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[00:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:03] <exec> 08└─and say the dumbed down article was more appropriate. We're a bunch of computer types here, not medical types. I assume. I could be wrong. Then again, I don't remember the New England Journal of Medicine running articles on how to program your Linux based embedded system to implement body.arm.GetArm...
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[00:06:04] <exec> 08└─P 0.0001 means the probability of this being a fluke is less than 1 in 10,000. Very impressive.
[00:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Open to Selling 5G Modems to Apple - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:19] <exec> 08└─ceiling chinaman is watching you fap?
[00:07:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof collapses as fire rages - 54 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:11] <exec> 08└─1. Make irrelevant systemd comments. 2. ??? 3. Prophet
[00:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof collapses as fire rages - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:00] <exec> 08└─Going to be OK dude? Don't have a stroke. Maybe you should step away from the 'puter for a while. Go beat your kids, your dog or your wife or boyfriend. Or all of them. But please post photos and videos so we can continue to mock and troll you. Sorry about your building, pray harder next time so God...
[00:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof collapses as fire rages - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:02] <exec> 08└─Arson by drone. Airplanes into buildings. Dynamite into statues Trucks into crowds. I think I see a pattern here for how Muslims think.
[00:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof collapses as fire rages - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:04] <exec> 08└─It would have been worthwhile to have faerial water tankers on call to put it out. If those could put out a forest fire they could surely put out a relatively tiny cathedral.
[00:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof collapses as fire rages - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:06] <exec> 08└─Somebody had better question Frollo, he was singing about Hellfire
[00:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof collapses as fire rages - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:08] <exec> 08└─You heard it here first, khallow admits to being a triggered little snowflake cuck who moonlights as a deplorable SJW trumpette that defected to Russia to become a bot herding gun toting fascist who supports socialism!
[00:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof collapses as fire rages - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:11] <exec> 08└─Isn't it odd that the government was so quick to say "it was an accident, not terrorism" shortly before they arrested those four Muslims with a drone?
[00:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof collapses as fire rages - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know what false flag is false flagging what anymore.
[00:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:09] <exec> 08└─Wow, A/C's comment was modded funny, even though it should have been +1 True.
[00:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:10] <exec> 08└─No I can't, gov won't like me.
[00:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DIY Gravitational Waves With 'BlackHoles@Home' - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:37] <exec> 08└─What if they just pipe the BlackHole@Home simulation data into the Einstein@Home project? When your science is basically able to be spoofed by simulated data, we really need third party sources rather than government funded outfits with military ties and "Yay-Gov!" propaganda objectives...
[00:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DIY Gravitational Waves With 'BlackHoles@Home' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:38] <exec> 08└─Discriminating means deciding. Discriminating over what is or isn't a Black Holes is not racist, it's SPACE-RACIST!
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[01:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:00] <exec> 08└─In hologram form.
[01:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bmimatt [5050] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:01] <exec> 08└─It'll be a good publicity stunt, but it's likely to deflate quickly, so it's not a good long-term plan.
[01:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:03] <exec> 08└─When the time comes, don't forget to cast your hologram vote too.
[01:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:06] <exec> 08└─Is holoing it in going to be the new phoning it in?
[01:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:16] <exec> 08└─Investigational givosiran met the primary endpoint of reduction in the annualized rate of composite porphyria attacks versus placebo in patients with acute hepatic porphyria (AHP), researchers said here.
[01:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:18] <exec> 08└─It's a Chi squared correlation [wikipedia.org], which has come under a bit of criticism lately. Don't care enough to google for the links, just making sure peeps know what we're talking about.
[01:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:21] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, the criticism applies when P less than 5 % or 1 % results are sold as statistically significant. If the number is 1 in 10,000, the result seems solid.
[01:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Open to Selling 5G Modems to Apple - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:36] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Apple has the clout to end the current troubles*? Considering the current troubles seem to be a 5-eyes problem. Maybe not. * Try saying it with an Irish accent.
[01:07:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof collapses as fire rages - 611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:19] <exec> 08└─Something to note -- I don't know whether this will prove to have anything to do with the fire, but stonework has basically been crumbling and falling from the roof on almost a daily basis for years. The church has had nowhere near the money to restore or repair properly, so they've mostly replaces...
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[01:07:55] <exec> 08└─FUCK YOU!! FUCK YOU!! FUCK YOU!! I am a serious lover of history, and I've spent the past couple hours in near tears over this, and I thought I'd try to share some hopeful news with this community. It's not "my commentary" -- it was a fact, an event, a fucking piece of real-world news, you anonymous...
[01:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oil-Eating Bacteria has Been Discovered in the Deepest Part of the Ocean - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:39] <exec> 08└─But what will the superbugs eat AFTER the politicians and liars....err....lawyers are all gone?
[01:14:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Survey: As Many Americans Claim No Religion as there are Evangelicals, Catholics - 230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:13] <exec> 08└─The information the Muslim Caliphates transmitted to Europe was originally Greek and Roman for the most part, and was preserved while Europe experienced its Dark Ages. They did invent algebra, though, which the Europeans ran with.
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[02:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:02] <exec> 08└─I remember when "knowledge" was locked up in Libraries and Universities, hard to access, harder still to understand without expensive guidance. Today, you can take graduate level courses from the likes of MIT online, for free, and almost nobody cares - information overload in the extreme. The opport...
[02:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:14] <exec> 08└─Better an "H" on his forhead than a "L"
[02:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:16] <exec> 08└─Umm...I am going to go with...Ben Richards.
[02:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:18] <exec> 08└─Arnold Judas Rimmer approves of this message.
[02:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 065-Star Phonies: Inside the Fake Amazon Review Complex - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:09] <exec> 08└─That is why I pay far more attention to bad reviews than good ones. One "oh-shit" will wipe out a helluva lotta "attaboys". In order for me to consider a bad review, I need some specific reason behind the bad rating.
[02:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 065-Star Phonies: Inside the Fake Amazon Review Complex - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:11] <exec> 08└─I bought a Chinese wireless earbuds from amazon. They were horrible, I left a pretty scathing review. They contacted me and apologized for my "unhappiness" with their product and sent me another of their product - a wireless headphones. These were actually pretty decent and I didn't have to pay for...
[02:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Legislators Frequently Let Corporations Write Your Laws - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:55] <exec> 08└─The people in the "free market" sure don't seem to believe in the free market, that's for sure.
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[03:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:59] <exec> 08└─Very few people seem to care about investing effort for long term returns
[03:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:00] <exec> 08└─TFA shows how long Twitter hashtags stay popular, with a decrease from 2013 to 2016. But Twitter has not stayed constant, and the user base doubled in this period. So maybe what's changing is not our "collective attention span", but rather how it is measured.
[03:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:16] <exec> 08└─Hatsune Miku for vice president!
[03:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:29] <exec> 08└─Wrong. P means the probability of getting this fluke given the null hypothesis is true. There's a subtle but important difference. Read it carefully.
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[03:06:31] <exec> 08└─Ahh, pedantry at its finest. But you missed the fact that "fluke" can mean: "a positive result that shows up not because of some underlying effect, but out of pure chance". In fact, that is how I meant it, and it is equivalent to your "corrected" statement.
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[04:06:37] <exec> 08└─It is just jargon to make you not realize how stupid they are. "We gave a drug to people/rats/cells and measured a bunch of crap. A random one of the results can be spun to get desperate people to give us shittons of money if you give us shitloads of money to risk get it past the FDA." The FDA askes...
[04:07:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof Collapse as Fire Rages - 149 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:11] <exec> 08└─I'll never go to mass in my life, in fact I despise the catholic church. But I still hate when historical monuments, artwork, and documents are lost.
[04:07:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof Collapse as Fire Rages - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:39] <exec> 08└─Good lord! You people are idiots. and it was bombed by the Germans and rebuilt after WW II
[04:09:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jon3k [3718] 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 315 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:27] <exec> 08└─We have NO flexibility. We have our backs against the wall. Why is this? It's sad that American workers are too gutless and spineless and devoid of innovation to conceive of such a protest, and have to look across the seas, to mainland China, for organizational inspiration, so as to solve our local...
[04:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:37] <exec> 08└─Farmers are dumbasses though. They don't even have TV.
[04:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:39] <exec> 08└─Farming usually has some down time, things like snow covered fields allow a break.
[04:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:41] <exec> 08└─If they are good enough to make a living at it, they are probably skilled. It's a niche market (how many henna tattooists are there?) but there is no reason that a skilled artist shouldn't make well above average wages. A henna artist having a spare bedroom says nothing about the general downward pr...
[04:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:43] <exec> 08└─You do realise how khallow that rings. FTFY
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[05:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SLAC Develops a Compact, Portable VLF Transmitter - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:01] <exec> 08└─While VLF was originally developed for military use (such as communications with underwater submarines), it has practical applications to a variety of areas where sensors or other communication devices are buried or submerged in something. For example, one could listen directly with a seismic sensor...
[05:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:11] <exec> 08└─Which brings it to the core of the problem: education seen from strictly utilitarian perspective, with the "economy" as the goal. Becomes a reductionist approach and, what's worse, slides so easy on path of confusing education and taming a monkey/operant conditioning (the fuck with arts, philosophy...
[05:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:27] <exec> 08└─His point is to implement UBI. It only makes sense if you get rid of all the other stuff. During the 2008 aftermath it was almost impossible for the government to even get control of fannie mae and freddie mac, Bush didn't believe it was even possible but was proven wrong by Paulson. How does he pla...
[05:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03progo [6356] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:29] <exec> 08└─I though the Tupac projection was a Pepper's Ghost [wikipedia.org] using a 2D projector and a screen. That's not 3D.
[05:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. National 5G Network Plans Killed Off, Funds Promised for Rural Broadband - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:10] <exec> 08└─Recently got fiber too. 1Gb down and up is 100$ per month. 100Mbit was like 45$? The local phone company rolled through and had it all done within 4-5 months. It seems like big ISPs (cable companies really) are just blind to rural and small towns. I'm on the edge of a town of 30,000 people. It's mos...
[05:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. National 5G Network Plans Killed Off, Funds Promised for Rural Broadband - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:12] <exec> 08└─That would make sense if my public built roads had privately owned commerical tollbooths installed on everyone's driveway.
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[06:06:04] <exec> 08└─This will be bad publicity for Pepsi.
[06:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:05] <exec> 08└─Is this being funded by Coca-Cola? The Cola Wars move to space.
[06:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:07] <exec> 08└─We'll get to tell our descendants about the Pepsi Riots. This tactic might work better for lesser known stuff. Add a few dozen more CubeSats and you could spell out a short domain name + TLD.
[06:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:09] <exec> 08└─and spam. All for getting fat ass Yanks to guzzle even more calories. What's not to love?
[06:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:12] <exec> 08└─and spam. All for getting fat ass Yanks to guzzle even more calories. What's not to love?
[06:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:14] <exec> 08└─I hope the human race becomes extinct before we have orbiting billboards. It might be time.
[06:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:16] <exec> 08└─Better yet, we could have the first constellation cause the extinction. Display a politically insensitive message over the nuclear-armed country of choice.
[06:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SLAC Develops a Compact, Portable VLF Transmitter - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:25] <exec> 08└─They don't speak of receiving at these frequencies, so it's possible this is a strictly transmit-only technology?
[06:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:35] <exec> 08└─If education is useful, then it is useful in that way on a strictly utilitarian perspective (surely, the ability to think and reason, knowledge of the fields you mentioned, etc would have value in a job too)
[06:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:36] <exec> 08└─If you sit in front of computer 8 hours at work slaving away burning your long-chain gloans trying to slap some bandaids on a shitstorm Pajeet left behind, when you get home the last thign you want to do is a 4-hour lecture on the new "hot shit" JS front-end mvc library. I rather watch some retarded...
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[06:06:39] <exec> 08└─Here are the pending stories for this site, every single one with the name of a multibillion dollar corporation in the title: Mainpage 04/16 12:31 Google Launches Cloud Code to Make Cloud-Native Development Easier MrPlow Mainpage 04/16 10:59 Microsoft: Hackers Compromised Support Agent’s...
[06:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:16] <exec> 08└─I think my eyes started bleeding when I read that.
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[06:10:17] <exec> 08└─Just choose your parents or your lottery ticket well.
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[07:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:59] <exec> 08└─Did the Lyft bikes not have separate front/rear hand brakes? Or did the riders not know that locking up the front wheel leads to this result?
[07:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:01] <exec> 08└─Back in my day we preferred the rear wheel when braking, only using the front for light or everything-is-going-to-hell-anyway braking...
[07:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:15] <exec> 08└─But, hopefully they can speed that one up for us. And, they're doing the Pepsi campaign. So, I assume, they're doing the colors of Pepsi. The magnificent Red, White and blue. We want the same colors and I think there may be a deal in there. Where, they're putting up those colors for Pepsi. And they...
[07:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:17] <exec> 08└─Hack the cubesats, display a few really offensive messages, then de-orbit the lot of them.
[07:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:38] <exec> 08└─Today, you can take graduate level courses from the likes of MIT online, for free, and almost nobody cares does
[07:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:40] <exec> 08└─Mainpage 04/16 09:27 Declassified U2 Spy Plane Images Reveal Ancient Sites realDonaldTrump
[07:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:58] <exec> 08└─You can read the details of Yang's plan for UBI on his website [yang2020.com]. Specifically, the "How would we pay for Universal Basic Income?" section answers your question. His plan is to fund it with a 10% VAT and make UBI vs. existing welfare programs be a choice (i.e. no one gets both).
[07:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:59] <exec> 08└─His plan is to fund it with a 10% VAT and make UBI vs. existing welfare programs be a choice (i.e. no one gets both).
[07:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Huawei Open to Selling 5G Modems to Apple - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:30] <exec> 08└─🥛👌🤡🌎
[07:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 2) 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:23] <exec> 08└─That time period is called 'machine rebuild time.' Seriously, not quite as many hours, and in a (hopefully) heated shop. but it is a grind in itself. Rebuild the combine, re-disk the tiller, re-blade and sharpen the cutters, tell John Deere to fuck off, etc.... I don't farm, but several of my relati...
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[07:10:25] <exec> 08└─You are quite a piece of work. Here's hoping you yet get to experience what the majority of people do. NO FUCKING CHOICE if they want to eat tomorrow. Shallow Khallow indeed. If you had a choice, you were not one of the masses. Collective bargaining is the only way the majority will ever have any sa...
[07:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DIY Gravitational Waves With 'BlackHoles@Home' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:54] <exec> 08└─What if they just pipe the BlackHole@Home simulation data into the Einstein@Home project?
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[08:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:10] <exec> 08└─I've got hydraulic Shimano disc brakes on my ebike, they are super strong. Locked up the back wheel pretty easy.
[08:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:26] <exec> 08└─Hack the cubesats,
[08:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:27] <exec> 08└─I believe it's time to put those high-power experimental ICBM-zapping lasers to good use.
[08:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:30] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure if this ever gets off the ground then it would just be a matter of time before they are used to display a penis. Here's the thing though - remember a company called Swarm Technologies that launched a bunch of satellites [theverge.com] without permission? International treaties requi...
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[08:06:53] <exec> 08└─Lockheed certainly is.
[08:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Open to Selling 5G Modems to Apple - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:45] <exec> 08└─Is such a crock. They're talking millimetre wave frequencies which don't penetrate through walls and have a range of a couple of hundred metres tops. Access points in every building and house. Like WiFi. It's not going to happen.
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[09:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:07] <exec> 08└─I may be occasionally messy, but I never managed to lose a 20-story rocket before... As a matter of fact, I expect few people ever have. TFA doesn't say it did RUD, so hopefully they can still do the post-flight checks they couldn't do a year ago. After using a big dryer. Next one will apparently ge...
[09:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:08] <exec> 08└─View the problem of reaching the rocket as similar to locating the head of a CNC or 3D printer. You need XY positioning. Put the gripper on a bridge that spans the ship. The gripper moves along that bridge for movement in one direction. The bridge itself moves along tracks in the sides of the ship,...
[09:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:10] <exec> 08└─But the robot design had issues with the modifications for the heavy mating booster's stubs and couldn't clamp it efficiently in the same way it had clamped the normal falcon boosters in the past. I imagine they will do some revisions now that this issue has become apparent, but given that the heavy...
[09:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:22] <exec> 08└─If you can't lock up the wheel when you slam the brake, your brake is too weak. Learn to ride a bike.
[09:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 867 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:24] <exec> 08└─Yep. And if you do lock a wheel, lock up the rear brake, not the front (if you get the choice). P.S. Also, don't go so fast that you can only stop in time by locking the wheels. Same rule applies in cars. Yes, sometimes you need to. But 99.999999% of the time, it's better to just slow down and look...
[09:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:26] <exec> 08└─This happens on ANY bicycle (or even motorcycle!) with a sufficient front brake. You *NEVER* start with the front brake, you hit the rear brake first, shift weight to the back, and only use the front brake for final stopping power if there is no other choice. If you are really good you can balance t...
[09:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:45] <exec> 08└─If there is no convention or treaty forbidding that it is high time to create one! Common-sense-people of all countries, unite! I sincerely hope this is a bad joke gone awry. I can just imagine this situation: "Mum, where is the North Star?" — "Can you see the Pepsi ad? Ignore the other ads. Follo...
[09:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:46] <exec> 08└─This.
[09:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:12] <exec> 08└─every single one with the name of a multibillion dollar corporation in the title
[09:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:13] <exec> 08└─No, only realDonaldTrump.
[09:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:34] <exec> 08└─His plan is to fund it with a 10% VAT
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[10:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Declassified U2 Spy Plane Images Reveal Ancient Sites - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:04] <exec> 08└─+1 for staying in character with the fox news links. Personally I can't decide now if you're the real thing, a very convincing impersonator, or part of john oliver's crew setting up a hilarious gag for after whichever term rDTs tenure as president ends.
[10:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Declassified U2 Spy Plane Images Reveal Ancient Sites - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:06] <exec> 08└─I can't wait until they release declassified images (especially the IR camera ones) from their UK overflights so that we can do the same with them... What do you mean, the UK is an ally? what's one of them, then?
[10:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, but because these people decided they needed to tell the Press about how it was all the bike's fault, it became a "well-known problem", so it's only a matter of time before the next inept cyclist decides to sue for even worse PR. People like this are why we can't have nice things.
[10:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:30] <exec> 08└─Is that riders only get to ride the bike for 30 minutes before they need to return it to a dock somewhere (yes, I know there are places with dockless bikes, but these Lyft bikes are not them), so each time someone grabs one, it's a different bike that won't ride/handle the same as others. What's mor...
[10:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:32] <exec> 08└─New bicycle 101: test the brakes, before you've even sat on it - how easy is a fronty?
[10:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:34] <exec> 08└─Brake balance on a motorbike should be clear majority front. You'll unload the rear tyres in the process, and they won't even be able to contribute much to the braking. The centre of gravity is incomparable between pedal bikes and motorbikes, and this is *all* about centre of gravity. And therefore...
[10:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:55] <exec> 08└─If the killbots for our wealthy overlords don't quash us first, the entire night sky being filled with capitalist ads will finally spur on the next socialist revolution, when people realize they can't afford to eat or own a home, but some rich asshole can get their advertising plastered all over *SP...
[10:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:56] <exec> 08└─Why do you hate America?
[10:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:58] <exec> 08└─With lots of light pollution. As such, there aren't very many stars visible on clear nights. I get to see a few stars, he Moon and occasionally Venus, but that's about it. I really like having those celestial objects visible to me in the night sky. But I'd rather do without them altogether than have...
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[11:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Declassified U2 Spy Plane Images Reveal Ancient Sites - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:03] <exec> 08└─Phys.org [phys.org] - published on Apr 8 - a week ago, 5 days before fox. DOI link [cambridge.org] (pick PDF if you like) and the HTML T(he)F(ull)S(cientific)A(rticle) - which is open access [cambridge.org]
[11:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:13] <exec> 08└─Apart from all the needless CO2 the launch spewed into the air, they've now polluted the ocean with carcinogenic hydrazine. Nice.
[11:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:31] <exec> 08└─This is a recipe for problems.
[11:06:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:46] <exec> 08└─Hack the cubesats, display a few really offensive messages, then de-orbit the lot of them.
[11:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:55] <exec> 08└─I sincerely hope this is a bad joke gone awry.
[11:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:57] <exec> 08└─From the Red Dwarf novel "Infinity likes careful drivers" [spacearchaeology.org] For anyone living on Earth the result would be mindfizzlingly spectacular. One hundred and twenty-eight stars would appear to go supernova simultaneously, burning with such ferocity they would be visible even in dayligh...
[11:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:59] <exec> 08└─... and we got orbiting billboards. #fuckyou, #Pepsi.
[11:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03zoward [4734] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:02] <exec> 08└─They wouldn't be doing themselves any favors if they did. They'll be tarred by the same brush Pepsi is. People are already sick and tired of advertising overreach, and Coke is as bad as Pepsi in this regard.
[11:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:28] <exec> 08└─That "summary" is five paragraphs long. tldr I'm waiting for the video.
[11:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:30] <exec> 08└─On the other hand as a "slightly older" person, I prefer summary text to video. Even at 5 paragraphs, I can skim read and be done in well under a minute. With video, not so easy to do. Video tends to have way too much padding around the interesting material and not so easy to skip past. Text is so m...
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[11:07:32] <exec> 08└─Trump is a multib... Aha forget it the Kardashians are on.
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[12:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft: Hackers Compromised Support Agent’s Credentials to Access Customer Email Accounts - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:03] <exec> 08└─“but not the content of any e-mails or attachments,”
[12:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:23] <exec> 08└─Why exactly do they need to land the stages on sea fearing platform? Why not terra firma?
[12:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:41] <exec> 08└─I strongly recommend reading the advice of lifelong cyclist (and bike mechanic) Sheldon Brown [sheldonbrown.com] on using the front or rear brake skillfully. Here are two key quotes: Conventional wisdom says to use both brakes at the same time. This is probably good advice for beginners, who have no...
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[12:07:09] <exec> 08└─Compile a list of all common brands owned by Pepsi such as Aquafina. This should suffice [wikipedia.org]: PepsiMountain DewLay's potato chipsGatoradeDiet PepsiTropicana beverages7 Up (outside U.S.)Doritos tortilla chipsLipton teas (PepsiCo/Unilever partnership)Quaker foods and snacksCheetosMirindaRu...
[12:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:11] <exec> 08└─Aye. A nuclear apocalypse might just be the best thing that could happen for the planet. Life will go on. With some luck, the humans won't.
[12:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SLAC Develops a Compact, Portable VLF Transmitter - 3541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:21] <exec> 08└─The article contains several interesting points. 1) I've never considered electronically dynamically retuning an antenna while it transmits analog FM or simple FSK. That's a very interesting idea. I'm familiar with Bode-Fano limit more at microwave freqs and they're kinda cheating by talking about a...
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[12:07:43] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that grandpa. Apart from boring posts, your generation is also responsible for global warming, genderism and nazis (literally).
[12:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:44] <exec> 08└─The Notre Dame fire reminded me of Grenfell Tower in London, so I checked if there were in recent developments (there's not much new). But my point is that the internet allows us to more easily keep track of older stories that are of interest. In some ways, our attention span grows!
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[13:06:31] <exec> 08└─The middle rocket travels further down range, too far to make it all the way back.
[13:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:33] <exec> 08└─https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-falcon-heavy-booster-overboard/ [teslarati.com] According to Musk, the (partial or total) loss of Falcon Heavy B1055 was caused by a combination of bad weather – causing “swells as high as 10 ft (3 m)” – and the surprising fact that SpaceX’s robotic rocket...
[13:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:52] <exec> 08└─With rental ebikes, you can add speed to incompetence. I'm pretty sure I know how that story ends. With regular bikes, inexperienced people tend to be slower.
[13:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:54] <exec> 08└─FatPhil wrote :- Brake balance on a motorbike should be clear majority front. You'll unload the rear tyres in the process, and they won't even be able to contribute much to the braking. The centre of gravity is incomparable between pedal bikes and motorbikes, and this is *all* about centre of gravit...
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[13:06:56] <exec> 08└─Indeed. And your post came up just as I was posting mine, making a similar point. The rear brake is really the secondary brake.
[13:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:58] <exec> 08└─The rear wheel is easy to lock up, you don't need fancy brakes to do so. The more severely you are braking the less weight there is on it.
[13:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:00] <exec> 08└─I remember the thrill of being able to lock-up my rear wheel with those new fangled (cable operated) V-brakes way back in the 1990s. I soon ended up with a bald tyre! Of course, at the time I hadn't learned that if you lock up a wheel, then you've lost the stopping power of the brake pads, and are r...
[13:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:02] <exec> 08└─Indeed. And your post came up while I nipped out of the house, and before I finished typing the below post. ;)
[13:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:32] <exec> 08└─In "Time Keeps On Slippin," the viewers got as close as ever to see Fry and Leela finally be together. Because of increasing large jumps in time, the gang move forward in time and have no recollection of the events that happened in between. Which leads to Fry and Leela walking down the isle. Leela i...
[13:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:34] <exec> 08└─There's more to light pollution than one might think. You mention the city.. and yeah, it's already lit up! Hard to see the stars, the moon seems MUCH dimmer than in rural areas. Especially ones far from the city. So what does this mean? Well.. to profit, you want this to be viewable from the city t...
[13:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:36] <exec> 08└─A company has to make you aware of its products and perform branding activity. How else can you learn about all the wonderful products it has to offer you?
[13:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:08] <exec> 08└─The fun part is that we made the shit, but you get to clean it up :P
[13:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:56] <exec> 08└─Here's hoping you yet get to experience what the majority of people do.
[13:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06996.ICU: Chinese Activists Use GitHub to Organize & Protest - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:57] <exec> 08└─Just choose your parents or your lottery ticket well.
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[14:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Launches Cloud Code to Make Cloud-Native Development Easier - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:13] <exec> 08└─Now with even more tracking! We'll even let you snag some of the data too! For just three easy payments of USD$3,999.99, you too can suck up reams of user PII* to sell to marketers or use for your own purposes**! *Personally Identifiable Information **Some restrictions apply. Data may not be used fo...
[14:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Cloud Code to Make Cloud-Native Development Easier - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:15] <exec> 08└─Too much detail for a busy morning, but... does making development easier mean that I can use my 30 years of knowledge refinement in my familiar language(s) and tool chain(s)? or does it mean learning a "new easy" language instead?
[14:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Cloud Code to Make Cloud-Native Development Easier - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:17] <exec> 08└─From the featured article: "The service will work for virtually all popular programming languages, including Microsoft’s .NET Core."
[14:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft: Hackers Compromised Support Agent’s Credentials to Access Customer Email Accounts - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:25] <exec> 08└─"“We addressed this scheme, which affected a limited subset of consumer accounts, by disabling the compromised credentials and blocking the perpetrators’ access," ... and rebooting.
[14:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft: Hackers Compromised Support Agent’s Credentials to Access Customer Email Accounts - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:28] <exec> 08└─"Possibly they have a REALLY weird infrastructure" Not so much. The email text is small so it is processed by the FBI, the file attachments are large so they are processed by the NSA. Two databases with a common index, easy peasy.
[14:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft: Hackers Compromised Support Agent’s Credentials to Access Customer Email Accounts - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:30] <exec> 08└─They called their own tech dept... "This is Windows calling"... to remediate the problem.
[14:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:52] <exec> 08└─The video explains it at one point. The side boosters, being the first stage to separate, are close enough, moving slow enough, and have enough fuel to turn around and head back to land. The central core, which separates later in the launch, is further away and is traveling too fast to be able to tu...
[14:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:53] <exec> 08└─Weather happens, it's what the military trains for. We have a new-to-us sailboat, any idiot (including myself) can drive it in and out of the marina on a calm day. Of course, sailing isn't too exciting on a calm day. As the winds come up, the loads on the dock lines quickly increase above 100lbs, an...
[14:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:19] <exec> 08└─You're right that the majority of the braking will be through the front wheel in both cases, if done properly, which is a non-negligible if. In my defence, if you're not so familiar with the vehicle that it's almost an extension of your body, how you achieve that is quite different - just a delicate...
[14:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:21] <exec> 08└─I've lived in university towns most of my life. 90+% of cyclists never get out of the "beginners" class. Have you not noticed the prejudice against cyclists? - this is why. I've even seen some (I won't mention any attributes about them, lest I be called somethingist[*]) even repeatedly standing on t...
[14:07:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 89 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:39] <exec> 08└─I believe it's time to put those high-power experimental ICBM-zapping lasers to good use.
[14:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:55] <exec> 08└─This damned fool thing could literally screw up entire species!
[14:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:30] <exec> 08└─You see the economy as an end, I see it (including holding a job) only as a mean to an end.
[14:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:31] <exec> 08└─Not in the title. And there's some people who think the realDonaldTrump might not be a multibillion corporation. Heretical, I know.
[14:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:53] <exec> 08└─Have some fun with Miku!
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[15:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:05] <exec> 08└─https://www.theonion.com/heroic-pit-bull-journeys-2-000-miles-to-attack-owner-1819587144 [theonion.com]
[15:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:06] <exec> 08└─What'd they do, cut her tail off and count the rings?
[15:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:09] <exec> 08└─... who, when out of sight, promptly threw her overboard. Just like the last one did.
[15:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:11] <exec> 08└─Not all people are cruel.
[15:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:13] <exec> 08└─Even Wikipedia has deemed the Daily Mail as an "unreliable" source of facts. And I'm not sure where the science/technology angle is here; it is likely (as posted above) that this animal was thrown off another vessel much closer to the rig than the "alleged" 135 miles (which is basically the bait to...
[15:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, the stock market has been tumbling downward all day and all we hear about is this dog?
[15:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:18] <exec> 08└─So you don't believe the rig is 135 miles at sea? Maybe they towed it to shore first to stage it? Or are you telling us you misunderstood the headline, thinking it said the dog swam 135 miles (it doesn't).
[15:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Launches Cloud Code to Make Cloud-Native Development Easier - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:29] <exec> 08└─Hey, Buzzard - do you mind sharing your last name? It's not Buzzard Cloud, is it? Part of the Cloud clan. There was Sitting Cloud, Running Cloud, Weeping Cloud. Oh yeah, Baby Loud Cloud. The Cloud Native stuff? I'll bet it was all your idea!
[15:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:03] <exec> 08└─> hopefully they can still do the post-flight checks they couldn't do a year ago. After using a big dryer. If you mean hair dryer, it would be too heavy to lift. Maybe a lot of people with smaller hair dryers. That would require a LOT of extension cords, on separate circuits. Each dryer typically 15...
[15:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:04] <exec> 08└─How about equipment on the deck of the drone ship that can lower the booster back into a horizontal position where it can be better secured, and give the entire ship a lower center of gravity?
[15:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:07] <exec> 08└─> Why exactly do they need to land the stages on sea fearing platform? I don't believe it is in the requirements for the platform to be afraid of the sea.
[15:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:09] <exec> 08└─Isn't it just kerosine?
[15:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:11] <exec> 08└─SpaceX is carbon neutral because tesla absorbs all that carbon into their electric car engines.
[15:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:38] <exec> 08└─I wish that drivers of cars that run over pedestrians in the city would serve jail time and not get out of trouble by calling it an accident - as you mentioned, they need to slow down when changing direction or when driving close to slower people or vehicles
[15:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:40] <exec> 08└─Which means it is stupid that they removed the bikes. What are they going to do? put weaker breaks on them? People should understands that bicycles are vehicles and they need to learn to ride them properly.
[15:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:14] <exec> 08└─What harm could one little advertising platform cause? Similarly, what harm could one little unsolicited commercial email (aka "spam") cause? If one company can put up an orbital billboard, why can't 10 companies? Or 100? Or 10,000? Does this idea work at scale?
[15:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:16] <exec> 08└─They can put their products in a place where I want to buy them. Advertising is a bad idea. It does not scale. Once at large enough scale it is a major problem. Ads everywhere. Billboards everywhere. Advertisers know no bounds nor any concept of self restraint. This will lead to the sky being pollut...
[15:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:18] <exec> 08└─COKE ADDS LIFE
[15:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:20] <exec> 08└─Iridium flares last only seconds, and only work when the conditions are right (after sunset/before sunrise but only where the Sun is reflectable, not deep night), and the flare only casts a beacon over a certain area of the earth. The flares, though, are accidental and not intentional behavior. (And...
[15:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:55] <exec> 08└─Today, you can take graduate level courses from the likes of MIT online, for free, and almost nobody cares - information overload in the extreme.
[15:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:57] <exec> 08└─The exception proves the rule.
[15:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:19] <exec> 08└─What? It worked just fine for Tupac. He was live at the 2012 Coachella in holographic form and it was off the hook! And I remind you, he was murdered in 1996.
[15:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:21] <exec> 08└─Well, the first thing is to round up all the parasites on Wall St. Beheadings for all, and stick their heads on pikes as a warning to those who would follow in their footsteps. Then, we move on to the military-industrial-congressional parasites. Same deal, beheadings for all, and stick their heads o...
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[16:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:27] <exec> 08└─It's just a feel-good story. Sometimes it's nice to hear about a happy ending. I like this story.
[16:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:28] <exec> 08└─Must have been ruff. All dog play aside, It's nice to hear a good story. Washington DC is a mess.
[16:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:31] <exec> 08└─Hey, this is SE Asia, dogs are often raised for food, same as cattle. Don't throw it overboard, use it for dinner....
[16:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:21] <exec> 08└─The Falcon 9 doesn't use Hydrazine. There are some contaminants though. For Propellants it uses RP-1 (very close to Kerosene) and Liquid oxygen for the main engines and Nitrogen cold gas thrusters for the RCS system. The hydraulic system contains a synthetic hydraulic fluid for the hydraulic system....
[16:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:52] <exec> 08└─From https://www.citibikenyc.com [citibikenyc.com] one of the side view photos shows an internal expanding drum brake on the front of one of the models -- the "Dockless" version. Note the actuating lever below the front axle. It's not as clear what kind of brake is used o...
[16:08:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:05] <exec> 08└─I hope the human race becomes extinct before we have orbiting billboards. It might be time.
[16:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:32] <exec> 08└─So basically "drain the swamp"? We see how well that is going.
[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─So his solution is more taxes, and "no one gets both" but "both" still exist. In other words, people will get "both" in a few years and the taxes will stay raised.
[16:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:36] <exec> 08└─He would either be the youngest or second youngest president to win an election, if he won this time around. I doubt he has any real chance. The reason Trump won is, because he was already Famous. I've heard nothing about Yang in politics until now and nothing about him otherwise. He's not likely to...
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─She's the First Voice of the Future!!! She has my vote!
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─You are correct. Its not a true 3D image , but if done right the created image can do a really good job of tricking the brain into seeing it as "3D"
[16:09:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 347 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:50] <exec> 08└─and say the dumbed down article was more appropriate. We're a bunch of computer types here, not medical types. I assume. I could be wrong. Then again, I don't remember the New England Journal of Medicine running articles on how to program your Linux based embedded system to implement body.arm.GetArm...
[16:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:59] <exec> 08└─No. If p is 1 in 10k, that means you messed up the experiment and let bias seep in (p-hacking, etc).
[16:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:01] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as "pure chance". Chance is just a catchall for "no one has any idea what that happened". It plays the role of "the gods" in modern philosophy. There are other issues with what you said too, but I'll leave it at that.
[16:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:03] <exec> 08└─Porphyria is a group of diseases in which substances called porphyrins build up, negatively affecting the skin or nervous system.[1] The types that affect the nervous system are also known as acute porphyria, as symptoms are rapid in onset and last a short time.[1] Symptoms of an attack include abdo...
[16:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:06] <exec> 08└─It is a "Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-Controlled" trial and the numbers are in TFA, so feel free to run your own analysis. About 50% of the treatment group had porphyria attacks, while about 80% of the placebo group had porphyria attacks. By numbers of porphyria attacks: "mean composite annuali...
[16:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:08] <exec> 08└─While study enrollment has been completed with 94 patients in 18 countries and at 36 sites, the interim analysis
[16:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Huawei Open to Selling 5G Modems to Apple - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:26] <exec> 08└─What you're saying is, this will be yet another technology, that won't get rolled out to the rural areas, because money. Then again, we've handed them dump truck loads of money and they still haven't provided a decent connection to a large part of rural America.
[16:11:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gawdonblue [412] 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof Collapse as Fire Rages - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:39] <exec> 08└─Can't quite bring who Quasimodo is to mind, but definitely rings a bell.
[16:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DavePolaschek [6129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. National 5G Network Plans Killed Off, Funds Promised for Rural Broadband - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:42] <exec> 08└─... wifi routers give them headaches...
[16:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Amazon Helped Cops Set Up a Package Theft Sting Operation - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:54] <exec> 08└─My employer stopped allowing employees to have parcels delivered to work some time after 9/11
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[17:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:05] <exec> 08└─We have no observable indication that this stuff exists. No measurable data. No reproducible experiment. No observations of any kind. We have an algorithm that says it there though no one can/has seen/measured/observed it? Algorithms are not proof of anything, ever. There will always be latent vari...
[17:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:07] <exec> 08└─"Solid and liquid at the same time" was a dead giveaway that this is another example of millennial science, brought to you by the generation which thinks that genders can be superimposed.
[17:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:09] <exec> 08└─Solid and liquid at the same time? Big deal. I discovered this new state of matter long ago after a trip to Chipotle.
[17:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:11] <exec> 08└─#include <stdio.h> #include <unistd.h> int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { printf ("Computing data set \"%s\".\n",argv[0]); printf("Please standby...\n"); sleep(5); printf("Note that data set size will determine run time..."); sleep(argc+5)...
[17:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:27] <exec> 08└─They looked at its teeth like they do with horses: https://www.wikihow.com [wikihow.com]
[17:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:29] <exec> 08└─I'd agree that the dog likely started swimming much less than 135 miles from the rig, or had a heck of a current-assist. Polar Bears can, and recently quite often do, swim more than 100 miles in ocean crossings, but a domestic dog isn't built for it. Funny that they say it seemed depressed - the swi...
[17:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:31] <exec> 08└─Don't look a gift dog in the mouth.
[17:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:33] <exec> 08└─What are you invested in? TSLA, NFLX, AMD... all up more than 2% on the day.
[17:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:36] <exec> 08└─If this had been the Gulf of Korea instead of the Gulf of Thailand, the workers would have lowered a rope and plucked the dog up to stir-fry.
[17:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:38] <exec> 08└─n/t
[17:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03patricepetticoat [7344] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Launches Cloud Code to Make Cloud-Native Development Easier - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:48] <exec> 08└─Why is YAML a thing? What problem did it solve?
[17:07:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Declassified U2 Spy Plane Images Reveal Ancient Sites - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:06] <exec> 08└─Phys.org [phys.org] - published on Apr 8 - a week ago, 5 days before fox. DOI link [cambridge.org] (pick PDF if you like) and the HTML T(he)F(ull)S(cientific)A(rticle) - which is open access [cambridge.org]
[17:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:28] <exec> 08└─Both you and GP need to remember that a rocket lands on that deck. Recently, it has landed pretty centered, but there have been ... subnominal outcomes. The Roomba is a trade-off. Keep the ship simple and the shockwaves will do less expensive damage. The center of gravity of the empty booster is rea...
[17:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:30] <exec> 08└─To complete both AC's answers, the center core could make it back to land, but that would require a significant amount of fuel to stop, turn around, and go back. That means a lot less energy used to push the payload into orbit. It's also true for the side boosters, or the F9, which sacrifice a lot o...
[17:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:32] <exec> 08└─If NASA contracts SpaceX for LOP-G and lunar missions, these FH booster landings could become rare as they would almost certainly be expendable mode. Although it would be nice to see Starship/BFR used for that instead.
[17:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:34] <exec> 08└─Given the scale, it would be hilarious to use Giant Starship to launch Tiny Gateway. "now that we reached the campground in my 18-wheeler, let's sleep in the 2-person tent I brought!"
[17:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:36] <exec> 08└─Expending 2x Falcon Heavy (6x Falcon cores) is probably still cheaper than a single SLS.
[17:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:39] <exec> 08└─The volume is laughably huge, but the payload capacity is still uncertain. 100+ tons to LEO, formerly 150. Could increase. But we do know that initial versions will not use vacuum-optimized Raptor engines. The number for TLI will be less, unless the BFR is refueled in orbit, in which case you could...
[17:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:41] <exec> 08└─Certainly. $500 million SLS is a complete fib. $1 billion might be correct, with the true cost per rocket being many billions if you factor in total program costs. You could probably see six Falcon Heavy launches per SLS pork barrel.
[17:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:11] <exec> 08└─You can chain 25-29 minute trips using the same bike, docking and immediately undocking the bike. You could possibly get the same bike again on a slow day if you finish your business quickly and remember which dock you parked it in. But you will inevitably use many different bikes with a bikeshare s...
[17:08:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06SLAC Develops a Compact, Portable VLF Transmitter - 3541 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:56] <exec> 08└─The article contains several interesting points. 1) I've never considered electronically dynamically retuning an antenna while it transmits analog FM or simple FSK. That's a very interesting idea. I'm familiar with Bode-Fano limit more at microwave freqs and they're kinda cheating by talking about a...
[17:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:13] <exec> 08└─You clearly do not know what you are talking about. The study is not over, but the primary outcome measure has been reported and will not change: "The annualized rate of porphyria attacks in patients with AIP. [Time Frame: at 6 months]" Actual Study Start Date: November 16, 2017 Actual Primary Compl...
[17:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─Meh, don't care enough to puzzle out if this "interim analysis" was pre-planned or not. There isn't even a paper published.
[17:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrentDavey [1526] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Amazon Helped Cops Set Up a Package Theft Sting Operation - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:58] <exec> 08└─... go to a bricks and mortar store and buy it. Oh wait, there aren't any of those left.
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[18:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:06] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the shite from MS.
[18:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:08] <exec> 08└─> …Demo sites would falsely block Firefox as "incompatible." > All of this is stuff you're allowed to do to compete, of course. I'm not sure that's the case.
[18:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:10] <exec> 08└─I'm tired of Mozilla's bullshit. They tied themselves to their advertising slavemaster, reduce browser functionality at each step, made deals with ad and tracking companies, and they whine because they get fucked over later. What we need is a browser for users not funded by any ad-affiliated asshole...
[18:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:12] <exec> 08└─https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/mozilla.html [neocities.org]
[18:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:14] <exec> 08└─Google gave mozilla money to keep it afloat while they developed their own browser. Where is this "outfoxing"?
[18:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:16] <exec> 08└─Firefox 40-42: Firefox warns about signatures but doesn't enforce them.Firefox 43: Firefox enforces the use of signatures by default, but has a preference that allows signature enforcement to be disabled (xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config).Firefox 48: (Pushed from Firefox 46). Release an...
[18:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:27] <exec> 08└─They can at the quantum level, with amplitudes that are one over root-2.
[18:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:28] <exec> 08└─It's a solid but (very slow) liquid at the same time.
[18:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:31] <exec> 08└─It's a solid but (very slow) liquid at the same time.
[18:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:33] <exec> 08└─Both a liquid and a solid.... Like what cats do in a litter box! Now I need a car analogy.....hmmmm.... Buehler? Buehler? Buehler?
[18:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:35] <exec> 08└─came to say this, but I also added gas.
[18:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:37] <exec> 08└─We have no observable indication that this stuff exists.
[18:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03istartedi [123] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:40] <exec> 08└─So basically it'd be like making a slush ball from snow? Maybe there really is something new and exciting here but they're not describing it very well. Slush is just water near the melting point, but it behaves just as they describe.
[18:06:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:53] <exec> 08└─It's just a feel-good story. Sometimes it's nice to hear about a happy ending. I like this story.
[18:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:02] <exec> 08└─SE Asia doesn't much go for dog these days. Still occurs, but that joke has become pretty dated.
[18:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:04] <exec> 08└─I would say the Daily Mail is very obviously a poor source of facts. Throughout the entire article they refer to the dog as SHE/HER, but there are several pictures in the article where it is hard to miss that the dog has testicles. Unless they are suggesting the dog is transsexual....
[18:08:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 498 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:21] <exec> 08└─I strongly recommend reading the advice of lifelong cyclist (and bike mechanic) Sheldon Brown [sheldonbrown.com] on using the front or rear brake skillfully. Here are two key quotes: Conventional wisdom says to use both brakes at the same time. This is probably good advice for beginners, who have no...
[18:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:34] <exec> 08└─You can chain 25-29 minute trips using the same bike, docking and immediately undocking the bike. You could possibly get the same bike again on a slow day if you finish your business quickly and remember which dock you parked it in. But you will inevitably use many different bikes with a bikeshare s...
[18:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:13] <exec> 08└─You know what's even better? It's still the Russians trolling US, using US'es very own rules of the game! Can't wait for it to get hacked to display live Putin/Trump porn for all the world to see. Just imagine what the children will ask: why is the rain so warm today mommy?
[18:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06RNA Interference Therapy "Givosiran" Shows Promise for Treatment of Porphyria - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:42] <exec> 08└─The primary outcome measures had to be declared before starting the trial. I've only heard of one or two cases where the primary outcome measures have been updated mid-trial and they need a very good reason why the new outcome measure is better. Also, any analysis done before the trial is completed...
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[19:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:12] <exec> 08└─It's not a desktop solution, but I use the DDG browser on my phone and I like it. It would be nice to see it for the desktop. https://play.google.com [google.com]
[19:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:14] <exec> 08└─My eyes!! OK, I gave it a go. First complaint: "Mozilla removed the ability to disable JavaScript from the Settings menu" I type "about:config", and there it is "javascript.enabled" Next one, extension signing. This appears to be "xpinstall.signatures.required", simply toggle to false. Perhaps it ha...
[19:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:16] <exec> 08└─Man, it's almost like it's not the particular profit-motivated megacorporation that's the problem.
[19:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:18] <exec> 08└─The concern is that they've built a walled garden but they've generously put a latched gate hidden in a dark corner with a pinky swear promise not to lock it. The good news is that firefox is open source, and the derivative projects suck much less.
[19:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:21] <exec> 08└─"gave" like it's a generous charity, and not just selling the users(or at least their search) to google, which was convenient because they were a de facto monopoly. Mozilla foundation aren't the losers in this scenario, we are.
[19:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:23] <exec> 08└─If you're willing to deal with a learning curve: https://www.qutebrowser.org [qutebrowser.org]
[19:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:25] <exec> 08└─"See the slippery slope?" No. That was NOT a slippery slope. That was a phased deployment of a planned change. It's done on purpose not to 'boil the frog' but so people have time to react and adapt without it being too disruptive. "Just imagine - one day it might decide to disable your AdBlocks and...
[19:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:28] <exec> 08└─Fork it.
[19:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:30] <exec> 08└─Those choices were made because for the vast majority of users they are the safest defaults and Mozilla has a responsibility to be a good citizen of the Internet--and despite some rather serious missteps in the past I believe they are fundamentally a force for good. No one is perfect. They give you...
[19:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:47] <exec> 08└─That probably went whoosh over most readers' heads :-) simplified wave function of 2 electrons [wikipedia.org]
[19:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:49] <exec> 08└─The bit that I like most about that wiki page on Slater functions is this: (...) who introduced the determinant in 1929 (...)
[19:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:51] <exec> 08└─LOL. The three states of Chipotle!
[19:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03StarryEyed [2888] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:15] <exec> 08└─So when do we realize this is the the dog from The Thing?
[19:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Catalyst [7542] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:14] <exec> 08└─Although that might be a good name for a future drone ship... The Seafearing Drone
[19:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:46] <exec> 08└─When I used a bikeshare, I had a little plastic key with a barcode that inserts into the dock. I still have it on my keychain, in fact. No phone needed, although I sometimes used a third-party app (Spotcycle) that could locate stations and occupied/unoccupied docks. The service worked for me despite...
[19:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:27] <exec> 08└─For once, the sky is falling is the solution and not the problem!
[19:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:28] <exec> 08└─to point at floating mirrors... (If only they were super-cooled and actually capable of deflecting the beam!)
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:06] <exec> 08└─you can't get a degree by taking those courses and they don't give you a certificate of completion that you can show your boss.
[19:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:35] <exec> 08└─It's a sad state of affairs when President Arnold J Rimmer would be an improvement!
[19:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:37] <exec> 08└─President Trump enjoyed a lot of free airtime. Yang would get some of that if he became the nominee, and would likely get no less than 45% of the vote regardless. Dem anger and Republican fatigue could cause Yang to win by default. Of course, Trump can still win in 2020 no matter who the Democratic...
[19:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:39] <exec> 08└─Well, when you elect a corrupt, incompetent, mob-connected real estate developer / populist wanna-be dictator with no vision or governing skills that packs his administration with the least competent cronies and political hacks possible, what did you expect?
[19:12:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Breaking News: Notre Dame Cathedral - Spire and Roof Collapse as Fire Rages - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:44] <exec> 08└─but gut instinct is telling me this is a terrorist attack and I don't know why.
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[20:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:04] <exec> 08└─"FUCT," violate the federal statute that bars trademark protection for "immoral," "shocking," "offensive" and "scandalous" words.
[20:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:06] <exec> 08└─Yup. As much as I don't really want to explain to my children why people are walking around with swear words on their clothing rather than just in their mouths and on their tattoos and bumper stickers, I'm pretty sure that's a straight first amendment case. Not quite sure why it had to go to the Sup...
[20:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:08] <exec> 08└─Why should the government care if a proposed trademark is crass and vulgar? Let the applicant pay his fee and register the name.
[20:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:10] <exec> 08└─There might even be less vulgar shirts around if the guy gets his trademark and doesn't have to compete with (as many) counterfeits.
[20:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:12] <exec> 08└─exactly. none of their goddamned business. is it infringing on someone else's trademark? no? then fucking grant it you dumb motherfuckers!
[20:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:15] <exec> 08└─Rushing to trademark Santorum personal lubricants.
[20:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:17] <exec> 08└─I'll admit I just want to see a court record where one of the justices uses it as an excuse to drop the f-bomb twelve times in one sentence in a question. That would just be... interesting to see...?
[20:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:19] <exec> 08└─I don't really want to explain to my children why people are walking around with swear words on their clothing
[20:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:21] <exec> 08└─something is wrong w/ the world. now we have to deal with another requirment in our quest to make a axiomatic system self consistant: it's elements can not be assembled so as to offend ... aka ... curse. *sigh* this shit is getting difficult. srsly, tho ... letter combos that describe a fruit can be...
[20:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:45] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I buy the concept of "productive user of the internet". After all I'm here talking to you instead of talking to my boss about groovy packaging conventions, or whatever my "current strategic business objective" is.
[20:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:46] <exec> 08└─https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15062491 [ycombinator.com] How quickly we forget that the migration was slow, even uncollaborative. Andso left things behind because there is still no replacements and extension authors gave up in the end. That is not what I would call planned, unless the plan is...
[20:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:49] <exec> 08└─Mozilla has swanky digs in the middle of Taibei city in Taiwan, right next to the 101 skyscraper. Why would a "community oriented free software outfit" need to rent space in such an expensive location? Much deadweight in that organization, and obvious that the users are not their customers. Moving t...
[20:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:51] <exec> 08└─...then only fascists will have freedom. And then, universe will implode in a puff of logic. Or at least, the "not toeing The Party Line is FASCIST!!!111" narrative will.
[20:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:53] <exec> 08└─And indeed both wanted dinner. The crucial difference was in who would be whose dinner.
[20:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:55] <exec> 08└─more like scroogled.
[20:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:58] <exec> 08└─Indeed, if the OP was that bothered he could simply use the "Icecat" fork of firefox, which is kept in sync with upstream firefox. It's good enough for Stallman.
[20:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:20] <exec> 08└─Well we have a glowing smudge of a ring that they suppose is from the lack of smudge in the middle of the frame though they can't prove it wasn't from something else. Can't be independently verified so it may or may not be anything. Chances are it is the effects of a black hole but to speak in abso...
[20:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:46] <exec> 08└─Am I the only one who at first wondered how 135 miles could be rescued by a dog?
[20:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dog Swimming Alone Rescued 135 Miles Out to Sea - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:48] <exec> 08└─they really didn't fuck around on that dog house.
[20:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Launches Cloud Code to Make Cloud-Native Development Easier - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:00] <exec> 08└─Just a new way for them to steal your code.
[20:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:50] <exec> 08└─They can't get back to Florida. They could go for the Azores or Bermuda, but both are non-USA. Puerto Rico might have worked. That at least is the USA, barely.
[20:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:51] <exec> 08└─A better name for a new SpaceX drone: Error: the vessel name cannot exceed 45 chara
[20:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:53] <exec> 08└─After the hurricane, Trump spoke to the president of Puerto Rico. Therefore I must conclude it is decidedly not part of the US.
[20:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:56] <exec> 08└─$1 billion per launch is the figure I've most often heard. And that is not counting total program pork.
[20:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:58] <exec> 08└─If sank, could it become the backbone of a new choral reef? (I don't know the actual answer to that.)
[20:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:31] <exec> 08└─> so each time someone grabs one, it's a different bike that won't ride/handle the same as others. People do rent cars all the time. They're just careful for a few minutes until they figure out the dynamic behavior.
[20:11:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:02] <exec> 08└─Sure, go ahead and vote for a smegging hologram. Can't be any worse than what we have now! :P
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[21:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:59] <exec> 08└─The famed Apple store on 5th Avenue
[21:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:00] <exec> 08└─Cat and dogs living together!
[21:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:02] <exec> 08└─Still not as bad as the bugs in the Microsoft store. :P If this had been in a Linux store, it would have sent everyone in to a kernel panic.
[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:05] <exec> 08└─It's not a bug, it's a feature.
[21:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:07] <exec> 08└─This past Friday, after weeks of bed bug sightings, a critter was spotted in the manager's office, sending desperate employees into a frenzy, terrified they'd bring the pest home with them. "It was just mayhem," an employee told The Post. "There was a mass exodus... employees were freaking out they...
[21:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:09] <exec> 08└─...and you're a dumbass. Don't know why employees would steal shit while fleeing the store, but fleeing is exactly what you do when you see bedbugs. They're a scourge, and expensive to deal with. If you're actually interested in keeping the bed and the furniture you need to wrap it up in something t...
[21:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:11] <exec> 08└─You're holding it wrong... Seriously, what management needs to do is figure out which staff have bedbugs in their apartment and if they're a valued employee help them to eradicate them, or move. Meanwhile, affected employees should scrub before reporting, similar to the protocol in Sound of my Voice...
[21:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:14] <exec> 08└─People like what? With bedbugs? In old apartment buildings? With Manhattan rent rates, it's not surprising that Apple fanbois working in the store aren't paid enough to live in bedbug free housing. As for management giving them the runaround - isn't that basically management's job?
[21:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:16] <exec> 08└─Agreed the hyperbole is pretty through the roof. Sure bedbugs suck, but acting as if they'd seen the four horsemen of the apocalypse is a bit much.
[21:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:18] <exec> 08└─they need Courage!
[21:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:21] <exec> 08└─This is one thing it gives you. Bugs.
[21:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:23] <exec> 08└─You're talking about Apple fanbois here. They're a different race than homo sapiens.
[21:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:25] <exec> 08└─Realistically, you can't suffocate bed bugs. Sealing a bed in plastic will of course imprison them, and after perhaps a year they will be dead of starvation. Lice take only a day or two to starve. There probably isn't any bug that can survive a hot-air clothes dryer. Use that if you can.
[21:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:41] <exec> 08└─none of their goddamned business
[21:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:42] <exec> 08└─The can all FCUK off!!!
[21:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, but kids are also idiots always trying to get attention (hummm, could it be a coincidence?), and I'm not delighted at having to explain to them why they shouldn't be like their friends, or whatever moron is popular today.
[21:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:46] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid in the 80s, the Dead Kennedys [wikipedia.org] were sometimes in the news. If it's ok to have a band name that mocks the tragic deaths of popular politicians, I don't think a simple misspelled swear word raises the bar, no matter the font size.
[21:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:49] <exec> 08└─To be fair, the government is not preventing that person from using the offensive language on their product (that'd be a clear First case). They contend that a Trademark is not a right, but a privilege, and that the people do not find a compelling interest in protecting your exclusivity to the right...
[21:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:51] <exec> 08└─Hmm, mine isn't that age yet, so I might still come around to your view. With my kid, I keep disparaging comments to a minimum, hoping that when I do say something negative, it will send a strong message.
[21:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:53] <exec> 08└─Five years or so ago, while I was at the airport in Norfolk, VA. checking in for my flight home, I saw a guy wearing a sweatshirt that said "STFU." So I went up to him and asked, completely deadpan, "What school is that?" The guy looked a little perturbed, so (as he was a good four or five inches ta...
[21:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:56] <exec> 08└─Not "the people." The government. The government is not the people. That's a very important, and very large, distinction. One we should not allow the government's misuse of the word to water down. Particularly when the government is working to control the people in spite of the constitution, instead...
[21:07:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03isostatic [365] 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 341 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:09] <exec> 08└─My eyes!! OK, I gave it a go. First complaint: "Mozilla removed the ability to disable JavaScript from the Settings menu" I type "about:config", and there it is "javascript.enabled" Next one, extension signing. This appears to be "xpinstall.signatures.required", simply toggle to false. Perhaps it ha...
[21:07:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 98 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:10] <exec> 08└─Man, it's almost like it's not the particular profit-motivated megacorporation that's the problem.
[21:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:26] <exec> 08└─the DDG browser is basically a wrapper around Chrome. And it handles certain things like popup pages poorly (overwriting the content of the existing tab rather than opening it in a new tab). And the performance is somewhat lacking, perhaps because they are doing some security checking on each HTTP r...
[21:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:22] <exec> 08└─Coral reefs are close to the surface of the water. If it sank below where it landed, it would be too deep to support coral.
[21:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:23] <exec> 08└─Add a mode where BFR docks to another BFR.
[21:09:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, but because these people decided they needed to tell the Press about how it was all the bike's fault, it became a "well-known problem", so it's only a matter of time before the next inept cyclist decides to sue for even worse PR. People like this are why we can't have nice things.
[21:09:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Lyft Removes Faulty Electric Bicycles From Three Cities - 924 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:38] <exec> 08└─Is that riders only get to ride the bike for 30 minutes before they need to return it to a dock somewhere (yes, I know there are places with dockless bikes, but these Lyft bikes are not them), so each time someone grabs one, it's a different bike that won't ride/handle the same as others. What's mor...
[21:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:40] <exec> 08└─(If only they were super-cooled and actually capable of deflecting the beam!)
[21:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:19] <exec> 08└─They charge for it, though.
[21:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang Plans to Host "Remote Rallies" Using "Holograms" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:51] <exec> 08└─His point is to implement UBI.
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[22:06:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:08] <exec> 08└─Still not as bad as the bugs in the Microsoft store. :P If this had been in a Linux store, it would have sent everyone in to a kernel panic.
[22:06:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 31 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:09] <exec> 08└─It's not a bug, it's a feature.
[22:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:19] <exec> 08└─Ok, and this is news, how?
[22:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:21] <exec> 08└─They're a scourge, and expensive to deal with. If you're actually interested in keeping the bed and the furniture you need to wrap it up in something that provides a hermetic seal so that you can suffocate the little bastards. Not easily or cheaply dealt with.
[22:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:23] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to take these millennial snowflakes out back and euthanize them.
[22:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:25] <exec> 08└─I first read "kennel panic".
[22:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:27] <exec> 08└─management needs to do is figure out which staff have bedbugs in their apartment
[22:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:30] <exec> 08└─... because "bed bug sniffing beagle" ...
[22:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:32] <exec> 08└─There was an infestation in an office building I work in (several floors away.) That was dealt with expeditiously and the company stated that it would provide a service to come and clear out any infestations experienced by employees. Pretty decent considering.
[22:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:34] <exec> 08└─Where "probably" isn't supported by anything other than your prejudices and insecurities: "must be the smelly homeless guy". Whadda ya think, probably illegal "bad hombre" immigrants too?
[22:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:37] <exec> 08└─Mass hysteria!
[22:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:39] <exec> 08└─There are super bed bugs evolving to be heat resistant now. I made a sub earlier.
[22:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:41] <exec> 08└─Just release the bed bugs.
[22:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 1429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:43] <exec> 08└─Not having seen the scrubbing scene in question, I can't say how effective it would be - but if they're cleaning their body, the answer is almost certainly "not at all". Bedbugs are so difficult to eradicate in large part because they're almost impossible to bait, and don't stay anywhere near people...
[22:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:46] <exec> 08└─"You crazy bedbug."
[22:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:48] <exec> 08└─Believe me, as a Hotel Owner I know very well. Bedbugs are HIGHLY OVERRATED. As overrated as Meryl Streep. Who doesn't know me but attacked at the Golden Globes even before my Inauguration. So many times, the guest says, "oh, bedbugs!!!!" But, there are no bedbugs. They have Fake Bedbugs. And we spr...
[22:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:12] <exec> 08└─If you can't easily explain to your kids what "fuck" means, then I don't think it's the kids who have the issue. It's sad to see such rampant emotional damage present in parents that they can't explain simple biological functions to their kids.
[22:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RandomFactor [3682] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:14] <exec> 08└─a few of decades back, and we and another couple decided to go out to eat. There was a Thai place that we had noticed recently, so that was suggested. The conversation went vaguely like this: What do you want to do for dinner? H1: Phucket? W2: Phucket. Phucket? H2: Phucket. Phucket? W1: Phu...
[22:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 1396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:16] <exec> 08└─> The government is not the people. You should consider fixing that, before it metastisizes. > Awarding trademarks, or not, is one thing; they're a tool to leverage business and tend to have value to the people as such, > the more so if some form of exclusivity is provided. The authorization, and th...
[22:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:18] <exec> 08└─That’s nothing — Didn’t the U.S nearly have a president named after the post-anal sex mix of shit and sperm? Imagine explaining that to your kids. They just ended up with one named after flatulance.
[22:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:49] <exec> 08└─Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Advertisers infiltrated and/or subverted the standard bodies, and started rewriting Web standards to suit themselves. Navigating the purposely tangled web as an outsider has become a tedious chore. FOSS development model does not deal well...
[22:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 1814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:50] <exec> 08└─"That is not what I would call planned, unless the plan is sabotage. A properly planned migration would be having the replacement and then, only then, drop support for the previous thing." Often you plan to change a thing, knowing full well that some stuff isn't going to work or even be possible any...
[22:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:53] <exec> 08└─LOL that only works with Linux. What if OP uses a real desktop?
[22:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Confirmed: New Phase of Matter is Solid and Liquid at the Same Time - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:15] <exec> 08└─The three states of Chipotle!
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:50] <exec> 08└─If it is in shallow water, it is possible. This one will be too deep though. It's in the [other] black.
[22:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─That puts it on par with the cost of a shuttle launch. I'll support immediate termination of the program on the day FH does its first manned flight. It will take a compelling argument to get me to buy into another contract like it too. Parting out development to subcontractors in every congressional...
[22:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SLAC Develops a Compact, Portable VLF Transmitter - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:16] <exec> 08└─The most impressive/cool part of the paper is the methods section
[22:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Abundance of Information Narrows our Collective Attention Span - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:49] <exec> 08└─I like Jeffreys Prior on this one, and you probably get simple things wrong about 20 % of the time.
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[23:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's Bail Conditions Revealed - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:09] <exec> 08└─How to take foreign investment when you're in financial straits, and then renationalize once the crisis is over.
[23:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's Bail Conditions Revealed - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:10] <exec> 08└─What do you expect from Abe, the son of a war criminal, and Nippon Kaigi regime?
[23:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's Bail Conditions Revealed - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:12] <exec> 08└─Tentacle porn?
[23:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Coward, Anonymous [7017] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's Bail Conditions Revealed - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:14] <exec> 08└─That doesn't mean Ghosn is innocent. Do you think those Oman payments are fabricated? Maybe the Japanese were willing to overlook some petty theft, as long as the French didn't cross them.
[23:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former Nissan Chairman Carlos Ghosn's Bail Conditions Revealed - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:17] <exec> 08└─ONLY one phone ? ONLY one computer ? A camera in front of his luxury dwelling ? We've nuked countries who were less vicious at torturing people before ! (or not)
[23:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:51] <exec> 08└─Agreed - for something like a mattress I've seen suggestions of putting it in a large black bag in the sun for a few hot days - you've got to get the coldest spot within the mattress to at least 120F to kill the bugs, and above 125F to kill the eggs. (and females are born pregnant, so there's going...
[23:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:53] <exec> 08└─I would have presumed this method would work better with dedicated people
[23:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:55] <exec> 08└─It's amazing that Don Jr. and Eric survived all that spraying being the cockroaches they are.
[23:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:57] <exec> 08└─20,000 pounds of bedbugs dropped on Manhattan Where's Spiderman?
[23:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:59] <exec> 08└─Also, which of the several thousand fifth avenues (assuming we’re talking about North America)?
[23:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:02] <exec> 08└─He's raping Aunt May in the sewer while sucking out her blood. With great power cums great semen.
[23:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:04] <exec> 08└─That sub has no link. Google gets articles from May 2018.
[23:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:06] <exec> 08└─There are super bed bugs evolving to be heat resistant now.
[23:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Employees and Customers Flee in Terror After Bedbug Sighting at Apple Store - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:09] <exec> 08└─No. The illegals just bring in Lice and TB.
[23:07:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:17] <exec> 08└─"FUCT," violate the federal statute that bars trademark protection for "immoral," "shocking," "offensive" and "scandalous" words.
[23:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:38] <exec> 08└─While I have heard of Trump as an expression for flatulence, one could easily argue that it is far more common to use the term "Trump" to indicate buggery, particularly of immigrants and/or the middle class by their superiors in the upper class. Ergo Trump may more precisely defined as the flatulenc...
[23:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:40] <exec> 08└─Nearly? Maybe in another timeline.
[23:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:42] <exec> 08└─I can. That doesn't mean I should be happy to see it plastered everywhere. You're drifting off-topic. I've met many 20-somethings who include swear words in every single sentence. It's their right. But this motherfucking kind of bullshit lack of fucking respect and sense of fucking appropriateness t...
[23:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:44] <exec> 08└─For the fashion-impaired, FCUK [wikipedia.org]
[23:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court Considers Issue of Trademark Protection for Profanity - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:46] <exec> 08└─I've seen folks in T-shirts hassled in airports... you can't make this crap up!!
[23:07:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 1069 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:58] <exec> 08└─Firefox 40-42: Firefox warns about signatures but doesn't enforce them.Firefox 43: Firefox enforces the use of signatures by default, but has a preference that allows signature enforcement to be disabled (xpinstall.signatures.required in about:config).Firefox 48: (Pushed from Firefox 46). Release an...
[23:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:20] <exec> 08└─Qute. It seems to be a keyboard focused wrapper around Qt 5's integrated Blink (Chrome) rendering engine QtWebEngine, or the older QtWebKit but that support is going away.
[23:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:22] <exec> 08└─Some of us here, are coders ourselves. We know there is NO magic in reimplementing stuff. We know there is NO concrete to pour, NO properties to buy, NO rivers to span, in WRITING THE F*****G CODE. Your fairytales are pitiful waste of ASCII.
[23:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:24] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the shite from MS.
[23:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:26] <exec> 08└─Look what those pink-haired faggots at GitHub did to go out of their way to cripple the site for older versions of Firefox in favor of Chrome. Yeah, I know there are other ways to download repos, but it's a big pain in the ass when you're looking spontaneously for a specific niche. "Download" button...
[23:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:29] <exec> 08└─LOL that only works with Linux. What if OP uses a real desktop?
[23:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 1646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:31] <exec> 08└─And didn't improve any during the Mozilla years. Firefox was a 3rd party project, its popularity was in direct opposition to the Mozilla Browser package of the era, and had no XUL... until it became a Mozilla project after they offered the orignal developer a job and handed management of the project...
[23:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:33] <exec> 08└─... Where is this "outfoxing"?
[23:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Was "Outfoxed" by Google - 1903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:35] <exec> 08└─Which Mozilla is guilty of a lot of bullshit, eliminating the ability to install/run unsigned addons is an untrue one of them. What they *DID* do is remove the UI ability to enable unsigned addons. The configuration options still exist in all firefox versions from 38 to 61 (I know because I use them...
[23:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Launches Cloud Code to Make Cloud-Native Development Easier - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:39] <exec> 08└─I was more skeptical about the part in the summary about Visual Studio Code building anything at all, while it can barely edit text files. I know one motherfucker on the face of the Earth who uses it and he uses it for Powershell. If you want all the spying and analytics, you need Visual Studio Pro...
[23:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Declassified U2 Spy Plane Images Reveal Ancient Sites - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:59] <exec> 08└─Thank you!
[23:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Loses the Center Core of its Falcon Heavy Rocket due to Choppy Seas - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:39] <exec> 08└─Just land down here in Oz. We could probably stick them on a container ship back over there or use em for our own launches. Our give them to Rocket Lab in NZ.
[23:11:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Orbiting Billboards on the Horizon - 1611 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:45] <exec> 08└─There's more to light pollution than one might think. You mention the city.. and yeah, it's already lit up! Hard to see the stars, the moon seems MUCH dimmer than in rural areas. Especially ones far from the city. So what does this mean? Well.. to profit, you want this to be viewable from the city t...
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