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[03:58:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Mowing your lawn really _is_ required by law - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:04] <exec> 08└─When I lived in Truro, Nova Scotia I did not own a lawn mower. I was real busy with my work and just never got around to hiring someone else to mow it. Eventually I received a notice that if I didn't mow my lawn, the Town of Truro would mow it for me then send me a bill. I hired someone to do it aft...
[03:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mowing your lawn really _is_ required by law - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:06] <exec> 08└─Yes it is required, usually by local ordinance. Also, don't explain the joke.
[03:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is enough - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:58:11] <exec> 08└─Ima Coxuker. It was worth getting someone else ( not in the class ) to handwrite a homework to pass in under that name. Hilarity would often ensue when the graded homework was returned. Usually best done with the first homework assignment of the semester. Never own up to doing it , though!
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[03:59:11] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I procrastinated in college doing this for maybe a few weeks before I moved on. The other volunteers were really nice though. One interesting thing is that DP policy is to not correct printing errors, so if there is an error in your Gutenberg e-book, well, it was printed that way.
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[04:57:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02News? - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:30] <exec> 08└─Who watches French tv anyways? Some "jihaddists" - a pathetic lot.
[04:57:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Ugh - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:31] <exec> 08└─(1) Great new cyber-word. Hacking for political lulz is now jihad! Are we going to send them to cybergitmo? (2) The tv station has got lots of incentive to play it up, maybe we don't take them at their word (3) There is evidence that the tv station's opsec was merde. They've published at least two u...
[04:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02It isn't that hard if you know how TelCom works. - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:33] <exec> 08└─Saw this on El Reg yesterday (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/09/isis_french_tv_channel_disturbed_hebdo/). The hackers cut TV5 Monde's ability to transmit live. In order to understand this, realize that television studio facilities are usually many miles from the transmission site. The signal f...
[04:57:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nigga nigga jihad nigga - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:57:34] <exec> 08└─lazy Cybertrolling nigga jihad
[04:57:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:That's a nice lawn you have there. - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:52] <exec> 08└─"...mowing your lawn is required by law." Not in California these days. You are not allowed to water your lawn, what with the drought.
[04:57:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Drop iRobot - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:57:56] <exec> 08└─Also agree. Even though iRobot claims low level transmissions, the levels that Radio Astronomy operates at are so low that the slightest little blip would mess up months of data collection.
[04:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cwadge [3324] (Score:2, Interesting) 02iRobot is the tip of the iceberg, really - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 1376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:58:01] <exec> 08└─Early on in my career, I was a radio telescope console operator, running some 34-70 meter dishes out of DSN in Goldstone. In this capacity I was often tasked with tracking some extremely distant and equally faint objects. The signal from some of the subjects we routinely studied was infinitesimally...
[04:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cwadge [3324] (Score:1) 02Re:iRobot is the tip of the iceberg, really - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:02] <exec> 08└─In case you were confused, I meant "infinitely", not "infinitesimally". Whoops. ;)
[04:58:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution ... - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:21] <exec> 08└─indeed. which is why i just modded it interesting. would be good if you could post some citations too tho.
[04:58:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:Too many racist fuckers - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:58:34] <exec> 08└─thanks for the links.
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[05:57:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shoplifting isn't that hard if you know how. - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:39] <exec> 08└─You just walk into a shop and take stuff.
[05:58:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:This is working as intended - 06Intel Core M Speeds Highly Variable between OEMs - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:58:58] <exec> 08└─I got a HP/Compaq laptop from WalMart a few years ago. It worked out of the box, but was kinda slow. After having it for a while and getting to see how it worked, I noted there was a lot of bundle-ware that was causing my system to do other things rather than what I wanted it to do. After discoverin...
[05:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good to see so many promising directions lately - 06CAR T-Cells: Using Your Immune System to Cure Your Cancer - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:59:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
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[06:03:29] <exec> 08└─Finally, managed, versioned access to my porn files!
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[06:57:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Ugh - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:57:47] <exec> 08└─(1) Great new cyber-word. Hacking for political lulz is now jihad! Are we going to send them to cybergitmo?
[06:58:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02Some sensible critique - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:58:56] <exec> 08└─Well, while the rest of you are off in a slurfest, let me note one essential problem with this story: the data contains Dutch only. So it does not explain why the Americans or the Germans, Danish or Belgians grew up less. Anecdotal: I'm Dutch. My daughter had a Chinese friend at school, whose parent...
[07:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NASA probes - 06DARPA Seeks Software Systems That Can Last 100 Years - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:36] <exec> 08└─Don't they use Forth on probes? What's on Pioneer, Voyager, etc.? Those things have already run for decades.
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[07:58:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RobotMonster [130] (Score:2) 02Re:It isn't that hard if you know how TelCom works - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:16] <exec> 08└─It's also not that hard if you can acquire the passwords. Ars Technica reported that TV5 Monde exposed its own passwords when it broadcast an interview about the hacking incident. [arstechnica.com] This post-hack leak didn't help the hackers unless they had a time machine, but the interviews reveale...
[07:58:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It isn't that hard if you know how TelCom works - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:17] <exec> 08└─They're French. Maybe they just surrendered their passwords?
[07:58:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02You never see a Commie drink water, - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 1727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:20] <exec> 08└─Excuse me for some serious reflection on the topic at hand. The total hysteria about "westerners" being "radicalized" and going off to "jihad" with the puppets of the Saudi Royal family just makes me laugh. The US FBI has apprehended a potential threat, who turns out to be severely challenged menta...
[07:58:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Crowd Funding? - 06Crowd Funding to Accelerate Brain Repair Discovery - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:29] <exec> 08└─A university worth billions of dollars, which has billions in endowments, has its hand out and is asking the public for money? This same university will own or share patent rights - and receive astronomical listening fees - if this process can be turned into an outrageously expensive medical treatme...
[07:58:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02Drop iRobot - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:58:41] <exec> 08└─The answer is simple: Fuck iRobot, seriously There are other ways to solve this and other frequencies. It's just like those TLDs, got to have one more to cash in. And thus FCC declining this permission would not hurt any poor people or lawn mowing..
[07:58:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:iRobot is the tip of the iceberg, really - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:58:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, hyperboles are hard to get right. ;-)
[07:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution ... - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:12] <exec> 08└─Why is it that people of different ethnicity, factoring for education on a culture neutral test battery, have different mean IQ numbers?
[07:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Some sensible critique - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:31] <exec> 08└─It must be a mutation caused by radiation on the flight from China to the Netherlands. ;-)
[08:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:1) 02Re:Sue all you want. - 06Amazon Sues to Block Alleged Fake Reviews - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:25] <exec> 08└─If they return the item their review goes away.
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[09:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02The Universe Its Mighty Power - 06Absence of Gravitational-Wave Signal Extends Limit on Knowable Universe - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:19] <exec> 08└─Its Evolutionary Force Not To Be Stopped By Anyone And Its Beauty Yes This Is A Happy Place To Stay Filled With Harmony And Cosmic Joy A Free Place Where Men Can Express Themselves And Be As When They Were Born All This Because Someone Cares Because Someone Looks After Us When We Sleep When We Play...
[09:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02As Mysterious As You Are Beautiful! - 06Absence of Gravitational-Wave Signal Extends Limit on Knowable Universe - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:21] <exec> 08└─Ooooh, Spooky Forest Lady, You Are As Mysterious As You Are Beautiful! It's Amazing! I've Graphed Your Mystery And Beauty Over Time - See How Well They Match! And Then She Just Vanished? That's Right Without Fucking You? Yeah! After You Showed Her The Graph? I Know! Who Understands Women? Nobody. Th...
[09:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ugh - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:33] <exec> 08└─> perhaps you should look up first understand what a jihad is. Thanks, I'll get right on that! > also, cyberjihad is not a new term, it dates back to at least a decade. Hhhm, I wonder why you had that reference at hand...
[09:00:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03captain normal [2205] 02It isn't that hard if you know how TelCom works. - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 832 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:35] <exec> 08└─Saw this on El Reg yesterday (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/09/isis_french_tv_channel_disturbed_hebdo/). The hackers cut TV5 Monde's ability to transmit live. In order to understand this, realize that television studio facilities are usually many miles from the transmission site. The signal f...
[09:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You never see a Commie drink water, - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:00:40] <exec> 08└─> Do the idiots in charge of national security Why Doesn’t the Intelligence Community Care Whether Its Surveillance Programs Work? [defenseone.com]
[09:01:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:Drop iRobot - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 842 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:09] <exec> 08└─Agreed. They knew the frequency was reserved when they started their development, but they went ahead any way expecting to bull their way through it.. There is already precedent for denying this use. (I forget the name, some company wanting to use space-to-ground wifi broadcasting on an already desi...
[09:01:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cwadge [3324] 02iRobot is the tip of the iceberg, really - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 1376 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:16] <exec> 08└─Early on in my career, I was a radio telescope console operator, running some 34-70 meter dishes out of DSN in Goldstone. In this capacity I was often tasked with tracking some extremely distant and equally faint objects. The signal from some of the subjects we routinely studied was infinitesimally...
[09:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cave men - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:18] <exec> 08└─srsly? nothing and i mean NOTHING daily-practical has come from astronomy. complete waste of time and tax-payer monies. it's freaking pull-thru university to finish line with a cushy job in some "observatory" for the rest of your life .. and sit around doing nothing. REAL astronomy is a satellite in...
[09:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too many racist fuckers - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:54] <exec> 08└─That's funny. Gungan makes a completely unsupported claim and is unmolested. AC makes a claim with references and passable logic that comes to the same conclusion ... gets modded down.
[09:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:dairy products - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:01] <exec> 08└─Actually it's evolution preparing for the rise of the sea level: Taller people have a higher chance that their head is still above the water line. :-)
[09:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02giraffe neck theory - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:04] <exec> 08└─growing taller so they can look over the dikes at the ocean ...
[09:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Gutenberg - 06Distributed Proofreaders: Preserving History One Page at a Time - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:32] <exec> 08└─so if there is an error in your Gutenberg e-book, well, it was printed that way.
[09:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Where is everyone? - 06CAR T-Cells: Using Your Immune System to Cure Your Cancer - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:02:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe add a view counter to the story, and report it on the stats line on the front page (under each article). : eg: "Read More... | 377 words in story | 8 comments | 64 views" It would at least show what other people are reading.
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[09:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score:2) 02negative results are more interesting - 06Absence of Gravitational-Wave Signal Extends Limit on Knowable Universe - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:57:50] <exec> 08└─With a total dearth of evidence for gravitational waves, maybe we're on the verge of REALLY learning something. It's going to take a very brave physicist to take on the hallowed (and amazingly often correct) Einstein, but I hope to see a verified alternate theory of space-time-gravity that explains...
[09:58:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why expose yourselves - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:09] <exec> 08└─One thing that I can't quite fathom is why they chose to 'expose their abilities' using a second- or third-rate TV station. Wouldn't it have been a lot more effective for them to be able to control the news (you know, they way these clowns claim "The idiot" controls the news)... If it were me, every...
[09:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02And then they broadcast their passwords on TV - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:58:10] <exec> 08└─France TV5Monde passwords seen on cyber-attack TV report [bbc.co.uk]
[09:59:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02controlling heat is hard - 06Intel Core M Speeds Highly Variable between OEMs - 489 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:37] <exec> 08└─Intel would love to sell you an expensive, high-perf, multicore CPU, but it needs a certain cooling apparatus. Whereas OEMs are too cheap to install adequate cooling, or maybe they would just like to go along with the latest fad of making devices that are so thin they can't even contain an ethernet...
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[10:00:30] <exec> 08└─I tend to do this as well, but it's just as vulnerable to gaming. You could pay people to write reviews in groups: two or three five star with little information content (e.g. 'Does exactly what I wanted, great!') and one one star but complaining about something completely superficial or irrelevant...
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[10:57:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nazi Germany had a high tech edge once............ - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:48] <exec> 08└─Almost developed an atomic bomb, but the necessary physicists either left the country, died in wars of conquest, or simply lost all interest in research. Nazi Germany doesn't exist anymore.
[10:57:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:negative results are more interesting - 06Absence of Gravitational-Wave Signal Extends Limit on Knowable Universe - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:57:58] <exec> 08└─While I'm not in the field, I think I understand enough of it that I can answer at least some of your questions: is the expansion of space quantized, and, if so, what is the quantum?
[10:57:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score:3, Informative) 02Learn more - 06Absence of Gravitational-Wave Signal Extends Limit on Knowable Universe - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:57:59] <exec> 08└─you can check the "evening lecture A" and "Lecture 27" and "Lecture 28" on https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] they are less mathematical and quite explanatory. They are given by the director of gravitational wave detection institute.
[10:58:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:1) 02Be more careful next time - 06Absence of Gravitational-Wave Signal Extends Limit on Knowable Universe - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:58:01] <exec> 08└─it has eliminated the region of the universe where they could be present.
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[10:59:40] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's the traditional large use of dairy products? Joris Driepinter advertisements (in Dutch) [wikipedia.org] We were supposed to drink three pints of milk per day, because the television told us so. (And it helped get rid of the ridiculous milk overproduction, of course) Still, I'll have to ad...
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[14:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Nazi Germany had a high tech edge once......... - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:49] <exec> 08└─Just like the current system only benefits the top rich and the security apparatus does anyone else in? Which makes savvy people be ware of moving there? It seems so familiar somehow. Nazi Germany also had a system that benefited the top leaders immensely, no justice system and a security apparatus...
[14:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nazi Germany had a high tech edge once......... - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:50] <exec> 08└─USA is run by SJWs and feminists in the middle manager area. Would be good to see it go down because of them.
[14:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nazi Germany had a high tech edge once......... - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:51] <exec> 08└─"was once the exclusive domain of law enforcement... now just about anyone who wants one can buy one."
[14:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:53] <exec> 08└─This is just a fluff FUD peice to chum the waters for the congressional budget hearings coming up. Listening to these people would have you imagining 'enemy' drones so thick, they would form a Dyson Sphere, and you would risk inhaling one by just stepping outside.
[14:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:55] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a better headline would be: "US Military Concerned About Losing Their Insane Levels of Funding" I mean, the thing about the US military is that it's hard-pressed to explain what exactly it's accomplishing, or who it's gearing up to fight. The US military is putting sagans of dollars towards...
[14:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Working conditions for researchers? - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─Although the reform initiative will help, Kendall said the key to maintaining the US military's dominance was spending more money on research and development and attracting talented workers to oversee weapons programs.
[14:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Re:Working conditions for researchers? - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:58] <exec> 08└─Don't forget outsourcing all the engineering and computer science work to other countries. It's nice that we want to be "high tech" and give all the "high tech" jobs away to people making $1/hour elsewhere...but that has some pretty predictable results like losing our edge.
[14:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03hurwitz [4938] (Score:3, Funny) 02Six-Inch Long Weapon of choice - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:00] <exec> 08└─We'll crush them with dollars! The key to defeating our enemies is spending more money, faster! Automatic budget cuts are what ISIS wants. We need to prioritize synergistic corporate mashups, like putting Amazon buttons on tanks to order more rounds automatically, adding Nest thermostats to tents in...
[14:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:negative results are more interesting - 06Absence of Gravitational-Wave Signal Extends Limit on Knowable Universe - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:09] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there's a phenomena that blocks or disperse gravitational waves? And thus "we detected none". Or they could be of such different magnitude of frequency that current equipment doesn't stand a chance to detect.
[14:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Ugh - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:22] <exec> 08└─Hhhm, I wonder why you had that reference at hand...
[14:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Why implement security that actually works? - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:30] <exec> 08└─So the summary is.. All threats are to be handled by huge costly programs which will go ahead without any evaluation of what would be efficient nor if it is efficient. There will be a lot of side effects and systematic entanglements. The point of those programs must to be to enrich some people.
[14:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:You never see a Commie drink water, - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:32] <exec> 08└─The percentage of Muslims in France is much larger than in the US (although the absolute numbers aren't that different) and that affects how likely they are to become radicalized. You're probably right that the FBI is making up the threat in the USA, but France is not the USA.
[14:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why expose yourselves - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:34] <exec> 08└─One thing that I can't quite fathom is why they chose to 'expose their abilities' using a second- or third-rate TV station.
[14:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Why expose yourselves - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 1228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:36] <exec> 08└─TV5Monde is reasonably popular here in France - not the biggest station by a long way, but not a small outfit either. Why was France targeted? Well, you only have to go back a few months to the murder of Charlie Hebdo's staff - which was meant to intimidate France but actually had the opposite effec...
[14:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Sloppy security, business as usual.. - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:37] <exec> 08└─Most corporations have really crappy security. So this TV station got taken for ride which make them scream and curse. And some time later it will be like it used to be because they simple won't learn and implement system security. If there's any intelligent life out there. This should be taken as a...
[14:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02On the other hand - 06Crowd Funding to Accelerate Brain Repair Discovery - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:47] <exec> 08└─I couldn't agree more to parent. On the other hand, sounds like we're in the dawn of an era where scientists (following the notion of "science" written in the books, not the actual reality of "science" irl) could fund their research on kickstarter, and release their findings in the public domain, yo...
[14:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Evolution ... - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:29] <exec> 08└─IQ shouldn't be taboo, but it should be acknowledged as mere pseudoscience. The idea that we can measure someone's intelligence using a single number and laughably simple tests, and then claim it does measure intelligence because it supposedly correlates with things some arbitrarily think are indica...
[14:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too many racist fuckers - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:37] <exec> 08└─If you think that IQ is anything other than pseudoscience to begin with, you may have some issues.
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[15:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Nazi Germany had a high tech edge once......... - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:07] <exec> 08└─People bitching about boobs in video games will have nothing to do with America's decline. Real issues, like exporting all our skilled jobs in favor of burger flipper and importing temporary workers to handle all of our technology at the behest of multinational moneyed middlemen -- the same group th...
[15:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:3, Funny) 02Paging Dr. Godwin - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─Nazi Germany also had a well-developed highway system... just like the US! Well, except Pennsylvania.
[15:10:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hurwitz [4938] 02Six-Inch Long Weapon of choice - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 313 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:15] <exec> 08└─We'll crush them with dollars! The key to defeating our enemies is spending more money, faster! Automatic budget cuts are what ISIS wants. We need to prioritize synergistic corporate mashups, like putting Amazon buttons on tanks to order more rounds automatically, adding Nest thermostats to tents in...
[15:10:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:It isn't that hard if you know how TelCom works - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:45] <exec> 08└─They're French. Maybe they just surrendered their passwords?
[15:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On the other hand - 06Crowd Funding to Accelerate Brain Repair Discovery - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:05] <exec> 08└─I love the idea of Open Science. Unfortunately the research labs, universities, big pharma, etc will always be after a piece of the action (especially if they're not incurring the initial R&D expenses). Open Science ... to the highest bidder.
[15:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dairy products - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:11] <exec> 08└─The Netherlands isn't called the Low Countries for nothing... About a quarter of their land is below sea level, and only about half their land has an elevation of above a metre. They're one of the places which is most affected by the rising sea levels of late.
[15:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score:1) 02I'm 2 meters and Dutch, and it's the milk! - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:16] <exec> 08└─Hi all I currently commute between Amsterdam and Avenhorn in the Netherlands. This is a commute between multi-cultural Amsterdam, and real old Holland. The difference in average height of the young people is remarkable. In Avenhorn I'd say the average young male is about 1.90m and the average young...
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[16:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02pucker up - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:41] <exec> 08└─chocolate starfish detected!
[16:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Spam) 02Re:pucker up - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:42] <exec> 08└─you so sexy i keep my KFC chicken wings warm in my anus!
[16:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:3, Touché) 02old news: proven in 1987 - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─evidence of these light signature was recorded on video back in 1987 [youtu.be]
[16:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Something doesn't add up (but IANAP) - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:45] <exec> 08└─IANAP, and it would be awesome if one was around to clarify this for me. The constituents that fill the interstellar/intergalactic vacuum, including the cosmic microwave background photons, impose a lower speed limit on any object traveling at relativistic velocities.
[16:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Something doesn't add up (but IANAP) - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─Thinking about it I guess it does just mean local matter. Throwing in the CMB confused me a bit.
[16:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Not even intergalactic space is really a vacuum. - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:48] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised this is even news. Astronomers are readily able to detect the spectral signature of gas in interstellar, even intergalactic space. It's mostly hydrogen atoms but at times more complex molecules. The problem this poses for space flight is that if you are traveling at even a substantial...
[16:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02slow learner. - 06Now Anyone Can Tap the AI Behind Amazon’s Recommendations - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:55] <exec> 08└─As time went on, it would develop a pretty good sense of what you liked, serving up product recommendations its code predicted would catch your eye.
[16:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02People You May Know - 06Now Anyone Can Tap the AI Behind Amazon’s Recommendations - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:57] <exec> 08└─Michael Jackson, Ho Chi Minh, The Tooth Fairy, William Jefferson Clinton and Cindy Crawford. (I actually know Cindy Crawford - but not _that_ Cindy Crawford.)
[16:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Bigotry in Algorithms - 06Now Anyone Can Tap the AI Behind Amazon’s Recommendations - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─The general public is starting to clue in to that there are such things as "Algorithms" however most folks don't really understand what they are. I myself have never been able to come up with a better explanation than "an Algorithm is a general method of accomplishing a task on a computer", although...
[16:10:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 800 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:11] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a better headline would be: "US Military Concerned About Losing Their Insane Levels of Funding" I mean, the thing about the US military is that it's hard-pressed to explain what exactly it's accomplishing, or who it's gearing up to fight. The US military is putting sagans of dollars towards...
[16:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, its like vise-versa from what the article described. The problem is not that China is embracing our technology but that the military industrial complex is embracing China's slipshod cheapshit design and manufacturing rush-job mentality.
[16:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:negative results are more interesting - 06Absence of Gravitational-Wave Signal Extends Limit on Knowable Universe - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:26] <exec> 08└─While I'm not in the field, I think I understand enough of it that I can answer at least some of your questions: is the expansion of space quantized, and, if so, what is the quantum?
[16:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:negative results are more interesting - 06Absence of Gravitational-Wave Signal Extends Limit on Knowable Universe - 3669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:28] <exec> 08└─Well, I could be wrong, but I believe that current most broadly-accepted hypothesis is that space expands everywhere at a constant rate, with the apparent acceleration being due simply to the fact that with every bit of expansion there is now more space between bodies to further expand. Assuming of...
[16:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Too many racist fuckers - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:04] <exec> 08└─Group selection. Also known as kinselection, tribalism, or being clannish. Even the most open minded, progressive (not in the political sense) people will attack anyone they see as other and defend anyone they see as within their group. Just look at this comment section. There is near half a dozen c...
[16:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:dairy products - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:13] <exec> 08└─Years ago we were told that our tallness was due to residual growth hormones in all the dairy products we were fed excessively. Maybe hormones made the men taller and hornier. That could explain the study's findings.
[16:12:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Alfred [4006] 02Re:controlling heat is hard - 06Intel Core M Speeds Highly Variable between OEMs - 33 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:31] <exec> 08└─1GHz should be enough for anyone.
[16:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:good to see so many promising directions lately - 06CAR T-Cells: Using Your Immune System to Cure Your Cancer - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:55] <exec> 08└─cancer treatment hasn't really progressed much in the last 30 years
[16:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where is everyone? - 06CAR T-Cells: Using Your Immune System to Cure Your Cancer - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:01] <exec> 08└─Article modding would be better. Because bait articles might attract views but not be that good.
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[17:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Frustrating if we can't get there anytime soon - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of the plot setup in Poul Anderson's last novel Starfarers [amazon.com] , not an especially great novel overall, but one that has a thoughtprovoking premise: humankind detects spacecraft moving at immense velocities tens or hundreds of light years away, and dispatches its own ship to...
[17:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Heroes Of Telemark - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:14] <exec> 08└─That's the name of a really good movie, starring Kirk Douglas I think, telling the true story of fifteen Norwegian Commandoes who landed in Norway in a glider. They blew up the Norsk Hydro heavy water plant, then when the NAZIs tried to make off with the "product" they already had in storage, the Co...
[17:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, many big forces are friendly EU nations, but China and Russia are not, and they're the biggest (next to us). And both of them, unlike the EU nations, seem to have some level of conquest and hegemony as their goals. You're absolutely right about the US military pouring money into stuff which doe...
[17:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Where are our chips manufactured? - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:22] <exec> 08└─Military chips specifically. At one time the military would not accept a chip in a design unless it was both Made In These United States, as well as second sourced. I don't think anyone even second sources anymore. Back in the day, before I was one over to RISC, my boss Scott Lydiard said to me "The...
[17:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02DEAR CYBER JIHADISTS - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:45] <exec> 08└─"Reality TV" is hyper-anti-muslim. I though you should be VERY aware of this fact.
[17:10:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02You never see a Commie drink water, - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 1727 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:55] <exec> 08└─Excuse me for some serious reflection on the topic at hand. The total hysteria about "westerners" being "radicalized" and going off to "jihad" with the puppets of the Saudi Royal family just makes me laugh. The US FBI has apprehended a potential threat, who turns out to be severely challenged menta...
[17:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02HMI/SCADA - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:05] <exec> 08└─Human Machine Interface / Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition is a common type of industrial control system. It is often used to control TV networks, not just manufacturing plants. The people who design that stuff in my actual experience are brilliant industrial engineers but very poor software...
[17:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably Sexual Selection - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:19] <exec> 08└─What do you mean by sane? Do you mean women who have more realistic requirements, or ones who are aren't uninteresting? Personally, I'm starting to think they just don't exist, and that once you get past the age of 30 (on the female side; males have a bit more time since they tend to hook up with yo...
[17:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:1) 02Re:Probably Sexual Selection - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:20] <exec> 08└─Please don't scare me :(
[17:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Gutenberg - 06Distributed Proofreaders: Preserving History One Page at a Time - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've done a little DP work, and one of the instructions is you don't change the text. It's about preservation, not editing.
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[18:09:43] <exec> 08└─show me the statistics to back it up or this is just conjecture from an armchair sociologist.
[18:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:44] <exec> 08└─This arm chair sociologist says what ruined marriage is equal rights for women. Even earning less than 80% of the average man's salary, that's still 80% more than a stay-at-home mother makes. Self-sufficiency means options, many fewer women are forced by financial necessity to put up with a bad matc...
[18:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:1) 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:45] <exec> 08└─Enlightened marriage, you mean.
[18:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:47] <exec> 08└─yeah, I don't buy this either. my guess is that women are not satisfied with regular guys and they all want some sports hero or GQ model looking guy. media has told them that they 'all deserve a prince charming' and very few guys meet that spec. same for guys, too; guys seem to want a perfect ten an...
[18:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old Guy Warning to Young People - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─Don't get married. It will fuck up your life.
[18:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:50] <exec> 08└─OK, more detail. It isn't fair to make a blanket statement like that nor will it be believed. Be very careful about getting married. Marriage isn't about love -- it's about property. You can just live with someone you love, but we've added this mystique about marriage that falsely links it to love....
[18:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:52] <exec> 08└─Better yet, don't take it seriously, because it's garbage; don't get married at all.
[18:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02"Common Sense" - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:54] <exec> 08└─Our great-grandparents did it, our grandparents followed suit, and for many of us, our parents did it as well. So why is marriage so difficult for the millennial generation? Let's lament the downfall of civilization due to the younger generation, for the millionth time in history... Or, maybe "c...
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02in my day - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:55] <exec> 08└─We had to walk uphill both ways to school! Subby sounds old.
[18:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Healthy Marriages - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─Marriages that last a long time aren't necessarily healthy. My grandmother was in an abusive relationship, with my grandfather, for most of her life because she came from a time where divorce was unacceptable and she lacked the means to support herself and her children. Anniversaries of her marriage...
[18:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Something doesn't add up (but IANAP) - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:06] <exec> 08└─Does the CMB look different - red/blue shifted along the axis of travel - if you travel fast enough?
[18:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not even intergalactic space is really a vacuum - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:08] <exec> 08└─I suppose it is because maybe nobody really talks about it in terms of macroscopic objects? At least within the cosmic ray field, for decades these issues have been at the heart of the mystery of where the highest energy cosmic rays come from. The momenta of the highest energy cosmic rays leads to b...
[18:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:slow learner. - 06Now Anyone Can Tap the AI Behind Amazon’s Recommendations - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:17] <exec> 08└─I occasionally buy things from Amazon, but not frequently. My experience is the same as yours; after I look at or buy a given item, it recommends that item and similar items to me. That being said, I may not be the best data set for Amazon's recommendations. The more we buy, the easier we are to pre...
[18:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Nazi Germany had a high tech edge once......... - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:30] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there's better alternatives to US based multinational moneyed middlemen (MMM). Like the Russki cleptocracy where if your business looks nice one of the government confidante will just grab it. Or the Chinese one party system where anyone charged with a crime is automatically guilty. Also run...
[18:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Nazi Germany had a high tech edge once......... - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:31] <exec> 08└─People bitching about boobs in video games will have nothing to do with America's decline.
[18:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Paging Dr. Godwin - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:33] <exec> 08└─Pennsylvania, is that a state you want to avoid as far as possible? filled with people of which most aren't rewarding to be around?
[18:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:The Heroes Of Telemark - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:37] <exec> 08└─This [dailymail.co.uk] is probably different than whatever you're talking about, but related. 126,000 barrels of decaying nuclear waste in Nazi tunnels. Immediately after the war, elements of the American government were publicly contending that nuclear-weapons technology could be suppressed and mad...
[18:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The Heroes Of Telemark - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:39] <exec> 08└─Catch.. The Nazi scientist didn't know what to do with the Plutonium except for poisoning areas with population which is really a waste. However the Nazi regime were quite near to succeed with production of jet fighters which could have thwarted the invasion by getting dominance in the airspace.
[18:10:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Entropy [4228] 02Re:Working conditions for researchers? - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 274 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:44] <exec> 08└─Don't forget outsourcing all the engineering and computer science work to other countries. It's nice that we want to be "high tech" and give all the "high tech" jobs away to people making $1/hour elsewhere...but that has some pretty predictable results like losing our edge.
[18:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Where are our chips manufactured? - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:47] <exec> 08└─How would you base selection with the errata as the starting point?
[18:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03basicbasicbasic [411] (Score:1) 02Re:It isn't that hard if you know how TelCom works - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:18] <exec> 08└─Jesus, I honestly thought this xenophobic bullshit slur would go away after the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Guess not.
[18:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It isn't that hard if you know how TelCom works - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:19] <exec> 08└─And what was your expectation for when the childish US-bashing in every story here was going to go away? And what is the relevance to the Charlie Hebdo attacks? You are now not allowed to even mention the French in anything but reverent tones? The attacks on a well-known satirical site now provides...
[18:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Evolution ... - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:19] <exec> 08└─You're the one who has now posted twice about black penises, which I did not bring up at all. So who's obsessed again? In fact, you're revealing your own biases about black men. It would seem you believe stereotypes are okay as long as they are positive.
[18:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably Sexual Selection - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:47] <exec> 08└─Sane women are those that have realistic requirements and are honest about them. And in generally having a courteous manner. And higher age makes it harder, but giving up just means one does it the wrong way.
[18:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:1) 02Re:Probably Sexual Selection - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:48] <exec> 08└─How do the Dutch compare to other cultures? I have no idea. I've never been there. I was just pointing out that there's a difference between natural (i.e. environment based) selection and sexual preference based selection processes.
[18:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:dairy products - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:55] <exec> 08└─Or a prosperous nation makes it easier for people to sustain a good life?
[18:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:controlling heat is hard - 06Intel Core M Speeds Highly Variable between OEMs - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:15] <exec> 08└─This reminds me quite a bit of the Pentium 4 laptops of yesteryear for a different reason. The problem them was that a laptop generally couldn't have adequate cooling and would thus throttle immediately. This is an interesting inversion, where in 2005 the chip was at fault because the OEM couldn't b...
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[19:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Newer, Better is a Click Away - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:41] <exec> 08└─True. Many have made the perfect the enemy of the good. Newer and better is believed to be just a temporary heartbreak away, and some will accept any amount of strife in their life (and impose it on those around them) for a minor (and temporary) upgrade. The fallacy, of course, is that there is no s...
[19:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Newer, Better is a Click Away - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:42] <exec> 08└─Induction proof: 1) Whoever you pair up with it won't be perfect. (universe is imperfect as Hawkings has stated) 2) At any time you can look for a better match. 3) Because no matter how good match you may have (1) there will always be a better match (2) such that you will NEVER be satisfied or have...
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─nothing to do with 'social media', really.
[19:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:50] <exec> 08└─Social media is garbage, but so is pop psychology.
[19:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - DNA signing - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:54] <exec> 08└─Don't make kids either. They are as good as marriage when it comes to the law.. Better yet. Demand sterilization or any other means which can't be cheated with or is easy to miss due forgetting etc.
[19:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - DNA signing - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, what the article is suggesting is indeed a crock of shit, but that people realize how much of a pain in the ass marriages and kids are is only one contributing factor. Myself and many others grew up with the 'leave it to beaver' ideal all over the media and airwaves while living a very differe...
[19:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - DNA signing - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:57] <exec> 08└─It's easy to protect yourself from marriage. But kids are worse if you got any sex drive for attractive women. What sucks so bad about millennials btw?
[19:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcm [4110] (Score:1) 02Stable marriages - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:00] <exec> 08└─I met a psychologist who told me that the more stable marriages were arranged marriages. When engaged in an arranged marriage, you have a contract and are not swayed by your emotions. People want to marry somebody they love, and they also hope that this love will last forever. This "love" is mostly...
[19:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I had absolutely no idea. - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:15] <exec> 08└─I should have know that - I did two different compton scattering labs during my physics degree. I commonly tell people that cosmic rays come from supernovae, even in other galaxies however I readily agree that could not possibly be the case. Dark matter decay? :-D
[19:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02travelling near the speed of light - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:17] <exec> 08└─Say you're travelling near the speed of light and your spacecraft is of diameter X. What are the odds that you'd hit something and be destroyed in the 4+ years it takes for you to reach the next nearest star (other than the Sun)? Yes space is mostly empty, but is it empty enough? Some say the odds a...
[19:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Wormhole - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:18] <exec> 08└─So how would a wormhole or space bending travel signature look like? That seems so far the only realistic option to crack the distances in space.
[19:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Wormhole - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:20] <exec> 08└─I don't think a wormhole would leave a detectable signal in the middle. There is the problem that it takes a lot of negative mass to stabilize it, though. (Or is that mass with negative energy?) And I'm not sure what you mean by "space bending" singe I don't think you mean "artificial gravity" which...
[19:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Yay? - 06Now Anyone Can Tap the AI Behind Amazon’s Recommendations - 2595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:32] <exec> 08└─Don't get me wrong, I'm glad Amazon is making something like this available, since it'll spur others to do similar things, but of all the major sites I use that have recommendation engines, Amazon's engine is easily the least useful, despite my having provided it with ample data. Buy a run-of-the-mi...
[19:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02It is quite difficult to design a plutonium bomb - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:51] <exec> 08└─that's why the US tested one Alamagordo, New Mexico - to make sure it would really detonate, and if it didn't to gain the insight required to make one that would. We didn't test the Uranium bomb as we were certain it would work: just shoot a uranium slug out of a cannon into the center of a uranium...
[19:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:It is quite difficult to design a plutonium bom - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:52] <exec> 08└─They have figured out the numerical simulation models by now I presume? and the current level of computing at 180 PFlops should make this possible? I'm kind of impressed how they figured out the implosion parameters. Anyway, your statements make it clear why spheric implosion was the method of choic...
[19:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02A part that has been in common use for a while - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:02] <exec> 08└─... with few if any errata. That particular chip had oodles of errata, as well as revisions. I expect the client never even checked. Really the ethical thing for me to have done would be to have suggested that maybe they should consider another part, right at the outset. The reason I agreed to take...
[19:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:A part that has been in common use for a while - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:04] <exec> 08└─One way around this is sometimes to get a later chip revision. The quite six-eight-000 family of processors had quirks in early revisions (80386 too..). Most important.. did you promise anything about the firmware quality or delivery time? ;-)
[19:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:negative results are more interesting - 06Absence of Gravitational-Wave Signal Extends Limit on Knowable Universe - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:14] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you've explained the source of the big bang. Which is rather interesting, and implies that the universe didn't start with the big bang, only the observable universe. I don't know whether that would work out, but it may imply that the original creation of the universe is an indefinite num...
[19:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03basicbasicbasic [411] (Score:1) 02Re:It isn't that hard if you know how TelCom works - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:38] <exec> 08└─I thought things might change simply because the attacks showed the French people in a sympathetic light on the US news, showed them as vulnerable human beings. I thought that might have finally blown away some of the old bigotry. You are now not allowed to even mention the French in anything but re...
[19:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:You never see a Commie drink water, - 06French TV Hack a Major 'Step Up' in Cyberjihadism - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:44] <exec> 08└─xcuse me for some serious reflection on the topic at hand. The total hysteria about "westerners" being "radicalized" and going off to "jihad" with the puppets of the Saudi Royal family just makes me laugh. The US FBI has apprehended a potential threat, who turns out to be severely challenged mentall...
[19:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:iRobot is the tip of the iceberg, really - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:23] <exec> 08└─Hyperbole is impossibly difficult to get right.
[19:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably Sexual Selection - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:12] <exec> 08└─Good women are thin on the ground at any age. And what you consider "good" tends to change as you get older. In high school it's cute bumps. Later you start to consider more practical things. But I, an extremely shy person, and horrible at meeting people, actually found my wife in my 40s. Strangely...
[19:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sue all you want. - 06Amazon Sues to Block Alleged Fake Reviews - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:30] <exec> 08└─That's true, and companies pay people six figure salaries to work out just how to control public perception (a whole lot more of this goes on than people generally realize) of products. If it's a big ticket or important item, you want more than a few Amazon reviews to make or break your purchase dec...
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[20:09:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] 02Newer, Better is a Click Away - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:49] <exec> 08└─How can you risk settling and settling down with someone who's only 85% of what you want when the 90% person could just be another profile or search away? We're addicted to the newness and initial rush of new partners, and technology only enables that further.
[20:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 2129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:59] <exec> 08└─Did you check out TFA? It's title is "5 reasons we can't handle marriage anymore," and it's an opinion piece written by a relationship columnist. This isn't a social scientist showing a clear correlation between divorce rates and social media usage, this is just some hack spouting her opinions. She...
[20:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - DNA signing - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:07] <exec> 08└─What sucks so bad about millennials btw?
[20:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - DNA signing - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:08] <exec> 08└─Perhaps. But I suspect it's more general than that.
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - DNA signing - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:10] <exec> 08└─It looks like you soon won't need to demand sterilization if you're male; you can just do it yourself. You can already get the big V, but if you don't want to take that step, they've already come out with an extremely effective and easily-reversed male contraceptive, which involves some material inj...
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Common Sense" - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:12] <exec> 08└─The divorce surge is over, but the average age at first marriage continues to grow: people are putting off getting married. In the US, it's now 28; in some European countries it is now in the 30's. There's probably an economic problem behind that, masquerading as an effect of education: the more adv...
[20:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1) 02Re:Stable marriages - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 1482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:16] <exec> 08└─Some of us millennials get this. I'm 29, so maybe on the old side of "millennial," but I understand what a proper loving relationship is and looks like...and how it can go bad. The key is not going into it hoping that you'll be made complete. If you need healing, that's one thing, but if you are fun...
[20:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Stable marriages - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 1496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:17] <exec> 08└─The problem with millenials is not about their desire to be followed or loved (which is the same desire, contrary to what d'Ambrosio believes). It's that they are not mature enough to be able to love somebody outside of themselves, especially without condition ("unconditional love"). This is a bunch...
[20:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score:2, Insightful) 02strong argument against porn & wandering eyes - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 2580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:19] <exec> 08└─The article says "Everywhere you look, there's pictures of men and women we know half naked — some look better than your husband or wife" and "It's no wonder why insecurities loom so largely these days. You have to be perfect to keep someone attracted to you. Meanwhile, what your lover should real...
[20:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score:1) 02Re:strong argument against porn & wandering eyes - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:20] <exec> 08└─pps: I'm not perfect, been through a divorce and blending new family, and it's really hard. And worth it.
[20:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:strong argument against porn & wandering eyes - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:22] <exec> 08└─Which makes a powerful argument that individuals should avoid porn like the plague, and help their children to also do so.
[20:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score:1) 02agreeing, but actions usually begin with thoughts - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:24] <exec> 08└─I think I can see your line of thinking. We agree that personal responsibility is critical, and I would extend that to our thoughts. It seems that most actions start with thoughts, so our thoughts affect us (and our relationships). What we view and play at affects our thoughts. And our thoughts & ac...
[20:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:agreeing, but actions usually begin with though - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:25] <exec> 08└─Actions begin with your own thoughts, and I for one believe a grand majority of people can separate fantasy from reality.
[20:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Frustrating if we can't get there anytime soon - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─I recall another (short) story - I forget who by - in which the first definitive evidence of a very, very, very distant alien spaceship is detected by a radio telescope. Unfortunately, said detection was only possible at all because the spaceship had gone ultra-mega-space-kablooey.
[20:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Wormhole - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:43] <exec> 08└─Space bending is that you contract space ahead of your ship and expand it behind you. And the ship itself remains static inside a bubble. Your are probably right about the wormhole. No detection signature in mid path. Overall there might be signs of intelligent activities however which in itself wou...
[20:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03cwadge [3324] (Score:1) 02Traveling at light speed is moot - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not a physicist, but I'd think it'd make a lot more sense to warp space and bring your destination close to you, in a relativistic sense. After all, space is a thing, and it is malleable. Most assumptions about interstellar travel assume linear movement along a straight line. Instead of travelli...
[20:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Heroes Of Telemark - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:17] <exec> 08└─were quite near to succeed with production of jet fighters
[20:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Nazi Germany had a high tech edge once......... - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:18] <exec> 08└─[Nazi Germany] almost developed an atomic bomb
[20:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03cwadge [3324] (Score:1) 02Re:iRobot is the tip of the iceberg, really - 06iRobot versus Radio Astronomy - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:50] <exec> 08└─I think I was originally going to write "infinitesimal compared to...", but got my wires crossed someplace. As far as hyperbole goes though, that one isn't much; we're still talking orders of magnitude. Of course, I thought of a dozen better ways of phrasing that sentence after I'd already hit "Subm...
[20:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Too many racist fuckers - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:26] <exec> 08└─Sure, but do look up spearman's hypothesis.
[20:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably Sexual Selection - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:38] <exec> 08└─Giving up gives you a lot more time to pursue other, more successful interests. Dating (as in actively searching for people to date) takes a lot of time and attention.
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[21:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02The problem - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 1290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:40] <exec> 08└─The problem of surveillance is the amount. The bad guys want incomplete surveillance. You might want no surveillance at all, or, guess what, total surveillance. Think about it: every interaction, every transaction, every property tracked. Privacy would not be needed because even if everybody knew yo...
[21:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:2) 02Yup - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[21:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:43] <exec> 08└─Absolutely nothing? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Just some things? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Absolutely everything? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[21:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:44] <exec> 08└─The problem of surveillance is the amount.
[21:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What does Buttplug International have to say? - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:46] <exec> 08└─We've heard from Amnesty International, Liberty International, and Privacy International. But what does Buttplug International have to say about all of this?
[21:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't forget about the Tranny Effect. - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 1170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:57] <exec> 08└─You're also forgetting about one of medical science's greatest accomplishments: the Tranny. These days, it's possible for a man to basically become a woman. His testes are pushed into the body to become her ovaries. His penis is inverted and pushed into the body to become her vagina. His glans is tw...
[21:09:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] 02It's AMAZING how the divorce rate SKYROCKETED! - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:59] <exec> 08└─Really snowballing from that starting point in 1970 [divorce.com], when UNIX was introduced. This technology really set the whole ball in motion - no one can argue with facts like these!
[21:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's AMAZING how the divorce rate SKYROCKETED! - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:00] <exec> 08└─Additional evidence to support your claim can be found in the song That's the Way I've Always Heard It Should Be [wikipedia.org] by Carly Simon, released in 1971. My friends from college, they're all married now They have their houses and their lawns They have their silent noons Tearful nights, angr...
[21:10:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 1282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:03] <exec> 08└─yeah, I don't buy this either. my guess is that women are not satisfied with regular guys and they all want some sports hero or GQ model looking guy. media has told them that they 'all deserve a prince charming' and very few guys meet that spec. same for guys, too; guys seem to want a perfect ten an...
[21:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:07] <exec> 08└─I agree. This sounds like survivor bias to me. Its like when you see a sweet 70s muscle car. Then some dumbass always says 'they dont make em like they used to'. THANK GOD. Most 60/70s cars are crap. All you see now are the ones that were actually built decently. http://en.wikipedia.org
[21:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - DNA signing - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:16] <exec> 08└─Millennial females also have bigger penises than he has, and heftier scrotums, too.
[21:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:1) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:18] <exec> 08└─This is the advice I've always received. I've never seen a happy marriage either, so I'm inclined to believe it.
[21:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:20] <exec> 08└─Happy marriages exist but are rare. The thing that nobody says about marriage is that you are putting half of everything you will ever earn on the table. If your partner is an equal contributor, then splitting everything up is fair. If your partner is not an equal contributor, perhaps a zero contrib...
[21:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:"Common Sense" - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:23] <exec> 08└─What do you mean, a better job? The average age when people get their first job is growing, as more people go to university.
[21:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Common Sense" - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:24] <exec> 08└─And as more people go to university for the purposes of getting jobs and money, real education is lost and university becomes more expensive and corporate in nature.
[21:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02advertisers disagree - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:35] <exec> 08└─Professional marketing relies heavily on measurements of behavior changes that result from attempts to insert ideas into to other people's thoughts. A huge industry has and acts on much data that strongly correlates thoughts and actions, conscious and not. :)
[21:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:advertisers disagree - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:36] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between advertisements designed to mislead and clear fantasy (video games, porn, etc.). But I don't buy that nonsense anyway. The government at one point spent loads of money on psychic detectives. Does that mean they're effective? What if--hear me out here--people are buying t...
[21:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02why I think the things I said - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:38] <exec> 08└─I know you'll think this is silly or worse. I still respect you and hope you'll not be angry that I say why I think as I do, as you have in part. Equal privileges. :) I have learned by experience (good & bad) that God is our Father, knows us individually better than we know ourselves, and wants us t...
[21:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score:1) 02(last one was me) - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:39] <exec> 08└─sorry, forgot to log in when posting the immediate parent
[21:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oblig - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:41] <exec> 08└─They weren't on Facebook criticizing others. They weren't on vacation sending Snapchats to their friends.
[21:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Probably Sexual Selection - 06Natural Selection May Help Account for Dutch Height Advantage - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:58] <exec> 08└─You don't want someone like yourself. Intelligence isn't important, but having an open mind is Yeah, I used to think all that too, and married someone who isn't as as smart, and I kept a really open mind about our differences. Fast-forward 5-10 years and now all the differences have become too great...
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[22:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Blame external factors? - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:42] <exec> 08└─I think it may be easier to blame external factors for your own failures. Failed a job interview? Do not blame it on your lack of intelligence and work ethic. Blame it on immigrants! It makes you feel better, right?
[22:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Blame external factors? - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:43] <exec> 08└─Let's say you were born in America, and you learned the native language of America: English. You go to college to study computer science. You put a lot of effort into it, you learn a lot, and you end up graduating with top grades and top honors. You go for your first interview for a programming posi...
[22:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame external factors? - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:44] <exec> 08└─What language do all of your interviewers speak, and what language is the interview in? Hindi, and only Hindi. Well, it turns out that you don't speak Hindi, although you're interviewing in America for a job with an American company.
[22:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Unions can be useful and a pain too - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:46] <exec> 08└─Unions can be useful but they can also start telling you at which hours you are allowed to work. That you can't swap a Sunday for a Wednesday. That you must have smoking pause regardless if you smoke. That you can't work a lot one week and take time off the next. The controlling body of the union ca...
[22:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:1) 02Re:Unions can be useful and a pain too - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:48] <exec> 08└─Perhaps, if you need a union. You are in the wrong business..
[22:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unions can be useful and a pain too - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:50] <exec> 08└─Called them professional association... I am a member of a union that goes by the name of x company professionals association and I don't get any of the shit you talk about. US it professional should do like the doctors and the lawers: enforce proper education and competency standards, police your m...
[22:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03g2 In The Desert [3773] (Score:2, Insightful) 02The troubling part - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:51] <exec> 08└─I think it's great that the Senators are going to look at a policy that seems increasingly anti - US Worker. But the troubling part is that they were complicit in this activity as it blossomed over the last ten to fifteen years. It shouldn't take a union, a special interest group or a political ac...
[22:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:00] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go right? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[22:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:02] <exec> 08└─Who's to say that everyone needs to like privacy? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[22:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:03] <exec> 08└─You don't. If you don't want privacy, you are free to surrender your own. Just don't involve me or others who desire privacy and recognize its importance.
[22:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:05] <exec> 08└─What's to say that others shouldn't surrender their privacy, too? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[22:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:07] <exec> 08└─But history shows that this surveillance is inevitably asymmetric. Where is your camera watching the cops look up skirts with their cameras? In TFA, where is Amnesty's camera watching the secret courts holding closed hearings on transparency? The corporation will know what you buy and when, but they...
[22:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:The problem - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:08] <exec> 08└─You think the information from that surveillance will be shared with everybody? Think again! And about correcting anything. Currently there are courts to make sure there's justice. In reality there is only law, sometimes it overlaps with justice when conditions are favorable but don't count on it. A...
[22:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't forget about the Tranny Effect. - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:20] <exec> 08└─It's perfectly heterosexual for a man who was born a man and remains a man to get into a sexual relationship with a man who was born a man but who became a woman.
[22:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't forget about the Tranny Effect. - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:21] <exec> 08└─It is perfectly heterosexual. One partner is a man, one partner is a woman. That's the very definition of a heterosexual relationship.
[22:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You have described African-American culture. - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:31] <exec> 08└─This is one area where African-American society is already decades ahead. The family structure, as understood in White, Hispanic and Asian America, hasn't existed within African-American culture for some time. In this culture, marriage is extremely rare. Single mothers are the norm. Not only are the...
[22:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - DNA signing - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:42] <exec> 08└─The only thing I don't like about millenials is that, for some stupid reason, they've brought back beards in a big way. Other than that, I don't see the problem; they have a much clearer view of the world and reality than the rest of us, on average, and what a crock much of modern society is.
[22:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - DNA signing - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:44] <exec> 08└─Those are Hipsters you're talking about. They aren't Millennials. They're tail-end Gen X'ers.
[22:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Old Guy Warning to Young People - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:47] <exec> 08└─Demand a prenuptial agreement?
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[22:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Re:strong argument against porn & wandering eyes - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:05] <exec> 08└─One can blame the church for creating porn in the first place. Before the church came along, nobody had a problem with the human body, but then the church came along and said that was bad. Now look how well that went. Today, kiss a breast, get a NC-17/X rating, but chop off the same breast and get a...
[22:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Something doesn't add up (but IANAP) - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 6025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:19] <exec> 08└─"If there is a "lower speed limit," what is it relative to?" Speed of light in a vacuum. This quantity is an invariant in most (and all mainstream) theories of physics. It does not mean that the speed of physical photons themselves is always that of light in a vacuum - it might be better to say that...
[22:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Traveling at light speed is moot - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:30] <exec> 08└─Likely because warping space requires exotic matter that we don't even know to exist and/or enough mass to kill anything you are transporting.
[22:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Traveling at light speed is moot - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:32] <exec> 08└─Google "Alcubierre solution". It might interest you. (Practically it wouldn't work - what would happen to stars and planets, and even grains of dust and hydrogen atoms, that lay in your path? What would happen to the stars, planets, dust grains and protons that lay in your wake? Worse, the solution...
[22:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Question about light speed. - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:34] <exec> 08└─Everywhere I read one can't travel faster then light. My question is TO WHAT REFERENCE? One can travel twice the speed of light in reference to earth away from earth. The traveler just see nothing but darkness behind then as everything behind them is traveling away faster then light can catch up to...
[22:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Different idea of intelligence - 06Now Anyone Can Tap the AI Behind Amazon’s Recommendations - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:45] <exec> 08└─Whenever AI comes up, there's bound to be someone claiming AI is stupid. But it makes no sense to apply human values of intelligence to AI. Consider the following hypothetical comparison between an average human driver and the AI of a self-driving car. We humans may think that the AI is stupid for n...
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[23:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame external factors? - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:43] <exec> 08└─So the natural American citizen study with good grades at a college and interviews in English and has to accept a salary that only covers costs in India, not USA. The skills required is of a computer language which is flawed but is rote learned by your colleges without any analyze. You get subtly ex...
[23:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame external factors? - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:44] <exec> 08└─This is a much better response to the OP.
[23:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Unions can be useful and a pain too - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:48] <exec> 08└─This isn't paid writing so spelling etc quality is optimized accordingly.
[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unions can be useful and a pain too - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 1949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:51] <exec> 08└─Unions have lots of issues, but your statement is nothing but FUD. I work for a college, and I refuse to join our union. It is only because that is the only way to withold the portion of dues used for political contributions (I pay the rest of the dues, but cannot vote in union elections). The paren...
[23:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Enforcement should be the first priority - 06Senators will Listen to Tech Union Members about H-1B - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:53] <exec> 08└─The first priority should be enforcement of the rules. Does anyone think that the big outsourcing companies are following the laws on H1-B visas? For policy change, I think that H1-B visas should only be granted to companies that will directly benefit from the employees' work. In other words, a mode...
[23:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:08] <exec> 08└─The people who don't want to surrender their privacy, I would imagine. For everyone else, there is always China and North Korea.
[23:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtrycz [60] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:The problem - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:10] <exec> 08└─You forgot Five. And then another 190.
[23:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The problem - 06Amnesty International Takes UK Government to European Court of Human Rights - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:11] <exec> 08└─What's to say that the people who do surrender their privacy don't want actually want to do so voluntarily? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
[23:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't forget about the Tranny Effect. - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:28] <exec> 08└─His testes are pushed into the body to become her ovaries.
[23:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't forget about the Tranny Effect. - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:30] <exec> 08└─Some of them even believe that gender transition is evidence of a demon coming from the burning hells, taking their son's form, killing their son, and attempting to summon demons Evil Dead style into their homes. Unfortunately, yes, a large fraction of the American public (probably over 1/3) actuall...
[23:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't forget about the Tranny Effect. - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 1026 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:31] <exec> 08└─Wow, your medical knowledge is rather pathetic. M-to-F people do not have their testicles turned into ovaries; that's quite impossible. What really happens is they have to take estrogen pills every day since their bodies don't naturally produce it. But yes, they do do some rather impressive reconstr...
[23:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:36] <exec> 08└─that's still 80% more than a stay-at-home mother makes
[23:10:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 2129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:40] <exec> 08└─Did you check out TFA? It's title is "5 reasons we can't handle marriage anymore," and it's an opinion piece written by a relationship columnist. This isn't a social scientist showing a clear correlation between divorce rates and social media usage, this is just some hack spouting her opinions. She...
[23:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You have described African-American culture. - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:42] <exec> 08└─> but it's very real within the southern states of the United States, as well as in predominantly black areas of the nation's major cities. Basically anywhere the government has been stuffing black men into prison such that they can't fulfil the role of father and breadwinner, behind bars or afterwa...
[23:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03EQ [1716] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:i dont buy it - 06Social Media is Ruining Marriage for the Millennial Generation - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:44] <exec> 08└─"and is for some unthinkable reason allowed to come to term" ... unthinkable? Really? What about the basic value of a human life - is that unthinkable? A lot of couples decide to keep their "accidents". I'm glad my folks did. And I kept my unplanned son too. Its not nearly as casual and cavalier a d...
[23:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Something doesn't add up (but IANAP) - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:32] <exec> 08└─"If there is a "lower speed limit," what is it relative to?" Speed of light in a vacuum.
[23:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Wormhole - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:42] <exec> 08└─No-one limits to themselves to radio waves! I'm not sure where that idea comes from. Any astronomer wants to cover as much of the spectrum as we possibly can! Gamma ray bursts are a nice example of an intriguing problem that comes up because telescopes (initially spy telescopes, entertainingly, but...
[23:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Wormhole - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:44] <exec> 08└─I meant searching for high energy particles (perhaps low ones too?) and other types of energy forms not ordinarily thought of as a means of radiation from objects in the universe. Perhaps there a fields that warps the properties of atoms in other ways. Neutrinos are also interesting from this point...
[23:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Wormhole - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:46] <exec> 08└─The X and gamma ray observatories are meant to catch the high-energy events, and the microwave and radio surveys should catch practically all the low-energy ones. It's quite hard to come up with something that will emit in these ranges that doesn't have some signal on the CMB, and the CMB is extreme...
[23:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Wormhole - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:47] <exec> 08└─To be honest a wormhole would look like a black hole. I'd like to take volunteers to throw themselves into a black hole in the hope it's a wormhole inside. Warp would be a lot more interesting. Assuming we're talking about warp solutions in relativity, if a warping spaceship were coming towards you...
[23:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score:2) 02Re:Wormhole - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:49] <exec> 08└─So if we find electromagnetically shifted trails across the sky.. *hmm!!*
[23:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Wormhole - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:51] <exec> 08└─It would be a good day :)
[23:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03boristhespider [4048] (Score:2) 02Re:Question about light speed. - 06Limits and Signatures of Relativistic Spaceflight - 4254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:54] <exec> 08└─The entire point of special relativity is that there is no reference. The concept makes more sense in general relativity, in which spacetime can be split into regions accessible by three types of path: "timelike", "null" and "spacelike". (The names refer to the 4-dimensional 'distance' observed alon...
[23:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nazi Germany had a high tech edge once......... - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:29] <exec> 08└─In 1942 they decided that a fission bomb could not be achieved in time to affect WW2, and basically gave up.
[23:12:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rts008 [3001] 02Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! - 06US Military Concerned About Losing Their High Tech Edge - 264 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:30] <exec> 08└─This is just a fluff FUD peice to chum the waters for the congressional budget hearings coming up. Listening to these people would have you imagining 'enemy' drones so thick, they would form a Dyson Sphere, and you would risk inhaling one by just stepping outside.
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