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[23:21:21] <exec> 08└─This is a basic concept taught in first semester Traffic Engineering at any university: people drive slower when lanes are less than 12 feet wide (the standard width in the U.S.). There are even formulas and tables to calculate how much slower.
[23:21:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03diaz [3491] 02Traffic Engineering 101 - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 244 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:32] <exec> 08└─Looks like I win on both counts. ;)
[23:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:31] <exec> 08└─My rebuttal was about your penis size. Nice try, though.
[23:20:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:19:45] <exec> 08└─"which got me laid 30 years ago but I haven't needed, nor wanted, for 29 years." Given the stereotype that this is a community of socially crippled geeks living in their mother's basements, the jokes write themselves. ;)
[23:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like CDMA - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:12] <exec> 08└─Having to boot old, useless memories for new ones certainly suggests a capacity.
[23:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:That's not a "resounding" no - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:19:11] <exec> 08└─The strange part is that I thought this was already well established science? I recall an hour long documentary on the Science Channel with Morgan Freeman (I forget the name, I do not care nor normally watch television) where this was discussed. I have heard this in a number of other documentaries....
[23:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:That's not a "resounding" no - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 705 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:18:19] <exec> 08└─http://www.ultimatehistoryproject.com/arsenic-eaters.html [ultimatehistoryproject.com] Gradual introduction, beneficial, sudden cutoff known to cause rebound poisoning.
[23:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Arsenic Eaters - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:17] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, you can't, if you're referring to young earth creationists. They fully acknowledge that natural selection can cause small differences, i.e. petri dish experiments with e. coli. I imagine this would be similar. Instead they have a concept called “kinds” that allows for genetic chan...
[23:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Usable as proof of evolution? - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 1065 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:12] <exec> 08└─No. Simple answer: God did it. That's it. That is the end to every debate with any religious person that has ran out of options to defend their faith.
[23:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's Evolution Baby - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:10] <exec> 08└─Redundant mod? No. That is, at best, fraud. People are different because their genes are different. Few people have the iron resolve to do science that could lead to socially unacceptable results. Still, facts are facts whether they are socially egalitarian or not.
[23:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That indicates an unpopular opinion may be true - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:05] <exec> 08└─So an international charity donated the wells and had them installed...but didn't think to test the water for arsenic.
[23:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Bangladesh - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:42] <exec> 08└─LOL Prior art, the patent system stopped caring about that years ago. Prior art < current wealth
[23:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:genious[sic] idea - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:38] <exec> 08└─You are very welcome, sir (or ma'am)! We aim to please.
[23:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Damages - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:32] <exec> 08└─"Some men you just can't reach..." Which is why this guy needs a punch in the nuts. Like you say, "Stupid." I do agree with patents (and copyright) in general but not with the system we have now. It is like I do not mind the death penalty in principle, but not with the system we have now. The worst...
[23:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:2-fer - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:22] <exec> 08└─A very small number and it is hard for me to estimate off-hand, but there are probably some estimates derived from data about transgenic mice that contain one or two mutations (tumor initiating cells usually need around 100). In mice without an immune system you need to inject ~1000 tumor cells to g...
[23:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:PD-1 and CTLA-4 - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:21] <exec> 08└─What percent of primary cancer cells that form do you think survive to the point of forming detectable tumors?
[23:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:PD-1 and CTLA-4 - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:19] <exec> 08└─The drugs used in the trial are both antibodies that target the proteins PD-1 and CTLA-4. These proteins play an important role in down-regulating the immune response, so it doesn't get carried away fighting an infection (chronic inflammation can induce cancer formation) or mistake healthy cells for...
[23:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:3, Informative) 02PD-1 and CTLA-4 - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:17] <exec> 08└─One of my wife's uncles had stage four cancer three times, and three times managed to get into the drug trial on the experimental drugs side and kick the current cancer. He was not a man with a lot of connections or influence, but he somehow managed it. While it is a definite fear, you can always tr...
[23:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Re:One of my fears in life... - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:15] <exec> 08└─I do not usually complain but, 'Troll?' I may have a warped or broken sense of humor (that is for you to judge) but I found the legitimately humorous so it was, at least, entertaining. Far more mundane and less creative humor is flagged as such. Why is this trolling? They are not fishing for a reply...
[23:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:One of my fears in life... - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:13] <exec> 08└─From tfa: Roy Herbst , chief of medical oncology at Yale Cancer Centre, described the results as "spectacular". "I think it's huge," he said. "I think we are seeing a paradigm shift in the way oncology is being treated
[23:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:One of my fears in life... - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:17:11] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that we will never find a 'cure for cancer.' I am not a medical doctor but I do have an oncologist friend who has told me that, "Cancer will never be cured even though the media makes it seem like it could happen." The reason is, as I am given to understand, that there are many m...
[23:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:One of my fears in life... - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 1588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:59] <exec> 08└─for a cheap OpenWRT-compatible router which can handle wifi?
[23:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Han Held [216] (Score:1) 02ASK SN: anyone got recommendations - 06New SOHO Router Security Audit Uncovers Over 60 Flaws In 22 Models - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:51] <exec> 08└─Looks like SN is getting faster with breaking news stories Nice work editors :)
[23:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Editors are on their game - 06U.S. Government Employees Hit By Massive Data Breach - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:50] <exec> 08└─^ Modded parent slow clap
[23:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:perhaps I may be of service - 06U.S. Government Employees Hit By Massive Data Breach - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:16:49] <exec> 08└─My social security number is 518-92-8663 and my California ID card is C0225719. Have A Nice Day!
[23:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Touché) 02perhaps I may be of service - 06U.S. Government Employees Hit By Massive Data Breach - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[21:35:44] <exec> 08└─NoScript is your friend. Using it to selectively enable Javascript blocks 99% of ads, and those that still display aren't annoying. Not that SoylentNews has ads anyway, but even on the green site I've enabled Javascript for their domains, but don't see any ads because I don't have any Javascript ena...
[21:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Degrade' - 06Help Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:11] <exec> 08└─Please tell me you don't contribute to Open Source projects.
[21:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Help Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:34:54] <exec> 08└─Its the fact that you have to establish or think of relations at all. Properly the data should be nested so your calls aren't confusing long strings pulling separate 'tables' together by their relations it just comes out as one piece. There are caveats to that as data grows larger, but the amount of...
[21:34:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Use nedb - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:33] <exec> 08└─You're faith in Microsoft's default practices seems somewhat misplaced.
[21:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly what I thought when I first heard - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:33:17] <exec> 08└─I've been using a version of SSH that was ported to be able to run from a Microsoft command prompt window, but it's not a perfect port as it gets very angry about the lack of conventional UNIX paths. It doesn't store any key information properly, for example. I would like that fixed; the bulk of wha...
[21:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TWX [5124] (Score:1) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:44] <exec> 08└─Or "Stupid Lawyer of the Month" award.
[21:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:2-fer - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:42] <exec> 08└─I'd say it's patently stupid.
[21:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:1) 02Re:2-fer - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:41] <exec> 08└─He's just trying for Stupid Lawsuit of the Month award too.
[21:32:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] 022-fer - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:34] <exec> 08└─Fighting cancer is hard, but Newsweek needs to use their words right. This is not a cure! It looks a lot more effective than our previous treatments, at least for this one specific nasty type, but all that study says is that it'll stave things off about a year. For probably a cost well into six figu...
[21:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Delayed progression != cure - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:33] <exec> 08└─Seems we hear the same stories over and over. 1. New cure/breakthough for cancer that will be available in a year or so. 2. New breakthrough in alternate energy that will be available in a year or so. 3. New breakthrough in fusion which will be available in a decade or so. And we get variations on t...
[21:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So repetitive - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 1474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:31] <exec> 08└─I'm afraid she only has 5 minutes to live. [youtube.com]
[21:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Re:One of my fears in life... - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:30] <exec> 08└─You could probably still get in on a trial. Though I would probably be somewhat skeptical about their "cures cancer" claim.
[21:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One of my fears in life... - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:28] <exec> 08└─You could probably still get in on a trial. Though I would probably be somewhat skeptical about their "cures cancer" claim.
[21:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:One of my fears in life... - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:32:27] <exec> 08└─Leaving the hospital with a stage-IV cancer diagnosis and a 3-months to live prognosis, and hearing a report on the radio of a new drug regime that cures cancer, which will be available in 6 months.
[21:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02One of my fears in life... - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[20:37:52] <exec> 08└─Tell that to truck drivers that have to drive those narrow streets.
[20:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Really? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:12] <exec> 08└─A nosql document-based database would certainly make sense for parts of the site, like stories and comments, but unfortunately an established codebase like this will probably need a relational database, expecially since it's not doing big data. Going for two databases for the one app is a no-go. I s...
[20:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:Use nedb - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:09] <exec> 08└─I have used MariaDB as a drop-in replacement for MySQL for a personal collection tracking app. No experience building large apps with it though. At any rate, it takes almost no effort to migrate from MySQL to MariaDB, and I don't think MariaDB is any worse than MySQL, so I think it's something SN co...
[20:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:MariaDB - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:55] <exec> 08└─In a nutshell, this is how it supposed to work Script calls DB::*SQL method -> which has the query and any necessary processing -> escaping handled by the DB level -> Call out to DBD to poke the database. There's a couple of place where SQL calls are not in Slash/DB/*, but that's not hard to fix.
[20:34:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Prepared statements and migrations - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:53] <exec> 08└─s/Defiantly/Definitely/g Drat! An "edit comment" button would be more useful than a "multi-tiered database cluster farm with replication and hot-failover"
[20:34:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Re:RDBMSs scale more expensively - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:34:40] <exec> 08└─The lay or the memories, or the memories of the lay? Sorry the jokes write themselves some times.
[20:34:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:1) 02Re:Sounds like CDMA - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:38] <exec> 08└─Are you also chiropractor by any chance?
[20:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deathlyslow [2818] (Score:1) 02Re:Yeah, not so much - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:15] <exec> 08└─Except that the article also hints that new memories are sort of blended with similar older memories, and stored alongside with them with higher precedence.
[20:34:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No... Yes... Maybe - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:34:14] <exec> 08└─>Except that the article also hints that new memories are sort of blended with similar older memories, and stored alongside with them with higher precedence. I like to think of it as re-compressing memories. For example, if you have 1 MB of memory A and then gain 1 MB of related memory B, your brain...
[20:34:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:No... Yes... Maybe - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:54] <exec> 08└─You don't have to be incompetent to not notice a backdoor in submitted code, I'm sure expert programmers could get some past competent run-of-the-mill programmers, backdoors don't have to be obvious and can be made to look like innocuous code. That said OpenSSH is maintained by the OpenBSD team, who...
[20:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Exactly what I thought when I first heard - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of ways to remote a windows machine already, including those built into powershell now. I imagine that this will also be something that has to be turned on, it won't be on by default.
[20:33:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly what I thought when I first heard - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:43] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm just saying this in context of "I'll keep using putty". For me SSH support will be mostly a wait and see thing on the server side depending on how well the shell integration works. I've only had mediocre experiences with Powershell, but I think a big part of that has been the lack of someth...
[20:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:39] <exec> 08└─You haven't misremembered. I don't think IT departments will want to install Cygwin on every machine they want to remotely administrate, but it's possible. Since PowerShell is becoming the standard tool to do scripting and administrative tasks on Windows, this is the better alternative. You can alre...
[20:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:38] <exec> 08└─I thought you could put Cygwin on a Windows box and use it remotely like a real computer? It's been a few years since I had to use Windows for real work, but I put Cygwin on and could do some things with it, like run my bash scripts. Have I misremembered, or can you run the ssh server under Cygwin?
[20:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:33:16] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't recommend that. The way they interpret this data is extremely strange. It doesn't appear to support their conclusions at all. Any creationist could just look at the data and laugh you out of the room. If this data is all it takes to convince people they are seeing natural selection someth...
[20:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Usable as proof of evolution? - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:46] <exec> 08└─I think there might be prior art...
[20:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:genious[sic] idea - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:44] <exec> 08└─And I have a list of people to send "cease and desist" orders to when you have it :-)
[20:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score:2) 02Great Idea! - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:42] <exec> 08└─Quick! Memorize this: "The average air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow is approximately eleven meters per second." There, that should be enough to push out the memory of what ever it was that you did not want to remember, if your brain was previously full, and if the much derided previous artic...
[20:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TWX [5124] (Score:1) 02Re:Damages - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:30] <exec> 08└─Still no cure for can- oh, wait, nevermind...
[20:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TWX [5124] (Score:1) 02Re:ww - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:32:29] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nivolumab [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com] http://nextbigfuture.com [nextbigfuture....
[20:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ww - 06Cure for Cancer One Step Closer After 'Spectacular' Breakthrough - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[19:37:10] <exec> 08└─Because drivers already obey posted speed limits as it is, right? I love it when I'm driving 5 above the speed limit and everyone else is breezing right past me.
[19:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:31] <exec> 08└─I thought Steve Jobs already got a full autobiography? Or is this only limited to criminals who make petty change?
[19:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:08] <exec> 08└─The rebuttal was about your performance claim. Nice try, though.
[19:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:07] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. It makes for a smaller form factor. (this is fun!)
[19:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:35:48] <exec> 08└─...and this is why no women come to read soylent
[19:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02No One Knows I'm a Dog - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:34:52] <exec> 08└─So basically, you've never used a command line, a text mode editor like Emacs or vi, or any other user interface that requires you to remember commands to use it effectively. Get off my lawn, child, and take your graphical toys with you.
[19:34:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Help Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:21] <exec> 08└─Honestly, database portability is not a huge concern. We don't want to rip out the abstraction layer, so if ever becomes necessary again, it can be done, but I don't see us supporting multiple congruent database types for longer than is necessary to transition.
[19:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:RDBMSs scale more expensively - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:31] <exec> 08└─Because I just love the feel of a penguin cock up my ass.
[19:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'll stick with Linux. - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:21] <exec> 08└─Just like their "magical" new invention of Virtual Desktops.
[19:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:2) 02Re:About time - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder if you can use this as part of a proof of evolutionary theory mechanisms that creationists might accept. At the least, it would be interesting to see how it's incorporated/worked around.
[19:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Usable as proof of evolution? - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:56] <exec> 08└─This is remarkably unsurprising. Populations adapt to deal with all kinds of environmental stresses, like: http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://ocean.si.edu [si.edu] http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http...
[19:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02It's Evolution Baby - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:52] <exec> 08└─Or they could, you know, build a large disco with a big sign: "free drinks and lodging for anyone from San Antonio de los Cobres or surrounding Andes villages". Takes a bit longer but is cheaper.
[19:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Bangladesh - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:50] <exec> 08└─Rather than gene therapy they could deploy a team nanoputian chelators.
[19:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bangladesh - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:46] <exec> 08└─Same ac. Now that I made the mistake of reading the paper I also see that the claim of a strong association between allele and methylation of arsenic is not even supported by the data. Look at Supp table 3, any allele effect is dwarfed by something else related to location. Can't people just report...
[19:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Test the hypothesis? - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:28] <exec> 08└─I wonder if I could patent something like: "methods that permit the circulation of nitrogen, oxygen, argon and other gases in systems of biological nature"
[19:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03CortoMaltese [5244] (Score:2) 02genious[sic] idea - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:26] <exec> 08└─Obviously, you need a lawyer! Or possibly, you are a lawyer?
[19:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Damages - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:32:25] <exec> 08└─I memorized it but all it pushed out was the memory of my mother's love. Now I'm liable for patent violation AND depressed.
[19:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Damages - 06Patent Lawyer Sues EFF Over "Stupid Patent of the Month" Award - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[18:41:13] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that a crime is the un-coerced and opt-in part to qualify for the death penalty.
[18:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:30] <exec> 08└─The problem with this aircraft is trying to be all things to every branch of the service, and apparently every country even vaguely interested. It is bound to do all of those thing less well than a specialized craft for each task. It was conceived to have a common parts and maintenance and training...
[18:39:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 777 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:29] <exec> 08└─I spent about nine years of my career working on the engine design for this baby (both CTOL and STOVL), so it's nice to see it finally operational. I know there's a lot of negativity surrounding the F-35 amongst this crowd, but honestly, peacetime aircraft programs traditionally run over time and ov...
[18:39:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JeanCroix [573] 02Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 889 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:30] <exec> 08└─You're missing the other point. Just by having this "reward" campaign, the publicity it generates is already potentially worth it to wikileaks. Also, like buying the lotto, the probability might be very small, but if you don't buy the chances are nil. For all we know, the extra publicity and awarene...
[18:38:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arslan [3462] 02Re:Is it worth it? - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 509 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:24] <exec> 08└─While I agree that secret treaties are bad, and I agree that treaties negotiated in secret are bad, they aren't the same thing. A secret treaty remains secret after it's adopted, just as secret courts remain secret even while deciding on cases. And both exist in the US, despite both being unconstitu...
[18:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Wars have been started over such things - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:47] <exec> 08└─Its a secret because making all the details public would give the subjects of the investigations all the knowledge they need to avoid the surveillance. Duh.
[18:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Remember only about 5 years ago? - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:21] <exec> 08└─I think you are vastly overrating the human ability to create anything remotely approaching the creation of a "superior intelligence". You might be able to create a machine that is on average "smarter" than the average person, but it won't have the same amount of individuality that humans do. We are...
[18:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:manual - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─I didn't read TFA, but toroughly enjoyed TFS, well written, quite to the point, and with the just-about-right amount of details. I really don't understand the hate HughPickens gets.
[18:36:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mtrycz [60] 02This is a good post. - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 181 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:10] <exec> 08└─If you enter a structure with the intent to commit a crime while inside it, that's burglary. If you take something that's not yours, that's robbery and is a much less serious crime.
[18:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to Beat a Burglary Rap, by Corey Joe - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:06] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the first reality show, "Cops", already show that?
[18:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"observe a crime as it happens" - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:04] <exec> 08└─What kind of rating would the MPAA put on it the first time they show someone get shot by a cop or vice versa?
[18:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:"observe a crime as it happens" - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:54] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. It uses less power, battery life is a selling point of the Macbook line.
[18:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:53] <exec> 08└─That just makes the form factor smaller. It doesn't affect performance at all.
[18:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:51] <exec> 08└─> Your Macbook Pro has soldered in memory because it improves battery life by nearly 20%. You don't know much about computers, do you?
[18:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:35:26] <exec> 08└─Replace the reply button with a checkbox element that just looks like a button. Then you add an ::after selector to the checked checkbox (ie, reply button is pressed) and you should be able to throw the entire comment form in a content block on that selector. So when you click the button, the reply...
[18:35:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Javascript? - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:19] <exec> 08└─Trust me, I'm a web developer!
[18:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:style and function - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:17] <exec> 08└─Yes I did, but I also talk to the people running the site and know why. And now I don't get the warning because I can trust the key that I have. But that doesn't mean I'm going to log on to every other site that displays a warning.
[18:35:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:style and function - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:08] <exec> 08└─Most of the visitors of this site probably browse without javascript enabled. There are a lot of reasons [stackexchange.com]. My own reason is mostly to do with security, which is why I'm only willing to enable it in Internet Explorer at work (because that was the browser given to me by IT, as confi...
[18:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Degrade' - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 945 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:33:19] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for the special option: ssh.. -K K..K....K...K.k..kill kenny! Use with care, will download zero-day expl01t and wipe out any Microsoft computer on sight. The SSH protocol probably needs this "extension" so that any free operating system may extinguish yucky things on the netw...
[18:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Fits the model - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, but that would only affect Windows users, not the OpenSSH project itself. If MS is in the NSA pocket like the OP and Editor implied, what's the point? They could already compromise ANY SSH client running on Windows if they can own the OS itself. If I own the input, hardware, display, memory, ne...
[18:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly what I thought when I first heard - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:15] <exec> 08└─It would be 100% compliant with the BSD license to have their own secret patches, and only distribute those patches in binary form.
[18:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jummama [3969] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Exactly what I thought when I first heard - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:10] <exec> 08└─But you've been using putty to ssh FROM a windows machine TO something else (non-windows), Right? I'm not sure that is the focus of this announcement.
[18:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:07] <exec> 08└─he main advantage here would be that power shell can run as a host or server for an ssh client.
[18:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:06] <exec> 08└─I agree, but it's not because you're paranoid that they're not out to get you...
[18:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:04] <exec> 08└─Mono isn't in widespread corporate use, but it's in plenty of places, servicing it's niche well. It's been 11 years, and mono has some real market share in places like Unity. You're paranoid.
[18:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:33:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and you people have been saying that about mono since, what now? 2004?
[18:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:1) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:57] <exec> 08└─True, but it's still a deterrent to using it.
[18:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:MICROSOFT UNTRUSTED - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:47] <exec> 08└─And yet, we still claim that peoples separated by continents and evolving for far longer periods of time have no discernible differences (because we're ashamed to look, since we might find out that evolution doesn't stop at the neck).
[18:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That indicates an unpopular opinion may be true. - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:45] <exec> 08└─Looks like you have a hell of a coffee break coming to you...
[18:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I Was Just Wasting My Time... - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:44] <exec> 08└─The problem *is* relatively new. The problem didn't exist until a "public service" set of pipe wells started to tap into a new aquifer that was further down, and derived from a different source. (I can't remember exactly why they needed the new wells, I think it was a drought, though.) So an interna...
[18:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Bangladesh - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:42] <exec> 08└─Unless the problem is new, it may already be taken care of and nobody knew.
[18:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Bangladesh - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:40] <exec> 08└─If frequencies of AS3MT variants differed markedly between the Argentine and comparison populations, it was likely that arsenic was exerting a selective pressure on the SAC population.
[18:32:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Test the hypothesis? - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:34] <exec> 08└─This might be offtopic but, Australia is entirely peopled with criminals.
[18:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminal story material - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:32] <exec> 08└─Mine was going to be: "I spent the last ten years building up a resistance to arsenic powder.."
[18:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal story material - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:32:29] <exec> 08└─That would make a good plot element for a criminal story where people get poisoned with arsenic, and the source is not found for a long time because it was excluded very early on because one of those who didn't get killed also ate the same stuff. He was, of course, from an Andean village in Argentin...
[18:32:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Criminal story material - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
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[17:40:55] <exec> 08└─An interesting conundrum. Privacy is pretty much exactly like copyright in many ways, and is subject to the same "artificial scarcity" arguments. It seems likely that the pirates will not likely appreciate the comparison. My point wasn't that we need to abandon privacy, simply that technical means t...
[17:40:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:You'll never be safe, and that's OK - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:23] <exec> 08└─This was an urban legend that has been circulating in America for years. The way I first heard it, when I was like 13, was something like, "They have to call it 'KFC' because they're not technically chickens anymore, they're mutants with like 8 wings each now." Of course anybody with half a brain kn...
[17:38:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 800 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:52] <exec> 08└─It's a trade treaty.
[17:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Wars have been started over such things - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:40] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember reading that the US senators were allowed to inspect the document under supervision, but that they weren't even allowed to take notes. Difficult to leak the whole thing under those circumstances. I suspect the guards would notice something as straightforward as recording it all wi...
[17:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:36:30] <exec> 08└─I don't know what winter weather is like in Tokyo, but in Toronto and most major Canadian cities we get snow, ice, and other fun stuff during the winter. The wider lanes allow for greater separation between cars and reduce the chances of a minor slippage cascading into a pileup. It is not uncommon,...
[17:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score:2) 02Snow? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:25] <exec> 08└─Replace the airbags with a large spike.
[17:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:46] <exec> 08└─Link collects a "Hero Tax" for saving the world.
[17:35:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Zelda - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:29] <exec> 08└─Your Macbook Pro has soldered in memory because it improves battery life by nearly 20%. Your Dell doesn't, and it's not out of altruism. Posted from my 3 year old iPhone running iOS 8.
[17:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:28] <exec> 08└─In stark contrast to many other computer manufacturers who make their products modifiable and upgradeable.
[17:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:35:05] <exec> 08└─Best bet is to jump into IRC [soylentnews.org].
[17:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:I Volunteer - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:03] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure this can be done using only CSS3 with a single clever :after selector.
[17:35:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Javascript? - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:01] <exec> 08└─If you can make it work without JS, more power to you. That would be ideal (I think, I'm not on the dev team). Doing it with CSS has been mentioned before but no one has stepped up to the plate yet.
[17:35:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:Why Javascript? - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:56] <exec> 08└─True, but we trust ourselves = )
[17:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:style and function - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:46] <exec> 08└─Nice. I'd encourage you to hop into IRC [soylentnews.org] and mention NCommander, much easier to coordinate these things in a real-time chat.
[17:34:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:JavaScript - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:33] <exec> 08└─I don't know where this luddite attitude (in general) against Javascript comes from.
[17:34:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:31] <exec> 08└─What about moderation? I would certainly be more inclined to do it if it didn't involve losing my place on the page. It's not ideal, but I've been using this workaround on that other site and here for years. If your browser supports multiple tabs, Open the comment you wish to moderate in another tab...
[17:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:Moderation Technique - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:29] <exec> 08└─Quite possible. I'm a PC gamer so I do research mice before I buy them.
[17:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Moderation Technique - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:28] <exec> 08└─It can be a little fidgety, but with practice you'll get it right about 90% of the time.
[17:34:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Moderation Technique - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:26] <exec> 08└─It can be a little fidgety, but with practice you'll get it right about 90% of the time. And it's not like anyone dies if you scroll by accident (I hope). The real objection -- and I'm surprised nobody has brought it up yet -- is that middle click in X means "paste selection." In a browser it means...
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[17:34:17] <exec> 08└─That's the first time I've heard the "ADD Defense" in response to bad UI design.
[17:34:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:34:00] <exec> 08└─Remember that the first month or so was very hectic, no one was really in charge, and what janrinok mentioned is also rather key. Whine if you want, but I'd ask that you NOT sftu. Speak your mind, offer your opinions whatever they are. This site is built and influenced by the community, we all contr...
[17:34:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:wah wah wah - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:47] <exec> 08└─As for the SQL injection stuff, use the standard method of bind vars and prepared statements.
[17:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Re:RDBMSs scale more expensively - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:24] <exec> 08└─When it's hot outside you tend to dress differently than when it's cold.
[17:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bollocks - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:33:22] <exec> 08└─(same poster) As far as dress I'm sure there are some trends that can be associated with weather. When it's hot outside you tend to dress differently than when it's cold.
[17:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bollocks - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:33:18] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the Far Side strip in which a student was raising his hand asking "May I be excused? My brain if full."
[17:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:WRONG! - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:52] <exec> 08└─When it comes to security, being slow to support the unproven new stuff is not always such a bad thing (quickly stopping support for weak stuff is good).
[17:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:39] <exec> 08└─I've spent quite a bit of time comparing treatment systems, filling out grant forms, and reviewing contracts to install arsenic removal equipment for ground water in a small rural water system. And now I see if we just leave it alone for 11,000 years everything will be just fine.
[17:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score:2, Funny) 02I Was Just Wasting My Time... - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:38] <exec> 08└─One of the big problems in Bangladesh is arsenic in the drinking water supply. I wonder if some kind of gene therapy could make life easier for the Bangladeshis? This is just one reference, but an Internet search will give many, many more: http://www.unicef.org [unicef.org] Pr...
[17:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Bangladesh - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:36] <exec> 08└─In order to test the selection vs. drift hypothesis they first need to select the study group. The specifically wanted people who have the ability to metabolize, hence testing the urine for metabolized arsenic. And then, in the very next paragraph: In order to rule out the possibility that so...
[17:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Test the hypothesis? - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, it is written as if the hypothesis has been tested and now additional possibilities are being ruled out. Very strange.
[17:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Test the hypothesis? - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:33] <exec> 08└─Did you really not read the very next paragraph in TFA?
[17:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Test the hypothesis? - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:32] <exec> 08└─2013 analysis of the data the team collected over many trips to the Andes found that residents of SAC had higher levels of AS3MT alleles linked to efficient arsenic metabolism than other Native American and Asian populations, suggesting that exposure to arsenic in the environment might have driven t...
[17:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Test the hypothesis? - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:30] <exec> 08└─If you know that someone died by arsenic, you still don't know how he got that arsenic.
[17:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal story material - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:29] <exec> 08└─I came looking for an iocane powder reference. Glad I was not disappointed :)
[17:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal story material - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:32:28] <exec> 08└─Death by Arsenic is pretty easy to diagnose though. Iocane powder immunity, on the other hand...
[17:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Criminal story material - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[16:36:39] <exec> 08└─Would you be happier if we just bought a ton of pre-paid burner phones and tied those to squirrels instead?
[16:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Spoof cell phones - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:36:25] <exec> 08└─For quantum systems (think protein folding), the main issue is that we don't have quantum computers. It is known that simulating quantum systems on classical computers is extremely inefficient.For climate simulations, notice that for an accurate "natural climate simulation" you would need a complete...
[16:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:manual - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:35:03] <exec> 08└─In stark contrast to every other manufactuter out there who only wants you to purchase their hardware once.
[16:35:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:57] <exec> 08└─I guess you could also put it that way... It's just that I don't consider selling something as using it. If it was, every shop would be a second-hand shop. Also, there could be some confusion with "sell" and "use" commands in games.
[16:34:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:Why report it here? - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:34:39] <exec> 08└─I'm got a lot of JavaScript experience and *everything* I do is designed to degrade gracefully if there's no JavaScript. It's usually my #1 requirement before what the JavaScript is supposed to do, especially since most people don't appreciate the JavaScript isn't always available. How can I get inv...
[16:34:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02I Volunteer - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:38] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure this can be done using only CSS3 with a single clever :after selector. I mean it's not really proper use of CSS, and it might be a little ugly, but since all I'm seeing in the comments are arguments over whether or not Javascript is an acceptable language, maybe I'll take a shot at h...
[16:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Why Javascript? - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:35] <exec> 08└─You get a certificate warning on SN's own dev site: https://dev.soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[16:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02Re:style and function - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:24] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if you could set your browser to "disable Javascript for all non-whitelisted sites" (presumably with an "enable Javascript for this site" button somewhere convenient),
[16:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Javascript Security Theatre - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:34:17] <exec> 08└─If i replied to the first comment on this page (name="191977"), the redirection url after submitting should be someting like https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] [soylentnews.org], so that the browser takes me to the place I have been last. Same goes...
[16:34:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Feature request (no-JS) - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:51] <exec> 08└─First my credentials: I currently work as a freelance Postgres Consulatant. I used to be a DBA. I've been developing with relational databases for more years than I care to count. My resume (Marc Munro) is online, though outdated, at bloodnok.com I would be hugely pleased to see SN move to Postgres....
[16:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bloodnok [2578] (Score:1) 02Yay - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 1823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sorry for whinging. I recognize that's what I'm doing. I just felt kind of left out the first time around. There was a lot going on, those were heady times, and felt like I somehow missed the chance. I'll stfu now.
[16:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wah wah wah - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:38] <exec> 08└─Software quality is difficult to do a cost/benefit analysis on, but it is possible with sophisticated methods, and some are very straight forward. Most sites that use MySQL successfully either heavily patch it, do not mind a small amount of hard to quantify data going missing, or use it as a dumb ke...
[16:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Technical answer: stick with MySQL - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:22] <exec> 08└─I don't think it will take 40 years. A functional memory enhancing implant for mice already exists.
[16:33:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:I think they got the analogy wrong - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:20] <exec> 08└─I like to think of Tycho Brahe rather than Galileo. We simply lack the data required to figure things out, in fact much of the current data may be misleading and unreliable. Part of this is of course developing tools, ie telescopes. Like anything, you need to learn the skills to build the tools to d...
[16:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think they got the analogy wrong - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I agree. While we know more every day how the brain works, we are still at 'Galileo's level in Astrophysics', as a comparison,IMO. Also IMO, neuroscience is the next frontier we need to conquer. I think we are at the stage of tech and knowledge, that we can start making real progress and disco...
[16:33:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:I think they got the analogy wrong - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:17] <exec> 08└─Another thing after scanning the 'An integrated theory of the mind' document is they appear to be incorporating the 'power law of practice'. I am fairly certain this 'law' is an artifact of averaging blocks of trials and then averaging individuals into a group. This may or may not be important to th...
[16:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think they got the analogy wrong - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:12] <exec> 08└─But how much information does all that really take? I can write a text file with these details and how big will it become over time? What if I compressed it? What if we cataloged the weather with just a few options. A: Cloudy, foggy, or neither B: Rain, snow, or neither C: Hot, warm, cool, cold, com...
[16:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bollocks - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 1720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:10] <exec> 08└─Very true. A great example of someone wih a truly extra-ordinary memory is Marilu Henner. The actress. Yes, her. Played in 'Taxi' a long time ago. There was a documentary knocking about which featured here and a number of other people with the same capability. She can remember the weather on every d...
[16:33:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02Re:Bollocks - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 958 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:04] <exec> 08└─So, what's the car analogy?
[16:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:No... Yes... Maybe - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:33:03] <exec> 08└─So it's a deduplicating LRU cache with retention priority scoring for the contents? Got it. So, what's the car analogy?
[16:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:No... Yes... Maybe - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:52] <exec> 08└─Why, did Google buy the project and it's dev team?
[16:32:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Fits the model - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:50] <exec> 08└─Getting ready for extend and extinguish.
[16:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Fits the model - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:49] <exec> 08└─I think you and Andy need to loosen up your tinfoil hats a bit. OpenSSH is still an open source project. So unless you are telling me the rest of the contributors are completely incompetent and would not notice a backdoor submitted to the project I don't see how the NSA factors into this at all. And...
[16:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Exactly what I thought when I first heard - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:47] <exec> 08└─They don't need to corrupt SSH, or any other piece of application software to do that. They own the kernel, BIOS, etc. They can log all the keystrokes before the application software even comes into play, let alone the encryption components.
[16:32:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Exactly what I thought when I first heard - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:46] <exec> 08└─The NSA is getting sick of people using SSH on Win32/64, and has asked their pals in Redmond to make a version that can be pwnd on-demand with the Feds auto-update injection framework. I'm wondering what OpenSSH maintainers have to say about this. Certainly OpenSSH's trademark is weakened by the ass...
[16:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Exactly what I thought when I first heard - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:44] <exec> 08└─Microsoft has tried to add SSH support a few times already. Now that you can use a server core installation (no GUI) this is a no brainer. It's kind of silly to have to use RDP to login to an environment without a GUI. In typical Microsoft fashion, they're 20 years late to the party.
[16:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:4, Insightful) 02About time - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:42] <exec> 08└─I've been using putty for years, but it seems like the project is getting stale. More often these days I keep bumping into things putty can't do. ECDSA keys not supported, AES-GCM probably not going to happen, Chacha20 not going to happen. The other day I was messing with Kexalgorithms and Macs on t...
[16:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tempest [3050] (Score:2) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and you people have been saying that about mono since, what now? 2004? Not every open foray by microsoft is intended to eliminate things. Especially since they're not the monopoly they once were.
[16:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:32:25] <exec> 08└─That would make a good plot element for a criminal story where people get poisoned with arsenic, and the source is not found for a long time because it was excluded very early on because one of those who didn't get killed also ate the same stuff. He was, of course, from an Andean village in Argentin...
[16:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Criminal story material - 06Natural Selection Allows Some Humans to Metabolize High Levels of Arsenic - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[15:41:53] <exec> 08└─having someone to yell at
[15:41:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Having someone to yell at - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:22] <exec> 08└─But, but... commies!
[15:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03monster [1260] (Score:2) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:32] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised that no one has pointed out the obvious. These are sick laws, used by overzealous agents and prosecutors to prosecute people when they otherwise don't have a case. If this guy committed a crime, then the government should charge him and prosecute him for that crime. If they cannot, for...
[15:38:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02No one pointing out the obvious? - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 1762 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:17] <exec> 08└─> As Ayn Rand pointed out She also pointed out that a child-murderer was actually a great guy with a 'beautiful soul' and only despised for his independence. [freeservers.com] So, maybe Ayn isn't the best person to cite when it comes to issues of independence.
[15:38:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:15] <exec> 08└─Government doesn't like competition.
[15:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03monster [1260] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:06] <exec> 08└─It was true until recently in many, many countries outside the US which had specific laws prohibiting their governments obtaining banking information. Then the US comes on the scene and bribes (yes bribes - I mean, you do want those extra million dollars to "fight the war on drugs" don't you?) gover...
[15:38:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dunbal [3515] 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 1574 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:45] <exec> 08└─Oh Noes... 12 billion spent on a thing. Out of which comes some interesting tech, interesting design, interesting production. money contributed to the local economy. Maybe even a workable airframe when all is said. http://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] 2014 B...
[15:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ragequit [44] (Score:2) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:41] <exec> 08└─Does the same principle of "your opinions can only be based on what's publicly acknowledged, and not the full range of knowledge and technology we're working with" hold true if we replace the variable "F-35B" with "Su-35S" or "PAK FA T-50" ?
[15:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunkyLich [4689] (Score:1) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:36:27] <exec> 08└─Secret defense treaties make less sense. It is just like a secret doomsday weapon. What is the point of having allies if you don't tell anyone about them? The fact that the cards were mostly all on the table between NATO and Warsaw Pact is precisely what kept the superpowers from going to war. Thoug...
[15:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Wars have been started over such things - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:49] <exec> 08└─It seems to me there is something fundamentally wrong with the way we do those simulations. In nature you just set up the system and have certain laws and there you go. No supercomputer required (unless we do live in a simulation..but assume not for this case). It could be related to the possibility...
[15:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:manual - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:22] <exec> 08└─So we can fix this! Just add more obstacles, more bottlenecks... and... oh! let's make the lanes smaller too!
[15:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:35:04] <exec> 08└─You pretty much have that anyway - it's a rare rainstorm that puddles water deeper than the curb. Hence the network of storm drains to carry away the water. Permeable asphalt would also do much of the job, but that still hasn't really caught on even on normal streets and parking lots.
[15:35:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey... what? Is this what I think it is? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:18] <exec> 08└─...and this is why no women come to read soylent
[15:34:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MopMan [5394] (Score:1) 02Re:I want to rub my body with the APPLE I - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:34:07] <exec> 08└─And I get a certificate warning when I click on your link - so I won't be opening that either.
[15:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:style and function - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:06] <exec> 08└─You are mis-understanding. The current functionality will remain completely un-changed for those with javascript disabled. I.e. we will use JS for the inline commenting, and for those with it disabled functionality will revert back to exactly what we have now.
[15:34:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:style and function - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:02] <exec> 08└─From TFS: If JavaScript is disabled for whatever reason, the site must degrade to the current click-to-post functionality. We don't want to force people to enable JS if they don't wish to.
[15:34:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:'Degrade' - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, Javascript engines have their fair share of exploits.
[15:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Javascript Security Theatre - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:57] <exec> 08└─The problem with Javascript, is that there's (currently) no convenient way to enable it just for the "good uses". If I enable Javascript for the limited-risk functionality on /., Soylent, etc. the floodgates are pretty much opened for any malicious exploits on any other site I visit. It would be nic...
[15:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Javascript Security Theatre - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:52] <exec> 08└─Cool quadrox, I'll let the boys know, thanks!
[15:33:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:I might be able to help! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:44] <exec> 08└─I've already had mice where the wheel was so sensitive that it was hard to middle-click without at the same time scrolling, which of course is not good if you try to middle-click a link. So the power of the middle mouse button very much depends on the quality of your mouse.
[15:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Moderation Technique - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:38] <exec> 08└─As someone who browsers with javascript disabled, this has not been an issue for me. Just right click and open in a new tab, and do your thing there, and close the tab. You are back to the page you were at. I have been doing this for a long time with SN and other sites that it is second nature to me...
[15:33:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:26] <exec> 08└─Background: I have been using MySQL for a decade and a half, mainly for web development (specifically Drupal). Not many users of MySQL use the NDB cluster. In fact, NDB was evaluated years ago for Drupal and found to be a poor fit. Instead most sites today use the InnoDB engine (ACID) with replicati...
[15:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02MySQL NDB - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 1144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:24] <exec> 08└─Firstly, it sounds more like you are whining because you didn't get to help when it first started. But I may have read the wrong tone into what you wrote. But if you think that you have the necessary skills and expertise I suggest you offer your services on #dev. Slashcode/MySQL was a working combin...
[15:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:wah wah wah - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:22] <exec> 08└─Chosen? What about the github repository is unclear to you? It's possible this wasn't on the table during launch. It's possible it's not a good idea now. Either way, unless you can show me the pull request that was denied, you're just blowing smoke. What you are doing, this is whining. Either get ov...
[15:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:wah wah wah - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:19] <exec> 08└─The deficiency in MySQL which TFA specifically called out as "the last straw" - the inability to update foreign keys self-referentially embedded in the same table as the updated table - that is indeed a missing feature, which I can understand might be enough (in conjunction with other similar blocki...
[15:33:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On the MySQL article - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:07] <exec> 08└─The answer is FILE NOT FOUND [thedailywtf.com].
[15:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score:2) 02Not resounding No or Yes - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:05] <exec> 08└─There's always room to make 1 more call, but each call raises the noise floor a bit more until eventually some people hang up (lowering the noise floor). It's like a conversation at a party. So the memories are still there, it's just too hard to "hear" them over all the other memories clamoring for...
[15:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Sounds like CDMA - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:04] <exec> 08└─What were the words? Shouldn't people avoid saying them around anyone pregnant?
[15:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, not so much - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:33:02] <exec> 08└─It's very handy to simply blame the brain. However many brain theories are easily debunked in spite of all the appearances of it being the end all answer. I've verified early memories, for example, with my parents who could not understand how I knew all those full details. How my mom sitting on the...
[15:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah, not so much - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:33:00] <exec> 08└─Seems like the info in the brain is all there. The indexing system, however, is limited. In 40 years, google will come up with a brain implant to index those "forgotten" memories.
[15:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:1) 02Re:I think they got the analogy wrong - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:58] <exec> 08└─That looks interesting and worth doing but I am going to have to remain skeptical that it is correct. They should have the successful a priori predictions of their theory front and center.
[15:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think they got the analogy wrong - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:57] <exec> 08└─The cognitive architecture of the brain is somewhat understood : http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu [cmu.edu] However, how the physical implementation map to the architecture is only beginning to be understood.
[15:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think they got the analogy wrong - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:46] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the article's author's brain reached full capacity immediately after the "resounding no" statement...because everything else in the article contradicts that statement.
[15:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:That's not a "resounding" no - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:38] <exec> 08└─It will be handy, but I'll still be waiting for the "extend and extinguish" steps, although the 'extinguish' is not really possible.
[15:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:36] <exec> 08└─The main advantage here would be that power shell can run as a host or server for an ssh client. It makes remote administration of windows machines less of a GUI based clusterfuck, and most large (windows based) IT departments have some sort of powershell script deployment system to act as a painful...
[15:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:35] <exec> 08└─I'll stick with puTTY for my client side needs, thanks
[15:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02puTTY - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:33] <exec> 08└─You know that you can still authenticate against untrusted sources, right? Having to type your password every time you log in isn't some gigantic burden.
[15:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:MICROSOFT UNTRUSTED - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:31] <exec> 08└─No. We won't use their cypher suite. We won't trust their contribution or implementation.
[15:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02MICROSOFT UNTRUSTED - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:30] <exec> 08└─Whoops! Thanks for the heads up. The error has been rectified. As janrinok says... "It's always my fault...."
[15:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:</small> - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:32:29] <exec> 08└─You forgot to close the <small> tag.
[15:32:29] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02</small> - 06Microsoft Bringing SSH to Windows - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
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[14:35:54] <exec> 08└─I recently heard Dan Carlin talk about this on his podcast "common sense", he made some interesting points and I think says it the best that I have found. http://www.dancarlin.com [dancarlin.com]
[14:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:35:39] <exec> 08└─I think such an action by the government would bring some significant support to our fringe candidates who have some out in opposition to the trade deal. Warren's opposition and the whole "if Americans knew what was in this, they would not support it" line had some major banks refusing to process de...
[14:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Re:Crossed a line? - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:35:18] <exec> 08└─That's...actually not an awful idea. Step it up a bit though. Get one of those $10 Linux boards, plug it into a $10 sim card, and program it to send periodic pings of encrypted data to random addresses. Should be able to get it down to five or ten bucks per month per device even buying everything re...
[14:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Spoof cell phones - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:34:34] <exec> 08└─Here is another study indicating that either: 1. Lanes are wider in dangerous areas (They might have gotten cause and effect reversed)
[14:34:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dj245 [1530] (Score:1) 02Re:Slower is better? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:33:48] <exec> 08└─Caitlyn?
[14:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Why report it here? - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:33:47] <exec> 08└─I'd say OP has education, but the sort you don't agree with.
[14:33:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why report it here? - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:33:31] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, and I almost forgot, reloading your website sucks balls, so here's how to reload the data async everytime one of us comments $(document).on('click','.button.submitComment',function(){ var val=$(this).parent().find('textarea').val(); var soylentIO=io.connect('/soylent'); soylentIO.em...
[14:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fix - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:29] <exec> 08└─I'll pretend you didn't say anything about disabled javascript, because there's limits to what I can do. Fix //INITIAL FLIP FROM REG MODE TO NORMAL MODE $(document).on('click','body>.content>.webpage>.content .editableArea',function(e){ var target=$(this); var replacement='
[14:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fix - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:27] <exec> 08└─I read the article, but it becomes too complex without javascript. I posted a comment below yours that has the code needed to go ahead and do what's necessary. Trust me, I'm a web developer! https://darrencaldwellwebdesign.ca [darrencaldwellwebdesign.ca] :D
[14:33:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:style and function - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:26] <exec> 08└─It's right there in TFS: current functionality will be left unmodified for people who don't want JS, but those who do want it will be able to use it. I'd like it, and feel that this whole thread is filled with people that are too eager to open their mouth and a little too little eager to read.
[14:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Re:style and function - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, Javascript engines have their fair share of exploits. But so have image decoders, so better not load any images.So has Windows/Linux/PickAnOS, so better not use those, either.And smartphones. Don't use those, either.Come to think of it, phones in general are utterly amenable to wiretapping in a...
[14:33:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score:2) 02Javascript Security Theatre - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:11] <exec> 08└─Right-click on #192007 and select open in new tab.
[14:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Moderation Technique - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:57] <exec> 08└─I have heard a lot of good things about MariaDB [wikipedia.org], although admittedly I never read in-depth articles about it. Has anyone here some experience with it? The migration [mariadb.com] from MySQL seems pretty simple, too.
[14:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02MariaDB - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:55] <exec> 08└─I remember volunteering strenuously for this kind of work during the initial launch of SN. I saw a few other people volunteering for other things as well. In the end, just a select few got chosen. Now we're whining to the community about needing help. Nice.
[14:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wah wah wah - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:54] <exec> 08└─I've seen some insightful comments already... yay community! I am not a DBA. I have years' experience testing a CASE [wikipedia.org] product, including its LDM [wikipedia.org] component. I also have experience in testing large applications at multiple companies whose products had sprawling SQL stat...
[14:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Know what you already have - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:52] <exec> 08└─I fully agree. The entire article feels like it was written by a nerd with a grudge. it's not objective in any way whatsoever, and very sparse with actual facts/criticism. I am not a DB expert myself (I do have a few years of experience though), but our resident oracle database expert said after wor...
[14:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:On the MySQL article - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:49] <exec> 08└─First, I have nothing against PostgreSQL and no particular love for MySQL. Like most of us though, I've used MySQL far more than PostgreSQL. If you just hate MySQL and love PostgreSQL and you want to switch, then that's an emotional argument and not a technical one. If that's the case, that's fine,...
[14:32:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aclarke [2049] 02Technical answer: stick with MySQL - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 2809 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:39] <exec> 08└─The answer is a resounding no, because ... old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.
[14:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02No? - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:38] <exec> 08└─The best evidence that we understand the brain will be when no one is left making analogies to the most prominent tech in their lives. I dunno how these can still be taken seriously after so many generations of the same but different thing.
[14:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:I think they got the analogy wrong - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:32:35] <exec> 08└─Very true. A great example of someone wih a truly extra-ordinary memory is Marilu Henner. The actress. Yes, her. Played in 'Taxi' a long time ago. There was a documentary knocking about which featured here and a number of other people with the same capability. She can remember the weather on every d...
[14:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Bollocks - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 958 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:32:28] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a hard drive partition with compression. Then add a process that deletes lesser accessed files kind of like how Linux can start killing processes when RAM gets low.
[14:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:No... Yes... Maybe - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:32:27] <exec> 08└─Extension to the "Betteridge's law of headlines", known as the "KritonK's law of headlines and articles": Any headline that ends in a question mark above an article containing "The answer is a resounding no", can be answered no, yes, or maybe.
[14:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03francois.barbier [651] (Score:2) 02Re:No... Yes... Maybe - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[13:39:48] <exec> 08└─It's been a decade since I was in the Buffalo area, but I did do a cross-country road trip about 5 years ago and marveled at how many turbines I saw all the way from Iowa to Nebraska to Wyoming to Montana. I love the mountains and untrammeled nature, but somehow the sight of turbines against that ba...
[13:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Wind farms - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:46] <exec> 08└─Wow, 150kwh? How do you manage that? I have a fridge, run-hot server, a cable modem, and a couple wifi routers. That's it. Everything else is off except for the few minutes it's needed.
[13:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Wind farms - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:36:28] <exec> 08└─KFC is hardly a beacon of integrity. http://www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com [kentuckyfriedcruelty.com]
[13:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who are you going to believe? - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:09] <exec> 08└─The "You can't handle the truth." types are in control.
[13:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Remember only about 5 years ago? - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:35:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah I think it's getting to be time for the federal government to learn about the dark side of enraged Americans, jealous of their freedom.
[13:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Choppa! - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:34:47] <exec> 08└─What you obviously are in dire need of is a computer that would blog for you... In almost related news "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso
[13:34:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:everything is fine - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:34:40] <exec> 08└─Or make sure that the encryption keys tend to be controlled by corporations and governments and not the people who actually bought the machines.
[13:34:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:post-NAND - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:34:21] <exec> 08└─Regular commuting routes should be done on the subway, by express bus, or light rail. If you live in an urban area with sufficient density, commuting by bike trumps even those. Commuting by car is madness. Engineering roads to be narrower and safer is better for everyone, drivers included. When the...
[13:34:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:33:50] <exec> 08└─Couldn't help thinking.. if this research shows that experienced burglars have a more refined approach to theft - even in simulations - then this opens up the possibly of monitoring the behavior of online gamers when in comparable scenarios... so they could be 'flagged' for deeper analysis against e...
[13:33:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03slash2phar [623] (Score:2) 02Online gamer pre-crime surveillance - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:49] <exec> 08└─Kind of reminds me of playing Zelda, being Link as he opens jars and treasure chests he finds in people's houses.
[13:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Zelda - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:34] <exec> 08└─That's kind of Apples's business model anyway. They continually obsolesce their products so consumers pitch the old ones and buy new.
[13:33:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Probably didn't have rounded corners - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:33] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Somebody modded this interesting at the same moment I modded it flamebait. I don't know if you're a feminist or an MRA, but you would do yourself some good to get some education about the physiological reality of mental gender.
[13:33:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Why report it here? - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:33:32] <exec> 08└─No women ever read Soylent.
[13:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Interesting) 02Re:Why report it here? - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:33:17] <exec> 08└─Uh, no, stop breaking your potential to satisfy javascript disabled users. If you want to know what you can do standard? NOTHING Javascript is really the monkey grease these days. Honestly I'd like to see one site that doesn't function like shit to appease the lowest common denominator.
[13:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02style and function - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:16] <exec> 08└─Good, you won't be missed
[13:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03francois.barbier [651] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:'Degrade' - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:14] <exec> 08└─If JavaScript is disabled for whatever reason, the site must degrade to the current click-to-post functionality. We don't want to farce people to enable JS if they don't wish to.
[13:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02'Degrade' - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:09] <exec> 08└─The same could be used for the parent link whenever the parent comment is already displayed in the thread: There's no need to load the parent in a new page then; just repositioning the page using a link to the anchor is sufficient (that is, have as link target just e.g. "#191997"). If one really wan...
[13:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Feature request (no-JS) - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:05] <exec> 08└─What about moderation? I would certainly be more inclined to do it if it didn't involve losing my place on the page.
[13:33:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Moderation Technique - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:04] <exec> 08└─Except my suggestion reduces bandwidth and improves - or at the very least does not impact - the usability or presentation of the website. Which is what you makes your extrapolation dumb.
[13:33:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:02] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the bandwidth savings. This page, for example, with a just few comments on it, is 40k. The page I'm currently on, typing this reply, is about 18k. Then I like to preview my comment, which is probably about the same. Then I hit submit - a few more k to tell me I've posted my comment. T...
[13:33:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:00] <exec> 08└─Any modern browser (say, = 5 years old) will let you ctrl-click on links. You should try it some time.
[13:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:58] <exec> 08└─Some people consider the current system a pain in the ass,
[13:32:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gravis [4596] 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:49] <exec> 08└─this article by Elnur Abdurrakhimov has a pretty good summary and a list of links explaining in-depth why MySQL is not a good solution for any large site
[13:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02On the MySQL article - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:48] <exec> 08└─Spot on. Mysql does have it's limitations, but I don't see any case where a site like SoylentNews will ever run into those. If it ain't broken, don't fix it.
[13:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Re:Technical answer: stick with MySQL - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:46] <exec> 08└─First, I have nothing against PostgreSQL and no particular love for MySQL. Like most of us though, I've used MySQL far more than PostgreSQL. If you just hate MySQL and love PostgreSQL and you want to switch, then that's an emotional argument and not a technical one. If that's the case, that's fine,...
[13:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Technical answer: stick with MySQL - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 2809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:44] <exec> 08└─Elaborating on at least one scenario where stored procs can be a good idea (in case some get the wrong idea from my first post) - in an environment with many different apps, users and developers using the same DB and you want to ensure consistency in the DB - so you have stored procs to do each stan...
[13:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:RDBMSs scale more expensively - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 2074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:38] <exec> 08└─From the theconversation article: If the hippocampus is the search engine, the prefrontal cortex is the filter determining which memory is the most relevant.
[13:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02I think they got the analogy wrong - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’ ? - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:36] <exec> 08└─It's not as simple as that. There are some people that can remember every little detail about everything, those with an eidetic memory (photographic) Then there are others that can't remember simple stuff. I know this is also the issue of short term and long term memory and the interaction between t...
[13:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Bollocks - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’ ? - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:35] <exec> 08└─Full, empty, it's all an illusion.
[13:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:WRONG! - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’ ? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:32:33] <exec> 08└─Full, empty, it's all an illusion.
[13:32:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:WRONG! - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’ ? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:32:32] <exec> 08└─Mine's full empty. Why, just the other day... uhm...?
[13:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:WRONG! - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’ ? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:32:30] <exec> 08└─Mine's full. Why, just the other day... uhm...?
[13:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WRONG! - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’ ? - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:28] <exec> 08└─"The answer is a resounding no." Except that the article describes exactly the opposite: Old memories are erased, to make room for new ones. Except that the article also hints that new memories are sort of blended with similar older memories, and stored alongside with them with higher precedence. So...
[13:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02No... Yes... Maybe - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’ ? - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:32:27] <exec> 08└─Indeed! "Can a hard disk ever get full? The answer is a resounding NO, you just need to delete some stuff before you download new porn..."
[13:32:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's not a "resounding" no - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’ ? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:32:26] <exec> 08└─It's more a "not really, it doesn't quite work the way you're thinking". Having to boot old, useless memories for new ones certainly suggests a capacity. So, it's not a hard drive where memories are discrete values., but it's still got very easily recognized human limits.
[13:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02That's not a "resounding" no - 06Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’ ? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[12:34:48] <exec> 08└─Any 'authority' ultimately devolves to who can bring the most brute force to bear. Whether it's the Police, one's private army, or your nuclear arsenal down the back by the cow shed, brute force is the basis for any claim to authority, political clout or even religious morality du jour.
[12:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:34:31] <exec> 08└─You tell me that no other Ben Joffe can claim a fragment of their cellphone transmission got recorded and open a suit not against FBI but against one of these facade companies with a precedent already available?
[12:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Remember only about 5 years ago? - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:34:22] <exec> 08└─The thought of the FBI trying to arrest squirrels is amusing.
[12:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spoof cell phones - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:33:49] <exec> 08└─By the time he fails, we should have driverless cars he can ride around in.
[12:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Remove morons to improve safety - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:33:31] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but you would have the problem of the roads filling with water every time it rained.
[12:33:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey... what? Is this what I think it is? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:33:14] <exec> 08└─I didn't read TFA, but toroughly enjoyed TFS, well written, quite to the point, and with the just-about-right amount of details. I really don't understand the hate HughPickens gets.
[12:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02This is a good post. - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:12] <exec> 08└─This description associates robbery with violence, which seems worse. http://criminal.findlaw.com [findlaw.com] "Unlike burglary, the crime of robbery almost always requires the presence of a victim who suffers actual injury, or is threatened with harm." http:/...
[12:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03cheshire [1507] (Score:1) 02Re:How to Beat a Burglary Rap, by Corey Joe - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:32:45] <exec> 08└─I might be able to help, having been programming JS for more than a decade now... If you are interested, I can send (in private) a URL or two about stuff I worked on, for confirmation.
[12:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03francois.barbier [651] (Score:2) 02JavaScript - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:44] <exec> 08└─I realize many people are willing to trade some liberty and security for convenience. Many people don't realize that some people aren't. (Of course since SN is free software the liberty part does not apply here.)
[12:32:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thanks for keeping it working without JavaScript - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:40] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see a feature which could improve usability a lot and requires no JS at all: Every comment already has an achor (a-tag) with the attribute name="[comment id]". So when replying to a comment or moderating, the redirection url can include the anchor (#). Example: If i replied to the first...
[12:32:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] 02Feature request (no-JS) - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 622 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:36] <exec> 08└─There may be, possibly, a reason for this?
[12:32:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:25] <exec> 08└─rehash reduces the danger of injection by providing a set of wrapper functions such as select/insert/update which take four arguments, table, from clause, where clause, and anything extra if necessary; these parameters are assembled into a full query which is in turn properly escaped to prevent most...
[12:32:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03logan [3020] (Score:1) 02Prepared statements and migrations - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:32:24] <exec> 08└─The obvious choice from where I'm sitting is postgreSQL.
[12:32:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02RDBMSs scale more expensively - 06Ask Soylent: Redesigning SN's DB Code - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[11:39:53] <exec> 08└─Didn't he retire to the island of lounge lizards?
[11:39:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:1) 02Re:Better question - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:34:21] <exec> 08└─It is a technical question and the answer is yes. Whether that matters is an entirely different matter. Please pay attention to both the content and intent of a communication before trying to reply accurately.
[11:34:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Remember only about 5 years ago? - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:34:13] <exec> 08└─Way to be a buzzkill. Would you be happier if we just bought a ton of pre-paid burner phones and tied those to squirrels instead?
[11:34:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Re:Spoof cell phones - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:33:57] <exec> 08└─Which doesn't help if the computer loses power while the password is still used. Remember, we're talking about a hypothetical NVRAM computer here, not the ordinary computer of today where information just vanishes as soon as the power is gone.
[11:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:post-NAND - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:33:39] <exec> 08└─The magic words here: Correlation doesn't equal causation. Just because narrower roads have less accidentals/slower drivers DOES NOT mean it causes safer roads. You have to control for ALL other factors, but first you must KNOW those factors before you can control for them. Smaller roads typically a...
[11:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:33:17] <exec> 08└─This is very much true. Anybody with any sense who models traffic sets inner-city traffic lanes (not "roads" as roads have bicycle lanes, turning lanes, etc.) at ten feet. This slows the traffic to accommodate pedestrians and has the added benefit of increased safety. This does not mean that enginee...
[11:33:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Traffic Calming - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:32:57] <exec> 08└─I'd consider something that I can sell for $200,000 as useful. But maybe you don't consider money useful?
[11:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Why report it here? - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:32:53] <exec> 08└─Actually, they know who the donor is, as she delivered the Apple I in person. According to TFA, to prove who she is, they just need to look at her. I believe that they have released just enough information about the donor, that the news reaches her by word of mouth, but not enough information for so...
[11:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Re:Fine, fine... - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:32:42] <exec> 08└─Is this also the reason why I can't change comment thresholds with Links2? When I try to change this I only get to see the page header. Although I just found out if I change the threshold, then click on [reply] instead of [change] the amount of comment do get changed. o.O; I don't get a reply form t...
[11:32:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jamestrexx [5363] (Score:1) 02Same with text browsers? - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:40] <exec> 08└─I was wondering when inline replies and moderation were coming, I'm looking forward to this feature. I have some experience doing similar stuff with JavaScipt - I am not an expert, but I think I'm easily up for the task. The biggest problem is that I am already busy with all kinds of other projects,...
[11:32:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:3, Informative) 02I might be able to help! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:39] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see a feature which could improve usability a lot and requires no JS at all: Every comment already has an achor (a-tag) with the attribute name="[comment id]". So when replying to a comment or moderating, the redirection url can include the anchor (#). Example: If i replied to the first...
[11:32:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:4, Informative) 02Feature request (no-JS) - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:37] <exec> 08└─if I had the patience I'd learn, but at the same time I'm too afraid of breaking something. (I know, right? I just up and said there's something I don't know!)
[11:32:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02love to help, don't know JS. - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:32:34] <exec> 08└─Have you considered the more likely possibility that you have attention deficit disorder? Sorry I will try to abbreviate so you do not lose your focus before the end of a sentence. U got ADHD bro. LOL
[11:32:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[10:40:03] <exec> 08└─yeah I do get some duplicates and the occasional pilot error. They've fixed a couple kernel bugs that I reported though. It's not that I get support through radar exactly but that apple will fix the bugs I report.
[10:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Apple sometimes fixes my bugs - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:32] <exec> 08└─Being open to the public is in NASA's charter but the code is probably not open because of "State Secret" which may or may not be justified but we will never know because we do not get to see the code.
[10:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Licensing - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:13] <exec> 08└─Follow the coast SW out of Buffalo, NY, look north across the lake, they are HUGE! And awesome. You can hear them from the shore and they are a very long ways away. It was one of the nifty things I found when I took random roads across the country last time. Fantastic. I suspect you will appreciate...
[10:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Wind farms - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:59] <exec> 08└─The Constitution was a list of things the government can do, in theory, but now it is a list of things the government can't do (until SCOTUS gives a "favorable" ruling) and that has made all the difference. The change in perspective matters. It seems trivial. It is not.
[10:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:End-run around the Constitution - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:55] <exec> 08└─When do you imagine a softer more liberalized touch was being wielded by western governments?
[10:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:53] <exec> 08└─Someday, maybe, if they are really lucky and well behaved, they will let him wear a pair of boots for just a minute. Maybe...
[10:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score:1) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:50] <exec> 08└─I could only agree with slavery if it was un-coerced opt-in and the slave retains all freedoms guaranteed by law.
[10:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:37:10] <exec> 08└─You joke, but far too many people get arrested with the single, lone charge being "resisting arrest", but nothing to authorize the arrest they're said to be resisting. Being arrested for "resisting arrest" is an example of "this guy didn't actually do anything illegal but fuck him, he's going to rot...
[10:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lying to Cops, Federal Agents, etc. - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:36:53] <exec> 08└─It's still just an ad hominem fallacy, no matter what the person did or supported. Also, you can't just handwave the slavery problem away just because it was 'normal' back then; it was still absolutely wrong. Society is often wrong, and obviously was then. Failing to go against evil societal norms i...
[10:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:35:22] <exec> 08└─Really, who wants to fly to Hawaii when the sun is not shining? I was more worried about the old Imodium-D commercial where flying to Hawaii gave you diarrhea! Hawaii Visitors Bureau got that ad pulled pretty quick, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen. And when you are piloting solo, for six day...
[10:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seriously - 06Solar Impulse Landed in Nagoya, Japan Because of Poor Weather - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:00] <exec> 08└─As a Kiwi; all I see is NZ getting raped by international corporate interests. The main one is the recently leaked info about the ability of corporations being able to sue the government because of changes that affected said corproations POTENTIAL profits. WTF is happening in this world where the NZ...
[10:35:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] 02Re:Wars have been started over such things - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 1172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:34:59] <exec> 08└─Secret treaties are a bad idea. We know this. We've known this for almost a century now - secret treaties were one of the main causes of the First World War. More to the point, this isn't even a defense treaty, where secrecy at least has some sort of thin veneer of making sense. It's a trade treaty....
[10:34:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Wars have been started over such things - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 1492 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:34:33] <exec> 08└─"So, aren't those fictiouos companies equally guilty of breaking wiretap laws, when using cellphone surveillance tools on purpose?" Please tell us you're asking a rhetorical question, and you are not really that naive.
[10:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Remember only about 5 years ago? - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:34:11] <exec> 08└─1) Software should always securely erase passwords after they are used.
[10:34:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:post-NAND - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:58] <exec> 08└─Real engineering is based on science. Consider that there are materials scientists who will measure the strength of concrete and steel. Just taking a wild guess doesn't put the "engineering" into "traffic engineering". I have a close friend who is a well-connected civil engineer; he specializes in h...
[10:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02is this really 'engineering'? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:56] <exec> 08└─Really? And you're totally confident that you'll pass that ultra-tough test every few years, every single time without fail over and over again and never once be inconvenienced or left without your means of transport? Regardless of each of the examiners' moods or subjective whims? Or do you not actu...
[10:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Remove morons to improve safety - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:54] <exec> 08└─Just add more obstacles, more bottlenecks, more confusing signage, more...
[10:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:50] <exec> 08└─I know they slow down, idiots in the Beemer or Porsche SUVs, cars that are too big for their heads. I hug the centerline between lanes, and they do not even dare to pass, though you can just feel it in their pants that they want to, since they are driving a car that is three times as expensive as mi...
[10:33:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Traffic Engineering 101 - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:26] <exec> 08└─The researchers concluded that using simulations can be a robust way to study crime
[10:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Another Unsubstantiated Psychology Conclusion - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:24] <exec> 08└─Corey Joe explains that the laws against burglary were meant to prevent violence not the theft of property. If you enter a structure with the intent to commit a crime while inside it, that's burglary. If you take something that's not yours, that's robbery and is a much less serious crime. If you ent...
[10:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02How to Beat a Burglary Rap, by Corey Joe - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:22] <exec> 08└─So they had them actually burgle a house provided by a local police department in a quiet residential area. (...) Then the psychologists observed the ex-burglars commit a mock burglary in a simulated environment that could be navigated using a mouse or a game controller.
[10:33:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Simulated burglaries - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:15] <exec> 08└─Throwing away perfectly useful stuff tends to be one of those things.
[10:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:Why report it here? - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:13] <exec> 08└─Because it illustrates how people don't do due diligence in their doings. Throwing away perfectly useful stuff tends to be one of those things.
[10:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Why report it here? - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:12] <exec> 08└─No women ever read Soylent. If you're trying to locate the mystery woman, she won't see this news.
[10:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Why report it here? - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:10] <exec> 08└─If nobody comes forward, I'll chip in and pretend I am the donor... The things I'd do for computers sometimes.
[10:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Fine, fine... - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:33:08] <exec> 08└─VIAgra Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Filter error: No Spam Please!
[10:33:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want to rub my body with the APPLE I - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:07] <exec> 08└─HARDware
[10:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want to rub my body with the APPLE I - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:33:05] <exec> 08└─i love rubbing myself all over with old hardware. well, okay you got me, i like 80+ year old trannys, too.
[10:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I want to rub my body with the APPLE I - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:58] <exec> 08└─I run a web-site and there are too many page-loads and links and people clicking on things! I just don't understand how a WEB of PAGES that are LINKED together could cause me so much server load! My god, man, how is this happening?????
[10:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh God oh man Oh God - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:56] <exec> 08└─Throw more cloud at the problem! You just need bigger fluffier clouds!
[10:32:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Forget about Ajax! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:55] <exec> 08└─Some people consider the current system a pain in the ass,
[10:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:53] <exec> 08└─Again, what is the argument for this functionality?
[10:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ryuugami [2925] (Score:2) 02Re:It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:52] <exec> 08└─no one here really is super experienced in writing JavaScript code,
[10:32:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02It's a sign! - 06Helped Wanted: Implementing Inline Reply and Moderation - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[09:10:42] <exec> 08└─1) Software should always securely erase passwords after they are used.
[09:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:post-NAND - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:28] <exec> 08└─Really? And you're totally confident that you'll pass that ultra-tough test every few years, every single time without fail over and over again and never once be inconvenienced or left without your means of transport? Regardless of each of the examiners' moods or subjective whims? Or do you not actu...
[09:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Remove morons to improve safety - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:50] <exec> 08└─No women ever read Soylent. If you're trying to locate the mystery woman, she won't see this news.
[09:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why report it here? - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:48] <exec> 08└─If nobody comes forward, I'll chip in and pretend I am the donor... The things I'd do for computers sometimes.
[09:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Fine, fine... - 06Mystery Woman Discards Apple I Computer at Recycling Center - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:47] <exec> 08└─i love rubbing myself all over with old hardware. well, okay you got me, i like 80+ year old trannys, too.
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[08:17:30] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're a programmer or engineer, there is actually quite a market for your skills. And Wang didn't get "thrown away", he got into a highly selective universities. He just thought he deserved to get into more of them. The problem is really that some good, but fairly arbitrarily chosen, schoo...
[08:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 2296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:03] <exec> 08└─I wish I had a modpoint for you. I found your post quite interesting. Looks like we will all be forced to abandon "privacy" because today's technology enables mass surveillance. And in the same vein... Looks like we will all be forced to abandon "copyright" because today's technology enables mass re...
[08:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:You'll never be safe, and that's OK - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:24] <exec> 08└─there's a lot of negativity surrounding the F-35 amongst this crowd, but honestly, peacetime aircraft programs traditionally run over time and over budget
[08:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:57] <exec> 08└─i think that technically under chinese law, rumors are now illegal... but it's just a pretext to protect their government officials from being criticised or exposed. there is a fair chance that this company is state backed, so there is just about no chance of KFC/Yum actually winning.
[08:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02chinese law - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:21] <exec> 08└─So you didn't bother to read the summary either.
[08:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:$100,000 - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:16] <exec> 08└─Total job security and a life in a tropical paradise traded away for a small flat in Moscow and an uncertain future on the run as a fugitive from justice.
[08:11:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] 02Re:Is it worth it? - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:28] <exec> 08└─You mean, like nobody will ever need more than 640KB? As every scientists will tell you, faster computers are always welcome. Imagine a computer powerful enough to simulate a living cell in real time. You could do a lot of medical research on that.
[08:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:manual - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:23] <exec> 08└─There are, however, cases where you want volatility; for example for temporary storage of security related stuff like entered passwords.
[08:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:post-NAND - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:22] <exec> 08└─Some actors will make sure such circuitry never gets widespread..
[08:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:post-NAND - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:10] <exec> 08└─Yet another dubious statistical analysis linking one bunch of numbers to another bunch of numbers. I'm pretty sure that on roads with narrower lanes you will still have morons driving recklessly, they won't slow down, they'll just start cutting outside their lane (either into incoming traffic or the...
[08:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score:1) 02Remove morons to improve safety - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:59] <exec> 08└─And no I-talians. so that has to count for something. A small percentage of Japanese drivers are "baka jidosha". Or following that movie that is up to number six, with dead guys in it.
[08:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey... what? Is this what I think it is? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:42] <exec> 08└─Claire Nee writes in the NYT that for psychologists it’s best to observe actual behavior. Yet for obvious ethical and safety reasons, it’s almost never possible to observe a crime as it happens. To establish “proof of concept,” researchers had to show that experienced ex-burglars would burgl...
[08:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Post makes no sense - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[07:17:52] <exec> 08└─They aren't "passing a law". They [judges/lawyers] are simply deciding "let's declare that this legal, and since we are the only ones who get to speak in court, what other people want doesn't matter".
[07:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Legal crimes - 06Proposed Rule Change to Expand Feds’ Legal Hacking Powers Moves Forward - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:17:07] <exec> 08└─Newsflash: The Ivy League is just an athletic conference. CalTech is an extremely selective, well-regarded university. It's as highly ranked as Ivy League universities in many disciplines, and higher-ranked in many other disciplines. For instance, CalTech is #11 in computer science while Harvard is...
[07:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm not so sure I regard him as well-rounded - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:15:54] <exec> 08└─Really? You get 'support' via Apple's bug report website. I mean, something other than 'duplicate'. The other stuff is ok, but Radar is 99.9% a one-way street, from you to Apple.
[07:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't know about Oracle Linux - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:46] <exec> 08└─Do you live close to a windmill that you have to beat in volume, or why are you shouting?
[07:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:30] <exec> 08└─Extremophiles" [google.com] may be the word you are looking for.
[07:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02"Extremophiles" - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:30] <exec> 08└─Not yet. Not until I can ran an AI on my single PC.
[07:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:1) 02Re:manual - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:26] <exec> 08└─The solution to this is to store the information encrypted and keep the encryption key in volatile SRAM. Add a little hardware to allow the CPU to act on the encrypted NVRAM transparently at a slight latency penalty. Not my idea; heard about this approach from a friend who does research into "The Ma...
[07:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:post-NAND - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:24] <exec> 08└─If it's nonvolatile post-NAND and comparable to DRAM, that makes it the miracle storage and fulfills HP's "The Machine" [hp.com] vision for 2020+ supercomputing
[07:10:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02post-NAND - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:15] <exec> 08└─"Whereas we know that people behave most safely when their task is as frustrating, tedious, and stressful as possible. So we can fix this!" Exactly. Not too far from where I live there is this really terrible intersection: 5 or 6 roads coming in, several crossing tram tracks, a couple of bus lanes,...
[07:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't get it - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:12] <exec> 08└─Not new either - I was taught that over forty years ago in Transportation Engineering. Maybe this stuff is becoming like economics: you get credit (or a Nobel) for proving what everyone already knew.
[07:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Traffic Engineering 101 - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:10] <exec> 08└─Me too. Usually people are parked along the side of the road. When the lanes are narrow, I know there is no room to maneuver should a child, dog, or whatever suddenly appear in front of me and I may be forced to ditch the kinetic energy of my car into a parked car. Either that or hit the kid. Or the...
[07:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Traffic Engineering 101 - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 1096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:04] <exec> 08└─I live just south of the US/Canada border. We get a lot of traffic from the Vancouver metropolitan area so I don't know if this is a (relatively) rural vs. city driving thing or just a Canadian thing, but Canadian drivers are often very bad: low use of signals, very poor metric to English conversio...
[07:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey... what? Is this what I think it is? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 1299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:03] <exec> 08└─I wonder why modern megacities aren't developed with the vehicular traffic on the ground level and elevated pedestrian walkways at roughly the second-floor level.
[07:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey... what? Is this what I think it is? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
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[06:16:59] <exec> 08└─a psychotic devotion of 110% of his time to things for the sole purpose of appearing well rounded.
[06:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:45] <exec> 08└─Forcing cooperation? If it is forced, it's not cooperation, is it?
[06:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Oxymoron - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:11] <exec> 08└─There are, however, cases where you want volatility; for example for temporary storage of security related stuff like entered passwords.
[06:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:post-NAND - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:09] <exec> 08└─Well that will be welcome, assuming the price is anywhere near affordable. That two of the richest companies in the world can afford it is small consolation to me.
[06:10:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Thousands of times faster - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:02] <exec> 08└─First of all, Mr. Speck needs to get over himself. Criminal negligence? Please. Now, if his idea for improved safety is to have vehicles travel at 20mph instead of 30mph, why doesn't he just say that instead of this baloney about making lanes narrower? I've heard ideas like this before, but I have a...
[06:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02I don't get it - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:58] <exec> 08└─Still bored. Got anything better?
[06:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do niggers cross against the light? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:53] <exec> 08└─I wonder why modern megacities aren't developed with the ... etc
[06:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey... what? Is this what I think it is? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:52] <exec> 08└─Despite higher traffic volumes and population, Tokyo’s crash rates are 34% to 80% lower compared to Toronto’s.
[06:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Noble713 [4895] (Score:1) 02Re:Hey... what? Is this what I think it is? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:40] <exec> 08└─And why not? Don't we live in a panopticon yet? Isn't there surveillance everywhere? Wouldn't a reality show of real crime in progress have the highest ratings ever? Isn't every ordinary person a voyeur? Why? Not? Just? Do? It?!
[06:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"observe a crime as it happens" - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:39] <exec> 08└─TFTitle I mean.
[06:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shouldn't it be "Inside the mind of a burglar"? - 06Inside the Mind of a Criminal - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[05:16:44] <exec> 08└─Looking back in retrospect, your note of social skills being arguably among the most important skills we can acquire are validated. I did spend a lot of time doing my homework when I could have been socializing. I may not have known how to do the signal processing, but I would have been more social....
[05:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 2275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:43] <exec> 08└─Not really. If part of the job is "actively collaborating with others", and it usually is, then your ability to interact with teammates, support staff, and superiors in a manner that avoids unnecessary drama, hard feelings, and general social discomfort, is directly relevant to your suitability for...
[05:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:29] <exec> 08└─I agree that it should be non-routable but I have the impression that some hosts emit packets to 0.0.0.0 whereas some don't. There's lots of better solutions than the hosts file but the hosts file is the easiest to understand.
[05:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02there is some controversy over 0.0.0.0 - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:38] <exec> 08└─He is performing a risk assessment. He's finding out about the Oracle culture and comparing it to his needs / the company's need. It isn't a matter of confidence of abilities. And I can't say that I was impressed with Oracle help. The couple of times we needed them, they were underwelming. It took t...
[05:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Common Joe [33] (Score:2) 02Re:shouldn't you be - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:23] <exec> 08└─> Thomas Jefferson was a slave holder, so let's discount everything he ever wrote, said, or did "when it comes to issues of independence". As distasteful as it is today, at the time his behavior was within societal norms, a century later half the country still thought it was OK. Child murder, not so...
[05:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:50] <exec> 08└─Superiority and dominance are two different words because they mean two different things...
[05:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:35] <exec> 08└─change the policy of the government
[05:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:30] <exec> 08└─That's power, not authority.
[05:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:11] <exec> 08└─You know -- back in the 90s I laughed at black helicopter types. As we learn more about the dark side of the US Federal government though, I'm not surprised to discover that this old conspiracy theory is, in it's essence (military takeover of the US), real.
[05:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Choppa! - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:50] <exec> 08└─Here is another study indicating that either: 1. Lanes are wider in dangerous areas (They might have gotten cause and effect reversed) 2. Danger is correlated with lane width due to come confounding factor (curves? Large Vehicles? higher speed limits? Bad road conditions?) 3. Wider lanes causes dang...
[05:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Slower is better? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:49] <exec> 08└─This is a basic concept taught in first semester Traffic Engineering at any university: people drive slower when lanes are less than 12 feet wide (the standard width in the U.S.). There are even formulas and tables to calculate how much slower.
[05:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03diaz [3491] (Score:1) 02Traffic Engineering 101 - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:47] <exec> 08└─Well let's see I was simply making an observation that black people cross the street when they don't have the right of way because they think they deserve to receive preferential treatment for things that dead white people did 150 years ago to dead black people. But sure if you want to reply I guess...
[05:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do niggers cross against the light? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:46] <exec> 08└─*yawn* If you really want attention you're going to have to do much better than that.
[05:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why do niggers cross against the light? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:44] <exec> 08└─To make whitey avoid hitting their fat black asses. It's passive aggression, pure and simple.
[05:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Why do niggers cross against the light? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:42] <exec> 08└─The last link indicates that there is plenty of evidence from all sources that 10-foot lanes in urban areas are far safer than having 12-foot lanes. Urban areas are not highways.
[05:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey... what? Is this what I think it is? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:41] <exec> 08└─No, they didn't. Further down, they attempted to take some data points on "line width vs various crash types" for every city and tried a parabolic regression. Guess what? (see page 6) Sometimes, using only 4 points (side-crashes for Toronto), and... how nice... sometime the fitted parabola shows an...
[05:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey... what? Is this what I think it is? - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:40] <exec> 08└─Did they just compare the crash rate in Tokyo with the one in Toronto and attributed this to the lane/intersection width? The academia FA [academia.edu], page 6 (?) the "DEVELOPMENT OF SAFETY EVALUATION APPROACH" section reads: Similar data collection and research methodology was applied for both ci...
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[04:16:35] <exec> 08└─Not really. If part of the job is "actively collaborating with others", and it usually is, then your ability to interact with teammates, support staff, and superiors in a manner that avoids unnecessary drama, hard feelings, and general social discomfort, is directly relevant to your suitability for...
[04:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Not surprised - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:27] <exec> 08└─Ah I see what I did there; as someone who lives in the wide open spaces of NZ in a house with plenty of roof space I made a bad assumption. I was also thinking of my uncles farm which is off grid out the back of Masterton because the cost of getting a power line there was way too much. https://www.g...
[04:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:1) 02Re:Wind farms - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not familiar with that idea. However, you can find a lot of good papers from Kuiper (he of the Kuiper Belts notoriety) written in the 50's and 60's, such as this one [nih.gov], or this very readable one [harvard.edu]. This [ias.edu] is a fairly recent talk on the topic, but the issue of the stab...
[04:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:No, that's not true - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:09] <exec> 08└─It's understandable that people want to come up with currency alternatives like Bitcoin, etc. Ahh but those present their very own special problems, not the least of which being (lack of) trust. I guess when you can trust banks less than random people on the internet, virtual currencies will be a hu...
[04:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:55] <exec> 08└─it's easier for the government when the law is so convoluted that everyone becomes guilty of something. That way even if they might not be able to get you for racketeering or sexual offense, they can still snag you for tax evasion or money laundering.
[04:11:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Han Held [216] 02As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 251 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:34] <exec> 08└─I'd bet on the Su-50 whooping all of the above if it came to a dogfight. That thing can fly backwards.
[04:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:DISSAPOINTMENT! - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:22] <exec> 08└─I thought the rumour was that KFC tastes dreadful, is unhealthy and terrible value for money.
[04:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Rumour? - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:44] <exec> 08└─Total job security and a life in a tropical paradise traded away for a small flat in Moscow and an uncertain future on the run as a fugitive from justice.
[04:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it worth it? - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:40] <exec> 08└─> WTF is happening in this world where the NZ government hasn't learnt The rich have their own nationality.
[04:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wars have been started over such things - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:38] <exec> 08└─As a Kiwi; all I see is NZ getting raped by international corporate interests. The main one is the recently leaked info about the ability of corporations being able to sue the government because of changes that affected said corproations POTENTIAL profits. WTF is happening in this world where the NZ...
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[04:10:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Especially when probably less than 10% of the voters care and don't want it. And > 50% of their donors care and want it. Where possible they'll give the >50% of the voters what they want - which is stuff on gay marriage, abortion, marijuana etc. And give the >50% of the donors what they want -...
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[04:10:33] <exec> 08└─> What could they possibly do to him? Donate to the campaign of the guy running against him in the next election.
[04:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:30] <exec> 08└─> I would like to know how the executive branch thinks it can neuter a co-equal branch of government like this and get away with it. Such neutering is the entire point of the party system. It puts the parties above the branches of government. > Why isn't Congress voting to impeach this jackass this...
[04:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:15] <exec> 08└─When its the people that would be true, when its them and its secret, it never happened, when its no longer secret, pass retrospective legislation to make the actions legal. SOP The "You can't handle the truth." types are in control.
[04:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Remember only about 5 years ago? - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:13] <exec> 08└─Google street... WiFi unencrypted traffic sniffing? Big brouhaha? Ended with a decision of "WiFi communication, even when not encrypted, is subject to Wiretap legislation" [wikipedia.org]? So, aren't those fictiouos companies equally guilty of breaking wiretap laws, when using cellphone surveillance...
[04:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Remember only about 5 years ago? - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:11] <exec> 08└─It's important that federal law enforcement personnel have the tools they need to find and catch criminals. But whenever an operation may also monitor the activities of Americans who are not the intended target, we must make darn sure that safeguards are in place to protect the civil liberties of in...
[04:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Privacy of innocents - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:08] <exec> 08└─There's a bit of muddy water regarding transmitting on those frequencies
[04:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Spoof cell phones - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:07] <exec> 08└─So if they're spoofing cellphone towers, why don't we just go spoof cellphones? There's a bit of muddy water regarding transmitting on those frequencies, but in theory, shouldn't the FBI/DEA/etc not be transmitting on those frequencies either since they don't own the license? For bonus points, inste...
[04:10:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] 02Spoof cell phones - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 508 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:47] <exec> 08└─Make lanes as wide as you can but not so wide that people start using it as a double lane?
[04:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:1) 02Double lane - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:46] <exec> 08└─This phenomenon -- that drivers go faster when the road feels clearer -- has been discussed here before. [soylentnews.org]
[04:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Traffic Calming - 06Wider Lanes Make City Streets More Dangerous - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[03:15:00] <exec> 08└─If your team is mostly windows folks, probably get the support contract. They will feel better. If you team is mostly *nix folks, then dump oracle (unless some crappy proprietary software requires you use oracle / rh, and use something like Debian with a decent community. If your company has a cultu...
[03:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Depends on your team and company - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:23] <exec> 08└─Yep, for my tiny company engineers that have figured out how to program are the way to go. A few times I've hired "programmers" and they were hopeless at writing the custom engineering analysis software that we use in-house (and occasionally sell/license to others), even if we produced detailed spec...
[03:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NASA has it right - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:49] <exec> 08└─And Washington was the first and only president to actively march at the head of militia or army against the American Citizenry. Having read up on the post-Revolutionary activities of our so-called 'Founding Fathers' I have come to conclusion WWAFFD is not the question to ask, but rather 'If I wante...
[03:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:48] <exec> 08└─they had three breasts
[03:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:23] <exec> 08└─It's in Z$ [wikipedia.org]
[03:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:$100,000 - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:20] <exec> 08└─You're missing the other point. Just by having this "reward" campaign, the publicity it generates is already potentially worth it to wikileaks. Also, like buying the lotto, the probability might be very small, but if you don't buy the chances are nil. For all we know, the extra publicity and awarene...
[03:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it worth it? - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:18] <exec> 08└─If anyone does it they better get Assange to show them that money up front first because he'll fuck them over like he did Bradley Manning. He doesn't give a rat's ass about anyone but his ego. Although, if you want to make an easy buck, just write yourself up a fake trade agreement. If you make the...
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[03:10:11] <exec> 08└─and pedophilia.. more powerful than espionage and terrorism charges.
[03:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:10] <exec> 08└─What could they possibly do to him?
[03:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─Computers already do everything I want them to do. I should start a blog about how everything is fine. But I won't because blogging isn't something I want to do.
[03:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02everything is fine - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─If Moore's law just died forever, your AI artilect overlords would just be half-silicon, half-biological.
[03:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:manual - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:41] <exec> 08└─You know, there is a part of this geek that thinks maybe computers are fast enough already and that we should be careful before we replace ourselves with a superior intelligence.
[03:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02manual - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:40] <exec> 08└─If it's nonvolatile post-NAND and comparable to DRAM, that makes it the miracle storage and fulfills HP's "The Machine" [hp.com] vision for 2020+ supercomputing
[03:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02post-NAND - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:39] <exec> 08└─Well that will be welcome, assuming the price is anywhere near affordable. That two of the richest companies in the world can afford it is small consolation to me.
[03:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Thousands of times faster - 06Fabs Now Manufacturing Carbon Nanotube Memory, Which Could Replace NAND and DRAM - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[02:15:32] <exec> 08└─Perhaps in a similar way, I was admitted to MIT without the best of grades, just barely in the top 10% of my senior class. Very handy with tools, designed and built a couple of mini-bikes from steel tubing in middle school and volunteered at a semi-pro car racing team in high school. Not the best ad...
[02:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm not so sure I regard him as well-rounded - 06A Perfect ACT Score Couldn't Get this Student into Yale, Princeton, or Stanford - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:36] <exec> 08└─I would really like to do that here in Brooklyn, because we pay more than $0.35/kwh. I put our household on an energy diet and have gotten our monthly usage under 200kwh, but we still get held over a barrel for $70+, more than half of which is for the maintenance of their power lines. But we live in...
[02:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Wind farms - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:01] <exec> 08└─You suck and your baby is a boondoggle.
[02:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:00] <exec> 08└─The decision to procure a multi-role aircraft was not mine, obviously, but one derived from the military and congress, in due respect. The companies I was and am employed by were/are contracted to fulfill that requirement, to the best of our ability and for the lowest cost. Personally, I may not pro...
[02:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:29] <exec> 08└─and it turned out that it wasn't fried chicken she was served, BUT A RAT THAT somehow GOT BREADED AND FRIED!!!!! I
[02:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:07] <exec> 08└─It doesn't say. Sending someone a transfer of 100k is also like a red flag for the IRS (or your local version). Perhaps you get it in bitcoins. https://wikileaks.org [wikileaks.org] https://wikileaks.org [wikileaks.org] https://wikileaks.org
[02:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:$100,000 - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:05] <exec> 08└─You probably have fantastic job-security, no risk of getting fired unless you really fuck up. Risking it all to give Wikileaks and Assange a secret document just won't be worth it or be that great of an idea.
[02:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it worth it? - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:03] <exec> 08└─You probably have fantastic job-security, no risk of getting fired unless you really fuck up. Risking it all to give Wikileaks and Assange a secret document just won't be worth it or be that great of an idea.
[02:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it worth it? - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:01] <exec> 08└─I would like to know how the executive branch thinks it can neuter a co-equal branch of government like this and get away with it. Why isn't Congress voting to impeach this jackass this moment? They certainly don't like him, he's not from their party, so why on God's green Earth aren't they using th...
[02:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:59] <exec> 08└─Brute force.
[02:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:57] <exec> 08└─But what gives those guards authority over a Senator?
[02:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:56] <exec> 08└─I seem to remember reading that the US senators were allowed to inspect the document under supervision, but that they weren't even allowed to take notes. Difficult to leak the whole thing under those circumstances. I suspect the guards would notice something as straightforward as recording it all wi...
[02:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:54] <exec> 08└─I think the same thing also. What makes it so that the executive could have this kind of power over a Senator? I say Warren does it and dares the Prez to destroy the leader of the Democratic party to protect secrets of the 1% and slave owners
[02:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:53] <exec> 08└─You have to wonder why some senator doesn't just release it. What could they possibly do to him? The backlash would be so severe the administration would be running for cover. What possible law could be broken, when no law specifically states that there is a right to keep such a thing a secret.
[02:09:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 295 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:42] <exec> 08└─I thought they used their black helicopters for these kinda jobs or are they only for local renditions?
[02:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Choppa! - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:41] <exec> 08└─Life is whack-a-mole. Then you're dead.
[02:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whack-a-mole - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[01:14:42] <exec> 08└─I read the title as "A Supercomputer Bully Tapping Data Warehouses for Their Idle Computing Power"
[01:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Offtopic - 06AI Supercomputer Built by Tapping Data Warehouses for Their Idle Computing Power - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:41] <exec> 08└─Some years ago when Seti@Home and similar were just starting this made sense.
[01:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Bad deal - 06AI Supercomputer Built by Tapping Data Warehouses for Their Idle Computing Power - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:53] <exec> 08└─It still could go wrong without real world testing. Just hope they didn't all read the old paper and missed the new corrected one that has x/(n-1) rather than x/n. I assume in this case they always compare the expectations to real data in as many conditions as feasible though.
[01:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just like everything else - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:44] <exec> 08└─No idea what the pacemaker does exactly. But I bet it is partly statistical (is the beat outside an expected range?). I learned my lesson by independently coming across this issue: http://stats.stackexchange.com [s...
[01:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My favorite cyborg lawyer is on the case too! - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:38] <exec> 08└─Is this NASA code publicly available? Seems like it would be a good learning tool.
[01:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Licensing - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY [youtube.com] Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park
[01:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03efitton [1077] (Score:2) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:08] <exec> 08└─By your reasoning any act could be considered natural and part of nature. Poisoning animals isn't a typical human trait. Eating animals and deforesting could be construed as typical human activities. Though eating plants and planting trees could also be construed as typical human activities as well....
[01:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Save the birds! - 06New Wind Turbine Has No Blades - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on man - you didn't even reply to my post. Of course government doesn't "just springs forth fully formed and lusting for power". I specifically stated that it has lusted for power, and that it has consolidated that power over a pretty long period of time. You've gone off on some tangent unr...
[01:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:10] <exec> 08└─And this is an outright fabrication. It's just not true. It's a thing lost-cause-of-the-south types lie to each other about so much they actually start believing. There's no substantiation to the claim that slavery was dying out. It was being rightfully restricted and limited by sane governments all...
[01:12:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Bite me, Brits. - 06UK Sheinwald Report Urges Treaty Forcing US Web Firms' Cooperation in Data Sharing - 385 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:56] <exec> 08└─Is that where the idea Saturn migrated inward and flung stuff around then migrated back out came from?
[01:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No, that's not true - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, lying to a cop's random questions on the street isn't perjury, but it can be construed as obstruction of justice [wikipedia.org]. So, if you're questioned by the cops it's probably far better to just shut up until you get a lawyer. If your testimony about something really is so vital, they can...
[01:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lying to Cops, Federal Agents, etc. - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:37] <exec> 08└─If you're thinking of lieing talking to the police; shut up and call a lawyer instead.
[01:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:1) 02Re:Lying to Cops, Federal Agents, etc. - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:12] <exec> 08└─Couldn't have put it better myself. Banks used to collect capital and keep it safe, or at least safer than under your mattress. They paid you interest for the privilege of holding your capital, and they invested part of it judiciously in loans and other investments, keeping the profit after paying o...
[01:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 1207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:11] <exec> 08└─Banks used to be a safe place to keep your money for later use. One of the meanings of the word "bank" is exactly that - to put away for future use. They have changed into transaction facilitators who collect fees on each transaction. Keeping a large amount of money in a bank is now suspicious behav...
[01:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:As Ayn Rand pointed out - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:48] <exec> 08└─Clearly they didn't face Russia's top pilots, but some of the planes they faced were much newer than his. The 16 was a fighter, and (like the some of the 15s) was converted to the air-to-ground role, and excelled at it. Note his only complaint about the 35 is the cost, he likes the plane. Anyway, I...
[01:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:47] <exec> 08└─I respect that one guy immensely, but that one guy only ever went up against Iraqis and buyers of Russian technology, not against Russians or Chinese themselves. If you think they're giving or selling their top-notch tech to other parties, well...
[01:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:38] <exec> 08└─How different is your Turcano from a Texan II ? It looks like a derivation, with bigger vertical control surface - more classically "North-American Aviation" styled. :-)
[01:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:DISSAPOINTMENT! - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:26] <exec> 08└─here [modernfarmer.com]
[01:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Proof! - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:22] <exec> 08└─Cracka Pops, Nigga Pops, and 'Yo Momma Pops', to cover the three major ethnic groups, stereotypes and flavors :)
[01:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:17] <exec> 08└─As far as I know parody and satire are still allowed. I think the aforementioned blog owner(s) are going to have a hard time convincing a judge that their comments were satirical however.
[01:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Urban Legend - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:04] <exec> 08└─And Japan didn't end up with Paul Tibbets.
[01:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not so bad - 06Solar Impulse Landed in Nagoya, Japan Because of Poor Weather - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:58] <exec> 08└─Is the $100,000 in today's dollars, or 2045 when you get out of prison?
[01:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02$100,000 - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:56] <exec> 08└─The thing is if you got access to that document then a $100k probably isn't all that much money. At least not enough for it to be worth it. You have a nice job that pays fairly well, or great. You probably have fantastic job-security, no risk of getting fired unless you really fuck up. Risking it al...
[01:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Is it worth it? - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:55] <exec> 08└─Secret treaties are a bad idea. We know this. We've known this for almost a century now - secret treaties were one of the main causes of the First World War. More to the point, this isn't even a defense treaty, where secrecy at least has some sort of thin veneer of making sense. It's a trade treaty....
[01:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Wars have been started over such things - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 1492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:53] <exec> 08└─I would like to think that the MPs, or senators, or whatever you have in your country voting on it would say "created in secret by corporations and select officials?". Rejected.
[01:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:52] <exec> 08└─You have to wonder why some senator doesn't just release it. What could they possibly do to him? The backlash would be so severe the administration would be running for cover. What possible law could be broken, when no law specifically states that there is a right to keep such a thing a secret.
[01:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─It is absolutely ridiculous that these sort of secret agreements are even tolerated. I would like to think that the MPs, or senators, or whatever you have in your country voting on it would say "created in secret by corporations and select officials?". Rejected. This is just so wrong.
[01:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Secrecy - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:40] <exec> 08└─So if they're spoofing cellphone towers, why don't we just go spoof cellphones? There's a bit of muddy water regarding transmitting on those frequencies, but in theory, shouldn't the FBI/DEA/etc not be transmitting on those frequencies either since they don't own the license? For bonus points, inste...
[01:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Spoof cell phones - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:39] <exec> 08└─Don't look up. That's what Enemy of the State taught us.
[01:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Whatever you do - 06FBI is Flying Surveillance Flights over US Cities - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[00:13:49] <exec> 08└─If your data is worth millions, and you demand ten nines in uptime reliability Then an SLA won't help. To get 99.9 999 999 9% uptime, you can have a 3 millisecond downtime per year. Most "always up" systems I see are 5-nines, so 5 minutes downtime per year. Some are 7-nines, which is 3 seconds downt...
[00:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe worth it - but to whom? - 06Ask Soylent: Is Oracle Linux Support Worth the Money? - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:23] <exec> 08└─What to do: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] What not to do: http://www.safetyresearch.net [ ‭safetyresearch.net (Warning: Unicode in URL)⁩ ]
[00:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Code defects account for 10% of software problems. - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:09] <exec> 08└─It is pretty well known that complete testing is impossible. Consider the element of time. Have you tested every single time value of the clock that is possible? People talk about code coverage, but what does that mean? Does that mean every line is hit? Every possible combination of branches? All po...
[00:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Licensing - 06How is Critical 'Life or Death' Software Tested? - 1929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:28] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy with some significant percentage of the speed of light. There are stars we could send probes to at 50% of the speed of light and expect them to arrive, go into scout mode and start beaming back information, just in time for your New born baby's graduation for CalTech. What a job that wo...
[00:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Sweet - 0674 Small Exoplanets With Circular Orbits Identified - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:09] <exec> 08└─Cany ou be arrested for resisting arrest for being arrested for resisting arrest? How deep can it go?
[00:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Lying to Cops, Federal Agents, etc. - 06Why Is It a Crime for Dennis Hastert to Evade Government Scrutiny? - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:26] <exec> 08└─You really don't want to be sending F-16s up against modern enemy fighter or even ground-to-air technology...
[00:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:24] <exec> 08└─Good points, and it may never need to be as cool as all that. 6th-gen is on the way. As long as our 5th-gen is better than the Russian's and Chinese's 5th-gen, which I'd stake my career on, knowing what I know, then my duty is done. Don't forget that the F-16 is only useful in modern combat situatio...
[00:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:23] <exec> 08└─The problem with this aircraft is trying to be all things to every branch of the service, and apparently every country even vaguely interested. It is bound to do all of those thing less well than a specialized craft for each task. It was conceived to have a common parts and maintenance and training...
[00:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:22] <exec> 08└─I spent about nine years of my career working on the engine design for this baby (both CTOL and STOVL), so it's nice to see it finally operational. I know there's a lot of negativity surrounding the F-35 amongst this crowd, but honestly, peacetime aircraft programs traditionally run over time and ov...
[00:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Perspective - 06F-35B Operational Test Trials - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:03] <exec> 08└─The person listening to me thought I was serious when I told a story about how the government was forcing them to change their name to Fried Unhealthy Chicken of Kentucky.
[00:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:1) 02People will believe anything - 06KFC Suing Three Chinese Companies for Spreading Rumors via Social Media - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:39] <exec> 08└─▬▬▬.◙.▬▬▬ ═▂▄▄▓▄▄▂ ◢◤ █▀▀████▄▄▄▄◢◤ █▄ █ーJ ███▀▀▀▀▀▀▀╬ LINUX MADE ME SO RICH ◥█████◤ /▌ ══╩══╩══▬▬▬.◙.▬▬▬ I HAVE A MERCEDES CHOPPER ON THE HELIPAD OF MY ROOF!!!
[00:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crossed a line? - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:38] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but I haven't heard Assange ever directly ask for specific data to be leaked, and offer to pay for it to boot. It would seem to me that many governments could construe that as being not only an accomplice, but the ring leader. Got to admire that. He's in exile, so yeah, what's he got to lose?...
[00:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Crossed a line? - 06WikiLeaks Offers $100,000 Bounty for Copy of TPP Trade Document - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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