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[00:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Peak Times for Perseid Meteor Shower - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:10] <exec> 08└─Next year, the Space Force is going to get them!
[00:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Peak Times for Perseid Meteor Shower - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:12] <exec> 08└─And as usual, whenever something cool like this happens, my part of the world is drenched with rain. Rats.
[00:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peak Times for Perseid Meteor Shower - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:14] <exec> 08└─The viewing has not been good the past few days because of some wildfire over the grade from where I live. It wasn't a big fire, and it's been put out now, but there was enough smoke and ash that it's been getting hazy in the evenings. I guess moisture comes in off the ocean and it captures the smok...
[00:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:24] <exec> 08└─You'd think that those Jewish lawyers would remember how some of their grandparents got a lungful of Zyklon B thanks to Bayer/IG Farben back in the day.
[00:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:26] <exec> 08└─If we consider corporations artificial persons, we'll have to start applying the same measures for punishing them. Three strikes etc. I don't even know how often Monsanto has been caught doing shady as fuck shit. But they get off with a slap on the wrist so there is no learning or deterrent effect....
[00:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:28] <exec> 08└─Monsanto? Never heard of it.
[00:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:30] <exec> 08└─Monsanto sold all it's assets and liabilities to Bayer AG in the last year. Maybe they were bailing out before the fhit hit the san.
[00:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 2404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:32] <exec> 08└─I've been regularly surprised how Monsanto was able to control public debate by simple decoys. People start asking about the carcinogenic properties of their product and they hand some chemists and biologists of an ingredient of their product that by itself seems to be relatively safe, with apparent...
[00:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:55] <exec> 08└─You do what any other red-blooded American family would do and tell them to get a goddamn job and start paying rent or GTFO. A quick stint at McDonalds or $RETAIL_CHAIN having to deal with pricks all day and without being able to to fiddle with their phones every 5 seconds will straighten them out....
[00:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:57] <exec> 08└─That will not 'fix' the problem. The problem is boundaries and expectations. The parents set those. "I expect you to not use your phone 24/7 and I expect you to be at the dinner table promptly when it is ready" You do that by setting time limits and explanations as to why those limits are there.
[00:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:59] <exec> 08└─If you get laid at near the speed of light, does it seem to last forever? Kirk getting laid at warp speed 4 by a 3 breasted orange woman... Do you still wish you were Picard? Damn...the questions my mind asks that I can't answer!!!!!
[00:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:01] <exec> 08└─Oddly the most I hear about gender enumeration is around here. In the real world, even here in caleefornee way it just doesn't come up. Looks like you are the one making it such a problem.
[00:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:02] <exec> 08└─Enjoy the audio with transcript here https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:03] <exec> 08└─But Microsoft gang gave it to everybody even back in 95; bloody terrorists https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:05] <exec> 08└─The airport where I am based is also used as a hunting ground (a hunting club shares the land). There are folks shooting guns all the time over there even off-season (apparently dogs need permanent training). The deal is they don't point toward aircraft. It is within 1 hour drive from NYC.
[00:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:07] <exec> 08└─Because they're very loyal. They serve MY AGENDA. 100%!!!
[00:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:10] <exec> 08└─I'm sure that if Rich had his nuts fondled by the TSA, it was only once for his initial inspection. People who work in public transportation are granted "security clearance lite" and later fast-tracked into an actual government security clearance if needed due to the background investigations they a...
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[00:12:12] <exec> 08└─Why judge other people? Because some of their actions affect not just themselves but those around them.
[00:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:14] <exec> 08└─I was in the Air Force when the 9/11 attacks happened. One of my buddies was on TDY to the Pentagon because they needed somebody who could translate a certain language. When he came back, he let us all know that he and others were "off" that Tuesday even though admin staff is a M-F, 9-5 job. Very pe...
[00:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:17] <exec> 08└─I doubt such tech would not expand to the inclusion of a "stop" function
[00:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:19] <exec> 08└─Thus, the extended protections such as: IAS and requirement of a coded transmission from ATC. The coded transmission could always conceivably be forged, but a faulty IAS should be a reason to never leave the ground in the first place. If the attacker can gain access to tamper with the IAS provision...
[00:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:21] <exec> 08└─Preachin' to da choir. Vive la revolucion! :)
[00:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:23] <exec> 08└─Yep, that's the problem. He was good; but at minimum wage.
[00:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:26] <exec> 08└─And why is it so DAMN hard to find a Waldo! It's like they purposely make it fecking hard for some reason! Everything's red and white and the plane is filled with dead, bleeding white people!!! Gaaaaah!
[00:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over-the-Counter Drugs, Dietary Supplements and Their Effect on Lab Test Results - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:48] <exec> 08└─In the UK, fruit is a weapon [wikipedia.org].
[00:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPEG Exploring Blockchain for DRM in JPG Photos - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:04] <exec> 08└─Are you talking about the lossless JPEG2000 format? Otherwise your comment wouldn't make sense.
[00:15:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06DNC Serves WikiLeaks Lawsuit Over Twitter; US Senate Invites Assange to Testify for Russia Probe - 824 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:07] <exec> 08└─I am far more comfortable with a foreign attack against our voting system, than I am with domestic attacks. Any attack by Russia, real or imagined, is far less dangerous to our system than the DNC's attacks from within. Have you ever read any war stories? Do you have any idea how complicated war is?...
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[01:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peak Times for Perseid Meteor Shower - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:09] <exec> 08└─Same here. Sarasota, FL has a street named Tuttle until you cross an intersection and then it's named Swift. I seriously doubt many people knew of the significance and probably wondered why the hell the street changed names. :)
[01:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:27] <exec> 08└─I read an article where they DID say that it was the MIXTURE, not just the one ingredient, so SOMEONE is listening, at least. What they need to do is say "If Roundup is safe, will the CEO please drink this container of Roundup while we all watch?" If he refuses, sue his fucking ass off.
[01:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:28] <exec> 08└─Many people as stupid as EF go on to live reasonably normal lives. Heh, just kidding - full-on stupids ride the short bus throughout their entire lives.
[01:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:31] <exec> 08└─I know at least one counter example, a friend I'd known for 30 years died of non-Hodgkins lymphoma (a blood cancer) a few years ago, age 72. He was feeling a little weak one winter and went in for a checkup, was quickly referred to an oncologist who gave him 6 weeks to live. Does that sound like a s...
[01:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:58] <exec> 08└─Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories. John Wilmot
[01:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unique Pollen Signatures In Australian Honey Could Help Tackle A Counterfeit Industry - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:17] <exec> 08└─If it's African bees, they'll just steal the honey outright. And the beehives. And the fencing and power lines running nearby [*]. Also, the headline is wrong, it should be: Marginally Interesting Research Paper Invents Problem for it to Solve to Make it Seem Relevant
[01:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:46] <exec> 08└─So you've been surprised by a squall, one of your engines flamed out from aspirating too much rain and hail, the vertical winds are bouncing you around like a cork and you'd be just fine waiting for a permissive signal from ATC before you can attempt a re-start procedure and hopefully have enough po...
[01:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:47] <exec> 08└─Listening to the audio, this dude was someone I would have liked to hang around with 40 years ago. He kinda knew he wasn't gonna live to see morning, and I'm not sure he knew why he stole the plane. Nowdays? I'm in my 60s, I don't really want to hang around guys in their 20s.
[01:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:49] <exec> 08└─They should've reminded him he only goes to Yasukuni if it's for the Emperor.
[01:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over-the-Counter Drugs, Dietary Supplements and Their Effect on Lab Test Results - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:13] <exec> 08└─It's a popular tool to flash out magic grass residue before a drug test. Takes a week (as opposed to at least a month naturally). I imagine other chemicals are flashed from ones blood stream at unusual rates as well. Good for hangover too. P.S. It's not a fruit, but a berry.
[01:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over-the-Counter Drugs, Dietary Supplements and Their Effect on Lab Test Results - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:14] <exec> 08└─Majority of doctors are morons and assholes who are too lazy to work.
[01:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over-the-Counter Drugs, Dietary Supplements and Their Effect on Lab Test Results - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:16] <exec> 08└─Well, a friend of mine just moved from uninteresting half a mil a year job to an interesting one with similar compensation. He thought that all finance joints gave up on drug testing. Unfortunately, not his new one. Now he is without a job and nobody wants to touch him. He'll be all right as he is s...
[01:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Brain System Needs Sleep - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:46] <exec> 08└─Unihemispheric slow-wave sleep [wikipedia.org], some creatures sleep half brain.
[01:14:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06DNC Serves WikiLeaks Lawsuit Over Twitter; US Senate Invites Assange to Testify for Russia Probe - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:02] <exec> 08└─Yup. America doesn't mind interfering in other countries elections, but wtf, Russkies?.... America uses election systems that are WIDE OPEN to hacking or fraud, then cry when there is possible evidence of hacking or fraud.... And the DNC watch as Hillary fucks Bernie yet STILL put her out as an acce...
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[02:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:44] <exec> 08└─Quite true, also riding on the back of an even bigger turtle. Roundup acts as an endocrine disruptor, specifically an estrogen analog after reacting with metals in soil. That is what it does to mess with weed's growth and kill them. People and weeds share hormones which are big, complicated molecule...
[02:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:46] <exec> 08└─Cancer may have started as he consumed "roundup ready" grains, soybeans and other row crops in his packaged foods - like the rest of us. Procedure and science says that it's reduced to "acceptable levels" in the food products by the time they are consumed, sure it is.
[02:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:49] <exec> 08└─What they need to do is say "If Roundup is safe, will the CEO please drink this container of Roundup while we all watch?" If he refuses, sue his fucking ass off.
[02:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:17] <exec> 08└─Tell me, oh wise moderator who modded this Troll, how fucking triggered are you by the word "fuck"?
[02:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unique Pollen Signatures In Australian Honey Could Help Tackle A Counterfeit Industry - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:36] <exec> 08└─Nah my local honey maker has their own hives and lives about 15 miles from here. I take the GF's kid out in their fields to shoot the .22's on the weekends. We also get lamb and chicken from them.
[02:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:09] <exec> 08└─O.K. - normal usage: ATC locks down once stopped on tarmac with transmission of coded signal, then unlocks with coded signal concurrently with permission to start engines. While in-flight, you'd have to be experiencing total IAS (and whatever else is in the fail-safe system) failure, plus engine fai...
[02:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:10] <exec> 08└─Western Democracies can no more have peace with Putin than you can have "peace" with the termites in your walls. We want fundamentally different things.
[02:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Over-the-Counter Drugs, Dietary Supplements and Their Effect on Lab Test Results - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:38] <exec> 08└─I've had a painful toe for years, x-rays showed osteoarthritis and the painful joint is enlarged. After going through several "home remedies", with little success I stumbled on tart cherry juice. Drinking a half-cup before bed every night makes a huge difference. Before, walking a quarter mile turne...
[02:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why the Brain System Needs Sleep - 3067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:10] <exec> 08└─discusses that and many other benefits of sleep: https://www.goodreads.com [goodreads.com] Related podcast: http://podcasts.joerogan.net [joerogan.net] From something I posted on HN with other ideas from the book ( https://news.ycombinator.com
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[03:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:11] <exec> 08└─Microwave: check. Flask with partial vacuum: Uh, umm. Hrmm. These headlines are great but a let down at times.
[03:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peak Times for Perseid Meteor Shower - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:23] <exec> 08└─Horrible fires in High Tax, Crime Infested California. Many dead (RIP!!!). Man arrested for Arson. Bad environmental laws making fires much worse. Like a magnifying glass. Governor Jerry Brown must allow the Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North and foolishly being diverted in...
[03:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peak Times for Perseid Meteor Shower - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:25] <exec> 08└─Gah! I thought we had it bad with tornadoes, But RAINING RATS!?!?!? That's fscked up, and you have my sympathy. Maybe a heavily reinforced umbrella, an a sturdy tennis racket could help?
[03:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:48] <exec> 08└─$289M is pocket money for a company that size anyway. They don't really care.
[03:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:50] <exec> 08└─And this is why I hope they get sued and sued and sued by all the farmers out there.
[03:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:52] <exec> 08└─Where is the "-eleventy1: Eww! YUCK!!" mod when ya need it? Oh well, "Touché" will have to do.
[03:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:54] <exec> 08└─> And fuck everyone who teaches that profits for the ultrawealthy justify ruining anyone's lives. Along with blaming the corporations for making this stuff, you also have to blame the farmers that use it because it's "cost effective". They aren't forced to buy it, although perhaps to remain competit...
[03:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:24] <exec> 08└─3/5 Comment starts great, but then veers off wildly with the "Jewish overlords" bit. Nothing wrong with making the kids get jobs, but pretending the Jews run the world just seems so weird and old-fashioned. Russians, trolling since 1903. [wikipedia.org]
[03:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:25] <exec> 08└─Long, boring, and mostly stupid comment. Can't you come up with anything intelligent and/or interesting? Anything? Yeah, didn't think so.
[03:11:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 371 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:12] <exec> 08└─"Except what it SHOULD be doing is igniting discussion about mental health." And so, in the real world of money, the discussion turned to having TSA agents fondle the nuts and pussies of mentally deranged people.... 'cos....money saved! Too bad REAL solutions cost money and spending money on people...
[03:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:19] <exec> 08└─Is that sarcasm? You sound like a whiny incel. Of course they do. Especially if they're incel negroes who think they can rape white women.
[03:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:20] <exec> 08└─If you're talking about the Saudi-funded attack on the World Trade Center towers, then why have the Saudis not yet been "liberated?" Is this another Saudi stunt?
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[03:12:23] <exec> 08└─Nice! Finally found somebody who is not an incel! This person knows where his loyalties lie. Only incels believe that Trump is president because of procedures established almost 230 years ago in the Cons@uy8[p[[[!@%#}}#$[[[NO CARRIER
[03:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:25] <exec> 08└─reproducing
[03:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:27] <exec> 08└─It really got me down that there was nowhere to shelter from the rain when waiting in line for meals to be served at the soup kitchens. Some awnings would go a long ways towards easing the mundane suffering of a great many people.
[03:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:29] <exec> 08└─Which one is the termite? The US has been looking like a termite in the wood of world peace since the end of the Cold War. It has no end of paranoid propaganda.
[03:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:32] <exec> 08└─s/that steal a plane or car //
[03:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:34] <exec> 08└─When I was in Washington's Western State Hospital I was coding my iOS app on paper with a pencil. There are lots of job training programs for the homeless, also GED preparatory instructions. But consider the disabled welder I met one day at breakfast the the Blanchet House Of Hospitality: "You talk...
[03:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why the Brain System Needs Sleep - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:34] <exec> 08└─set an alarm to remind you when to go to sleep!
[03:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPEG Exploring Blockchain for DRM in JPG Photos - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:20] <exec> 08└─*looks at keyboard* Yup, the Print Screen key is still here.
[03:17:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Court Orders Twitter To Change Smallprint After Privacy Case - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:07] <exec> 08└─...what you really want is other people to change so you don't have to.
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[04:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:14] <exec> 08└─Can't you just get something like a Büchner flask [wikipedia.org] and either DIY or buy a vacuum pump to simulate what is needed? Didn't read the full arxiv paper just the journalist article.. so maybe there's more complexity there.
[04:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:15] <exec> 08└─Flask with partial vacuum: Uh, umm. Hrmm.
[04:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peak Times for Perseid Meteor Shower - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:29] <exec> 08└─Raining rats and hogs?
[04:09:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 1361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:49] <exec> 08└─Quite true, also riding on the back of an even bigger turtle. Roundup acts as an endocrine disruptor, specifically an estrogen analog after reacting with metals in soil. That is what it does to mess with weed's growth and kill them. People and weeds share hormones which are big, complicated molecule...
[04:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:57] <exec> 08└─Im not the one saying Roundup (or manure) does not cause cancer and is perfectly fine, yeah, no problem....no...no problem at all.... .....yeah....
[04:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:59] <exec> 08└─Bayer Just bought out Monsanto. So Bayer needs to fight this out?
[04:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:30] <exec> 08└─Two words: claw hammer. Problem solved.
[04:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:32] <exec> 08└─I say "fuck" all the time and generally keep max karma. You must just not be very good at it.
[04:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:34] <exec> 08└─Thank you for demonstrating how to spot a person who hasn't been on a college campus or even associated with college students in the past ten years in one easy step.
[04:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:36] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourself. It's so I can watch porn if you're boring me.
[04:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:38] <exec> 08└─What the complete and utter fuck? Some people should not be allowed to reproduce. You allot them however much time you feel works and if they go over you smash whatever was so important with a hammer. Alternatively you could use the discipline method that's worked quite well for thousands of years:...
[04:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:40] <exec> 08└─Also, early twenties are not even arguably fucking kids. They are adults and need to be the fuck out of their parents' house and adulting.
[04:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:43] <exec> 08└─This was exactly my experience when I let an unemployed/homeless family (ie, unemployed single parent) stay with me. I eventually turned off the wifi. The gnashing of teeth only lasted three days.
[04:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:45] <exec> 08└─May have worked well for thousands of years, but today will land you in jail in many places.
[04:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:47] <exec> 08└─Somebody needs to go make fun of nazi groups laughing at them that they've been suckered by the Russians. It might be interesting because i don't think they like the russians either.
[04:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:49] <exec> 08└─There was a period of time when I used to photograph my hallucinations. When the visions didn't turn up in the prints I figured it was due to my inexperience as a photographer.
[04:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:50] <exec> 08└─Just helping to generalize: a plane ($20M) or a car ($20k) or a loaf of bread ($2). What's 3 orders of magnitude between friends?
[04:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:53] <exec> 08└─Many morans are... already inside their sphere of expertise. A. Moran
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[04:12:55] <exec> 08└─Were the visions smaller through a view finder? This is the one thing that impresses me most with lucid dreaming, the smallest details behave as you would expect them. Of course there might not be any detail at all, just the bottom of a hierarchical graph firing to say that the vision is real withou...
[04:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:57] <exec> 08└─If ATC doesn't have to be on board to transmit the lock signal, neither do the bad guys. So that just leaves us with an expensive system (once you take exhaustive testing, certification, etc into account) that slightly increases the risk of a terrible accident to prevent something that has happened...
[04:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:59] <exec> 08└─Cool tip bro. I heard from a legit dude never to wipe with single sheet paper. To this day, I never wipe if it's single sheet.
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[04:13:02] <exec> 08└─Really the same is true all across society. To me, it kind of explains the success of Apple: just pay a few extra fucking pennies and fix shit properly. Nothing more clever than that. Just fix shit right the first time. I can't recommend highly enough the TV show "Holmes on Homes" - one episode and...
[04:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over-the-Counter Drugs, Dietary Supplements and Their Effect on Lab Test Results - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:29] <exec> 08└─Note that TFA doesn't say "cranberries"; it says "cranberry." To me, that sounds like an adjective describing things like supplements, not necessary literal cranberries in their original form. And perhaps my previous post was unclear, but I'm pretty sure those trying to market cranberries as a "medi...
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[04:13:31] <exec> 08└─A berry is a small, pulpy, and often edible fruit. -Berry [wikipedia.org]
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[05:09:07] <exec> 08└─I am in the habbit of setting DNS manually for each device. Most devices use AdGuard DNS, which allows adblocking on otherwise locked down systems such as gaming consolesa, while for Android devices I use the VPN redirectors like Blokada, DNS66 or netguard. On devices that I mostly control and in da...
[05:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:18] <exec> 08└─Fill flask with Mercury. Melt glass pipe to flask. Invert contraption and melt glass tube closed when Hg drains into a bowl (don't let bubbles in). Should be about 0.17Pa.
[05:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:00] <exec> 08└─Does that sound like a slowly developing cancer?
[05:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:01] <exec> 08└─[Ref: my own eyeballs. Come and spend decades in the Midwest before you dismiss this reality.]
[05:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:03] <exec> 08└─Would you be so kind as to speak up sir? That Whooshing sound seems awfully loud as I read your post.
[05:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:06] <exec> 08└─Would you eat 1kg of cow manure to check if it was safe?
[05:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:54] <exec> 08└─an engine START lockout would only prevent engines from being started, not stop engines in mid flight.
[05:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPEG Exploring Blockchain for DRM in JPG Photos - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:44] <exec> 08└─Yes, I wonder what it will take to really convince everyone that DRM is stupid, so stupid that it's not worth a thought, like the core idea of alchemy, turning lead into gold. No one takes alchemy seriously today, and I'm supposing the only reason it ever was taken seriously was the seductively simp...
[05:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Boots Open Source Anti-Censorship Tool From Chrome Store - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:52] <exec> 08└─Does the extension work with other browsers like Firefox
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[06:09:19] <exec> 08└─Fill flask with Mercury..
[06:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:20] <exec> 08└─First, get your mercury in the quantity required to do so...that's not as easy as it once was.
[06:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:06] <exec> 08└─Once a company is out of US ownership, courts can feel freer to levy higher judgments.
[06:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:48] <exec> 08└─A fine example of how mass insanity can bring down any empire, yes. If you can't bring yourself to cause your child pain to keep them from growing up to be a selfish, entitled piece of shit, you have no business being a parent.
[06:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:49] <exec> 08└─Turn off the router. Take away the power cord if required.
[06:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Settles Vastly Reduced Taiwan Antitrust Fine - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:59] <exec> 08└─Qualcomm confirmed the "mutually agreed settlement" in a statement Friday and said it had pledged a five-year plan to invest in mobile technology in Taiwan and to establish an operations centre there.
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[07:09:06] <exec> 08└─That makes you one of the lucky 0.1% (0.01%)? of users who would not be affected by this exploit. It seems from the article that this was a genuine exploit too, and not just password-guessing. Excuse me while I manually set my DNS...
[07:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In-the-Wild Router Exploit Sends Unwitting Users to Fake Banking Site - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:08] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[07:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:49] <exec> 08└─Decades of research on happiness tell us that engaging positively with others is critical for our well-being.
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[08:09:02] <exec> 08└─So six-dimensions (whatever that could mean, not well explained) and zero comments! Rock on, SoylentNews! I await even more alt-light science articles in the future, courtesy of our "bots". To think, once, that SoylentNews could have been made of people. Could have.
[08:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06In-the-Wild Router Exploit Sends Unwitting Users to Fake Banking Site - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:13] <exec> 08└─and DNSSEC is not deployed by these banking sites why? And DNSSEC is not used by clients, why? All these things are only possible because of lazy admins not deploying DNSSEC. True, it still a little difficult to get official certificate for a bank from a CA, but without DNSSEC, you can redirect HTTP...
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[08:09:27] <exec> 08└─1 atmosphere is 760 Torr, so I guess "partial vacuum" includes up to +5 psig?
[08:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:14] <exec> 08└─No, that could be right. If you have the chemo it will kill you in six weeks, if you wait for the cancer, it takes eighteen months.
[08:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:16] <exec> 08└─The jews that EF is referring to are the sort who survived the camps by being the ones who helped herd other jews into the ovens. "Oy vey, it's just a shower to get rid of the lice". And then helped drag the bodies out.
[08:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:18] <exec> 08└─I don't want to do either, but gun-to-my-head-choice, I would eat a kg of cowshit over drinking a litre of roundup.
[08:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:20] <exec> 08└─I don't want to do either, but gun-to-my-head-choice, I would eat a kg of cowshit over drinking a litre of roundup.
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[08:11:04] <exec> 08└─Same with wives. A good smack often sets them straight. Just don't leave a bruise.
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[09:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 2134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:02] <exec> 08└─I once saw two guys working in a strawberry field, both of them wearing white HazMat suits as well as respirators. The strawberries that are grown in and around Watsonville, California are freakishly large. I once walked two hundred miles from Santa Cruz to Oceano Dunes State Beach near San Luis Obi...
[09:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:10] <exec> 08└─I really have no idea, but it looks to me like they could have used vector math instead. They appear to be trying to reference a whole beam of particles at once. If you consider a single particle, it could have a location (x, y, z), a direction of motion and a strength of motion (speed). Both locati...
[09:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:25] <exec> 08└─You yourself are guilty of the very same sophistry that Monsanto indulges in: your citations only studied glyphosate and not RoundUp.
[09:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:26] <exec> 08└─It makes them RoundUp-Ready. They're not GMO for reasons of nutrition or even marketability. My personal reason for avoiding GMO corn and soy is not about getting cancer myself, but what RoundUp does to the lifeforms that healthy soil is composed of. Plants need other nutrients than just Nitrogen, P...
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[09:11:12] <exec> 08└─That's a lot of porn.
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[09:16:22] <exec> 08└─Oh, you're one of those idiots trying to deflect valid criticism with whataboutism. What about this: in all the bad things Trump is doing, he's facing strong opposition, rendering him mostly harmless. The terrible environmental policies of his EPA cronies will be undone. His silly ban on Muslims ent...
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[10:08:55] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org] I read years ago: A micromort (from micro- and mortality) is a unit of risk defined as one-in-a-million chance of death. Micromorts can be used to measure riskiness of various day-to-day activities. A microprobability is a one-in-a million chance of...
[10:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, shit! My bad!!! The 100-1000 range (on which plasma happens in a matter of seconds) is, of course (stupid me), milliTor.
[10:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:27] <exec> 08└─It took three weeks for my medical clinic to schedule the appointment for my referral for a biopsy. Not three weeks waiting for a biopsy - three weeks waiting for the _referral_. Now I'm waiting for my biopsy to be scheduled. The "mass" on my kidney - that means it's larger than two centimetres - tu...
[10:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:13] <exec> 08└─Listen to MDC, put them in a questionnaire and select thousands at random to answer them.
[10:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, tell that to the teachers who are trying to cope with the distractions in the classroom.
[10:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:17] <exec> 08└─Associated with college students... in one easy step? Now you got my undivided attention. Seriously, I'll even let aside my mobile. (grin)
[10:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unique Pollen Signatures In Australian Honey Could Help Tackle A Counterfeit Industry - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:37] <exec> 08└─Counterfeit honey, yeah, that's a massive real-world problem.
[10:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06JPEG Exploring Blockchain for DRM in JPG Photos - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, I wonder what it will take to really convince everyone that DRM is stupid, so stupid that it's not worth a thought, like the core idea of alchemy, turning lead into gold.
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[11:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 1922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:03] <exec> 08└─That article doesn't even tell us the actual results of the statistics. I mean, how hard can it be to list ten cities together with their cigarette equivalents? Or at least link to the actual study, so we can find out for ourselves. Also strange is that the article on one hand states that the study...
[11:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:05] <exec> 08└─So it takes a trillion of them to give you one Megadeth? Fuck, looks like I've got my work cut out...
[11:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:07] <exec> 08└─F24 did a poor job, yes. DDG, however, finds the study trivially - I've added 2 links to the summary (to the agency, and to the report), and for those who want the raw stats, the data's here: https://docs.google.com
[11:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:09] <exec> 08└─I tell you. I've been to Paris airports couple of times and those events alone made my life shorter about 15 years. For that reason i would never even want to visit Paris itself.
[11:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:25] <exec> 08└─From the actual paper: A particle in an accelerator is described by six independent degrees of freedom (d.o.f.). In a Cartesian coordinate system, they are the horizontal and vertical positions and their conjugate momentum (x,x′=px/pz,y,y′=py/pz), and the energy and phase relative to a design re...
[11:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:26] <exec> 08└─Here's what's actually happening: particles in an accelerator beam have both positions and velocities. There are nontrivial correlations between positions and velocities, that only become apparent once you measure everything at once or, in other words, in "6D phase space". These guys managed to make...
[11:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:29] <exec> 08└─Once mass is known, you need six variables to fully describe a particle's trajectory. Typically in accelerator physics one defines a reference plane at which the measurement is made and measure in horizontal and vertical position and time, along with the conjugate momenta (e.g. velocities). It is eq...
[11:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In-the-Wild Router Exploit Sends Unwitting Users to Fake Banking Site - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:40] <exec> 08└─But wouldn't this also be defanged just from using HTTPS? And why on earth are banks not using HTTPS? Having said that I can imagine a phishing page being sneaky and saying something like "please log in to enter our secure site" to fool people into accepting being on an insecure page.
[11:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:49] <exec> 08└─My personal reason for avoiding GMO corn and soy is not about getting cancer myself, but what RoundUp does to the lifeforms that healthy soil is composed of.
[11:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:38] <exec> 08└─but then I started to shield myself off from large swaths of humanity and my average enjoyment skyrocketed.
[11:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:40] <exec> 08└─One would hope. If I didn't get to bone my wicked hot biology teacher, they shouldn't either.
[11:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:42] <exec> 08└─Wives are adults already, unless you're Muslim or some other cult. You have neither the responsibility nor authority to teach them a damned thing. You absolutely have both to teach your child though.
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[12:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:03] <exec> 08└─Can you imagine the uproar if Chemists started releasing anything tasty, that people would eat, and call it "food"?
[12:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:04] <exec> 08└─Personally, I am quite concerned that our Congress has not attached Responsibility with Rights when it comes to software. If someone is going to claim ownership and rights to a piece of code then protect it with electronic lock or obscurity, why aren't they also held 100% responsible if that code ca...
[12:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:16] <exec> 08└─Tonight in the news, studies have found that living leads to death in an amazing 100% of cases examined. Tune in to News at Eleven for more details!
[12:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:18] <exec> 08└─How many micromorts does one acquire from taking a taxi in Naples? Or cycling in downtown New York?
[12:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:20] <exec> 08└─Make us proud, FatPhil. We know you can do it.
[12:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:29] <exec> 08└─So how bad will the actual replacements be in practice in comparison?
[12:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:31] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, "It is sweet and honorable to die for the fatherland". While "right" and "honorable" are very much synonymous, the latter is more highly valued by many people. Especially soldiers, or warriors.
[12:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─In all seriousness - we probably don't need a replacement. Before the advent of pesticides, farmers grew crops that were acceptable to restaurants, home keepers, and shoppers. The farm produced a little less food, the food was a little less attractive, and required a little more preparation to remov...
[12:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:37] <exec> 08└─> ... the food was a little less attractive, and required a little more preparation to remove blemishes. ^ This! Hey farmer farmer Put away that DDT now Give me spots on my apples But leave me the birds and the bees Please! Joni Mitchell
[12:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:40] <exec> 08└─5% permethryn that I dip the puppies into for fleas
[12:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 1182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:42] <exec> 08└─Yes, fleas are easily drowned in soapy water, as are ticks. But, unless I want to wash the puppies every day, I want something that stays on their coats, to repel and/or to kill the flees and ticks. Ticks, especially, become confused when exposed to permethrins. The effect lasts for days, even in lo...
[12:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:53] <exec> 08└─In the context of the article, 6 dimensions mean 6 numbers measured on a single unit. This kind of speak is usual in science, but confusion arises when allowing the connotation with spacial dimensions as probably intended for by the journalist (for click-baityness).
[12:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:55] <exec> 08└─Sure, I just reject the GPs comment that what is done is wrong or ill-defined. It is well defined for anyone with knowledge of the field. I agree that it was intended by journalist as click-bait.
[12:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:15] <exec> 08└─A comparison I made between normal people and companies that I think is very much missing is preliminary imprisonment. I think a comparable 'feature' for companies can be accomplished to freeze all stock trading while a company is the defendant in any open similar lawsuits. (similar as in, people di...
[12:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:17] <exec> 08└─Its this, precisely. The case is precedent. If every judge awards a ludicrous 250 million punitive charge, it'll add up fast. Really I don't like how it's going along, but at the same time, it couldn't have happened to a more deserving company.
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[13:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:56] <exec> 08└─Dear sirs and madames, I has twenty year cloud experience in Red Hot Linux Docker Kuberneeters coding with Reactionary Javan Angular SJW+++ Script. Please to be given job and $16k salary. I is H-1-B. Yours forever, Spanjoop
[13:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:05] <exec> 08└─When you learn to code, you are dooming yourself to a life in poverty and death in the gutter. There are zero jobs for coders. Zero! You will never find work no matter how much code you write. It won't matter how much you study. It won't matter how much you keep your skills up. It won't matter how m...
[13:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:07] <exec> 08└─Damn, does that mean I have to give all this money back and drop all my current contracts?
[13:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:09] <exec> 08└─Fuck off, assholes. I don't have control over my work, because I do not own the means of production. I'll put up some resistance to your crazier schemes and ideas. But at the end of the day I need to eat and I need a warm bed to sleep in. If any of us want to change this, and I see the strong commit...
[13:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:12] <exec> 08└─Every Engineer's Solemn Duty [warplife.com] The week that Roger Boisjoly died I was widely criticized for asserting that he failed in his duty to prevent the first Space Shuttle explosion. What he actually did was to file a safety report with Morton Thiokol's management, who then failed to pass that...
[13:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:14] <exec> 08└─Andrew Joseph "Joe" Stack III burned his own house to the ground, thereby rendering his wife and children homeless, then crashed his fully-fueled airplane into the Austin Texas IRS building, taking the life of Vernon Hunter, a man with seven children, because Stack was frustrated with his inability...
[13:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:16] <exec> 08└─Found the incel! Incel misogynerds are responsible for all the evils in the world. Plumber, electrician, sandhog, construction, all professions that have perfect gender balance of at least 50% women.¹ It's only programming that attracts you incel misogynerds who have a worse grasp of ethics than LI...
[13:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:18] <exec> 08└─Find a Computer Industry Job in London, England [soggy.jobs] I've been making The Global Computer Industry Index truly "Global" by listing all the locations of a few multinationals. When I worked at Apple in the mid-90s they had 11,000 employees. Now they have over 100,000. Surely there are _some_ r...
[13:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:21] <exec> 08└─Do employers have ethics? Do companies have ethics? Does an employee have ethics? Does a union have ethics? If the employee has ethics, will they refuse to work for a company or employer that doesn't have ethics? will they stand up for what is right, even if it costs them their job? A union or profe...
[13:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:23] <exec> 08└─Do not believe the deceitful lies of frauds who will tell you about the abundance of high paying jobs for coders and the huge piles of money they claim to have gained by coding. It is all lies. Do not be tricked into getting that computer science degree with the promise of lucrative work. Do not be...
[13:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:25] <exec> 08└─Never believe job postings. All job postings are fake. The jobs do not exist. Every job board is a scam to waste your time. Applying for any job in any job board will get you exactly nothing. Do not be foolish enough to think that there must be at least one real job out there. The real job you are l...
[13:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:27] <exec> 08└─> How does anyone with stong ethics have a job! Well, I think I have fairly strong ethics, and I have remorse for the times that I've violated my own standards. In the big picture, these are pretty small violations, no one was injured...
[13:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 1680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:42] <exec> 08└─It'd be really interesting to consider micromorts for supposed "risks" that freak out many people vs. other everyday behaviors that no one worries about. A couple examples: lots of pregnant women have a long list of foods they worry about consuming. But when my wife was pregnant and we were in Europ...
[13:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:44] <exec> 08└─Being kicked out of Metallica could probably be considered an anti-mort. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[13:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:12] <exec> 08└─I don't know squat about particle physics, but in mechanics/kinematics 6 degrees of freedom (6DOF) means 3 linear (X, Y, Z) and 3 rotations (about each of the three axes), to define the forces & moments acting on a rigid body -- as defined by F = Ma and the rotational equivalent. Typically the quant...
[13:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry, I didn't mean to make it sound that they are technically wrong. I just wanted to say that the 6D is misleading because anyone but a physicist would think of something other than the phase space. And the explanations they give are convoluted as hell, like they want people to misunderstand. As...
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[13:10:16] <exec> 08└─It's not 6 degrees of freedom, it's 3 degrees of freedom but 6D phase space. In brief: if you want to solve for the motion of a Newtonian particle in 3D space, you have 3 2nd order equations for the position, therefore you need 6 initial conditions rather than just 3. If you include rotations, you n...
[13:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:18] <exec> 08└─This is correct, however in most particle accelerators the beam polarity is not important so measurement of particle spin is not required.
[13:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In-the-Wild Router Exploit Sends Unwitting Users to Fake Banking Site - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:30] <exec> 08└─DNSSEC got off to a bad start when browsers didn't want to rely on a root key that was only 1024 bits. Even nowadays, some major registrars such as GoDaddy consider DNSSEC a premium feature and charge extra for adding DNSSEC to the zone hosting bundled with a domain. Between these, we ended up with...
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[13:10:31] <exec> 08└─The featured article states that the spoofed site uses a certificate from an unknown issuer, yet users just clicked past it.
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[13:10:47] <exec> 08└─Looks like a simple aspirator https://en.wikipedia.org(pump) [wikipedia.org] won't quite do it? If a liquid is used as the working fluid, the strength of the vacuum produced is limited by the vapor pressure of the liquid (for water, 3.2 kPa or 0.46 psi or 32 mbar at 25 °C or 77 °F)...
[13:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Unique Pollen Signatures In Australian Honey Could Help Tackle A Counterfeit Industry - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:54] <exec> 08└─One of the big reasons adulterating honey is feasible is because honey (despite being "natural" and supposedly so much better) actually resembles blends of much cheaper sugars with only a few trace elements. In fact, the vast majority of honey's sugar composition is often quite close to high fructos...
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[13:16:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think that explains the MAFIAA's stance. But some big tech companies, such as Microsoft, share this view. Microsoft ought to know better, but they don't. Why? Is it that the leaders of Microsoft are business people more than tech people? “It is difficult to get a man to understand something...
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[14:08:58] <exec> 08└─Was there ever a time when theater groups didn't use these wireless microphones? Actors have traditionally trained to project their voices. How large are these venues, anyway? This is a very minor crutch in modern life, definitely a FirstWorld problem. Get a grip!
[14:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:00] <exec> 08└─What's stopping elite disruptive genius teenage makers from making new wireless microphones that leverage unlicensed radio frequencies in the blockchain to AI their startup to a trillion dollar IPO ICO BBQ?
[14:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:02] <exec> 08└─And I suppose you've got an enormous Hamlet yourself? What about the Scottish play?
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[14:09:04] <exec> 08└─And, somewhat after the age of actors that could project their voices to a large theater, there was *wired* sound reinforcement that used a few microphones arranged in front of the stage. Not as clear as individual wireless mics, but with feedback notching for the room, a reasonable job was possible...
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[14:09:07] <exec> 08└─It is only _recently_ that I've managed to clue in to how to project when I sing on the street: Open your mouth all the way. Now pretend a doctor is pressing an tongue depressor on the inner end of your tongue. That will open up a much-larger resonant cavity in your throat. That will make you much l...
[14:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 2323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:09] <exec> 08└─Not really a problem. Production is weird; you'd assume based on "crying for money" that PBS stations would have junk gear and the big network local stations would have everything gold plated, but its the opposite. I don't think high schools that buy and maintain kilobuck class wireless mics for the...
[14:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:11] <exec> 08└─What's stopping elite disruptive genius teenage makers from
[14:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:14] <exec> 08└─This reallocation hit wireless microphones around 2008 or so also. The mics will still work though *illegally*. By the time anyone figures out you were interfering with their signals they will have new mics. Sound guys are notorious for thinking they need the latest and greatest or it just won't so...
[14:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 1819 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:16] <exec> 08└─A couple things: the greatest number of amateur theater productions is probably done by high schools. High school kids are not professional actors. They can be trained to project a bit, but it takes practice and their bodies are still growing and maturing (along with their voices), so it's a moving...
[14:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:36] <exec> 08└─However, when you try an antidepressant, that particular antidepressant might well not work at all. But _every_ antidepressant, if it _does_ work, takes quite a long time before it makes a different. So for each antidepressant you try, keep taking it for at least two months. If it doesn't work than...
[14:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, excellent points, but my comment here should be top-level: all throughout society there are products made which can cause great problems. The code is made available to anyone who wishes to inspect it before using it. If you trust it and hope that lots of people have inspected it and it's okay a...
[14:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:40] <exec> 08└─What the guy said who called his employers gaslighting assholes. It isn't up to us. It's up to them. First, an employer changed direction and tried to move me from crypto projects onto defence projects. I refused. Later, an employer revealed his true direction and tried to move me from video project...
[14:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:42] <exec> 08└─that's why I'm self-employed. And in fact I have resigned in ethical protest several times, from W-2 positions.
[14:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:44] <exec> 08└─Do you really have any tangible thing of value, or just placation bits in a database?
[14:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:46] <exec> 08└─It's only Godwinned if you consider Josef Mengele a Nazi. You'll find a few of those employers don't.
[14:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─... simple; just wait for Brexit, and then export the whole lot to Britain.
[14:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─The reason programmers aren't organized is that (speaking only for myself of course) we're mostly on the autistic spectrum to varying degrees, which makes it (and again speaking only for myself) extremely unnatural and uncomfortable for us to organize into anything resembling committee or cooperativ...
[14:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:53] <exec> 08└─Personal responsibility often gets carried too far. I wouldn't be too hard on Boisjoly. The training that engineers receive on such matters is laughably inadequate. No engineering school nor student wants to waste time on non-technical matters. It's the culture. This contributes to the stereotype of...
[14:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─I am a member of the ACM. I read over the ethics policy when it was a proposal, and made some comments about it. What concerned me most was a kind of arrogance implied in the policy, that takes for granted that we have the control and power to act effectively upon whatever ethical problems we see, a...
[14:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:58] <exec> 08└─If someone is going to claim ownership and rights to a piece of code then protect it with electronic lock or obscurity, why aren't they also held 100% responsible if that code causes mayhem?
[14:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 2201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:00] <exec> 08└─Thank you, MDC. I understand where you're coming from. As often, I see both sides and I'm torn. I've never been involved with anything big like a shuttle, so I can't really say what I would have done. From what I know of the Challenger Disaster, they had previously launched in very cold conditions,...
[14:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:02] <exec> 08└─You also have time value issues, WRT politics Overton window moving very fast on the left. Manufacturing a product white people buy such that it doesn't electrocute them or burn their house down might be declared ethically "racist" in a couple years, for example at current trends. Somewhat less hypo...
[14:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:05] <exec> 08└─If doctors hadn't organized, MBA CxO gaslighting assholes would warped the medical profession into the image of Josef Mengele.
[14:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:07] <exec> 08└─Wow, thank you, thank you for contributing here. As I've commented further down in this discussion, and too many times over the years, the wrong people are in charge. I understand someone with 10+ years direct hands-on experience becoming a boss who hopefully understands all the facets of production...
[14:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:24] <exec> 08└─I lived in France for the summer of '93 while I wrote my UCSC Senior Thesis on the french side of CERN. Our entire collaboration's office building reeked of cigarettes. Across the hall from me was this Texan graduate student who smoked a cigar every day at lunchtime - in his office. Beer and wine we...
[14:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:25] <exec> 08└─-razzi: One Mort.
[14:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:27] <exec> 08└─Actually due to the enormous amount of people alive today there is some hope: in the entire existence of the the human race some 100+ billion people have died and some 7+billion are still alive. So for a member of the human species there is still a significant chance of living forever.
[14:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─compared the contamination from fine particles
[14:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:32] <exec> 08└─What's the micromort number for leaving frozen meat on the counter to thaw
[14:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In-the-Wild Router Exploit Sends Unwitting Users to Fake Banking Site - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:16] <exec> 08└─Ah, I read the "here", "here", "here", "here", "here", and "advisory" links, but not that final one - thanks!
[14:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In-the-Wild Router Exploit Sends Unwitting Users to Fake Banking Site - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:18] <exec> 08└─However, "Geenens told Ars that Banco de Brasil’s website can be accessed over unencrypted and unauthenticated HTTP connections [...]"
[14:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Over-the-Counter Drugs, Dietary Supplements and Their Effect on Lab Test Results - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:16:01] <exec> 08└─He thought that all finance joints gave up on drug testing.
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[15:08:54] <exec> 08└─Anonymous Coders Could be Identified Even from Compiled Code [soylentnews.org] Using the Internet will be your eventual death sentence.
[15:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 2441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:56] <exec> 08└─As a network engineer, I have known this for years. For the devices with CLIs, and often, the ticketing systems in the organization with the hardware -- you can get a feel for who wrote what and what to expect when you go to look at that engineer's results. I expect it's no different with programmin...
[15:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:13] <exec> 08└─And I suppose you've got an enormous Hamlet yourself? What about the Scottish play?
[15:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:15] <exec> 08└─The kind of district that drops $40K on wireless mics likely has a $1M football field and has at least one $100K/yr administrator employees for every $30K/yr front line teacher (I live in such a district).
[15:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:17] <exec> 08└─I agree with you and my blood is boiling. As both an EE and occasional audio engineer, I'm steamed with this whole issue. You don't even need a Faraday cage! Wireless mics only work maybe 200ish feet anyway. Those frequencies are pretty much line-of-sight and get damped out by pretty much anything s...
[15:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:19] <exec> 08└─Nothing, they can and do, it just costs lots of money. That's what the article is about. If you're talking about re-tuning the RF circuits to work at currently open frequencies: you can't tune the circuits that far. It's like a 100,000 line code project being full of hard-coded numbers you need to c...
[15:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, in fact you can buy, and I have a Feedback Eliminator that does DSP and notches out frequencies that it determines are feedbacks. It's cool to watch it work and grab stuff before I can hear it. Sometimes they're false positives, but the notches are pretty narrow, so not much damage to sound qua...
[15:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 1993 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:24] <exec> 08└─As so often, I see a lot of speculation and postulation here. I'm sure people mean well, but as a part-time audio engineer I'll share some of the inside view. Admittedly I'm "overly audio oriented" but I can't help it. I wish everyone wanted sound to be as good as I want it to be, which is what moti...
[15:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:59] <exec> 08└─Manager vs. worker is not a divide made on the basis of higher expertise; it is a division based on class. The manager directs the workers (oversees them) and makes the decisions, while the workers do the work they are told to do. I'm not saying there is no expertise to being a manager (although man...
[15:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:01] <exec> 08└─Well, I admit, I should have realized that VLM would read my comment and be unable to understand why some of the German doctor's work should give one pause and how to apply the analogy to information technology. But Ethics for Soylentils is Aristarchus' bailiwick. Best check with him. Disclaimer: le...
[15:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─Let him whine. Less people starting coding means more contracts for us. We have plenty already. But hey. We can always charge even more Monneh. Also, more new/young people coding doesn't seem to mean more useful technology. Look at the IoT market, the advertising market, most web development that is...
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:05] <exec> 08└─I was fired for a job for refusing to run a demo for a military customer because of safety issues. Just because you can yell louder, doesn't mean everyone has the personal fortitude to do so. The entire setup of safety bureaucracy at NASA is designed to start with a form, and end with a form. He was...
[15:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:28] <exec> 08└─How many cases of SIDS are women exercising their right to choose in the fourth trimester?
[15:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:42] <exec> 08└─Also, ain't no one (or at least very few) who are suggesting you start growing dogs on large industrial farms for people to eat. The problem with pesticides is that, like your flea treatment, they are poison. They are designed or chosen because of their drastic effect on living cells inside living o...
[15:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hubie [1068] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:31] <exec> 08└─All you need is a grape [sfsu.edu]. Slice a grape almost all the way in half so that when you open it up, it is still connected like the two sides of an open book. Put that in the microwave and enjoy the light show. I've done this and it is a wonderful demo. I know of some people who have made a mic...
[15:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah, TFA describes plasma as "hard to make" but that is clearly false: shuffle your feet on a carpet and point your finger at the doorknob. Voilà: plasma! In fact the article even says this, albeit indirectly: "One way to make plasmas is to break apart molecules using powerful electric fields." (s...
[15:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:35] <exec> 08└─First, get your mercury in the quantity required to do so...that's not as easy as it once was.
[15:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:31] <exec> 08└─Monsanto maybe was wanting to get rid of their corporate name which had become as toxic as their products.
[15:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:24] <exec> 08└─Kirk was more of a playboy. Picard was more of a gentleman. We won't mention the other guy. At least Janeway seemed to fit the part.
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[16:09:02] <exec> 08└─Copy all your code from StackOverflow.
[16:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:04] <exec> 08└─It's a catchy phrase, but fingerprints are obviously more uniquely identifiable. If you want to go all CSI/Forensics, a much closer analogy is tool marks... or bullet ballistics.
[16:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 2039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:06] <exec> 08└─I think there is a nuance here, that you may or may not be seeing. Sure, an expert in any given field can spot subtle differences between the work of his peers, or the work of his subordinates. He has the knowledge and experience, he can perform whatever task at hand in a dozen different ways. He KN...
[16:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:08] <exec> 08└─Go easy on that ballistics nonsense. You'll end up triggering someone!
[16:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:11] <exec> 08└─Parent AC gave the only workable solution. Thank G_d for StackOverflow! Suck it, MDC! [soylentnews.org]
[16:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:13] <exec> 08└─Don't worry you get triggered enough for everyone. *STAND DOWN SJW HIT SQUAD!*
[16:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:15] <exec> 08└─1. Go to random subroutines, and put a comment at the top consisting of this text: //Who the fuck writes this garbage? I would never have done anything this fucking stupid 2. Include several if(!condition){//handle this later I'm sure it won't come up} 3. Follow zero project-wide indentation and cod...
[16:09:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 205 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:33] <exec> 08└─The kind of district that drops $40K on wireless mics likely has a $1M football field and has at least one $100K/yr administrator employees for every $30K/yr front line teacher (I live in such a district).
[16:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 2051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─As a "sound guy" I'll agree in part, and not feel insulted by the parts I know you meant well but are incorrect. But I am critical of most "sound guys", so I probably agree with you, but I hate being stereotyped. In fact, "latest" is often most definitely NOT the greatest. Try buying some 1960s and...
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:41] <exec> 08└─The problem is latency, esp if you have any voice processing in a mouse fart processor like that. Add that to room echo, and you'll end up with really confused people on stage hearing their voice with second+ delays. Radio just has the problem of room acoustics.
[16:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 1218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:43] <exec> 08└─Question - how much money could you make right now by selling a Bluetooth adaptor for the old mics? Unlicenced frequency so, sure, maybe not suitable for huge professional places, but pretty much you could encrypt the data stream, send any data you like, still use the same mics, and they wouldn't be...
[16:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:22] <exec> 08└─Case in point, Carmine. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:24] <exec> 08└─Well, if you want to win TMB over to your side, it might help to suggest to the reader what career she should choose instead. Welding, CNC operation, industrial robotics, all good things that anybody thinking about being a programmer should choose instead. Those jobs are more in demand, can't be out...
[16:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:26] <exec> 08└─This is awesome, but I don't know whether to laugh or cry!
[16:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:28] <exec> 08└─If the employee has ethics, will they refuse to work for a company or employer that doesn't have ethics?
[16:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:51] <exec> 08└─Don't be so sure. Both are about one in a million chances.
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[16:11:07] <exec> 08└─我經營一家中餐館，你麻木不仁！小狗很好吃！
[16:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06In-the-Wild Router Exploit Sends Unwitting Users to Fake Banking Site - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:42] <exec> 08└─So it has come to this. https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[16:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:02] <exec> 08└─You can make a pretty solid (95+%) vaccuum by boiling a small bit of water out of whatever vessel you chose (as it will push all the air out as well). If only you had access to a microwave to boil the wat.. oh, wait.
[16:12:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:38] <exec> 08└─What they need to do is say "If Roundup is safe, will the CEO please drink this container of Roundup while we all watch?" If he refuses, sue his fucking ass off.
[16:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:02] <exec> 08└─Roundup is not really that toxic to humans in the scheme of things when used wisely. Please concentrate on all the other ubiquitous pesticides that are categorically toxic to humans and animals. Roundup Ready is a terrible crop practice though because it is based on overuse of a valuable weedkiller....
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[17:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Signs Off on SpaceX's “Load-and-Go” Procedure for Crew Launches - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:56] <exec> 08└─Basically, the astronauts will be going into a heavily shielded capsule that can escape and survive an explosion (Crew Dragon is designed to re-enter the atmosphere from orbit), before any propellant is loaded into the rocket. vs. boarding a fueled rocket with ground crew present, all of whom would...
[17:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Signs Off on SpaceX's “Load-and-Go” Procedure for Crew Launches - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:58] <exec> 08└─I think you're wildly underestimating how devastating a rocket explosion is, and moderately overestimating how bad reentry is. I mean, I wouldn't be able to design a craft that could survive re-entry, but the core problem is solved with ceramics with very high heat tolerance and good aerodynamics. E...
[17:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Signs Off on SpaceX's “Load-and-Go” Procedure for Crew Launches - 1469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:00] <exec> 08└─Well, if you won't believe me, take it from Dr.Koenigsmann over here [digitaljournal.com]: NASA plans to address concerns over the "load-and-go" method as well as other safety concerns at the second quarterly meeting of the Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, scheduled for May 17, 2018. The meeting wil...
[17:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:15] <exec> 08└─Not to sound all grumpy but Textanalysis has come to source code ... who could have guessed. Nothing said it had to be "written" text as words and/or sentences. People putting any word to paper (or screen) apply themselves somehow to their work, no matter if it's written text or source code.
[17:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:17] <exec> 08└─All or part of that could make your code easier to identify. Some real solutions are to copy or "steal" code, have other parts of your code written, tidied, or obfuscated by computers (not you) if possible, don't share code if you can't take the previous steps, or never post code that can be linked...
[17:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:19] <exec> 08└─I was trying to joke about what it seems like every coder does. I knew when I was posting it it was a kinda limp joke. Didn't realize it was so flaccid as to be unrecognizable.
[17:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:21] <exec> 08└─The problem is that somebody is going to end up reading this [ic.ac.uk] and consider it a legit strategy for writing anonymous code.
[17:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:24] <exec> 08└─As a C programmer I used ? quite a bit. Well, not quite a bit but probably 2-3 times more often than the next guy. Some people hate it. "It's too complicated, I don't understand it". Not my problem, learn the language. Now I'm doing Java and OO. There are a lot of subtleties in those libraries, and...
[17:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:32] <exec> 08└─I think most people know that. I think what's broken is that the wrong personality-types are drawn into management / supervision. Much like most of politics, really. Some people are inherently "bossy". There are some great books, and lots of youtube vids. by psychologists talking about narcissistic,...
[17:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─Where do you live? Also, "coding" and "software development" are two different terms. "Coding" is perceived more as grunt work. So yeah, maybe there aren't many jobs for keyboard monkeys; that doesn't mean that you can't get a job developing software.
[17:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:36] <exec> 08└─Wow, you just love all the crazies on this site! Lovely company you choose to endorse.
[17:10:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 1680 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:51] <exec> 08└─It'd be really interesting to consider micromorts for supposed "risks" that freak out many people vs. other everyday behaviors that no one worries about. A couple examples: lots of pregnant women have a long list of foods they worry about consuming. But when my wife was pregnant and we were in Europ...
[17:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:00] <exec> 08└─Two quick googles later and I have the numbers: Odds of dying (as a woman) from heart attack between 50 and 60 (that is a 50 year old woman dying of heart attack before age 60) go from 0.4% to 1.3%. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] Odds of dying to ANY terrorist threat in Pari...
[17:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─-1 Stupid and misses the point. Life is indeed full of danger and risk and eventually ends in death. That doesn't mean you should speed up the process unnecessarily by doing idiotic things that have no benefit, such as smoking cigarettes. Here in the US, we're actually pretty good on this point: we'...
[17:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe you are out of your mind. For all the things the US does badly, we are pretty good with tap water quality in most places. Other countries really aren't. Not everything in Europe is better than in America. There's no way I'd assume the water quality in any other country, except maybe Japan, is...
[17:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:07] <exec> 08└─Try taking a taxi in Mumbai or Beijing in winter to drink on the way to the coal mine, right after you get off the plane.
[17:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:24] <exec> 08└─One can't help reading sarcastically into those variations over the usage of the sweet smelling hydrogen cyanide in WW1 and how huge chunks of American troops were/are 2nd gen immigrants.
[17:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peak Times for Perseid Meteor Shower - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:31] <exec> 08└─We went up the road to the darkest spot nearby, where there was a lot of people, almost a block party. One guy lugged his telescope, many had tripods with cameras. Milky way was showing off, when two days ago was smoky from some distant fires. We got lucky. We saw half a dozen Hollywood-style long b...
[17:12:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:41] <exec> 08└─1/ Monsanto / AG Bayer / IG Farben - whatever they choose to call themselves nowadays - and their army of lawyers will appeal and get the case dragging out for so long the plaintiff will be long dead before he gets a single compensation dollar 2/ $289M is pocket money for a company that size anyway....
[17:12:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 334 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:46] <exec> 08└─If we consider corporations artificial persons, we'll have to start applying the same measures for punishing them. Three strikes etc. I don't even know how often Monsanto has been caught doing shady as fuck shit. But they get off with a slap on the wrist so there is no learning or deterrent effect....
[17:15:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Airport Employee Steals Passenger Plane, Intercepted By NORAD F-15s, Crashes - 142 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:32] <exec> 08└─Sometimes under generally bad conditions, a pilot must restart an engine (or all of them) in-flight. It would be bad if that couldn't be done.
[17:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06JPEG Exploring Blockchain for DRM in JPG Photos - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:13] <exec> 08└─New to Web 3.0: Webpage with JavaScript on detects presence of Print Screen key, refuses to render Next Level JPEGs.
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[18:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Signs Off on SpaceX's “Load-and-Go” Procedure for Crew Launches - 1619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:04] <exec> 08└─Here is a pad explosion of the Falcon 9. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] 1:11 - Explosion begins 1:20 - Payload falls from top of rocket 1:23 - You can see the payload, based on the light around it there does not look to be any punctures So if you have the escape system pri...
[18:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Signs Off on SpaceX's “Load-and-Go” Procedure for Crew Launches - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:06] <exec> 08└─NASA's procedure is to have crew and ground crew crawling an already fueled rocket. Does that increase the chants of a spark which could ignite any fuel vapor that might be present?
[18:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Signs Off on SpaceX's “Load-and-Go” Procedure for Crew Launches - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:08] <exec> 08└─What do you mean by this having expert analysis that directly undercuts my amateur observation? Surely I cannot be wrong about this? (I'm totally wrong)
[18:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Signs Off on SpaceX's “Load-and-Go” Procedure for Crew Launches - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:10] <exec> 08└─An already loaded rocket is static. Nothing is happening. However fueling process is dynamic and had already caused an incident. Statistic shows that there was no loss of crew while climbing into a fueled rocket. Statistic will probably show that sitting in a well designed rocket during fueling is a...
[18:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:31] <exec> 08└─Those things don't go into the compiled code.
[18:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─A fundamental problem is that the FCC has forgotten that the RF spectrum doesn't belong to them, they are just it's stewards. They are supposed to represent all public interests, not just those of the for-profit telecoms industry. That at least suggests that if (for example) T-Mobile wants to take o...
[18:10:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 312 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:06] <exec> 08└─Personally, I am quite concerned that our Congress has not attached Responsibility with Rights when it comes to software. If someone is going to claim ownership and rights to a piece of code then protect it with electronic lock or obscurity, why aren't they also held 100% responsible if that code ca...
[18:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:46] <exec> 08└─There is a glut of programmers, and the job is only made easier by higher-level languages, libraries, StackOverflow and clones, as well as machines capable of writing code. There will be only token resistance to "unethical" acts, like a dozen employees leaving from Google. Others will gladly code st...
[18:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:47] <exec> 08└─Do you have any evidence that it *does* cause an allergic reaction in anyone? Just because some groups are afraid that it might doesn't mean that this is a reasonable stance. P.S.: If you're allergic to insects, don't eat wheat, rye, corn flour, etc. Those are all allowed to contain small amounts of...
[18:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:49] <exec> 08└─I *think* the demand for CNC operator has peaked. Of course, there are still jobs for Cobol programmers.
[18:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:52] <exec> 08└─I don't think the raw numbers tell the real story, though, as I suspect a much larger percentage of the current Apple employees have jobs other than programmer/analyst than was true in 1970. And they seem to have beefed up their legal staff.
[18:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:54] <exec> 08└─Ended in the gutter, now we're dead Ended in the gutter, now my whole team fuckin' dead Ended in the gutter, now we're dead Ended in the gutter, now the whole team dead, ligma Ended in the gutter, now we're dead Ended in the gutter, now my whole team here, ligma Ended in the gutter, now we're dead E...
[18:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:56] <exec> 08└─There is a glut of programmers script-kiddies
[18:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:25] <exec> 08└─> I'm not talking cancer from walking through the particle beam Not quite right: Walking near the particle beam gives cancer. Walking through the particle beam would cut you in half. https://spectrum.ieee.org
[18:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:27] <exec> 08└─They need to verify this with human testing like in the US. They can say how deadly it is when that position is convenient, and how minor the danger is when that's convenient: So if this is the case, why did EPA fail to warn their test subjects that the substances they would be exposed to in high do...
[18:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:02] <exec> 08└─It's not 6 degrees of freedom, it's 3 degrees of freedom but 6D phase space. Ok, so put this in layman terms for me: Is Kevin Bacon involved or not?
[18:12:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 41 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:27] <exec> 08└─Flask with partial vacuum: Uh, umm. Hrmm.
[18:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:39] <exec> 08└─Hello, We noticed you're browsing in private or incognito mode. To continue reading this article, please exit incognito mode or log in.
[18:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peak Times for Perseid Meteor Shower - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:54] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't you know the Perseids come and it goes to shit.
[18:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:32] <exec> 08└─Get them laid
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[19:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:52] <exec> 08└─you scurvy sea dogs!
[19:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:54] <exec> 08└─Isn't it basically just a honeypot right now?
[19:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:56] <exec> 08└─Share your torrent trackers on IRC like god intended.
[19:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:58] <exec> 08└─Unless you use some overlay network, I guess. Tor folks discourage file sharing and bittorrent in general, and the other such networks are too small to make it useful. It's better just to buy your content in a way that everyone involved agrees to the transaction—if you think it's too expensive, th...
[19:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:00] <exec> 08└─So, is a non-logging VPN the best way to *ahem* make use of that certain web-site? Are other sites better? Torrent? Magnet? Fishing lure? How do YOU do your Yaaar-ing? ---Captain Feathersword
[19:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:03] <exec> 08└─It is too expensive, and I don't mean just $. Copyright restrictions hold back society and progress. I consider it a civic duty to rebel against unfair laws and restrictions. I wish people would boycott the whole industry, stop watching movies, listening to music, and reading books altogether, until...
[19:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:05] <exec> 08└─Old enough to recall the early Internet days when downloading single songs was a big deal, much less even earlier when a 1 meg file was a challenge at 300 baud with X-modem or Z-modem. Torrents changed everything, and still do. Funny thing is that people still seem to believe that downloading via a...
[19:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:07] <exec> 08└─honeypot...?
[19:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:10] <exec> 08└─Just run in there with your adblockers and stuff, and use the magnet links. Most copyright holders can't be arsed to even attempt to deal with torrent piracy. Maybe you'll get a note from your ISP for participating in a torrent swarm. If you are scared, use streaming sites for video and torrents onl...
[19:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:12] <exec> 08└─There is a strong state interest in generic you sitting on a couch and consuming hours and hours of TV, including movies and music. This is the "circuses" part. Recently social networks became part of the curcuses as well. Books are on a back burner for several decades already, as few read them, whe...
[19:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Signs Off on SpaceX's “Load-and-Go” Procedure for Crew Launches - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:27] <exec> 08└─This is how you do it buzzy my boy! The joke would complement your style, but you need the part in parenthesis.
[19:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Signs Off on SpaceX's “Load-and-Go” Procedure for Crew Launches - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:29] <exec> 08└─Considering that NASA was initially against the idea, then got convinced that it's safe by SpaceX, there's a good chance that it has been reviewed by a lot of experts who had a significant incentive to not put their name on the approval of something that could turn into horrible PR. The NASA version...
[19:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:51] <exec> 08└─So in other words, as long as you are not new to the language it's easy to identify you as the author: It's when nobody else understands your code. ;-)
[19:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 2498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─If you are in a small company or team environment, this will be obvious. People on your team will pick up on your habits in coding style. The more obvious the style the sooner and easier it will be to pick up. However, the people that work with you will learn far quicker about your ability based on...
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:55] <exec> 08└─In other news, 99% of all c code positively identified by researchers as having been written by Kernighan & Ritchie. if (closedStyle) { braceForResults(); }
[19:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 1222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:57] <exec> 08└─I once worked on a contract where we had to add features to an existing C coded program, but we were explicitly prohibited from modifying any existing code unless absolutely necessary to the new features. The existing code had been written by two people years ago -- one a very experienced C programm...
[19:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:25] <exec> 08└─And what about the bleed-through from the repeater tower into the mic system? I'd be more worried about interference from the new system into the wireless mics than the other way around. But yes, the government can no longer just let a frequency allocation stay assigned. They make too much money fro...
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[19:10:27] <exec> 08└─Will they? You've researched that, then, and this new system won't bleed through harmonics into existing wireless mic systems?
[19:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 2082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:29] <exec> 08└─No disrespect intended, but your "I'd be..." is very typical of online speculation. That is to say, reality is often very different from philosophy / theory. I have never personally had any kind of repeater cause a problem. These systems are extremely frequency selective. RF interference certainly c...
[19:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:31] <exec> 08└─I forgot to mention, no, FCC wants to jail you for using 7xx MHz bands because 'it may interfere with emergency personnel and activities' (my wording, not FCC's).
[19:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:33] <exec> 08└─Hi again, I'm not sure of your experience with RF, HAM, etc., but these transmitters, by FCC rules, have quite clean RF output. I don't know the specs on RF sideband / harmonics, but it's very very low. I've had transmitters sitting next to each other on top of the receivers with the antennas 2" awa...
[19:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:27] <exec> 08└─I wasn't meaning to imply that it was inherently bad for you. I just was going with the noted factor that carmine is directly derived from insects. Which isn't something most people would think.
[19:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:29] <exec> 08└─Happily, in both instances, I was skilled and experienced enough to be able to find another job. Not everyone has that option. Think about that next time you visit the massage parlour.
[19:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:31] <exec> 08└─The workplace is not a democracy. It is hierarchical, almost dictatorial. This reinforces the tendency to tell people what to do rather than getting input from the peons. Remember, your boss may have been dictated to with no authority to change things. Passing it along, as it were. Plus in any hiera...
[19:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:01] <exec> 08└─These stats arent at all comparable. The percent of people who die directly due to smoking cigarettes (eg take a puff and choke on the smoke) is near zero. Just wait until "long term health effects of terrorism" becomes one of those issues pushed by academia. They will find a way to link all sorts o...
[19:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:19] <exec> 08└─look into using spinosad instead. brand name is comfortis.
[19:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peak Times for Perseid Meteor Shower - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─I saw 5 Shooting Stars. Not a lot. And nothing special -- VERY SMALL. Not like some I've seen that were very bright with a beautiful red Fire Ball. Remember when that huge meteor hit Russia? Nobody knew it was coming, nobody was ready for that one. Now there's so much hype about "oh, meteor Shower!"...
[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─have you looked into the claims about metformin?
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[20:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:05] <exec> 08└─But not because it's "pirated" but instead because it's mass media!
[20:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:07] <exec> 08└─^ Fun police!
[20:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:51] <exec> 08└─- see here, the cracker worked all night, had installed a firmware backdoor, had booted the cracked workstation onto the corporate network, had deployed his payload. The change was of course logged so we could give a look at it. The code was obfuscated, and we have a hunch that it was compiled, then...
[20:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:25] <exec> 08└─Junk spectrum-- Yes, we have had innovation in that band, but the tradeoff is that the band is full of noise. So, the devices using that band have to be able to handle the interference. Some applications are OK with data loss and retransmission and the unpredictable delays that that causes, and some...
[20:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:26] <exec> 08└─This smells of government oppression.
[20:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:24] <exec> 08└─Nice attempt to thin out the competition. Good effort. :D I will admit that after spending 30 years in IT work, if I had to go back and start college over again today, I sure wouldn't pick computer science. When I got my degree in the late eighties, the internet hadn't spread to the point where it w...
[20:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:12] <exec> 08└─Also, a court deciding your product causes cancer can't be good for business.
[20:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:13] <exec> 08└─Roundup has been widely used for MANY decades. If it were the superpoison some people think it is, you would have seen MANY, MANY cases of disease from it by now. It's just not there. Still, it is prudent to minimize your exposure to any chemical.
[20:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:15] <exec> 08└─The Jews that EF is referring to only exist in his imagination. His hypothesis requires a group of people who are simultaneously sub-human and weak, all the while being all-powerful and all-knowing.
[20:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:10] <exec> 08└─It appears that you were triggered. I personally know of 4 kids in their late teens/early twenties
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[21:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:10] <exec> 08└─You're just consumers.
[21:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:12] <exec> 08└─You're just an incel! You and your ilk can't get laid!
[21:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:55] <exec> 08└─I thought I'd mention that ? works in Java, as well. The , operator works as well, at least in for statements.
[21:11:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 1275 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:00] <exec> 08└─I am a member of the ACM. I read over the ethics policy when it was a proposal, and made some comments about it. What concerned me most was a kind of arrogance implied in the policy, that takes for granted that we have the control and power to act effectively upon whatever ethical problems we see, a...
[21:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:28] <exec> 08└─At least we can agree that Vim is superior to Emacs.
[21:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06First Particle Accelerator Beam Measurement In Six Dimensions - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:37] <exec> 08└─They claim to have measured the position and velocity of photons in a laser beam at the same time. Here is the exact same thing but for planets: https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] People actually achieving things like landing craft on other planets dont need to tal...
[21:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:17] <exec> 08└─You'll also need to turn off the cellular signal. And if you are paying the cellular bill for an early 20's person, it's YOU who have the problem.
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[22:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:09] <exec> 08└─Didn't this all start based on a hostile takeover rumor coming from Saudis?
[22:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:11] <exec> 08└─Rather than a hostile takeover, it could be seen as a willing embrace.
[22:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:13] <exec> 08└─Who exactly is suing? If it is investors, why? the value went up? really? If it is shorts, who gives a &*@#? Seriously, Shorts!=Investors with respect to the stock they shorted . . .
[22:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:15] <exec> 08└─"Eat my shorts!"
[22:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:18] <exec> 08└─This! Shorters are on derivatives markets, meaning they are for good and bad out of SEC rules. SEC rules also impose a lot of rules on investors, that derivatives investors do not need to abide to. To be honest the derivative options people need to take it as part of life.
[22:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:20] <exec> 08└─It's a smart move for the Saudis - ween off oil economy, get a head start on the oil-killer. I do wonder how it will go with US regulators. Many countries have some very specific rules about external interests and owning massive/important companies.
[22:09:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 378 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:37] <exec> 08└─It is too expensive, and I don't mean just $. Copyright restrictions hold back society and progress. I consider it a civic duty to rebel against unfair laws and restrictions. I wish people would boycott the whole industry, stop watching movies, listening to music, and reading books altogether, until...
[22:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:46] <exec> 08└─No need for the police if all media was consumed by a series of voluntary contracts.
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─But a song was transmitted over air waves and my auto recorder caught it, converted to mo3 and auto shared a torrent link. There was no agreement stipulated at the beginning of the song so now everyone has voluntarily interacted and the song is freely available as long as people seed the torrent.
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─...buy your content in a way that everyone involved agrees...
[22:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:53] <exec> 08└─only when you really care about analbum.
[22:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Even Anonymous Coders Leave Fingerprints - 1095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:38] <exec> 08└─The problem with this sort of technique is that the reliability of the match drops quickly as the search space grows relative to the number and quality of markers being used. So comparing a sample set of 100 coders may yield excellent results at 99% accuracy, while the match at 10000 coders is likel...
[22:11:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 674 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:05] <exec> 08└─A fundamental problem is that the FCC has forgotten that the RF spectrum doesn't belong to them, they are just it's stewards. They are supposed to represent all public interests, not just those of the for-profit telecoms industry. That at least suggests that if (for example) T-Mobile wants to take o...
[22:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:13] <exec> 08└─I think my point was a lot simpler than that. RF Interference from the new system into the receiver of the microphone directly on the mic's freuqenc(ies), thus rendering the microphone useless. I rather doubt you've had transmitters of whatever the new frequency licensee is, operating at the microph...
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[22:11:15] <exec> 08└─Again, I'm referring to the new spectrum owner's usage of the frequency. If they (the new owner's system) are transmitting right on top of your mic's frequency at a great enough power (with either the same modulation or a modulation that causes interference) your microphones will be useless. Unless...
[22:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:18] <exec> 08└─Interesting, I imagined there might be something like the Feedback Eliminator you mention, but never looked. Back in the 70s, we felt we were special with a borrowed third-octave graphic equalizer, and a parametric equalizer that we could use to make a couple of notches (all analog). Luckily, our sp...
[22:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:16] <exec> 08└─Weeeelllll, wasn't someone pissed at being spotted coming out of the massage parlour.
[22:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:18] <exec> 08└─Er... without really knowing it, you just summed up most of what is currently wrong with the coding industry.
[22:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Appeals Court Orders EPA to Ban the Pesticide Chlorpyrifos - 1280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:08] <exec> 08└─My favorite daughter always goes for the organic. No chemicals, right? I think she likes it because it costs a lot more. I taught her to NEVER SETTLE and sometimes she gets a little carried away with that. Me, I love chemicals. Because they mean JOBS for our great American workers. And MONEY for our...
[22:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:06] <exec> 08└─Too high effort. Stick tape to a mirror, rip off - plasma!
[22:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Turn a Kitchen Microwave Into a Plasma-Etching Device - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:08] <exec> 08└─I got that too, but eventually it rendered its proper content. All JS off, all cookies off.
[22:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:14] <exec> 08└─Roundup is not really that toxic to humans in the scheme of things when used wisely.
[22:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:11] <exec> 08└─They get paid for this stuff?! Most of it is childishly obvious. "compassionate people spend less time on social media than people who are more self-centered and narcissistic" "people who are uncomfortable with their own and others' emotions may be more comfortable online" The only interesting thing...
[22:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:12] <exec> 08└─I prefer a meal where everyone hasn't got shitty beards, shittier tattoos, still shittier piercings, really shitty Elton John spectacles and are dressed like undercover trainee cops at a rock festival, and especially I prefer a meal at a restaurant where they actually understand that it matters to s...
[22:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dealing With Digital Distraction: Being Ever-Connected Comes at a Cost, Studies Find - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:14] <exec> 08└─For some reason you made me think of "If I Was With A Woman" by Ian Dury. Now, there's an incel anthem.
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[23:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:13] <exec> 08└─"Shorters are on derivatives markets"
[23:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:14] <exec> 08└─According to this, the SEC does regulate "shorters": Regulation SHO is a regulation implemented on January 3, 2005, that seeks to update legislation concerning short sale practices. [...] The intent of the rule, according to the SEC, is to prevent short selling that, in particular, is meant to be ab...
[23:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:16] <exec> 08└─The US is very picky about external takeovers, but the Saudi are our Best Buddies, so that would be fine. ... Except that traditional car makers will freak out at the amount of money suddenly becoming available to Tesla, and invite every lawyer they can find to read the anti-muslim anti-SA terror la...
[23:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:19] <exec> 08└─Investors have to be Saudis because Americans don't have any money. The Boomers are busy spending their pensions on luxuries as fast as they can before they die. GenXers are slaving from paycheck to paycheck. Millennials are starving while they drive Ubers for negative net income. Homelanders are st...
[23:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Funding for Tesla to Go Private Could Come From Saudis; Lawsuits and SEC Scrutiny Increase - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:21] <exec> 08└─Thanks conservatives for sucking the big dong of oil execs! Is the runoff trickling down and making you feel better? Fuckers tanked the country out of hate, fear, and greed. THANKS A LOT!
[23:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pirate Bay Turns 15 Years Old - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─Tachyonic particles are so forward-thinking, they swing backwards.
[23:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Strange David and Goliath Saga of Radio Frequencies - 2174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:17] <exec> 08└─Assuming a vocalist has some skill already, they mostly do what is necessary to get the tone/volume for their style of singing, and will already be 'projecting' to some degree. If I sing pop/blues/ballad type music, I can't project in the same way as if I'm singing a classical operatic/broadway styl...
[23:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethics Training for Coders - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:20] <exec> 08└─Client needs - check System design - check Coding - check Testing - check Ethics review - uhoh... PC-ism arrives: I'm sorry Larry, your software is very good but the Ethics Committee in HR have raised some concerns. As a result we are going to need to let you go.
[23:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Year in Paris is as Bad for Your Health as Smoking 183 Cigarettes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:52] <exec> 08└─How do you figure "no benefit"? The effects of nicotine are well documented, and very pleasant in my opinion.
[23:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monsanto Ordered to Pay $289 Million in Glyphosate Cancer Trial - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:20] <exec> 08└─And yet their share price has plummetted >10% in a day. https://www.bbc.co.uk
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