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[00:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:46] <exec> 08└─It is interesting I keep hearing this quote. But never any citation of it. "I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time." -- Bill Gates
[00:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:47] <exec> 08└─I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
[00:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:49] <exec> 08└─I was going to shit on this story until I saw it was the "ruler" form factor [soylentnews.org] and not standard 2.5" drives. Are these significantly more space-efficient than 2.5" SSDs in a rack, or just easier to maintain with better cooling? I haven't found the dimensions of the form factor yet, b...
[00:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:07] <exec> 08└─Everything you listed is right, but you forgot one essential factor in that list: the energy. No local oxygen and dinojuice, solar constant at half the Earth one, rarefied atmosphere won't push enough into wind turbines, no hydropower. The only way I can think to have that energy: send ahead portabl...
[00:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:09] <exec> 08└─no way to produce anything locally, as it demands already developed industry (on Earth it took thousands of years of spiral development with free water, oxygen, nitrogen)
[00:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:11] <exec> 08└─We had a very productive meeting in Davos, Switzerland. Where we talked about going to Mars. Same thing these guys are talking about. Because these guys work for us. We pay them and they do whatever the hell we tell them to do!! #WEF18 [twitter.com]
[00:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:13] <exec> 08└─"Secretive" != "Secret". I stand by my word choice.
[00:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:15] <exec> 08└─Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
[00:09:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:37] <exec> 08└─There's been a bill before the US congress to require a vaccine against early-onset stupidity, but the Republicans keep voting it down.
[00:09:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, see, I wanted math not ad-hom.
[00:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:54] <exec> 08└─I think he refers to the desire for ecological stability, and most research points to humanity needing to drastically reduce its population. That is a far cry from the implied genocide, but hey it helps the narrative amirite boiz?
[00:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:55] <exec> 08└─"I'm pretty sure most kids are scared of needles." And what does that have to do with it? "Should we make a little grave in front of your door for all the kids who will die of simple ailments that modern medicine has solved, if we start listening to them saying no to injections and transfusions ?" W...
[00:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:57] <exec> 08└─What is the point of sudo if you have to say please as well?
[00:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:00] <exec> 08└─Honestly I think the majority of conservatives who support Trump would recoil if we went full Nazi. His stance on regulations and taxes seems to be the clincher for most of them. They tolerate his insanity by lying to themselves about it so they can keep getting those sweet tax breaks and regulation...
[00:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:02] <exec> 08└─I choose to drive my semi in the left lane, because fuck your civilization and its rules designed to save lives. I know better than to drive on the right with all the morons.
[00:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:04] <exec> 08└─So when the inevitable AI uprising happens the computer remembers you treated it with some modicum of respect?
[00:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:07] <exec> 08└─Seriously, guys, no love for my Screaming Lord Sutch reference? What, are you a bunch of milliennials?
[00:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:09] <exec> 08└─You vastly overestimate "conservatives" in general and Trump supporters in particular. There are people on this site who half-jokingly refer to him as "God-Emperor," but it seems that a good chunk of the US population, call it around 10-15%, actually believe it, though they don't use the term explic...
[00:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:11] <exec> 08└─The problem with immunisations is the so-called herd effect (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd_immunity). You have to have a minimum percentage of people immunised to avoid a possible epidemic outbreak and if enough people choose not to have their children inoculated it will become a problem as the...
[00:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:35] <exec> 08└─Sure. But what about that claim so long ago that bitcoin would BE money. That you'd use it same as cash for the morning Starbucks and a newspaper?
[00:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:37] <exec> 08└─In the context of other instruments, we call them "merchant bankers".
[00:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:39] <exec> 08└─Turns out you can... https://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com] Acceptance is growing quickly. Your VISA card isn't worth anything in places that don't accept credit cards either.
[00:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Let's Encrypt is Now Officially Trusted by All Major Root Programs - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:54] <exec> 08└─Brian Lunduke has the same take - why encrypt if you don't have to: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] and https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] It just adds complexity and is an overhead. Has anyone got a step-by-step guide on obtaining a cert and setting...
[00:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Bankruptcy Increases Among USA Seniors - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:11] <exec> 08└─much easier jobs than I ever have
[00:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Bankruptcy Increases Among USA Seniors - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:12] <exec> 08└─I told my own parents to spend their money
[00:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farming Impact of Australia's Worst Drought in Recent Memory - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:32] <exec> 08└─Time we all started to eat more roo meat. There's a plague of kangaroos in the fridge affected areas. Kangaroos also require a *lot* less water and chemicals to farm than cows. Time to start adapting to droughts. Maybe the cotton and rice farmers will go this way too.
[00:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farming Impact of Australia's Worst Drought in Recent Memory - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:33] <exec> 08└─Fridge = drought Here in wintery Melbourne, it is a bit fridge affected.
[00:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Island Living Can Shrink Humans - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:51] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what they do in the Islands, but where I live we grow 'em. You get a bunch of little Islanders and throw a rugby ball to them. Just a few years later, they're all 110 kilos and can run like the wind. You then select 15 of the biggest ones, put a black jersey on them [wikipedia.org] a...
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[01:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:44] <exec> 08└─Deliver Chinese food at 5x the speed of sound. Now your eggrolls won't be soggy by the time you get them.
[01:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:45] <exec> 08└─If our species had a workable, humane way to manage the size of our population relative to the available resources, then phrases such as "technology that could intensify pressure on the US military" would be accepted as the stupid notions that they are.
[01:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:48] <exec> 08└─Eggrolls are not Chinese. They were invented by the Romans around 125 b.c.
[01:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:50] <exec> 08└─What resources have you missed lately?
[01:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:52] <exec> 08└─The U.S. military is doing its best to manage the size of the islamist population relative to the available resources, you insensitive clod. If you would increase their budget they could get the job done faster.
[01:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:54] <exec> 08└─If our species had a workable, humane way to manage the size of our population relative to the available resources, then phrases such as "technology that could intensify pressure on the US military" would be accepted as the stupid notions that they are.
[01:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:57] <exec> 08└─Don't worry! When F35 will be flight-worthy... any day now. (grin)
[01:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:59] <exec> 08└─Space Force
[01:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:01] <exec> 08└─"Thank you China ! Thank you ! Thank you ! Thank you ! Now we have a successful test to point to, so we can scare politicians and gobble billions of dollars building some counter-measure that will never ever be used! Garcon, another round of champagne, please!" Raytheon, Northrop, Boeing, and friend...
[01:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:04] <exec> 08└─Ends up fighting the Chinese on the ground and aliens in the space.
[01:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:06] <exec> 08└─çççççççç 💥 🇨🇳
[01:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:20] <exec> 08└─Not quite a typo: the title says "Single Rack". The content says per Rack Unit. Huge difference in density. Now, how many years at max bandwidth, complete with data overage charges, would it take to find and download 1PB of porn ?
[01:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:44] <exec> 08└─It would be more efficient to simply use that power to do the heating and do away with cryptocurrency which is an astonishing waste of energy and resources on Earth
[01:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:46] <exec> 08└─They will pass their time by mining.
[01:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:48] <exec> 08└─They had better send a balanced male-female ration if they want to avoid severe problems...but getting the women is problematical.
[01:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─Porn always seems to lead in applications for new tech, why should Mars be different?
[01:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:52] <exec> 08└─Secretion, excretion, what's the difference anyway?
[01:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:55] <exec> 08└─Whenever I hear this its from people who have no idea how much energy is used for various things, oh and they just dont like people using energy for stuff they dont like.
[01:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:57] <exec> 08└─Currently illegal, see the Outer space treaty [wikipedia.org]: Article II of the Treaty states that "outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means".
[01:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:45] <exec> 08└─You could fit the entire global population in Texas
[01:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:13] <exec> 08└─Neither is your Riyal or North Korean Won.
[01:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retrofitting a Motorola MDT-9100T "Mobile Data Terminal" with a BeagleBone Black - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:20] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I think the coolest thing is that the previously-unknown screen can be driven just by tweaking some device tree settings. It may be utterly bollocks syntax, but it's very powerful. He should have sniffed the radio i/f before upgrading.
[01:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06History's Fastest Jettisoned Gas From Stellar Outburst Discovered - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:40] <exec> 08└─You underedtimate it! If it blew 170 years ago, and we're seeing it, 2700 LY away, now, then it's travelling at 16c! Or journalists could incorporate some awareness of special relaticity in their atronomy pieces.
[01:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06History's Fastest Jettisoned Gas From Stellar Outburst Discovered - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:41] <exec> 08└─We're seeing its light, yes, but the speed described in the article was the speed of the actual matter.
[01:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Finding Fake Amazon Reviews - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:56] <exec> 08└─Ditto. I'm a beer hunter, and if I'm presented with a list of beers too long to sample/buy them all at a bar or shop, then I will look at other raters' scores/reviews. But the fanboys never tell me anything. Idiot kneejerk haters (such as myself) tell me nothing, but haters who actually explain why...
[01:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:13] <exec> 08└─H-factor was invented for a reason. No amount of shitty long tail can improve your H.
[01:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:14] <exec> 08└─Consider that John Forbes Nash won a Nobel for just one paper he wrote on the back of a cocktail napkin. Surely there must be some better alternative than sheer volume.
[01:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:16] <exec> 08└─Have you never encountered journals that insist on you signing over exclusive rights to publish upon submission? Basically an "I won't shop around" promise. Plenty of that in big-name maths journals.
[01:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Bankruptcy Increases Among USA Seniors - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:58] <exec> 08└─What's funny is that a lot of the stuff these people go into debt for makes them happy for five minutes and then they don't care anymore. You can enjoy life without being a debt slave, constantly wasting money on drugs (including alcohol), etc. So the 'live in the present' argument is total nonsense...
[01:18:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ISPs’ Listed Speeds Drop Up to 41% After UK Requires Accurate Advertising - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:40] <exec> 08└─The sane way to do that is to have a JS shim in the non~JS page that immediately redirects to the full-bloat page.
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[02:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:54] <exec> 08└─Did anyone notice 243 = [3][24] -> March 24th : https://www.ajc.com [ajc.com] Also, 3704 = [463]* [8] = [4 - 2][6 - 2][3 - 0] *[8] -> [243]
[02:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:56] <exec> 08└─It got the right answers! By which I mean it got the currently-elected officials elected, so what's the problem? And as Boss Tweed put it in Gangs of New York: "Remember the first rule of politics. The ballots don't make the results, the counters make the results. The counters. Keep counting."
[02:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:15] <exec> 08└─The aliens, that is.
[02:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:16] <exec> 08└─Space Force
[02:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:18] <exec> 08└─Je sais. J'ai pas la cedille (ou les accents) sur mon qwerty.
[02:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:21] <exec> 08└─Don't be ridiculous. "Chinese" food served in America isn't really even Chinese, it's an Americanized bastardization. No, the real purpose of these planes is to deliver your goods from Aliexpress faster and put Amazon out of business.
[02:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:23] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/journal/2712 [soylentnews.org] ;-) 😉
[02:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:38] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=26740&page=1&cid=711214#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] Some dude managed to siphon 1.8 petabytes of webcam footage into an AWS "unlimited" account. He made his scripts available and others took up the cause: While he's no longer running the scripts t...
[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:39] <exec> 08└─Are these significantly more space-efficient than 2.5" SSDs in a rack, or just easier to maintain with better cooling?
[02:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:11] <exec> 08└─I'd agree if those 5-10 people have a thousand intelligent, fusion-powered positronic robots with them. Then indeed they could sit quietly in a safe room and issue orders to dig here and to smelt there. But today's martian plans are not like that, and we have no smart robots. They can't even take du...
[02:13:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Retrofitting a Motorola MDT-9100T "Mobile Data Terminal" with a BeagleBone Black - 1034 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:27] <exec> 08└─One really can't appreciate how sharp these "apertureless" monochrome CRTs really could be unless it is seen in person. During the 80s and right up to 1990 or so, monochrome CRTs were still preferred over color CRTs for serious business use. Text was just so much sharper without the RGB apertures re...
[02:14:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Personal Bankruptcy Increases Among USA Seniors - 554 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:49] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, the cost of education, local public schools as well as colleges / universities, has risen far faster than averaged inflation, and those costs have drained much of the $ from the lower and middle-class boomers. Yes, one of my standing complaints with the "education system" in US is tha...
[02:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Bankruptcy Increases Among USA Seniors - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:07] <exec> 08└─You're right, but that's because the healthcare scam you have in the US is just pork for the insurance arm of the big-finance cabal. Trimming the pork should be the goal.
[02:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Personal Bankruptcy Increases Among USA Seniors - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:08] <exec> 08└─While states treated exponential growth as a possibility and will attempt to palm off pension liabilities to the tax payer.
[02:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Personal Bankruptcy Increases Among USA Seniors - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:10] <exec> 08└─Holy moley, I'd never heard of a reverse mortgage before, and after googling they sound utterly toxic. They seem about as bas as a ponzi scheme where each month you become the bigger idiot.
[02:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farming Impact of Australia's Worst Drought in Recent Memory - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:31] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the joke predates that, as everone has invented it themselves. But what's the "humidifying saunas" line about - that's what real water does when thrown on the stones. Dehydrated water would dehumidify it, surely. They fucked up their own joke.
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[03:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:51] <exec> 08└─Are we tired of winning yet, 'Murrica?
[03:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:00] <exec> 08└─https://abc7.com/politics/new-voting-system-approved-by-la-county-board-of-supervisors/ [abc7.com] https://wikileaks.org [wikileaks.org]
[03:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:02] <exec> 08└─You can "prove" any meaningless nonsense you care to "prove" with numbers. Why don't you just come to the point, and tell us what your favorite conspiracy theory is? The numbers don't mean anything, let alone what you wish they meant.
[03:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:04] <exec> 08└─Getting things right should not be hard: You must physically show up. You must show your driver's license. It's the same deal for buying beer. It's the same deal for entering a courthouse. It's the same deal for picking up a prescription. It's the same deal for getting on an airplane. Poor people? S...
[03:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:07] <exec> 08└─🛆
[03:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:09] <exec> 08└─it appeared that 276 registered voters managed to cast 670 ballots, the piece describes numerous other issues with both voter registration and electronic voting machines. (In fact it was later corrected to show 3,704 registered voters in the precinct.)
[03:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:11] <exec> 08└─I just see a redacted character
[03:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:13] <exec> 08└─1. Georgia has voter ID requirements. 2. The party that has been in charge of Georgia's government about 15 years is not the party you claim is tolerating fraudulent voting. 3. None of what you describe remotely resembles the problem described in either the summary or TFA. Instead, the problem is pr...
[03:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:16] <exec> 08└─Corrected link: https://abc7.com [abc7.com]
[03:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:18] <exec> 08└─You know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries, you need a picture on a card. You need ID.
[03:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:20] <exec> 08└─So you figure that's how the GOP won so much in 2017? As a note, I do not need to show ID when I pick up prescriptions or enter the courthouse, and it's been years since I needed it to buy beer.
[03:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:23] <exec> 08└─I see 3 sides, you see 4. George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States. The only number left from the headline is the 2. Could this be a sign of a 2020 Jeb Bush Presidency?
[03:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─China claims to have successfully tested its first hypersonic aircraft, a big step forward in aerospace technology that could intensify pressure on the US military. The China Academy of Aerospace Aerodynamics (CAAA), based in Beijing and part of the state-owned China Aerospace Science and Technology...
[03:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:03] <exec> 08└─I will NEVER buy their stuff again. long story short: bought a server motherboard, somewhat expensive, tried to update its bios, it went into a boot loop and I could not recover it. the mobo was less than 30 days old; but my computer store (central computers, bay area) refused to replace it and insi...
[03:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:05] <exec> 08└─Read the article, it has a photo of the server and the area the "drives" or "rulers" occupy is evident. They get thirty two of the darned things lines up along the front but I don't even see a power button or indicator. And good luck drawing in enough air to keep a pair of processors cool under load...
[03:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's cheaper to play games on Earth? They can even be shown a "martian" landscape...
[03:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:39] <exec> 08└─We'll see how long some "law" proclaimed by ideologues lasts in practice. It's meaningless. Which court on earth even has jurisdiction on Mars? If a bunch of people arrive on Mars, and proclaim that they have established the New Mayan Empire, wtf is anyone on earth going to do about it? New Rome? Ne...
[03:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 1856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:41] <exec> 08└─There's a case to send only women on the initial manned science missions to Mars. Women typically weigh less and require less calories, meaning less mass on the spaceship. For a colonization effort, you could continue to send mostly women, with cold storage semen for insemination. Or you could just...
[03:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:29] <exec> 08└─Try some different input.
[03:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Reveals the Impressive Winning Designs of its 3D Printed Mars Habitat Contest - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:50] <exec> 08└─https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8mD2hsxrhQ# [youtube.com] Season 12 was 2000/2001
[03:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Retrofitting a Motorola MDT-9100T "Mobile Data Terminal" with a BeagleBone Black - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:07] <exec> 08└─The things ran for years in the harsh environment of a police cruiser. Now it is a show piece that will be powered up occasionally to show it off. Doubt the guy who made it is going to be using a BeagleBone with a B&W display as their primary workstation. Odds are it will hold out a few more years i...
[03:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Retrofitting a Motorola MDT-9100T "Mobile Data Terminal" with a BeagleBone Black - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:09] <exec> 08└─http://lmgtfy.com/?q=beaglebone+black/ [lmgtfy.com] Wow, look at that! A whole page of relevant results.
[03:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kramulous [255] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Personal Bankruptcy Increases Among USA Seniors - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:47] <exec> 08└─While I do enjoy a little boomer bashing from time to time, I don't actually blame them, or any other generation, for their consumer behaviours. There are so many very powerful psychological techniques that are being employed to sell us anything and everything that you need to be an outlier to be ab...
[03:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farming Impact of Australia's Worst Drought in Recent Memory - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:10] <exec> 08└─But what's the "humidifying saunas" line about - that's what real water does when thrown on the stones.
[03:17:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Wants Your Banking Data - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:26] <exec> 08└─Bollocks. I have a few thousand euros in a bank account, the bank now owes me a few thousand euros - I am a creditor, after all. Yet in no abstract, or concrete for that matter, way is the bank enslaved to me. Debt acquired under duress, perhaps, but the duress was the root of the slavery, not the d...
[03:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Wants Your Banking Data - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:28] <exec> 08└─Scandinavia's quite cashless. Sweden particularly so, by design. And because they're the biggest of the countries in the region, many banks in other countries are actually swedish, so it will propagate.
[03:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1-4 TB Consumer 3D QLC NAND SSDs - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:49] <exec> 08└─A: Not X B: X is impossible How the fuck is that a counter-argument? Funnily, X is possible, so you're both logically and factually wrong. System/solution vendors can sell a "system" or a "solution", rather than just a small piece of hardware. Sure, you pay loads for them to manage it, but you get t...
[03:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Quantum Computers Could Kill the Arrow of Time - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:37] <exec> 08└─Cool idea but it doesn't work.* The problem is aliasing. We can measure events at h, and at 1.5h, but not at 0.5h. If there was one h-speed clock, 1.5h would be unachievable. *probably. Eg. if there is a clock using an atomic unit of time that's less than h, but using more than one cycle at a minimu...
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[04:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:52] <exec> 08└─They won't be tired until they're dead, looks like to me...
[04:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:53] <exec> 08└─Trade wars are good, and easy to win.
[04:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:56] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be better if we (USA) made the parts instead of being dependent on China?
[04:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:58] <exec> 08└─Folks, it was my great honor to attend the opening of Foxconn's new plant in Wisconsin that will manufacture state of the art LCDs -- adding on average $3.4 billion to the state's economy every single year. And provide jobs for up to 15,000 Wisconsin Workers! Making the LCD Panels, big big part of a...
[04:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:00] <exec> 08└─But environmental regulations are haaaaaardddddddduh.
[04:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:02] <exec> 08└─They're dumb. They should put the price up a bit to cover the increased costs, emblazen "Made In Merica" on the side, and perhaps rebrand themselves to "Winning TVs" (I hope you don't expect a cut, this is my idea alone, and I ain't sharin'). Suckers will lap it up.
[04:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:05] <exec> 08└─It's gonna take a few factory closures before the dependency ends.
[04:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:07] <exec> 08└─Making big bucks? No... been there, done that. He now wants to be in the history books, he's having fun, and he gets the satisfaction of making America great again. There are enough obvious motives that it is silly to imagine ulterior ones.
[04:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:09] <exec> 08└─Made in 'Merica is already goddamned prominent [ghost32writer.com] in their branding. I'm pretty sure I've seen their TVs at Costco or someplace. What they can't do is magically source a bunch of parts that come from China and have skyrocketed in price due to tariffs.
[04:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:11] <exec> 08└─Quite right. And the compounding problem with factory closures like Element Electronics: the market for those parts shrinks, so nobody bothers to start up production of those parts. In manufacturing it's never good to be dependent on a single-source for a critical part / component.
[04:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:13] <exec> 08└─There are of course Americans who happen to be in situations that put their personal welfare at odds with the general welfare of the USA. Yeah, they'll get hurt, but so many others will benefit. Hitching your welfare to a foreign frenemy wasn't very patriotic, so I won't be shedding any tears. The t...
[04:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:16] <exec> 08└─Could we move Taiwan, I mean that island that's part of China, the people and all the good stuff, closer to USA? They'll feel safer, it'll be a win-win.
[04:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:18] <exec> 08└─when they reported their quarterly earnings recently all the auto companies said revenues were down because of the steel and aluminum tariffs.
[04:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah but are we right back in the need-parts-from-China boat again?
[04:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:22] <exec> 08└─Is there a tariff on payola?
[04:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:43] <exec> 08└─I can't find the reference quickly, but there was a "journalist" who went digging in the election results in Alachua, Florida and ended up thrown into the mental healthcare system. While it's easy to believe the official (as told by the election winners) side of the story, it is also all too easy to...
[04:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:44] <exec> 08└─First of all, Georgia isn't all that republican. They just elected a senator who hates America and freedom. Second of all, Georgia hasn't had time yet to fully put the Shelby County v. Holder decision to use. Sadly, even the most conservative places aren't willing to do what it takes to really crack...
[04:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:46] <exec> 08└─[2 + 1] = 3 -> [c]hemtrails are clearing up thanks to trump
[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:48] <exec> 08└─-rson. For reasons that I'm sure make sense to them but not to me, the homeless shelter and day center in San Louis Obispo California require government-issued photo ID to avail oneself of their services. There is a grace period, at the end of which my Arizona friend was kicked out. He figured it wo...
[04:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:51] <exec> 08└─We need a cuckoo emoji.
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:53] <exec> 08└─https://emojipedia.org/face-with-stuck-out-tongue-and-winking-eye/ [emojipedia.org] https://emojipedia.org [emojipedia.org]
[04:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:17] <exec> 08└─Don't worry! When F35 will be flight-worthy... any day now. (grin)
[04:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:19] <exec> 08└─...Now we have a successful test to point to, so we can scare politicians and gobble billions of dollars building some counter-measure that will never ever be used...
[04:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:38] <exec> 08└─Ok, the other article says the ruler is 325.35mm long, 9.5mm wide and 38.6mm high. Compare to 2.5" drives [wikipedia.org], which are 146mm long, 101.6mm wide, and I'll pick 9.5mm for height. 141 cubic cm for the 2.5", 119 cubic cm for the ruler. Both Intel and Samsung are supporting the ruler, so I'...
[04:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:39] <exec> 08└─That's your story. I've bought probably close to $1m in Supermicro gear over the years, and besides some pretty shitty front plastic bits, they've generally provided great service for the money. Of course, I used a vendor I trusted, and who worked with us in speccing them and servicing them (They we...
[04:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, and unless it is the last thing I can do, I won't reflash a BIOS. Too easy to brick things. What made you try? Inexperience?
[04:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Reveals the Impressive Winning Designs of its 3D Printed Mars Habitat Contest - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:24] <exec> 08└─We still cannot inhabit Antarctica.
[04:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Samsung Announces Production of 1-4 TB Consumer 3D QLC NAND SSDs - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:24] <exec> 08└─> a warranty on the device is no reassurance. Somewhat bizarrely, it's a hedge against a counter-quality bet that they're making. They're implicitly betting that the drive fails and you lose your data. When it fails, you lose, as you were unwittingly gambling pro-quality. However they're explicitly...
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[05:08:47] <exec> 08└─Instead of "pink slime" we could have had an aristarchus submission. Where is aristarchus? Has he been turned into Pink Slime? SoylentNews is turning into "cultured meat", when everyone was supposed to know that SoylentNews is people.
[05:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:48] <exec> 08└─So they know its safe after 1 year?
[05:08:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:57] <exec> 08└─Are we tired of winning yet, 'Murrica?
[05:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:39] <exec> 08└─It's also not suspicious in any way, those Georgia voters were just really, really convinced in what they were voting for. Instead of the 60% vote you get elsewhere, these guys put in a 243% effort.
[05:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:40] <exec> 08└─First of all, Georgia isn't all that republican.
[05:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:28] <exec> 08└─By the way, some days ago, in some article was explained how to disable IME using rpi and some software. The procedure were about reflashing bios with external device. Maybe it could allow you to revive your motherboard.
[05:11:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 277 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:12] <exec> 08└─They didn't invent anti-vaxx conspiracies, but russian bots are boosting them online. And the more people who are mentally conscripted by those bots, the more children actually die as a result. Its literally a way to kill people via the internet. It 21st century germ warfare.
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[06:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:17] <exec> 08└─We aren't going to have 1-sided tariffs anymore, with China resisting American goods and the US ignoring the problem.
[06:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:18] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be better if we (USA) made the parts instead of being dependent on China?
[06:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:20] <exec> 08└─All you need is to convince the average American that it's worth paying more for the good of the country.
[06:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:48] <exec> 08└─If the government is going to require an ID to vote, they need to remove the fees required to get an ID. I recall at least one state included this provision as part of their ID requirement.
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[07:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:47] <exec> 08└─Finally, the popularity of aristarchus submissions will rise to the crest of the Academy Awards, shaming all others with their right wing nabobing of negativism. Or At Least We can hope. Hope: the new word of SoylentNews. Or else, perfido, ut flambe.
[07:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:48] <exec> 08└─But I think they're focused so hard on politics -- and political correctness -- that they can’t get the act together. It's a little sad.
[07:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:50] <exec> 08└─‘Black Panther’ Blew Up the Academy’s Attempt to Meet ABC’s Oscar Demands [indiewire.com]
[07:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:52] <exec> 08└─And the award for "Self Congratulatory Awards" goes to ... and the envelope please ... I Don't Care. Even with the rise of technology these shows are striving hard to remain the same as they were decades ago. Rather than celebrate and promote the technical achievements they still want to focus on pe...
[07:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:56] <exec> 08└─You are exactly right. The current Secretary of State, (which oversees elections), just won the republican primary for governor here in GA. That's right, Trump endorsed Brian Kemp is responsible for overseeing elections, and is now running for governor. Whats wrong with this picture?!?
[07:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:37] <exec> 08└─Have you never encountered journals that insist on you signing over exclusive rights to publish upon submission?
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[08:09:07] <exec> 08└─They know it's safe because the Chinese been eating soy for over 3 millennia.
[08:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:05] <exec> 08└─And they need to stop adding the photos to facial recognition databases, too.
[08:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:07] <exec> 08└─You can "prove" any meaningless nonsense you care to "prove" with numbers.
[08:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:09] <exec> 08└─Whats wrong with this picture?!?
[08:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:11] <exec> 08└─Mind you that GA doesn't give a damn to get the numbers right. Georgia is one of four states in the US that continues to use voting machines with no ability to provide voters a paper record so that they can verify the machine counted their vote correctly. -- Ars [arstechnica.com]
[08:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:13] <exec> 08└─If this issue happened in Florida then this story about Florida election systems being compromised [reuters.com] might be relevant.
[08:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:40] <exec> 08└─Last time I checked, my local Roman restaurant didn't deliver.
[08:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:41] <exec> 08└─Compassion for the US's military industrial complex?
[08:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:05] <exec> 08└─You just told him he is holding it wrong. You are timid about firmware updates? I was timid about them 20 years ago when there wasn't dual copies of the images so the spare was updated. Things go wrong? What kind of shitty tested hardware do you have? Just don't update? That's a little hard to do wh...
[08:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:06] <exec> 08└─Smart Billy thought 640/64 that's 10, and that should be 10 yrs, right?
[08:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:02] <exec> 08└─You might think so, but there is a catch. You can apply the concept of H-factors to journals to and, lo and behold, the "shitty" journals (AKA high volume) score very well (e.g. Plos One). This is due to the huge citation base they have. Every added publication can only improve the H-index it can ne...
[08:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farming Impact of Australia's Worst Drought in Recent Memory - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:12] <exec> 08└─....they were complaining about the flooding. http://www.abc.net.au [abc.net.au] This is normal Australia -- if you don't like the climate, wait five years, it'll flip-flop.
[08:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Island Living Can Shrink Humans - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:31] <exec> 08└─A number of NFL players are Polynesian (Samoan, Tongan, etc). BIG suckers. Can only think of one who wasn't the size of a moose. I'm thinkin' there's another factor at work, maybe you get pygmies when protein and fat sources are sub-par. Might be a better correlation with absence-of-pigs than with i...
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[09:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:42] <exec> 08└─There multiple tracks and trains coming and going every 5 minutes. Oh, and it costs 8$: http://www.beijingchina.net.cn [beijingchina.net.cn] Fuck we're living in the middle ages. :/
[09:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:44] <exec> 08└─That's fuxing fast! :o)
[09:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:46] <exec> 08└─reducing the inter-city travel time by five minutes.
[09:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:57] <exec> 08└─With all this copyright and dmca stuff flying around, I thought they were trying to make sure few people, who are in the know, would care much about things like this.
[09:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:58] <exec> 08└─How about an award for sexual abuse? Nominees for the latter could remain secret and when the name is announced, LAPD slap on the cuffs and lead the accused out of the room for questioning. Ratings gold!
[09:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:52] <exec> 08└─In the case of the original story: The episode underscores the risks of trading on lightly regulated virtual currency venues
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[10:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Web Gene Inserted Into Silkworms - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:46] <exec> 08└─The silk itself was also slightly different, shrinking in diameter by about 16 percent. Its ability to withstand stress without breaking was down by a similar percentage.
[10:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:56] <exec> 08└─http://fortune.com/2013/04/15/did-china-steal-japans-high-speed-train/ [fortune.com]
[10:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:58] <exec> 08└─Fuck we're living in the middle ages. :/
[10:09:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:37] <exec> 08└─Quite right. And the compounding problem with factory closures like Element Electronics: the market for those parts shrinks, so nobody bothers to start up production of those parts. In manufacturing it's never good to be dependent on a single-source for a critical part / component.
[10:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:21] <exec> 08└─Fuck your livestock, Runaway, while you are away. And then they will have no interest in your molestation of them. So much for animal husbandry, and Rent-to-own hillbilly idiocy that supports the one person that will fuck you over, multiple times. You are, um, stupid.
[10:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:23] <exec> 08└─Goddamn business supporting Republican anti-american conservative assholes, like Sulla. Not that bad as a Roman, betrayal, complicency, and realpolitik, but as an American, especially an Alaskan-socialist American: Sulla, you suck donkey balls.
[10:10:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 304 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:39] <exec> 08└─"Thank you China ! Thank you ! Thank you ! Thank you ! Now we have a successful test to point to, so we can scare politicians and gobble billions of dollars building some counter-measure that will never ever be used! Garcon, another round of champagne, please!" Raytheon, Northrop, Boeing, and friend...
[10:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:50] <exec> 08└─I wonder if it's possible to send down some big asteroids to increase its mass first.
[10:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:16:14] <exec> 08└─And not every professor and postdoc and adjunct is politically savvy enough to recognize which journals are complete bunk.
[10:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Personal Bankruptcy Increases Among USA Seniors - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:02] <exec> 08└─> Holy moley, I'd never heard of a reverse mortgage before Another poster child for financial education in grade schools. https://www.americanadvisorsgroup.com [americanadvisorsgroup.com] In 1961, the reverse mortgage is born. The very first reverse mortgage is written...
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[11:09:09] <exec> 08└─I'd heard that the Japanese bullet train includes the need for constant (nightly?) track maintenance. A quick search turned up this interesting site, https://www.tsunagujapan.com [tsunagujapan.com] Lots of interesting details. Th...
[11:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:11] <exec> 08└─Oh, and it costs 8$
[11:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:00] <exec> 08└─It just needs support from the population rather than being forced from the top
[11:11:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:47] <exec> 08└─Seems some media types are upset they weren't invited. That doesn't make it "secretive" or "hush hush". http://nasawatch.com [nasawatch.com] https://www.cnet.com [cnet.com]
[11:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:05] <exec> 08└─Article XVI: Any State Party to the Treaty may give notice of its withdrawal from the Treaty one year after its entry into force by written notification to the Depositary Governments. Such withdrawal shall take effect one year from the date of receipt of this notification.
[11:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:07] <exec> 08└─solar constant at half the Earth one
[11:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:09] <exec> 08└─no way to produce anything locally, as it demands already developed industry (on Earth it took thousands of years of spiral development with free water, oxygen, nitrogen)
[11:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:11] <exec> 08└─But so far as I know, the protocols to apt-get update && apt-get upgrade over a laggy high-latency network, even a fast one, are not very well developed.
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[12:08:47] <exec> 08└─Shame to see them feel this way about it, as they are most likely sentencing the work to oblivion. The fan base isn't big enough to warrant the costs of marketing. Guess we don't see it like an old painting. Geez, that thing's a hundred years old... lets burn it and get something newer. No, we can...
[12:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Spider Web Gene Inserted Into Silkworms - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:55] <exec> 08└─thanks to the gene markers, the mutant worms also glow under uv filters https://www.the-scientist.com [the-scientist.com]
[12:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:10] <exec> 08└─38,000 ("official"/reported) deaths in China vs 2,000 in Japan. https://www.scmp.com [scmp.com] https://www.jniosh.go.jp [jniosh.go.jp] Either there are lots of un...
[12:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:12] <exec> 08└─well the japanese stole motorcycle technology from the germans: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] so they can't complain.
[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat" - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─How about slipping this into dog food first, and watching the statistics carefully to see how well the dogs take to it? We have millions of dogs eating dog food... and most have regular vet visits... and the dogs will enjoy a tastier meal than that ground cornmeal sawdust they normally get. It will...
[12:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:07] <exec> 08└─s/local Roman restaurant/pizzeria/ There you are.... delivery all the way up to your doorstep.. Still no eggrolls though :-D
[12:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:11] <exec> 08└─It would be more efficient to simply use that power to do the heating and do away with cryptocurrency which is an astonishing waste of energy and resources on Earth.
[12:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:13] <exec> 08└─I heard the real problem is the near vacuum. You just can't have sex in near vacuum and stay alive for more than a minute or so.
[12:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:15] <exec> 08└─If they can figure out how to grow plants, as has been done on the ISS but at a larger scale, then they could try to feed themselves, and use organic byproducts to create some chemicals, medicine, bioplastics, etc.
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[13:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:51] <exec> 08└─Well I'll be damned. Listening to customers is somewhat unusual for any big tech company and downright unheard of from Microsoft.
[13:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:59] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't sweat it. There's always that piratical-themed site if you want roms. They won't be neatly organized or searchable but who cares when you can just grab a batch of 10K roms and delete the ones you don't want later?
[13:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Web Gene Inserted Into Silkworms - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:10] <exec> 08└─So basically, it kind of works, but it doesn't improve the silk much, except making it more spandex-y.
[13:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%E2%80%93Shanghai_high-speed_railway [wikipedia.org] You can buy $1B of operating profit for $34B which is about a 2.9% annual rate of return. So you make money if you can borrow below 2.9% and lose money if your loan (or competing investments) cost more than 2.9...
[13:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:27] <exec> 08└─Anyone know if the Shinkansen got the cool earthquake monitoring system working? Oh, looks like they did https://www.railway-technology.com [railway-technology.com] Having been on the Shinkansen, I was more impressed all the trains to *get* to the fast one were on time...
[13:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:30] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of very propaganda hand wavy stuff about "The stock market returns 7% on average" and stuff.
[13:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:32] <exec> 08└─It's remarkable how few routes are actually profitable.
[13:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:34] <exec> 08└─Having been on the Shinkansen, I was more impressed all the trains to *get* to the fast one were on time...
[13:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:47] <exec> 08└─This question might be a bit acidic in nature. But are there any good new actors? And with good I mean that I put the lower end cutoff somewhere between Jack Nicholsson and Toshiro Mifune. Probably also is about where I put the definition of "new" as well for sake of this question. I really am wonde...
[13:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:48] <exec> 08└─Good question... seems the only thing that comes to my mind anymore when "Movie Star" is mentioned... is "John Wayne". The DMCA and Copyright people should be congratulated.... If there were more like me, all this law would not be necessary.
[13:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:50] <exec> 08└─Dying industries always go hard left. Or maybe hard left industries always die. They're always hand in hand, regardless. The politics is hard left but is irrelevant since the horse is already dead and beaten into a grease stain on the road. What is interesting is why the awards died. My theory is th...
[13:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:53] <exec> 08└─Too many of the abusers are of a certain (((religion))) so punishing them would be seen as wildly politically incorrect. So the official party line is "nothing like that ever happens and when it does its just isolated incident number one bazillion"
[13:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:55] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it already a bit of a popularity contest? Now they are just removing the pretense. I doubt it will change the fact that it's horribly boring TV. "Celebs" sitting down and clapping like robots on command.
[13:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat" - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:05] <exec> 08└─maybe this will also allow artificial blood and finally pacify all them blood suckers.
[13:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:34] <exec> 08└─Ever own an Element television? There's one sitting in my livingroom. I don't think there's a television manufacturer I'd rather see this happen to. Sucks about the jobs down in SC though. They weren't exactly rocking prosperity to begin with.
[13:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:36] <exec> 08└─Since when did "blame" become "evidence"? I'm sure tariffs will cause problems, but the cynical voice in my head, suggests it maynot be so obvious... Either that, or this company was so inefficient, this is a good scapegoat (bankruptcy being a thing). I'm thinking this is all a distraction...
[13:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:38] <exec> 08└─So, everybody gets into selling Veblin goods!
[13:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:16] <exec> 08└─ORLY? So tell me, what grocery store requires you to show an ID to purchase groceries? I have yet to encounter one. (Score: 4, Informative)
[13:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:47] <exec> 08└─some argue that only china can deal with islam in the future because they are not as ham-strung with a basic tenant called "human rights". adhering to a rule to not punch below the waist line is stupid if your opponent has a different rule set? fortunately one rule eclipses all other rules: Profit!...
[13:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:56] <exec> 08└─So there is solar power at adequate levels.
[13:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:57] <exec> 08└─You just can't have sex in near vacuum and stay alive for more than a minute or so.
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[14:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:00] <exec> 08└─Who in their right mind eats salad? Vegetables are what food eats.
[14:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:09] <exec> 08└─That's not true. They hear, record and pass it on to the government and advertisers all the time. Why do you think they needed the new APIs in the first place? They make hooking up an AI to skype for running bots and surveillance AIs all the easier.
[14:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:11] <exec> 08└─Micro$oft lies. Often. "Security", for users, includes DRM to keep users secure from being accused and punished for any alleged piracy, and OOXML is an "open" format, and users have a choice of web browsers. M$ "documentation" is loaded with marketing propaganda, FUD, and omissions of useful API fun...
[14:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:21] <exec> 08└─Steam lists dozens of independent games that improve on classic game mechanics and many of those are available on gog as well. Best example is the whole Metroidvania genre that really sprouted some diamonds lately: https://store.steampowered.com [steampowered.com] So, the way I...
[14:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:23] <exec> 08└─That sounds familiar: 10K roms x $20 ea. x 1M users = $200B revenue lost to whine about and push the agenda forward
[14:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:26] <exec> 08└─My thoughts as well. In fact, now seems like a good time to go grab a rom collection or two. I don't think deleting any of them is even necessary, since it's not like disk space is a premium compared to the size of a rom. Might as well keep the whole collection intact and available to share with any...
[14:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:28] <exec> 08└─Yeh... you are so right... its just a big whack a mole, keeping a lot of people busy trying to find people sharing an old obscure computer game - over a technicality over copyright. I guess it makes high paid jobs for wearers of the suit, shakers of the hand, and law enforcement. For what? an obsol...
[14:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:30] <exec> 08└─TPB will likely go the way of Napster once the pens get to wagging. It won't stop things... just drive it underground... even more obscurity and encryption, as well as cause a lot more people to learn to do things this way.... which actually might be a good thing if more and more people are forced...
[14:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:33] <exec> 08└─No, we can't keep everything we ever made. Not near enough room for it.
[14:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:35] <exec> 08└─> Ok...start encrypting everything! Nah, just Zerg them. Everyone, go download a bunch of ROMs!
[14:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:04] <exec> 08└─To some extent HSR is a luxury,
[14:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:06] <exec> 08└─While Degner is an interesting story, it hardly seems relevant to the theft of high speed train designs...
[14:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:08] <exec> 08└─> 38,000 ("official"/reported) deaths in China vs 2,000 in Japan. These are industrial accidents -- not particularly related to bullet trains -- I'm missing the connection to this thread?
[14:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 1293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:10] <exec> 08└─Well I meant more in terms of profit, like supposedly if you add all the govt subsidies and bankruptcies and stuff together over all time the airlines as an industry segment have never made a net civilization wide profit, although they are a luxurious way to travel compared to stagecoach or steamshi...
[14:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:28] <exec> 08└─Dying industries always go hard left.
[14:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah maybe. Reality TV is far past peak, episodes struggle to approach ten million viewers for some years now. One way to test the reality TV theory would be to see if things improve for alternatives as reality TV has declined from its long ago peak. I'd suspect not, but collecting the data to prove...
[14:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:32] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the State of the Union speech for as long as I've been alive. Or kinda like twitter. Perhaps the social media aspect is in 1980 if some crazy movie fan wanted to spend an evening gushing over some movie, they had the awards show, but in 2018, 364 out of 365 days of the year they would gu...
[14:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat" - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:44] <exec> 08└─"hemoglobin, an oxygen-carrying protein in red blood cells and commonly consumed in meat." Erm, nope, that myloglobin, meat isn't bloody, it just looks that way. It's almost entirely unrelated to haemoglobin apart from the fact that it also contains a 'heme' group (which act as the oxygen transport)...
[14:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat" - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:46] <exec> 08└─Yay, and that will liberate the not-fit-for-human-consumption meat from the dog-food market, so that we can finally supply all the food banks in San Francisco!
[14:11:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:12] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be better if we (USA) made the parts instead of being dependent on China?
[14:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 2527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:18] <exec> 08└─20+ years ago I worked at a contract engineering company that did I&C (Instrumentation and Controls). You know, SCADA, PLCs, etc. CEO went for Fortune 100 (or 50) companies, so clients and projects were major. One huge multi-year project was for a brand new steel factory in China, doing things in co...
[14:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, but a marketplace that allows margin on something unregulated is extra-stupid on the part of every party involved - market, sellers, buyers all. Their use of an "insurance" fund might be OK but that fund should then be prepared for all current trades to go south on them.... akin to how other re...
[14:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Whale's Bad Trade Leaves Counterparties Holding the Bag - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:57] <exec> 08└─Yes, but a marketplace that allows margin on something unregulated is extra-stupid on the part of every party involved
[14:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06It Just Got a Lot Harder to Pretend that Predatory Publishing Doesn't Matter - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm thinking of maths journals. But the "nor submitted for publication elsewhere" clause is the clause that brings about the exclusive rights, for the one that you first submit for publication to.
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[15:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:57] <exec> 08└─Are the pickers using the lettuce for toilet paper as they are harvesting it?
[15:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:59] <exec> 08└─if the pickers were paid a living wage, they could afford to buy toilet paper instead of resorting to using lettuce leaves.
[15:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29188050 [nih.gov]
[15:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:04] <exec> 08└─> if the pickers were paid a living wage, ... Don't you mean, if the pickers were allowed time to use sanitary toilet facilities (aka, well maintained port-a-johns) and facilities to properly wash their hands? Restaurant workers are required by law to wash hands before returning to work, does anyone...
[15:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:06] <exec> 08└─> Vegetables are what food eats You seem to have forgotten that this is *Soylent* News (grin).
[15:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:08] <exec> 08└─I only eat food that eats plants.
[15:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:10] <exec> 08└─Who in their right mind eats salad without washing it?
[15:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:13] <exec> 08└─How can you tell if your cow was only fed plant matter? If the feed included cow parts there can be trouble...see mad cow disease.
[15:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:24] <exec> 08└─Skype is dead. It died a long time ago. I'm honestly surprised anyone is still using it. If anyone thinks they should still be using it, all they have to do is see how wishy-washy Microsoft is being with the support here. Way past time to get off of that sunk ship. BTW, "we are listening" has been a...
[15:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:26] <exec> 08└─Just saw a note that another Gmail update is coming soon, with option to revert to "classic". If this is anything like the last Gmail update (which reduced/removed functionality that I used), I'm likely to stick with the current version as long as possible. But what I'd really like is to go two vers...
[15:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:28] <exec> 08└─What are people using these days instead of Skype? [alternativeto.net] My quick internet search turned up Ring, [fsf.org] Signal, [signal.org] Tox, [fsf.org] and Wire [fsf.org] as potential replacements; anyone with experience using them care to share your impressions? What other Free-Software optio...
[15:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:30] <exec> 08└─I am not kidding, almost every update I accept these days is a regression. Useful features are removed, menu layouts are changed, while it gets slower and stuff like white space and large pointless images are added. There is something seriously wrong with the software dev community. I suspect its th...
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:46] <exec> 08└─Honestly, that's like saying "Modern independent painters can do impressionism better than van gogh, so it's no big deal that we're banning reproductions of starry night" Whatever the truth to the first half sentence might be, there's a definite lie to the second half.
[15:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:47] <exec> 08└─You want Nintendo to stop shitting on you? Stop paying them to. It's as simple as that folks.
[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Web Gene Inserted Into Silkworms - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder how the moth that such a silkworm is supposed to grow into might change due to the alteration of its genes. Does it still more or less behave the way ordinary silkworm moths would? I have the feeling that it may experience some...changes.
[15:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:57] <exec> 08└─It's the first word you quoted in your reply, and you can't even spell it correctly? Dude. Duuuude...
[15:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:31] <exec> 08└─I wasn't even aware of that, but I'll speculate: USA is trying to protect manufacturing jobs all the way down to the raw materials. Other countries already do tariff our finished goods. If we tariff the finished goods, other countries will retaliate with even more tariffs.
[15:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:33] <exec> 08└─[ on our finished goods. ]
[15:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:35] <exec> 08└─My television is made of elements. What's your point? :-} But seriously, I'd like it to happen to Vizio. Try getting service information on a Vizio. Try getting a repair. Try getting a warranty repair. Try not having to pay to ship it across the USA to the only "authorized service center", and then...
[15:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:37] <exec> 08└─I don't know all the details, but I know enough about electronics and manufacturing to say that there's no way I would ever try to compete in such a highly competitive, extremely dynamic, tight profit market. It's not possible, in USA, to be as efficient as Asian manufacturing. The numbers are stagg...
[15:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:39] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely correct. I personally prefer to pay more for a well-made product that will last much longer, and employ local people to repair if necessary. That's how it was for, well, forever, until maybe 15 years ago when electronics got so cheap nobody wants to pay for repair, and I can't blam...
[15:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:41] <exec> 08└─Well - generally speaking, land is not buoyant. So, moving Taiwan closer to the US would put it into deeper water, before it would reach shallow water again. That is very much akin to sinking. A lot of people are allergic to breathing dihydrous oxide, so it may not be the best move.
[15:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:20] <exec> 08└─The fuck? No you don't.
[15:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 2104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:21] <exec> 08└─John Oliver — the British host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight — focused on voter ID laws during his Sunday show. And it turns out the U.S. does have a voter fraud problem, but it’s not the one that you think. Oliver — who is rightfully mystified by the idiosyncrasies of American politics — p...
[15:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:23] <exec> 08└─If you can buy beer or cigarettes without ID, that store is violating the law. You should report them. In many states, this also applies to numerous over-the-counter drugs. An example is sudafed (spelling?) or pseudophedrin, a cold medicine that can be converted into meth. If your state has a lotter...
[15:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:25] <exec> 08└─Between 2000 and 2014, for instance, there were only 31 instances of potential voter fraud out of over a billion votes. Yes, 31 out of a billion.
[15:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:06] <exec> 08└─A roll of toilet paper that will last as long as nobody is actually using those celestial bodies.
[15:15:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 174 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:48] <exec> 08└─I choose to drive my semi in the left lane, because fuck your civilization and its rules designed to save lives. I know better than to drive on the right with all the morons.
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[16:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:02] <exec> 08└─Sanctuary cities stand poised to grant them permanent residence.
[16:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:03] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[16:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:20] <exec> 08└─Who in their right mind eats salad? Vegetables are what food eats.
[16:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:21] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work. The bacteria that get on the lettuce is extremely hard to get off due to the way it grows. If it were as simple as just washing it like that, we wouldn't have these recurring issues with food poisoning from pre-washed produce. The problem here is that there's inadequate regulation of t...
[16:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:23] <exec> 08└─You're telling me I can't trust Agribusiness to look after my best interests? pshaw. Next you'll be telling me Wall Street bankers can crash the economy with no repercussions. Fake news!
[16:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:26] <exec> 08└─Obviously not! A summary of the food chain is then in order: the primordial forces of the universe (gravity and hydrogen fusion) → sunlight → vegetabes → predators → humans → me. - Hannibal
[16:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:28] <exec> 08└─Here in Oregon some right chap is getting grief from his bankruptcy court for spending what's left of his money on hookers and blow rather than paying his creditors. http://www.oregonlive.com [oregonlive.com] - the website of The Oregonian in Portland - has repeatedly shown cattle standing up to the...
[16:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:30] <exec> 08└─7-Eleven carries it now. That means they got distribution! But at $3.99 a bottle it is too expensive to actually live off of. What started as a sore throat became an infection all over the inner part of my mouth. I've never even heard of this happening. Even my salivary glands are infected; simply t...
[16:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:33] <exec> 08└─Pickers are mostly illegal migrant workers who are quite happy to work for less than it takes to live in the US because they don't in fact live in the US except during picking season. As long as we continue allowing them to sneak across the border and hiring them, there will be no US "living wage" f...
[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─but there was a long time that there was no such law. All over the agricultural valleys of California are trailers upon which are mounted Honey Buckets as well as gravity-fed water for washing.
[16:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:49] <exec> 08└─Windows is dead. It died a long time ago. I'm honestly surprised anyone is still using it. If anyone thinks they should still be using it, all they have to do is see how wishy-washy Microsoft is being with the support here. Way past time to get off of that sunk ship. BTW, "we are listening" has been...
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:51] <exec> 08└─What is is with software companies reducing functionality in new versions?
[16:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 1689 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:59] <exec> 08└─Shame to see them feel this way about it, as they are most likely sentencing the work to oblivion. The fan base isn't big enough to warrant the costs of marketing. Guess we don't see it like an old painting. Geez, that thing's a hundred years old... lets burn it and get something newer. No, we can...
[16:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:10] <exec> 08└─The difference is that Van Gogh's The Starry Night is a lot older than these ROMs. Under the law then in effect, copyright in that painting expired in Berne Convention countries at the end of 1940 and in the United States at the end of 1945.
[16:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:12] <exec> 08└─"But I do enjoy listening to some of the old 1920's big band music" I like the old blues: the 'one or two black guys with guitar and harmonica' blues, not the 'bigger band, jazzy' blues, but the 'Gershwin big band' type thing is good, yeah. (Not a jazz fan unless it's old and simple) But yeah: good...
[16:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:14] <exec> 08└─Shhhhh... be quiet, or the US will change it retroactively and then they'll be able to squeeze your nuts every time you look at a Van Gogh!
[16:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:16] <exec> 08└─I mean, yes, it is. But also most of these roms are literally a quarter century old, made by companies that don't exist anymore, not sold anywhere, and are only being protected in the vaguest interests of a general principle. Opt-out archiving is a necessary thing to not lose cultural artifacts. And...
[16:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nivieru [4889] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Spider Web Gene Inserted Into Silkworms - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:27] <exec> 08└─Spider-Worm, Spider-Worm, Does whatever a spider can
[16:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:15] <exec> 08└─So they are suppressing more technical awards, which was the one part I was still interested in.
[16:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat" - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:31] <exec> 08└─He just used the fruity British spelling of it. Both are perfectly correct.
[16:11:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RS3 [6367] 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:43] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be better if we (USA) made the parts instead of being dependent on China?
[16:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:11] <exec> 08└─Except that the kind of people that lap this up also do most of their shopping at Walmart.
[16:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:12] <exec> 08└─well thanks for responding. I feel as if the news outlets simply riff of each other to get clicks, with no *actual* news. As a scientist, I have seen this in journals too....Not always bad, if there are a collection of good papers on a subject. The signal/noise of today's world seems to be dropping....
[16:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:15] <exec> 08└─a while back there was a naturalized US citizen of Chinese origin who was busted for stealing nuclear secrets from Los Alamos.
[16:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:17] <exec> 08└─-" No one has yet complained that Soggy Jobs covers India [soggy.jobs]. In my opinion anyone who wants to better themselves through the sweat of their brow deserves all the encouragement they can get. However, that I list jobs in India is intended to help Indian engineers find work close to home, wi...
[16:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:19] <exec> 08└─Vizios at least are halfway decent when they're functioning as designed. Elements are designed to be pieces of shit.
[16:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:03] <exec> 08└─Beer and airplane I will give you, but the courthouse and prescription? Where do you live that you can't just walk into the courthouse like a human being?
[16:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:04] <exec> 08└─You know, if you go out and you want to buy groceries
[16:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:06] <exec> 08└─So you're denying the video evidence of the lawmakers voting for their colleagues who aren't in the chamber? The article had more than one point to make.
[16:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:08] <exec> 08└─So you're denying the video evidence of the lawmakers voting for their colleagues who aren't in the chamber?
[16:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:50] <exec> 08└─Why would you expect not much internet access? Sending data to Mars is a LOT cheaper than sending anything else. Obviously they wouldn't be browsing on the original servers on Earth - that 6-to-44 minute round-trip lag time would get obnoxious fast. However, local caches of popular sites would be r...
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:52] <exec> 08└─Shade-loving plants. Anything that likes indirect sunlight on Earth should do just fine on Mars, and convert local water, CO2, and sunlight into air, food, and building materials. Ideally we'll find (or design) plants radiation-tolerant enough to survive in minimalist inflatable greenhouses - otherw...
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[17:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:07] <exec> 08└─Where's the line to sign up dying by sharknado ? That sounds like a much better deal. No sharknado in the forecast ? I'll take one death-by-Godzilla, please. > from the tick-talk dept. Too bad I can't upvote the dept line. That's a great one.
[17:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:08] <exec> 08└─It wasn't clear from TFS. Is that "sucked dry" in the fun, sexy way? Not a bad way to go, I guess.
[17:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:10] <exec> 08└─You joke, but I'm way more worried about lyme disease and rocky mountain spotted fever than I am about not noticing a tick before I literally exsanguinate.
[17:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:13] <exec> 08└─What's with the SSN? Can you post your Zip code and address too? I could use a new credit card.
[17:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:15] <exec> 08└─Republicans want to give them voting rights.
[17:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick That Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:17] <exec> 08└─No, republicans want to give them voting IDs.
[17:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─I'm disgusted by this ridiculous attack on American business! So a few people died. So a bunch more were sickened. Who cares? You can't make an omelet without breaking a few eggs! Corporate profits must not be sacrificed for the "health" of a bunch of useless consumers. They breed like rats (and are...
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:42] <exec> 08└─:-(
[17:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─Isn't the heavy use of antibiotics the one to blame here? well irrigate with shit water also, but deadly coli is caused by overuse of antibiotics on those cows.
[17:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 483 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:58] <exec> 08└─Windows is dead. It died a long time ago. I'm honestly surprised anyone is still using it. If anyone thinks they should still be using it, all they have to do is see how wishy-washy Microsoft is being with the support here. Way past time to get off of that sunk ship. BTW, "we are listening" has been...
[17:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:00] <exec> 08└─This was probably in response to the NSA's concerns that people would abandoned Sype. Gotta keep some people happy all the time.
[17:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:03] <exec> 08└─The problem is that they are focusing one adding things I personally don't give a shit about, but are trendy: more white space, more flatness, more social media, more crypto-currency-harvesting-in-the-background ... I use one function in skype: Video-calling my mom. Just that. The client from 15 yea...
[17:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:05] <exec> 08└─BTW, "we are listening" has been a meaningless corporate catch phrase recently.
[17:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:27] <exec> 08└─Searchable and organized? No problem at the size of these files. Every Atari 2600, 8 bit NES, and 16 bit SNES game ever made fits nicely on a 2gb SD card in my Wii with room to spare ;) I think the reason roms chap Nintendo's ass is that they are still trying to sell some of these game. IIRC they ca...
[17:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:28] <exec> 08└─As for first-party games, Nintendo certainly still exists. Copyright in third-party games is owned by whatever company bought the defunct company's copyrights at bankruptcy auction. Try researching whether the auction house has deposited notices of transfer with national copyright offices. (See for...
[17:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:05] <exec> 08└─Please, never get involved in sizing infrastructure. Especially not for a country with over a billion people. "Sir I understand your frustration, but VLM's math was pretty convincing: the best ROI we could get on the Beijing-Shangai transit was the gravel road, and you need to ford every river becau...
[17:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah maybe. Reality TV is far past peak, episodes struggle to approach ten million viewers for some years now.
[17:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:30] <exec> 08└─How about an award for sexual abuse?
[17:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah but are we right back in the need-parts-from-China boat again?
[17:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:32] <exec> 08└─Well, you've come to a final conclusion without considering all of the facts and options (something very common these days). There is a giant floating island of plastic in the Pacific. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Do you get where I'm going with this?
[17:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:34] <exec> 08└─True that. I have a couple of Vizios (free, broken, fixed). No experience with an Element. Well, Honda Element. Are you an unwitting beta tester for Element Electronics?
[17:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:36] <exec> 08└─Oh, great, now you're going to tell me we don't even make the paddles anymore either?
[17:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:38] <exec> 08└─Yep, THAT guy. And I couldn't get a job at [major defense contractor] where my dad worked for years with likely top secret clearance but we don't know and weren't allowed to know and there's nothing in my background to prevent said employment just insane red tape with the shiny-shoe overly serious d...
[17:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:26] <exec> 08└─No, I'm denying that a reasonable person would think that this the extent of the voter fraud.
[17:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:27] <exec> 08└─Sorry, try again. In many states, if you appear to be older than 30 or 35 to a reasonable person, you don't need to be carded.
[17:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:59] <exec> 08└─You find patriotic Chinese people living in Beijing, not out in the southwestern Uighur area. You find patriotic American people living in Alabama, not out in the western Antifa area.
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[18:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:48] <exec> 08└─$15 is a lot more money in Moscow than it is in NYC. If $streaming_service is charging $15/month in both cities the Muscovites are much more motivated to hit P2P sites. For me streaming isn't an option. I tend to listen to albums, not songs. I don't know any streaming sites that A) stream albums; an...
[18:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:49] <exec> 08└─From time to time the Vancouver, Washington police department will announce that they just arrested someone for torrenting child pornography.
[18:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:51] <exec> 08└─I buy most of mine used. My budgets always have an entry for some CDs. I rip them, add them to iTunes but only so they'll get synced to my phone. On my Macs I always drop each album's folder on VLC.
[18:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:53] <exec> 08└─A lobbying group setup to inflate the affect of certain activities on their client's market issues a press release stating they are still relevant and necessary. Sounds legit to me.
[18:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:56] <exec> 08└─We have the MEATS!
[18:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:58] <exec> 08└─I thought about it once, but then I saw the website and said fuck that. It's much easier to grab a torrent than fuck with umatrix for an hour trying to get a site to work without running java miners and having a million popups
[18:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:00] <exec> 08└─never been the same
[18:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:16] <exec> 08└─drain young animals of blood so quickly that they die—an execution method called exsanguination.
[18:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:17] <exec> 08└─While I now live in Vancouver and work in Portland, I still use my California ID card. Just now while looking up my old Zip code I found that the Postal Service quite helpfully announced it was no longer delivering mail to houses that have burnt down.
[18:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:19] <exec> 08└─Are you using LifeLock? It's showing as stars.
[18:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:22] <exec> 08└─> It is very impressive and a little scary that a tick that accomplish this in a decently large animal. I'd go for "stuff of nightmares". It's the combined work of thousands of ticks on a single animal. The pics on TFA are really creepy. Even college rugby teams don't drink multiple times their body...
[18:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:24] <exec> 08└─> I could use a new credit card. Given MDC's credit score, I predict the maximum credit line on your new card will be about ten cents (USD $0.10).
[18:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:52] <exec> 08└─You're telling me I can't trust Agribusiness to look after my best interests? Don't worry, the Trump admin is on it! Once they destroy the FDA you won't know it was Agribusiness' fault next time.
[18:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:53] <exec> 08└─What, you want the nanny-state to make it harder for you to unknowingly consume deadly poisons and pathogens? Commie! Next you'll be saying companies shouldn't spew toxins into the air we all breathe!
[18:10:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:07] <exec> 08└─I am not kidding, almost every update I accept these days is a regression. Useful features are removed, menu layouts are changed, while it gets slower and stuff like white space and large pointless images are added. There is something seriously wrong with the software dev community. I suspect its th...
[18:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:14] <exec> 08└─Every UI decision is being driven by the use of teeny screens on phones and the use of thumbs because that where the sheeple are.
[18:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:16] <exec> 08└─Most likely 2020, if not then, 2024 [warplife.com]
[18:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:18] <exec> 08└─The current level of lying is unpresidented.
[18:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:20] <exec> 08└─From time to time I install Win2K under VirtualBox so I can get into my former consultancy's QuickBooks '99.
[18:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:45] <exec> 08└─Or the law is dumb and needs to be changed but also not respected until it's changed.
[18:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:47] <exec> 08└─Not for an obsolete work. For the future of Nintendo, and indirectly the future of intellectual property creators. If you're playing some ROM-downloaded NES title from the 80s then you're not either: 1) buying a Nintendo Switch and the latest cartridges, or 2) paying for the company-authorized NES C...
[18:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:49] <exec> 08└─If it truly is a company that doesn't exist, isn't sold, and nobody owns the rights to it..... who's going to sue you for copying it? Who will have standing to do so? This is just a pre-emptive action to protect against someone who does very much have the rights to sue for it. (By the way... should...
[18:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Spider Web Gene Inserted Into Silkworms - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:01] <exec> 08└─After receiving spider genes, the worms started to commit cannibalism.
[18:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:28] <exec> 08└─Thanks folks - you've been swell. I'll be hear all night.
[18:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:29] <exec> 08└─There are high-rises all over Vancouver, even in the neighboring cities. That there are lots of people close to all the transit stations enables Vancouver BC to operate completely robotic elevated light rail that comes every six minutes during rush hour. By contrast, downtown Vancouver WA has severe...
[18:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:55] <exec> 08└─I think there are good actors. The problem is that there are no good scripts. Well ... there are some good scripts written, but by the time the final product is cleared for release, feedback-by-committee leaves us with boring stories with plot holes the size of a super-star-destroyer. "Too much mone...
[18:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:56] <exec> 08└─If you want ratings, you need more sexual stuff, not less. "When the Oscars return, the bathing suit competition! Will Weinstein resist and stay in his chair, or will he invade the stage and drop his pants? Stay tuned!"
[18:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:58] <exec> 08└─Wasn't it already a bit of a popularity contest?
[18:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:15] <exec> 08└─"Don't you dare threaten dogs with science experiments!" - Peta "We agree with Peta, it's cheaper to get feedback from humans anyway" - The industry
[18:12:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:25] <exec> 08└─My best guess, the whole tariff gambit is just another way to distract us from what Trump & Company is really up to--which is making big bucks for he and his buddies. Squirrel anyone? Meanwhile, lots of companies and their staff members are going to be collateral damage.
[18:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:06] <exec> 08└─I am completely convinced that his _real_ clearance was much higher than that. He was in the Navy during Vietnam, got an MSEE with the GI Bill after the war then returned to the Navy as a civilian Civil Service engineer. Much of his work at Mare Island Naval Shipyard was done on the Sea Wolf. Decade...
[18:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 2054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:07] <exec> 08└─Awesome to converse with you. I consider myself a scientist, but couldn't afford or stomach the many years of schooling to get the letters after my name. Lowly applied physicist, aka BSEE with some MS coursework. Yes, the "news" is a problem. From what I read, most of it comes through an aggregator...
[18:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:09] <exec> 08└─I used to buy good that said "made in USA" and had a union label. They seem to have all disappeared. Assembled in USA somehow just doesn't resonate as well.
[18:13:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:26] <exec> 08└─1. Georgia has voter ID requirements. 2. The party that has been in charge of Georgia's government about 15 years is not the party you claim is tolerating fraudulent voting. 3. None of what you describe remotely resembles the problem described in either the summary or TFA. Instead, the problem is pr...
[18:13:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 280 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:44] <exec> 08└─Mind you that GA doesn't give a damn to get the numbers right. Georgia is one of four states in the US that continues to use voting machines with no ability to provide voters a paper record so that they can verify the machine counted their vote correctly. -- Ars [arstechnica.com]
[18:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:00] <exec> 08└─"So tell me, what grocery store requires you to show an ID to purchase groceries? I have yet to encounter one." If I'm not mistaken, places like Sam's club and Costco require you to show a membership card. "LOL. Keep sucking that Trump cock. Seems to be the only thing you MAGA morons are good at." O...
[18:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:01] <exec> 08└─What is your point? Even if we could interpret the disbanding of some crappy apparently planned-to-be-rigged investigation as a lack of voter fraud (we cant), the john oliver quote does not mention this argument. I just says : Yes, 31 out of a billion. But this hasn’t stopped states — specifical...
[18:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:03] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the United States of the GOP. Your papers please!
[18:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:05] <exec> 08└─I *think* that's a different kind of corruption. It may include the kind featured in the story of Ga, but I didn't notice any real evidence that this was so. (I've got my suspicions, but that's different from proof.)
[18:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:08] <exec> 08└─It *isn't* that Republican. They used to regularly elect Dixiecrats. This isn't loyalty to a party we're talking about here.
[18:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:10] <exec> 08└─I agree that the section you highlighted was important...I just can't figure out what it means. Of course, where it said "corrected" I read "changed". Were the new number correct? When did they become correct? Etc.
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:42] <exec> 08└─Haven't you heard we're about to go to war with legal aliens too, and probably with their US citizen children ? Trump is probably trying to get rid of some of his children...
[18:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:43] <exec> 08└─Don't be ridiculous. "Chinese" food served in America isn't really even Chinese, it's an Americanized bastardization. The documentary "Finding General Tso" was really interesting if you're into the history surrounding that stuff. It was on Netflix a while back...
[18:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:10] <exec> 08└─Compare to 2.5" drives [wikipedia.org], which are 146mm long, 101.6mm wide, and I'll pick 9.5mm for height. 141 cubic cm for the 2.5", 119 cubic cm for the ruler.
[18:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Breathes in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:11] <exec> 08└─Damn, thanks. Now I'm back to not being impressed with 32 TB.
[18:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:01] <exec> 08└─Sending data is, indeed, cheaper. But the lag is bad enough to make the web impossible. Even the other parts of the net would have problems, but just imagine using this web page with 8 minutes (minimum) between each click or keystroke and the response.
[18:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:02] <exec> 08└─Not sure about the adequacy for solar power. The average at the top of the atmosphere might be adequate, but dust storms can last for months. I'd prefer solar too, but it may not be a viable choice. And there's no flowing water to spread radioactive wastes, so even quite modest treatment should conf...
[18:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:04] <exec> 08└─FWIW, lcd lights are efficient enough that even with normal earth sunlight available for piping people often opt to use lcd lighting in indoor green houses. See "urban farms". (I may not be convinced that they're competitive, but the technology is interesting.)
[18:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Organizes Secretive Mars Landing Conference at University of Colorado Boulder - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:06] <exec> 08└─Grow plants? On Mars? Seems boring. Call the Slaaaveeess!
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[19:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:08] <exec> 08└─And it only cost ONE... DOLLAR!
[19:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:10] <exec> 08└─Knowledge and information will be free. By hook or by crook the people will not be repressed.
[19:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:12] <exec> 08└─From a company that derives its value from the fiction that online piracy is a huge and pricey problem, a desperate bid to remain relevant...
[19:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:14] <exec> 08└─I just use a dedicated browser in privacy mode with Adblock Ultimate on it, and pick a site that works. Even if you did decide to fiddle with uMatrix, it would probably take 2-5 minutes to figure out what needs to be enabled/disabled (typically the worst and most useless ad/tracker domains are at th...
[19:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:36] <exec> 08└─Also from the Tick-Talk dept. ; Little Wooden boys says, "SPOON" I am the Evil Bomber what bombs at midnight !!!
[19:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03waximius [1136] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:28] <exec> 08└─I don't agree that Windows is dead, but please, consider this a chance to convert someone over to your side. I'm actively looking for ways to get off of Windows, but *ahem* games keep me on the platform. I've been neck deep in *nix for decades, so I'm not a newcomer to what Linux and Mac can do. Her...
[19:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:30] <exec> 08└─I am aware of plenty of people using Windows, but I have not heard of anyone actually using Skype in a long time. Microsoft's support of Windows is indeed becoming quite wishy-washy. There have been plenty of stories about it here on soylentnews. It has become crystal clear recently that from now on...
[19:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:58] <exec> 08└─TPB will likely go the way of Napster once the pens get to wagging.
[19:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:00] <exec> 08└─License agreements work one-side: You are obliged and you have to maintain it. The other side, publisher, is not - even if it is. These sites are the only source also for people who have original media with wear damages, they sometimes accepted the fraudulent agreements that defective media will be...
[19:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:02] <exec> 08└─Well, actually, it's still nintendo shutting down access to 3rd party developed tools and roms to their previous second parties on the basis that they enable and facilitate piracy. Not the particular roms that belong to nintendo. But the facilitation of access.
[19:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:04] <exec> 08└─Honestly, that's like saying "Modern independent painters can do impressionism better than van gogh, so it's no big deal that we're banning reproductions of starry night"
[19:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:12] <exec> 08└─2010: The King's Speech wins over Inception.
[19:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves Impossible Burger "Heme" Ingredient; Still Wants to Regulate "Cultured Meat" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:30] <exec> 08└─Hæmoglobin, not hæmaglobin, you chæky poofter!
[19:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:23] <exec> 08└─Testing wouldn't help. They don't give a fuck enough to build in the features that might need testing. Like, say, the ability to show or not show the overscan area of the picture (Fuck Element and Fuck the Xbox One both for not giving you the option and disagreeing on the unchangeable setting). Or h...
[19:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:24] <exec> 08└─No one has yet complained that Soggy Jobs covers India.
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[20:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:05] <exec> 08└─Who woulda thunk that.
[20:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:07] <exec> 08└─It helps you to model boobies in VR.
[20:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:09] <exec> 08└─Contrary to widely-held opinion, taking high school calculus isn't necessary for success later in college calculus.
[20:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:11] <exec> 08└─People who were no good at the prerequisites, but took high school calculus anyway, did not do well in college calculus? Big surprise...
[20:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:13] <exec> 08└─Calculus: The agony and dx/dc
[20:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:16] <exec> 08└─These results mirror my experience. I was a goof-off in 9th grade geometry, never did my math homework, and ended up getting C's and D's. Back then (early '80s), there was still vestiges of that "new math" stuff going around, and they had two tracks. The "good" students went on a track of new math w...
[20:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:18] <exec> 08└─My high school calculus course was lousy, mostly because the teacher had the serious drawback of not having a good understanding of calculus. As in, she knew the formulas and notation and such, but didn't understand how they came about or how to really think using them. My college-level calculus pro...
[20:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:20] <exec> 08└─Behold! The results of post-modernism, where deductive reasoning holds no value.
[20:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:23] <exec> 08└─Young men minds need to know that they're working on something demonstrably useful. All teaching should be about solving some actual problem. Pure mathematics should be something left to be pursued by those few men minds who can perceive its importance without encouragement.
[20:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:25] <exec> 08└─While my high school taught calculus its schedule interfered with the student newspaper class. At UCD we derived integrals and derivatives. At Caltech we did proofs. Really my high school Geometry course did more to prepare me for Caltech's calculus than did UCD's Calculus.
[20:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:43] <exec> 08└─What's with the new sig? Hoping someone will use your SSN and improve your credit for you?
[20:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:45] <exec> 08└─I would never pirate copyrighted works or advocate their piracy! I am shocked—shocked—to find that gambling is going on in here! I do think it's interesting that kodi (formerly XBox Media Center or XBMC for short) is once again being developed for the XBox (One) after having dropped it as a buil...
[20:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:47] <exec> 08└─there's not a whole lot anybody can do to make my credit any worse than it is. What I'm hoping is that lots of identity thieves are able to use it to get lots of loans. Do you know how to deal with bill collectors? _I_ know how to deal with bill collectors: "I'm homeless. The only reason I get to ea...
[20:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:49] <exec> 08└─Didn't he used to have that in his signature?
[20:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:51] <exec> 08└─They're not talking about music; nowadays its all about pirating movies and tv. Even if music is not explicitly excluded, the difference in bitrate between audio and video makes music a footnote in any study based on traffic volume.
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─You know what happens when you end commercial credit, yeah? No more home loans. No more auto loans. No more student loans. If you want one of the above and can't afford it, tough shit until you can.
[20:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:56] <exec> 08└─It's a little surprising Microsoft allows it [microsoft.com]. Although it's not "fully loaded" with add-ons, I assume most users end up adding them (what's that, 30-60 minutes of work?).
[20:10:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─You joke, but I'm way more worried about lyme disease and rocky mountain spotted fever than I am about not noticing a tick before I literally exsanguinate.
[20:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:19] <exec> 08└─What are you trying to prove? That life lock guy who posted his SSN everywhere had his identity stolen like 4 times.
[20:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:20] <exec> 08└─Even college rugby teams don't drink multiple times their body weight.
[20:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:22] <exec> 08└─Clearly, these folks just met my ex!
[20:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:25] <exec> 08└─I think he's succesfully proving that soylent posters are layabouts.
[20:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:27] <exec> 08└─... a laptop computer? _After_ it was stolen from a parked car, Community Services Northwest started using encryption. But that doesn't answer the question as to why they had my SSN on a _laptop_.
[20:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:21] <exec> 08└─Was gonna say the same thing, they want to retain their customers so as usual just a selfish move by M$ et all.
[20:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:22] <exec> 08└─It is a chicken or egg problem. Enough gamers use linux / macs / other OSes and you'll see developers support those platforms. Aside from WINE I don't think there is any good method of running windows only titles on linux, and WINE adds overhead and doesn't support newer software.
[20:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:24] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I wonder how much malware has infected my PC due to my lack of updates. It is a sad state of affairs when you distrust vendor updates enough to avoid them. If I have gotten anything it has been pretty innocuous, but then again I don't frequent the same places as jmorris >:P
[20:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:56] <exec> 08└─Good luck trying to track that down 5 years later, let alone 20 or more. Plus, video game companies go defunct all the time (especially in the 90s and earlier) without having transferred the copyright. And even if they did transfer the copyright, not everyone registers that. Why waste time and money...
[20:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:57] <exec> 08└─Sweds: are they the the Swedish version of US federal agents?
[20:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:07] <exec> 08└─As I mentioned, most of these weren't bad films by any means, but they definitely weren't what the box office said was important that year. For instance, I definitely thought 12 Years a Slave was worth my time and money when I saw it, but it didn't have the kind of cultural impact that the others I...
[20:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:09] <exec> 08└─That moment when you're on stage to receive your lifetime achievement award and a montage of your accusers starts playing.
[20:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:22] <exec> 08└─I have a special page for the European Union [soggy.jobs] because citizens of its member states can work anywhere in the EU.
[20:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:23] <exec> 08└─Oh man, if I could go from loser to winner AND get a new TV? Sing me UP!
[20:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:25] <exec> 08└─So NOW you're all about regulations on manufacturing? #hypocrisy #trolldabird
[20:17:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Italy Senate Overturns Mandatory Vaccination Law - 448 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:58] <exec> 08└─I only have the one account and even admins can't mod ourselves without bringing up a mysql prompt, which I'm both too lazy and lack any desire to do. Ad hominem. Look it up. Also, need I remind you of pre-Snowden days when telling people what the NSA was up to would get you labeled a cook? Or how s...
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[21:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:56] <exec> 08└─The real donald trump didn't write that, not once does it complain about immigrants, liberals, or the investigation into his and his family activities.
[21:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:57] <exec> 08└─Seems more like you don't actually read what the real Donald Trump says or writes. Just because the fake news only report on specific things he says does not mean thats the only things he says.
[21:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:59] <exec> 08└─The saudis are attempting to buy a majority stake, which is why he's doing this desperation move.
[21:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:02] <exec> 08└─☆ @realDonaldTrump (6614) ✓ VERIFIED BY 🆂OYLENTNEW🆂. ✔
[21:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:04] <exec> 08└─He needs to do this. Any business beholden to the whims of the shareholders is a business run on whims. The only thing that matters then (usually) are the quarterly profits. Hawk eye tracking of the profits every quarter gets in the way of long term success. Maybe you will want to sacrifice a good l...
[21:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:21] <exec> 08└─I can genuinely say I've made use of all the math I studied in both high school and college in my post-academic life. Yes, I work in software, so math is more likely to come up in my profession than, say, marketing, but it has real applications. For instance, to make geometry into applied math, just...
[21:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:23] <exec> 08└─I would have to agree that mastering the basics is more important than getting exposed to it all before end of high school. Did okay upto year 12, but never did an undergrad degree. So 25 years out, i kept tanking a few graduate level stats courses, always playing catch-up on the basic stuff, leadin...
[21:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:25] <exec> 08└─That's the point. Also, either your sector of programming is quite niche or your studies of mathematics weren't as advanced as you seem to think; most programmers never touch mathematical thinking beyond basic "business logic".
[21:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:27] <exec> 08└─Even if you're learning from Spivak's book, algebraic operations remain the only algorithm. Later when you pick up more differential equations and Laplace transformations it becomes clear just how much that is true and how all those layers upon layers of identities are really just memorization first...
[21:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:30] <exec> 08└─Unless you're from Indiana and you think Pi == 3 in which case your booby skin will be missing some pieces or weirdly folded in on itself.
[21:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:32] <exec> 08└─Math major here. My big understanding of Math was you got one or two balls of gibberish, and you had to use every identity you could remember to convert them into balls of different gibberish in the hope you could do that thing you needed to do with the gibberish to get an answer. Why is, say, the L...
[21:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:34] <exec> 08└─So, you are saying if we take the rate of students graduating without high school calculus over time...
[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:36] <exec> 08└─I took calculus at 17, too. Back then, it was compulsory in Greece, if you followed the "practical" direction of studies, as opposed to the "classical" direction, where students were taught Latin, with a more generous helping of ancient Greek than what we got in the "practical direction". The teache...
[21:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─The extent of my math education was mid-level undergraduate and a fairly prestigious college (USA Today top 25 in its group). Of those courses: Calculus doesn't come up all that often, but is involved in some analytical contexts where you need to track rates and totals of variable things. Linear alg...
[21:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─Boobies are not perfect spheres anyway. Not that you would know.
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─Also, I doubt you approached any of those computing problems in the way that a student of mathematics or even computer science would. I suspect you basically looked around for software or formulas or excel sheets or StackOverflow posts, etc., that gave you readily applicable (and perhaps parameteriz...
[21:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:09] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't think addons would be necessary if you had anything else on the network sharing some directories over NFS or SMB. Maybe if you just had to start watching something ASAFP instead of waiting on a torrent to finish.
[21:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:38] <exec> 08└─Is your solution to a sinking ship to drill more holes in the hull?
[21:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:40] <exec> 08└─They speculated that the population might have a ratio of about one male to 400 females.
[21:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:42] <exec> 08└─The narrator, softly: "And this, is a very rare male specimen of the dreaded Asian longhorned tick. You can tell it's a male by the biiiiig smile on his face".
[21:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:44] <exec> 08└─Really? Imagine the amount of annoyance most guys get from 1 partner, then multiply that by 400! Sure, you get laid a lot, but you also now have to fix 400 appliances and open 12000 jars every week.
[21:11:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:03] <exec> 08└─You're telling me I can't trust Agribusiness to look after my best interests? pshaw. Next you'll be telling me Wall Street bankers can crash the economy with no repercussions. Fake news!
[21:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:14] <exec> 08└─Said without irony I presume. You do realize this puts you on the same level as the farmers right? Actually scratch that, you probably aren't willing to put your own life at risk, so really you're just a cowardly farmer hiding behind a keyboard advocating genocide. Get it yet?
[21:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Beijing-Tianjin Train Reaches 350 km/h (217 mph) - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:55] <exec> 08└─Killed cleaning rails = Killed at work = industrial accident
[21:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:26] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Weinstein [wikipedia.org] In September 2009, Weinstein publicly voiced opposition to efforts to extradite Roman Polanski from Switzerland to the U.S. regarding a 1977 charge that he had drugged and raped a 13-year-old, to which Polanski had pleaded guilty before...
[21:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:28] <exec> 08└─They already have the Academy’s Scientific and Technical Awards [oscars.org]. I would expect them to segregate some of the technical oscar categories into that (and only make it available as a webcast).
[21:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:44] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of an observation that James Clavell (the author of Shogun) made (to paraphrase heavily); westerners measure time in years but (east)asians measure time in generations.
[21:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:46] <exec> 08└─I think the real reason is that the Commerce Secretary has a lot of money tied up in the raw materials side of trade, as compared to the finished goods side. He's already made millions of dollars on the tariffs by shorting stock before the tariffs came out (when caught, he basically said "oops, I di...
[21:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:48] <exec> 08└─Paul Manafort appeared to have already made the megabucks too... There's a pretty obvious motive for being the first US President to NOT release his tax returns.
[21:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:50] <exec> 08└─That's so true. I'd write: "westerners measure time in milliseconds..."
[21:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─Well, your response is a test result- customer wants more, waaaaa. :) Ahhh, you need a great programmable remote control that will dig through the menus for you. Maybe CTS, Crestron, or a phone app with an IR emitter. More research needed when I have time... You also need a fancy but fast scan conve...
[21:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:55] <exec> 08└─Who said anything about regulations? I just know better than to buy one now.
[21:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:50] <exec> 08└─Second of all, Georgia hasn't had time yet to fully put the Shelby County v. Holder decision to use.
[21:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:51] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing the answer to that question is "Every grocery store Donald Trump has ever shopped at. Which is to say none, because he has never in his entire life done his own grocery shopping." Either that or he always bought booze.
[21:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:53] <exec> 08└─Can we all just take a minute to realize that voting machines were a big end-run around democracy? There are so many scattered systems, different protocols, all sorts of shit that makes it hard to properly audit all the various states/districts. Apparently some evoting machines don't even keep prope...
[21:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:56] <exec> 08└─What are you talking about? Three times in the last 55 years Georgia went Democrat on the presidential ticket, and two of those times were when Carter was running. Even during the great landslide election for Lyndon Johnson, Georgia went Republican. And keep in mind that those Dixiecrats are the Rep...
[21:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:58] <exec> 08└─No, I'm denying that a reasonable person would think that this the extent of the voter fraud.
[21:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:00] <exec> 08└─The RNC is legally not able to engage or assist in voter fraud prevention: https://www.judicialview.com [judicialview.com]
[21:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:02] <exec> 08└─No thats not an accurate translation. The actual meaning is quite clear. Anyway, like Ive been saying this bs is driving everyone away from the DNC, will be interesting to see what rises in its place.
[21:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:05] <exec> 08└─Did you read the case in question? Because if you did, you'd know that what the RNC was doing would have been fine had the RNC been targeted all voters, and the problem was that they were targeting black and Hispanic voters intentionally and exclusively. Had they done the exact same thing statewide...
[21:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:07] <exec> 08└─You "translated" my other post for me totally incorrectly and now in this one you confuse the reason for this legal issue with the consequences of it... are you drunk?
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[22:09:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Alfred [4006] 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 427 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:09] <exec> 08└─He needs to do this. Any business beholden to the whims of the shareholders is a business run on whims. The only thing that matters then (usually) are the quarterly profits. Hawk eye tracking of the profits every quarter gets in the way of long term success. Maybe you will want to sacrifice a good l...
[22:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:11] <exec> 08└─Why did he say he was going to act at $420 per share? Wouldn't it have been smarter to step up buying shares on the open market if he had plans taking the company private?
[22:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:13] <exec> 08└─"the fake news" and you are defending Trump when will the cognitive dissonance reach a harmonic that blows out the neural circuits?
[22:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:15] <exec> 08└─I didn't write it, that's so true. I quoted it from FOX Business. Very big story there, they have so many articles & video about that one.......... foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/ford-has-no-issues-being-a-public-company [foxbusiness.com] foxbusiness.com/markets/tesla-shares-down-as-wall-street-di...
[22:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:17] <exec> 08└─https://www.investopedia.com/articles/insights/052616/top-4-tesla-shareholders-tsla.asp [investopedia.com] As of June 12, 2018, Musk reportedly owned 33.7 million shares of Tesla, held indirectly through a trust. This makes him the largest shareholder, both among institutions and individuals. On Mar...
[22:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:20] <exec> 08└─FAKE NEWS, he only whines about his persecution complex 99% of the time!
[22:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:22] <exec> 08└─420? You need me to explain the significance of 420?
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:50] <exec> 08└─and in fields of nuclear engineering, consumer electronics and space (engineering and physics), the only time I've ever had to use calculus was to pass tests in college. It helps to have a deep understanding, but not required, especially now that computers do all the work. I sometimes think how gett...
[22:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─Welcomen to the world of Wittgenstein. There are now a number of software packages that translate forms of gibberish back and forth.
[22:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:54] <exec> 08└─That's what separates understanding from application. If you can't derive those things from first principles, then it's true: You don't really know what you're doing, and your never did.
[22:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:56] <exec> 08└─This sounds to me like an excuse to not master the prerequisites and not take Calculus. Look, if you don't want to take Calculus, don't take it. And definitely don't take it if you haven't mastered the prerequisites - doesn't that go without saying? You absolutely cannot progress in math if you don'...
[22:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:58] <exec> 08└─Also, I doubt you approached any of those computing problems in the way that a student of mathematics or even computer science would. I suspect you basically looked around for software or formulas or excel sheets or StackOverflow posts, etc., that gave you readily applicable (and perhaps parameteriz...
[22:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:25] <exec> 08└─Well with the elimination of the usury middle men there will be enough money freed up for the economy that people can *gasp* just afford to pay for stuff!!
[22:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:27] <exec> 08└─This requires a massive rejiggering of our economic systems. The easiest and least troublesome method would be to calculate costs and have creators cap their revenue at something like 5-10x the cost of production. I suggest a higher limit than the cost of production since creative works are not on t...
[22:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:29] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand how convenient "fully loaded" Kodi can be. The best add-ons present a Netflix-esque browsing interface, except without the artificial catalog limitations [engadget.com]. I'll admit that it can have its bad moments (movies without any working stream sources, buffering iss...
[22:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:02] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't worry too much about these ticks. We have them in New Zealand, and when the infestations get too bad the Tick Patrols come around with their flamethrowers and burn off all the grass. You get used to it, usually we just have to stay inside for a day or two. It's the farmers I feel sorry...
[22:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:03] <exec> 08└─Whatever floats your boat. However, this is what the females look like: https://commons.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org]
[22:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:34] <exec> 08└─n/t
[22:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Poop of 100,000 Cows May be to Blame for a Deadly Romaine Lettuce E. Coli Outbreak - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:36] <exec> 08└─Get it yet? Yes, preventing people from dying is genocide now. Also, war is peace and freedom is slavery.
[22:11:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 1016 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:46] <exec> 08└─Micro$oft lies. Often. "Security", for users, includes DRM to keep users secure from being accused and punished for any alleged piracy, and OOXML is an "open" format, and users have a choice of web browsers. M$ "documentation" is loaded with marketing propaganda, FUD, and omissions of useful API fun...
[22:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:05] <exec> 08└─Is this actual Skype we're talking about, or "Skype for Business," AKA "We're Not Lync, We're Exploiting Name Recognition For The Other Thing We Bought But Haven't Finished Driving Into The Ground Yet"? We can't even have a conversation about how much Microsoft sucks donkey balls without getting int...
[22:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:06] <exec> 08└─Yes: I've said it before...Windows is a gaming console. That said, I'm old, and I don't need the latest-greatest games. Unity of command is what I'm currently playing, works in Linux, good strategy game (perfect the blitzkrieg!) Old favourite: Total Annihilation, works in wine. Played a bit of quake...
[22:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:08] <exec> 08└─Sorry, forgot to say: dual boot! Do work in Linux, play in Windows.
[22:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Will Continue Skype 'Classic' Support After Negative Customer Feedback - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:11] <exec> 08└─I've been off Windows since 1999 and haven't looked back...it's easier than you think unless you have niche software. Then I'd dual boot or virtual machine it. Kill the monkey and don't look back.
[22:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:44] <exec> 08└─You've got a point. The way I read it is that Nintendo was issuing threats and takedown orders. Those developers they are threatening (or their project/webhosts) are either voluntarily taking them down or voluntarily complying instead of facing an actual lawsuit. The most recent Nintendo takedown no...
[22:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:46] <exec> 08└─One thing I do know is the USA will make one helluva mess out of another country if it takes a mind to.
[22:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:01] <exec> 08└─I'm a little confused why Weinstein has decided to hang around in the U.S.
[22:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:23] <exec> 08└─Could we move Taiwan, I mean that island that's part of China, the people and all the good stuff, closer to USA?
[22:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:25] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure his plan is to fuck up the US and then escape to Russia when the consequences catch up.
[22:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:27] <exec> 08└─We count in quarters because that is how we do financial accounting. Our counting system contains these numbers: -1, 0, 1, 2
[22:15:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:55] <exec> 08└─First of all, Georgia isn't all that republican.
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[23:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:19] <exec> 08└─http://jango-raid.ml/?song_id=1070431&t=113278038&a=Dr._Dre&s=The_Next_Episode [jango-raid.ml] fucken 🅱laze it 🎄🎄🎄🔥🔥🔥
[23:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Considers Taking Tesla Private - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:20] <exec> 08└─FAKE NEWS! [twitter.com]
[23:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ken_g6 [3706] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:54] <exec> 08└─Hee, hee, did someone say something about deriving mathematics from first principles? That only takes a few thousand pages. [wikipedia.org] I would say most math students shouldn't dive into that.
[23:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:55] <exec> 08└─Same here, in fact, most of the math professors wind up having to redo all the calculus that was taught in high school because it either isn't right or doesn't go into enough detail to be useful. There's also the issue that students that are in high school aren't necessarily at the developmental sta...
[23:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:58] <exec> 08└─Around here teaching High School math only requires mat up to linear algebra, differential equations and calculus 3. I blame the state for being too cheap to pay teachers to develop their skills more fully.
[23:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:01] <exec> 08└─That's usually because the balance wasn't right. To properly learn math you need to be taught things that you mostly just memorize at first. You take those things and you build your own connections between them by way of playing with them and analyzing them, generalizing them and figuring out how th...
[23:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds That Mastering Prerequisites—Not Taking Calculus in High School—Better Predicts Success - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:03] <exec> 08└─It should go without saying, but it doesn't. Most of those students are taking it in high school either because it looks good on their transcript or in the mistaken belief that they'll be able to skip the course in college. Neither of which are particularly true and schools should stop suggesting th...
[23:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:32] <exec> 08└─Works in theory. In practice there are a whole lot of stupid motherfuckers who spend rent money on giant rims and low profile tires, lift kits, competition-level car stereos, and other idiotic shit rather than bills. What makes you think they're capable of saving for a home?
[23:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:33] <exec> 08└─Depends on your priorities, I guess. I'd rather go do something else for a little while so a download of a much better than Internet streaming quality copy can forever sit upon a media server. That way I can watch it in good quality whenever I like from now on, stick it on a thumb drive, phone, or t...
[23:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Anti-Piracy Firm: P2P Piracy Still Relevant - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:35] <exec> 08└─What planet have you been living on? People not only don't oppose oppression around here, they fucking clamor for it. Even their own.
[23:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:10] <exec> 08└─Lotsa ticks, not very many tocs.
[23:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:11] <exec> 08└─LAYABOUTS!?!?! Harumph, harumph! I say, old chap me son, I'm gonna go out and steal his identity right now-- oooh, "Some mother's do 'ave 'em" is on. I'll do it later. "Fraaaank!?!"
[23:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:13] <exec> 08└─I think he's going for the insurance money, lol.
[23:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:16] <exec> 08└─And when they get to the point where they all sync: a week of being told how lucky he is by 400 females, 400 times a day.
[23:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Invaded by Savage Tick that Sucks Animals Dry, Spawns Without Mating - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:18] <exec> 08└─No I'm not joking. Ticks have many natural preditors. Un/fortunately most of those preditors are quite tasty. Which is why there are so many ticks, and so few wild Turkeys and Bob White Quail. Turkeys and Bob White eat ticks. Guinea Fowl LOVE to eat ticks. But Turkeys can be (and have recently been)...
[23:12:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06EmuParadise Removes ROMs After Nintendo Sued Other ROM Sites - 1325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:34] <exec> 08└─Yeh... you are so right... its just a big whack a mole, keeping a lot of people busy trying to find people sharing an old obscure computer game - over a technicality over copyright. I guess it makes high paid jobs for wearers of the suit, shakers of the hand, and law enforcement. For what? an obsol...
[23:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Academy Awards Adds "Popular Film" Category, Shortens TV Broadcast by Cutting Out Some Awards - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:13] <exec> 08└─He was dismissed from his company in October 2017. Company declared bankruptcy in February and again in March. Acquisition process began on May 1, was finished by July. Weinstein was arrested on May 25, 2018. He should have pulled a Polanski and GTFO of the United States. Although Polanski fled afte...
[23:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:38] <exec> 08└─A union label negates Made in USA. The best is plain old Made in USA. After that comes the helpful countries like Poland and Japan. After that comes the insignificant places like Costa Rica and Angola. After that comes the union label stuff, and the frenemies like China and France. After that comes...
[23:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Element TV Factory in South Carolina Shuts Down; Tariffs Cited as Reason - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:40] <exec> 08└─Samsung for example, makes a huge portion of the screens for everything, including for what might seem like competitors. LG is also in Korea. Sony is in Japan.
[23:16:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stretch611 [6199] 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:11] <exec> 08└─You are exactly right. The current Secretary of State, (which oversees elections), just won the republican primary for governor here in GA. That's right, Trump endorsed Brian Kemp is responsible for overseeing elections, and is now running for governor. Whats wrong with this picture?!?
[23:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aegis [6714] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Georgia Defends Voting System Despite 243-Percent Turnout in One Precinct - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:46] <exec> 08└─Qtakyon?
[23:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:20] <exec> 08└─So you're saying stupid people like the eastern areas?
[23:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─And so soon after their previous technological breakthrough, the Flying Toaster.
[23:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Tests Hypersonic Aircraft "Starry Sky-2" - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:23] <exec> 08└─You find a river in Huntsville, so you build railroads to connect with river traffic. After river shipments become less important due to the railroads, you build roads too. Then when WW2 breaks out you freak out and look for good strategic locations anywhere that have transport and aren't vulnerable...
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