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[00:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02wot - 06BitTorrent Teams With Onehub for 'Hybrid' Enterprise File-Sharing Service - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:19] <exec> 08└─I have never taken the time to understand how BitTorrent Sync works BitTorrent Sync synchronises files using BitTorrent The user's data is stored on the user's local device instead of in a 'cloud', therefore requiring at least two user devices, or "nodes," to be online to synchronise files between t...
[00:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:What do they do? - 06Better DNA Hair Analysis for Catching Criminals - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:58] <exec> 08└─http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25999132 [nih.gov] Using telogen hairs-a common source of LTDNA-and matched reference DNA, the LCN method produced the highest number of concordant and non-concordant (i.e., dropped-in) alleles. In comparison, the reduced reaction volume with increased Taq polymer...
[00:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:16] <exec> 08└─Of course I have. And we stop half way for a pee and a meal. Why on earth would you suffer 7 hours of sitting in a car without a break when you are on vacation. It makes no sense.
[00:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:18] <exec> 08└─So shot me my top of the head estimate was a little off. Though I do not do it all the time at least a few times a year I drive that. Until they get that kind of range and a lower price electric cars are out of my field of view. I will let the early adopting fools bring the price down to earth just...
[00:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:It depends ... - 06Ask Soylent: Relocating For Work - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:59] <exec> 08└─What you need to ask yourself is are you willing to uproot?
[00:15:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 022 partners working for same employer? Save! - 06Ask Soylent: Relocating For Work - 3678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:00] <exec> 08└─Which is better, 2 partners employed by different, totally unrelated employers, or both working for the same employer? Those aren't the only options, there's only one partner being employed, or running their own business., etc. Deciding on that is less important than socking away as much savings as...
[00:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:18] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering who modded him informative?
[00:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HOWTO Convine The French To Speak English - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:29] <exec> 08└─Back in the 80's some colleagues of mine were at an international conference in Paris. A group of them went out to dinner. One of them was from Quebec and, of course, was fluent in French. The group let him do the ordering. He spoke to the waiter in French (Canadian) and the waiter responded back in...
[00:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HOWTO Convine The French To Speak English - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:30] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the waiter heard that all the table spoke English and thought it would more efficient and polite to speak English so that no one would have to interpret everything and the other members of the group could understand that they could directly talk to him. Ah, but no, it’s easier to assume th...
[00:19:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HOWTO Convine The French To Speak English - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:32] <exec> 08└─If your French were fine, you wouldn’t write “Les Pays Basque.”
[00:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02Re:Fuck Spanish - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:19:41] <exec> 08└─There is no chance Spanish will displace English in America.
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[01:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's old is new, etc. - 06Bill James On the Real Value of Sabermetrics in Sports - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:14] <exec> 08└─It is the big fad these days, especially the defensive shift, but this goes back a hundred years or more. In fact, just last night I was watching a reply of the 5th game of the 1970 World Series between the Baltimore Orioles and Cincinnati Reds. Lee May was up for the Reds and Kurt Gowdy remarked th...
[01:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02That is all. - 06Bill James On the Real Value of Sabermetrics in Sports - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:15] <exec> 08└─http://fangraphs.com [fangraphs.com] is awesome.
[01:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:wot - 06BitTorrent Teams With Onehub for 'Hybrid' Enterprise File-Sharing Service - 1440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:25] <exec> 08└─That's about right. I use it to backup my TV shows and personal photos and videos across a couple of machines. I've tried to use it to provide files to other people instead of DropBox, but it hasn't really taken with anyone else I know. You can give read/write or read-on,y keys to the files, so it c...
[01:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Cost versus reward - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 1399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:36] <exec> 08└─On top of that it remains to be seen what kind of geology we find within the asteroid belt. Chances are that most of it will be very similar to the known composition of Earth and other planets. Perhaps if the belt is the remains of the planet between Mars and Jupiter then we can access deeper layers...
[01:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost versus reward - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, this link http://www.indexmundi.com [indexmundi.com] says that the yearly production of platinum is about 200 tonnes. 500 tonnes is the whole platinum group. (200 platinum, 200 palladium, 100 everything else). Nitp...
[01:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost versus reward - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:40] <exec> 08└─Indeed, changing the supply/demand equation of a commodity would be disruptive. Sure, you may devalue something, but devalue it the point that a particular use becomes economically feasible, expect demand to rise in turn.
[01:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Profit motive - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:41] <exec> 08└─But as interesting as the concept of asteroid mining is, wouldn't the fabulous costs and potential to crash commodities markets once you brought something back to Earth defeat the profit motive?
[01:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:28] <exec> 08└─I do not drive gas guzzlers even ~40 years ago when I first got my license I was into fuel efficient smaller cars as I said I am cheap SOB always have been I believe in getting damn good value for my money. Electric cars will not be there (cheap to purchase and maintain) in my lifetime I am confiden...
[01:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:30] <exec> 08└─I drive 420-430 miles per day a few times per year. It is not difficult at all. I didn't say it was difficult, I said virtually no one does it without a stop. 6 or 7 hours without a toilet break, a meal or stretching the legs would be awful. 7 hours constantly staring at the road in front. 7 hours o...
[01:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:32] <exec> 08└─t say it was difficult, I said virtually no one does it without a stop. 6 or 7 hours without a toilet break, a meal or stretching the legs would be awful. 7 hours constantly staring at the road in front. 7 hours of your foot pressing a pedal. As I said virtually no one does it. If you truly do do it...
[01:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:ICE Problem - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:37] <exec> 08└─It means your in circuit emulator isn't working properly: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No. - 06Ask Soylent: Relocating For Work - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:19] <exec> 08└─You are not a slave. Rebel if you are.
[01:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jesus_666 [3044] (Score:2) 02Re:Films != Games - 06Indie Developers Pitch How They'd Revive Duke Nukem - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:47] <exec> 08└─He wouldn't have to die. Just injured to take him out of commission for a bit. That way you could set up the next game as something with a Double Dragon Neon-esque two-player co-op mode where Duke and the stripper constantly trade lame one-liners. For the single player mode I'd made the character se...
[01:16:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what BB did was not only legal, but correct - 06Effectiveness of CAN-SPAM Legislation Questioned - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:20] <exec> 08└─In that case he should do the only thing he can do: Submit every single one of those mails to a place like Spamcop and eventually they will get blocked for spamming via an RBL. They aren't obeying the CAN-SPAM rules, regardless of who they are that should result (in theory, as long as its reported.....
[01:16:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03juggs [63] (Score:2) 02Re:Electroical Vechiles - 0623% Of New Cars In Norway Are Now Electric Cars - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:42] <exec> 08└─Not really. The text in the square brackets is an editor addition (it does not appear in the quoted source), hence does not qualify for a [sic] (sic erat scriptum) which would denote a typo, spelling or grammatical mistake in the quoted material. Square brackets (do they have a more correct name?) a...
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[02:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost versus reward - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:35] <exec> 08└─DeBeers seem to do pretty well.
[02:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mark - 06Atomic Bomb Test Marks 70th Birthday Amid Renewed Interest - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:49] <exec> 08└─How does a 70 year old atomic bomb test mark a birthday?
[02:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02i would if i could - 063D Printing Goes Full Customization With “Road Ready” 3D Printed Car - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:58] <exec> 08└─You wouldn't download a car.
[02:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:ICE Problem - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:37] <exec> 08└─You mean like, Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (LASER) or Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA) tank? How about Small Computer System Interface (SCSI)? Model-View-Controller (MVC)? Operating System (OS)? Kilometer (km)? Inch (in)? Clearly all acronyms must be...
[02:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:oh that's nothing - 06Air Pollution Costs France 100 Billion Euros Per Year - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:29] <exec> 08└─Instead of guessing that, you could read the very next sentence after the one you quoted: The remainder of the linked cost is largely attributed to time and productivity lost by businesses whose employees require sick leave during peak pollution periods.
[02:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thought we solved this over a decade ago - 06Effectiveness of CAN-SPAM Legislation Questioned - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:30] <exec> 08└─Its probably even easier to just add an entry to /etc/aliases. Then you don't have to even remove a mailbox, you just delete the alias and the mail stops.
[02:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thought we solved this over a decade ago - 06Effectiveness of CAN-SPAM Legislation Questioned - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:32] <exec> 08└─Might take some time setting up, if you're at the store you might want to pre-create some account aliases. Monitor things and if they get bad, revoke the alias.
[02:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Electroical Vechiles - 0623% Of New Cars In Norway Are Now Electric Cars - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:48] <exec> 08└─That's from an editor. I typically copy & paste from articles and sometimes photo captions and the like come out in square brackets. I thought it such a case, thus the [sic]. As I put together submissions I do very frequently see mispellings and homophones turn up, even from sites like BBC. Proofrea...
[02:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HOWTO Convine The French To Speak English - 06Netflix Reports Strong U.S. Interest in Spanish-Language Shows - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:19:52] <exec> 08└─Well, I'll go with what my friend and colleague, the one who was actually in the fucking conversation with the waiter over the course of a several hour meal, as to what the demeanor of the waiter was. Plus, it wasn't a table of all native English speakers. I think even a dumbass like you would agree...
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[03:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Kidney on a chip? - 06‘Organs-on-Chips’ Go Mainstream - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:13] <exec> 08└─It's like mini steak-and-kidney pies but having a platic chip as the crust, right? (not sure if it's better than stem cells, never tasted a stem cell pie; but I'd imagine using plastic for the crust is... ewwwgh).
[03:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Re:wot - 06BitTorrent Teams With Onehub for 'Hybrid' Enterprise File-Sharing Service - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:31] <exec> 08└─It looks nice. I would have used it 10 years ago. Now, I wouldn't touch it with a 10 foot pole. Since the Source is closed, it would be child's play to add "secret" recipients of your data.
[03:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost versus reward - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:46] <exec> 08└─Sure, but they're playing the opposite game - acquire a strangle-hold on production to create artificial scarcity, initiate a massive long-term marketing campaign, and then make a mint selling people sparkley gravel as though it were worth something.
[03:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Profit motive - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:49] <exec> 08└─You're assuming a high-confidence operation - which early asteroid mining endeavors will not be. Even if investors were stupid enough to buy futures at current resource prices (they wouldn't, they'd buy at the projected, post-market-crash, value-upon-delivery prices), they still wouldn't pay the ful...
[03:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02space industry. - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:50] <exec> 08└─But as interesting as the concept of asteroid mining is, wouldn't the fabulous costs and potential to crash commodities markets once you brought something back to Earth defeat the profit motive?
[03:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:42] <exec> 08└─Actually if you network around a bit, it's possible. But the electric car may require some work. A friend of mine just by being interested and hanging around with a group of electric car builders, scored a 1980 Datsun 310 that had been converted to electric for $1.00 US. He had to get new batteries...
[03:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 2370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:46] <exec> 08└─Speaking of driving big truck—cowboy driving is a thing of the past. “Them days are gone and done with,” they lament on the CB. There's a GPS unit in the tractor, and they can scan your logbook into the computer. If your truck is moving when you're on the off-duty or sleep lines, they haul you...
[03:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:48] <exec> 08└─if you catch yourself nodding off, pull down the first exit, park somewhere, and set a 15-20 minute alarm. The 15-20 minute power nap is long enough to restore some vitality, but not so long that deeper sleep sets in.
[03:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:49] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that's interesting. Is that a motivation for the sleeper cabs, to manage the schedule better, or is that purely to save on hotels?
[03:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Range anxiety - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:00] <exec> 08└─there are gas stations everywhere, it only takes 5 minutes to completely refuel,
[03:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:In Case of Emergency - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:05] <exec> 08└─instead of assuming everyone reading your brilliant take on the story has extra sensory perception and knows exactly what YOU mean when you use an acronym/initialism
[03:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Depends on the city the HQ is in. - 06Ask Soylent: Relocating For Work - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:41] <exec> 08└─What city would you be moving to? If it was Detroit or new Orleans I'd say no.
[03:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:oh that's nothing - 06Air Pollution Costs France 100 Billion Euros Per Year - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:52] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure health care costs will be larger than the costs due to lost productivity, unless they have an extremely poor health care system where most people die and you count as lost productivity their current job salary * 20 years.
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[04:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:space industry. - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:52] <exec> 08└─Indeed - and considering the thousands of dollars per pound it takes to ship something to orbit (probably only hundreds by the point that asteroid mining becomes viable), the price of the resource on Earth is mostly irrelevant. Sure, you might ship down some of the rare metals like gold and platinum...
[04:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What do they do? - 06Better DNA Hair Analysis for Catching Criminals - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:24] <exec> 08└─So if you are planning some type of crime sneak around behind a barber shop and/or a hair salon to grab some strands of hair. When you commit the crime wear a clean room suit to keep your hair and skin cells away from the scene and scatter the copped hair around. Then you've fooled CSI.
[04:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:47] <exec> 08└─I am confident of that from the cost of the batteries, motors ..
[04:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:48] <exec> 08└─I will let the early adopting fools bring the price down to earth just like I do with computer equipment
[04:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:56] <exec> 08└─I would assume hotel cost. Mostly once the 11 hours driving time are up, it's straight to the sleep line, so schedule might be a very small factor. The sleeper area adds about 7' or so (there's a small area for a minifridge and cabinet in front of the bed) and I imagine the fuel costs to support tha...
[04:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:57] <exec> 08└─Er, the overriding factor is probably simply parking. Go to any truck stop outside a big city, and there will be a huge lot filled with trucks. Most hotels probably wouldn't care to support that.
[04:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:59] <exec> 08└─I did it a lot when I younger than 35. Now even though I'm in excellent shape (for my age), I like to get out and stretch my legs every couple of hours. Plus I'm in less of a hurry to get anywhere.
[04:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Range anxiety - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:10] <exec> 08└─Low grade subterfuge. Hurricanes knock out infrastructure but conveniently leave your power socket intact? GTFO.
[04:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In Case of Emergency - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:16] <exec> 08└─We will criticize and praise as the posts deserve. Can't handle it? Too thin-skinned? Don't do it then.
[04:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Paris - 06Air Pollution Costs France 100 Billion Euros Per Year - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:16:07] <exec> 08└─On my last trip to Paris, the air was not fit to breathe. I saw a cyclist go by wearing a gas mask. Paris is polluted as hell. The rest of the country doesn't seem to have the problem though.
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[05:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02BitTorrent is in violation of the SourceForge TOS - 06BitTorrent Teams With Onehub for 'Hybrid' Enterprise File-Sharing Service - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:37] <exec> 08└─Last I checked anyway: What at one time was an Open Source project's SourceForge page now links to bittorrent dot com where one may download closed source, proprietary Mac OS X and Windows torrent clients. At one time one could download the Open Source Python code from bittorrent dot com but no long...
[05:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:53] <exec> 08└─"Japan, for instance, has shaken" Thank you Japan, for a steady supply of inexpensive, low mileage engines. I have purchased six over the last fifteen years. I occasionally come across a really nice Japanese car with a blown motor. It's a very easy way to turn a few extra bucks to feed my speedshop...
[05:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:03] <exec> 08└─Truck driver here! You are correct. It is simply parking. The other point of a sleeper cab is two person operation, called team driving. As a trainer this is what I did. One up, one sleeps. You can go across the U.S. in about three days doing that. Single driver trucks face the parking nightmare eve...
[05:15:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Can't say, really - 06Ask Soylent: Relocating For Work - 1300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:15:55] <exec> 08└─What I can tell you is, GET IT ALL IN WRITING! I've seen a few people relocate, only to be laid off or fired within weeks or months after arriving at the new location. Get everything in writing. And, get your moving expenses up front. And, hire a company to do it for you - don't give your employer a...
[05:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:Answered - 06New Electric Corvette Aims To Set Records - 1032 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, I did get the opportunity to drive a Model S, my brother-in-law (Who just got married today!) has one. It's a beautiful, exceptionally fast car. But, it lacks something. It's ultimately boring. You see maintenance as a chore. I do all of my own work in my shop and I love modifying engines. Ther...
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[06:15:09] <exec> 08└─Yes, and sitting for too many hours at a time is very unhealthy. It can lead to blood clots in the legs, spinal compression leading to pinched nerves, (this is why I no longer drive semi trucks or lorries as I believe they are known elsewhere) along with Neuropathy and a whole host of other problems...
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[07:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Clearing the neighbourhood around its orbit" - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:15] <exec> 08└─Definition of dwarf planet is ambiguous
[07:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02it really is a dog: - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:16] <exec> 08└─https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CJ42wXJWcAEMt60.jpg [twimg.com]
[07:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:1) 02Looks awesome - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:17] <exec> 08└─Regardless of what they call it, we got some great pictures! My kids are asking me when someone is going to send another probe, and when there will be a lander. I've been trying to explain that if someone sends something to Pluto slow enough to land, they won't be alive to witness the landing.
[07:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score:2) 02so what are the rest of them? - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:19] <exec> 08└─If Pluto is a "planet", like Mercury through Neptune, what the hell are Eris and all of the other KBOs that we're going to find? Scientists, like other humans, can have their logic shut down by emotional drives.
[07:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:so what are the rest of them? - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:21] <exec> 08└─"Planets the public can't remember the names of"
[07:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:space industry. - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:07] <exec> 08└─They need to create demand for something that has never been done: make a spacecraft in space.
[07:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I have, of course, already written about this - 06Atomic Bomb Test Marks 70th Birthday Amid Renewed Interest - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:22] <exec> 08└─"Your link may be on-topic but it's awfully pink and salty." -- J. Random Kuron Kiss Your Sorry Ass Goodbye! The Atom Bomb is Gonna Fly. [ethicsgirls.com] Someone else's copy of my Creative Commons work because I forgot to renew the domain and can't find my original markup. The original has some ver...
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[08:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02There is nothing to report - 06Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:24] <exec> 08└─You can complain about not getting a receipt and the general uselessness of their system, but the only security problem would be if you allowed them to log into your email account, and that would be YOUR problem.
[08:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonywestonuk [5117] (Score:1) 02You don't! - 06Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:25] <exec> 08└─Seriously...... Just go elsewhere. And don't make a big deal of it, posting about it online, etc. otherwise you might be sued.
[08:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:"Clearing the neighbourhood around its orbit" - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah. It should be called a pygmy planet, so you also get some alliteration as well.
[08:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:so what are the rest of them? - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:40] <exec> 08└─Schoolchildren can learn the 9 "inner" and "outer" planets including Pluto. Scientists can call the rest Kuiper belt planets and nobody has to learn their names.
[08:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fine With That - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 1606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:42] <exec> 08└─I, personally, think that "planet" should be determinable from intrinsic properties of the body. Here is my classification: too small for gravity do deform into a sphere: asteroids, comets, Phobos, Deimos, etc. Large enough for gravity to deform a solid surface into a sphere = planet: Mercury, Venus...
[08:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Object ion - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:43] <exec> 08└─Really, isn't it time to re-classify Pluto as a dog?
[08:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:how about working on... - 06Better DNA Hair Analysis for Catching Criminals - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:03] <exec> 08└─Because those errors tend to fuck over innocent people
[08:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:how about working on... - 06Better DNA Hair Analysis for Catching Criminals - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:05] <exec> 08└─> I strongly doubt that. That they haven't found your hair at that place isn't a proof that you weren't there, after all. It does establish that someone else was there. And obviously, the unknown person is the one who did it. And you don't know why the cops aren't out looking for them, when they don...
[08:19:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03CRCulver [4390] 02Re:What about multilinguals? - 06Bilinguals of Two Spoken Languages Have More Gray Matter Than Monolinguals - 636 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:19:04] <exec> 08└─The Swiss don't learn Flemish. Flemish is spoken in another country well to the north. Perhaps you meant "Romansh", but Swiss don't usually learn that either. While one of the four official languages of Switzerland, the number of speakers has been dwindling for decades, and few Swiss from outside th...
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[09:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sir Finkus [192] (Score:2) 02Incompetence, not Malice - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:04] <exec> 08└─Lots of smaller businesses (such a cellular resellers) simply don't have the resources or knowledge to have good security practices. Especially in that particular area. I worked briefly at one of those cell phone stores and there was a lot of pressure to just get shit fixed and done. If it isn't a c...
[09:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Carrier-owned - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:05] <exec> 08└─Unless it was a certain fruit dealer (running windows XD), there pretty much is no such thing as a carrier-owned store, only franchises. This is good news in your case as the owner and management can only spread their stupidity so far. Bad news in your case as they wont give two moments thought to a...
[09:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Fine With That - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:21] <exec> 08└─Why not just make up completely new words for that, and leave "planets" and "stars" to popular science and astrologers? Then the public can keep their nine planets, and astronomers can freely define their snowballs, rockballs and gasballs however they want.
[09:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Attribute confusion - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 1921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:23] <exec> 08└─This whole story of Pluto losing planetary status is one that everyone should tell their children and grandchildren to help them understand that even well-educated scientists with multiple specialized degrees can still be total dipsticks. Imagine the following scenario: A rogue micro black hole zips...
[09:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:how about working on... - 06Better DNA Hair Analysis for Catching Criminals - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:52] <exec> 08└─If they don't have any reason to suspect that you might have been involved, then how on earth did they justify to get your DNA in order to compare it with the DNA extracted from the hair?
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[10:14:13] <exec> 08└─Everyone who goes deer-in-headlights will be like you and say "no way", and everyone who hasn't got that competence will also lack it at home, without adblock/hosts/firewall/etc and with crapware. Maybe the problem is avoided when it matters? Or you can hope for the best for the future, call head of...
[10:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NullPtr [3786] (Score:1) 02which store? - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:14] <exec> 08└─Puzzled why you don't think that's important. I don't even know why they'd suggest you log into your email there; did they give a reason? Why would they not ask you to look yourself on your own time?
[10:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Major problem? - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:17] <exec> 08└─Seems like a minor problem to me. 1) Won't affect me. 2) Unlikely to affect anyone else here. 3) Didn't actually affect you (you didn't log in). 4) Nothing probably would have happened even if you had webmail and actually logged in (unless you had child porn that they somehow noticed). Seriously - g...
[10:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Attribute confusion - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:36] <exec> 08└─A satellite planet (moon) is still a planet.
[10:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Attribute confusion - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:37] <exec> 08└─you're just arguing about terminology. what the iau did was decide to create a class of objects such that there could only be a handful in a solar system, and they are generally created at the same time as the star, from a protoplanetary disk, in a certain way. they decided to name them "planets". i...
[10:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Attribute confusion - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:38] <exec> 08└─If you do not think that the orbit of an object, and the effect that it has on the envoronment around its orbital envelope, are important properties for classification of an object, then what *is* important in its classification? It seems like you can't see beyond "size", which is a very naive view.
[10:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Cost versus reward - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:27] <exec> 08└─DeBeers seem to do pretty well.
[10:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Diablo ex Machina - 06Atomic Bomb Test Marks 70th Birthday Amid Renewed Interest - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:50] <exec> 08└─"We have become Death, destroyer of Worlds." Khrishna, become Shiva, Dance, Baby, Dance. It's the 'Pokycalpse what split little Adam in twain, running round the circletron, in a Riddley Walker kinda way.
[10:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:i would if i could - 063D Printing Goes Full Customization With “Road Ready” 3D Printed Car - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, I would. And I would share it with my 7.863 million friends on the internets. But this is what worries me: The challenge was to design "the next generation of 3D-printed cars,"
[10:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Cecil Rhodes - 06Certain Shark Mums Favour Travel While Others Stay at Home - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:17:21] <exec> 08└─Did they never hear the story of Cecil Rhodes? Reduced to fishing for sharks from a pier? And what did he catch? A shark! And what was in that Shark? Nice story, not sure if it's true. Does send a lot of Colonial college students to Oxford, though, even to this day.
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[11:14:02] <exec> 08└─Mars One is one dumb-ass con operation preying on morons born every half a second.
[11:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:which store? - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:17] <exec> 08└─Or on your own cellphone ...
[11:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02History repeats itself ... flaw...... - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:19] <exec> 08└─Set them up like so: Have a knowledgeable companion produce the same or very similar "problem" on their phone. Have them enter the store and try to approach the same employee for help - try to do it when it is likely that employee is the one who will get to him/her. They've done it once - they'll pr...
[11:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02SOP? - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:21] <exec> 08└─That's probably not standard SOP. The standard SOP would be for you to go home and get the evidence that you bought the stuff. The bunch in the store were just trying to save you the trouble of doing that, and that's what they came up with. Expecting more from them is like expecting them to be licen...
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[11:14:23] <exec> 08└─Good questions - the other side of the coin! Is this guy trying to turn in a hot phone? None the less, I wouldn't let someone else get anywhere near my e-mail much less on a store computer. If you do let them, depending on the e-mail provider, you might get an automatic e-mail saying that your accou...
[11:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02Report it to who? - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:24] <exec> 08└─LOL Find a different cellphone carrier and stop looking for someone else to shoulder the responsibility. What a moron.
[11:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:so what are the rest of them? - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 1017 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:39] <exec> 08└─You have to draw the line somewhere, so the question is more on of how do you define that line and can you honestly say that you have done so without any sentimental reasoning. I don't think that's possible in the case of Pluto without also conferring planetary status on Eris and several of the othe...
[11:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Vesta = No - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:42] <exec> 08└─Vesta is not a sphere.
[11:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Attribute confusion - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:49] <exec> 08└─In most of your scenarios there won't be anybody left to argue about the status of Earth. And if there are some survivors I doubt this will be on the top of their priority list...
[11:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cost versus reward - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:32] <exec> 08└─If the belt was formed from dust but never coalesced into a planet, then its geology would be different.
[11:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:In Case of Emergency - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:21] <exec> 08└─Seriously? You're the second person to complain about this (and you started a new thread rather than joining in his). ICE is a really common abbreviation when talking about electric vehicles. Defining acronyms that are in common use is redundant.
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[12:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03splodus [4877] (Score:2) 02Really? Are people still buying this? - 06Mars One Details Next Rounds of Colonist Selection Process - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:59] <exec> 08└─https://medium.com/matter/mars-one-insider-quits-dangerously-flawed-project-2dfef95217d3 [medium.com]
[12:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02finances? - 06Mars One Details Next Rounds of Colonist Selection Process - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:00] <exec> 08└─who will be will be offered full-time employment with Mars One.
[12:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:which store? - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 1622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:16] <exec> 08└─The plot seems to be that they claim to keep no records of nothing. Or their sales record search functionality is beyond hopeless. Or their online system is down and they can do a paper-only refund if and only if they have the official paper receipt document serial number for their form. Their dumbn...
[12:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02IAU should re-define "planet" - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:48] <exec> 08└─The IAU should re-define a "planet" to be a celestial body substantially in orbit around the Sun with a maximum perihelion of 35 AU, a minimum mean radius of 1,170 KM and a maximum inclination of 20°. That should get those who point to Eris as a reason why Pluto shouldn't be a full-fledged planet m...
[12:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That book - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:42] <exec> 08└─Wow, just holy cow dumb-struck wow. I read that same book (the 1958 hard-cover edition) sometime in the '80s after my father picked it up used, probably from Goodwill. Never knew anyone else that had read or even heard of it. While I may have enjoyed the realistic science in the story, my memorable...
[12:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have, of course, already written about this - 06Atomic Bomb Test Marks 70th Birthday Amid Renewed Interest - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:59] <exec> 08└─Interesting text but I wish to point out two small things. 1) Our understanding of the Norsk Hydro heavy water changed in 2004 (basically it comes down to that the shipment was too small and too impure to be useful) 2) Tritium in fusion weapons are a lot easier to get from Li-6 or Li-7 (this has bee...
[12:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Range anxiety - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:13] <exec> 08└─I get headaches if I go too long without food
[12:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Can't say, really - 06Ask Soylent: Relocating For Work - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:02] <exec> 08└─And, get your moving expenses up front.
[12:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:My pitch? - 06Indie Developers Pitch How They'd Revive Duke Nukem - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:53] <exec> 08└─Good game play, camp but not "Duke getting blown by two chicks while playing his own video game" cheesy. That was such a cheap attempt at humor it was one of the reasons I turned it off.
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[13:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02No - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:10] <exec> 08└─Only thing I could imagine is granting more freedom as we (as individuals and as a society) mature, or have a karma system where abusers are eventually filtered out by the system, i.e. censorship in both cases: one voluntarily and the other mandatory.
[13:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02failure to consider malicious actors - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:11] <exec> 08└─you absolutely can build a "truly free speech system" but you cannot then insist on a specific outcome of that system. what you actually want is a way to filter content effectively so that you get what you are looking for. there is only one system i know of that does this somewhat effectively and it...
[13:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Morons - 06Mars One Details Next Rounds of Colonist Selection Process - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:21] <exec> 08└─So 24 idiots will be rocketed off the planet and you are still complaining?
[13:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Morons - 06Mars One Details Next Rounds of Colonist Selection Process - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:22] <exec> 08└─I say not a cent of funding unless they increase their seating capacity dramatically and change their operation name to "Mars One - the Second Ship".
[13:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:SOP? - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:43] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the clerk didn't understand what it means not to have web mail.
[13:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks awesome - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:57] <exec> 08└─I've been trying to explain that if someone sends something to Pluto slow enough to land, they won't be alive to witness the landing.
[13:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IAU should re-define "planet" - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:12] <exec> 08└─Why? Because it suits you, seems to be your answer. Honestly, why does anybody give a flying fuck? People call the tomato a vegetable, peanuts are called nuts, what the fuck does it matter what you or I think? The truth is, it doesn't.
[13:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02The lie is the law of the land - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:14] <exec> 08└─It's copyright, patent or trademark, and those are the only choices.
[13:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score:1) 02yes, it is stats - 06Bill James On the Real Value of Sabermetrics in Sports - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:31] <exec> 08└─Dunno what he's on about, but the reason for, say, the Ted Williams shift is that he (and big Papi) are overwhelmingly more likely to hit to right. Note that word "likely." They don't hit there every time, and some of their hits to right evade the shift, but as the saying goes, "that's the way the...
[13:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Profit motive - 06Planetary Resources Finally Deploys First Spacecraft After Explosive Setback - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:02] <exec> 08└─I may be misremembering, but I thought I had read about multi-year futures contracts. Looking around on google, I can't find any futures contracts for more than one year. Doesn't really change the situation, just means that you may have to go with private supply contracts. I am assuming that who-eve...
[13:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Tritium is for H-Bombs. D20 is for Plutonium - 06Atomic Bomb Test Marks 70th Birthday Amid Renewed Interest - 2736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not completely clear on how it works but heavy water reactors produce a lot more Plutonium than do light water reactors. Also if I understand correctly one does not need to use enriched Uranium to fuel them. The Trinity Test and Nagasaki used Plutonium implosion bombs; Hiroshima's was Uranium as...
[13:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Biggest piece of vaporware now belongs to... - 06Indie Developers Pitch How They'd Revive Duke Nukem - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:18:07] <exec> 08└─you're comparing rpgs like Thief and Deus Ex to fps games. just because its played from a first-person perspective doesn't automatically make it an fps, and of course rpgs are going to be significantly superior since fps games are all bland and boring Doom clones. given your going on and on about fp...
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[14:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:No - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 2657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─I see your idea and think it is a great starting point but I'm not convinced it would work. To draw a parallel, there is a reason that juvenile criminal systems exists. When you're still young, you are impulsive and you don't really know yet what you're doing or what the impact of your actions will...
[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:13] <exec> 08└─When you're still young, you are impulsive and you don't really know yet what you're doing or what the impact of your actions will be.
[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hurwitz [4938] (Score:1) 02Re:failure to consider malicious actors - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:15] <exec> 08└─God bless the PHP forum, keeping communities separate since 2000. Part of reddit's problem is that you log in once, for every subreddit. It's like if logging into MetaFilter logs you into Stormfront, and vice versa.
[14:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:failure to consider malicious actors - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:17] <exec> 08└─that's between you and your nation state.
[14:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:19] <exec> 08└─"you absolutely can build a "truly free speech system" but you cannot then insist on a specific outcome of that system." The rest of Gravis' comment is rubbish, though. Either it's free, or it's your-way-or-highway. Can't complain that you can't have both.
[14:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Freedom - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:20] <exec> 08└─The fundamental problem of freedom -- and not just in speech -- is that I want mine but I don't want you to have yours. So teens want to make fart jokes. If they had freedom, they would be able to do that. So asshats want to SPAM the world. If they had freedom, they would be able to do that. The bes...
[14:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:22] <exec> 08└─freedom is not an outcome, it is a condition
[14:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TmTFx [5693] (Score:1) 02education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:24] <exec> 08└─It's the same thing as why communism failed from the beginning or why empires fall to corruption, always the same thing. It's not a matter of utopia or too much freedom given, it's a matter of raising the consciousness of the masses, of raising the standards of intelligence, responsability and respe...
[14:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:25] <exec> 08└─I don't know you so I don't know your politics, but whenever I hear someone use phrases like "consciousness raising" I picture a group of leftists sitting in a circle and bitching about the way things are. "Raising" -- so those who aren't "conscious" of your opinion are lower somehow? There seems to...
[14:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:27] <exec> 08└─Education is not a fix for a broken system. If the system encourages corruption or irresponsibility, then that's what you will get - no matter how educated the public is or how high their consciousness happens to be.
[14:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Easy - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:28] <exec> 08└─It's already been done [sourceforge.net]! Oh, wait, you meant a "free speech" system, not a free (speech system)...
[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:3, Interesting) 02It depends on what you want - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 1459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:30] <exec> 08└─As others have already noted, and indeed it was raised in the article itself, the outcome depends entirely on which method you choose. You can 'censor' (and therefore the published results discuss the chosen topic within certain self-imposed constraints and boundaries) or you can have total freedom...
[14:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThePhilips [5677] (Score:1) 02Free speech doesn't exist, by definition - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:32] <exec> 08└─Speech is a form of communication. Communication adheres to a protocol. Protocol, in its simplest form, is a set of constrains and restrictions on the communication, ensuring that the communicating parties can understand each other. Speech is not "free" by its very definition, because it is based...
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:selection bias - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:50] <exec> 08└─tell them for liability reasons
[14:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it really is a dog: - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:10] <exec> 08└─twimg.com... really?
[14:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:so what are the rest of them? - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:17] <exec> 08└─If Pluto is a "planet", like Mercury through Neptune, what the hell are Eris and all of the other KBOs that we're going to find?
[14:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:manhole cover - 06Atomic Bomb Test Marks 70th Birthday Amid Renewed Interest - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:31] <exec> 08└─We also covered this story in our early days.
[14:15:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Talos - 06Atomic Bomb Test Marks 70th Birthday Amid Renewed Interest - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:40] <exec> 08└─The majority of Talos missiles were conventionally armed [wikipedia.org] - the reason that your father never mentioned the nuclear option was, in addition to being highly classified during the time he was operating it, perhaps because it wasn't expected to be used in that role in Vietnam.
[14:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:28] <exec> 08└─EVs will start filtering through to the used car market soon enough. Heck they've been selling the Nissan Prius for 18 years now, so plenty of them have been sold second hand. Battery packs on those last to around 15 years, and cost around $1750 to replace with a reconditioned one. An ICE car of tha...
[14:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:40] <exec> 08└─Well I don't know what it's like in the states, but in Europe as well as a maximum working day for drivers, there are compulsory rest breaks at least every 4.5 hours. Back to the topic: Really, the Tesla S range isn't an issue. When you've driven the full range, it's time you took a break anyway. An...
[14:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03krait6 [5170] (Score:1) 02Try to think of what's important to you personally - 06Ask Soylent: Relocating For Work - 2014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:42] <exec> 08└─The problem with the idea of moving to continue the same job is that it moves you away from your usual family and friends. That's why it's "uprooting". If you're a type of person that generates close relationships with others and you keep the same friends over a long period, then uprooting for the j...
[14:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Biggest piece of vaporware now belongs to... - 06Indie Developers Pitch How They'd Revive Duke Nukem - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:18:27] <exec> 08└─to clarify some of the differences between fp-rpgs and fps games, if it has "rpg elements" like skills, inventory, experience, etc, its a damn rpg no matter what perspective its payed from. all fps games are basically just "kill everything" games which involve little thinking and no skills like stal...
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[15:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Informative) 02Holy SHIT! - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:10] <exec> 08└─Next up, we'll see people blaming global warming for some unexpected details in the orbits of the outer planets. And, sunspot activity will be blamed on global warming. When does the insanity end? The earth is getting warmer, so ANY unexpected phenomenon are blamed on global warming? We're fucked, p...
[15:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:Holy SHIT! - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:12] <exec> 08└─what has fucked us is people who deny climate change and those who refuse change due to it because that is exactly how we got in this mess.
[15:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Quite a leap - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:13] <exec> 08└─Plain and simple, rapid melting of ice on land has driven Earth's North Pole to the east. This solid ice used to be on land, but is now liquid water spread everywhere across the planet.
[15:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quite a leap - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:15] <exec> 08└─It's not statistics it's physics.
[15:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Quite a leap - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:16] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Why, in 2005, did both the Chandler wobble and the spin axis shift suddenly instead of gradually? Again, we know that they did, but we don't why - yet.
[15:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pepty [5694] (Score:1) 02Re:Quite a leap - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:18] <exec> 08└─Redistribution of the mass on a spinning spheroid affecting the spin axis isn't an extraordinary claim, Newton did the math 300 years ago. It's not a question of whether shifting several trillion tons of stuff from the surface of Greenland into the oceans would affect the spin axis, just by how much...
[15:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Re:failure to consider malicious actors - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:30] <exec> 08└─Well, if you're in the US, you avoid the middleman.
[15:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:37] <exec> 08└─But if a system encourages corruption or irresponsibility only because the masses are lazy and uneducated, then education could solve that problem, assuming you could educate them.
[15:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free speech doesn't exist, by definition - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:42] <exec> 08└─Nice equivocation, but words can and do have multiple definitions.
[15:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free speech doesn't exist, by definition - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:43] <exec> 08└─Where, specifically, is the error? Which word(s) can use different definitions to result in a different conclusion?
[15:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free speech doesn't exist, by definition - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:45] <exec> 08└─"free". Most people do not speak of technical restrictions when they speak of "free" (as in freedom), but the absence of restrictions from a government/authority. If he's arguing that the restrictions must necessarily exist, that is laughably false, because all we'd need to do is change our arbitrar...
[15:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Tor .onion hidden services fail - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:46] <exec> 08└─many have tried to create anonymous message boards using Tor, but from what I've seen, they only last around a month, maybe 1/2 a year, before they are compromised and/or something strange happens with the database and/or admin accounts. In an age where anything can be compromised, I don't see how a...
[15:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We have built a couple so far... - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:48] <exec> 08└─Usenet and email are open and (excepting moderated groups) unmoderated in its core. It is open to the point where each server and client has the right to disallow things it will host... So yes - we can build it. The problem is keeping it going and being interesting. The more interstung question toda...
[15:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:so what are the rest of them? - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:37] <exec> 08└─If they're planets, why shouldn't kids have to learn their names? Why should the other new planets be excluded from education? If they're planets, their names must be learned when learning all the other planetary bodies of the solar system, because you can't exclude some planets if you're learning a...
[15:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:so what are the rest of them? - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:40] <exec> 08└─If the bigger, rounder ones get called "planets" will the world end? Pretty sure if you observed Eris from Earth it would appear to move against the background of fixed stars :-)
[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IAU should re-define "planet" - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:53] <exec> 08└─So you want to arbitrarily redefine "planet" to specifically include Pluto but nothing else? If anything, the definition for "planet" should require the body to be on the celestial plane, because that at least isn't arbitrary just to include one specific Kuiper Belt Object that everyone is totally f...
[15:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cheap and Fast - 06‘Organs-on-Chips’ Go Mainstream - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:02] <exec> 08└─This is better than using patient stem cells because it enables high-throughput screening. Also, the 3D structure of organs are not particularly important at this stage of drug development. At this stage of development, the two out of three options are already chosen: cheap, fast, or high quality. h...
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[16:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2, Offtopic) 02Re:Holy SHIT! - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 2579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:14] <exec> 08└─Wrll, Gravis, I've not said anything here about whether I believe in man-made global warming. I am stating, however, that the temperature of the planet's surface probably has zero influence over the magnetic properties of the earth's iron core. We DO all understand that the earth's core is molten ir...
[16:13:15] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02Re:Holy SHIT! - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 329 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:15] <exec> 08└─Just to point out, this is about the physical rotational axis, not magnetic north. I love that they point out that the axis had been shifting southwards before. It seems to me that any such shift is always southwards. Duh. It was shifting south and is now shifting south. But it's still north. Wh...
[16:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy SHIT! - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:17] <exec> 08└─LOL, I hadn't thought of that. At some point in my history, I've established the difference between true north and magnetic north. Ever since then, I've automatically pictured the movement of magnetic north in relation to true north. So - I went along with the idea that magnetic north was now moving...
[16:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02META: observe the moderation here - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:19] <exec> 08└─Another climate story, another screwed up moderation tree. Parent's moderation has changed from insightful to troll 2x in the past 10 minutes. "Disagree" clearly isn't enough for some people here. Is moderating as troll the comments we disagree with acceptable now? I do understand that it's importan...
[16:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:META: observe the moderation here - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:20] <exec> 08└─Well, that post is polemic (at least I cannot imagine that he really expects someone blaming anomalies of outer planets' orbits to global warming). I wouldn't moderate it as troll, but I can see why some would. What the post certainly isn't, is insightful. Which also doesn't mean and shouldn't be us...
[16:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:META: observe the moderation here - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:22] <exec> 08└─Interesting could work here. Or, and this is always the hardest, no moderation at all. A score of 2 or 3 is just about right here imo. Unless you have an axe to grind.
[16:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Quite a leap - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:26] <exec> 08└─And we all know how it goes: extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof/evidence. And I ain't seen any in this...
[16:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03rst [2175] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Geographic or magnetic? - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:27] <exec> 08└─Are we talking about the geographic or magnetic poles? It sounds like the summary is saying the geographic poles, but the details sound like the magnetic poles. Plus, like others have said, correlation is not causation.
[16:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Wait … - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:29] <exec> 08└─Isn't the position of the north pole by definition exactly on the north-most point of earth? I mean I understand it wandering relative to the geographic structures (that is, the earth changing its rotation axis), but the pole "drifting slowly southwards" doesn't make sense to me. Even less does "hea...
[16:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait … - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:31] <exec> 08└─There are 3 things that can be referred to as the north pole. First is geographic north pole: it is the intersection of the axis of rotation of the earth with the surface of the earth. Second is magnetic north pole : it is where magnets are facing. Third is just a vague reference to northern ice. Fr...
[16:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait … - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─You forgot the red and white post that Santa Claus lives next to.
[16:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait … - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:34] <exec> 08└─Well, you certainly cannot measure the speed of a vague reference to northern ice, so the third is obviously out. The mass distribution on the earth's surface probably does not affect the position of the magnetic north pole, and certainly not in a direct way, so that would exclude the second option....
[16:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:1) 02Re:No - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:43] <exec> 08└─Only thing I could imagine is granting more freedom as we (as individuals and as a society) mature, or have a karma system where abusers are eventually filtered out by the system, i.e. censorship in both cases: one voluntarily and the other mandatory.
[16:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Freedom - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:51] <exec> 08└─You just might be a libertarian if...
[16:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:54] <exec> 08└─The reason why is that tracing back causes usually leads to trying to solve problems that are too big to solve, while actually solving a problem on the ground is a tractable problem. If we all took your attitude to its ridiculous extreme, we couldn't solve anything until we'd gone back to the big ba...
[16:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TmTFx [5693] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:56] <exec> 08└─Well, what I was saying wans't meant to be something about leftists or rightists, communists fascist royalist or whatever, I meant that if people (from upper position to the lowest and viceversa) is responsible and respect each other (and life in general) and is taught to follow this way of conduct...
[16:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:58] <exec> 08└─it means that the people is not well educated. That's the problem: rise the consciousness.
[16:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TmTFx [5693] (Score:1) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:00] <exec> 08└─You misunderstood me, it's not a matter of propaganda, it's a matter of respect and responsability. (and please USSR was a dictatorship and a burocratic despotism that's all)
[16:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Free speech doesn't exist, by definition - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:06] <exec> 08└─Speech is of course free in that respect. I am completely free to claim that quablitors frut in stadding humpels. Now if I do so, I cannot expect you to understand it. But that doesn't restrict my freedom to claim it. It just restricts the effect that this statement has. In short: There's no inheren...
[16:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Tor .onion hidden services fail - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:08] <exec> 08└─Well, if they have a central database, then that's the first error. If there's no central database, nothing can happen to it. The same is about admin accounts: If there's a small list of dedicated admin for the complete system, that is a vulnerability. Usenet already did both better. And it still ex...
[16:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Assertion based discussion - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:10] <exec> 08└─I've been toying with this idea for 20 years but can't figure out how to keep it from turning into yet another cesspool of shouting, insults and off-topic noise so haven't bothered to write it. Maybe someone else can improve on it. The problem with commenting on articles (Soylent, Slash, Pipe...) is...
[16:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:so what are the rest of them? - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:05] <exec> 08└─I have yet to see an argument for Pluto being a planet that isn't merely an appeal to tradition.
[16:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:IAU should re-define "planet" - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:21] <exec> 08└─It's not much different than the IAU definition which was written to specifically exclude Pluto. Jupiter ins't a planet either because it hasn't yet cleared it's neighborhood. Neither have the Earth/Mars system.
[16:17:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 2370 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:26] <exec> 08└─Speaking of driving big truck—cowboy driving is a thing of the past. “Them days are gone and done with,” they lament on the CB. There's a GPS unit in the tractor, and they can scan your logbook into the computer. If your truck is moving when you're on the off-duty or sleep lines, they haul you...
[16:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:33] <exec> 08└─When you've driven the full range, it's time you took a break anyway.
[16:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Range anxiety - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:47] <exec> 08└─Think of it this way, driving for 5-10 hours is the same as sitting attentively at a desk for 5-10 hours. Can you do that?
[16:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Range anxiety - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:50] <exec> 08└─In Western America there are many stretches of road, long stretches of road, where there are few gas stations
[16:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So how should we deal with it? - 06Air Pollution Costs France 100 Billion Euros Per Year - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:53] <exec> 08└─One approach https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[16:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Duke Nukem/Shadow Warrior Crossover. - 06Indie Developers Pitch How They'd Revive Duke Nukem - 879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:10] <exec> 08└─We cut to Duke visiting Japan. While visiting a brothel in Japan, Duke offends a prostitute. Said protistitute gets into a fistfight with Duke defending the Honor of Japan from yet another gaijin douchebag. Aliens attack. Slowly over a series of cooperative levels spanning Japan, an alien ship, the...
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[17:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:META: observe the moderation here - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:25] <exec> 08└─HA! You're obviously smarter than the average Soylentil. "no moderation at all". Just like everyone else here, I get a steady diet of mod points. I can't remember the last time I used up my day's supply. When I see a really good comment, I hit it with an insightful, or interesting, or informative. I...
[17:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy SHIT! - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:26] <exec> 08└─Its called science. If you are confused by how a shift in the mass of the planet can affect the location of magnetic pole, rather than denying, out of hand, the work of the geologists and physicists, you should do a little research and educate yourself. This is exactly what separates science from re...
[17:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03CirclesInSand [2899] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait … - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:37] <exec> 08└─No, I assumed you would mention it.
[17:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wait … - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:40] <exec> 08└─Yea the summary at least is conflating North pole and Magnetic North pole and in doing so suggests from the title that the earths axial tilt has been changed. All in all a very craptacular title and summary.
[17:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:51] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, with hate-speech by talented and charismatic individuals, the problem is that it can affect a critical mass of people that decide to change the system in a "bad" way, so a line has to be drawn to preserve the development of our society in a "positive" direction. I wouldn't know where,...
[17:13:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02Freedom - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 947 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:58] <exec> 08└─The fundamental problem of freedom -- and not just in speech -- is that I want mine but I don't want you to have yours. So teens want to make fart jokes. If they had freedom, they would be able to do that. So asshats want to SPAM the world. If they had freedom, they would be able to do that. The bes...
[17:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03TmTFx [5693] (Score:1) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:09] <exec> 08└─Oh please not again with this rubbish of public vs private schools. I can tell you this: I live in an advanced country and the school is (mostly) public, we have one of the best school system in the world, a lot of geniuses come out of our schools (and then go to work in foreign coutries cause our m...
[17:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:10] <exec> 08└─It's the same thing as why communism failed from the beginning
[17:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ThePhilips [5677] (Score:1) 02Re:Free speech doesn't exist, by definition - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:18] <exec> 08└─"Understanding the communication" is precisely where the problem lies. Same words have different meaning to different people. My GP comment was trying to highlight how something trivial in the network programming becomes so obscure and loaded when it comes to the natural languages. In the end, it d...
[17:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:finances? - 06Mars One Details Next Rounds of Colonist Selection Process - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:35] <exec> 08└─They're just banking on the idea that it doesn't matter. People will pay anything to be told they're going to see anything. Reality doesn't come around to do the auditing for many years and frequently can be dodged with some slippery legal teams.
[17:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is nothing to report - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:44] <exec> 08└─Lets say, your grandmother logged in on their POS system, and there was a keylogger. In her email were some emails from her bank since you helped set her up to use billpay. Of course, she uses the same pword for everything because it is too hard to remember all those passwords, but even if she didn'...
[17:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:so what are the rest of them? - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:17] <exec> 08└─Knowing the names of Eris, Makemake, Haumea, Orcus, Quaoar, Ixion, and Varuna is not useful. Dozens more KBO/TNOs will be found. We wouldn't even know about Sedna if it wasn't close to its perihelion.
[17:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:so what are the rest of them? - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 3062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:20] <exec> 08└─The IAU "decision" was as political a decision as any you'll find. The definition shoe-horned through makes no sense unless you want to demote the Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Neptune (that whole clearing the neighborhood thing), and there are no other planets anywhere in the Universe (it must be in a...
[17:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Attribute confusion - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:33] <exec> 08└─If you do not think that the orbit of an object, and the effect that it has on the envoronment around its orbital envelope, are important properties for classification of an object, then what *is* important in its classification? It seems like you can't see beyond "size", which is a very naive view.
[17:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Best way to settle it - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:40] <exec> 08└─Let "planet" be decided by emotional, squishy, political human concerns. Let scientists use some other more technical term that the GP will almost never hear, like "Low Eccentricity Orbit Spherical Body". Thus, Pluto is the only planet that's not a LEOSB.
[17:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:yes, it is stats - 06Bill James On the Real Value of Sabermetrics in Sports - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:58] <exec> 08└─I think James is saying that he's like a scientist, where coming up with the questions is a big part of it. Not just proposing new types of averages to answer questions like "who is the best hitter in baseball." Everyone knows that Lou Boudreau created that shift against Ted Williams, and it was use...
[17:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02The Dead Lake - 06Atomic Bomb Test Marks 70th Birthday Amid Renewed Interest - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:55] <exec> 08└─"Here's a plug for a novella I recently read called "The Dead Lake" (http://www.powells.com/biblio/66-9781908670144-0 [powells.com]). It's set in the rural country surrounding the Kazak nuclear tests and the fallout. Well written and moves quickly, a good page turner.
[17:19:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Apparently everybody forgets what actually made HL - 06Indie Developers Pitch How They'd Revive Duke Nukem - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:19:48] <exec> 08└─... impressive. Back during the era of Pentium 200s to PII-300s Half-Life allowed squad based AI throughout the levels. Combined with the quicksave, you could redo the same section 5 times and have the AI attack you from 2-5 different directions with the same 3-5 guys. This was actually the only rea...
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[18:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02stereoscope image - 06View Pluto's Mountains in 3D - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:09] <exec> 08└─If you can fuse two images into one stereo image, by de-converging your eyes, here is another view of Pluto... http://www.londonstereo.com [londonstereo.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Personally, I like this approach to "quick & dirty 3D" better than red/blu...
[18:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheSuperFriend [5663] (Score:1) 02It's the axial tilt - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:23] <exec> 08└─But it's still north.
[18:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Holy SHIT! - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:30] <exec> 08└─We're fucked, people. This new religion just won't go away.
[18:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait … - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:42] <exec> 08└─Great. Now all my maps are crooked.
[18:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02In other news... - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:43] <exec> 08└─Global Warming soon will be found to cause: CancerAutismEndangerment of Right WhalesDementiaUnsustainable debtWarsBear attacksRabiesSociopathyViolent CrimeRapeChild abuseDivorceMass shootingsRacism Did I miss anything?
[18:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:15] <exec> 08└─Lennon
[18:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:18] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, if the problem is raising the consciousness of the masses, then isn't the actual cause of the problem the system itself? WTF? If you live in a utopia, then you can educate the masses all you want and they'll all cherish and sustain this utopia.
[18:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tor .onion hidden services fail - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:29] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmessage [wikipedia.org]
[18:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Assertion based discussion - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:32] <exec> 08└─This is very interesting! So something like an ontological graph of ontologies describing the possible ways of connecting concepts with statements and (dynamically) linking these together by influence and weight, which would require a consensus on at least some basic principles. Sounds a bit like ma...
[18:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Nope - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:33] <exec> 08└─Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System?
[18:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03islisis [2901] (Score:1) 02One can censor the present but never the past - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:35] <exec> 08└─I wonder what place a forum allowing 'free censorship' to recipricate 'free speech' might have. Like a hybrid system of moderation + CVS. Somehow Wikipedia has been able to survive outright abuse of a freely editable medium. A complex combination of attributed edits and moderation, user filter prefe...
[18:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? Are people still buying this? - 06Mars One Details Next Rounds of Colonist Selection Process - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:46] <exec> 08└─Best case scenario: Mars One fades from the public consciousness, they take the money and run (not to Mars), and NASA lands a team on Mars in the 2030s.
[18:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is nothing to report - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:57] <exec> 08└─The store offered to use their systems because the submitter didn't have any proof of purchase when he tried to return something. If anything, the problem is that they shouldn't trust the submitter. He might be trying to install a backdoor or a keylogger. If you tattoo your credit card number on you...
[18:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:selection bias - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:03] <exec> 08└─Adblock? Jesus christ it's hopeless. The illusion of security is not the same thing as security.
[18:15:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Attribute confusion - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:44] <exec> 08└─you're just arguing about terminology. what the iau did was decide to create a class of objects such that there could only be a handful in a solar system, and they are generally created at the same time as the star, from a protoplanetary disk, in a certain way. they decided to name them "planets". i...
[18:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:08] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes. Impossible to find parking at night. I used to do night driving whenever possible. Park around 10 am or so and there are pull-through spaces available!
[18:20:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:1) 02Re:what BB did was not only legal, but correct - 06Effectiveness of CAN-SPAM Legislation Questioned - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:25] <exec> 08└─I had the same (or even worse) problem with Dell. Contacted them to get a quote for a custom build (for a customer). They subscribed me, without ever asking me, to all of their marketing lists. I know, because it was registered to the salesman's name. The only thing that worked was to change my e-ma...
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[19:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Looking for image of the Sun viewed from Pluto - 06View Pluto's Mountains in 3D - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:12] <exec> 08└─Space is big. [quotationspage.com] Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space. — Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
[19:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy SHIT! - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:33] <exec> 08└─Use your brain and think about what happens when a ball covered with water and ice on top spins. Now what happens when that ice hat is not attached to the ball but floating on it. It will never stay in the middle. It will sway to the side and offset the balance of the spinning ball. Go buy a gyrosco...
[19:13:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Pepty [5694] 02Re:Quite a leap - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 362 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:38] <exec> 08└─Redistribution of the mass on a spinning spheroid affecting the spin axis isn't an extraordinary claim, Newton did the math 300 years ago. It's not a question of whether shifting several trillion tons of stuff from the surface of Greenland into the oceans would affect the spin axis, just by how much...
[19:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:Wait … - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─You forget number four: the coordinates 90°00'00.0"N 0°00'00.0"W in the grid we laid across the planet for navigational purposes. Today I learned that is called the World Geodetic System [wikipedia.org]. Relative to that, the rotational axis can obviously move to any quarter of the compass.
[19:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03rizole [5385] (Score:1) 02Re:In other news... - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:50] <exec> 08└─Rhetoric?
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02East? - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:52] <exec> 08└─How can the north pole move east? "parallel to the Equator" does not help (Parallel to a circle it is proportionally in the center of makes no sense).
[19:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:10] <exec> 08└─It isn't rubbish, but optimistic. The internet comes pretty close and he was seeking a solution, not avoiding anything that is not optimific. The internet as a whole (almost) passes the filter.
[19:14:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02It depends on what you want - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 1459 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:27] <exec> 08└─As others have already noted, and indeed it was raised in the article itself, the outcome depends entirely on which method you choose. You can 'censor' (and therefore the published results discuss the chosen topic within certain self-imposed constraints and boundaries) or you can have total freedom...
[19:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02what u don't get is... - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:42] <exec> 08└─...that freedom of speech arises/works where people have nothing to say. Like the USA, when it was colonised. Everyone "was equal", or so they say. It was easy for the freedom of speech laws to get foothold. Other parts of the world is filled with old hatreds. People know this and people know other...
[19:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Kidney on a chip? - 06‘Organs-on-Chips’ Go Mainstream - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:16] <exec> 08└─Potentially life-saving technology, and the first place we go is cannibalism? (Of course, if it never was a part of an actual human being, would it technically be cannibalism? And the FA does say this is meant to replace animals. Hmmm. )
[19:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:how about working on... - 06Better DNA Hair Analysis for Catching Criminals - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:47] <exec> 08└─You live in the area, you were 'seen' in the area, you were previously convicted of something, or it's one of those cold cases "we need to get the DNA of everyone in this town, it's voluntary, but if you refuse, we assume you are guilty and have your name and address published in the local paper"
[19:17:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:how about working on... - 06Better DNA Hair Analysis for Catching Criminals - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:48] <exec> 08└─> Because those errors tend to fuck over innocent people Keeps us all afraid. Our rulers like that. It's a feature. If you don't like it, there's only one effective solution. Secede.
[19:19:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Try to think of what's important to you persona - 06Ask Soylent: Relocating For Work - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:19:36] <exec> 08└─>However if you tend to be a more independent person who makes friends easily wherever you are, then moving to a new place might be tolerable. Indentured servant with no loyalty to family whatsoever. AKA a cuck
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[20:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02from TFA as to why this is - 06Spam Rate Dropping Below 50% for the First Time in 12 Years - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:10] <exec> 08└─The decline of spam is usually attributed to legal prosecution against botnets (including by major tech companies like Microsoft), faster reaction times by network providers, improved blocking, and better filtering. The main goal is to make the business less lucrative: If you can slash profit margin...
[20:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02picked up in last few weeks - 06Spam Rate Dropping Below 50% for the First Time in 12 Years - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:11] <exec> 08└─I have an unfiltered e-mail acct and spam has picked up a lot in the past few weeks, more than I've seen all year, so whatever relief we had was temporary.
[20:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02All spamers must die! - 06Spam Rate Dropping Below 50% for the First Time in 12 Years - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:13] <exec> 08└─You can thank The Daemon for this.
[20:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Well, except at Gmail - 06Spam Rate Dropping Below 50% for the First Time in 12 Years - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:15] <exec> 08└─Gmail has been "improving" their spam filtering. [theregister.co.uk] As a direct result instead of seeing ten or twenty messages each day in my Gmail spam folder, I now see a couple of hundred. Is there anything that Google can't break?
[20:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02Re:Looking for image of the Sun viewed from Pluto - 06View Pluto's Mountains in 3D - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:24] <exec> 08└─Road trip! If you could drive in space.... drive away from the sun at 75 mph for 500 years and you'd only be halfway between Mars and Jupiter.
[20:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:META: observe the moderation here - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:42] <exec> 08└─to let people on the internet know that they are WRONG, but is this the SN way to do it?
[20:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Quite a leap - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, but can it happen "suddenly, and without any warning" while the ice that's supposed to be causing it has been melding gradually? I understand that shifting of mass can cause shifting of the spin axis, but I have a problem with the "suddenly, and without any warning" bit.
[20:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:No - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:17] <exec> 08└─As Soylent News' resident dickhead, I think that it's pretty obvious that you cannot have free speech and be insanely profitable at the same time. Look at Slashdot and Reddit as perfect examples of admins fighting the community over free-speech issues. To host a truly free-speech forum you have to d...
[20:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03TmTFx [5693] (Score:1) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:40] <exec> 08└─First of all Lennon was a singer maybe you spoke about Lenin, second it's all true what you said, except that: - communism (as a political movement, not an economic system) in russia existed only the very few months when council were formed to take decisions - people in russia as in the Marx theory...
[20:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 1704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:43] <exec> 08└─AS River Tam says at the beginning of Serenity, "we're in their minds and in their heads and we haven't the right." But then the teacher says, "We are not telling people what to think, we're just trying to show them how." And. . . cue probe into forehead. Point is, that freedom of speech is not fu...
[20:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TmTFx [5693] (Score:1) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 1107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:44] <exec> 08└─Do you have a consciousness? when your mother taught not to steal the things of others, or not to harm anyone, or to pay taxes, or to follow the rules, you eventually learnt it and your consciousness stops you to do those things... rise the consciousness means that teach to respect the system, and f...
[20:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 1740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:41] <exec> 08└─Think they changed the rules recently to make night harder. Something about must have a sleep during particular parts of the night. I bet this is making parking even worse. I used to write 'that damned' software that tracked drivers. You move the truck, up to the D line for you and let me mark where...
[20:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Sticker shock - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:44] <exec> 08└─A pause in driving is not the same as a pause in moving. There may be two adults in the car - say, a family.
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[21:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:1) 02Re:Well, except at Gmail - 06Spam Rate Dropping Below 50% for the First Time in 12 Years - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:14] <exec> 08└─gmail's spam filter has never worked for me. It's always catching mailing list messages and letting through actual spam. Apparently the sorting algorithm doesn't ever learn even though I sort out the false positives manually, for years. About fighting spam, most noise is about the ineffectual techn...
[21:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, except at Gmail - 06Spam Rate Dropping Below 50% for the First Time in 12 Years - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:15] <exec> 08└─I don't know what Google is doing, but I think that they use outdated RBLs. I run my own mail server in a VPS. I have never sent SPAM. If I send email to a "clean" Gmail account from that IP address, it is identified as SPAM. Sending the same email via my ISP's mail server results in the email not b...
[21:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Holy SHIT! - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:41] <exec> 08└─Says the guy with 6 kids.
[21:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news... - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:06] <exec> 08└─Hot air
[21:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:No - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:22] <exec> 08└─But I am increasingly feeling like an outsider and sometimes I feel that my presence here is divisive and counterproductive.
[21:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:42] <exec> 08└─It it really freedom if you don't realize the truth that you're not free?
[21:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Free speech doesn't exist, by definition - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:56] <exec> 08└─It's called "strategic communication". Also, "It's a Trap!!"
[21:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Attribute confusion - 06New Horizons Spurs New Calls to Make Pluto a Planet Once Again - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:22] <exec> 08└─If this astronomically unlikely event happens, our classifications of stuff will end up weird.
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[22:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02Re:picked up in last few weeks - 06Spam Rate Dropping Below 50% for the First Time in 12 Years - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:20] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, your domain(s) just happen to be the target for the week. I've managed an e-mail server before. On some weeks the sudden barrage would DOS the server, and then there'd be weeks of calm. Management wanted us to better predict traffic. I'm not sure that could be done. All I know for sure is...
[22:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, except at Gmail - 06Spam Rate Dropping Below 50% for the First Time in 12 Years - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:25] <exec> 08└─I think most algorithmic (not purely a block list) spam blockers automatically block anything coming from an unnatural domain (basically, anything that is not gmail.com, yahoo.com, *.edu, and so on). I have a personal domain and it's a pain sometimes.
[22:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Initially read as "sperm rate dropping"... - 06Spam Rate Dropping Below 50% for the First Time in 12 Years - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:26] <exec> 08└─...ethanol-fuelled crusty gym-socks not withstanding.
[22:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Holy SHIT! - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:51] <exec> 08└─"True north" is north on a map. That doesn't change. Axial north and magnetic north change all the time, but they have traditionally been very close to true north, although all that drift is adding up.
[22:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:education vs corruption - 06Can We Build a Truly Free Speech System? - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:58] <exec> 08└─what you mix is economic system and political system As do you. a State capitalism Yes, the feudal overlords were replaced with the Gosplan (appointed by the dictator); workers had no say in how the system worked. the communism political system If it was actually Communist (as Marx used the term), t...
[22:15:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There is nothing to report - 06Ask SN: Best Way to Report a Major Security Problem at a Cellular Carrier? - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:43] <exec> 08└─If the Billpay system's e-mails have enough information to identify the account and reset the password, then that's a bigger problem than some clueless employees at a store asking you to do something stupid with a computer. So, this would just be your grandmother's problem, and too bad too sad for...
[22:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Re:Range anxiety - 06Tesla’s New ‘Ludicrous Mode’ Will Get You from 0-60 in Under 3 Seconds - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:18] <exec> 08└─those headaches are actually a sign of withdraw because you have become addicted to refined sugar and i'm not even joking.
[22:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's up to you - 06Ask Soylent: Relocating For Work - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:54] <exec> 08└─Detroit is changing fast. Cost of living is rising too.
[22:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Depends on the city the HQ is in. - 06Ask Soylent: Relocating For Work - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:09] <exec> 08└─When is the last time you have been to either Detroit or New Orleans? Regarding Detroit specifically, I always heard how terrible of a place it was, and then experienced it for myself recently. Seems that times are a changing.
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[23:13:16] <exec> 08└─Applied ethics is how some logicians make their money at research institutions. At my local the consensus is very strong that non-solicited advertising is unethical behavior akin to stopping someone on the street and making them look or listen to you (depending on the medium we are talking about). S...
[23:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Ethics department at the local uni - 06How Morally Justifiable is Advertising? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:19] <exec> 08└─The most poisonous cunt I ever dated majored in medical ethics.
[23:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02tv ads that feature children... - 06How Morally Justifiable is Advertising? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:21] <exec> 08└─...is somehow morally acceptable, even though it is technically child labor humanity as a whole has no morals
[23:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rule #1 - 06How Morally Justifiable is Advertising? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:24] <exec> 08└─I won't do business with anyone that spams my inbox.
[23:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Rule #1 - 06How Morally Justifiable is Advertising? - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:26] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna PUKE! HHHHHGHGHGHGHGHGHHGHHGHHGHGUHGUHGHULULGLGHLGGUHGHGLHGULGGGAAAAHHAAHHGHGHAHGHAHGAGHAAAAAAHA.
[23:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02mushy child brains - 06How Morally Justifiable is Advertising? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:28] <exec> 08└─Campaigners Urge FTC to Investigate YouTube for Kids App [soylentnews.org]
[23:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You bring this up at a bad time - 06How Morally Justifiable is Advertising? - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:30] <exec> 08└─I spent 5 hours yesterday and 3 more today (so far) trying to clean the advertising crap off my brother's laptop. He downloaded 1 (yes one) program that he thought interesting and it offered no hint that it would proceed to install dozens of other crap programs that generate spam adverts in his brow...
[23:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The United States has it's own propaganda - 06How Morally Justifiable is Advertising? - 3908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:33] <exec> 08└─"The United States has it's own propaganda, but it's very effective because people don't realize that it's propaganda. And it's subtle, but it's actually a much stronger propaganda machine than the Nazis had but it's funded in a different way. With the Nazis it was funded by the government, but in t...
[23:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02Just make it easy to ignore - 06How Morally Justifiable is Advertising? - 1538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:35] <exec> 08└─During my commute I have to walk past moving advertisements that also make sounds, in the form of large TV screens. I think the sound is a step too far. I can look away if I'm not interested, but the effort required to not hear the advertising is too much. Do I plug my ears every time I walk past? D...
[23:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quite a leap - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:21] <exec> 08└─Yes it can. Basically ice melts on the area making up its surface, at a rate dependent on the amount of energy available to it (which is roughly proportional to the specific heat and relative temp of what is in contact with it). What has happened more and more lately is huge chunks of ice breaking o...
[23:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news... - 06Global Warming Has Shifted Earth's Axis - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:35] <exec> 08└─But at least global warming has helped reduce the popularity of smoking in European countries. It's just a shame that the reduction in smoking has caused the poles to shift so dramatically.
[23:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:Biggest piece of vaporware now belongs to... - 06Indie Developers Pitch How They'd Revive Duke Nukem - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:18] <exec> 08└─you're comparing rpgs like Thief and Deus Ex to fps games. just because its played from a first-person perspective doesn't automatically make it an fps, and of course rpgs are going to be significantly superior since fps games are all bland and boring Doom clones.
[23:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:My Pitch - 06Indie Developers Pitch How They'd Revive Duke Nukem - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:27] <exec> 08└─My pitch: 1. Give Duke Nukem license to Croteam 2. Give Duke Nukem (Jon St. John) to Croteam 3. Make Croteam hire someone new to make the human models. 4. Profit The Serious Sam games show that Croteam has experience making the sort of game that suits the franchise, so why not just give it to them a...
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