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[00:42:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 315 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:49] <exec> 08└─Bail money provides a way for the rich to pay enough to disappear quietly and the poor to rot in jail for the lack of it or spend far more than they have paying a bondsman (you know you don't get that back even if you're not guilty, right?). An ankle bracelet can accomplish the same thing for a hell...
[00:42:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 1974 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:52] <exec> 08└─There are other incentives, too, like not getting arrested or tracked down by bounty hunters and being denied bail the second time around. Presumably, the algorithm will include "failure to appear" in its calculations, and the more serious crimes will not allow for any bail at all. One thing this wi...
[00:42:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:58] <exec> 08└─The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. - Anatole France
[00:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:06] <exec> 08└─but he's obviously implying that the "algorithm" will deem everyone a flight risk
[00:43:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:08] <exec> 08└─It's not just up to the judge.
[00:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:11] <exec> 08└─And, for the very poorest and very richest, not pay taxes.
[00:43:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:13] <exec> 08└─Your proposal sounds like socialism. I prefer the new way - no bail. Get rid of that nest of vipers.
[00:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not (mis)representing the situation at all, just clarifying the arguments being advanced so they can be supported or opposed on their merits, rather than on repeated misunderstandings. Thexalon seemed to be repeatedly missing khallow's implicit point, and khallow kept failing to make it explicit...
[00:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:17] <exec> 08└─Socialism that only applies to those charged with crimes? So the rich and therefore powerful who generally don't get arrested can carry on accumulating wealth, while the poor and frequently arrested have their wealth confiscated and redistributed? It sounds like the least effective form of socialism...
[00:43:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:19] <exec> 08└─Watch you language, son. Your proposal sounds like socialism. I prefer the new way - no bail. Get rid of that nest of vipers.
[00:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:58] <exec> 08└─Yes. Works fine. Oh, but then I have almost all ads, most scripts, etc. disabled. Which means I probably use a tiny fraction of most bandwidth, processing, and RAM compared to users who allow that sort of crap. Oh, and I run Linux on the laptop I do that with. If I were running Windows, I'd probably...
[00:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:59] <exec> 08└─Actually, Microsoft got their start selling BASIC interpreters for 8 bit computers to hobbyists.
[00:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:01] <exec> 08└─OS X is primarily used by those in the design world and people who like the smell of their own farts.
[00:44:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 355 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:29] <exec> 08└─"Caution: this beverage is extremely cold. Like, really fucking cold. You have no idea how cold this is. No, not like, 'Wow, this is really fucking cold' cold, but more like, 'Gee, I don't feel anything. Oh, that's because my tongue fell off.' cold. Handle with protective gear and measure the intern...
[00:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:37] <exec> 08└─How about "Warning: Terms and conditions apply. Please visit our website for details."? A flawless solution, amirite?
[00:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:39] <exec> 08└─Recommended length of the "Terms and conditions" section? The original proposal seems like "not enough text" for a web page (surely not long enough for the entire liquid nitrogen to evaporate). (grin)
[00:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:43] <exec> 08└─For some reason chefs and food manufacturers presenting vegan food seem to be obsessed with providing these "mock meats". I can see the idea might appeal to someone that enjoys meat but wants to transition to a vegan diet and wants to use them as a sort of temporary meat surrogate. I think there are...
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[01:42:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 357 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:42] <exec> 08└─Bail bondsmen have little incentive to track people down. It's quite typical for the bail bondsman to only pay 5% of the bail amount for no-shows. The old system did 2 things: 1. Put money into the coffers of companies that provided bail bonds. 2. Extracted false guilty pleas from people who could a...
[01:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:52] <exec> 08└─Someone established with car, home, job, and family can probably pay bail for something like a DUI. They have a lot to lose by skipping out and never returning. They can pay bail, and will almost certainly show up for trial. If it's a serious crime bail money can become a problem or be denied at all...
[01:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:54] <exec> 08└─Just read an article recently on the Guardian website. https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] The gist of it being that ankle monitors can be counter productive (can cost a great deal of money, especially if you...
[01:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:56] <exec> 08└─As an example using an address in the algorithm will tag poor and minority neighborhoods as more likely to reoffend.
[01:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:58] <exec> 08└─The problem is someone who cannot afford bail may spend a year or more in jail awaiting trial for a charge that may only have a fine, or have a short sentence, if found guilty. They will have had their entire life turned upside down for being arrested, not for being found guilty. Should someone who...
[01:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:00] <exec> 08└─Do you really think they are not going to sit in jail for a year or more? That is still going to happen. It is an interesting experiment. Shall be interesting to see how it works out.
[01:43:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 648 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:13] <exec> 08└─As someone very new to Win10 I have to say its UI is a stinking smelling rotting festering pile of junk. Like did M$ devs, project managers, and execs think advertisements everywhere, a Siri-like virtual assistant that is 100x more annoying that Clippy ever was, forced upgrades, forced updates, and...
[01:43:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03loonycyborg [6905] 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 499 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:20] <exec> 08└─Windows is widespread not due to quality but due to marketing and exclusive deals with OEMs. If MS managed to get its market position with DOS of all things then it's clearly obvious that quality of software itself is secondary. If MS decides to replace windows with its own linux distro and call it...
[01:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:41] <exec> 08└─Hey, I'm not judging you for your tastes. You be you!
[01:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:42] <exec> 08└─Your mom wasn't worrying when she gave me head! :) Could. Not. Resist!!!
[01:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:43:44] <exec> 08└─OS X is primarily used by those in the design world and people who like the smell of their own farts.
[01:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:21] <exec> 08└─Well, given the requirement to get the customer waiting, it would make sense to monetize that time and have them call a premium rate phone line. Or, going with the web option, getting them to solve valuable captchas should provide time for evaporation. I wonder if the crypto-mining algorithms could...
[01:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:48] <exec> 08└─the truth will be they were merely a medium-high growth rate company
[01:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:29] <exec> 08└─Kosher Bacon?
[01:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 2025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:07] <exec> 08└─Going to the moon sounds to be pointless. A basic requirement of any program should be that any base is going to be self sustaining from local resources, especially you need air and water to be supplied locally. This is so we do not deplete earth resources. You don't have much in the way of air or w...
[01:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:09] <exec> 08└─Is there really all that much water there? Sounds like residue, not oceans. Also, where is all of the energy going to come from to do all this, the amounts of energy needed are massive
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[02:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:18] <exec> 08└─I pay less than that in rent.
[02:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 1157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:19] <exec> 08└─In Grover Beach, California, near San Luis Obispo. I wanted to expand upon The Forum On Risks To The Public In Computers And Related Systems [ncl.ac.uk]. RISKS posts are just about always just a few paragraphs. I want to read five to ten pages on the topic of the effects of software faults on Aviati...
[02:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:21] <exec> 08└─While there are good reasons to get rid of the abuses of the bail system, there's no guarantee that this new system will end much of the type of abuse you mention. Notably, the ACLU (which helped in initial drafts of this bill) has come out against it [reason.com] because they fear the amount of lee...
[02:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:23] <exec> 08└─That's not actually true -- or at least not true depending on what you mean by "specific." Yes, minor crimes (misdemeanors) generally get released, while very severe crimes don't, but it seems there's a pretty significant "gray area" in the middle to be resolved by algorithms and courts. Possibiliti...
[02:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:25] <exec> 08└─The problem is someone who cannot afford bail may spend a year or more in jail awaiting trial for a charge that may only have a fine, or have a short sentence, if found guilty.
[02:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:28] <exec> 08└─No, what it means is that the court can't require money as a condition to let somebody out of jail while awaiting trial. The courts can still seize passports and subject defendants to supervision and tracking rather than sitting in jail. The problem with the previous system is that you'd have people...
[02:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, but if they're in jail, the amount of money they have won't be as significant a factor. If they're sitting in jail for that long, it will be because the charges are particularly serious and the case is particularly complicated, not because they lacked the funds to post bond. No system is perfec...
[02:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:32] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily, it depends upon the case. It's the prosecution and the court's end of things that are subject to that clause, not the defense. There are times when the defense takes time due to needing to conduct a proper investigation of the details as well as tracking down additional witnesses or...
[02:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:43:34] <exec> 08└─So basically, you decided to hang out at McDonalds all night and wore out your welcome. Things escalated to the point that police were called to evict you from the premises. When ordered to leave by the police, rather than pack up your shit and make tracks like any sensible human would, you decided...
[02:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:17] <exec> 08└─Works OK (using a 2 GB Chromebook to write this comment), especially with a script blocker and adblocker neutering the modern web. However, make no mistake. 4 GB would be a lot better and tabs would reload less often. And I bet I could find a way to use 8+ GB as well. The days of 2 GB RAM machines (...
[02:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:18] <exec> 08└─Yep that totally worked for apple.
[02:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:59] <exec> 08└─Kale too! OMG kale! I hate eating green things!
[02:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:08] <exec> 08└─The real tragedy of people who eat mock meats just to be hipsters is that they're missing things that are so much better. For example, why screw around with fake hot dogs? That has to be the most disgusting mock meat I've ever tried. Instead, they should grill up some carrots and have carrot dogs. N...
[02:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:44] <exec> 08└─It doesn't have to be paid for with taxes. For the first century and change, we mostly made do with tariffs. Funny thing, we had less government, but no less civilization.
[02:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:25] <exec> 08└─I understand crime has dropped, and it can be attributed to switching to unleaded gasoline.
[02:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Failed Chinese Films and Fake Ticket Sales Used to Manipulate Stock Prices - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:13] <exec> 08└─Women are gold diggers. Makeup, hair dye, fake nails, revealing clothes, shaved legs, and heeled shoes are all scams.
[02:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:51] <exec> 08└─Solar energy, which is nearly constant near the poles, and is at a significantly higher intensity than on Earth [wikipedia.org]: At most about 75% of the solar energy actually reaches the earth's surface, as even with a cloudless sky it is partially reflected and absorbed by the atmosphere. Even lig...
[02:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Administrator Bridenstine Says It Won't Cost Much to Get Back to the Moon - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:52] <exec> 08└─Some people say they would pay to live on the Moon. Extremely few of those would.
[02:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:35] <exec> 08└─Not surprising you wouldn't care about that, given your preference for using a monospaced font like it's 1983.
[02:53:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptop Bezels Continue to Shrink - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:36] <exec> 08└─It's actually kind of funny, since bezels actually got thicker after the 2000's. My Thinkpad R60 from about 2006 has a thinner bezel than most any laptop that came after it (not counting the ones in the article of course). Part of it is due to the 4:3 screen - people seem to say that widescreen is b...
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[03:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:25] <exec> 08└─Interesting theory. I am looking around for the evidence that wealthy people commit the vast majority of crime, which would seem to be the outcome your thoughts would lead to, however I am having trouble finding such evidence, perhaps you could help by pointing some out? I am sure you will be happy...
[03:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:27] <exec> 08└─You are correct that the defense could delay. However, that is entirely on the shoulders of the defendant. If he demands a speedy trial, the state has no recourse but to deliver one. If it does not or cannot, the state cannot keep the defendant jailed indefinitely. The OP wanted to make things soun...
[03:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:29] <exec> 08└─You write about prejudice as if it was a bad thing. But it's often just a word for experience that somebody wants to remove from consideration. If your address indicates that you're less likely to appear for court, well the truth sometimes hurts. Just like driving a BMW makes you more likely to be a...
[03:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that post increased my opinion of cops and the legal system.
[03:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:33] <exec> 08└─The other thing that happens is that sometimes there's multiple attorneys over the course of the proceedings, usually not so much for misdemeanors, but with felony charges sometimes the original attorneys leave or are reassigned and the new attorneys have to start over familiarizing themselves with...
[03:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that post increased my opinion of cops and the legal system.
[03:43:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:43:58] <exec> 08└─Hundreds of millions of people use Win10 everyday.
[03:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 4290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:22] <exec> 08└─Windows has been widespread due to a lot of factors. Legacy compatibility was a huge deal, and there are a fair few programs made for Windows 95 that will work without issue on Windows 10 (admittedly, there's a bunch of others that should work, but can't be installed on a 64-bit version due to their...
[03:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:23] <exec> 08└─My computer only has 2GB of RAM, so I'm surfing the Web with it using Pale Moon (+uBlock Origin & Matrix) right now, plus almost always have at least one other non-light program running (e.g. Calibre, GIMP, Mednafen, Wine, Open Office) as well as a handful of lightweight applications. The only time...
[03:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:30] <exec> 08└─yeah, I have 2x6376 overclocked to 3Ghz, and 256G of memory. I'm not going to upgrade until I can get 1T of mem and 128 threads. One condition has been met. I just wish AMD would make AVX512 - the densest calculations are still important.
[03:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:13] <exec> 08└─Given that interpretation of kosher rules seems to be in line with contagious magic [wikipedia.org], the DNA came from a forbidden animal and thus makes all it touches and generates unclean. So there will be no kosher lab meat. If it were sympathetic magic, then Bac'n™ could not be kosher. Contagi...
[03:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:54] <exec> 08└─Unless you live at the top of a hill that suffers from soggy landslip syndrome; then you're first into the ditch. On the plus side, you'll land atop your soggier downhill neighbors.
[03:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:55] <exec> 08└─I used to live at the peak of a ridge in the middle of the desert. FEMA decreed my property a medium-risk flood zone. Meanwhile a ways downhill, FEMA delisted a dry riverbed, and it subsequently filled up with condos... along a stretch I've personally seen under 30 feet of water. Apparently the huma...
[03:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoylentNews Book Club is Alive - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:50] <exec> 08└─For me, a lot of the book was extraneous. Lamp shading the number of times the narrator used the john, watched ancient movies from our time, or putting out real fires still didn't make those passages go by faster, though I did appreciate McGrew's warning. OTOH, I read it cover to cover. So I managed...
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[04:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 1685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:30] <exec> 08└─If you research the case law you'll find that the courts have whittled that down quite a bit in application from how you might naïvely expect it to be applied. No particular length of time is necessarily too long, the judge essentially listens to the prosecutions excuses and then decides if he thin...
[04:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:31] <exec> 08└─And none of this would have been a problem if the cops hadn't decided to abuse an unjust law. Glad to see you shilling for the police state.
[04:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:43:33] <exec> 08└─"This is claimed to be 'unfair'" And honestly, wouldn't you admit that it's not ideal? It may be the best possible compromise, but it's a compromise, and it's not perfect. The situation when one has been accused of a crime, ideally, would be one where there is a figure which the court would reasonab...
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[05:43:37] <exec> 08└─"the poor to rot in jail for the lack of it or spend far more than they have paying a bondsman (you know you don't get that back even if you're not guilty, right?)." * The bail bondsman charges a 10% fee. You do NOT lose the entire amount of bail. So if the bail is $10,000. The bondsman charges $1,0...
[05:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:38] <exec> 08└─"money you'll never get back, just like bail" . You don't know what you are talking about. Bail money is refunded when you appear in court. The only portion of bail money you lose is the 10% fee a bail bondsman charges if you use his services. Have you ever had to make bail ? No. I have, and I know...
[05:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:40] <exec> 08└─"And none of this would have been a problem if the cops hadn't decided to abuse an unjust law. Glad to see you shilling for the police state." - The OP pushed his luck and got himself in trouble. He has no one to blame for the events that followed but himself. You are confused if you think the polic...
[05:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:42] <exec> 08└─Better part of a year? Some are rotting for four years awaiting trial.
[05:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:44] <exec> 08└─"And the terminology you use sounds like communism** or nazi++ propaganda." - What makes you think you have the right to lecture people on the language they use ? You are not the arbiter of what language is correct. We are all adults here and we are allowed to say what we want to say. You are experi...
[05:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:46] <exec> 08└─"Watch you language, son." * Or WHAT ? What the fuck are you going to do to make me not say words you don't like ? I'd like to see you try to shut me up.
[05:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:49] <exec> 08└─Ignore you.
[05:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:43:51] <exec> 08└─The right to free speech.
[05:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:39] <exec> 08└─>The locked down, highly secure Chrome OS I prefer to see it as already irreversibly backdoored from the manufacturer. Of course it's better than a badly irreversibly backdoored system with all the downsides of a walled garden plus all the downsides of having to manage it. The generation of kids tha...
[05:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:45:48] <exec> 08└─The summary would be more useful if it told us WHY SuperMicro was being de-listed from the Nasdaq exchange.... ??
[05:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:14] <exec> 08└─If you didn't get the joke then you need more irony in your diet. =-)p
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[06:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:49] <exec> 08└─service providers who "voluntarily establish lawful access solutions" will have "freedom of choice" in how they do it Sounds like the mafia to me. "Nice business you have, be a shame if something happened to it. Of course, it's your choice." Realistically, most Western governments are out of control...
[06:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon to Shutdown CreateSpace, Books May be Left in Limbo - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:58] <exec> 08└─Well then, I guess no one has ever heard of it, or used it, and it is the Amazon, "Take away my 1984 from my Kindle" Amazon, so no one is surprised, either.
[06:44:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:07] <exec> 08└─"The right to free speech." * Obviously you are lonely have no life so you come here to provoke people. Kill yourself.
[06:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:08] <exec> 08└─Oh dear, we need to forgive rich people first. If someone enters your house and steals your valuables, you are the only one affected. If a banker steals, hundreds of thousands lose their homes [cnn.com]. Technically, yes the poor commit more crimes, but the crimes of the rich affect more people, li...
[06:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 1697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:11] <exec> 08└─The OP specifically said he wanted to bookmark a page first. And any decent cop would have waited the few seconds that would have taken, irrespective of what the guy says. But, no, the cop was on his high horse and decided he needed to meet his daily quota. It's obvious to anyone with even half a br...
[06:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:13] <exec> 08└─Time to take my medication, I'm talking to myself again (liers! thieves! Go away and never come back!) Hard times, but this too shall pass; with the passing away of the sufferer if not otherwise.
[06:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:15] <exec> 08└─That's when they're being used punitively or as a 3rd party scheme to make a zillion bucks off of people who face, more or less, debtor's prison if they don't pay. If properly done as free to the defendant, it wouldn't cost the state even as much as keeping them in jail awaiting trial would. In othe...
[06:44:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:17] <exec> 08└─If judges abuse poor people it'll be more obvious than the current shifting of blame to the distraction of the broken bail system. It's now obviously and undeniably the judge's fault or whomever designed the policy. Also, ankle bracelet tech is getting better and cheaper. I'd like to see some data o...
[06:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:19] <exec> 08└─So you would support the idea of people being forced to wear a tracking bracelet even before they have been found guilty of any crime? And that will apply to everybody who is detained and awaiting their day in court? I don't think that you have given this much thought.
[06:44:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:21] <exec> 08└─The way bail tends to get inflated, that 10% could be a pretty big chunk of change. And thoroughly unjust if you turn out to be not guilty.
[06:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:23] <exec> 08└─I would support it more than I support being actually kept in jail or being forced to pay 10% of a dreadfully inflated bond to a bondsman that you will never get back, I would prefer if it cannot be activated and no data logged unless and until you fail to appear. It should issue a visual and audibl...
[06:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:26] <exec> 08└─But you are not ignoring them are you? You are actually telling them what they can say and continuing to argue about it when they don't want to listen to you. However, I read your original quote as humour - if you meant it as fact then you are out of line. People can say express their views on this...
[06:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:28] <exec> 08└─In Canada, the Supreme Court recently (2016) ruled that the maximums are 18 months for Provincial Court without a preliminary hearing and 30 months otherwise due to our similar right, section 11(b) of the Charter. Quite a few court cases have been thrown out due to this ruling, including murderers....
[06:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bussdriver [6876] (Score: 1) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:30] <exec> 08└─Snakes (biblical,) leeches (any parasite) are extremely common metaphors for many exploitative professions predating both those modern labels (nazi/commie.) Hell, a leech IS also an adjective! Just because billions of people get those metaphors over the centuries... and some groups you do not like A...
[06:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:45:20] <exec> 08└─Oddly enough, I have. With 1 GB of RAM, raspberry pi. It even plays utube videos.
[06:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:09] <exec> 08└─You mean Bradley Manning. amirite?
[06:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:10] <exec> 08└─Lab-grown meat...
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[07:42:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:42] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the 5 eyes should just be called the new Axis powers
[07:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:44] <exec> 08└─I think you vastly overestimate the bureaucrats. Senators and congressman have way more power, and if the "swamp" you refer to has the level of power you describe then it is because they are in with the powers corrupting from the top. The swamp that needs draining is NOT the bureaucrtas but the PACs...
[07:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:46] <exec> 08└─"The swamp that needs draining is NOT the bureaucrtas but the PACs buying and selling political influence." It's both. Swamps seep.
[07:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:48] <exec> 08└─Just like the immune system has proven cancer to be an easily solved problem. If you complain that sometimes it cant always get rid of cancer cells or some shit then you are a fool who fails to realize its supposed to work that way to precent auto immune disease, and basically you are a traitor to y...
[07:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:50] <exec> 08└─There wasnt any mention of five eyes by the media until a few years ago, why do we always hear about them now?
[07:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:52] <exec> 08└─Few people understood how pervasive, and how powerful, the five eyes are, until recent years. Prior to that, some people had at least a slight grasp on US/UK collusion. But, it was a slight grasp on the real state of affairs. If a lot of corruption is taking place in your home city, and you keep see...
[07:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:54] <exec> 08└─Youve given a reason for people to discuss the topic, but not what incentive the news has to use that term.
[07:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:56] <exec> 08└─It's a cool buzzword that catches people's attention. The media is all about ratings. You don't think they would drop a cool buzzword, when it's paying off so well?
[07:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:22] <exec> 08└─The OP specifically said he wanted to bookmark a page first or "an airplane will fall from the sky!"
[07:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:23] <exec> 08└─But you are not ignoring them are you?
[07:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:25] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the option for either method would be good?
[07:44:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:27] <exec> 08└─Just because billions of people get those metaphors over the centuries... and some groups you do not like ALSO get it and use them too doesn't in anyway make one like them...
[07:44:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:29] <exec> 08└─Trollolololol what a daaaaay
[07:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Culls 38,000 Pigs as Swine Fever Spreads - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:10] <exec> 08└─Bradley Bitch?
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[08:43:03] <exec> 08└─New research opened into how the Jews were responsible.
[08:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Dinosaurs Fill In Evolutionary Gap Spanning 70 Million Years - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:05] <exec> 08└─Offtopic? Not even a troll mod? I was just trying to tee EF up, the poor sod has seemed so depressed lately I thought he'd appreciate the fleeting feeling of camaraderie before we tear him down again!
[08:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 1385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:23] <exec> 08└─All technology, information, and learning is democratic. That is, either everyone can learn it, or no one can. It's possible or it's not possible. There's no such thing as an idea or information that some can learn and others can't. The major limitation to using any idea is lack of critical material...
[08:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 2168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:24] <exec> 08└─What was happening a few years ago? It was 2013, and Edward Snowden's new friends were dropping docs like candy. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In 2013, documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the existence of numerous surveillance programs join...
[08:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:26] <exec> 08└─It's not like it's a bad thing. It makes easier to follow/search stories on them.
[08:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:28] <exec> 08└─1. take a crypto provider source package 2. compile it on linux 3. perform a trusted key exchange with those who you want to write to without zillion-eyes to see it [... 5. profit] I sorta don't think is impossible to put a HOWTO for the first 3 steps above in such a way that a layman can follow. If...
[08:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:43:30] <exec> 08└─There are some models of Android device that support unlocking their bootloaders just by flipping a switch with adb. That enables you to install your own Android build. That's how you can install stuff like Cyanogen. The only parts that aren't Open Source are the chip firmware blobs. I can see how y...
[08:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:06] <exec> 08└─I know how bail and bondsmen work. You don't get the money you pay the bondsman back, as I said. It can be a hell of a big 'fine' when you aren't even guilty.
[08:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 1946 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:08] <exec> 08└─Citations needed. TFA mentions the possibility of simply not arresting minor offenders. For instance - shoplifters. I lived in town for a couple years when I was a kid. A number of those city kids had sticky fingers. I witnessed a kid caught for shoplifting. The store manager called a beat cop who w...
[08:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:10] <exec> 08└─So your bail is set at $100k. You lose $10k or have to rot in jail. Not a great outcome for poor people.
[08:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:12] <exec> 08└─Appearing to disobey a policeman is rarely a good idea.
[08:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:14] <exec> 08└─I think that those who spend multiple years in jail while awaiting trial have previous records that preclude bail, or extremely high bails. Note that I said "I think". It seems that on our local level, things generally move along pretty quickly. People with clean records get released on personal rec...
[08:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:16] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, that problem isn't at all theoretical. A few years ago in Atlanta, a large number of misdemeanor charges were dropped on the grounds that the defendants had been locked up awaiting trial for longer than the maximum possible sentence.
[08:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:18] <exec> 08└─Most people working in aviation security don't have office space in McDonalds.
[08:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:21] <exec> 08└─But I already ate supper so I don't really want to eat a whole bowl of them. I shall compromise by having some beans and beef in a coffee cup. I like beans. I mean I really do.
[08:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:23] <exec> 08└─It takes a special kind of idiot to think someone complaining about being tossed out of McDonalds is making terroristic threats just for smarting off and wanting to bookmark a page. I could see disorderly conduct, but not terroristic threats.
[08:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:12] <exec> 08└─Old people don't have enough cache for a lazy garbage collectors. Sadly, forcing all new windows to open in the same window/tab would break some sites. So, have her use an eager one by opening every new link in new tab/window (but not both if you can help it) and immediately follow up by closing the...
[08:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:14] <exec> 08└─You are right, the Win10 UI may be less bad than Win8 or Bob. Very exciting. However Win10 definitely does not have less spyware, adware, or DRM than Microsoft Bob, so in the end it is still garbage.
[08:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:55] <exec> 08└─Not that I've ever been to a place that offered that as an option, but that's definitely something to chew on.
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[09:43:25] <exec> 08└─HAHAHA! You have no clue what you are talking about. "Key exchange" and "Trusted" and "compile" and what not? That is limited to very few individuals right there. Most people communicate about bullshit on bullshit platforms like Messanger, Skype or related. They have no clue about "crypto" anything...
[09:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon to Shutdown CreateSpace, Books May be Left in Limbo - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:35] <exec> 08└─Sometime around next April I'm going to pay for a dead-tree print run with a collection of my essays on mental illness [warplife.com], as well as one with just Living with Schizoaffective Disorder [warplife.com]. A while back I read that one can purchase for seven hundred Samoleons whatever the ISBN...
[09:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:45:09] <exec> 08└─> would have a field day if the accused sat for a year on a minor charge. http://lmgtfy.com [lmgtfy.com]
[09:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:44] <exec> 08└─You'll not learn anything of worth from a fucknut who doesn't know the difference between the maillard reaction and caramelisation. And don't start me on the pronunciation, I always think that starting the word "carm-" makes you sound particularly derpy. And by heck, those chips look terrible. You'l...
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[10:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellites More At Risk From Fast Solar Wind Than A Major Space Storm - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:36] <exec> 08└─My curiosity is piqued. What is "geo-magnetic storm" but high-speed solar wind? Of what, prey tale, is Space Weather composed?
[10:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:43] <exec> 08└─Seems redundant to ask whether it runs Linux, when the real question seems to be, can it run Windoze? Oh, the Times, they do Trouble us most sore! On the bright side, it can't really be worse than the last attempt to run Micro$oft on ARM, can it?
[10:42:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:45] <exec> 08└─System on a chip? Can you reprogram the chip? I haven't even looked at the idea - I suppose you'd have to flash that chip first. Does Qualcomm make it easy to do so? IF Qual makes it easy to get into the chip, and IF Qual offers drivers for all the rest of the hardware available to Linux, then you c...
[10:43:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 2168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:10] <exec> 08└─What was happening a few years ago? It was 2013, and Edward Snowden's new friends were dropping docs like candy. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In 2013, documents leaked by the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the existence of numerous surveillance programs join...
[10:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:16] <exec> 08└─> They pretend to be democracies I don't think the sort of democracy you envisage has ever existed, certainly not in the UK. There has never been a time when people outside the "political class" have been in control in UK. An interesting test is what is social mobility into, and out of, the "politic...
[10:44:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 658 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:12] <exec> 08└─While there are good reasons to get rid of the abuses of the bail system, there's no guarantee that this new system will end much of the type of abuse you mention. Notably, the ACLU (which helped in initial drafts of this bill) has come out against it [reason.com] because they fear the amount of lee...
[10:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:03] <exec> 08└─How many people have 100k cash for bail in the USA? Not a great outcome for most people in the USA. Seems more like you're picking an arbitrarily high bail amount just to argue against bail.
[10:48:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 123 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:08] <exec> 08└─"Rising sealevels" are a few mm per year. But TFS says the ground is sinking by 1-2 cm per year. The culprit is subsidence.
[10:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:32] <exec> 08└─To be fair, much of the US is built on swamp. Manhattan, much of New Jersey, a fair bit of Chicago, Houston, almost all of Louisiana. If you live near New Jersey, you might want to try something. Find just about anywhere within about five miles of the Pulaski Skyway. Stand there late at night, when...
[10:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:50:09] <exec> 08└─Dehydration is a lot more immediately threatening than a cumulative effect of lead poisoning, surely. For this reason they better be providing these kids with free bottled water! If not, they'd better shut the schools until the pipes are replaced. I mean, shit, how long would it honestly take to jus...
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[11:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellites More At Risk From Fast Solar Wind Than A Major Space Storm - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:50] <exec> 08└─What is "geo-magnetic storm" but high-speed solar wind?
[11:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:01] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/windows-10-on-arm-limits-briefly-confirmed-no-virtualization-no-opengl/ [arstechnica.com] https://blogs.windows.com [windows.com] It has some limitations, but not as bad as the sh...
[11:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:02] <exec> 08└─https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/windows-10-on-arm-limits-briefly-confirmed-no-virtualization-no-opengl/ [arstechnica.com] https://blogs.windows.com [windows.com] It has some limitations, but not as bad as the sh...
[11:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:36] <exec> 08└─I think you vastly overestimate the bureaucrats. Senators and congressman have way more power, and if the "swamp" you refer to has the level of power you describe then it is because they are in with the powers corrupting from the top. The swamp that needs draining is NOT the bureaucrtas but the PACs...
[11:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:21] <exec> 08└─This is how you steal and get away with it: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://dealbook.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Some MF Global employees were aware of a shortfall in the firm’s customer accounts days before filing...
[11:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:23] <exec> 08└─Q: Who decides whether a bail amount is "arbitrary" or justified? A: Not California judges anymore.
[11:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:25] <exec> 08└─I don't think you are implying I'm not "of the people" so that "my views are unacceptable for the soylentnews line", therefore I'm a bit in a puzzle about how to interpret your remark.
[11:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:27] <exec> 08└─MDC had no inherent right to occupy a seat in McDonalds. They can choose who they serve and who they don't. It is private property. If the manager of the establishment has asked MDC to leave, he doesn't do so, and the police are subsequently called, they have every right to assist the manager in get...
[11:45:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:29] <exec> 08└─You have heard MDC's version of events - I wonder if the police recall the conversation going exactly the same way? No matter, let's make a judgement based on the statement of the person who feels aggrieved by the police action. It's bound to be 100% accurate and entirely unbiased. And it is a good...
[11:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:23] <exec> 08└─Earlier versions of Windows certainly had shortcomings, but in far too many ways, the Windows 10 UI has degraded usability considerably. Given a choice between Win10's UI and, say, Windows 2000's, I'll choose the latter any day.
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[12:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:28] <exec> 08└─That absolutely ruined the FPS genre for me. After "doom"-ing for some weeks on an underpowered computer, getting to the last level and not being able to finish the game? I gotta be kidding, I hated Doom and never looked to shooters anymore. Bloody wise-ass Romero, you lost my money for almost a qua...
[12:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellites More At Risk From Fast Solar Wind Than A Major Space Storm - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:38] <exec> 08└─Nice space weather means you can live for minutes without your suit. Even nasty space weather means you get a fantastic tan in seconds.
[12:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:51] <exec> 08└─It doesn't run Linux yet, no. There's mainline kernel work already being done to make it do so though.
[12:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Dinosaurs Fill In Evolutionary Gap Spanning 70 Million Years - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:01] <exec> 08└─How can a science site get it this wrong?
[12:43:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 578 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:11] <exec> 08└─service providers who "voluntarily establish lawful access solutions" will have "freedom of choice" in how they do it Sounds like the mafia to me. "Nice business you have, be a shame if something happened to it. Of course, it's your choice." Realistically, most Western governments are out of control...
[12:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:28] <exec> 08└─You can hardly deny that the 5-Eyes agreement exists after one of your employees blows the lid about a whole load of things that you are doing.... Everybody now knows they exist, what they do and, to some small extent, how they do it.
[12:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:29] <exec> 08└─JFYI - The 5-Eyes agreement goes back to just after WW2 - ECHELON is/was only a very small part of it. There was a book published in the 1970's which compromised Top Secret and Secret codewords which identified product/intelligence produced by member nations. And I'm having trouble now recalling wha...
[12:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:31] <exec> 08└─It's a cool buzzword that catches people's attention
[12:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:43:33] <exec> 08└─The question was "There wasnt any mention of five eyes by the media until a few years ago, why do we always hear about them now?" ECHELON was a major part of the package, and revealed in 1988 [wikipedia.org]. But it didn't get that much media attention at the time. I bet more people today have heard...
[12:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:25] <exec> 08└─No. There's a right to a speedy trial. All they have to do is use it. Could speedy be a few weeks? Sure. A year? Not so much.
[12:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:27] <exec> 08└─I'm not implying that, but if you were serious in saying "Watch you(r) language, son." - which I don't think you were - then you were telling someone else that they shouldn't express their opinion.
[12:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:55] <exec> 08└─You need to learn to recognize the difference between belief in a system and pragmatism. Involuntary taxation may be vile but I don't expect it's going away any time soon.
[12:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:56] <exec> 08└─The hell they didn't but that's beside the point. The ones who continue to live there now are just as guilty of living in a place they know is going to sink as the folks who built on a swamp in the first place.
[12:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:58] <exec> 08└─Makes me wonder... If you live at the top of the hill and your shit slides a quarter mile down and parks itself on someone else's house, who owns the land where your house sits now? I mean you did kind of bring your land with you but theirs is also under there.
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[13:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:06] <exec> 08└─"Super strong material discovered with molecular bonds so strong it could make a space elevator "
[13:42:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:07] <exec> 08└─Yep let's all live in The Culture where everything is held together by forcefields. How come nobody's named an AI Mind after Elon Musk yet.
[13:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:09] <exec> 08└─Their cute little experiment here doesn't require such a material.
[13:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:19] <exec> 08└─If a game is too easy, it will not provide enough difficulty to hold interest for long. If a game is too difficult, its frustration value will outweigh its entertainment value. no one has...a 100 percent completion...in the 24 years since Doom II launched. Until now.
[13:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:21] <exec> 08└─Thanks. Now I'm going to have nightmares again about Arch-Viles stalking me while the Cranberries play in the background.
[13:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:24] <exec> 08└─That absolutely ruined the FPS genre for me.
[13:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:26] <exec> 08└─You are able to finish the game, but not with all the secrets unlocked. What are you on about?
[13:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:28] <exec> 08└─The Cranberries are enough to give anyone nightmares.
[13:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:30] <exec> 08└─Perfectionism. Tamed over ages, but not at the time.
[13:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:32] <exec> 08└─Fuck you and fuck your passive aggressive stealth insults, khallow, you worthless piece of shit.
[13:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:34] <exec> 08└─The Cranberries are enough to give anyone nightmares.
[13:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 2818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:42:58] <exec> 08└─Back in about 2010 or thereabout I speculated (on other forums) about why Microsoft could never successfully transition to ARM (or other) processors. Even if Windows really is written to be hardware portable, Even if Windows can be ported to another processor, (which at this point it clearly has) Ev...
[13:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Dinosaurs Fill In Evolutionary Gap Spanning 70 Million Years - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:10] <exec> 08└─The genera mentioned in the art drawing: Haplocheirus, Xiyunykus, Bannykus and Shuvuuia all contain single species. So how wrong is it to refer to genera with single species instances as species? Answer: not very wrong.
[13:43:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:40] <exec> 08└─I think you vastly overestimate the bureaucrats. Senators and congressman have way more power
[13:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:43:41] <exec> 08└─The governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are committed to personal rights and privacy, and support the role of encryption in protecting those rights... Governments should recognize that the nature of encryption is such that there will be situations...
[13:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 1346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:34] <exec> 08└─So... You said something *incredibly* stupid. Because you weren't able to finish your work while being ejected from a premise (from someone who's perfectly in their right to ask you to leave at any time, whether or not you've finished what you're doing, presumably the cops didn't arrive instantaneou...
[13:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:36] <exec> 08└─It takes a special kind of idiot to think someone complaining about being tossed out of McDonalds is making terroristic threats just for smarting off and wanting to bookmark a page.
[13:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:38] <exec> 08└─And none of this would have been a problem if the idiot would have left when asked. Glad to see you understand property rights. FTFY
[13:46:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:18] <exec> 08└─OS X is primarily used by those in the design world and people who like the smell of their own farts.
[13:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:32] <exec> 08└─That doesn't come across as a rant, more like a troll.
[13:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:43] <exec> 08└─Back in the Olden Times I bought a Supermicro motherboard. Socket 7, P233, became the base for my Win95 box. In service 24/7 from 1997 through 2012 and was 100% well-behaved, with superior performance for its era. Did not contain live bobcat. Would buy again.
[13:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:14] <exec> 08└─Far as I know, land ownership works on the principle of vertical boundaries. So when your house squats atop someone else's house, that's either trespassing or a home invasion. Oh, and you'll need a winch. ;)
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[14:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:27] <exec> 08└─Then they can make a sky hook first. https://en.wikipedia.org(structure) [wikipedia.org]
[14:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:29] <exec> 08└─I'm assuming that their cute little experiment builds on the results of the TSS-1R mission.
[14:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 1163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:31] <exec> 08└─Then it might behoove them then to start negotiating with the WTO now to find out what country will host it. Because it sure as hell won't be built in Japan. As I recall, space elevators must be built in an equatorial location to take proper advantage of centrifugal forces. So there are only a handf...
[14:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 1934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:33] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Skyhooks are commonly considered a form of space elevator, just not quite as iconic as a geostationary beanstalk. On the bright side, they're potentially considerably more efficient than a stationary beanstalk since they're largely passive structures with no friction or motorized components...
[14:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:49] <exec> 08└─And I wasn't even trying that time.
[14:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:51] <exec> 08└─How did you know you didn't have 100% completion?
[14:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that was me. I had a pear sized trackball and a T1.
[14:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:55] <exec> 08└─That elevator wouldn't lead anywhere.
[14:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:18] <exec> 08└─There's mainline kernel work already being done to make it do so though.
[14:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:19] <exec> 08└─The entire value of Windows is the legacy applications. Without the legacy applications, Windows is a new OS on the same footing as Linux. Google can introduce a new OS, such as fuschia, and it would probably be able to run the vast majority of open source software. How much open source software alr...
[14:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:43:21] <exec> 08└─> The entire value of Windows is the legacy applications. And yet, M$ keeps mucking up M$ Office on purpose, changing the file format to force people to upgrade and to break compatibility with other, non-M$ office software. They even break compatibility with older versions of M$ Office. So much for...
[14:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 1299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:03] <exec> 08└─Suppose that every encryption method has a unique master key associated therewith. (Every iPhone chip that holds a device-unique key surrenders that key.) Suppose then that Apple, or the manufacturer, throws away 50-75% of that key. They then send the remaining _portion_ of that key to the Gov. for...
[14:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:01] <exec> 08└─So if that person can afford the $1,000 premium but can't afford the $10,000, has the bail been set fairly? The point of bail was supposed to be that the defendant places up something of value temporarily to assure the appearance in court. No appearance and you lose something of significant value to...
[14:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:03] <exec> 08└─The courts usually reward double time for time spent in remand, so spend 6 months in remand and get sentenced to a year and you've done your time.
[14:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:05] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, but even under his version, be got exactly what he deserved. Had he bookmarked the site when told to leave, it wouldn't have been an issue. And even if he had doneit when the police arrived, it probably wouldn't have been an issue. Three issue is that he's a jackass that pushed his luck and...
[14:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 2640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:00] <exec> 08└─Web based applications are the nightmare scenario that motivated Microsoft to destroy Netscape. ("cut off their oxygen supply", as came out in the DoJ vs Microsoft trial, and much more.) The web browser offered the potential for applications to run in the browser, without having to install any softw...
[14:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 1166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:02] <exec> 08└─Chromebooks are successful in education for good reason. They are centrally managed. They are self updating. They are easily wiped (eg "power washed") back to factory fresh -- but updated OS. School districts can negotiate volume deals with any chromebook vendor (eg, Samsung, HP, etc) All the advant...
[14:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:04] <exec> 08└─The interface is just fine, its virtually the same as it's always been since Win95.
[14:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:06] <exec> 08└─Is Chrome OS backdoored any more than Windows or Mac OS? Or even most Linux distributions? When the user trusts the manufacturer to install updates, the OS is already backdoored, even if only in principle.
[14:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:08] <exec> 08└─I remember WinMe. I remember Win 3.11, if it comes to that. I've *seen* MS Bob but thankfully never got lumbered with using it I've also been a Linux user since mid-2004. The only Windows that's come near my machine recently is a Windows 2000 VM kept around to run my MIDI sequencer, Anvil Studio, wh...
[14:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:49] <exec> 08└─Because YOLO.
[14:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:50] <exec> 08└─On the asphyxiation front, with dry ice your body has a mechanism to try to let you know something is wrong when it takes over your air. Not being something i'm particularly familiar with, maybe someone else has some info on how well your body would let you know if dry ice started increasing the CO2...
[14:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:52] <exec> 08└─http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/19866191/teenagers-stomach-removed-after-drinking-cocktail [bbc.co.uk] A teenager has had emergency surgery to remove her stomach after drinking a cocktail containing liquid nitrogen.
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[15:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should make better movies if it's so bad you have to have a law.
[15:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:06] <exec> 08└─They determined decades ago this is impossible. This is why they are mandating inclusion of native movies which will bring Internet media in line with typical laws with other media. It is what it is.
[15:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:08] <exec> 08└─as an EU citizen, I should be able to write to some representative something to stop them from voting for this. does anyone know where I should be complaining? as an aside, a lot of european countries already ask for money for their local TV, I don't see why we should pay extra for netflix/amazon. m...
[15:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:11] <exec> 08└─Sux and should be eradicated
[15:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:26] <exec> 08└─A space elevator is like Niven's Ringworld, a big dumb object that requires impossibly strong material. It's one of those ideas that seduces people with simplicity, but remains just out of reach, like the idea of a flying aircraft carrier, or building a big gun to launch payloads into space. Heck, w...
[15:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:27] <exec> 08└─> a blast path that will likely go out to sea At first, maybe. The problem is, the blast path will keep going, and going, and going... I'm sure that there'll be multiple blast points and failsafes to break it up and let the top part fly off into space, but in the worst case (the entire cable goes do...
[15:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:29] <exec> 08└─I hope they don't attach it to the moon [xkcd.com]
[15:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 2339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:31] <exec> 08└─As I recall the top end of a beanstalk-style space elevator needs to be in geostationary (equatorial) orbit, but it is possible for the bottom end to be a considerable distance from the equator. I forget how much though, and 36* is probably pushing it. On the other hand - you don't really need to ha...
[15:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:33] <exec> 08└─"flying aircraft carrier" We built a couple of those in fact. The most practical was used to break the sound barrier. (or wasn't, if you believe the claim that the F86 got there first) "building a big gun to launch payloads": As I understand it, the Germans came close. But that of course, was not th...
[15:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:55] <exec> 08└─Mrs Turgid likes the Cranberries and I have endured them live on one occasion as a result. However, they were actually quite good live. They're one of those bands that sound far better live than on the record.
[15:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:57] <exec> 08└─... I bet it takes a lot longer than that before someone finishes Daikatana.
[15:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:25] <exec> 08└─Perhaps substitute "legacy workflow" and "first mover advantage" then? People know Office. They don't care what Office is (to an extent...) so long as it *is* Office and works with all their proprietary-format Office documents.
[15:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:26] <exec> 08└─Is one of those limitations double-posting?
[15:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:28] <exec> 08└─Limitation? It's two for the price of one.
[15:45:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 1685 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:17] <exec> 08└─If you research the case law you'll find that the courts have whittled that down quite a bit in application from how you might naïvely expect it to be applied. No particular length of time is necessarily too long, the judge essentially listens to the prosecutions excuses and then decides if he thin...
[15:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:09] <exec> 08└─https://www.redstate.com/sarahquinlan/2018/04/10/due-process-denied.-1300-louisiana-held-four-years-awaiting-trial [redstate.com] https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com]
[15:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:11] <exec> 08└─I don't care what the thug officers claim, because I know the way this country operates. Most people are terrified of nearly nonexistent threats, which is irrational.
[15:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:13] <exec> 08└─Pissing in the floor or screaming about the unfairness of it all would be disorderly conduct. Remarks to a policeman about planes falling from the sky if he cannot finish his work can be construed as terroristic threats.
[15:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:54] <exec> 08└─Here's a tip to pass along to the kids: Just because it's (currently) legal doesn't mean it's safe! People will sell you anything to try to make a buck.
[15:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:56] <exec> 08└─> remove her stomach what the actual fuck.
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[16:41:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:41:57] <exec> 08└─Punning is a disease, or so I'm told by my associates.
[16:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:08] <exec> 08└─They surely have been acting this way recently, so why shouldn't they be bound to the same legal obligations?
[16:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:10] <exec> 08└─It's a numbers game, make a movie in Europe and you get a starting audience a few million to a few dozen million, then start reducing that for genre etc. In the US your movie has a starting audience of +300 million. My top ten movie list has a few local movies, better story, better script, better ac...
[16:42:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:12] <exec> 08└─as an EU citizen, I should be able to write to some representative something to stop them from voting for this. does anyone know where I should be complaining?
[16:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:14] <exec> 08└─So 30% of amazon's content has to come from my home town? Or my subdivision? Isn't it unrealistic for them to expect some small part of the world's population to provide 30% of the content? And expect the same from every small percentage of the world's population? Is this just another way to legally...
[16:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:16] <exec> 08└─Some aspects have their place. Did you know that some backward countries lack something as basic as socialized medicine? Believe it or not, citizens have to stop and seriously ponder whether a cut, break, concussion, cancer, etc. really warrants the attention of a medical professional. In first-worl...
[16:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:18] <exec> 08└─I read an ancient historian call government supplied medicine an example of Bread and Circuses.
[16:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:20] <exec> 08└─Isn't it unrealistic for them to expect some small part of the world's population to provide 30% of the content?
[16:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:23] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that these sort of laws make sense when we're talking about a limited resource such as the airwaves. They may also make sense in light of the fact that (speaking as somebody in the US who has little clue about EU) cable companies tend to be monopolies, thus creating another limited re...
[16:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:25] <exec> 08└─By your logic most content should come from China and India
[16:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:27] <exec> 08└─"Believe it or not, citizens have to stop and seriously ponder whether a cut, break, concussion, cancer, etc. really warrants the attention of a medical professional. In first-world countries, that's just not a question that needs asking." Except it is. It always is. First world countries may choose...
[16:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:29] <exec> 08└─It's a numbers game, make a movie in Europe and you get a starting audience a few million to a few dozen million
[16:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:31] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm>Make Germany Great Again!</sarcasm>
[16:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:34] <exec> 08└─"I thought the reason behind brexit was that regulations like this were being pumped out by "unelected bureaucrats", annoying everyone." Annoyances like that are part of the picture, but I rather think the thrust of Brexit was people deciding national sovereignty was actually kind of an important th...
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[16:42:54] <exec> 08└─"close to the equator, but well inland would be ideal, but those are in extremely short supply." Yep. You can take a few minutes with Google maps, and the answer is obvious. And it isn't really just about a space elevator. The same attributes improve rocket performance as well.
[16:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 1625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:56] <exec> 08└─Hey, we're getting better at the "big gun to launch things into space" bit- heck, we've had some viable ideas for 50 years now - assuming you're willing to spend the cash. And Spinlaunch and others are working on more cost-effective technologies. And we've got a number of "flying cars" in late-stage...
[16:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:58] <exec> 08└─If it is segmented in the event of an emergency, then this not necessarily so. It will take a long time for the parts to come down, and the higher they are the more time you have adjust the descent trajectory. Which is to say 1000 segments can be dropped into the sea at 1000 different locations, ove...
[16:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:00] <exec> 08└─And if you can manage the millisecond coordination required to dock with the top end to de-orbit, they can offer 100% efficient asynchronous orbital momentum transfer from returning payloads to launching ones.
[16:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:02] <exec> 08└─Mars ... perhaps, but Moon? It rotates too slowly, thus lunarstationary orbit would require too large distance, requiring too long tether and the station at top of the tether orbit being unstable, prone to disturbances by Earth's and Sun's gravity.
[16:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:26] <exec> 08└─The game is still being played by a significant number of people 24 years after it came out. Maybe this secret was a bit badly designed (or not - it’s optional), but I’d say the game as a whole is holding up well.
[16:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Dinosaurs Fill In Evolutionary Gap Spanning 70 Million Years - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:08] <exec> 08└─Very incorrect, because only the generic epithet is mentioned in the summary. A species name is a binomen, so either mention the full binomen (that is, both the generic and specific epithet) or refer to them as monotypic genera.
[16:44:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arslan [3462] 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:20] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the 5 eyes should just be called the new Axis powers
[16:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:43] <exec> 08└─Because it's the shorthand term that the associated intelligence communities actually use to reference it both internally and among themselves - the formal term is significantly long to speak or type.
[16:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:45] <exec> 08└─Congress however has an "easy" solution - completely defund the culpable bureaus, agencies, and departments along with stripping them of all legal authority, and restart from scratch. Of course intelligence agencies are probably near the center of the rats nest, and political corruption being what i...
[16:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:47] <exec> 08└─The USA has historically not been quite as classist as the UK, but that is only because our society was younger. As time passed, we have acquired very entrenched classes too. I'll just point out that our founding politicians were rich, so by saying that we HAD been less classist than the UK, I am sa...
[16:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:49] <exec> 08└─So lying about key length. If someone has 4095 bits of my 4096 bit key, its no longer a 4096 bit key. You don't need encryption to protect you from the stupid or lazy, it needs to work against the all-knowing prepared opponent, ie the one who broke in and stole this 'partial key'. Its still a bad id...
[16:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:51] <exec> 08└─Both are arbitrary labels; they take on meaning over time. With the publicity around this latest story, the meaning of '5 eyes' is taking another step in that direction. Be patient, it will get there someday...
[16:47:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 1094 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:11] <exec> 08└─We should not approach this as if there must be only one computer type in the world. Windows and desktop Linux will stay for a while in applications that require ultimate flexibility and high performance. Engineers, scientists, gamers will need them. At the same time the majority of the public does...
[16:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:34] <exec> 08└─he put the steak in the Nitrogen with his bare hands, not with thick rubber gloves. And then he turned over the steak in the N2 with a *metal* kitchen thingy for several minutes. With his bare hands. It was cringeworthy to watch. And then they showed a plastic bag with limp chips in water. I like mi...
[16:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:36] <exec> 08└─It's a gas at tummy temperature. I don't remember how much it expands from -196°C to +35°C but it's probably quite a bit.
[16:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:38] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=drink+liquid+nitrogen [youtube.com] Is it worse to win a Darwin award or to not by living through the experience?
[16:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With Rising Sea Levels, Bangkok Struggles to Stay Afloat - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:33] <exec> 08└─Look, little twink, you live in civilization. That means you--yes, YOU--will have to pay for it, just like everybody else.
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[17:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:20] <exec> 08└─To paraphrase Sigmund Freud, "sometimes a pun is just a pun."
[17:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:22] <exec> 08└─do not Incorrige
[17:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:24] <exec> 08└─those of us who are are prune to ponning.
[17:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:26] <exec> 08└─He was kicked in the head by a horse [rogerjnorton.com] when he was ten years old. He was knocked unconscious and stayed that way overnight. After that Lincoln suffered deep depressions for the rest of his life; everyone who ever knew him described Lincoln as "The most melancholy man I ever met".
[17:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:28] <exec> 08└─Bytram writes in from IRC with this punny story
[17:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:30] <exec> 08└─(fuck typos, I ruined my pun)
[17:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:55] <exec> 08└─Netflix already carries a lot of foreign content. They're always looking to expand their library the most they can, at the lowest cost they can. Bollywood movies can easily be found, or at least the hits can. There are far more Chinese Kung Fu movies (are there any other kind of Chinese movies?) the...
[17:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 1690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:56] <exec> 08└─In addition to Thexalon's point which is good; "My top ten movie list has a few local movies, better story, better script, better acting. But they have lower budgets due to the aforementioned reason, it affects special effects budgets and marketing budgets in a big way. These two combined significan...
[17:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:58] <exec> 08└─First world countries may choose to spend themselves into third world status to create an illusion otherwise, but that path is not sustainable.
[17:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:00] <exec> 08└─A society that habitually spends thousands of dollars to provide emergency care when a little soap and water and a bandaid is sufficient is not a society with good long-term prospects, no matter how wealthy it might be at the start.
[17:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:03] <exec> 08└─as an EU citizen, I should be able to write to some representative something to stop them from voting for this.
[17:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:05] <exec> 08└─I suppose some good can occasionally come from this sort of thing. After all, Bob and Doug Mckenzie were inserted into SCTV specifically to provide Canadian content.
[17:43:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:29] <exec> 08└─singapore 6. september 2051: "international commitment to the earth-first space elevator, which began more then 30 years ago, was today declared a success and open to public after chief engineer stavios teleported to the space-end anchor station and flipped the switch to energize the cables."
[17:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:30] <exec> 08└─Wonder where you got 36,000 km? You don't have to go that far to be in space. The ISS is only ~410 km up.
[17:43:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 2204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:32] <exec> 08└─1) it's *far* more expensive. 2) you still need the same millisecond coordination unless the entire wheel rim is completely uniform and passive so that you can dock literally anywhere ("claws" on your ship to grab onto the ring? Supermagnets capable of holding your ship against the potentially multi...
[17:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:35] <exec> 08└─Also, the circumference of the Earth is a bit over 40,000 km, so a 36,000 km cable would not wrap around Earth once. And the Earth spins west to east so a cable falling from geosynchronous orbit would wrap to the west across central Africa before reaching the Atlantic Ocean then across Northern Braz...
[17:43:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:37] <exec> 08└─That's the elevation of geostationary orbit - the only distance at which objects can orbit above a fixed point on the Earth's surface (necessary for a surface-to-orbit elevator). And all beanstalks have to connect to a counterweight beyond that point in order to hold them up (by necessity they're lo...
[17:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:39] <exec> 08└─Right you are - I carelessly overlooked the fact that Google gave me the circumference in miles rather than km. I'm less certain about the direction the cable would fall though, I'm thinking it would be to the east. Consider: the cable isn't stationary, it's not being dragged down by the spinning of...
[17:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:03] <exec> 08└─just in case you hadn't heard https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[17:44:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:05] <exec> 08└─Plenty of people played through Daikatana and talked about it being ok in IRC in my late teens. And Doom... Hell, I known two guys who finished it back in the day. It's a single player game with no internet connection. Honestly it's shocking people actually run with this story. The engine was revers...
[17:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:36] <exec> 08└─It has some limitations, but not as bad as the shitshow that was Windows RT [wikipedia.org].
[17:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:37] <exec> 08└─Squirt
[17:45:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:01] <exec> 08└─"The swamp that needs draining is NOT the bureaucrtas but the PACs buying and selling political influence." It's both. Swamps seep.
[17:45:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 521 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:04] <exec> 08└─Few people understood how pervasive, and how powerful, the five eyes are, until recent years. Prior to that, some people had at least a slight grasp on US/UK collusion. But, it was a slight grasp on the real state of affairs. If a lot of corruption is taking place in your home city, and you keep see...
[17:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:45:28] <exec> 08└─well, maybe we can agree then, that computers do not make humans smarter or friendlier. the terrorist have been bombed back into the stone age; what is left, thus, is to "manage" a world population. with enough "information management" the economy can also be keep so, that there are always enough ha...
[17:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:18] <exec> 08└─Chefs and the alcohol industry are just doing this stuff because it looks cool, and that flashy looking drink generates interest. The unfortunate thing is liquid nitrogen's normal boiling point is so frickin cold that it tends to film boil at room temperature. That film boiling often sets up a Leide...
[17:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:50] <exec> 08└─thanks for the "real" info. after doing server on liberated desktop mobos, i found supermicro. they have "server" server-stuff but also server-stuff for the basement dweller, which all the other "server" vendors do not. 2x "A1SAi-2750F" here. link: https://www.supermicro.com
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[18:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:26] <exec> 08└─Why are they delaying this? Actually, all the old papers should be released too. Recent papers are mostly junk in many fields (psych, medical).
[18:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 1634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:27] <exec> 08└─I've tried to find open journals, and not had much luck. There are a ton of predatory journals that exist solely to collect those outrageously high fees of several hundred dollars that seem to be the current going rate for the author pays model. That so many predatory journals exist is a clear sign...
[18:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:15] <exec> 08└─Socialism? You mean like a national military?
[18:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:16] <exec> 08└─It's not bullshit, the post that I was replying to explicitly endorsed it.
[18:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:18] <exec> 08└─The reason streaming services aren't providing European content is more because it's easier not to bother.
[18:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:20] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not, citizens have to stop and seriously ponder whether a cut, break, concussion, cancer, etc. really warrants the attention of a medical professional.
[18:43:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 2257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:23] <exec> 08└─"Of course it's not sustainable when you let your pharma fleece you 3 times the price for the same drug they sell in countries with socialized medicine" Which just goes to show that our system is really no less socialized than the others. We just do it to benefit the big companies that generate camp...
[18:43:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:25] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that E.U. citizens have no representation in the E.U. - only nations have representation, so you'd need to convince your representative at the national level to talk to their representative at the E.U. level. Of course, nothing stops you from trying to contact your nation's E.U....
[18:43:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 1496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:27] <exec> 08└─It looks like they have an essentially federalist structure. Keep in mind that federalism is why we have things like the electoral college in the US. Also in the US, the Senate is generally considered the "upper house" and the House of Representatives the "lower house" of the legislature. The House...
[18:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:29] <exec> 08└─So please explain this to me: How is it that the first-world countries that have socialized medicine both spend a lot less money and have better medical care outcomes than the privatized system of the US does? And if you want the biggest bang (increased life expectancy, quality-of-life, etc) for the...
[18:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:31] <exec> 08└─You do not recall correctly. There are 3 parties involved in legislation at the EU, all of which are elected. One is the Council of Ministers, which consist of all ministers of the member nations. The second party is the European Commission, which is the administrative arm of the EU: their role is...
[18:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:33] <exec> 08└─Does this mean that Crunchyroll, which specializes in anime (Japanese animation) will somehow have to find 30% German anime?
[18:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:36] <exec> 08└─I lived for some years in a European country considered a model for socialized health care. I needed to see a doctor once; I had to wait IIRC it was only maybe 3 or 4 months to see a GP, who spent 10 minutes with me and certified that I needed a specialist. Then about 7 months to see the specialist.
[18:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:38] <exec> 08└─Let's say you want to provide every movie ever made to everyone, and let's say you can manage the necessary financial arrangements with the copyright holders. Surely a reasonable thing to want to do. This would be illegal in Germany, because more than 70% of movies are made outside Germany. -- hendr...
[18:43:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:40] <exec> 08└─So please explain this to me: How is it that the first-world countries that have socialized medicine both spend a lot less money and have better medical care outcomes than the privatized system of the US does?
[18:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:42] <exec> 08└─The US has socialized medicine, its just crappier. Interestingly, my friend recently went to cuba and said hotel concierges are richer than the doctors (since they get tips from foreigners). The real story about cuban healthcare is that it proves 99% of modern "healthcare" is unnecessary or even har...
[18:43:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:44] <exec> 08└─"So please explain this to me: How is it that the first-world countries that have socialized medicine both spend a lot less money and have better medical care outcomes than the privatized system of the US does?" Because what you're describing as 'privatized' is nothing of the sort. It's been progres...
[18:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:47] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the poster meant a much bigger cut, such as a slash or gash. I also doubt it would require thousands of dollars to treat that. Poster didn't specify "emergency care" for a cut either.
[18:43:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:49] <exec> 08└─it's about the human condition, relationships, ethical dilemma's and so on.
[18:43:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:51] <exec> 08└─I needed to see a doctor once; I had to wait IIRC it was only maybe 3 or 4 months to see a GP
[18:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:53] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on... does "cut, break, concussion, cancer," sounds to you like an endorsement for "use emergency services to apply band aid"?
[18:44:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:25] <exec> 08└─Quite. But a rocket doesn't *really* care much unless your payload is pushing it's operational limits. Even the equator is moving at only 460m/s, while at 40*latitude it's moving at 356m/s. Meanwhile LEO speed is over 7,000m/s - a 100m/s boost is handy, but it's still just a difference of 1.4%. Save...
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[18:44:26] <exec> 08└─You are absolutely correct. However there are still two spots where a Lunar beanstalk is possible - the closest and furthest points on the Moon, where the beanstalk will pass through the Earth-Moon L1 or L2 points with a counterweight somewhere beyond that. In those cases the gravitational dynamics...
[18:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:28] <exec> 08└─The whole thing is supported from orbit, so the bottom end could be tethered to a floating barge just fine
[18:44:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 1759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:31] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that the cable is NOT going to be uniform thickness - instead it's cross section will increase... geometrically? exponentially? with height. I don't recall exactly - but much faster than linearly. The lowest section only has to be thick enough to safely support the maximum payload. Lets...
[18:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:44:58] <exec> 08└─Like I said, Mrs Turgid is a fan.
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[18:45:00] <exec> 08└─The subjects of some of their songs are nightmares (e.g., Zombie). Truly they were an inspired group of musicians working in the horror genre.
[18:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:02] <exec> 08└─The level design bug that made 100% completion unachievable was the moronic bit. The method of using spawning monsters to help trigger the impossible secret, without requiring a no-clip cheat code, is new and innovative.
[18:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:34] <exec> 08└─what is curious is that microsoft has been making software since ... oh, i don't know ... a long time and has been making beaucoup money from that, so why is m$ windows still a miserable OS? anyone running some decent big metal rig won't touch it with a ten, nay, dare i say, 100 foot pole? all that...
[18:48:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 738 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:54] <exec> 08└─I wrote about this before, but it seems worth bringing up again. Google is playing the long game and they already won the future. By taking over education, the new generation of kids will be familiar with Chrome OS and will demand it over Windows and possibly OSX (Apple is more a status symbol than...
[18:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:24] <exec> 08└─In theory Microsoft could manage all of those same things with Office365 and stripped laptops with Edge. I wouldn't be surprised if they roll something like that out eventually. The only thing they would botch is the ugliness of Windows Update vs. the seamless updates of ChromeOS. But it should be e...
[18:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:25] <exec> 08└─But for what a school needs, a locked down low end laptop with Windows 10, Edge, and Office 365 would be as useful as a Chromebook. So it's absurd that Microsoft has watched Google come in and start a mass invasion of the education market without making a competing offering with similar features. Do...
[18:53:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study: Procrastination is More About Managing Emotions Than Time - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:18] <exec> 08└─Emphasis on the "active" part for anyone who's ever spent thirty minutes automating a five minute task. Often I don't even care if I'll ever have to do that task again, if I can spend an hour coding to avoid ten minutes of "click click copy paste click click copy paste" then I'm doing it. One is an...
[18:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lead in US School Water “Disturbing”—Detroit Just Shut Off All Fountains - 2768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:58] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, our small town tap water was impossibly good. Most people will say you have to buy bottled distilled water if you want to try superheating it in a microwave...but I managed to do that when I was about ten years old heating tap water for hot chocolate. Didn't understand why yet, but...
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[19:42:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:23] <exec> 08└─Republicans: competition is good. Also Republicans: "This competition might threaten to cause a big company to lose some money? Better squash it now."
[19:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:32] <exec> 08└─The easy way to release old papers would be to change the copyright laws.
[19:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:35] <exec> 08└─The delay is to allow time for new open-access journals to be started. Or possibly for existing journals to change their policies, although I don't expect this to happen. It's more likely that the existing journals will sue to block or delay implementation to protect their cash cows. Existing papers...
[19:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:48] <exec> 08└─I don't need a pun case, all my puns are free.
[19:43:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:41] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know the name of that country because over here, you simply go to the doctor and be redirected to a specialist immediately Pulled-out-of-his-ass-istan.
[19:43:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:42] <exec> 08└─Wow, that sounds so nice to this American AC who's trying to get a somewhat elective surgery done that will allow me to discontinue one of my medications. (So it will pay for itself, nearly no risk of complications, and can eliminate side-effects from that med such as needing to eat a salt-rich diet...
[19:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:44] <exec> 08└─I also doubt it would require thousands of dollars to treat that.
[19:43:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:43:46] <exec> 08└─So there's really no real-world example we can point to of modern, capitalist medicine. Is there?
[19:44:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:23] <exec> 08└─we're getting better at the "big gun to launch things into space" bit- heck, we've had some viable ideas for 50 years now - assuming you're willing to spend the cash
[19:44:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:24] <exec> 08└─The lowest section only has to be thick enough to safely support the maximum payload.
[19:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:55] <exec> 08└─The engine was reversed and ported by half a dozen guys over the years and people built level editors and shit... This being the first completion is not only a most dubious statement, it's moronic.
[19:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:56] <exec> 08└─The level design bug that made 100% completion unachievable was the moronic bit
[19:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:58] <exec> 08└─I thought that was about The Troubles in Ireland (a nightmare right enough).
[19:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Drake_Edgewater [780] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Satellites More At Risk From Fast Solar Wind Than A Major Space Storm - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:09] <exec> 08└─The magnetic field being carried by the solar wind must point southwards in order to reconnect with the Earth's magnetic field (which points mainly northwards in the area where it interacts with the solar wind). That way solar wind particles can enter the magnetosphere, populate the Van Allen radiat...
[19:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:22] <exec> 08└─The British produced a couple of excellent documentary series on the power of the elected vs the power of bureaucrats. They are probably available on the web. They were called "Yes Minister" and the sequel "Yes, Prime Minister". Highly recommended.
[19:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:23] <exec> 08└─The swamp that needs draining is NOT the bureaucrtas but the PACs buying and selling political influence.
[19:47:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06California Becomes the First U.S. State to Eliminate Cash Bail - 1946 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:59] <exec> 08└─Citations needed. TFA mentions the possibility of simply not arresting minor offenders. For instance - shoplifters. I lived in town for a couple years when I was a kid. A number of those city kids had sticky fingers. I witnessed a kid caught for shoplifting. The store manager called a beat cop who w...
[19:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Supermicro Announces Suspension of Trading of Common Stock on Nasdaq and its Intention to Appeal - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:46] <exec> 08└─IIRC, IANAL, and I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure that releasing all statements, even with a disclosure that major restatements will be occurring, is preferable to not releasing complete financials. The former fully informs the investment community and cautions it, the latter is trying to get a...
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[20:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:12] <exec> 08└─The real news is proper landlines might start to look cost effective again, and oh, no we can't have that now. Sell cell phones. Sell cell phones! "I would have died... If it wasn't for the phone, I wouldn't be here," said Ogans-Recess.
[20:42:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:13] <exec> 08└─Right?... Right??
[20:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03jlv [3756] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:16] <exec> 08└─"Millions given subsidized (or free) service might have to pay their own way"
[20:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:18] <exec> 08└─I won't wish you a severe bout of bordering-suicide-depression, but maybe just maybe you can imagine what are the chances you'd pay for the service in conditions like that.
[20:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:21] <exec> 08└─The problem is (see the PDF) that the service is so much tangled up bureaucratically, nobody can say who receives the service and why. The government proposes to cut that knot instead of untangling. The recipients of the service can receive compensation that they can use to order a phone. Or for som...
[20:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:23] <exec> 08└─If Verizon is against the change, why is Pai pushing for it ?
[20:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:25] <exec> 08└─In the context of saved human lives, if it needs to come to cutting, I'd think that "build first a better support, cut the older later" would be self-evident. As it stays now, chances are "We'll cut the knot, then it's not our problem anymore".
[20:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:27] <exec> 08└─A compulsion for pushing combined with not enough agenda to push - what can a man do in these circumstances? After all, it's Verizon's fault: if they'd table an agenda to push, you wouldn't see this. (grin)
[20:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:38] <exec> 08└─There are a ton of predatory journals that exist solely to collect those outrageously high fees of several hundred dollars that seem to be the current going rate for the author pays model.
[20:42:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:39] <exec> 08└─The easy way to release old papers would be to change the copyright laws.
[20:42:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:41] <exec> 08└─and make sure to drop Sci-Hub a copy
[20:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:44] <exec> 08└─You are saying that whoever funds your research, can't fund those measly publishing costs?
[20:42:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:46] <exec> 08└─Academic publishing is a huge racket anyway, and I'm happy to hear the EU is going to squash the whole damn thing flat.
[20:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:42:48] <exec> 08└─Mostly agreed, but I am not going to hold my breath, and I would not expect "the EU" to side with the taxpayer and gallantly fence off parasites like "elsevier" et. al. They are terrified of things flat.
[20:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:04] <exec> 08└─But do you have the right to keep baring puns?
[20:43:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:43:06] <exec> 08└─> ...writer Sigmund Freud appreciated puns precisely for this reason. They reveal the accidental connections that our minds make... Fucking correct, Mom. I mean, man.
[20:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:03] <exec> 08└─It seems the EU would only be upset if you were charging people / making lots of money.
[20:44:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:04] <exec> 08└─hospital comfort != patient outcome
[20:44:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:06] <exec> 08└─china ? One of the main causes of this phenomenon was that most of China’s residents were not covered by any social health security system and they paid for health care out of pocket. The second Chinese national health survey in 1998 confirmed that 44.8% of urban citizens and 79.1% of rural resid...
[20:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:09] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should make better movies if it's so bad you have to have a law.
[20:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:11] <exec> 08└─Medical tourism probably comes closest. People fly in from somewhere else, pay, get treated and fly home. It's mostly elective or cosmetic surgery, but it does provide a model for the system. From memory so don't quote me, I think the costs for cosmetic surgery in Thailand were about one third that...
[20:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:13] <exec> 08└─they will have to pay the surcharge
[20:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:15] <exec> 08└─If the movie were better, then it would not be French culture would it. God, I really hope you're not American, but alas, you probably are. Thanks for doing your part to wreck what few shreds of our reputation remain around the world. There are plenty of excellent films (and TV series, for that matt...
[20:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:53] <exec> 08└─If a beanstalk breaks, it'll potentially wrap around the Earth one and a half times, unleashing massive devastation across the path of its fall. The top end at least might burn up in the atmosphere - then again, it might not: after all it'd be FAR wider than the base, to support the weight of all th...
[20:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:55] <exec> 08└─"it's a rare payload that pushes the limits of its launch vehicle." Building such a thing will require many flights with many international payloads. The infrastructure costs alone are enormous, and uneccessarily redundant. There really needs to be a space port in a free trade zone, with a WTO/UN sa...
[20:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:57] <exec> 08└─... would you mind showing me a time lapse video of the construction of "SkyLab"? Also the "ISS", where is a time lapse video for that? There should be many for this pinnacle of human engineering, correct? Try as I might, found nothing. Or was there billions spent but not on videos? Why the secrecy...
[20:45:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 44 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:09] <exec> 08└─That absolutely ruined the FPS genre for me.
[20:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:30] <exec> 08└─That's just the thing. Look at it under a map editor and it looks like a fairly cut and dried map bug. Doom 1 had some nasty bugs, such as a zombie shotgun guy stuck in a wall that you could still kill with a rocket if you did things exactly right. That one was fixed in an update. So it could have j...
[20:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:31] <exec> 08└─This depresses me in a way I haven't experienced since they ruined the Duke Nukem Forever joke. Dammit.
[20:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MyOpinion [6561] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satellites More At Risk From Fast Solar Wind Than A Major Space Storm - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:44] <exec> 08└─What is their altitude? What is, allegedly, the temperature at that altitude? What are those satellites made of? Can you guess the next question?
[20:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 1517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:08] <exec> 08└─It's not curious. It's the same thing that made IBM powerful. Software Lock In. In the early days of computers, other manufacturers developed their own computers. Even if they had a FORTRAN compiler, it soon became apparent that software tended to be locked in to the computer it was written for. Por...
[20:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:09] <exec> 08└─I think it's actually that legacy workflow, that familiarity with Office, which has given FLOSS a boost in recent years. That is, the FLOSS evolved to be compatible with, and to work like, those earlier versions of Office that people were familiar with. So when Microsoft decided to break those metap...
[20:46:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:53] <exec> 08└─The governments of the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are committed to personal rights and privacy, and support the role of encryption in protecting those rights... Governments should recognize that the nature of encryption is such that there will be situations...
[20:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:05] <exec> 08└─Microsoft still has a huge PERCEPTION of being insecure. If not the actual reality of being less secure. They're not likely to break that perception any time soon. Common non tech people who own PCs know they eventually need to either buy a new one, or get their old one "fixed" (eg, take these droid...
[20:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:06] <exec> 08└─Is it even possible to make a low end locked down Windows laptop that is as low end as a chromebook? Low end Chromebooks run ARM processors. Today I wrote a rant about why it won't work for Microsoft. The entire value of Windows is compatibility with it's Intel based legacy software. Take that away,...
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[21:42:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:31] <exec> 08└─Last time I looked at my arm, it was longer than it is wide. Why aren't tech guys designing products which follow the arm ? There's space for a gig screen and big battery, if you go the correct way. Plus, little girls could play Wonder Woman, which would take two.
[21:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:32] <exec> 08└─Right, rounded corners then waterproofing (kicking out ports) and... borked phones [theverge.com]. Small evolution steps and not a sign of a leap outside predictable.
[21:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:34] <exec> 08└─Because I'm a hipster.
[21:42:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:44] <exec> 08└─Republicans: competition is good. Also Republicans: "This competition might threaten to cause a big company to lose some money? Better squash it now."
[21:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:54] <exec> 08└─Magnificent Chaos: the hidden agenda of MAGA.
[21:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:57] <exec> 08└─Well, that's totally more fair because: no freebies, no handouts, if your Daddy didn't give you a giant pile 'o cash then you'd better get out there and bust your ass for everything, even basic life safety essentials.
[21:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:59] <exec> 08└─If Verizon is against the change, why is Pai pushing for it ?
[21:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:01] <exec> 08└─Too bad nobody told that to Trump.
[21:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:03] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you, he's VERY DISLOYAL. Wouldn’t approve the Sinclair Broadcast merger with Tribune. Should have told me -- I wouldn't have hired!!!
[21:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:05] <exec> 08└─Instead of complaining about being poor, why don't they just buy more money? Let them eat twinkies.
[21:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:08] <exec> 08└─You're assuming there's some societal benefit to letting the poor and sick survive, that justifies subsidizing them?
[21:43:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:10] <exec> 08└─This is the so-called "Obamaphone" program, so it simply has to go. Never mind that Obama had nothing to do with it, and it actually started under Reagan....
[21:43:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 1634 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:19] <exec> 08└─I've tried to find open journals, and not had much luck. There are a ton of predatory journals that exist solely to collect those outrageously high fees of several hundred dollars that seem to be the current going rate for the author pays model. That so many predatory journals exist is a clear sign...
[21:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:29] <exec> 08└─I reckon they can publish anywhere they want, as long as the paper is not based on research funded by the EU.
[21:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:31] <exec> 08└─No one funds my research. I am not so lucky as to be employed at an institution that will do that for their scientists. It might seem nice of a university to help their researchers by paying the author fees, but actually that is a major chilling effect that helps big organizations maintain a monopol...
[21:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:33] <exec> 08└─The rule in particle physics is "publish on arxiv for openness, then publish in some closed journal for citations" - so check arxiv. IOP and APS run some good open journals.
[21:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:36] <exec> 08└─Perhaps this is the direction [sciencemag.org] the pendulum is swinging now?
[21:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:38] <exec> 08└─The delay is to allow time for the existing journals to plan their legal attack so that science can end up becoming more privately profitable silos of information and patents.
[21:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:55] <exec> 08└─If I wanted an elevated display of wit, I'd stack lots of books under my TV and watch a comedy show!
[21:43:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:57] <exec> 08└─I took the emergency contraceptive, A.K.A. the morning after pill. But she still got pregnant anyway!
[21:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:43:59] <exec> 08└─How the mighty have felon.
[21:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:44:01] <exec> 08└─Be inciteful instead.
[21:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:05] <exec> 08└─Every year the EU finds another way to demonstrate why they should not exist.
[21:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:06] <exec> 08└─How is it that the first-world countries that have socialized medicine both spend a lot less money and have better medical care outcomes than the privatized system of the US does?
[21:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:08] <exec> 08└─Personally I would call it a mark of a civilised society.
[21:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:10] <exec> 08└─Yeah, there's no possible way that India and China could have developed the 2nd [wikipedia.org] and 3rd [wikipedia.org] largest film industry cities in the world.
[21:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:13] <exec> 08└─There are two ways Netflix can meet a 30% local content quota. Commission/license more local content, or reduce the amount of non-local content. Obviously the intent is to encourage the production of more local content, but it could just lead to less available content overall, as that is a cheaper w...
[21:45:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06Japan To Conduct First Test As Part Of Space Elevator Project - 1934 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:45:27] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Skyhooks are commonly considered a form of space elevator, just not quite as iconic as a geostationary beanstalk. On the bright side, they're potentially considerably more efficient than a stationary beanstalk since they're largely passive structures with no friction or motorized components...
[21:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:27] <exec> 08└─what joke? i'm all out of gum so don't make me fulfil the alternative.
[21:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satellites More At Risk From Fast Solar Wind Than A Major Space Storm - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─What are those satellites made of?
[21:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:07] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, I'd been pointing out to people since 2013 that "Hey, remember when Office didn't look like shit and force you to subscribe? Remember how you're still hanging onto Office 2003 because you hate the Ribbon UI? Remember when your data was YOURS and none of "the Cloud's" fucking business? Try th...
[21:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:01] <exec> 08└─That is, if your encryption is breakable on demand, what you have is an encoding, not en encryption. And key escrow is one of the worst, most fragile, most abusable ideas I've heard on the subject yet, the equivalent of "Hey Mr. Government, we've left the key under the at-may, don't tell anyone or l...
[21:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:10] <exec> 08└─You can get cheap Windows 10 laptops with 2GB or even 4GB of RAM on Amazon for $170. Office365 has webapps for everything, so it can be every bit as stateless and cloud-based as Google's Apps and Google Drive. If a school is willing to use a Chromebook, which can't run any Windows applications, then...
[21:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:11] <exec> 08└─If I were considering this, my big fear would be that a Windows device potentially CAN RUN windows applications. Even if it can't, it's still Windows OS. Another factor is that Microsoft is a monopolist, and for the longest time had charged monopoly prices because they could. They can't now. But the...
[21:51:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:13] <exec> 08└─Right. But educators and school IT staff love Windows because they already know it. So I would think if a Microsoft representative said: think of a $150 Chromebooks that can't run Windows software and lets the user do all of their work with Chrome, GMail, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides, a...
[21:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ncc74656 [4917] (Score: 1) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:15] <exec> 08└─Do Dell & HP still using chiped Power Supply to lock-in customers ?
[21:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:17] <exec> 08└─I don't like Microsoft. But I don't like Google either. Instead of getting screwed by paying too much for inferior Microsoft software, we're going to all get screwed by a company that bases its business on ruthlessly destroying privacy. Chrome OS in education will take users into GMail, Google Docs,...
[21:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:20] <exec> 08└─Perception plays a big role. Even more than facts. (See politics) Can Microsoft actually offer something almost as good for the same price? Maybe they can't. I understand they are fixing this, but Microsoft has long been divided into competing, fighting fiefdoms all competing for resources and power...
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[22:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:50] <exec> 08└─"Uncle Dad, I want me one of them Nubia watches." "What fer, Jim Bob? Is you going to wear it when they lynch you fer being a Nubian-lover?""
[22:42:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:51] <exec> 08└─There's space for a gig screen and big battery, if you go the correct way.
[22:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:53] <exec> 08└─For them bros, it shighlights them guns, and for them hos, it's all about sideboob. I may have to stay away from the internet until that fad dies.
[22:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:56] <exec> 08└─I may have to stay away from the internet until that fad dies.
[22:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:42:58] <exec> 08└─*hands Jim Bob a sticker that inserts "de Les" in the middle of the name.*
[22:42:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:00] <exec> 08└─Clothing-optional computing.
[22:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:02] <exec> 08└─Stopping nerf darts with expensive electronics? Sure, why not.
[22:43:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:04] <exec> 08└─As an aggravating factor on top of beer belly or as the sole cause?
[22:43:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:30] <exec> 08└─I hope you never get in a condition in which the question you raise has you as a subject. You will be surprised how fast you'll find an answer that doesn't even take economy or social aspects into account. Mind you, in a dog-eat-dog society, it's almost inevitable you will get to the stage of "sick"...
[22:43:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:32] <exec> 08└─Yep. It's called, "not being a dick when you've got it, because someday you might be on the other end of the soup bowl." Believing it can't happen to you is the most delicious fantasy.
[22:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:34] <exec> 08└─The recipients of the service can receive compensation that they can use to order a phone. Or for something else (they are free people.)
[22:43:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:36] <exec> 08└─would have been even more informative with some links: https://www.snopes.com [snopes.com] https://en.wikipedia.org(Lifeline) [wikipedia.org]
[22:43:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:43:38] <exec> 08└─You're assuming there's some societal benefit to letting the poor and sick survive, that justifies subsidizing them?
[22:44:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Plan S: Radical Open-Access Science Initiative in Europe - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:00] <exec> 08└─from TFA result from research funded by public grants provided by participating national and European research councils and funding bodies, must be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms.”
[22:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case for Puns as the Most Elevated Display of Wit - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:22] <exec> 08└─"Never hit your grandma with a shovel... it will make a bad impression on her mind." --- remember from some lyrics in a song long time ago
[22:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:31] <exec> 08└─Don't you worry, that only lasts until your tip is lower than expected. Tips are cancer and a tool of modern slavery.
[22:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:33] <exec> 08└─Actually, they DO make better movies. Unfortunately, marketing trumps quality.
[22:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:35] <exec> 08└─...create a film entitled Blowing Stuff Up: It would be a sequence of car chases, explosions, fight scenes, gun battles, etc with absolutely no attempt to provide any kind of justification for why any of it was happening...
[22:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:37] <exec> 08└─Netflix already carries a lot of foreign content. In the EU anything from hollywood IS foreign.
[22:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:39] <exec> 08└─Don't you worry, that only lasts until your tip is lower than expected. Tips are cancer and a tool of modern slavery.
[22:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:54] <exec> 08└─Did Ion Storm ever finish Daikatana?
[22:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:34] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=26287&cid=697598 [soylentnews.org]
[22:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Dinosaurs Fill In Evolutionary Gap Spanning 70 Million Years - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:46] <exec> 08└─Very incorrect, because only the generic epithet is mentioned in the summary.
[22:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$600 Chromebooks: A Threat to Microsoft? - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:39] <exec> 08└─The primary use of a chromebook in school may be to access software that provides assignments. Quizzes. Tests. Reading material. Courseware. Not primarily Gmail, Google Docs, etc. The kid can't get away with an excuse like: Windows 8 my homework! Here's a new chromebook, log in, and all your hard wo...
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[23:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:55] <exec> 08└─"Wait... You mean that you can easily erase the evidence of a country's Natural History? Let me put down my grizzly rifle by the fracking well, and let's talk." - Some people
[23:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:57] <exec> 08└─Teaches us: "do not store all artifacts in one place." Especially if it is a government-managed place, poorly financed.
[23:42:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:59] <exec> 08└─It's Brazil, a Third World shithole. Is anyone surprised? BTW, I love Brazilians as individuals, but they couldn't run a hotdog stand.
[23:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Artifacts Destroyed by Fire at Brazil's National Museum - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:01] <exec> 08└─As a government, I mean.
[23:43:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nubia’s Wearable Smartphone is a Preview of our Flexible OLED Future - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:20] <exec> 08└─Call me when we can trigger a secret sector by standing under a closing door while getting lost souls spawned in our face on it.
[23:43:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:45] <exec> 08└─This is the so-called "Obamaphone" program, so it simply has to go. Never mind that Obama had nothing to do with it, and it actually started under Reagan....
[23:43:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:51] <exec> 08└─If the govies can't run the program well the first time round what makes you think it will the second time round? Bureaucracy and rort in govie agencies doesn't just fix itself because you reset a program. Is it a surprise that the chairman of the organization that is getting the benefit of the prog...
[23:43:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:53] <exec> 08└─Riiight.. and life has to be lived at the extreme. Either we do handouts galore or we don't whatsoever right? Maybe cutting one social program doesn't really mean either extreme so maybe those taking sides can take a chill pill and stop twisting everything into pro-Trump or anti-Trump for a minute -...
[23:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:55] <exec> 08└─What does a landline cost? Here in Backwoods Arkansas, it's about twenty dollars per month. And, it connects me to the world. I can call all of the same old local numbers that I could call thirty years ago, for free. I don't have a long distance carrier anymore, but I could easily get one - AT&T or...
[23:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:57] <exec> 08└─If the govies can't run the program well the first time round what makes you think it will the second time round?
[23:43:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:00] <exec> 08└─How often does the average American find himself in an emergency situation - AND NO ONE AROUND HAS A PHONE THAT CAN BE USED TO SUMMON HELP?!?!?! Even in the pre-cell-phone days, there was generally someone around who could run or drive to a nearby house to call the cops, or fire department, or whate...
[23:44:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:02] <exec> 08└─How often does the average American find himself in an emergency situation - AND NO ONE AROUND HAS A PHONE THAT CAN BE USED TO SUMMON HELP?!?!?!
[23:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions Could Lose Cheap Phone Service Under FCC's Overhaul of Lifeline - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:44:04] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, any old cell phone, without SIM, can be used to call 911. As people change phones every 2-3 years, there is plenty of old phones. I have one laying around, for example. It has a replaceable battery.
[23:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:07] <exec> 08└─one would think that any sane medical system would be all about helping me get this done
[23:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:08] <exec> 08└─No, read it again. He said that in civilized countries, you don't have to stop and think about whether the cut etc. is serious enough you need medical care. You just go get it. That's very clear, and it doesn't leave any room for your interpretation. He's saying it's 'civilized' to not stop and cons...
[23:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:10] <exec> 08└─You are correct, there is not. The best we can do is distinguish between markets which are a bit more or less free in various ways, but there is no real free market for medical care, anywhere. As someone else already mentioned, medical tourism might be the closest thing to look at, places like Thail...
[23:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:12] <exec> 08└─Sorry, mate, I'm not buying your interpretation about his words. A civilized country doesn't get to that level of civilization if there's no pragmatism/common sense within its population.
[23:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GDX [1950] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Local Product Quotas for Netflix, Amazon to Become Law, EU Official Says - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:15] <exec> 08└─Actually those aren't the real reason, but at the same time those are actually a result of the real problem, the cultural industry in Europe have been run by divas, pseudo artists with more ego than art and of course social justice warriors that try to impose its view on others. More than one script...
[23:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06'Doom' Player Uncovers a Secret That's Been Hidden for 24 Years - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:33] <exec> 08└─I'm inclined to think that the fact they didn't patch it actually lends credence to the fact that it is legitimate considering that they didn't patch after it was pointed out on multiple occasions, other bugs in level layout and secret triggers were patched (some as early as a few months of release)...
[23:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lenovo Announces Yoga C630: The First Windows on Snapdragon 850 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:14] <exec> 08└─(you know...the same people who gave us, Madokami help us, Gnome 3...)
[23:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newly Discovered Dinosaurs Fill In Evolutionary Gap Spanning 70 Million Years - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:29] <exec> 08└─This is not about errors, this is about correct usage of scientific and taxonomic terminology. You just don't do what they did there in the field.
[23:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03curril [5717] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Five Eyes Governments Get Even Tougher on Encryption - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:13] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid that you are still giving the "deep state" too much credit, even you are calling it "BAD" instead. If elected officials vote to shut down the superconducting super collider, then it gets shuts down. If they decide to send troops to Iraq, then troops go to Iraq. The inertia of government a...
[23:53:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Warns Against Foods Prepared With Liquid Nitrogen at Point of Sale - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:19] <exec> 08└─Goes right along with... Do not look into laser with remaining eye
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