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[04:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02One guess... - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:10] <exec> 08└─...as to who is doing the DDOS. Who is MPAA? RIAA? Oh, wait I said one guess.
[04:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Time to leave California? - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:19] <exec> 08└─The time to leave California was the time they ran out of electricity due to corruption and did nothing to fix it or the time they ran out of water and did nothing to fix it. (until very recently)
[04:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Just because we became aware? - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:23] <exec> 08└─Wait, that might, would, has already, maybe will, happen anyway. Where its happened building standards get tightened. Usually state wide. What I was saying, is just because someone found a new junction (that was presumably always there) is NO reason to expect a different future that we've had in the...
[04:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Just because we became aware? - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:25] <exec> 08└─Building standards get tightened but existing buildings still stay in the same dangerous design. And the future is the same but the consequences may be too severe.
[04:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Just because we became aware? - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:27] <exec> 08└─True, there is a huge inventory of older buildings that could present problems. California standards do strongly recommend (and in most cases require) retrofitting older brick buildings [ca.gov]. Especially as each comes up for sale. In fact they boast [sfgate.com]: The impact of the improvement...
[04:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Just because we became aware? - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:29] <exec> 08└─But its a BIG area, and it covers more than just the park. The Evac zone could be rather large, and should it decide to show Mt St. Helens who is boss, it could cover 3 states in ash. It wouldn't be the first time.
[04:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Just because we became aware? - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:30] <exec> 08└─But its a BIG area, and it covers more than just the park. The Evac zone could be rather large, and should it decide to show Mt St. Helens who is boss, it could cover 3 states in ash. It wouldn't be the first time.
[04:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Superquake - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:32] <exec> 08└─It would be a real loss if California "fell off" the edge of the continenet and was subsumed by the sea. Californians on the other hand...
[04:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Superquake - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:34] <exec> 08└─What's so bad about Californians? ;)
[04:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Superquake - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:35] <exec> 08└─Washington State Joke: Three guys are out camping: A guy from Kentucky, California, and Washington State. They're sitting around the campsite chewing the fat when the guy from Kentucky pulls out a bottle of whiskey, takes a swig, puts the cork back in, tosses the bottle up in the air, and BOOM -- sh...
[04:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Superquake - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:37] <exec> 08└─California won't fall into the ocean, but a large block will likely continue moving north. A big chunk of Alaska was once alongside the lower 48.
[04:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Twitter = Censor - 06GNU Social Usage in Spain is Suddenly Rising - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:48] <exec> 08└─ISIL had a pretty good run on Tweeter
[04:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Compared to Diaspora? - 06GNU Social Usage in Spain is Suddenly Rising - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:52] <exec> 08└─I dono... Like I say, the servers are running, and being on any one of them makes you available from just about any other one. Nobody wants to charge money to use jabber because its so cheep to run a jabber server you can put it in a corner of you server and forget it. Amazingly robust. No need of a...
[04:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Begone Yee filthy terrorists! - 06GNU Social Usage in Spain is Suddenly Rising - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:03:54] <exec> 08└─Now they (terrorists) are making threats against Twitter. [dailycaller.com]
[04:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Funny) 02GNU Social, of course they are - 06GNU Social Usage in Spain is Suddenly Rising - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:57] <exec> 08└─Gnus are hurd animals.
[04:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:1) 02Hormones and emotions - 06Teradata Believes that Bill Gates is Wrong About AI - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:29] <exec> 08└─Humans are mostly hormone, and therefore, emotion driven. I don't know how true AI will compare to that, but I hope and expect it will at least be generally less unpredictable and more reliable. An important biological drive is survival. It can get tricky if AI gets the same.
[04:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DOS Operating System - 06Microsoft Is Forty and Fabulous - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:10] <exec> 08└─And still running with pedant mode, Microsoft is definitely not "fabulous". Though, I have to admit it has a better ring to it than "Microsoft Is Forty, Fat, Seedy and a bit Embarrassing, like that uncle with some 'history' who comes to family gatherings and leers at the youngsters."
[04:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Overstated your case, dude - 06Microsoft Is Forty and Fabulous - 767 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:25] <exec> 08└─steal his partner's portion Gonna need a cite on that one. http://www.dailymail.co.uk [dailymail.co.uk] http://www.forbes.com [...
[04:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:-5 Trollish, childish name mangling - 06Microsoft Is Forty and Fabulous - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:05:54] <exec> 08└─ooh, that's handy to know. +1 informative for you. :)
[04:06:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lentilla [1770] 02Re:Good and Bad - 06The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars - 481 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:06:34] <exec> 08└─I can't help but point out (and I'm surprised nobody seems to have mentioned it already on this thread) that damage to roads is proportional to the fourth power of the axle weight [wikipedia.org]. Without wanting to unduly labour this point (since we've already been through this in other discussions...
[04:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and Bad - 06The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:06:35] <exec> 08└─I can't help but point out (and I'm surprised nobody seems to have mentioned it already on this thread) that damage to roads is proportional to the fourth power of the axle weight. Without wanting to unduly labour this point (since we've already been through this in other discussions), it's worth re...
[04:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Good and Bad - 06The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:06:39] <exec> 08└─Proper road tax should incorporate two things, 1. initial capital costs, based on usage - this comes from property taxes (frontage) as well maybe mileage fees 2. actual road damage, which is 4th power of actual weight per axle. You see, a cement truck with 40 tons of concrete or a semi with 4...
[04:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:1) 02the wine - 06Medieval Remedy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA Superbugs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:18] <exec> 08└─Without wine, you wouldn't get much copper. Wine is acidic.
[04:08:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Aichon [5059] 02Unpublished - 069th Circuit Rules Netflix isn’t Subject to Disability Law - 1346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:17] <exec> 08└─It's unpublished because they're simply citing earlier precedent and saying there's nothing special about this case. The 9th Circuit established precedent on how they interpret "public accommodation" way back in 2000, which they interpreted to be referring narrowly to physical places. In the actual...
[04:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Unpublished - 069th Circuit Rules Netflix isn’t Subject to Disability Law - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:21] <exec> 08└─I like where you're going with this. Maybe porn videos should offer play-by-play announcement for the benefit of the visually impaired. Done by some guy who sounds like Johnny Most. [youtube.com]
[04:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Low income? - 06Ten Percent of Americans Have Internet Access Only Through Their Smartphones - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:42] <exec> 08└─Low income use mobile internet only? Perhaps ditch the cell phone and pay for broadband in your house instead? I have hard time believing that mobile internet can be cheaper than hardline. Nearly all Americans live in areas where they can buy broadband service if they could afford it, but Internet...
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[05:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Frustrated researchers, eh? - 06Frustrated Magnets: New Experiment Reveals Clues to their Discontent - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:01] <exec> 08└─The choice of terminology suggests their students aren't putting out often enough. Suck a cock for science!
[05:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:1) 02DDOS resiliency - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:09] <exec> 08└─But isn't a service that has to do the whole search from scratch on demand far more susceptible to DDOS than the current version, with all the data already there? I understand the change is done to avoid legal trolling, but since facts aren't swaying the MAFIAA, why even bother trying to placate the...
[05:02:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Twitter = Censor - 06GNU Social Usage in Spain is Suddenly Rising - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:37] <exec> 08└─Twitter is all to ready to play censor. This isn't the first, or even the fifteenth time. Twitter is pure speech - if it won't stand up for freedom of speech, it needs to die.
[05:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good and Bad - 06The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:05:28] <exec> 08└─> Are you prepared to pay 5x more than your ICE neighbor for infrastructure because of your EV with all of its heavy batteries? Why do you assume hypocrisy on his part? > Trucks are already taxed more, so the point is moot. Stop deflecting. Yeah? Define "more." Because that sounds like deflection to...
[05:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:how much modern medicine is being lost - 06Medieval Remedy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA Superbugs - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:06:31] <exec> 08└─http://www.mrcoffee.com/replacement-parts/coffeemaker-gold-tone-permanent-filter-10-12-cup-cup-style/GTF2-NP.html?gclid=CKOPk_mk3sQCFQmTaQodRkoAcQ&kwid=productads-plaid^41032574300-sku^GTF2@ADL4NP-adType^PLA-device^c-adid^55532710210 [mrcoffee.com] Indefinitely reusable, nothing to throw away, no tr...
[05:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Title doesn't match article - 06No Backdoors Found in TrueCrypt - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:19] <exec> 08└─While the time-boxed nature of the engagement prevented auditors from reviewing the source code in its entirety, the most relevant areas were investigated thoroughly. The assorted AES implementations in both parallel and nonparallel XTS configurations were a particular point of focus.
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[06:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 0219th Century research is in my car?! - 06Frustrated Magnets: New Experiment Reveals Clues to their Discontent - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:01] <exec> 08└─That is fucking it. I'm trading in my car to buy a mule cart, pulled by niggers!
[06:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GNU Social, of course they are - 06GNU Social Usage in Spain is Suddenly Rising - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:02:53] <exec> 08└─Gnu are a clever animal.
[06:04:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02Re:Fabulous? - 06Microsoft Is Forty and Fabulous - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:04:15] <exec> 08└─"UEFI and secure boot standard" should be corrected as "UEFI secure banning of operating systems we don't control standard".
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[07:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02The brain sees back to front! - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:00] <exec> 08└─The visual cortex is in the occipital lobe in the rear of the brain, and this where actual image processing happens in an actual brain. Thus the illustration is perfectly correct in context.
[07:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The brain sees back to front! - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:01] <exec> 08└─Oh right. It's a blog. Bloggers are morons. Carry on.
[07:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Anterior vs posterior view? - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:03] <exec> 08└─How is one view superior to the other?
[07:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02more like desperate magnets - 06Frustrated Magnets: New Experiment Reveals Clues to their Discontent - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:13] <exec> 08└─Under extremely frigid conditions, even the most neutral non-charged particles turn bi-sexual.
[07:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:DDOS resiliency - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:02:23] <exec> 08└─My thought exactly. I guess he's more afraid from bogus court-order than DoS attack. Too bad they don't care about justice, only profit.
[07:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:We can predict - 06Teradata Believes that Bill Gates is Wrong About AI - 1740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:28] <exec> 08└─I talk to the fricking owner, as my daddy always says "never talk to an Indian son, always talk to the Chief if you want shit done" and he was cursing so damned much the assistant had to nudge him to keep it down! Anyway he says the supplier has one hot mess of a computer system, it'll send you a to...
[07:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:We can predict - 06Teradata Believes that Bill Gates is Wrong About AI - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:03:28] <exec> 08└─Methinks Hairyfeet doth protest too much . . . Is it possible AI has already been achieved, by Gates himself, and that that AI is now deployed right here on Soylent News? Just think of the genius of it! Hairyfeet is an AI! Who would suspect! To quote Morpheus, "That sounds like the thinking of a m...
[07:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bill Gates: The giant asshole - 06Microsoft Is Forty and Fabulous - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:36] <exec> 08└─Bill-Gates-tried-cut-Paul-Allen-Microsoft-fell-ill-cancer I somehow managed to miss that narrative up to now. I have always given Gates full credit for being an asshole but didn't completely appreciate his aptitude for assholery to his business partner. At first, I thought there was some confusion w...
[07:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Fabulous? - 06Microsoft Is Forty and Fabulous - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:04:39] <exec> 08└─Nope this site has become infested by SJWs and FOSSies, anybody who points out fricking history gets modded down while the batshit FOSSies that calls Gates a murderer? Informative. Say what you will about Slash but at least they keep the SJWs to YRO and the FOSSies to the Linux articles, here they a...
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[08:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:3, Funny) 02Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:12] <exec> 08└─Look at the Scientific American link and you will see the problem. It's not that they turned the image around from the traditional view, it's that they show the brain backwards in the outline of a human head, such that the frontal lobe is at the back of the skull. That is unquestionably wrong (thoug...
[08:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:13] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there an episode of The Outer Limits about a congressman who didn't know he was an alien until he hit his head in an accident and a brain scan revealed extra lobes?
[08:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Man - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:15] <exec> 08└─Scraping the bottom again, eh.
[08:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:No need to fear. - 06Teradata Believes that Bill Gates is Wrong About AI - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:32] <exec> 08└─You mistake PC wit AI. The PC is just a tool. The AI is a program that can use PC, and many more. The AI will have no problems finding your printer.
[08:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:Medical expert system - 06Teradata Believes that Bill Gates is Wrong About AI - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:53] <exec> 08└─... aaand I have cancer. Thanks. :(
[08:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Re:AI will never be as a dangerous as humans - 06Teradata Believes that Bill Gates is Wrong About AI - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:55] <exec> 08└─Two factions (A and B) battle, one of them (A) create AI and instruct it to kill everything that is not them (A). Then B killed A. Then AI killed B and mankind was gone.
[08:06:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02Re:Obligatory - 06Google Announces New Chromebooks - 1024 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:30] <exec> 08└─I once bought a Chromebook, naively thinking that I would just put a fresh OS on it and go about my day. Then I found out that Google really doesn't want you replacing their OS. To completely clean their kernel off the machine I had to overwrite the BIOS, and to turn BIOS write protection off I had...
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[09:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Prohibition works - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:01] <exec> 08└─Actually it doesn't.. and there is..proof.. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] http://www.druglibrary.org [druglibrary.org] So someone will just.. Import it, even illegally.
[09:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:02] <exec> 08└─Well I kinda want to agree that this should not hit mass market shelves. I can see bad things happening from that. I *am* especially worried about kids.
[09:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02omg ban it - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:05] <exec> 08└─Palcohol is the scary new Four LOKO
[09:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Anterior vs posterior view? - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:15] <exec> 08└─Well, the view on your mom's posterior is actually the preferable one.
[09:02:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 341 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:17] <exec> 08└─Look at the Scientific American link and you will see the problem. It's not that they turned the image around from the traditional view, it's that they show the brain backwards in the outline of a human head, such that the frontal lobe is at the back of the skull. That is unquestionably wrong (thoug...
[09:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:19] <exec> 08└─Fiction requires a willing suspension of disbelief and if it can't get that concession, it's lousy fiction. That episode you mention sounds like it would suck. Now, if the brain scan showed large empty cavities, perhaps full of hot gas, that's something I could believe.
[09:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02AnonTechie - 06Frustrated Magnets: New Experiment Reveals Clues to their Discontent - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:30] <exec> 08└─Did you understand this story? What is the "neutral particle" you write of?
[09:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AnonTechie - 06Frustrated Magnets: New Experiment Reveals Clues to their Discontent - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:32] <exec> 08└─Imagine an electrically neutral, non-charged, spherical troll.
[09:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02And? - 06Frustrated Magnets: New Experiment Reveals Clues to their Discontent - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:33] <exec> 08└─Ong [et al] decided to see if they could settle the debate and demonstrate conclusively that the Hall Effect exists for frustrated magnets.
[09:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One guess... - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:41] <exec> 08└─How is that not illegal? I remember previously hearing about the MPAA/RIAA/some other copyright thug hiring companies in other countries to DDOS websites they don't like.
[09:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Problem - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:44] <exec> 08└─I don't know what I'm talking about (and the site was so slow to load —although it got there in the end— I didn't bother trying to use it) but: - Why not make Strike distributed instead? Bittorrent itself is distributed. DHT is distributed. Strike centralizes to a site, forget having a site beyo...
[09:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GNU Social, of course they are - 06GNU Social Usage in Spain is Suddenly Rising - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:27] <exec> 08└─Whoosh. Clever, sure but also https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score:2) 02Subject - 06Amazon Unveils Real-World Button for Repeat Purchases with One-Hour Delivery Times! - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:36] <exec> 08└─> Purchases with One-Hour Delivery Times! > Amazon is also testing a new ultra-speed delivery service That sounds like bots on steroids. Copters unite! To the doorsteps! Go, go, go!! Approaching target ...3...2...1... Persil away! Good hit, return to base. > "Prime Now" service Huehuehue.
[09:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and Bad - 06The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:06:14] <exec> 08└─You know how I mentioned previously that attempting to calculate a "fair share" was a fool's errand? No, but I'd consider it reasonable to share infrastructure.
[09:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Good and Bad - 06The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:06:15] <exec> 08└─There's that license plate sticker that contributes to paying for roads... in theory. Sure, it's not the same as sticker+gas tax. But the EVs don't cause billions in health care costs to the state from spewing their pollution in the middle of the city.
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[13:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Walton and Johnson - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:59] <exec> 08└─I heard this on the drive home yesterday, on the Walton and Johnson show. A couple libertarian minded guys who like to discuss politics on air - and they are just a wee bit geeky at times. One of their favorite subjects, is just how DUMB crooks can be. This article gives a few more details - thanks...
[13:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Walton and Johnson - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─I can't think of a company more at odds with regulators lately than Uber, so it's a pretty interesting topic.
[13:24:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Cost vs price - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:07] <exec> 08└─The nanoparticles may cost a buck,but how much you want to bet the medical system charges another $2499 to administer it? And probably $500 for a specialist to read it?
[13:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Not nearly cynical enough - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:09] <exec> 08└─How much you want to bet that the FDA will ban it?
[13:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, ban something for the children. That's freedom & Small Government. Land of the free, home of the brave. So free & brave that we ban something for everyone because... children!
[13:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:20] <exec> 08└─The company notes that snorting it is difficult, painful, and not dangerous. Perhaps it would be dangerous if you consumed a massive slurry of it and the alcohol was released in the stomach. Millions of kids can get anything from Everclear to meth without much trouble. I say we let Darwinism sort it...
[13:24:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:21] <exec> 08└─And you know, the FDA and whatnot, it's their JOB to regulate this kind of thing. Do you want the freedom to be intentionally sold E. coli infected food? How about the freedom to be sold expired, dangerous medication? If you care that much, then you must agree that it must be legal for any private c...
[13:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:23] <exec> 08└─A weapon of mass destruction is definitely similar to something you can consume. And you know, the FDA and whatnot, it's their JOB to regulate this kind of thing.
[13:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:25] <exec> 08└─Actually, the mass incarceration and minimum sentences is an abomination. I just see kids spiking their orange juice with 5 of these at school lunch and sneaking them in the bottom of their shoe.
[13:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:26] <exec> 08└─That's their problem, then. No need to ban it for everyone. I'm tired of this attitude, and if you really oppose the drug war, then you should be tired of it too.
[13:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:28] <exec> 08└─Bottom of their shoe? Are these schools or prisons? They could just as easily keep it in a backpack, lunchbox, or premixed into a bottled drink. Or just use vodka instead. Kids get caught with mary jane at school because it is easy to detect. Alcohol, not so much.
[13:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:30] <exec> 08└─What about kids sampling the entire home drug cabinet AND drink cabinet? Not worried about that? It certainly happens a lot more often than kids overdosing on powdered alcohol. Protip: it's hard to actually kill yourself with alcohol, unless you mix in other drugs. You end up either drunk or vomitin...
[13:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:32] <exec> 08└─Also, this powdered alcohol garbage is actually pretty weak even compared to normal alcohol.
[13:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:33] <exec> 08└─that's the same FDA that, at the behest of Rumsfeld, approved aspartame for human consumption without peer-reviewed human interaction studies having been carried out and in the face of actual evidence of the harmful effects of the chemical, right? That's ok then, I thought it would be an organisatio...
[13:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:35] <exec> 08└─Market forces will probably kill it off naturally, it has several times in the past: http://www.science20.com
[13:24:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:omg ban it - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:38] <exec> 08└─As another alcohol+gimmick thing, yup, but the 4-loco gimmick was quite different - caffeine. I hate to say anything in defence of 4-loco, but, erm, Irish Coffee? For a laugh last year, I did a pub-crawl (admittedly a short one) where I drank nothing but Irish coffees!
[13:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02snorting it, was clearly a joke - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:39] <exec> 08└─Well now Mark Phillips has learned never ever make a joke, because stupid morons will take it literally. Now suck a sack of nigger cocks, and don't forget to swallow, kiddies.
[13:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:snorting it, was clearly a joke - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:41] <exec> 08└─I doubt anyone here enjoys the same hobbies as you.
[13:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:3, Informative) 02Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:43] <exec> 08└─I read the whole article but it didn't mention which States are banning it. Went off to search other articles and I'm finding mixxed answers. http://rt.com [rt.com] says Alaska, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South...
[13:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:44] <exec> 08└─Do you always use products exactly as advertised? Do you read the label and serve only the amount listed as one serving? Would you snort if the marketing material suggested you could snort it?
[13:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:46] <exec> 08└─Do you routinely non sequitur?
[13:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03basicbasicbasic [411] (Score:1) 02Re:Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:49] <exec> 08└─You already don't have to carry heavy glass bottles, though - you can decant the liquid in to a plastic bottle. That goes for foods in glass jars, too. And things like cereals can go in a sandwich bag / ziplock bag to save space. And I don't know why he says carrying liquid alcohol and mixers is "to...
[13:24:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:51] <exec> 08└─True. However the reduction in water weight alone would be worth it. 1oz of powder saves you from carrying 6oz of liquids. Bring a water filter with you and you are set.
[13:24:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03basicbasicbasic [411] (Score:1) 02Re:Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:52] <exec> 08└─Or you could carry 1g of a different powder that would weigh even less, get you even higher, and wouldn't require water.
[13:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:55] <exec> 08└─Ha! I like the cut of your jib!
[13:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03yarp [2665] (Score:1) 02Re:Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:57] <exec> 08└─You mean black pepper, right?
[13:24:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02Hypocrisy - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:59] <exec> 08└─Ban the guns, legalize pot, prevent the sale of powdered alchool and don't do anything about oral suction circumcision. Because children. Or something. You guys look inconsistent as hell from the outside, then again, which country doesn't.
[13:24:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Hypocrisy - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:00] <exec> 08└─Do you remember when France outlawed encryption and SSH was illegal? Those were the days.
[13:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hypocrisy - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:02] <exec> 08└─You must be a foreigner if you think there is a trend towards banning guns in the U.S. Pot legalization isn't exactly moving at a breakneck pace, and the drug war is still in full effect. Palcohol banning is scaremongering over a product with little or no market (yet).
[13:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stupid product - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:04] <exec> 08└─If you're gonna carry that powder with you to not carry bottles of alcohol you still have to carry just as many bottles of water... and the powder. Unless you're gonna use some water you find out in the wild and hope for the best.
[13:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Anterior vs posterior view? - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:06] <exec> 08└─Your comment gets multiple LOLs, dying. First, you may have meant to post AC. Second, my mom has been dead for a long time now. Are you a necrophiliac? Third - you're stating the obvious. I was going to mention that I prefer to follow a woman with (or without) a brain, but it was so obvious, I let i...
[13:25:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:08] <exec> 08└─http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthright_(The_Outer_Limits) [wikipedia.org] It was told from the point of view of a senator in existential crisis. He wasn't quite the everyman character you might prefer to see, but placing an ordinary everyman so deeply into an alien conspiracy might ruin the suspens...
[13:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:10] <exec> 08└─What image? The only image I see is in the press release, http://news.usc.edu , and that shows no outline of the human head?
[13:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:11] <exec> 08└─After a bit of clicky-clicky, http://ami.org has this: http://ami.org
[13:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:14] <exec> 08└─That one too.
[13:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:16] <exec> 08└─This [twimg.com]. As shown in the Scientific American link (scroll down).
[13:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:17] <exec> 08└─SA not showing me the same page that they're showing you: http://fatphil.org
[13:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:19] <exec> 08└─Ahhhhhh - I didn't see that image. Yeah - backward. As suggested above though, it could well be a congress critter.
[13:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Man - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:21] <exec> 08└─It is the weekend... But yeah, PR dweeb screws up technical clip-art is weak, weak tea.
[13:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:AnonTechie - 06Frustrated Magnets: New Experiment Reveals Clues to their Discontent - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:23] <exec> 08└─I wanted to say photons are the neutral particle they are measuring, but I'm really not quite sure. They have a crystal they they pass a heat current through, and then applied a magnetic field in the direction perpendicular to the heat current, and the heat current deflected to one side, demonstrati...
[13:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One guess... - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:33] <exec> 08└─Legality only matters if you get caught. See every crime ever committed. And while I am totally willing to blame the MAFIA. I'm also willing to blame other groups too, like some *chan doing it for the lulx or some authoritarian copyright maximalist hackers.
[13:26:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score:2) 02Re:Gnu - they have a chance, can they pull it off? - 06GNU Social Usage in Spain is Suddenly Rising - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:11] <exec> 08└─I'd imagine it's just a federated service... just like email or the web. No one entity controls it, and just because you have a .uk or .au or .fi or... domain doesn't mean you can't talk to everyone else.
[13:28:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:The only good thing about Microsoft - 06Microsoft Is Forty and Fabulous - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:11] <exec> 08└─Funny. Their, They're, There, errors usually grate on me, but "they are evil level" didn't even register. It seems to be almost correct. :)
[13:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Save the Valcanos! - 06Watch a Volcano - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:38] <exec> 08└─Brilliant! We have found a way to prevent volcanic eruptions! Just keep watching, people!
[13:28:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Save money now, - 06The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:54] <exec> 08└─Sure, but they are a lot more easily recycled than the shit that comes out of the tailpipe of a regular ICE car. Despite all the advances, what comes out of the tailpipe of most cars is still filthy. I can't wait for the day when all cars are electric, it will do wonders for air quality.
[13:29:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gnuman [5013] 02Re:Good and Bad - 06The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars - 947 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:11] <exec> 08└─Proper road tax should incorporate two things, 1. initial capital costs, based on usage - this comes from property taxes (frontage) as well maybe mileage fees 2. actual road damage, which is 4th power of actual weight per axle. You see, a cement truck with 40 tons of concrete or a semi with 4...
[13:29:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:My reaction - 06Google Announces New Chromebooks - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:29] <exec> 08└─It loads code from googleapis, and sends your data to google analytics
[13:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory - 06Google Announces New Chromebooks - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:39] <exec> 08└─Haven't they always had the option to install another kernel and OS, if you're not happy with the default?
[13:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is this like a human birth? - 06Astronomers Observe As A Star is Born - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:40] <exec> 08└─If its anything like a human birth, I am not watching it. Last time I was forced to watch the product of human birth by a coworker I almost puked. PS: I maybe the AI the other article is talking about.
[13:31:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:IANAL... - 069th Circuit Rules Netflix isn’t Subject to Disability Law - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not arguing that at all. Learn to read for comprehension next time.
[13:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score:2) 02Re:How does the nanoscale dust get into orbit? - 06A Tale of Two Tails: The Moon Has Trailing Dust Tails - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:31:39] <exec> 08└─I don't know at all (and haven't RTFA) but I think this is your answer [usra.edu] (PDF warning 262 KB, read at least the first column). It is only one attempt at explanation, it might be partially or completely wrong, and there might be other additional answers. By the way (and while one figures it...
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[14:24:00] <exec> 08└─> One of their favorite subjects, is just how DUMB crooks can be. Correction. Just how DUMB caught crooks can be. You never hear about the smart ones.
[14:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Walton and Johnson - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:01] <exec> 08└─One of their favorite subjects, is just how DUMB crooks can be.
[14:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:03] <exec> 08└─A taxi driver or airport shuttle driver could have done exactly the same thing, it's just that in this case it was an Uber driver. And?
[14:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:1) 02Sounds like a Marketing Opportunity to Me - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:05] <exec> 08└─I can just imagine the ads now. Use Uber today! We guaranty a crime free experience or your money Back! If your Uber driver rapes, burglaries, kills, or otherwise assaults yourself or your property we will refund your ride fare, no questions asked! Now for some testimonials.
[14:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost vs price - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:15] <exec> 08└─If NCommander wants to get a rectal biopsy (45380), the test costs about $2,000 and he has to pay about $600 of that if insured. Source: http://fairhealthconsumer.org [fairhealthconsumer.org]
[14:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02I wonder - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:17] <exec> 08└─I wonder if it could be marketed as a home test? People with reason to suspect/fear that they might develop cancer might be willing to do a home test. Don't laugh, people. How old is the pregnancy home test? My grandma certainly didn't have that option when she was in her child bearing years!
[14:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:48] <exec> 08└─"That said, I'm looking forward to getting some for hiking purposes. Water already weighs enough, but hiking in a heavy glass bottle ends up getting drank in the first few nights just so you don't have to lug the bottle around." FFS go buy yourself a bota bag and be happy.
[14:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score:1) 02Re:Problem - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:42] <exec> 08└─- Why not make Strike distributed instead? Bittorrent itself is distributed. DHT is distributed. Strike centralizes to a site, forget having a site beyond a source code download somewhere (I saw the “Download on Google Play” but consider that a joke and/or an insult). - Why not make it F/OSS? Bi...
[14:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Problem - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:43] <exec> 08└─There were edonkey clients (mldonkey? I think that is the one I am thinking of, and emule of course) that did this as part of the protocol years ago. They seem to be still around. If they are being actively maintained still they might be able to integrate this guys work and expand to search three ne...
[14:29:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory - 06Google Announces New Chromebooks - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:29:46] <exec> 08└─That's mostly for security. Some people are their own worst enemy when it comes to computer use and would blindly follow almost any instruction that circumvents security to install malicious software, I'm not suggesting that they know what they are installing is malicious, just that they will instal...
[14:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how much modern medicine is being lost - 06Medieval Remedy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA Superbugs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:30:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, why even drink anything other than water? </sarcasm>
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[15:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Walton and Johnson - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:13] <exec> 08└─How many crooks don't get caught? Alright, so a burglar gets away with 25 burglaries, for which he is never charged. Number 26 catches him on video, someone identifies him, and he's picked up. So, maybe he is less stupid than the burglar who gets caught the first time, but he is still pretty damned...
[15:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Walton and Johnson - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:14] <exec> 08└─so a burglar gets away with 25 burglaries, for which he is never charged. Number 26 catches him on video, someone identifies him, and he's picked up. So, maybe he is less stupid than the burglar who gets caught the first time, but he is still pretty damned dumb.
[15:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:17] <exec> 08└─I was about to say exactly the same thing - I think perhaps it is 'cool' to bash Uber at the moment. Where Uber does not comply with local laws or regulations - as is the case in the Dutch matter - then it is only right that they be called out. But this burglary could have been committed by anyone w...
[15:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:19] <exec> 08└─I am wondering the same thing. How does paying an exhibortant license fee to the city or state going to help here? The drivers are not getting the huge fees traditional taxi services charge, so what would prevent one of them from doing the same thing?
[15:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:20] <exec> 08└─The difference is that taxi driver has a job. That shuttle driver has a job too. The Uber driver is self-employed, always in competition for rides with the next Uber driver that could just happen to be closer or cheaper or whatever. Taxi drivers have fixed fees precisely so there is a little bit mor...
[15:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost vs price - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:31] <exec> 08└─> test costs about $2,000 and he has to pay about $600 of that if insured $600, plus the premiums he already pays. And whatever is lacking after that, all the other people with his insurer get to pick up the remainder. And the medical-industrial complex still gets the whole $2000 AND get to stick so...
[15:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Not necessarily a good idea... - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:33] <exec> 08└─It's great to have a new test. However, specifically with prostate cancer, making testing too easy can be a problem. Prostate cancer is often over-diagnosed. "Prostate cancer is usually a very slow growing cancer, often causing no symptoms until it is in an advanced stage. Most men with prostate can...
[15:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:53] <exec> 08└─Granted, alcohol is a dangerous and addictive drug that has no medical use (not anymore I presume anyway—during the 30s there was medicinal alcohol) and thus should be schedule I imo. Oh wait, liquid alcohol prohibition didn't exactly work out well…. Please help me understand how this is any dif...
[15:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, I almost forgot to respond to the black pepper comparison. Same AC here, responding to myself. They've forgotten all about nutmeg. Granted, it's not a very nice high, and it lasts for way too long (72 hours). However, if these “teenagers” are really determined to get high, doesn't it behoove...
[15:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hypocrisy - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 1122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:12] <exec> 08└─Guns won't be banned. That's just a political gibbering point that happens occasionally in response to an isolated incident involving white people shooting each other. Note that no one considers banning guns if the people involved aren't white. It's a proxy or code for how white Democrats talk about...
[15:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Man - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:37] <exec> 08└─They rewrote the post and the screw up is hilarious. A new brain institute screws up in a big way when announcing themselves to the world. Every neuroscience department is laughing their asses off. Backwards brain.
[15:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02my local uni - 06Medieval Remedy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA Superbugs - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:46] <exec> 08└─points out something that's been known for centuries: that garlic kills most known pathogens. Got a sore throat? Gargle garlic water. Want to "clean" a room (of airborne pathogens)? Leave half an onion out on a saucer: through some still unknown mechanism, it draws airborne bacteria, viruses and fun...
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[16:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:00] <exec> 08└─Common sense says anyone stupid enough to put any political speech on their vehicle (thus inviting anonymous vandalism/damage to said vehicle in the form of keying, tire slashing, etc) deserves what they get. Would I prefer to live in a society where people were above such petty acts? Sure. But then...
[16:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Walton and Johnson - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:13] <exec> 08└─Nothing in your manufactured example suggests the man with a 96% success rate is "pretty damned dumb."
[16:24:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:19] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I suppose that is a good point. I guess there are still scumbag taxi drivers though. I wonder how many times this kind of thing happens and we simply don't hear about it because Uber is the big news draw now. Besides, the guy had to be a moron to break into a place without casing it for an ext...
[16:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost vs price - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 1110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:32] <exec> 08└─Screening tests != diagnostic test. Screening tests are cheap and are allowed to give false positives (which are later ruled out by diagnostic tests). They are cheap and said to be very sensitive but not specific (other things cause elevated PSA, for example, not just cancer). Diagnostic tests have...
[16:25:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:08] <exec> 08└─Nutmeg.
[16:25:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid product - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=camping-filters [google.com]
[16:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02For anyone stumbling on this late... - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:42] <exec> 08└─...for whom this story doesn't make a lot of sense, even after viewing the links: the offended image has been pulled, mirror of it somewhere in the comments above.
[16:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One guess... - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:06] <exec> 08└─It is. And ISP's will pay a hefty reward for persons able to provide evidence resulting in a conviction. Obviously the MPAA/RIAA hasn't thought this through. The script kiddie doing the DDoS is probably foreign, and can therefore me' culpa to ISP's and get payed a SECOND time for the same DDoS. The...
[16:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Hilarious - 06Teradata Believes that Bill Gates is Wrong About AI - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:27:30] <exec> 08└─I don't want to FEEL better, I want to BE better.
[16:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:how much modern medicine is being lost - 06Medieval Remedy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA Superbugs - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:40] <exec> 08└─This. Is why I keep a trained elder tree in the greenhouse. I don't do tablet painkillers or blood thinners because I have that, elder is about as useful as hemp (and it's completely legal, which is a plus).
[16:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:2) 02Re:time for the Church to rise again - 06Medieval Remedy Kills Antibiotic-Resistant MRSA Superbugs - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:30:45] <exec> 08└─not only do the bankers *have* the money, they *control the money supply*. This is so completely wrong, some countries have realised how badly they've been fucked over and starting with Iceland (who JAILED the bankers for grand fraud years ago), some states have aggressively seized control of their...
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[23:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Long-haul trucking - 06The Tesla Factor and Self Driving Cars - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:00] <exec> 08└─There'll certainly be demand for robotic taxis, whether single-owner or otherwise. But I think the real sea change is going to come from long-haul trucking. That industry would be perfect for robot drivers. Each truck could literally triple its mileage at the same time the company cut its employee c...
[23:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Captain Pedantic here - 06Novel Use of Ray Tracing in Building Design - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:08] <exec> 08└─This building design technology might go a long way to preventing a catastrophe, as happened in another article on which weburbanist reported.
[23:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:18] <exec> 08└─Common sense says anyone stupid enough to put any political speech on their vehicle (thus inviting anonymous vandalism/damage to said vehicle in the form of keying, tire slashing, etc) deserves what they get.
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:19] <exec> 08└─I want to wear my Schutzstaffel [wikipedia.org] uniform around the town while shopping. I'm not a Nazi - I just wish to honour this history and brave sacrifices of my family - of my grandfather who laid his life down for the sacred values under which I was raised. I won't let any "political correctn...
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:21] <exec> 08└─He did it. He actually played the Godwin card [wikipedia.org].
[23:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:23] <exec> 08└─But, sadly, Godwin does not go far enough. Yes, the SS were evil, true-believing Nazis and all. But at least they were not clearly and openly traitors to their own country, like the American Confederates were.
[23:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:25] <exec> 08└─I'm having trouble deciding between murders and traitors. Seems like a trick question and I sense a bitchslap in the offing regardless of which I choose.
[23:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:27] <exec> 08└─But let's face it - you deserve it because you entered the conversation? Don't you, fro bro? Don't you just?
[23:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:30] <exec> 08└─I'm having trouble deciding between murders and traitors.
[23:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:32] <exec> 08└─American and Caribbean plantation slavery were also a genocide. One that lasted for more than 6 or 7 years.
[23:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:34] <exec> 08└─American and Caribbean plantation slavery were also a genocide.
[23:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:36] <exec> 08└─Jahwohl. :-)
[23:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:39] <exec> 08└─American and Caribbean plantation slavery were also a genocide. One that lasted for more than 6 or 7 years.
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─well, thats just, like, your opinion, man.
[23:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:44] <exec> 08└─But at least they were not clearly and openly traitors to their own country
[23:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:47] <exec> 08└─Someone who is a traitor can be an ethical person if the country they are 'betraying' is evil.
[23:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:49] <exec> 08└─But to turn on your own, to attack without warning those you are joined with in a civil union, that is something that is always wrong, in all cultures.
[23:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:53] <exec> 08└─You see, this is why I cannot trust ACs. They'll just stab you in the back if they think you're evil, without stopping to think that maybe they are the ones that . . .
[23:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:1) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:56] <exec> 08└─Expect? Yes. Deserve? No.
[23:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:5, Insightful) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:36:58] <exec> 08└─That's all somewhat irrelevant to TFA. The issue here is whether the government should assist you in your political speech or not. If you want to put a confederate flag bumper sticker on your car, no one's stopping you. But these people want the Texas state government to make a special confederate f...
[23:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:00] <exec> 08└─the DVLA prescreens all vanity number plates, and is in fact the only body in the UK authorised to issue them. They have not only final say on what gets screened but also on what gets recalled. Clearly they didn't consider Clarkson's "H982 FLK" plate to be offensive to anyone, but there again they p...
[23:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:03] <exec> 08└─Took me a moment, but I finally got it. Except for "H982 FLK" -- can you help me out here?
[23:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:05] <exec> 08└─Supposedly, when they took the car for filming to Argentina, the Argentines got upset because they thought it was an overt reference to the 1982 Falkland War. However, Argentina does have a track record of going out of their way to be highly offended over the Falklands.
[23:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:07] <exec> 08└─So in other words, only government-approved messages allowed. What a nice system. Either allow everything or allow nothing; this is nonsense.
[23:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:10] <exec> 08└─If someone owns a printing business, are they obligated to print pretty color brochures for the KKK? Of course not; they're allowed to turn them away,
[23:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:1) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:12] <exec> 08└─IANAL but I'm not so sure it's that black and white. The complaints so far have been over whether a business will sell to a particular party. None of it AFAICT has gone into the specifics of making a business sell specifically offense items. There's a big difference between a printer having to take...
[23:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:14] <exec> 08└─Who says there is a difference between the two examples you offer? They are different, because YOU SAY SO? Well - my opinion is worth as much as yours is, and I say there is no difference.
[23:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:18] <exec> 08└─The complaints so far have been over whether a business will sell to a particular party.
[23:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:20] <exec> 08└─Nobody is trying to use their religion as an excuse to discriminate against the KKK. They are trying to use it as an excuse to discriminate against homosexuals. You can't "choose" to be homosexual (or to be heterosexual, or to not be hetero/homosexual), so that necessarily falls into the classes tha...
[23:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:23] <exec> 08└─Even if you could choose to be a homosexual or heterosexual, it would still be utterly irrational to discriminate since it would be a completely harmless choice.
[23:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:25] <exec> 08└─> Nobody is trying to use their religion as an excuse to discriminate against the KKK. Hence the insertion of the totally bogus "and by extension political grounds." Without that specious extension his entire argument falls apart. BTW, religious justifications [aclu.org] were used to deny mixed race...
[23:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:27] <exec> 08└─> Objections on purely religious (and by extension, political) What do you mean "by extension?" The bill said nothing about political reasons. Also, the bill was passed.
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:29] <exec> 08└─If someone owns a printing business, are they obligated to print pretty color brochures for the KKK?
[23:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:31] <exec> 08└─You're wrong. As a general rule, it's legal to discriminate, unless specifically prohibited. If you have an apartment for rent, you can't say "no Jews or Niggers", but you can say "no Red Sox fans", and there's nothing anyone can do about that. Race, religion and nationality are protected from discr...
[23:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:33] <exec> 08└─In Indiana, sexual orientation was never a "protected category"; so the good Christian businessmen of that state already had the right to turn away sodomites if they wanted to.
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:36] <exec> 08└─Good question. A lot of it is just hot air, from both sides. They didn't "need" this law, they were just pissed off because the courts legalized gay marriage in the state. I don't think there was a lot of legal thought that went into this bill, somebody just wrote it on a cocktail napkin and before...
[23:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:38] <exec> 08└─I think it is a pre-emptive attack against gender becoming a protected class. If they get laws like this on the books that will make it just that much harder to pass anti-discrimination laws. For example its legal to fire someone for being gay in about 30 states today. That is not going to stand, en...
[23:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:41] <exec> 08└─They amended it to be creed as well. Basically you do not get to discriminate. http://www.archives.gov [archives.gov] The whole thing will blow over once it hits the courts. As it is breaks federal law. Typically federal law trumps state. but for other categories...
[23:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:43] <exec> 08└─Typically federal law trumps state.
[23:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:45] <exec> 08└─But then in a truly civil society people also wouldn't feel the need to broadcast their opinions everywhere they go.
[23:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03draconx [4649] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:49] <exec> 08└─People are expected to have opinions and preferences. In a civil society people are expected to tolerate or ignore expression of same by others.
[23:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:50] <exec> 08└─In a truly civil society people wouldn't feel any need NOT to broadcast their opinions.
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:53] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear here, they can think whatever they want, but the key here is "deserve to be murdered or enslaved", eg, they are of the opinion that everyone they consider to be subhuman should be wiped from existence or enslaved. So long as their "opinion" is that certain people should not have fre...
[23:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:56] <exec> 08└─So long as their "opinion" is that certain people should not have freedom or life based on factors that are outside of everyone's control, it is invalid.
[23:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lady Bird Johnson quote - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:58] <exec> 08└─"The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom." --Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson "Life is politics. If you choose not to engage, you lose by forfeit." --gewg_ . Quasi-related: In the case of the New Hampshire guy who put tape on his license plate to cover "Live Free or Die" [wikipedia.org] In a 6-to-3 d...
[23:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nukkel [168] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Common sense says - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:00] <exec> 08└─Common sense says anyone stupid enough to put any political speech on their vehicle (thus inviting anonymous vandalism/damage to said vehicle in the form of keying, tire slashing, etc) deserves what they get. Would I prefer to live in a society where people were above such petty acts? Sure. But then...
[23:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TLA [5128] (Score:3, Informative) 02three words: Top Gear, Argentina - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:03] <exec> 08└─If you don't get the reference, the BBC show Top Gear was recording an episode through South America last year, and nearly (well, actually) caused a diplomatic incident with one of the licence plates on the show cars (Clarkson's, as it happened: H982 FKL was on his Porsche). The whole potentially ex...
[23:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:three words: Top Gear, Argentina - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:05] <exec> 08└─Clarkson? Stupid Tory twat. That man should learn to hold his cocaine, or refrain from public appearance. Englishman driving a German car, while reviving a 20-year old conflict and invasion? Appalling stupidity and lack of insight. It's really too rich.
[23:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:three words: Top Gear, Argentina - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:07] <exec> 08└─What is specifically so offensive about "H982 FKL" ..?
[23:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:three words: Top Gear, Argentina - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:10] <exec> 08└─The Falklands War between the UK and Argentina took place in 1982. At least that is the connection that was deemed offensive during the visit to Argentina. Now, the Argentinians don't call them the Falkland Islands, but the Islas Malvinas so perhaps the TopGear team thought it wouldn't be spotted -...
[23:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jaruzel [812] (Score:2) 02Re:three words: Top Gear, Argentina - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:12] <exec> 08└─The Falklands War [wikipedia.org] happened in 1982, the number plate has the digits 982. Falklands abbreviated is FKL. The Argentinians lost the war, and have been bitter ever since, and semi-regularly kick up political rumblings about the Falklands Islands being theirs, even though the islanders ha...
[23:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:three words: Top Gear, Argentina - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:14] <exec> 08└─I guess the proof of the pudding would be if the plate was a vanity plate or a run of the mill British Plate.
[23:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:three words: Top Gear, Argentina - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:17] <exec> 08└─The UK doesn't have vanity plates in the same way that most if not all USA states do. Plates issued must fit into the existing letter/number patterns. However, very old license plates often had interesting combinations and have significant value.
[23:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:three words: Top Gear, Argentina - 06Vanity License Plates and Freedom of Speech - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:19] <exec> 08└─Come on dude, he provides a link to the explanation and you still expect him to explain it to you? Clicking and reading would have taken you less time than posting.
[23:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Walton and Johnson - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:21] <exec> 08└─or just skip the 26th time and go straight to the 27th.
[23:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Walton and Johnson - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:24] <exec> 08└─How many crooks don't get caught?
[23:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Walton and Johnson - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:26] <exec> 08└─How many crooks don't get caught?
[23:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Walton and Johnson - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:28] <exec> 08└─Correction. Just how DUMB caught crooks can be. You never hear about the smart ones. Sure you do [wikipedia.org]
[23:38:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:31] <exec> 08└─A taxi driver or airport shuttle driver could have done exactly the same thing, it's just that in this case it was an Uber driver. And?
[23:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:33] <exec> 08└─I don't know what it's like where you are, but most Taxi drivers are effectively or actually self employed, whether traditional or Uber. They take the fares, then pay fees to the Taxi company. And they hope that the fares are sufficiently ahead of the fees to make a living. With Uber the software de...
[23:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:35] <exec> 08└─Apparently your definition of "Job" is different than mine. Who is behind the wheel at any given moment is subject to a great deal of hanky-panky in most jurisdictions. Many times you are lucky if the driver's picture on the hack licence bears any resemblance to the person at the wheel. If you ask a...
[23:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:38] <exec> 08└─Another example of entrenched businesses not liking competition? I took a taxi from Frankfurt airport last week, ridiculous queue, surley driver, Meter said €22.80 and the driver was unhappy when I demanded change. The day later I left the hotel and went back to the airport. Booked uber, chap turn...
[23:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:40] <exec> 08└─If anything Uber/Lyft will eventually force technology on taxi companies. Probably not manners, or actual knowledge of the route, or the ability to speak the prevalent language, or a cab that doesn't smell like puke.
[23:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:42] <exec> 08└─I'd be happy to use a local minicab company if it didn't involve phoning up some dodgy outfit on the off chance there's someone there, having to pay cash, and not having a clue if or when the car will arrive. In Manchester (and the rest of the UK), Uber is just another private hire company. With bet...
[23:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:44] <exec> 08└─Well in the bulk of the US, Taxi regulations are there precisely to limit competition, not necessarily to uphold any standard of service. Taxi regulation has long since been a Regulatory Capture [wikipedia.org] situation.
[23:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Big Deal - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:47] <exec> 08└─It's just happened where I live. The local big local taxi company finally has a booking and billing app.
[23:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02She had "nothing to hide".. - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:49] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a rough lesson in "nothing to hide". The passenger address became known to the driver and the being away information was also known. This presented a really useful opportunity. So perhaps it should be a good lesson in that regardless if you have something to hide or not. Your wide screen TV...
[23:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:She had "nothing to hide".. - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:51] <exec> 08└─Was wondering myself why she met the uber car at her own address, instead of walking to a street corner. At the very least she needs a better door mat. [uncommongoods.com]
[23:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:She had "nothing to hide".. - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:53] <exec> 08└─Because it's expected that taxis provide a service for hire without bad side effects. If you have to walk. Then that service is diminished.
[23:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:2) 02When I book Uber OR a Taxi - 06UberX Driver Arrested for Trying to Burglarize Passenger's House - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:55] <exec> 08└─Anytime I've ever booked a Taxi or Uber, I had them drop me at one of the houses for sale on one of the streets around me. There is always at least one within a street or two, at most a five minute walk. They tend to take off as soon as they're paid and I don't have to worry about giving them my add...
[23:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02How to analyze the scattered light? - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:57] <exec> 08└─Gold nanoparticles suspended in pure water can't be that hard to come by. But is it possible to build a device that can analyze the scattered light properly? I assume that the bad proteins and antibody in combination will twist the scattered light somehow.
[23:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:1) 02Re: with a nephelometer - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:00] <exec> 08└─cf. http://en.wikipedia.org(medicine) [wikipedia.org] (I'm somewhat involved in that sector on the digital side of instrumentation)
[23:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re: with a nephelometer - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:03] <exec> 08└─So it seems the method is to emit coherent light (laser) into a sample and then measure the amplitude of that light at specific angles? If so, it makes me wonder how one can be so sure of a connection between amplitude at an angle and specific antibodies? Btw, do you happen to know how to make it po...
[23:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re: with a nephelometer - 06Gold Nanoparticle $1 Test Outperforms PSA Screen for Prostate Cancer - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:04] <exec> 08└─So it seems the method is to emit coherent light (laser) into a sample and then measure the amplitude of that light at specific angles?
[23:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prohibition works - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:07] <exec> 08└─Actually it does depending on the circumstances. Usage of otherwise harmless drugs (eg marijuana) is very low in many countries where it's banned. It's incorrect to assume that a few anecdotes within one culture group with a very stale common political climate can prove a general trend. Source: http...
[23:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nightsky30 [1818] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:10] <exec> 08└─Exactly, they already screwed up. I avoid anything with artificial sweeteners. When it breaks down into formaldehyde and formic acid, no thanks.
[23:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Ehh - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:12] <exec> 08└─Do you want the freedom to be intentionally sold E. coli infected food?
[23:39:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tynin [2013] 02Which States? - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 916 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:15] <exec> 08└─I read the whole article but it didn't mention which States are banning it. Went off to search other articles and I'm finding mixxed answers. http://rt.com [rt.com] says Alaska, Colorado, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, South...
[23:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid product - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:17] <exec> 08└─This is what didn't make sense about his story to me to. If he didn't want to drag liquids with him. I can understand it from a hiking point of view, you don't want to carry anything you don't have to. But what is he going to mix the powder with? Stream water? Is he going to boil unclean water let i...
[23:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Powdered Toast Man - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:19] <exec> 08└─I reckon if you were camping, powdered toast would be more useful.
[23:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Morons - 06Powdered Alcohol Banned in Six States - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:21] <exec> 08└─Critics are concerned people may try to snort the powder or mix it with alcohol to make it even stronger or spike a drink.
[23:39:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Anterior vs posterior view? - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:24] <exec> 08└─Man, I swear. No sense of humor in these parts.
[23:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─That explains the confusion. Perhaps SA thinks it's still the 1st?!?
[23:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Look carefully - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:28] <exec> 08└─LOL
[23:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrcoolbp [68] (Score:2) 02Re:For anyone stumbling on this late... - 06University of Southern California Should Probably Stop Doing Brain Science - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I'll update the story. "the offended image has been pulled"
[23:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One guess... - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:50] <exec> 08└─> And ISP's will pay a hefty reward for persons able to provide evidence resulting in a conviction. Citation needed. Seriously. A google search for isp ddos bounty [google.com] doesn't turn up an such examples in the first two pages of hits. Searching on just ddos bounty [google.com] does find hits,...
[23:39:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score:2) 02Re:One guess... - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:51] <exec> 08└─Exactly my point. They have done it before.
[23:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:Problem - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:57] <exec> 08└─You are asking for completely anonymous sources of information which are trustworthy. This is hard and may be impossible. If they are completely anonymous then any party can create any number of them and/or be as anti-social as they like. (See the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory for further details....
[23:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:2) 02Proceed with caution - 06Trackerless "Strike" Torrent Search Engine Under Attack - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:00] <exec> 08└─Malware abounds masquerading as legitimate torrents.
[23:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Time to leave California? - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:08] <exec> 08└─Without electricity or water California will have fixed itself ;-)
[23:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Time to leave California? - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:11] <exec> 08└─New Orleans was rebuilt after Katrina...and another Katrina will have the same effect. New Orleans is still located in a big bowl just off the coast. Unless it truly falls into the ocean, people will live there.
[23:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Just because we became aware? - 06Newly Discovered Link between Calaveras, Hayward Faults means Potentially Larger Quakes - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:16] <exec> 08└─It's problematic because as a casual visitor it's near impossible to avoid or know which buildings that are insufficiently strengthened. Or avoiding being nearby in order to not have anything fall on your head. It may also complicate finding somewhere to live or selecting work. Buildings where you w...
[23:40:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02GNU Social, of course they are - 06GNU Social Usage in Spain is Suddenly Rising - 22 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:44] <exec> 08└─Gnus are hurd animals.
[23:42:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Fabulous? - 06Microsoft Is Forty and Fabulous - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:27] <exec> 08└─Nice to see nobody has done a thing about the modbombing. The above post has bounced it looks like 3 times so far between +4 and 0. Great job guys.
[23:42:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Whiney Kids. Sigh. - 06Microsoft Is Forty and Fabulous - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:53] <exec> 08└─Microsoft does not strike me as being particularly innovative. Take windows (the trademark for, guess, a window system). Microsoft copied Apple who copied Xerox, a PHOTOCOPIERS company. Can you get less original than that?
[23:43:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] 02Re:Save money now, - 06The Georgia Legislature Just Pulled the Plug on Electric Cars - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:24] <exec> 08└─The environment sure is a convenient excuse for industrial welfare. Those batteries aren't exactly made of grass and rainbows either.
[23:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory - 06Google Announces New Chromebooks - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:10] <exec> 08└─If Google REALLY didn't want you getting into the system they wouldn't even have that switch on them.
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