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[00:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find 'Patterns in the Noise' That Help Make More Accurate Crop Performance Predictions - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:17] <exec> 08└─OK, I have all the free entertainment I could ever want; thank you, internet. So now we have abundant crop yields and more food than anyone could eat, I expect free food. What? I have to travel back in time two thousand years to get my free bread? The Roman Empire was more civilized than your pathet...
[00:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:28] <exec> 08└─Congress' memory doesn't include much beyond the last election. While there are some career congresscritters a great many of them only "serve" one or two terms.
[00:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:30] <exec> 08└─- Surviving the landing - Deploying the comms antennas correctly - Not getting stuck in the sand - Not getting too much sand on the panels - Batteries not dying First three successes means you get some science done, as long as the last two keep happening. Forecast for batteries has to be conservativ...
[00:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:32] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of engineering math that goes into longevity calculations. By a lot, I mean hundreds of thousands of lines of math that is derived by use of symbolic math applications like matlab or mathematica. In order to meet the mission requirement of 90 days or whatever with a 95% confidence lev...
[00:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03suburbanitemediocrity [6844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:34] <exec> 08└─It's not a prediction out of nowhere. There is as much engineering, if not more, that goes into reliability as goes into any other part of the system.
[00:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:23] <exec> 08└─Pirate? They're probably showing a visual representation of signals that get sent to every Spaniard, and that every Spaniard, provided he paid the TV tax, could watch for himself.
[00:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:34:25] <exec> 08└─NO. They pilfer your mic and location data trying to catch others who are pilfering the games. For example, if you go to a sports bar. One set of rules for me, another for thee.
[00:35:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:25] <exec> 08└─What if it's really Ethanol and not @realDonaldTrump?
[00:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:49] <exec> 08└─Will the panel produce enough of it in its lifetime, to cover its own manufacture and recycling?
[00:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:50] <exec> 08└─That's complicated. Yes, it's cheaper, but it's also intermittent. So you need to handle storage. This can be done in lots of different ways, and which way works best depend on the local situation. Also on how long you need to be prepared for your renewable to be low or down. Batteries are an accept...
[00:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:23] <exec> 08└─Just considering this as a data point (or pair), they need to sharpen up the images, replace the actors with "3-D models", and they'll have excellent background material for any number of games. It the platform has enough spare cycles, you could even have lots of decision points that will alter the...
[00:39:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:25] <exec> 08└─"News for Nerds" - er, that is the other site. Look at the top of this page, it says "SoylentNews is People". Nothing is happening!
[00:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:04] <exec> 08└─Go and make me two sandwiches and I'll give you one
[00:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:05] <exec> 08└─Many people did and the answer was Trump. Not since Carter has anyone in the executive proposed withdrawing from South Korea.
[00:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/josh-rogin/wp/2018/06/07/trump-still-holds-jimmy-carters-view-on-withdrawing-u-s-troops-from-south-korea/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ff429869d59d [washingtonpost.com]
[00:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:10] <exec> 08└─It really looks like he might be rolling back the US MIC, starting at the very beginning... Its difficult to actually get excited after so many letdowns (basically my entire life) but wow.
[00:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:12] <exec> 08└─I doubt anything will come of it but it is the most progress that we have seen in several decades. The fact that we are even talking about it is amazing. That key republicans and democrats are mad about the possibility makes me like the idea more.
[00:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:01] <exec> 08└─What if we made the fountain pen out of a titanium-depleted uranium alloy?
[00:42:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:02] <exec> 08└─Parker make one, the nib-tips fell off. https://parkerpens.net [parkerpens.net]
[00:42:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:04] <exec> 08└─Why do you say this? It is not true. Why do you think that nibs were made of gold in the first place? Gallo-ferric acid is corrosive, but gold only dissolves in aqua regia, which any competent alchemist knows. Modern, 21st Century iron gall inks are perfectly copasetic for fountain pens, if the user...
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[01:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find 'Patterns in the Noise' That Help Make More Accurate Crop Performance Predictions - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:20] <exec> 08└─All you have to do to get your free bread is go to the distribution center. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) Yes, it's a dumpster.
[01:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe some dust devils can clear things up. Again.
[01:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:37] <exec> 08└─It isn't just a scam. It is about setting expectations for everyone. If you declare you are designing for a one year mission people will start asking why there aren't some more science things on it to keep it busy for a year. So then you have to make it bigger, more expensive and probably more prone...
[01:35:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 634 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:06] <exec> 08└─head - meaning, in charge of homeland - that's like, everything, right? security - supposed to mean well informed, smart, sophisticated, insightful, among other things. Amirite? How am I doing so far? hacked - someone brighter than you gets into all your stuffs (for) months - that's like a long, lon...
[01:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:30] <exec> 08└─because it is too easy for the issues & memes that power 3rd party movements to be co-opted by the 2 major parties (Tea Party movement), or the 2 major parties work together to cut off the oxygen (Ross Perot), or the 3rd movement just has no real general merits besides "we're differenter than they a...
[01:35:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 788 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:39] <exec> 08└─It is good news, but let's bear in mind that comparison is between sources of new capacity against the backdrop of an energy grid that is still mostly supplied by fossil fuels. Shifting the energy grid to renewable sources is a smart strategic choice. The US alone spends about $365 billion on foreig...
[01:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:58] <exec> 08└─You're assuming ores of current quality. Solar cells might be harder to refine than current ores. (They could also, of course, be easier.) Just don't be sure that that current study will apply in the future.
[01:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:59] <exec> 08└─Just don't be sure that that current study will apply in the future.
[01:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 2649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:15] <exec> 08└─https://web.archive.org/web/20130514103318/http://pcast.ideascale.com/a/dtd/-The-need-for-FOSS-intelligence-tools-for-sensemaking-etc.-/76207-8319 [archive.org] "This suggestion is about how civilians could benefit by have access to the sorts of "sensemaking" tools the intelligence community (as wel...
[01:38:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06A Serious New Hurdle for CRISPR: Edited Cells Might Cause Cancer, Find two Studies - 1335 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:19] <exec> 08└─I suspect it's more a matter of application-specific myopia. CRISPR has thus far been primarily used for creating GMOs. Modify 10,000 zygotes, and then breed your organism from the healthy survivors. No problem. Runaway tumors, etc. just exclude those individuals from the "healthy survivors" group....
[01:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:19] <exec> 08└─Did you really expect him to be this petulant once taking office?
[01:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ask Soylent: Suggestions for a Minimalist Journaling System? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:11] <exec> 08└─A typewriter modified to feed rolls of aluminum gold foil.
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[02:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:21] <exec> 08└─As it is, you upload what you make, if someone else thinks they have an interest they can lodge a complaint, and if they're sure enough it's not fair use they can hire a lawyer and sue you for infringement. Burden is on them to assert a claim and then you get to assert fair use or another defense. U...
[02:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:22] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, we ran BBS's. Some, like mine, at no charge to those who cared to dial in. We communicated all over the world via FidoNet, we played games, we did all kinds of stuff. Yeah, I know, no copper lines anymore so those days are gone. But, we have a lot of new technology, and much more to...
[02:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:25] <exec> 08└─What's the definition of that? If Runaway trolls enough folks on the internet is he/she/it an Internet Luminary? Or is it Dudette Blogs that has a bazillion followers on her blog and tweeter account?
[02:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find 'Patterns in the Noise' That Help Make More Accurate Crop Performance Predictions - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:35] <exec> 08└─So that counts as a new development these days? Warmth and Sunshine. All those civilizations building megalithic calendars must have gotten an advanced copy of the paper!
[02:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Scientists Find 'Patterns in the Noise' That Help Make More Accurate Crop Performance Predictions - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:37] <exec> 08└─Trump will personally piss in your cornfields. Golden showers got what plants crave.
[02:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:43] <exec> 08└─Possibly with consent. You're sitting at home, and there's a knock at the door. The weather is cold and nasty, and the guy at the door says his car broke down and his cell is dead, can he use your phone? You agree and invite him in. He asks if he can use your bathroom and you agree again. Soon after...
[02:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:28] <exec> 08└─It's not censorship, it's a curated feed! With all the right opinions and talking points a model citizen will need to keep up with in the latest current year direction! Don't be that ignorant old person, be hip with the latest approved points of views, today!
[02:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:29] <exec> 08└─What empty cities would they be? It's just as untrue as the interesting times quote, but everyone still believes both.
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[03:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Zika is Not an STD - Semen Inhibits Zika Virus Infection - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:26] <exec> 08└─He may have actually had a comment on-topic for once...
[03:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:36] <exec> 08└─One day we won't be so dependent on a few central providers
[03:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 1998 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:38] <exec> 08└─People are reacting to this proposal like it was an unintended side effect. Closing the open Internet down and rebuilding AOL has been the explicit goal of every Globalist and Big Legacy Tech company since Trump and BrExit occurred. Before, open and free were great because the masses were lowing sof...
[03:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:41] <exec> 08└─If it comes down to the internet is no longer useful than what else is there to say but screw the internet? We will find a way. Technology has advanced too far to eliminate dissemination of information. That's the important part, the rest is just fluff.
[03:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:43] <exec> 08└─History makes weird bedfellows. We may find ourselves fighting on the same side, for once. I propose to ask, though: what are you personally planning to do about all this? The odds look rather long...
[03:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:45] <exec> 08└─For once, you're right. However, the media is not adequately reporting this issue in the USA and EU right now. They want to bury it and distract us with tales of China and Vietnam. The newspapers entirely work for the imperialists/globalists at this point: the capitalist elite. How many people get t...
[03:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:48] <exec> 08└─I think TFS provides a fairly good high level view of why these individuals are considered luminaries. Not because they have a blog, but because they have been responsible for some very significant components of the modern Internet. It's also because of their long history of well considered views ab...
[03:34:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:15] <exec> 08└─Are clearly caused by global warming. We need to do our part such as switching to soy based foods to limit the beef industry methane production!
[03:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vietnam's New Law Tightens Control Of The Internet - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:39] <exec> 08└─I like the suggestion of BBSes in the metathread.
[03:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:39] <exec> 08└─Haha, we rule you, so fuck you! -- The Legal Priesthood.
[03:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:11] <exec> 08└─Sorry, GP, not you.
[03:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:40] <exec> 08└─The USA has lots of empty land. Much of the intermittent nature of solar and wind can be handled by a grid. Usually, there is wind and/or sunshine somewhere. Both solar and wind output can be predicted, and solar produces more electricity during times of greater demand (except towards the end of the...
[03:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:58] <exec> 08└─Thank you for confirming my suspicions. I have spent time in China too and consider myself decently familiar with Chinese culture, and I have never seen this chestnut come from anywhere but US talking heads. "Kuai dian" is what I told taxi drivers if they needed to get a move on, but "chop-chop" see...
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[04:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Zika is Not an STD - Semen Inhibits Zika Virus Infection - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:21] <exec> 08└─Tremendous story, wonderful news for all of us that travel a lot and that have A LOT of sex. And the wife tells us "no" because she doesn't want a Zika Baby. Thanks to the robo submitter, the editor, the SoylentNews cyber team & subscribers!
[04:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Zika is Not an STD - Semen Inhibits Zika Virus Infection - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:23] <exec> 08└─See? I told ya, jmorris, nothing to worry about!
[04:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Zika is Not an STD - Semen Inhibits Zika Virus Infection - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:25] <exec> 08└─You see this is a Zika vaccination campaign!
[04:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 3843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:40] <exec> 08└─There are only a few things end users can do. Keeping places like this populated is one. Getting the hell off of censoring social media is another. I never fell for most of it, but if you have Facebook or Twitter leave it. Don't delete the account, just starting creating the MySpace sea of abandoned...
[04:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:42] <exec> 08└─Same as always, get them to eat each other, by their own rules. Of course, I don't expect them to actually follow through their own rules though.
[04:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:44] <exec> 08└─Umm.. aren't they just computing luminaries? I see the internet under the broader computing umbrella, the fact the call it out separately implies, folks associated with the internet that are not part of the computing industry, i.e. bloggers, etc.
[04:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Trump Set to Meet Kim Jong-un at 9 PM EDT (01:00 UTC, 9 AM Singapore) - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, if you notice where Kim nods when Trump is speaking, it's evident Kim has at least some English. Maybe not a lot, but enough to understand what's being said there.
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[04:41:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe, maybe not. I'm guessing the Trump-Kim negotiation went something like this: Trump: If you denuke, we'll help with your economic development. NK could be even greater than SK! And we'll make sure no one attacks you. Kim: Sounds good! where do I sign? Especially since Kim's body language indica...
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[05:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:16] <exec> 08└─Also called a "tree". Just plant enough of them (or better, stop deforesting like there's no tomorrow) - problem solved. Of course, it's not something greedy capitalists can make much money out of though...
[05:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:18] <exec> 08└─Something like bamboo or kudzu would be better if space weren't a problem. They take up more area but they also suck up carbon a whole lot quicker because of their rapid growth.
[05:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:20] <exec> 08└─Kudzu, the borg of plants. Google for cooking recipes.
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[05:33:37] <exec> 08└─As it is, you upload what you make, if someone else thinks they have an interest they can lodge a complaint, and if they're sure enough it's not fair use they can hire a lawyer and sue you for infringement. Burden is on them to assert a claim and then you get to assert fair use or another defense. U...
[05:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:49] <exec> 08└─Psst! jmorris! I have been submitting stuff about this for weeks! Gab is compromised! https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] The whole thing is a Jewish Honeypot! Get out while you can, and support the abolition of netneutrality, jmorris! You have been had!
[05:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 1993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:50] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 many great points here, really, very enjoyable, but come on, jmorris, trump is winning and what the fuck else? donnie is an old turd wrapped in a platinum foil encrusted with shit-diamonds. not excusing democrats from ANY of it, but the ungodly shit th...
[05:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find 'Patterns in the Noise' That Help Make More Accurate Crop Performance Predictions - 3032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:01] <exec> 08└─We had two PhD agronomists - both from Kansas - an engineer who built and operated our camera pods, two coders (one of them the president, the other me) a secretary, two contract pilots and two small airplanes with "FAA approved holes" on the floor just in front of the rear seats. Our pods had monoc...
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[05:34:03] <exec> 08└─most of the shows at the Coliseum in Rome were funded by Senators or other well-heeled folk. They always had a good crowd as they'd throw wooden balls that contained such prizes as the titles to apartments right there in Rome. The gladiators were captured slaves who were highly trained before they a...
[05:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:21] <exec> 08└─One of the reasons for the 90-day estimate was dust levels on the solar panels. Prior missions suggested they'd have risky amounts of dust after a few months. But, whirlwinds keep cleaning them off. This was unexpected.
[05:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:22] <exec> 08└─Or pull a number out of your ass. It's not like anyone in Congress cared. Just make sure those funding checks go to the right people. In order to guarantee that there is a 99% chance of making it to 90 days, you have to build in multiple levels of redundancy using parts with a 99.99% chance of lasti...
[05:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:25] <exec> 08└─Mars Trump has blue skin and green hair.
[05:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:34:27] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is ISLE - Improving Standards by Lowering Expectations. It's not just a joke, it works in real life as well. There's no reason to promise them the Moon when you're going to Mars instead!
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[06:33:19] <exec> 08└─Someone exfiltrates several hundred gigabytes out of your protected network, you even have enough sensors data to tell months after the fact, yet didn't realize it the minute it was happening? This is either a propaganda lie, or a sign of gross, premeditated incompetence. I wouldn't put the first be...
[06:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:29] <exec> 08└─Both of them require a fairly good amount of rain.
[06:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:31] <exec> 08└─Better rain than fuel to power those air factories. The comment above is correct: first they deforested lots of land gaining profit, and now going to undo the harm making profit as well.
[06:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 1077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:34] <exec> 08└─Won't matter if the cost is $1/ton. What do you do with it once you have it? Unless you can find a market for the stuff that doesn't involve it being rereleased you are left stacking it up in some unsalable form. And if you CAN find a market, that will drive the supply. As others already have noted,...
[06:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeVilla [5354] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:36] <exec> 08└─"Closer to Commercial Viability" What's the commercial angle? From an environmental angle this is cool. Pull carbon from the air on the cheap. Then stash it somewhere. Maybe dump pellets down the Kola Superdeep Borehole. Is the commercial angle to pull from the air and burn it again? I guess if it's...
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[06:33:38] <exec> 08└─The problem is one of scale and time. If we covered the entire fertile ground with forest, we still couldn't offset the carbon excess before the temperature rise became a problem. Also, while biosequestration is a great idea, it's too slow - on the order of decades. We need much more prompt, effecti...
[06:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:33:40] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong, I agree with the idea of vegetation as a carbon sink. I only pointed that bamboo/kudzu aren't the appropriate one for many geo areas. Better rain than fuel to power those air factories.
[06:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:34:11] <exec> 08└─But in order for it to be useful, we either need point to point wifi links hoping borders (whether city, county, province/state, or national), and all the accoutrements of a replacement internet, designed with trustless decentralization, something that the current generation of internet lacks. If we...
[06:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:08] <exec> 08└─It's cheaper.
[06:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:10] <exec> 08└─Will the panel produce enough of it in its lifetime, to cover its own manufacture and recycling?
[06:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AI-Generated Film - the Next Frontier - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:44] <exec> 08└─She gets excited when she gets the upper hand on takyon during their late night NBA Jam [youtu.be] sessions.
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[07:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:18] <exec> 08└─You say that like its a bad thing.
[07:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:19] <exec> 08└─back in the day a thief snatched a laptop from between the ankles of an MI-5 agent as he was taking a leak in a train station. i eventually decided that was a setup, for example to lead soviet cryptologists to crack the wrong cipher. perhaps all those gigabytes were put there shortly before the PRC...
[07:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 2169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:22] <exec> 08└─Our Congress has been duped into passing law to "protect" software from being examined to make sure it does not have hidden agendas in it... not much different than a businessman may want to read a contract to verify what the salesmen say is what he is really agreeing to. But, our Congress, at the u...
[07:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:24] <exec> 08└─...info related to American offensive and defensive systems [...] which contains information about adversary radar platforms.
[07:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:40] <exec> 08└─We should do both: short term solution and long term solution. Not to mention trees provide habitat for animals and prevent soil erosion (just ask Iceland [skogur.is]) and they can be planted even in remote areas and not require any maintenance. Also, if we did more at the pollution sources that wou...
[07:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:33:41] <exec> 08└─Won't matter if the cost is $1/ton.
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[07:34:07] <exec> 08└─There are only a few things end users can do. Keeping places like this populated is one. Getting the hell off of censoring social media is another. I never fell for most of it, but if you have Facebook or Twitter leave it. Don't delete the account, just starting creating the MySpace sea of abandoned...
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[08:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:26] <exec> 08└─1) They broke into your secure systems. You obviously don't know how to make them. 2) They did it without you knowing at first. 3) They then managed to re-transmit that data somehow. Back over your own lines maybe? If so, boy do your "secure" systems need work. 4) The data stolen could be useful to...
[08:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:45] <exec> 08└─Even raising fast growing stuff, compressing it into blocks and dropping the blocks into the ocean is probably more efficient than any sort of direct extraction
[08:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:46] <exec> 08└─I think it means viability, when compared to other carbon offset schemes.
[08:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:18] <exec> 08└─I can be a hardware luminary if I open the power supply and start prodding around without first unplugging it.
[08:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:52] <exec> 08└─Were they predictions? Or were the rovers simply ordered with a 90 day on site replacement warranty? The reason everything these days fails on average two days after the warranty expires is that replacing the ones that fail before the warranty expires is cheaper than building things to last.
[08:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:34:54] <exec> 08└─You haven't been keeping up. Climate change is caused by cars. Before: Zero cars on Mars. Now: Three cars on mars. That's an increase of more than several orders of magnitude.
[08:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Drone Business 'Sensat' Notches Up 29Km Remote-Control Flight - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:05] <exec> 08└─It was done in legal airspace with full permission as an exception to the "the operator must be able to see it at all times". It's a "legislative" first, not a technical one.
[08:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:49] <exec> 08└─It used to be that people said "information is power," but now that information is so ubiquitous it seems like the aphorism could be updated to "integrity is power."
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[09:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Launched Twin Satellites Create 'The Himalaya Plot' - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:25] <exec> 08└─Warnings are posted in public restrooms all over the San Joaquin Valley in California advising not to drink the water because its full of nitrates. there is no mention of pesticides
[09:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Recently Launched Twin Satellites Create 'The Himalaya Plot' - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:27] <exec> 08└─Joe: For the last time, I'm pretty sure what's killing the crops is this Brawndo stuff. Secretary of State: But Brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes. Attorney General: "So wait a minute. What you're saying is that you want us to put water on the crops. Joe: Yes. Attorney General: W...
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[09:33:29] <exec> 08└─"What great students," the teacher thought to himself. Not a single one misbehaved as the teacher gave his lesson. In fact, all of this teacher's classes were like this, to the point where he was famous for his teaching ability. All around the country, this man was known as 'The Six-Lesson Schooltea...
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[09:33:31] <exec> 08└─A precise gravity map is just what the Democratic People's Republic of Korea requires to drop a hydrogen bomb into the wastebasket next to the Commander In Chief's desk. the 1958 International Geophysical Year's mission was to measure the precise shape of the Earth. Sputnik made orbit not long after...
[09:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:43] <exec> 08└─most boxes these days are equipped with a Trusted Computing Initiative chip. install tails on one but store a random key in the TCI's write only memory. encrypt the entire hard drive with the result of xoring your key with the tci key that would mean that even sector copying your disk would be of no...
[09:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:45] <exec> 08└─then point out the advisability of enacting a law that requires the Joint Forces Cyber Command to report to CERT all the vulnerabilities they discover i simply assumed thats what i would be doing when i applied to the air force cyber command in 2008: purely defensive work
[09:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:47] <exec> 08└─its called the Joint Forces Cyber Command. its part of the Strategic Forces Command and its headquarters is at Fort Meade Maryland. the National Cryptological Museum is also at Fort Meade and is open to the public. They have a real Enigma machine there.
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[09:33:49] <exec> 08└─"What great students," the teacher thought to himself. Not a single one misbehaved as the teacher gave his lesson. In fact, all of this teacher's classes were like this; it was to the point where he was famous for his teaching ability. All around the country, this man was known as 'The Six-Lesson Sc...
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[09:33:52] <exec> 08└─And people still pass data unencrypted reasoning it's a "secure landline". secret plans to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines by 2020.
[09:34:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 1998 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:31] <exec> 08└─People are reacting to this proposal like it was an unintended side effect. Closing the open Internet down and rebuilding AOL has been the explicit goal of every Globalist and Big Legacy Tech company since Trump and BrExit occurred. Before, open and free were great because the masses were lowing sof...
[09:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:43] <exec> 08└─-pad the ones with three +s work but not the ones with one +. iOS 5.1.1 Build 9B206 model MB294LL this is the very first ipad. i bought it brand new at a pawn shop for $140.
[09:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:45] <exec> 08└─without my deep insight into the nature of reality, apple would never have debugged strm_echo, the original test tool for MacTCP.
[09:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:34:47] <exec> 08└─to make our nominal "Republican" Congress fear its voters more than their donors.
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[09:36:09] <exec> 08└─You could also turn off your microphone to protect the sports bar where you are viewing the pirated match. Or to save your battery. Or because you don't trust the app developers to listen in on your daily activities. But, really, you don't even need a reason.
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[10:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:17] <exec> 08└─This is an example of the ramifications of having a single point of failure.
[10:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:18] <exec> 08└─if you configure djbdns to provide multiple IP addresses for one hostname, it will distribute answers to queries equally among the given IPs. doubtlessly bind can do that to. that leaves their domain name as the only truly necessary single point. it helps to run different operating systems on each o...
[10:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:47] <exec> 08└─Last I checked the existing generation of torpedoes has 95% success rate so the only secret here is the waste of money this is.
[10:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:49] <exec> 08└─There are definitely two levels of security there... whether or not you have access to the physical box. Most everything I work on, if you have access to the box, you are God. Well, if its my box and I am responsible for it, I better know what its doing, and be able to GodMode to it. But, I know th...
[10:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:51] <exec> 08└─I wonder if we learned anything about placing too much trust in machine encryption from the Enigma. The Germans trusted it. Too much. Are our military types putting too much trust in stuff with backdoors they don't know about yet?
[10:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:53] <exec> 08└─so i could charge my laptop late one night. when its alarm went off i figured i shoul plug it back in then make myself scarce. it booted windows ce not long after that every last one of that kind of atm in portland saw its cord and socket replaced with conduit that went inside whatever building they...
[10:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:55] <exec> 08└─I get the idea that the "Rods from God" concept would be fatal to ships... Guided Kinetic weapons. I would imagine it would be almost like when one is in an airplane, if one sees another airplane in the sky... and it does NOT appear to move ... then both of you are on a collision course. The "Rod...
[10:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:57] <exec> 08└─There was a hack on winter olympic servers attributed to North Korea. Later turned out hackers were Russian based... source: https://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
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[10:34:53] <exec> 08└─mostly at the green site but even on usenet when aol set its thundering hooves loose ive been meaning to set up a hidden service for soggy jobs. ill do that this weekend. there is at least one hidden service search engine to the extent legislation can help its far more effective to send snail mail s...
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[10:34:54] <exec> 08└─that there is a company in germany that distributes a decentralized bot is why .DE is consistently the top country in my server logs. if you want decentralized search, ask opencrawl to send you a tape. ironically you can get their data for free if you use the same AWS data center as they do. i expec...
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[10:34:56] <exec> 08└─No, we dont. Kalshnikov was a hero to the soviet union because in my understanding only the barrel requires machining, the rest can be made of cut and folded sheet metal. even if you make your own, your puny AK-47 is no match for white phospherus, a pure chemical element that the departmentnod defen...
[10:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Scientists Find 'Patterns in the Noise' That Help Make More Accurate Crop Performance Predictions - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:09] <exec> 08└─I was expecting an article on more accurate prediction of crop circle performance...
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[11:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:24] <exec> 08└─but it happens that the US came quite close to nuking the soviets because a single forty-cent chip failed. when the secretary of state got the bad news he didnt wake his wife so she could die in her sleep.
[11:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:25] <exec> 08└─we dont know. it could have been cut off upstream because someone was giving them a 'net-neutrality' warning. lets watch :)
[11:33:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 2364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:59] <exec> 08└─I saw one business that had this big gong outside, I guess security theater to scare off the bad guy. Well, one day his business git hit. And the gong was eerily silent. It was dis-assembled to find out why it did not do its job. It was full of something like Great Stuff [homedepot.com]. It was s...
[11:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:19] <exec> 08└─Economics aren't something you get to say with derision unless you're willing to assume the living costs of everyone whose livelihood depends on what you're currently against. They're both far more serious to those affected and far more immediate than any climate change worries.
[11:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:21] <exec> 08└─The economics of broken windows.
[11:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:34:23] <exec> 08└─This is the kind of suit-talk that drives engineers out of their mind.
[11:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:02] <exec> 08└─I'm conflicted on this one. I haven't read the actual proposal (not enough time to read everything they come up with), so for once I'm trying to listen to the experts. The summary mentions a several well known names that are usually right on these things. But then there's the Mozilla co-founder. Moz...
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[12:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GnuPG Patched to Thwart 'Fake Filename' - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:23] <exec> 08└─You have to wonder about a security program that's vulnerable to an attack that's been around since the 1980s. Back then you could upload Zip files with manipulated filenames to a BBS using your 2400 baud modem and cause interesting results based on what you'd done to the filename. Nearly thirty yea...
[12:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:34] <exec> 08└─I didn't even notice your precious Netflix outage. I was watching putlocker instead.
[12:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:35] <exec> 08└─To be fair, it's been this way for over 50 years
[12:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah but now it's different because now we have tech billionaires. Good luck earning that mythical six-figure salary. With two computer science degrees and skills in a dozen coding languages, you'll be lucky to be unemployed for life.
[12:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed, to the people who came up with the idea that it could be commercially interesting: I have a bridge for sale. Those who are going to pay for this will be taxpayers. As long as you can blow smoke in their eyes, the middlemen could make it commercially viable though.
[12:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:18] <exec> 08└─Nothing stops me from running some fiber from point A to point B, landing it on my own router, and other people doing the same thing - just get permission from the land owners (or in reality buy some dark fibre from someone who's already done that) We can then exchange routes between us, and any oth...
[12:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:51] <exec> 08└─They are not gods at all. They're not acmes of intelligence or vision. They buy the skills they need by surrounding themselves with people like us, because it's too much work for them to learn the skills themselves. So, if people like us stopped imagining them to be gods, and decided to do something...
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[13:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:19] <exec> 08└─All those poor children can work for Netflix pushing bits through pipes for less than minimum wage! Billionaires win!!
[13:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:20] <exec> 08└─The article did not factor in things like improvements in sanitation, water quality, and nutrition. The article reads more like a pharmaceutical commercial than science, because sanitation, quality water, and good nutrition don't come with a high recurring price tag.
[13:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:22] <exec> 08└─We can replace them with a fiber optic robot.
[13:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score: 2) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:25] <exec> 08└─Why aren't anti-vaxxers screaming about how successful vaccines are in preventive disease, and show us how many are now autistic? Oh, that's right. They only use anecdotal "data" to state their imaginary case.
[13:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:45] <exec> 08└─My children, who only watch YouTube, were unperturbed. I, who long ago exhausted Netflix's library, was reading a book and was unperturbed. My wife, who prefers to knit while listening to podcasts, was unperturbed. It's a big world, and there are countless other ways to pass the time than sitting, w...
[13:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Recently Launched Twin Satellites Create 'The Himalaya Plot' - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:56] <exec> 08└─A precise gravity map is just what the Democratic People's Republic of Korea requires to drop a hydrogen bomb into the wastebasket next to the Commander In Chief's desk.
[13:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:22] <exec> 08└─aka: "disinformation" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[13:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:24] <exec> 08└─I started using junk as decoys after I had a girlfriend who worked as a waitress at a popular eatery long time ago during the 70's energy crisis. The edict came down that none of the wait staff was to touch the thermostat. However, the restaurant patrons were not very happy when my girlfriend had to...
[13:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:48] <exec> 08└─You beat me to it. If people plant the right varieties of bamboo, it can be a food source too. Wonderful stuff, bamboo. You can make almost anything from it. My wife even knits with yarn made from it.
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[14:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:23] <exec> 08└─So, how did it become deformed? And what was its original shape?
[14:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:25] <exec> 08└─Prolate spheroid.
[14:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 1694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:27] <exec> 08└─By studying heaver elements and their nuclei configurations, could it eventually give some deeper insight into natural laws that govern why nuclei are configured how they are? What causes a particular distribution of protons and neutrons? What would cause fewer protons at the center of the nucleus?...
[14:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:29] <exec> 08└─Why is it believed that there might be some island of stability in heaver elements?
[14:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06GnuPG Patched to Thwart 'Fake Filename' - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:46] <exec> 08└─This one is actually a completely valid filename that the terminal interprets in a way that causes the problem. If you're viewing it on anything other than a terminal, it isn't a problem. If you're viewing it on a hard-copy terminal, the problem is there, but the attempt to abuse it becomes obvious....
[14:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:01] <exec> 08└─This is not Netflix's first major outage. Does nobody remember the great Christmas 2012 outage when Amazon's AWS servers went down and took Netflix with them?
[14:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03schusselig [6771] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:02] <exec> 08└─Is there any evidence indicating that this might actually be related to net neutrality and not bog-standard IT incompetence, or is the department line just bait for suckers like me?
[14:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:05] <exec> 08└─So don't have a single point of failure. I propose to have a group of redundant items which were formerly the single point of failure. There. Now everything is fixed! (and this idea is so novel, I should patent it!) All good now. A collection of redundant items. In fact this single collection is wha...
[14:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hereweareagain [6590] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:07] <exec> 08└─--Single point of failure? Obviously you haven't heard of Chaos Monkey: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] --Although having your own set of DVDs to watch when bored (and a ZFS+Samba file server to rip them to) makes life infinitely more flexible... / binge-watching Stargate...
[14:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:09] <exec> 08└─That was so long ago, who could possibly remember.
[14:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe the problems would go away if Netflix would buy paid prioritization? But AT&T said they won't create paid prioritization. So they must have a new business model. ("hey, that's a nice internet business you've built there. It would be a shame . . .")
[14:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:34:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder if we learned anything about placing too much trust in machine encryption from the Enigma. The Germans trusted it. Too much.
[14:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03west [6884] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:15] <exec> 08└─There are more trees now than there were in the 1700s to 1900s
[14:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:28] <exec> 08└─*** Thus, you turning off the microphone can only be to protect yourself from being discovered. *** What a meek sheeple position. How about the owner paid for the hardware and the electricity and the data plan and it is not for a two bit soccer organisation to appropriate for their own dubious uses....
[14:40:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Unpublished Chinese Censorship Document Reveals Effort to Eradicate Online Political Content - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:23] <exec> 08└─The empty cities are real. Don't be a lazy null. google it.
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[15:33:22] <exec> 08└─ASIFA is recommending Audacity, Blender, Gimp, Inkscape, Krita, Notepad ++, Open Broadcaster, and Synfig.
[15:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:34] <exec> 08└─I would imagine that, if it were possible for some super-heavy element to be stable for even a useful amount of time, that stars and universe-forming and whatever else goes on outside of Earth would have made them and, being stable, they would have survived. Especially if there's a "range" of super-...
[15:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:35] <exec> 08└─You can blame Higgs and his boatswain for all the mess (grin)
[15:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:37] <exec> 08└─Why is it believed that there might be some island of stability in heaver elements?
[15:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:47] <exec> 08└─Just a friendly reminder: don't forget to have your humans spayed or neutered! Thanks!
[15:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:49] <exec> 08└─Then you did not read the article. The sharp declines in child mortality from Hib and pneumococcus were due not just to the introduction of vaccines but also to general factors that have reduced pneumonia and meningitis deaths from all causes, such as better hygiene and access to health care. "In 2...
[15:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:19] <exec> 08└─So maybe Chaos Monkey finally found the weak spot?
[15:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:20] <exec> 08└─Does nobody remember the great Christmas 2012 outage when Amazon's AWS servers went down and took Netflix with them?
[15:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:00] <exec> 08└─You talk like you don't know the military boys. They want unbreakable security that they can break, in case it falls into enemy hands. They will throw the security away in a heartbeat if it inconveniences them too much, and hoke up bull to justify what they want to do. For instance, they want to use...
[15:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scottingham [5593] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:27] <exec> 08└─A pure source of C02 could be used for many commercial processes. An example of tech available now is supercritical C02 extraction. Plenty of processes benefit from that cleaner form of solvent. Even some dry-cleaners are using it now as an environmentally alternative. A bit farther out you could se...
[15:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:29] <exec> 08└─Quite true but carbon sinks don't have to be geographically homogenous. It's no big deal to put most of them in places where water is abundant.
[15:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:31] <exec> 08└─Makes pretty nice flooring as well.
[15:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:11] <exec> 08└─Under the sort of regime the EU is set to legislate, it's the other way around. The filters look at what you upload, if they match it to something then they block you. It doesn't matter that it's fair use, the burden is on YOU to somehow find a way to contest the automatic decision of the machine.
[15:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:45] <exec> 08└─It used to be that people said "information is power,"
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:22] <exec> 08└─It's cheaper.
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[16:33:33] <exec> 08└─Audacity is cute and useful but if I had to do anything beyond the absolute basics of working with audio and I had to do it in Audacity I would be extremely unhappy as a professional. If you only need to cut/paste sound around, do trivial mixing, or apply basic dynamic range compression, Audacity is...
[16:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:35] <exec> 08└─Ardour is open source: http://ardour.org [ardour.org]
[16:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:37] <exec> 08└─Is how 2 grand is keeping a Synfig developer employed full time. Either they are living in the deep 3rd world, or they are paying lip service to the cost of developers compared to the financing of the video publishing/animation industry.
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:39] <exec> 08└─Ardour is open source and I gave a good faith effort at giving it a shot - I'm not a fan. I think the thing I liked the least about Ardour was that it sent each of it's internal tracks out to JACK and then back in again paying the latency cost with it of a few milliseconds (this can be configured)....
[16:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:41] <exec> 08└─It's a few years since I tried Ardour and I didn't like it at all. Not sure if they added midi functionality at some point in time, but back then there was none, so it was of little use to me having been a long time ProTools user. Using Logic Pro these days which I like, though I haven't been doing...
[16:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 1612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:44] <exec> 08└─Sometimes dead trivial is what you need. I re-open Audacity about once every 3-4 years it seems, and when I do I'm glad that it's not a "professional grade" tool with all the power and configurability of something like Blender. As for Blender, I wanted to throw out: OpenSCAD as an option that might...
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[16:33:46] <exec> 08└─Ardour definitely handles MIDI now - I needed it in a reject project. I was using the sustain pedal on a keyboard to generate MIDI events that were being consumed by a Lua script I wrote that would open and close a noise gate. Aside from not being well documented the Lua scripting system in Ardour w...
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[16:34:00] <exec> 08└─You make bigger elements by fusing smaller ones, so if the requisite smaller particles aren't stable, then you've got a MUCH smaller chance of creating a large stable particle naturally. It'd still happen occasionally, but there wouldn't be much, so it seems rather plausible that we might not have f...
[16:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03waximius [1136] (Score: 1) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:02] <exec> 08└─They theorized it was due to the "Tom Brady" force which was first observed in 2015.
[16:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:45] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. When hyperinflation hits, everyone will have a 6 figure+ salary.
[16:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:47] <exec> 08└─Ahh, but the great thing about the cloud is you can blame major catastrophic failures on someone else, so they don't really count.
[16:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:49] <exec> 08└─Single point of failure? As far as the 'social' internet is concerned, that would be the entire human race.
[16:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:29] <exec> 08└─Uncontrolled deorbiting will allow you to hit the right continent or the right ocean, maybe. The optimal, self-stabilizing spaceship capsule lands plus or minus hundred miles. Controlled deorbiting will require control structures that survive the descent, something like STS.
[16:35:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:37] <exec> 08└─Also called a "tree". Just plant enough of them (or better, stop deforesting like there's no tomorrow) - problem solved. Of course, it's not something greedy capitalists can make much money out of though...
[16:35:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:39] <exec> 08└─Something like bamboo or kudzu would be better if space weren't a problem. They take up more area but they also suck up carbon a whole lot quicker because of their rapid growth.
[16:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:00] <exec> 08└─I find it very interesting that the regressive left are so concerned about poor people but have no problem whatsoever with forcing people into poverty in the first place.
[16:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:02] <exec> 08└─It's no big deal to put most of them in places where water is abundant.
[16:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:04] <exec> 08└─The best way to do things would be build man-made islands, cover them with $vegitation_of_choice, and ship/pipe in water from the continent's largest river (near the mouth so you're not depleting anything but the brackish area that's slightly downstream). Gets you your carbon sink and doesn't leave...
[16:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, wait, I get it now. You're wanting something of value without it costing anything. Not going to happen. You're either going to have to pay farmers to grow the vegetation on already cleared land, clear more land and pay new farmers, or go with the technological way where you also have to pay. You...
[16:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:08] <exec> 08└─I find it very interesting that die-hard free market supporters insist on letting their theory go completely awry by not factoring in all the costs of producing a good to be included in the price. They do this largely by pretending that the costs not included in the price don't exist. Also, forcing...
[16:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03exaeta [6957] (Score: 1) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:50] <exec> 08└─I'm just going to block all EU IP adresses from my website if I can figure out how. It's a one man shop and I don't have the capacity to comply with GDPR and the rest of the legal nonsense the EU is coming up with. The EU seems hell bent on regulating the internet in a way that makes it impossible f...
[16:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:52] <exec> 08└─The Viet Cong and NVA will be surprised to learn their AK's lost to WP. What do we call Saigon now, again? Economy is a concern (Wikipedia says $147 for an AK to $647 for an AR. But the AK was also revolutionary because of its semi-mythic hardiness, at the sacrifice of accuracy. Turns out "good enou...
[16:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:29] <exec> 08└─The main concern here isn't the dust storm itself. It's the need to keep the rover's heaters operational while maintaining a minimal power level in the batteries. This isn't the first storm that Opportunity has weathered, but it is the worst. According to NASA, the weather event the rover faced in 2...
[16:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Bites Håkon Wium Lie Over Public Domain Norwegian Court Decisions - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:59] <exec> 08└─You're wrong. The real power is elsewhere. Hint: Golden rule.
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[17:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:31] <exec> 08└─Republicans know they can't win a fair fight so of course they'll illegally fail to certify the results. The Will of the People and the Rule of Law simply don't matter to them.
[17:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:33] <exec> 08└─Just like Trump then.
[17:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:48] <exec> 08└─Is how 2 grand is keeping a Synfig developer employed full time.
[17:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:50] <exec> 08└─"Notepad++ is a text editor and source code editor for use with Microsoft Windows." disgusting.
[17:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:52] <exec> 08└─Or there's non-tools [tuxfamily.org] I don't see what the problem with audacity is, the .aud file format sucks but anything else is likely PEBKAC where people who didn't learn to record and edit on tape have hundreds of tracks because they can't bring themselves to commit / bounce.
[17:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I meant "for all the mass". Literally. (grin)
[17:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:22] <exec> 08└─whatever. it's the same bullshit that happened with polio. i'm not saying that some vaccines don't work, but that the cdc and big pharma are lying scum.
[17:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:23] <exec> 08└─so it's "anit-vaxxers" fault the whole system is set up to protect the legal drug dealers? we need to deploy a lead vaccine for people like you, the gov/big pharma fluffers.
[17:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GnuPG Patched to Thwart 'Fake Filename' - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─This vulnerability manifests in systems that call gpg and friends as command line processes and parse their output (granted, a very common use method these days.) Real programmers who use actual APIs like GPGme closed this hole long ago. Slapping something together that just barely works isn't good...
[17:34:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:58] <exec> 08└─Exactly. At the time in question I was writing some API functions and listening to techno on Youtube :) By the time I got home Netflix was working again.
[17:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:41] <exec> 08└─with the opm "hack" the fuckheads/traitors in the US gov hired a chinese contractor(as if they are not all beholden to the state) to process the data. said chinese contractor accidentally gave it to chinese state folks. US gov scum reported it as super hackers from china. iow, it's likely a combinat...
[17:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:42] <exec> 08└─What you ascribe to conspiracies and warmongering is more easily explained by the nature of how intelligence and spy-work works. As an example, imagine the vice-chairman of of China is really a double-agent working for the US, and has told the US that it was China who stole this information. Are you...
[17:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─I'm not telling you anything except that the regressive left don't actually give a flying fuck about people unless it suits their agenda to do so. The rest of your arguments you're making to someone else. I haven't said anything to conflict with them.
[17:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:19] <exec> 08└─You'll probably want it paid for by the government (read: tax payers) whichever you pick though, knowing you.
[17:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Zika is Not an STD - Semen Inhibits Zika Virus Infection - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:30] <exec> 08└─who?
[17:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Zika is Not an STD - Semen Inhibits Zika Virus Infection - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:32] <exec> 08└─Zika would be an upgrade for that guy...
[17:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:07] <exec> 08└─this is why people need to get behind LBRY. we must take the control away from these "people".
[17:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:46] <exec> 08└─> Time on the ground trumps wads of money spent on untested (and thus, unreliable) reliability testing. > Let us note in the example above, that you could chain roughly 400 such parts, every one of them a single point of failure, > to yield the desired failure rate. I don't think you need that many...
[17:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─I've always had the hardest time including whirlwinds in my schedules and estimates. They're such a pain to manage.
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:50] <exec> 08└─> sustaining minimum power during the storm "keep the rover's heaters operational", because under 40 degrees, even mil/space chips may not operate. Hence the "keep warm" Tauntaun reference. Yuck, I don't like this update. Discard a car after 15 years, sure, but after 15 years of defying the odds, yo...
[17:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06White House Confirms its Chief of Staff's E-Mail Account was Hacked - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:53] <exec> 08└─are you stupid or full of shit? you don't have to worry about the competence of the 3rd party candidates for years. the point is to stop funding the controlled two parties, like a stupid fucking slave, and throw a couple bucks at getting 3rd party candidates into debates and whatnot. just 3rd party...
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[18:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:27] <exec> 08└─Users will still be able to access the forums and get advice from each one, albeit without feedback from a Microsoft employee.
[18:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:28] <exec> 08└─Nothing of value was lost. Microsoft's forums were never the principal source of trouble shooting anyway, there are a hundred other forums for more reliable information. All 39 people running Windows 8.1 may be dismayed. But the truth is the free "upgrade" (cough) to Windows 10 works better on any h...
[18:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:38] <exec> 08└─This makes me a bit concerned. People look at instant runoff voting as a sort of panacea. The problem is that, depending on how you define it, it can lead to bad results. For an example see this election [wikipedia.org]. I prefer one of the systems that elect a Condorcet winner. However, with every...
[18:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:40] <exec> 08└─It's not a panacea, but it does mean that the winner is likely to at least not be completely loathed by the majority, which is a good thing. Also, on the off-chance that you're a politician trying to do right by your constituents (I know, fantasy, but let's pretend for a moment), it would be really...
[18:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:43] <exec> 08└─304:531 is a solid majority, it's not too far from 60%. I get it, it doesn't matter if what you're saying makes any sense, just as long as it's anti-Trump, right?
[18:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:45] <exec> 08└─62,984,828:128,838,342 is not a majority, it is only 48%. If you "got it" you know that's what the AC parent meant. But whatever, we happily elect you Most Pedantic if it makes you happy.
[18:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:47] <exec> 08└─When dealing with humans, nothing is perfect. The question is, which solution is less bad? If you dislike the 2-party system then this process is less-bad. Duvergers Law indicates that our current process tends toward 2 parties by nature. [wikipedia.org]
[18:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:49] <exec> 08└─Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that you are in favor of Ranked Choice Voting. Okay? How would you vote — "Yes" or "No"? Here is the actual text of the Ballot Question [ballotpedia.org]: Question 1: Do you want to reject the parts of a new law that would delay the use of ranked-choice voti...
[18:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:52] <exec> 08└─Trump campaign to win by the rules in place. Given different rules, he probably would have won by those rules, by tailoring his campaign accordingly. If the election were held today, just about ANY rules would have Trump re-elected.
[18:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:54] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with "Should Maine have ranked voting system for electing congresscritters?" Yes No
[18:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:27] <exec> 08└─Or it didn't happen.
[18:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:29] <exec> 08└─Very interesting. Thanks.
[18:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:20] <exec> 08└─first time in history we have had so much power and control consolidated into the hands of a very few people, only taking one rogue or misinformed actor to put the whole doomsday scenario in play.
[18:35:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:21] <exec> 08└─I, who long ago exhausted Netflix's library,...
[18:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:23] <exec> 08└─I've predicted (multiple times on those pages) that the death of NN will cause the collapse and subsequent purchase of Netflix assets by one of the giant ISPs. I'm willing to consider this one a coincidence. But that doesn't change the inevitable.
[18:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Recently Launched Twin Satellites Create 'The Himalaya Plot' - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:35] <exec> 08└─In a game of thermonuclear war, an individual wastebasket doesn't quite matter, because there's always another wastebasket available. City centers and datacenters don't move.
[18:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:43] <exec> 08└─if space weren't a problem
[18:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Zika is Not an STD - Semen Inhibits Zika Virus Infection - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:56] <exec> 08└─... if there's a danger of Zika infection, we need more bukake scenes?
[18:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:32] <exec> 08└─And those that are flushed then become consultants or lobbyists.
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─The observation you are reporting is correct. The hypothesis of the cause is unsubstantiated. Based on past stories and behavior my guess is that very few of the writers and none of the editors understand the problem enough to bother about it, and if they did they would assume that their audience co...
[18:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Soccer League Turns App Users Into Piracy Spies - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:14] <exec> 08└─They have some skills. One of them is choosing a goal and a lot of commitment, they overcome any difficulty, they remove any obstacle, including moral or legal obstacles. Another skill is hiring the right people for the right work. And people won't decide do something about it, not in a statisticall...
[18:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:53] <exec> 08└─It probably will be, at least somewhat. But it's worth remembering that usually the easy, cheap, optimizations are done early, and later on you just get incremental improvements. When this isn't true it's generally because of a major change in the technology used, in which case the rare-earth elemen...
[18:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Global Investment in Wind, Solar Exceeds That of Fossil Fuels - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:55] <exec> 08└─OK. Now you're probably talking about long distance transport of high voltage DC. That's been talked about, but it requires a substantial investment before you start seeing pay-back. It's done in a few places, but you need to design a system where lots of small suppliers can contribute power, and an...
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[19:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:22] <exec> 08└─For some reason, this bothers me: foxnews.com/science/
[19:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlwaysNever [5817] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:31] <exec> 08└─Microsoft is NOT your friend. It's always a healthy thing to remind mortal users about this fact.
[19:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:48] <exec> 08└─That must be some tasty koolaid you're sipping.
[19:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:50] <exec> 08└─I find it funny, that in that particular example, the presumed winner using the old method would have been the same. So the argument mentioned in the wiki that IRV "elected an extremist" seems really skewed, especially when he was an incumbent, who won his first IRV election without an uproar being...
[19:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:52] <exec> 08└─since you're no longer throwing away the preferences other than the #1 choice.
[19:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:54] <exec> 08└─> If the election were held today, just about ANY rules would have Trump re-elected. No quite, I can think of a few exceptions right away 1) only I can vote 2) the rest of the world votes 3) Ok, not the whole rest of the world, just countries where the US has bases ... our allies. 4) Votes are multi...
[19:33:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:56] <exec> 08└─People might vote $wrong.
[19:33:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:59] <exec> 08└─People might vote $wrong.
[19:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:01] <exec> 08└─If you dislike the 2-party system then this process is less-bad.
[19:34:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:03] <exec> 08└─2) the rest of the world votes
[19:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:05] <exec> 08└─As khallow would say: "The obvious debuttal is. . . ". Maine somehow manged to "elect" Mad Rage LePage, so it is not like they could do worse.
[19:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:08] <exec> 08└─I didn't say you'd save the votes for upcoming elections, which is ridiculous. I'm talking about the raw data, the ballots themselves. Compare two hypothetical results, first the plurality results: Smith (i.e. Smith > Jones or Johnson) - 150,255 Jones (i.e. Jones > Smith or Johnson) - 200,127 Johnso...
[19:34:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:10] <exec> 08└─By "fair" do you mean all the illegals in California illegally voting?
[19:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:46] <exec> 08└─It was shaped like a human skull. After being crushed by $my_team, it acquired the familiar oblong shape. Didn't you know that's how all footballs are made? Why else would we be so adamant to preserve the legacy softening process (non-specialists refer to it as "concussions") ?
[19:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:48] <exec> 08└─So, how did it become deformed? Repeated concussions?
[19:34:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:50] <exec> 08└─Just what elements NOT on the periodic table is it made of? I would argue that these 10 Elements [popularmechanics.com] are not found on Earth. They're on the periodic table but they're created in a lab.
[19:34:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:52] <exec> 08└─Good thing we have dilithium and drunken Montanans to shoot dead any invaders from space.
[19:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06This Heavy Element Has a US Football-Shaped Atomic Nucleus - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:54] <exec> 08└─Here you go [adelaide.edu.au].
[19:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 061.45 Million Children's Lives Saved by Hib and Pneumococcal Vaccines Since 2000 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, clearly those children would have rather just died painful deaths. Cynicism is just so lazy....
[19:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:49] <exec> 08└─I read the Bible in the original Greek and wondered to myself how lesser souls spend their time. I pity them.
[19:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:51] <exec> 08└─To be fair, it's been this way for over 50 years Humans have been around a bit longer than that...
[19:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe they were only interested in a tiny subset of the library.
[19:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:55] <exec> 08└─Hmm, yes, well, i'm not interested in the 5 seasons of "Charmed" and i lost all interest in "Lost" after the second season. Also, Netflix helped me exhaust its library by dramatically shrinking it...
[19:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:57] <exec> 08└─The contexts the various ISPs have made these promises in have been to home users. I've been operating under the assumption it didn't apply to content providers and cloud services on the other end of the line, precisely with precisely threats like that...
[19:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:00] <exec> 08└─Really? That's impressive. How was that? Did you find it gave you new understanding?
[19:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:44] <exec> 08└─It's the Mafia-like habit of our governments: If someone from $family did something, there is no way $family didn't know, because otherwise they would kill him for acting unauthorized. Conversely, if that member gets caught by someone else, $family doesn't know that he was doing anything, and would...
[19:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:46] <exec> 08└─what does any of this have to do with what I wrote about Enigma being unbreakable when used with proper procedures? They want unbreakable security that they can break, in case it falls into enemy hands. They will throw the security away in a heartbeat if it inconveniences them too much, and hoke up...
[19:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Carbon Capture From Air Closer to Commercial Viability - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─Also called a "tree". Just plant enough of them (or better, stop deforesting like there's no tomorrow) - problem solved. For every problem there is a solution that is simple, elegant, and wrong. It would take 467 billion [greenismything.com] trees to offset the C02 emissions of just the US.
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[20:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:29] <exec> 08└─Well, absolutely in character for the submitter, but might tell something about the editors... But certainly it's the ridiculous Green Lake that had the (D) - and isn't the name telling! - while the victorious Kilauea would have carried the (R), if not a TRUMP in all caps.
[20:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:30] <exec> 08└─I live in a city built on something like 50 volcanoes, the youngest of which is only 600 years old. None of them are erupting at the moment, but when I see the videos from Hawaii I feel like I ought to be more worried than I am. Wikipedia reassures me that the volcanic field is dormant. Whatever t...
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[20:33:32] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/TIEnMyl-6Qo [youtu.be]
[20:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:35] <exec> 08└─When this whole thing started with the lava getting close to it's first house one of the news droids was interviewing some guy. He said "Why doesn't the fire department come out and help us?". I'd love to see that news droid track this idiot down and ask "So, still think the fire department is gonna...
[20:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:46] <exec> 08└─Every time someone posts anything to the Microsoft Support forums, some Indian guy named Rameesh Manmeat or some other very Indian-sounding name shows up with a Microsoft MVP badge and says "you need to try a 'clean boot'" and gives generic ass directions on how to make things even worse. They don't...
[20:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:48] <exec> 08└─It was the written version of Moss asking you if you had turned it off and on again.
[20:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:51] <exec> 08└─This. I can't even begin to count the number of times I have heard people confidently parrot that Microsoft will continue to patch/activate/not clobber products or some such after some level of support ends. So far Microsoft has been relatively generous compared to some other companies, but unless y...
[20:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:19] <exec> 08└─Well, actually, what GP was probably trying to say is that you do not have to put Lesser Evil in the first place, for fear that voting for your real preference will be diverting votes from Lesser Evil, and help Greater Evil win. Instead you can vote for your real preference, and then put Lesser Evil...
[20:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:20] <exec> 08└─This is why the US has a two party system, and why presidents win despite getting less than 50% of the vote Much of the country agree that "the voting system should be better". The incumbants rely on the fact that some people want ranked list, some want STV, some want condorcet, etc, etc Due to this...
[20:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:22] <exec> 08└─One could as easily say that any election system that leads to multi-party systems invariably leads to government by the political class. Well, one could say that. But that statement would apply to every other Democratic system on the planet as well. Democracy is the worst form of government, except...
[20:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:25] <exec> 08└─I'm trying to understand the problem with that example, seems to work exactly as planned.
[20:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:27] <exec> 08└─Ireland had a vote The population said no The government said "why, what's the problem" The population said "this, this and this" The government said "OK, here we've fixed this, this and this, what do you think now" The population said "Yes, that's fine"
[20:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:29] <exec> 08└─So dumb
[20:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:32] <exec> 08└─I dunno, cheeto koolaid sounds pretty gross.
[20:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:34] <exec> 08└─So your position amounts to: Trump über alles. Got it. That's clearly the result of careful consideration of the available data, and there's no president that's ever managed things better than Trump. /sarcasm Here are some rules: We're going to go back in time, bring back a clone any president sinc...
[20:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 1319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:36] <exec> 08└─If that were actually true. Yet, voter fraud has been investigated numerous times, and never found to be in any significant amounts. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong with citations, which of course can't be Fox News, a White Nationalists propaganda outlet (Brietbart), or the Daily Storme...
[20:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:39] <exec> 08└─Are you? Perhaps just disingenuous. What you're actually stating is that Trump got the majority of the Electoral College. Duh, of course he did otherwise he couldn't win right? What you were referring to was a statement, that anybody with an unbiased brain, could understand as being related to the P...
[20:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 1581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:41] <exec> 08└─I think you're mixing up IRV and proportional voting in an interesting but misleading way, here. First thing to note is that IRV implies a majority vote, really, and does not make much sense in a proportional vote (except perhaps in combination with an electoral threshold, but that's a bit of a corn...
[20:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:21] <exec> 08└─I’m glad they included the stock trading moniker, otherwise I would have had no idea who Netflix was. Or maybe this was someone playing net neutrality games and wanted to be sure the stock manipulation was properly targeted at the correct trading entity.
[20:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:22] <exec> 08└─But not with the capability to destroy the planet after getting out of bed on the wrong side. In the past people have subjigated the planet, from Alexander the Great to Hitler, but nobody has been able to destroy it -- even the Mongols could only affect a small part of the planet, and that was over...
[20:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:09] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we just need to take people at their word that Iraq has WMD. And then kill millions of people on that basis. Present evidence to the appropriate courts or organisations, or don't make the claim in public. You'll notice that plenty of countries, faced with actual attacks involving the deaths of...
[20:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:20] <exec> 08└─That comment's got me thinking: Opportunity has been as on Mars for as long as my 14-year-old car has been out of the factory.
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[21:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the insane are running the asylum. Its left-wing strain of Catholicism
[21:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:18] <exec> 08└─how many man benis u love frojack all of them!! god smite u
[21:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─"Yeah, they could use their hoses to refill our lake."
[21:33:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:32] <exec> 08└─Anyone see anything about this lakes volume? I can't find it anywhere. Of course wikipedia lists it as a "former lake" already. But the pictures it has of it don't make it appear very large.
[21:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I think this was a pretty small lake. Wikipedia claims it was 200 feet deep, and numerous news sources have repeated that, but state data files [hawaii.gov] from Hawaii say its maximum depth is only 20 feet, with a surface area of 2 acres. (Just wondering aloud -- does no one do anything like...
[21:33:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:36] <exec> 08└─Of course it is dormant. You wouldn't need me to tell you if it were not: earthquakes, eruption noise and your neighbourhood flattened by lava flows are hard-to-miss signs of non-dormancy, even for the uninitiated.
[21:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:39] <exec> 08└─Were there any species of plant/animal that were unique to this body of water?
[21:33:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:41] <exec> 08└─I get that you're being sarcastic about something, but what is your point?
[21:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:43] <exec> 08└─> Wikipedia reassures me that the volcanic field is dormant. Whatever that means. Don't worry, I'm sure that if there's an eruption during Wikipedia's lifetime, someone will update the page once the lava's flowing through the streets. And then it will be reverted as original research.
[21:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:45] <exec> 08└─Found this [bishopmuseum.org] survey of Hawaiian lakes, which includes a detailed map of the lake with depth indicated on page 6, indicating maximum depth between 6 and 7 meters (about 20 feet). Perhaps all the "200 feet deep" sources might be fake news.
[21:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:48] <exec> 08└─And your comment perfectly in character for an AC. Prove the story wrong, or STFU.
[21:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:50] <exec> 08└─It may be a science story, but the embedded video still feels very Fox New. Big headlines in all caps and bolding point words in red. Such as: LAVA FROM THE FISSURE 8 STARTED FILLING THE LAKE... AND WITHIN 90 MINUTES... THE MOLTEN ROCK EVAPORATED THE ENTIRE BODY OF WATER... WHICH IS ABOUT 200 FEET D...
[21:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:52] <exec> 08└─It's not entirely unheard of - Iceland managed it in the 1970s, but those were different circumstances with a very different flow rate. The BBC has an interesting article on ways people have tried diverting lava in the past: https://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[21:34:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:04] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums
[21:34:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:06] <exec> 08└─It was the written version of Moss asking you if you had turned it off and on again.
[21:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:46] <exec> 08└─"What you're actually stating is that Trump got the majority of the Electoral College. Duh, of course he did otherwise he couldn't win right?" The Electoral College is the body who elects the President, so in that sense you are correct, however if you're implying that he had to win a majority on the...
[21:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:47] <exec> 08└─Anyone that thinks vote fraud isn't rampant in the big Clinton vote centers, including notoriously corrupt cities like Chicago, is nuts. Of course it's rarely proven, that's the whole point to endemic corruption, the folks in power are all crooks so they can count on each other to perpetuate cover-u...
[21:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:05] <exec> 08└─Try setting up an auto-ducking system in Audacity - it would take a specific plugin. With a full DAW you can do something like auto-duck by arranging a signal processing chain and splitting the detector input from the input that will be processed on a dynamic range compressor. That's just the start.
[21:35:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:07] <exec> 08└─you should try Joe https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io [sourceforge.io]
[21:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GnuPG Patched to Thwart 'Fake Filename' - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:55] <exec> 08└─I buy a lot of jewelry, so let me tell you. Ruby has always been precious. And it used to be that turquoise or obsidian were semi-precious. But the guy at Tiffany's tells me, any natural (not fake) stone they make jewelry with is now considered precious. Officially they're all precious so long as th...
[21:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:34] <exec> 08└─Is there any evidence indicating that this might actually be related to net neutrality and not bog-standard IT incompetence
[21:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 4317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:21] <exec> 08└─I have an air-conditioned office and server rooms. Every winter, everyone comes and hides in my office "because it's lovely and warm". Every summer, everyone comes and hides in my office "because it's lovely and cool". The temperature literally hasn't deviated 1 degree in four years (except once in...
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[21:38:49] <exec> 08└─We honestly could today. The biggest shift will be explaining that IPv* is part of the problem, and that a protocol is the fundamental part of the solution. Such a protocol would have to be topology independent, and feature automated routing and be tolerant of bad actors. Not insuperable.
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[22:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:34] <exec> 08└─So not actually teaching? Was anything of value really lost? If you look at the distribution of jobs within universities over the last few decades, you'll see that 30% of the current "jobs" are administrative nonsense that nobody had a need for in the past.
[22:33:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:36] <exec> 08└─"Its left-wing strain of Catholicism" That's not entirely a bad thing, considering the right-wing strain of Catholicism originated the Inquisition. Unfortunately it sounds like they're getting sucked into the ctrl-left maelstrom with all the usual insanity accompanying.
[22:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:38] <exec> 08└─A little perspective on the source: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.insidehighered.com [insidehighered.com]
[22:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:40] <exec> 08└─A few more... https://www.snopes.com [snopes.com] http://www.politifact.com [politifact.com] The first one being especially rich.
[22:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:43] <exec> 08└─Still, most of the damage is done by the 30% actually doing the teaching. The Janitors grounds keepers, cooks plumbers and electricians probably are blameless and necessary.
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:45] <exec> 08└─> The Janitors grounds keepers, cooks plumbers and electricians probably are blameless and necessary. Strangely, we're in agreement for once. However, those were roles that were also considered necessary half a century back and beyond, and therefore do not fall into the class I thought I was quite e...
[22:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:47] <exec> 08└─Was anything of value really lost?
[22:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:50] <exec> 08└─So things like this never happened? [youtube.com]
[22:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:52] <exec> 08└─Thank you for those. As soon as I saw right-minded news... on the college fix's masthead I thought: Oh, well, this ought to be good It turns out the college fix is (partly) just a propaganda outlet for Besty Devoss' weirdo brand of nastiness.
[22:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:54] <exec> 08└─radical Islam's threat to gay people,
[22:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:18] <exec> 08└─It would be expensive but not too difficult to remove the solified lava and volcanic ash.
[22:34:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:19] <exec> 08└─Back around 1935 the Army dropped bombs in the volcano to try and deviate or stop the flow. Before that Pele got virgins thrown in, but that probably wouldn't work today due to a shortage. I think the best way to stop a volcano would be by throwing every SJW and Hillary fan into the caldera, and top...
[22:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:21] <exec> 08└─Please update wikipedia before trying to outrun the pyroclastic flows.
[22:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:24] <exec> 08└─Actually, lava flows have been steered via water cooling in a number of instances. Efforts to reduce damage caused by the force of the lava flow have been made several times, notably in the form of the construction of dikes or ramparts. The protection measures at Heimaey are undoubtedly the most ext...
[22:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:26] <exec> 08└─> That's a pretty small lake. May have been important (as not many freshwater lakes in Hawaii) but sounds tiny as bodies of water go. That's still a lot of water to boil off in less than 5 hours. Maybe I should move there, the kids will get their pasta a whole lot faster than with my not-really-puny...
[22:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:29] <exec> 08└─Still can't get it right, can they? WHICH WAS ABOUT 200 FEET DEEP.
[22:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:31] <exec> 08└─Whoosh
[22:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:33] <exec> 08└─It's like Maui, and Mt. Saint Helens - they're dormant until they're not.
[22:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:36] <exec> 08└─https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2017/09/12/study-91-percent-of-recent-network-trump-coverage-has-been-negative/?utm_term=.b08e91478ec4 [washingtonpost.com] Even fox has more negative coverage than Trump than positive.
[22:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:38] <exec> 08└─It's a fresh story on Fox it seems, but amusingly it was covered on other sites around a week or more ago (note the date in the URL below from NPR) https://www.npr.org [npr.org] Green Lake was gone in hours. Lava from Kilaue...
[22:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:40] <exec> 08└─And do not text and drive...
[22:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:42] <exec> 08└─Well, RDT summed it up for that crew, this is in their unexpected-consequences dept. OTOH, the fire dept. could have pitched in a hand first getting people evacuated, and second maybe helping to save some property if there wasn't any risk to life and limb in doing so.
[22:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:45] <exec> 08└─Most informative link in the threads on this post!
[22:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:47] <exec> 08└─Well, the wikipedia bullshit injection is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org As added by "Sounder Bruce" who self-identifies as "I am Bruce Englehardt, board member of Cascadia Wikimedians User Group. I primarily edit articles...
[22:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:49] <exec> 08└─Shield volcanoes generally don't make big scooped out shapes that hold water (other in the caldera). does no one do anything like fact-checking anymore
[22:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:51] <exec> 08└─Usually, when you do clever things to alter nature: dams, levees, causeways, channels, etc. there are unexpected prices to pay later (unpleasant ecosystem development, more dramatic flooding when it comes, accelerated erosion, etc.), and maintaining the clever structure can quickly cost more than bu...
[22:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:54] <exec> 08└─Oh good. br. That's got me feeling better then.
[22:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:56] <exec> 08└─What Bruce forgot to mention was that the 200' deep point in the lake was in a lava tube 6' wide, which silted over in the 1950s.... (also fake news...)
[22:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:58] <exec> 08└─Sort of like building up Florida's coastal developments to keep pace with rising sea level... yeah, that's going to go well.
[22:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:01] <exec> 08└─Maybe I should move there, the kids will get their pasta a whole lot faster than with my not-really-puny gas range.
[22:35:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 525 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:30] <exec> 08└─Let's assume, for the sake of argument, that you are in favor of Ranked Choice Voting. Okay? How would you vote — "Yes" or "No"? Here is the actual text of the Ballot Question [ballotpedia.org]: Question 1: Do you want to reject the parts of a new law that would delay the use of ranked-choice voti...
[22:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Newander [4850] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:57] <exec> 08└─So, the best evidence of fraud is that there's no evidence of fraud?
[22:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:18] <exec> 08└─...then again, for those who find the app useful, Notepad++ 7.x and Notepad++ 6.x via WINE are rated Silver. google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=site:appdb.winehq.org/objectManager+intitle:Notepad+Notepad%2B%2B+Latest.Rating.*.*.* Note: The S/N comments engine is still broken and will strip out e.g %2B fro...
[22:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GnuPG Patched to Thwart 'Fake Filename' - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:08] <exec> 08└─In Alberta, we have fossils. Lots and lots of fossils. Some are dinosaurs, some are trees, and some are just oil. We drilled up the oil, and sold it to America. We dug up the dinosaurs and put them in a museum (a ROYAL museum). Some guy (a very smart guy) found a fossil of a snail or something. It w...
[22:40:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Opportunity Rover is in Danger of Dying From a Dust Storm - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:46] <exec> 08└─I wonder if they could parlay this entry in the news cycle into a marketing point for funding for more Mars (or other) probes, as a success story for how NASA gets so much bang for their buck.
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[23:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:21] <exec> 08└─How many other countries ever had it? How is their internet different?
[23:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:22] <exec> 08└─What exactly happened to this?: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Did that never make it through the House or something?
[23:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:24] <exec> 08└─I would comment, but I'm afraid that Comcast may reclassify my home internet traffic, A) charging me more, and B) throttling my bandwidth while C) compensating by offering me free bandwidth to VUDU and Sony Playstation Online.
[23:33:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:26] <exec> 08└─It's just blatant propaganda coming from the Federal Communication Commission. Y'know a little good old fashioned government sponsored disinformation. No biggie, right?
[23:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:29] <exec> 08└─It was a political gesture. It was never expected to make it through the House of Reps.
[23:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Officially Repeals Net Neutrality Rules; FOIA Request Reveals Details of Bogus DDoS Attack - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:31] <exec> 08└─Did that never make it through the House or something? Paul Ryan and the House Republicans are refusing to even hold a vote on it. [thehill.com] Vote Dem in the midterms if you want your net neutrality back.
[23:33:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 241 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:42] <exec> 08└─A little perspective on the source: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.insidehighered.com [insidehighered.com]
[23:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:50] <exec> 08└─So how does moderate/centrist (?) Islam feel about it?
[23:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:53] <exec> 08└─Not wanting to lie on behalf of this corrupt administration is considered censorship now.
[23:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dozens of Layoffs at University Given ‘Lifetime Censorship Award’ as Enrollment Plunges - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:55] <exec> 08└─And right-wing anti-intellectual bullocks like this is posted to the main page? WTF, SoylentFakeNews? No bias here, nope, none at all. Nothing to see here! Poor conservatives! They get censored so much! And now the Catholics are censering them, as well! So sad. Maybe now the stupid can get the fo...
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[23:34:38] <exec> 08└─Hopefully it will last long enough to be cited by a news story, which can then be used a basis for re-editing the wikipedia page. ;-)
[23:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:40] <exec> 08└─On Mt. Saint Helens they had suspicions for years, and pretty strong warnings 3 months ahead of the big boom: https://sciencing.com [sciencing.com]
[23:34:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, the Green Lake pickerel. RIP
[23:34:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:44] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia reassures me that the volcanic field is dormant. Whatever that means.
[23:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:46] <exec> 08└─Before that Pele got virgins thrown in, but that probably wouldn't work today due to a shortage.
[23:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:49] <exec> 08└─That's still a lot of water to boil off in less than 5 hours.
[23:34:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hawaii Volcano: Kilauea Lava Boiled Away Big Island's Largest Freshwater Lake - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:34:51] <exec> 08└─Our local museum has a fantstic interactive volcano exhibit, and they assure us that there will be some warning, (they think). If there is an eruption, I will just blame the government. It's a policy that has served me well.
[23:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Pulls The Plug On Windows 7, 8.1 Support Forums - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:05] <exec> 08└─With black jack. And hookers.
[23:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:49] <exec> 08└─There are lots of numerical relationships you could pull out of your tailfeathers that are less than 50%, I'm not sure why you think that's relevant. IN FACT, there were 531 votes available and 304 of them went for Trump. You can spin that any way you want but it's simply an undeniable fact that he...
[23:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Maine Debuts Ranked-Choice Voting - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:50] <exec> 08└─As someone over 50 I can definately understand timestamps, so can follow who responds to who and time elapsed between each response, but when I read these posts I get completely lost! Can you tldr eli5?
[23:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ASIFA-Hollywood Continues Commitment to Open Source Animation Technology - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:11] <exec> 08└─My browser times out on the scintilla.org site every time I try to reach it.
[23:37:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Netflix Suffers First Massive Global Outage - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:26] <exec> 08└─Ahh, but the great thing about the cloud is you can blame major catastrophic failures on someone else, so they don't really count.
[23:38:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Report: Chinese Hackers Siphon Off "Massive" Amounts Of Undersea Military Data - 1297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:05] <exec> 08└─1) They broke into your secure systems. You obviously don't know how to make them. 2) They did it without you knowing at first. 3) They then managed to re-transmit that data somehow. Back over your own lines maybe? If so, boy do your "secure" systems need work. 4) The data stolen could be useful to...
[23:39:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03black6host [3827] 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 561 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─Back in the day, we ran BBS's. Some, like mine, at no charge to those who cared to dial in. We communicated all over the world via FidoNet, we played games, we did all kinds of stuff. Yeah, I know, no copper lines anymore so those days are gone. But, we have a lot of new technology, and much more to...
[23:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 0670+ Internet Luminaries Ring the Alarm on EU Copyright Filtering Proposal - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:58] <exec> 08└─The biggest shift will be explaining that IPv* is part of the problem, and that a protocol is the fundamental part of the solution. Such a protocol would have to be topology independent, and feature automated routing and be tolerant of bad actors.
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