" in human languages.
[15:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:16] <exec> 08└─It's not uncommon for an ass to be a know-it-all, but not every know-it-all is an ass. Only a fool scoffs at someone for knowing it all.
[15:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:17] <exec> 08└─On the other side, a late(r) newcomer (PHP/FI - 1994) managed to evolveinfect.
[15:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:48] <exec> 08└─> The bodycam videos mades by police officers are typically considered to be public records Public records are not necessarily in the public domain. > and subject to state FOIA laws [rcfp.org] (alt [google.com]). "Because only a few states have passed state-wide rules regarding public access to BWC...
[15:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:49] <exec> 08└─Welcome to conflict of interests. Get rid of those and we'll have something to talk about.
[15:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:46] <exec> 08└─I didn't see a menu bar at the top of the screen, and I was looking all over, so it must have been in some sort of full-screen mode. So no, it really wasn't discoverable. Just like mobile devices (esp. Android with the pull-down menu) expecting you to just somehow know that particular swipes do part...
[15:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Introduced to Close Allergan's Native American "Sovereign Immunity" Patent Loophole - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:09] <exec> 08└─It would also seem not to be relevant to the case at hand. So far as I'm aware you can't transfer a patent between jurisdictions - the US may respect German patents, but it's still a German patent subject to German law, you can't just transfer it to the US. Similarly if Allergan wanted to get a Moha...
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[16:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─Zuck will unite our country! He is the potential leader we need!! Both liberals and conservatives will unite against that turd.
[16:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:36] <exec> 08└─Sergei Brin orgasms using his state of the art fleshlight. Sheryl Sandberg helps her children with homework via Skype Travis Kalanick berates Uber drivers via Snapchat Technology makes us caring, loving human beings. No one has ever been so wonderful, cool or interesting. Ever. Live chat at 11.
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:39] <exec> 08└─And now he's spewing millions around to become the Fresh Prince of Palo Alto. Bubble gods, please finally pop this one!
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:50] <exec> 08└─What exactly was revealed?
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:01] <exec> 08└─. . . deploying facial recognition software that will detect 10,000 individuals . . . and tag them in footage.
[16:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:31] <exec> 08└─I've seen every episode of every Trek series at least ten times by now (some episodes dozens of times), so I obviously don't mind a little cultural reflection in my Trek
[16:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:32] <exec> 08└─Just looked at the Windows code photo in TFA.... They need to make a time-travel trip back to the 1980s AND PICK UP AN ANTI-GLARE SCREEN!
[16:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:35] <exec> 08└─Honestly, if humans think that Windows is somehow appropriate for running starships, then we don't deserve to leave this planet.
[16:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:37] <exec> 08└─As for the "white Klingon" - the twist is that he's a persecuted minority among his own people (remember the TOS story with the half-white/half-black people?)
[16:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:39] <exec> 08└─I've been watching The Orville and not ST:D (mainly because I'm not signing up for CBS All Access), and I'm starting to wonder which one is really pushing social messages after Ep 3: The One Where The Genderless Species Has Females For Some Reason. It was so cringeworthy to see the crew of The Orvil...
[16:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:20] <exec> 08└─I scoff at your Pearl of wisdom.
[16:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:21] <exec> 08└─No, Emacs doesn't have plugins. It has packages.
[16:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:53] <exec> 08└─No, no boat. Rent if you must sail. Owning a boat is a slow painful death from financial bleeding.
[16:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:28] <exec> 08└─I'm not asking for a synopsis of the story and I don't want one. Casual spoilers are not a substitute for sub-genre classifications, meaningful comparisons, or recommendations.
[16:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:56] <exec> 08└─Let's also keep in mind why he did that. The poor comatose sap in question was the victim of an accident involving a suspect actively pursued by police. If the police could have evidence, real or manufactured, that the victim had illicit drugs or alcohol in his blood, that would greatly reduce the l...
[16:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:58] <exec> 08└─So.... you're just talking out your ass then?
[16:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:00] <exec> 08└─What might make this case different is that he was trying to frame another police officer. No one would buy that he arrested a nurse for failing to provide access to a comatose patient without a warrant merely because he wanted to protect the patient (a patient who if he so happened to have evidence...
[16:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:02] <exec> 08└─And if he was willing to break the law in order to extort access to the above victim for a blood test, then he was probably willing to break the law in order to fake evidence of said blood test.
[16:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ikea to Sell Online on Third-Party Sites - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:37] <exec> 08└─Eh, while I'm not personally a huge fan of the "traditional finely made furniture," I do think that's a very different category than the Ikea style stuff. If I'm looking at Ikea, I'm not looking for "a bedroom dresser"; I'm looking for "some kind of long squat thing with drawers". Bedroom, living ro...
[16:17:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:00] <exec> 08└─I bet the submitter, takyon, owns a Zune.
[16:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:01] <exec> 08└─I presume you mean the Dock at the bottom, which predates the Windows Taskbar due to modern Mac's NeXT roots. If you saw the Dock though then it definitely wasn't in Fullscreen mode. I found out newer versions of macOS (since late 2015) have an option to hide the menu bar [tekrevue.com], but like fu...
[16:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:02] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is, Nokia died for nothing.
[16:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nobody Reads Privacy Policies – Here's How to Fix That - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:06] <exec> 08└─That's not a rebuttal, it's an assertion [youtube.com]. And I'm not alone in disagreeing that the pronoun "he" can be used without implying the subject is male.
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[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─Zuckerberg was represented by a floating cartoon character.
[17:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:51] <exec> 08└─A liar, thief, carnival barker, tone deaf "progressive", opportunist, unapologetic exploiter of H1B visas, globalist. Makes his fortune on outsource government spying on its own citizens. Colluded with the other top tech corps to not "poach" and to undercut employee bargaining power. Looks like the...
[17:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:05] <exec> 08└─Paying for other people's mistakes and ignorant, destructive policies while they shriek at you and call you a nazi is the new American Way.
[17:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:17] <exec> 08└─That's quite a few Olympic pools to soak up.
[17:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:19] <exec> 08└─Surely, the less-publicized Cannes film festival has an award in recognition of the best facial.
[17:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:54] <exec> 08└─I caved and subscribed to all access last weekend. Discovery is actually quite good. For those of you blathering about it not being Trek-like....well, do we really need another Trek-like Trek? No. It's been done, several times. Yes, the Klingons are different. I'm not entirely turned off by what I'v...
[17:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:55] <exec> 08└─The tone of the show is really jarring. First two episodes were fluffy and lighthearted, 3 and 4 take a hard left turn into serious issues, then 5 is back to less serious. That said, I'll continue watching it for now.
[17:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:57] <exec> 08└─Never could work out why they didn't make Archer gay (mind you - all that water polo...)
[17:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:59] <exec> 08└─They're not Mary Sues if they're the entire crew.
[17:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─Ah, that chestnut for lazy writers to lean on when somebody points out a continuity issue.
[17:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:04] <exec> 08└─Other series in Star Trek also had jarring shifts too. For example, the end of season 3 was a Troi's mother visits, then they save a non-corporeal life form, then they barely survive the Borg. Or season 4, where we go from Barclay becomes a super-genius, to dancing around in tights, to Picard charge...
[17:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:57] <exec> 08└─This is funny not informative... sometimes I really worry about the mental state of fellow lentils.
[17:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:58] <exec> 08└─Ignore the mighty buzzbrain. Hes the resident troll on staff.
[17:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:00] <exec> 08└─It becomes appropriate when adding a single word to the end: themselves.
[17:12:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 831 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:21] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is easy to control. So long as: 1. It is isolated outbreaks in less traveled parts of the world. 2. The world stays stable enough to easily drop a million doses of antibiotics down at the first sign of an outbreak. 3. The damn thing doesn't become resistant like so many other diseases have...
[17:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:31] <exec> 08└─I've met many Texans who like their steaks to still moo in the plate. Having sex with a Texan who's previously eaten near-raw monkey meat might be considered unnatural, I guess, but isn't that what breath mints are for?
[17:12:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06GPL as a Contract Survives Summary Judgement - 330 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:47] <exec> 08└─It might be worse for them if the Judge did accept this argument. If the GPL is a contract and it ended at that point, then after that point they are not guilty of contract violation, they are guilty of wilful copyright infringement, which carries statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work in the...
[17:13:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03http [1920] 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:04] <exec> 08└─Consider the nature of the site you're posting this 'complaint' on. If your company can't find them, it's because it ain't looking.
[17:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:52] <exec> 08└─This appears to be true. My brother works for a large company who recently replaced a very critical backend written in perl with one written in javascript. Their reason was the same, not *good* perl programmers. So they found a bunch of good javascript programmers.
[17:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:53] <exec> 08└─This is the nicest thing anyone can say about the test "A 2003 report by Wood and colleagues had more mixed views: "More than 50 years of research have confirmed Lee J. Cronbach's (1970) final verdict: that some Rorschach scores, though falling woefully short of the claims made by proponents, nevert...
[17:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:02] <exec> 08└─Rucker is an arrogant ass and it comes through in his writing.
[17:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:34] <exec> 08└─Sorry, was channeling theRealDonaldTrump for a bit there... also perhaps a little bit of the senility in the inlaws nursing home has been rubbing off lately.
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[18:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:38] <exec> 08└─I guess geeks will save hours not having to try to repair kindles which accidentally slip into the bathtub when someone was distracted.
[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:39] <exec> 08└─> an accelerometer to automatically change page orientation. This drives me nuts, I want to be able to lay on my side and have the display look upright relative to my eyes...not upright relative to the center of the earth (accelerometer). Other reasons too (no epub for one).
[18:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:52] <exec> 08└─Suckerberg is still too young, anyway Democratic Party PC considerations may demand a female candidate again. Perhaps combined with the hispanic bit. ¡Soy con elllllllla!
[18:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─Sir, I believe you owe me a keyboard.
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:55] <exec> 08└─I for one simply cannot wait for the allegations of sexual impropriety! *after extended thinking about this, I vomited in my mouth* Oh God what have I done. "How about we go back to my office, and you give me a thumbs up!" "Mr. Zuckerberg, Sir. I am feeling very uncomfortable about this!" "I'm so so...
[18:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you don't support the new Great American SeaWall...
[18:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─You chose to live next to a massive body of water. You've enjoyed it all these years, and I haven't. You have. How do you think 99% of the items you purchase end up at the stores?
[18:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:25] <exec> 08└─wget pornfile.mp4 open windows in a VM, or on a pc whose HD you will reformat while performing exorcism rites later launch excel tell excel to open pornfile "The file is corrupt and cannot be opened" See? Excel knows. Good excel.
[18:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Confirmed Around Dwarf Planet Haumea - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:33] <exec> 08└─Knowing astronomers, it would be "Large Planet, Very Large Planet, Extremely Large planet, 30m planet and Overwhelmingly Large Planet [cancelled]"
[18:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Confirmed Around Dwarf Planet Haumea - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:36] <exec> 08└─How about they just make it simple, anything that forms a spherical shape due to it's own gravity is a planet. Yes you can exempt stars and derivatives there-of, but you really don't have to. I know I'm asking for too much, these are the same type of people that call the same thing three different t...
[18:10:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:47] <exec> 08└─> When the people in charge of a project start calling it a vehicle for their messages though, they can suck a dick. It has become a crusade of mine to demonstrate that TV need not be violent to be exciting... I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car c...
[18:10:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 152 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:53] <exec> 08└─It sounds exactly what was done, and it wasn't a problem. Face it, Star Trek is basically socialist. If you ignore the crap that was DS9 and Enterprise.
[18:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:09] <exec> 08└─I was calling him Chris before (Like Tolkien's son) because I couldn't remember his damn name and because he was kind of an asshole. I don't remember if it was one of the fanfiction things or something else, but he doesn't care about pushing anything but copyright law with Star Trek. He's one of tho...
[18:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:10] <exec> 08└─But they basically played off The Union as a bunch of expansionistic assholes pushing their ideology onto everyone they meet. Taken from that stance, they are NOT the federation. However the episode with the floating ship where the 'Taken' guy cameo'd as the former captain (who was the 'god' in thei...
[18:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 5012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:13] <exec> 08└─I really don't understand how so little apparent effort can go into a show where countless millions were undoubtedly spent on the production values. Even the fundamental plotline is broken. - The fundamental motivation for the lead is that her family was killed by Klingons. So she was raised by...
[18:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 1869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:15] <exec> 08└─I would argue that DS9 also fits this mould, but with a difference. TOS and TNG were set squarely in the federation, a quasi-utopia with occasional interaction with other species. DS9 sets the same people in a different context: a distant outpost in the aftermath of a war where people on both sides...
[18:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:17] <exec> 08└─I caved and subscribed to all access last weekend. Discovery is actually quite good. For those of you blathering about it not being Trek-like....well, do we really need another Trek-like Trek? No. It's been done, several times.
[18:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:19] <exec> 08└─True enough. But as a kid it taught me more or less why socialism would never work now, maybe in 400 years sure, but not now. People there were nothing like people I saw in the real world, and I was just a kid mind you but I could easily tell the difference. Their MO was totally different, they were...
[18:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:21] <exec> 08└─You're right. That is THE hallmark of time travel: it's logical consistency. It simply doesn't make sense once you get rid of that. I mean, come on, we've got years of time travel experience to base that on!
[18:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:24] <exec> 08└─Why would they have a concept of the Prime Directive? You know that is part of that ST universe and not a real thing, right?
[18:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:20] <exec> 08└─I think they're talking about art. Trump is literally worse than Hitler, as in, I would rather stare at Hitler's collected paintings for an hour than watch one of Trump's bullshit reality shows. What does being convicted of being responsible for the death of a single person (or a married person for...
[18:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:21] <exec> 08└─Out of more than 50 cases that ISIS claimed, ISIS was wrong only 3 times. There are also numerous cases that ISIS chose not to claim. So, based on that track record, it's over 94% sure to be ISIS.
[18:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:23] <exec> 08└─children of cops, or just freshly minted officers just off being called 'cadet'? :)
[18:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─In the old days, son, they woulda hung you from a tall tree for stealing cattle. Threatening Farm business, especially Big Farm Business, ain't no laughing matter around these parts, boy...
[18:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:28] <exec> 08└─If we want to get back to the good old days the word "gender" should only be used to describe words, not humans. Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to an...
[18:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, professionals tend to use words within their domain correctly.
[18:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:32] <exec> 08└─> the current US President (someone who has not been convicted of being responsible for the death of a single person) The operative word is "convicted" (BTW, was Hitler ever literally convicted post-1933?). There is no arguing whatsoever that the supreme commander of the US armed forces for the last...
[18:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:35] <exec> 08└─Question: did you hit on a drag queen and get an unpleasant surprise or something? You seem really bitter about the whole LGBTQ+ crowd. Most people don't care.
[18:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not a big Ann Coulter fan, but she may be onto something in this editorial, http://www.vdare.com [vdare.com] tl;dr She speculates that Paddock was playing poker slots to launder money. I do...
[18:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:29] <exec> 08└─I only see the remains of the Holy Hand Grenades of Antioch. Where are the bunnies?
[18:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:31] <exec> 08└─In my experience PHP has all the functionality you need baked into it*. Most libraries i've seen just force you to use a pattern that you could be using without the library. Though i still prefer parameterized sql over an abstraction library that builds objects from your db schema. Just keep your db...
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[19:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:38] <exec> 08└─Not like it's rocket science! What? Oh.
[19:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:39] <exec> 08└─Ignition is of general interest to armchair pyromaniacs.
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:42] <exec> 08└─Even nuclear tests are available online in slow-mo these days. I don't think a book needs to try to compete.
[19:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:44] <exec> 08└─There's nothing quite like a hard copy, though.
[19:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:54] <exec> 08└─It supports AZW, TXT, PDF, MOBI, and PRC, but lacks EPUB support.
[19:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I really hate that too on my phone. I hate that it's not configurable too. It is possible to disable accelerometer-based rotation altogether and just lock everything in portrait mode, but I don't want that either. I want my phone to *only* switch to landscape mode when I'm looking at a photo t...
[19:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:59] <exec> 08└─I agree that it's entirely annoying that they don't support the main e-book standard that's an open standard, however in practice aren't there converters out there that convert EPUB into MOBI? Do you really miss out on anything? A quick read of the Wikipedia page comparing e-book standards only show...
[19:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:01] <exec> 08└─The main (only?) electronic book format for books in Barnes and Noble's ecosystem is ePub. The main (only?) electronic book format for books in Amazon's ecosystem is azw. I highly doubt either competitor is going to be natively supporting the competitor's format on their device designed to sell book...
[19:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:03] <exec> 08└─Like Grishnakh said, phones have options to disable automatic orientation, but I have not seen an option that locks it into the current orientation instead of just portrait mode. Maybe we haven't looked hard enough?
[19:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─Using a program like Calibre [wikipedia.org] makes the conversion and management of ebooks fairly painless.
[19:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:08] <exec> 08└─I've had the pleasure to use the original Nook (Horrible, Horrible, Design, Who thought it was a good idea to include a skinny lcd bar?) and the Nook Simple Touch (Lovely, Lovely, Design). I've owned a Simple Touch for quite some time and have re-read a series or two on the device, easily added Proj...
[19:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:10] <exec> 08└─Getting EPUB/DRM-free books onto Amazon Kindle is not hard. You just use Calibre [wikipedia.org]. I have done it with a Kindle and Amazon made no fuss about the free/pirated ebooks within the device.
[19:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:12] <exec> 08└─I have used Calibre before, for reading e-books on my computer. While it's nice that it has the ability to get the epubs on a Kindle. It's not so nice, that Amazon, blocks use of such a widely used format for the average consumer. Amazon created their own proprietary format to essentially create for...
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:14] <exec> 08└─Side loading onto a Kindle is easy. You just use Calibre [wikipedia.org]. Finding free content [ebook3000.com] to put on it is not hard. Bestsellers are a bit easier to find since there are montly NYT bestseller packs. I have used up to Kindle Paperwhite [amazon.com] (gen 1?), see the chart near the...
[19:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:29] <exec> 08└─So, the bottom line is that he didn't really bother visiting Puerto Rico, but is trying to claim credit for doing so?
[19:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:31] <exec> 08└─Speaking as a usually-Democrat voter (and Bernie fan), Zuckerberg is an excellent example of that saying, "with friends like these, who needs enemies?". Of course, much of the DNC has been like this for a while too: Hillary, DWS, etc. It's probably the main reason they lost so badly last year: the m...
[19:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:33] <exec> 08└─> Both liberals and conservatives will unite against that turd. I thought the same about Trump, and look where *that* got us!
[19:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:35] <exec> 08└─I would celebrate if Mark Zuckerberg got embroiled in a scandal just like what happened to Weinstein. And I'd throw a party if Facebook collapsed.
[19:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:51] <exec> 08└─"we think that..." is not what you write, if you have actual data. They are making shit up, to get headlines. They have no history: they are using new sensors on Cryosat specifically designed for measuring polar ice, and this satellite has only been up for 7 years. They have no idea what the undersi...
[19:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, but I do wonder about "The Verge" as any kind of source. They don't seem to be able to know the difference between public and pubic.
[19:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:08] <exec> 08└─The day when any random person can identify/blackmail a politician's family member 'performing' in a leaked iCloud video is the day the Internet Kill Switch gets used.
[19:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ring Confirmed Around Dwarf Planet Haumea - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:19] <exec> 08└─"Centaurs [wikipedia.org]" can also have rings
[19:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:00] <exec> 08└─But they basically played off The Union as a bunch of expansionistic assholes pushing their ideology onto everyone they meet.
[19:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:02] <exec> 08└─I've watched the four episodes out so far on UK netflix. It's awful, agreed. I'd hoped there might be some small positives which would allow it to redeem itself, but no. I tried to approach it with an open mind, but it's truly dreadful. In addition to all the amateur plot holes you identified, I fee...
[19:12:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 202 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:12] <exec> 08└─Terrorism is bad, but not everything that's bad is terrorism. There'a a very good explanation of what is and what is not terrorism [lawcomic.net] in comic form, drawn in spare time by a big-name lawyer.
[19:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:08] <exec> 08└─Greenwald is making himself stupider then he is. But it's because the (militant) "animal rights" people have been doing this for decades, stealing two piglets is part of on ongoing organized campaign and isn't some one time event as the LV-shooter incident. Same as all those other eco-terrorist that...
[19:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:09] <exec> 08└─(Not same AC) Question: did someone who is really bitter about the whole LGBTQ+ crowd challenge your worldview with an opposing opinion or something? You seem really bitter about people who are bitter about the LGBTQ+ crowd. Most people don't care. ...Or maybe it's possible that neither your pocket...
[19:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:11] <exec> 08└─citation please. otherwise, bull shit.
[19:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:14] <exec> 08└─You seem really bitter about people who are bitter about the LGBTQ+ crowd. Most people don't care.
[19:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:16] <exec> 08└─Oh, great! Soon SoylentNews is going to be infested with Grammar Terrorists! Posters will live in fear of spelling and grammar mistakes! They will be afraid that some middle school teacher will take their piglets! But at least they will be gluten-free. The one thing I could never stomach about Gramm...
[19:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:43] <exec> 08└─You publish fake news? You get to pay $$$ to somebody. That would bankrupt Donald Trump, again.
[19:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dow Jones: "Google Acquires Apple" News Story Was "Error" - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:44] <exec> 08└─With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? It can be difficult to separate the satire from reality, sometime. So know that Trump did in fact say this. The President of the United States actually threatened to revoke the l...
[19:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:52] <exec> 08└─I don't know. My gut feeling is that they were already doomed by the time they went all in on Windows Phone.
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[20:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─If more books were written like this, scientific literature and history would be commonplace. Clark's insight and wit is throughout the book and much of it is based in the actual chemistry. Formulas and such are laid out bare and not glossed over--and the book is better because of it. If you like re...
[20:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:42] <exec> 08└─LOx and urine may just work as rocket propellant. A little LOx makes anything burn.
[20:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:44] <exec> 08└─it is curious that much effort and "disregard" for danger was invested in researching highly combustible/explosive compounds. it leads one to believe that the pinnacle of rocket motor design must have been reached, and that if ever aliens are encountered that their rocket engines will look 99% the s...
[20:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─Just get a Pocketbook, some version with a name starting "Touch Lux" ... etc MicroSD card support, up to 32 GB. Based on Linux, reads lost of formats. Connect copy files via USB, has Wi-Fi, has backlight for night usage, has physical buttons. Oh yeah, released already some years ago. Also there was...
[20:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:05] <exec> 08└─I had the Nook Glow, which I liked but found the battery life poor in suspend mode (battery was always dead when I would get on an airplane). I've since moved to a Kobo when the Nook finally died, and I do prefer it. Kobo runs Linux and does not drain batteries when off, unlike the Nook. Also, if yo...
[20:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─Sounds good, and if I ever get an e-reader I'll surely use that, but I do feel I have to point out that not everyone manages their collections that well. So for instance, for music, I keep all my music organized well as ripped Oggs, and then sync those to devices as necessary. But most listeners wit...
[20:10:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:21] <exec> 08└─So, the bottom line is that he didn't really bother visiting Puerto Rico, but is trying to claim credit for doing so?
[20:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah he's old and grey, but surveys find that he's the most popular politician in the US.
[20:10:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 198 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:49] <exec> 08└─Facial recognition ... that is a concept with multiple meanings considering it's from Pornhub. Still it's a potential neat feature that I'm sure they can have a usage for far beyond cataloging porn.
[20:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:59] <exec> 08└─its funny but its as scary as all fuck regular people's youtube videos -- or people with videos stolen off their phones all magically identified via a machine, and cataloged. people say fuck beta, i say fuck the cloud. there is no opting out of the robots that will identify us as we roam the mall, w...
[20:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:01] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised excel didn't try to refactor the mp4 into malicious vbscript and run it.
[20:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:55] <exec> 08└─Some people don't consider it canon, but in the last Trek movie ("Beyond"), Sulu has a husband and an adopted daughter. It was a nod to George Takei who is gay, but Takei didn't like Sulu being gay because he always considered Sulu as a heterosexual and that opinion was made to the public. Lots of a...
[20:12:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:41] <exec> 08└─It's obvious that all they heard was "these terrorists have kidnapped two pigs". Automatic reaction on the part of the cops when they thought two of their own were missing.
[20:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:06] <exec> 08└─'What does a sphincter say?" Wayne
[20:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:08] <exec> 08└─"Sans Culottes" does not mean what the GP thinks it means.
[20:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:10] <exec> 08└─ಇಂಗ್ಲಿಷ್ ನನ್ನ ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ ಭಾಷೆ ಅಲ್ಲ
[20:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:12] <exec> 08└─This is why I have been advocating for an "insightfunny" mod forever now. Sometimes a post is both and needs to be recognized as such. In fact, all things insightfunny should be highlighted because humor when used to further truth, makes the truth go much farther and deeper.
[20:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:14] <exec> 08└─No there isn't. There is a lot of evidence that people who are unfamiliar with objects flying faster than sound, produce a noise all of their own along their entire flight path. In the context of a bullet, this known as sonic crack (or supersonic crack) and is a noise totally separate from the bang...
[20:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Perl, the Glue That Holds the Internet (and SN) Together, Turns 30 This Year - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:10] <exec> 08└─The last I read about it, the copyright was due to expire soon. I don't know what they've done about it, but I expect that a new test was made, with different blots. One could calibrate it by using other tests such as the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory.
[20:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows Phone Dies, Aged 6 - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:54] <exec> 08└─I haven't used windows since I was in school at the computer lab. Ask my boxes run Linux or OpenBSD. WP7 was awesome. Android and iOS have apps and all that bs. WP7 worked extremely well for communication, even if I didn't have all kinds of stupid games to beg me to give them my CC info.
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[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:42] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHAH HAHAHA *takes a deep breath* HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
[21:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:44] <exec> 08└─It's an epidemic of swelling size.
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't go selling your AAPL stock right away
[21:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:48] <exec> 08└─Probably MrPlow hasn't sold his, yet, and would like you to take just a little bit longer to think about it.
[21:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:50] <exec> 08└─Swelling battery is one of the more common failure modes for li-ion batteries, and a fire hazard. A device with a sealed battery that swells means it's kaput.
[21:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─I agree entirely. Hopefully, this problem will get a LOT worse. The Apple cultists were all laughing when this happened to Samsung, so it's only fair that it now happens to them. Apple is getting exactly what they deserve. And let this be a lesson to everyone who designs phones with sealed, non-user...
[21:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:07] <exec> 08└─The Green Flame by Andrew Dequasie is an out-of-print book in the same topic area. It's about the boron fuels project. https://www.goodreads.com [goodreads.com]
[21:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 2757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:08] <exec> 08└─We probably have a century to go before we can make a credible attempt to travel to another star. Now maybe we could have made a desperate attempt to get it done in the 1950s [wikipedia.org]. But we would have aimed our nuclear bomb powered rocket at the nearest known star without even knowing if it...
[21:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:10] <exec> 08└─There may still be discoveries to be made. The first compound of helium was reported eight months ago. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[21:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:13] <exec> 08└─The summary says "LiH was used to start rockets rather than make batteries which, predictably, catch fire." Lithium hydride isn't used in batteries as the reviewer seems to believe. It's been considered [wikipedia.org] as a way to store hydrogen, "but applications have been thwarted by its stability...
[21:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:54] <exec> 08└─I seriously doubt Bernie will even run in 2020. He'll be 80 years old by then, easily the oldest President ever if he were to win. It was already a problem in 2016, but passing the big 8-0 will be even more of a detriment to his campaign. And that's if he did want to run; he might very well not want...
[21:11:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Secrets of Hidden Ice Canyons Revealed - 456 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:03] <exec> 08└─That won't work. Hurricanes are mostly problems for those on or near coasts, and they ought to bear most of the cost. But sea level rise is everyone's problem. People on the coast are not going to stay and drown. If it comes to serious sea level rise, we will all have to adjust. No one who ever rode...
[21:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:24] <exec> 08└─Looking at all these comments, I see that "Mary Sue" is now the hip flavor of the month. Can't wait to see what it is next month.
[21:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:25] <exec> 08└─I really don't like the "new" Klingons. Their speech is so slow that I could get up, make a cup of coffee, and be drinking it before the Klingon finishes their sentence. They seem to lack the passion that defined the classic Klingon. It's one thing to make modifications to the Klingons the way Star...
[21:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:28] <exec> 08└─They don't need to have come to the exact same conclusion as in Trek. But they act as though the very idea had never come up. This is a spacefaring people building an interspecies confederation of some sort, and so far the universe seems to be full of an even larger variety of tech levels than Trek....
[21:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:30] <exec> 08└─played Malcolm as gay
[21:13:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 465 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:32] <exec> 08└─> the current US President (someone who has not been convicted of being responsible for the death of a single person) The operative word is "convicted" (BTW, was Hitler ever literally convicted post-1933?). There is no arguing whatsoever that the supreme commander of the US armed forces for the last...
[21:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:46] <exec> 08└─Charles Whitman had it. He left behind a note requesting an autopsy of his brain.
[21:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:47] <exec> 08└─Mafia has an agenda: to make money. So if the acts are in pursuit of money, it is not terrorism. If the acts are to prevent someone from pursuing money, it is a candidate for terrorism(?) The terrorists label is over-abused, and mainly by those that want more power and limit civil liberties.
[21:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:49] <exec> 08└─One person's terrorist is another person's freedom fighter.
[21:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:51] <exec> 08└─And that is why calling you a Nazi asshole is a perfectly valid thing to do. No matter how many times you vote for Trump.
[21:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Announces Oculus Go for $200 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekHhmaA8mfQ [youtube.com] "Facebook for Oculus Rift" - parody commercial by Tom Scott.
[21:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:25] <exec> 08└─It's not like jmorris to panic in the face of the impending End of the World as we know it. And why is his bunker full of monkeys?
[21:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─During my last stint in the country, I read "The Plague" by Albert Camus. Quite a good book.
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[22:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:39] <exec> 08└─Tailgating is bad and risky, but what about the other side of that issue? Why not also go after those at the root of the issue? When I see a tailgating driver, I also see a slow moron clogging the passing lane right in front. One guy holding up the left lane often leads to a stack of drivers all tai...
[22:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:40] <exec> 08└─Of course tailgating sucks, and of course people shouldn't do it. This might as well have been done by the Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious. The more interesting thing is why people tailgate. And that's a whole other issue. As far as I can tell, the...
[22:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:43] <exec> 08└─One guy holding up the left lane often leads to a stack of drivers all tailgating each other out of frustration.
[22:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:45] <exec> 08└─One guy holding up the left lane often leads to a stack of drivers all tailgating each other out of frustration.
[22:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:47] <exec> 08└─If I am travelling at a reasonable speed (at or above the speed limit, or constrained by traffic in front of me), and I pick up a tailgater, I slow down. This is only safe behaviour. I am forcing the driver behind to leave a safe distance between us, by making 2 seconds correspond to a shorter dista...
[22:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:02] <exec> 08└─Mod parent to +5 Insightful.
[22:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:03] <exec> 08└─Is that an iPhone in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?
[22:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:05] <exec> 08└─Duhhh we would anyway.
[22:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:07] <exec> 08└─EMT pickup line: "Are you a liar or did your iPhone really explode in your pants?" Morgue pickup line: "Steve Jobs claimed another soul."
[22:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:10] <exec> 08└─Does anyone here know what causes them to swell? I had two (primary and spare) replaceable batteries swell to almost double their thickness recently -- at the same time. I think it was exposure to heat or cold, but I don't know which and would like to avoid this damage in the future. (Ahhh, the peri...
[22:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:12] <exec> 08└─Chemistry goes wrong and a gas builds up blowing up the enclosure, just like the trouble B787 had. No, I don't know how/why. Hope some chemistry/material science people can enlighten us.
[22:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:51] <exec> 08└─A waterproof Kobo has been around for a while now. And they just announced a second model that's also waterproof, up to the specs of Amazon's new wonder. I seem too remember seeing online pricing under $200, and that was likely cheap Canadian dollars. Kobo will do .epub, DRM'd or not. All the kobos...
[22:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:52] <exec> 08└─My phone has a rotation lock setting that will lock the phone into whatever the current orientation is (except for some apps that demand a certain orientation, those are always whatever they are).
[22:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Introduces a Waterproof Kindle E-Reader - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:54] <exec> 08└─My paperwhite is running either netbsd or Linux, I can't remember which. Anyway, it's trivial to "unlock" (ssh over serial USB connection, change a few settings) and then install whatever reading programs you'd like. I don't know if this is also true for the Oasis, but it probably is.
[22:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:15] <exec> 08└─It's obvious. Democrats ran Hilary for the same reason Republicans ran Trump: to make sure we could never unite.
[22:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:16] <exec> 08└─Damn, a state of the art fleshlight??? If I had Serfei Brin's amount of money I would just pay for high-end prostitutes. Its not like he can't afford one every night for the rest of his life. On the premise that maybe he thinks it is immoral, or just doesn't want to do it because its illegal, or eve...
[22:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:19] <exec> 08└─Likewise, how many people did Zuckers send to PR so he could have a telepresence at his leisure? Why wouldn't he just ask the employees he sent there about their experiences or go there himself? The thing about telepresence, you don't know how septic the water is, how smelly the bathrooms are, how g...
[22:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:21] <exec> 08└─Virtue signalling *and* marketting his new gizmo. Fucking genius. Unless people are cynical enough.
[22:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:12] <exec> 08└─The difference is the mafia commits crimes to enrich itself. It has no agenda to push. The so called eco-terrorists commit their crimes to push an agenda.
[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─"Soon SoylentNews is going to be infested with Grammar Terrorists! Posters will live in fear of spelling and grammar mistakes" That future is already here. @wonkey_monkey. :-)
[22:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─Meaning the animal rights activists are terrorists and the Vegas shooter is not, or the other way around?
[22:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:18] <exec> 08└─Also the founders of Israel. See the King David Hotel bombing [wikipedia.org].
[22:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:20] <exec> 08└─My 7 yr old thinks it means everyday, all the time.
[22:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:22] <exec> 08└─I gotta be honest, his command of English far exceeds your command of his native language. Exceeds your command of your native language too, actually.
[22:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:24] <exec> 08└─Let me help you with this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Summary: the police have no specific legal duty to protect the public, according to the U.S. Supreme Court
[22:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Black Death Re-Emerges in Madagascar - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:59] <exec> 08└─There is not really much time for someone to determine that they don't just have a bad cough or flu. This is very dangerous if this form gets into an airport. Let's hope it doesn't happen!
[22:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Utah Officer Fired After Nurse’s Arrest Caught on Video - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:07] <exec> 08└─You mean a "+1, Most Cynical" mod :D
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[23:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:47] <exec> 08└─OK, so what about this situation: I am in the left-most lane, because it is the only carpool lane. I am travelling at speed, but then, I see that traffic half a mile ahead is travelling slowly. Should I: 1. Keep travelling at the speed until I get close to the slow moving traffic ahead, then slam on...
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:49] <exec> 08└─I prefer a considerable gap, but annoyingly, some bright bulb always thinks: hey, I can fit in there. I found the solution is to be just the fastest one on the road, and then I get a ticket for speeding...
[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─Another aspect of this that just makes things worse: More than a few problems are caused by people being passed speeding up in response. So even if everyone's being being disciplined about what lane they are in, the person going 70 who pulls out to pass someone going 55 might find themselves being h...
[23:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─I've a fair amount of road experience and I've never driven anywhere as bad as QLD for tailgating. It was truly horrifying. If they say 50% I say QLD drivers must have set the definition, because it's much closer to 100%. That said, it seemed comparable to southern europe in that respect, difference...
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:56] <exec> 08└─> because it's much closer to 100% 100% of cars tailgate, even the front one? /nitpick
[23:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:58] <exec> 08└─One foot is the optimal distance for most cases. PROS: -- allows for good slipstreaming. This reduces fuel consumption and engine wear. -- pressures the slow MFer in front of you to either speed up, or GTFO of the passing lane. -- optimal distance to communicate to driver in front (via finger signal...
[23:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:00] <exec> 08└─The problem is the slow moron in the passing/hammer lane is obeying the speed limit and well within their right to do so. Patience is the problem.
[23:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:02] <exec> 08└─You need more distance if you aren't paying attention... but then of course the actual problem is attention, not distance. Good luck reaching out to those people! It is essentially impossible for the person in front of you to just freeze up. They too have a stopping distance. It is thus unreasonable...
[23:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:05] <exec> 08└─Huh, on rereading I see better what they did. 55% of *cars measured* are tailgating. Some part of the remaining 45% are simply at the head of a pack of cars with no one in front of them. The remainder are traveling lesser used roads and/or off-peak hours. This in no way disproves that approximately...
[23:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:07] <exec> 08└─I might be going 65, but I really want to go 90. I just can't afford to be dealing with cops. Ditch the damn speed limit, and I won't feel a need to cause such problems. No, I do not wish to go 55 in the other lane, with frequent slowdowns to 45 when merging.
[23:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I just replied to myself after re-reading it more carefully. 55% of cars at the time of measurement is believable. The percentage of drivers or cars, who do it on a daily basis is probably higher however. ;)
[23:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:12] <exec> 08└─>>>then you will get people squeezing in front of you every time you slow down to increase space. As someone who habitually maintains a 2 second following distance, let me be the first to say "Bullshit". My 20 mile freeway commute home in mostly heavy 65 mph traffic, with a good dose of 15 mph stop...
[23:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:14] <exec> 08└─"I might be going 65, but I really want to go 90. I just can't afford to be dealing with cops. Ditch the damn speed limit, and I won't feel a need to cause such problems." I sympathize. Fortunately the main place I might want to go 90 did actually get raised to 80, and as long as you're >=10 below i...
[23:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:16] <exec> 08└─I tailgate my fair share of old geezers on my way to work. I deviously enjoy to see the anxiousness i cause them... Those old confused snails have no place on the road, they choose peak traffic to go no faster than 30kmh whether the limit is 30, 50 or 70. Driving is not a right, we should mandate pe...
[23:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:18] <exec> 08└─Although I have not driven in .au, I have driven in many parts of .us. I have driven in the SF bay area for about a quarter century and have been pleasantly surprised at the behavior I observe on the freeways here under congested (stop-and-go) conditions. My goal is to travel close to the average sp...
[23:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:21] <exec> 08└─I've seen it on Google Maps, nothing but roundabouts and highway interchanges. I tell you, tailgaters all the way around.
[23:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:23] <exec> 08└─"What is a safe following distance?" "Three million miles is a safe following distance" The safe following distance lets you stop the vehicle in the available space, the minimum following distance is your reaction time. Pretty easy to grasp. The first is for the corner case of the vehicle in front h...
[23:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:25] <exec> 08└─I'm not touching you... I'm not touching you... I'm NOT touching you... I'm NOT touching you... You get the point... one certainly is responsible for one's own behaviour, but at some point, you just take out the cricket bat and go bananas on the guy. And in some cases, people will look at you and go...
[23:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:27] <exec> 08└─STAY IN THE RIGHTMOST LANE UNLESS YOU'RE PASSING SOMEONE! CHANGING LANES AS NEEDED IS NOT A DISEASE, IT'S THE RULE! This reminder of the law provided to you by the billions of hours and dollars wasted in traffic jams caused by improper lane usage. TMYK.
[23:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What is a Safe Following Distance? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:29] <exec> 08└─Someone may frustrate you, but you choose how you respond to that frustration, and you are responsible for your own behavior.
[23:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPhone 8 Plus Batteries Are Swelling on Some Phones - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:51] <exec> 08└─Actually I am confused. I thought that having no female jack plug meant they could not get pregnant. What kind of sorcery is this.
[23:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Book Review: Ignition! An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants by Dr. John D. Clark - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:09] <exec> 08└─How long, I wonder, will people feel love for hard copies? Digital is so much more searchable and workable. With digital, can crunch pretty much any kind of statistics imaginable. No need for an index. And it takes way less space. I was thinking the term "book" is due for retirement. Call these, wha...
[23:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:59] <exec> 08└─Hopefully they'll have some big successes in life-extension therapies before 2020.
[23:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:01] <exec> 08└─What if he transitions?
[23:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mark Zuckerberg Tours Hurricane-Struck Puerto Rico in VR - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:03] <exec> 08└─"Zoé has not responded to your last poke."
[23:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pornhub Adopts Machine Learning to Tag Videos as Malvertising Looms - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the coveted Weinstein Award. The ones that complain the most about that tend to be the younger ones that go into it wide eyed.
[23:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ring Confirmed Around Dwarf Planet Haumea - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:50] <exec> 08└─I like the current definition that says it has to dominate its orbit and clear out any stuff there. The International Astronomical Union also specifies that a planet must orbit around only one object (a star). . I also like the word planetoid for lesser objects. . it's own gravity it's == it is; it...
[23:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:39] <exec> 08└─He directed episode 5.
[23:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Star Trek: Discovery' Happenings - 2549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:41] <exec> 08└─So far, it's: Original Star-Trek: Socialist. Lead by explorers and scientists chain-of-command. Explores the universe while sometimes fights against the military-industrial complex (Romulans and Klingons) but pursuing peaceful solutions. New Star-Trek: Partially post-scarcity meritocracy (theft is s...
[23:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:08] <exec> 08└─There are windows shot out that are unlikely from the single vantage point. Sound from gunfire can be misinterpreted by folks unfamiliar with it for sure.
[23:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In America, Rescuing a Piglet Makes You a Terrorist but Shooting Up a Concert Doesn't - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:09] <exec> 08└─Pedantically, it's the USA PATRIOT Act whose acronym you're after.
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