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[00:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:19] <exec> 08└─Best water I ever drank was straight on my hands and knees from a Washington stream. It might have had bugs, microorganisms, animal piss and animal shit in it but damn was it good. Boiling it or using chlorine tablets would have only fucked it up. As Anthony Bourdain says, 'your body is not a temple...
[00:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:22] <exec> 08└─Best water I ever drank was straight on my hands and knees from a Washington stream.
[00:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Flat Water? - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:23] <exec> 08└─CO2 getting dissolved in a glass of water is the exact opposite of going flat. The water is getting mildly carbonated.
[00:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Flat Water? - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:25] <exec> 08└─"Flat taste" vs "flat water" - CO2 disolved in water will bind the metalic ions into carbonates; most of them insoluble and with a taste like chalk or baking soda - I think it qualifies as "flat taste".
[00:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02NK's conventional short range missiles - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:33] <exec> 08└─Seoul is quite close to the DMZ. North Korea has enough conventional rockets to totally destroy it, and has had them for many years. Sometimes the news I read out of South Korea doesnt make sense, such as when a North Korean submarine sunk a South Korean naval vessel, taking the lives of IIRC thirty...
[00:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:NK's conventional short range missiles - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:34] <exec> 08└─But on the other hand you have to wonder if NK would actually aim for Seoul instead of just the DMZ and maintain a bit of plausible deniability. They can't be so stupid as to bring the publicly-approved wrath of most first world countries down on their head. I would imagine that they'd at least only...
[00:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Every nation has the right to territorial... - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:37] <exec> 08└─I agree; these are long-range, though. Not much use for long-range self defense.
[00:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Professions - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:55] <exec> 08└─For years they were preaching all sorts of bullshit about low cholesterol diets even though there was precious little evidence that the absolute cholesterol levels played any part in cardiovascular disease.
[00:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Professions - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:56] <exec> 08└─That poses the problem of inmates running the asylum. But then you are a moron anyways.
[00:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quantitative risk factors - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:58] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a metric that rates surgeons based both on risk level and success rate.
[00:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Calculating moon temperature - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:10] <exec> 08└─Yes I am the same AC. Thanks. I am not really looking for an exact estimate but just something that gets in the ballpark of 200 K. Do you have any opinions on this? http://arxiv.org [arxiv.org] A major point is that temperature is proportional to the fourth root of solar irradian...
[00:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:fonts? - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:40] <exec> 08└─The question you should be asking is "which OS can I get that doesn't let userland bullshit like font rendering run as a kernel driver".
[00:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fonts? - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:41] <exec> 08└─A thousand times this.
[00:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fonts? - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:43] <exec> 08└─Cue the Hairyfeet Font Challenge! You know you want it!
[00:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:23] <exec> 08└─ToTC? Trial of The Crusader? [wikia.com] But I think you're missing the point, as a practical weapon this would be about as practical as building a methane bomb out of cow farts. Need I remind you the biggest domestic terrorist attack on US soil used nothing but fertilizer, diesel, and a Ryder truc...
[00:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:48] <exec> 08└─That quad copter was hovering within the boys visual sight. The video of the shooting was taken by another off-board camera. The shooting took place in a controlled environment, that is, he didn't fly the copter 1/2 mile down the road, and out of sight. What I would like to see, it the video FROM TH...
[00:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:51] <exec> 08└─Your nitpicking falls short of hitting the mark. I am afraid of idiots with weapons. That doesn't make me a hoplophobe - I don't fear the weapons. Hoplophobes see a weapon, and they come unglued. In short, they believe that there should be laws preventing the existence of weapons. Your statement abo...
[00:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:57] <exec> 08└─" It's dumb." I think what you mean is, you don't like my thoughts, and you disagree with them. Do you like reading? Try Tom Kratman's 'Training for War" a short essay. His essay applies outside of the scope of war as well. Safety, safety, safety - this preoccupation with safety makes us less than s...
[00:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:If you want to play a sim.. - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 1842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:46] <exec> 08└─Uhhh...War Thunder is third person, unless you are playing historical in which case you...well can only view the way somebody in a tank would realistically see the outside world, either through the commanders hatch or through the gunners sight. You CAN go to a gunner's sight if you need to zoom in f...
[00:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mbo42 [5378] (Score:1) 02Re:this is news? - 06Information Can be Rescued From a Black Hole - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:17:58] <exec> 08└─This is a public forum about Tech. Why do you think it's OK to subject anyone and everyone to such absolute gutter level, frat boy "humor"? Please show _some_ respect for other people. (I couldn't just mod the post down; no karma)
[00:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 1650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:19] <exec> 08└─Oh and allow me to ROFLCopter for being labeled "troll" for actually asking Linux updates not to shit on the drivers because if that doesn't show how fucking sad and willing to take shit the Linux community is? Nothing will. I Mean when MSFT tried to push Windows Mist8ke, did we take that shit?...
[00:20:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Value? - 06 Nokia Write-down Leads Microsoft to Record $3.2b Loss On $22.2b Revenue - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:20:24] <exec> 08└─Now, I know where your coming from!! Now, I'll be willing to listen! I can't claim I know about driver models, etc. Yes, there are pains sometimes... As I've said before, I won't be moving anyone to Linux unless they ask me to: I don't have the time to hold hands with anyone(but I also don't have ti...
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[01:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Core War - 06Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:18] <exec> 08└─Look, Ma, it's Artificial Evolution, [wikipedia.org] inside a computer system. That's like, worth a buttload of papers. Gimme news time, bro.
[01:13:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:27] <exec> 08└─Best water I ever drank was straight on my hands and knees from a Washington stream.
[01:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:29] <exec> 08└─Best water I ever drank was ... from a Washington stream.
[01:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Flat Water? - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:32] <exec> 08└─well, there's a difference between gaseous CO2 dissolved in water making it carbonated and CO2 being dissolved in water making H2CO3. increasing amounts of CO2 dissolved into the ocean/lakes/etc don't make it carbonated, but they do lower its pH. this story is basically on that difference - the "off...
[01:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:34] <exec> 08└─I have so-called BPA-free sturdy plastic water bottle. It is drained and refilled at least daily. Even if BPA-free, I figure whatever substitute used might also leach out. Oh well. Keep the bottle out of sunlight - helps reduce the plastic breaking down and reduce whatever that leaches out. In the e...
[01:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:36] <exec> 08└─Glass is the only good thing to drink out of. Don't drop it.
[01:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:38] <exec> 08└─Stainless is good, too. Camelback makes a double-walled bottle with a straw in the lid that keeps water cool overnight. b&
[01:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:41] <exec> 08└─But it always seems to me like stainless has a taste. Subtle but definitely metallic.
[01:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:42] <exec> 08└─Only if your mouth comes into contact with it. The Camelback thermos I've got has one of their bite-to-drink straws, and the silicone it's made of has no taste I can discern. b&
[01:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:44] <exec> 08└─The part about it being unsafe reusing plastic water bottles sounded like bullshit to me, and it looks like it might be bullshit: http://www.plasticsinfo.org [plasticsinfo.org] The guy it probably legit, but that statement makes him sound like a shill for the bot...
[01:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No I didn't RTFA - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:46] <exec> 08└─I think my IQ dropped just reading the summary. Slow news day?
[01:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Revigator Water Jar - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:47] <exec> 08└─I keep my water in a Revigator [periodictable.com]. It's always delicious and refreshing.
[01:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score:1) 02lake water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:49] <exec> 08└─Lake water. Many people get water from lakes for drinking. The water is then put through various degrees of treatment(depending on location). I am arguing that lakes sit for more then a day and are often considered safe to drink - or safe enough. So why would only one day make water unsafe, assuming...
[01:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:lake water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:50] <exec> 08└─The summary is blaming the container. Plastics will leech BPA. Glass is fine.
[01:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Water doesn't go bad - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:52] <exec> 08└─The only thing that can make water bad to drink is something dangerous getting into it. If you are used to drinking out of creeks, the number of things that are dangerous to you is smaller.
[01:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:54] <exec> 08└─Several months back, I experimented with making coffee with distilled water instead of tap water, and the improvement was significant. After going through a few plastic gallon jugs, I researched, found, and bought a countertop still that takes a few hours to make a one-gallon batch. The original pla...
[01:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03SuperCharlie [2939] (Score:2) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:55] <exec> 08└─It is my understanding that distilled water will leech minerals from you like calcium, etc since it is so pure. Read up on it some before you, are a permanent lifestyle of it.
[01:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 735 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:58] <exec> 08└─I am unaware of anything other than old wives's tales to support that claim -- no empirical evidence, no physiological nor chemical mechanism, nothing. This is especially the case since rainwater, save for rare cases of modern contamination, is distilled water -- and the old wives typically have a q...
[01:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Day-old water is BETTER - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:59] <exec> 08└─when it had been refrigerated. Don't the know chemistry, but overnight storage in a frige removes chlorine taste from tap water.
[01:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Every nation has the right to territorial... - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:02] <exec> 08└─It's a double standard, and a well deserved one. The US and South Korea have never threatened to invade North Korea and seize their land. The reverse is not true: North Korea's stated ambition is to re-take the South. When someone is a blatant aggressor like that, it's entirely justified to hold the...
[01:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Professions - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─The point is not that the system of professions works until it doesn't work, the point is that all external attempts to "fix" a profession do not work, either, since the reformers have no idea what they are doing.
[01:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:"May I speak to your security manager please?" - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:15:13] <exec> 08└─Some companies have bounty programs. https://bugcrowd.com [bugcrowd.com]
[01:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:17] <exec> 08└─Nobody is afraid of weapons. Your delusional worldview demands it be true, but its nothing more than a made-up strawman to make yourself feel better.
[01:16:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"What If..." - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:32] <exec> 08└─You don't need a gun to hurt people.
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[02:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Core War - 06Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:20] <exec> 08└─Doh [wikipedia.org], tens of them. The one I like the most - Polyworld [wikipedia.org] - as old as 1990 - creatures capable of "sensing", moving, evolution also influenced by the "geography" of the world. That's like, worth a buttload of papers. Gimme news time, bro.
[02:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03chrysosphinx [5262] (Score:1) 02Not a true Mother - 06Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:21] <exec> 08└─unless it runs a true gynoid operating system. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[02:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:34] <exec> 08└─Leave it to him to say profound stuff about what you put into your body. But yeah this is kind of silly. How about we just drink our fucking water. The article basically concludes by saying that letting standing water stand will result in algae. I guess it needs to be repeated if people are dumb eno...
[02:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 1023 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:51] <exec> 08└─In the case of coffee there's quite a bit of research on water quality and brewed coffee quality which goes back several decades but is also ongoing with the current UK barista champion and his chemist putting out a new book on the topic soon. I'm fortunate enough to live in a place where the city t...
[02:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:52] <exec> 08└─It is my understanding that distilled water will leech minerals from you like calcium, etc since it is so pure. Read up on it some before you, are a permanent lifestyle of it.
[02:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Solar water disinfection - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:55] <exec> 08└─"Don't leave out in the sun" had me thinking of solar water disinfection [wikipedia.org]. (Basically fill a plastic bottle with water and leave it in the sun for a few hours.) I really dislike it when science becomes popular or common - a whole lot of people come out of the woodwork with "opinions"...
[02:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Useless UN - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 1889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:11] <exec> 08└─The world's political realities preclude the US and/or any coalition from stomping Kim into the dirt, and setting up any kind of real government in N.K. China is the fly in the ointment. China will NOT permit the west to eradicate the Kim dynasty. And, this is where the UN proves to be totally usele...
[02:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fonts? - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:16] <exec> 08└─You can use noscript, it had an option to block webfonts since they became a thing.
[02:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GeriatricGentleman [1192] (Score:1) 02Re:This is why you need supercomputers - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:39] <exec> 08└─thank you Nice article choice and some comments that make me feel dumber (why don't I know stuff like this?) and smarter (am grateful for the chance to learn a little!) This is the kind of thing I show my 10yr old when she asks what I am doing when I goof off on the computer. Now, as usual in this s...
[02:15:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fritsd [4586] 02Re:Trouble ahead - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:15:41] <exec> 08└─To which the dodgy 1/12th of the D_{4h}-symmetric superposition of 12 Indium atom wavefunctions responded: "Greetings, Rabbi!", and kissed him (Mat. 26:49)
[02:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you want to play a sim.. - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:02] <exec> 08└─Play War thunder, the image of a wall of Soviet and German and American tanks rolling through Poland with a giant S for Soylent would be pretty epic.
[02:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SuperGlide! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:18:50] <exec> 08└─Not true. The sensation is from moving pressure, not friction.
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[03:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:55] <exec> 08└─Nobody likes drinking water? Can you not notice the fake chemical taste of shit like Gatorade or Mountain Dew? Water is great precisely because drinking lots of it doesnt interfere with anything else you eat or drink. Other healthy stuff like juice or kombucha is healthy only if you dont drink too m...
[03:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Flat Water? - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:00] <exec> 08└─Actually, the dissolved CO2 and carbonic acid exist in equilibrium in the water. You can't have one without the other. We say water is carbonated when it contains more CO2 than can stay in solution at atmospheric pressure. Naturally, that won't happen while it sits at atmospheric pressure. Water goe...
[03:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Revigator Water Jar - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:09] <exec> 08└─Best enjoyed while lying in a box of uranium sand [google.com]
[03:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:18] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that -- I had no clue. It almost looks like one could add measured trace amounts of sodium and calcium chloride to make distilled water meet that spec. Is that correct? Might you have any further resources or information -- ideally, even, a recipe? I'm using a French Press, but through ex...
[03:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SiriusStarr [5001] (Score:1) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:20] <exec> 08└─Out of personal curiosity, would you mind sharing the still you use? I go through a fair amount of distilled water (e.g. for homebrewing) and I'm curious about getting one.
[03:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 1116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:22] <exec> 08└─It's one of the Megahome models on Amazon. There're several different variations that all seem to be the same save for materials and cosmetics. And there're other very similar ones with different brand names that likely come from the same factory. The one I settled on had the highest ratio of good r...
[03:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Day-old water is BETTER - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:24] <exec> 08└─It's a matter of perspective. I hear people bitching about chlorine in the water giving it a bad taste, but honestly, you get used to it. Considering all the ways in which water can taste, having a bit of chlorine taste is hardly the worst possibility. At any rate, it's probably just as well to let...
[03:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03NoMaster [3543] (Score:2) 02Re:Day-old water is BETTER - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:25] <exec> 08└─The flouride compounds used for treating tapwater won't evaporate out, at least not in a timeframe of hours, without vigorous aeration. Neither will the chloramines, which are commonly used instead of chlorine gas or salts. Enjoy your room temperature, slightly acidic, and flat-tasting tapwater cont...
[03:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02more proof - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:27] <exec> 08└─i am strange. water tastes better when it has been out of the tap for awhile to me. straight from the tap, it tastes too 'chloriney' to me. i don't drink water that has been left out and uncovered for a day though. i have no idea what might have crawled into it and then scurried away.
[03:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Professions - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:01] <exec> 08└─Precisely. The point isn't to take away these decisions from the medical community, merely to realize that MDs are not scientists and they need help reading, understanding and conducting research. There also needs to be some consideration paid to the patients that aren't getting any better or have t...
[03:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Professions - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:03] <exec> 08└─you begin to see in stark relief why the needs and wishes of the patient really do need to be taken into account.
[03:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Teachers next - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:06] <exec> 08└─Some places are starting to do this with teachers, taking some stupid metric designed by economists and pretending that this one number is a good measure of teaching effectiveness. But once again, it's a case of using what's easy to measure, rather than measuring something that's useful, and then as...
[03:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kadal [4731] (Score:2) 02Re:fonts? - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:15:52] <exec> 08└─On Firefox, open preferences and then u think it's under content. Somewhere in there is an option to override website fonts and going sizes
[03:18:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Not amused. - 06Boa Constrictors' Lethal Secret Revealed - 157 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:18:37] <exec> 08└─Why is it cruel to measure the results whilst feeding an animal? Would it be more cruel to kill all constrictors for it is they that require the act to live.
[03:20:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02In other news... - 06Lifelock Once Again Failed at Its One Job: Protecting Data - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:20] <exec> 08└─LifeLock is one of the contenders in the bidding to help on damage control for the recent OPM hack. No joke. I feel so safe right now.
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[04:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Sounds like a good ending... - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:23] <exec> 08└─...to a bad story that no one really liked anyway. Bring it on, make it quick, and be done with it. Most of us don't deserve to have made it this far anyway, and generally the people who feel we do are the most to blame.
[04:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:26] <exec> 08└─She might be right about the need part... but as humanity have shown many times in history, you don't necessarily kill for need.. there are countless other reason, including a lack of one and an alien's psychology might be sufficiently different from us that they have even more different reasons. Al...
[04:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Apple jab? Really? - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:32] <exec> 08└─Apple spent just $1.23 million of its huge mountain of cash.
[04:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Money make the world go round... - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:33] <exec> 08└─... until everybody is dizzy and confused.
[04:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Don't panic - 06Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:44] <exec> 08└─Keep calm... we can co-exist unless they've figure out how to use us as a power source... oh wait we figured that one out for them already... oh yea, we're screwed.
[04:13:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Re:Flat Water? - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 202 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:59] <exec> 08└─"Flat taste" vs "flat water" - CO2 disolved in water will bind the metalic ions into carbonates; most of them insoluble and with a taste like chalk or baking soda - I think it qualifies as "flat taste".
[04:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 1478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:08] <exec> 08└─I believe your link has it right. PET is one tough plastic. The one to stay away from is that milky white soft plastic milk cartons and some waters come in. If you have had experience with the plastic aging and cracking, you know it has got to be going through some chemical degradation. PET is so t...
[04:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:lake water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 935 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:14] <exec> 08└─Back in 1984 I filled a 5 gallon water jug from a friend's deep well, and set it aside as an emergency stash. This water was still utterly pristine, and tasted as good as ever, when I finally used the last of it -- in 2012. Who knows how many centuries it spent in the aquifer the well taps into. Tha...
[04:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score:2) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 1052 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:22] <exec> 08└─You don't have anything to worry about with the press so long as it's one that you can get spare parts for. The filter will eventually fray or you'll break the glass but that's nothing to do with the water. A few brands are part compatible with each other but if you've got something that you can't g...
[04:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02well water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:30] <exec> 08└─I don't know, and I can't say. I drink untreated well water, and am usually stunned by the nasty taste of municipal water (when I travel).
[04:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:NK's conventional short range missiles - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:41] <exec> 08└─.. except with their pedigree, aiming for the DMZ might actually mean hitting Seoul....
[04:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Useless UN - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:48] <exec> 08└─I'm really curious what China's script would be if NK/Lil Kim goes batshit and start an actual war. I'm sure they'd have considered this and have a planned script. They'd have to pick a side when that scenario plays out. Given they're no longer a closed Communist country like in the last Korean war,...
[04:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:fonts? - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:59] <exec> 08└─Prefbar, turn fonts on and off with one click. http://prefbar.tuxfamily.org [tuxfamily.org] I only install two add-ons -- Prefbar and NoScript. I can scrape by without NoScript. But I can't live without Prefbar.
[04:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Portable code is among my concerns - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:07] <exec> 08└─Suppose you use OpenBSD to develop your product and I point out an exploit. You patch the exploit then post a new release tarball. Now everyone knows that exploit is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. If it were something Apple and Microsoft distributed than at least it would get fixed with their...
[04:19:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Reduction of friction? - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:19:43] <exec> 08└─Rolling friction of the tires is a proportionately large component.
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[05:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:27] <exec> 08└─there are countless other motives*
[05:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:28] <exec> 08└─Indeed, strike seems to be gone. I'm also pretty sure that it was available.
[05:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:30] <exec> 08└─I hope faster-that-light travel is possible. It seems that <strike> was removed after the striketastrophe. Even though it was solved without removal. That's weird. It must have been exploited by others.
[05:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:32] <exec> 08└─She's assuming (as is Hawking) that alien life has evolved on a like planet in an environment similar to Earth. That will may be, as nothing is impossible in an infinite universe, but it is actually more likely that some type (or many types) of life has evolved in an entirely different environment a...
[05:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:33] <exec> 08└─Jill Tarter is still right: spacefaring civilizations probably won't commit xenocide. There's no data for that specific claim, but the events that lead up to space travel require some degree of cooperation and empathy. Hawking and others have warned against active SETI: beaming signals at the aliens...
[05:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:35] <exec> 08└─If the aliens might wipe us out, it is a very good idea to search for them, because that way we are at least warned, and can try to prepare (for example, intensify our space programs so we have a better chance for at least some humans to escape when they come). If we expect them to be dangerous for...
[05:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:36] <exec> 08└─I think the premise of the people against this are typically that our actions of searching/reaching out could trigger them finding out about us without us knowing so we would have no time to prepare for when they come and stick probes in us...
[05:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:38] <exec> 08└─Why should listening allow the aliens to detect us? If anything, they detect the signals we actively send out (for example, to control space probes).
[05:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:40] <exec> 08└─Why should listening allow the aliens to detect us?
[05:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kramulous [255] (Score:1) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:09] <exec> 08└─There's nothing your body wants more than
[05:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah I notice it. That's why I drink water.
[05:14:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 735 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:32] <exec> 08└─I am unaware of anything other than old wives's tales to support that claim -- no empirical evidence, no physiological nor chemical mechanism, nothing. This is especially the case since rainwater, save for rare cases of modern contamination, is distilled water -- and the old wives typically have a q...
[05:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solar water disinfection - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:42] <exec> 08└─looks like you spent many a night perusing the wikis. so have i, infotainment for free. well, i donated some money eventually because i like it. do not forget it is not to be used as a primary source - and do not forget anyone can put anything on there. do have a read of some of the talk pages too,...
[05:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dime [1163] (Score:1, Disagree) 02What is day old water? - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:45] <exec> 08└─My water is 4.5 billion years old. At least that's how long it's been on this planet. I've always drank it whether it was in a lake, out of a garden hose, off EVERY SINGLE waterfall I've ever visited. If you're worried about some water you left out for a day, maybe it's because just cleaning your gl...
[05:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Better Living Through Chemistry - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:47] <exec> 08└─I like to drink mine immediately after synthesizing it directly from hydrogen and oxygen, which in turn is produced by a particle accelerator! ---
[05:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Location - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:18] <exec> 08└─I'm actually close enough for a ride. Not tomorrow, but perhaps in the future.
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[06:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score:2) 02it's on twitter - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:22] <exec> 08└─If it's on twitter and looks like a threat, it isn't one. They should be looking for small groups of people repeatedly posting seemingly innocuous and trivial data like their grocery lists instead.
[06:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FBI wants crypto banned. - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:23] <exec> 08└─FBI wants crypto banned.
[06:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:FBI wants crypto banned. - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 1330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:24] <exec> 08└─Recent twist: Homeland Security Chief Goes Off "Going Dark" Script, Says He Can See Plenty [firstlook.org] “I’ve been at this now for six and a half years, and we have since 9/11 I believe come a long way in the level of sophistication of our intelligence community and their ability to track an...
[06:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Sounds like a good ending... - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:35] <exec> 08└─Because any other known species is morally superior? Cats (and other predators) hunt for fun, play/torture their prey. Non-carnivores just evolved that way, no moral superiority. And if any alien race gets to wipe out humans there is hardly a reason to celebrate, as this would prove them to be just...
[06:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like a good ending... - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:36] <exec> 08└─As I've written in a few other posts, I doubt you will find the existential threat you seek in aliens that are capable of traveling to Earth. Any aliens capable of reaching us will be bleeding hearts. You're much more likely to find homegrown annihilation. Robots, grey goo, biowar, it's your choice.
[06:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:42] <exec> 08└─Speculation if rife that "they" evolved on a similar planet as ours. They may not be interested in us as much as they are interested in our planet... A planet already compatible with their needs. I doubt they want to mess with ownership litigation.
[06:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:43] <exec> 08└─I find it hard to believe that aliens will achieve interstellar travel before sustainable living (widespread solar and fusion, vertical farming, arcologies, dyson spheres, etc.). Even the most difficult asteroid mining schemes will be easier than taking over the nearest blue planet, and there's a lo...
[06:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:45] <exec> 08└─The only complex life we know of requires water, carbon, oxygen, DNA, phospholipid bilayers, etc. If there are other seriously different types of environments capable of supporting life, they will exist alongside millions or billions of planets similar to Earth, especially if the dynamics of solar s...
[06:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:47] <exec> 08└─Sounds a lot like Klingons... a fictional species that were based on Human traits. :-)
[06:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:51] <exec> 08└─Real quantum computers are actually ansibles. The government is lying to you and propping up D-Wave quantum annealers as a soft alternative approach to quantum computing that won't reveal the existence of aliens.
[06:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:53] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but entanglement doesn't work that way. You cannot detect at one part of an entangled system whether someone did a measurement on another part of the entangled system.
[06:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:54] <exec> 08└─If passive SETI (as opposed to active SETI - sending signals) has the potential to trigger the attention of advanced aliens, then check your behind, because you may be probed at any moment.
[06:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:56] <exec> 08└─I blame LiveScience for their terrible headline. Stephen Hawking has supported SETI (but not "active SETI"). Yuri Milner likes spending money to support science and scientists. Milner probably approached Hawking to get a little star power to help launch this new SETI project. SETI basically doubles...
[06:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Frame of reference for reason - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:13:57] <exec> 08└─[...] they would have technological capabilities sophisticated enough not to need slaves, food or other planets
[06:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Frame of reference for reason - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:59] <exec> 08└─Lifeform doesn't develop empathetic and cooperative traits, but does manage to develop communication, society, technology, pursuit of science, space programs, and interstellar travel (after a long gap following the first space programs). Lifeform then threatens humanity. It doesn't seem likely. I'm...
[06:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02SETI not CETI - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:00] <exec> 08└─The people who oppose SETI of the grounds of dangerous aliens are apparently on a mental par with The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal "... This creature is so mind-bogglingly stupid that it assumes that if one cannot see it, then it cannot see said person."
[06:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:SETI not CETI - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:02] <exec> 08└─The term for people attempting to contact aliens is active SETI [wikipedia.org]. It's been done before and Stephen Hawking among others oppose it. However it is a big waste of time and money due to the travel time and fact that you don't know where to aim your signals. Our best bet for discovering a...
[06:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Apple jab? Really? - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:07] <exec> 08└─Likewise in relation to what they lobbied for. Google and other tech companies mostly lobbied for net neutrality. And their contributions where a pittance compared to the money poured in by the likes of AT&T, Verizon and Comcast against net neutrality.
[06:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:09] <exec> 08└─Why do CEOs such as Zuckerberg Zuckerberg Zuckerberg Zuckerberg Zuckerberg Zuckerberg Zuckerberg Zuckerberg hate european-decendant people so much they want to make us paupers?
[06:14:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jcross [4009] 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 320 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:44] <exec> 08└─The part about it being unsafe reusing plastic water bottles sounded like bullshit to me, and it looks like it might be bullshit: http://www.plasticsinfo.org [plasticsinfo.org] The guy it probably legit, but that statement makes him sound like a shill for the bot...
[06:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Solar water disinfection - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:07] <exec> 08└─Edutainment! I like it! Hadn't quite thought of it that way but I suppose there is a large element of that in all non-fiction reading. (Or purporting to be non-fiction.) At least it's better than trying to watch a documentary - where it often takes half an hour to squeeze out a single fact. We truly...
[06:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:more proof - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:09] <exec> 08└─straight from the tap, it tastes too 'chloriney' to me
[06:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Better Living Through Chemistry - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:15] <exec> 08└─I prefer mine mixed with sugar and flowers, contaminated with microorganisms, left out for a 3-4 weeks at somewhat below room temperature, and then chilled to about 45 degrees.
[06:20:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Re:wow! - 06Simulations Lead to Design of Near-frictionless Material - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:20:14] <exec> 08└─I imagine you'll need water to add at least some friction. Hitting the sound barrier in an amusement park full of people might not be wise. :)
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[07:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03That_Dude [2503] (Score:2) 02Re:it's on twitter - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:18] <exec> 08└─Or, some person or group checking for something seemingly innocuous.
[07:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"live long and prosper" - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 1155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:22] <exec> 08└─potentially every new born baby could killt he president. or rob a bank. or do something bad. luckily society attracts enough to the good side that these things are rare. now if the government wants back doors to encryption then we have to demand full transparency. you can spy on me (and everybody e...
[07:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:37] <exec> 08└─you won't stop digging the ground for the foundation of your weekend home just because an ant colony is there, but the destruction is just collateral to your reason to be there
[07:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:50] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but entanglement doesn't work that way.
[07:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:30] <exec> 08└─Didn't know R Kelly was a hiker...
[07:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:36] <exec> 08└─But Brawndo's got electrolytes!
[07:14:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 1155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:56] <exec> 08└─Several months back, I experimented with making coffee with distilled water instead of tap water, and the improvement was significant. After going through a few plastic gallon jugs, I researched, found, and bought a countertop still that takes a few hours to make a one-gallon batch. The original pla...
[07:14:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 1023 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:59] <exec> 08└─In the case of coffee there's quite a bit of research on water quality and brewed coffee quality which goes back several decades but is also ongoing with the current UK barista champion and his chemist putting out a new book on the topic soon. I'm fortunate enough to live in a place where the city t...
[07:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Could'nt we use something else than Skype? - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:19:01] <exec> 08└─It's proprietary, owned by Microsoft and the pipes go directly to NSA.
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[08:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:1) 02Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:22] <exec> 08└─While brain implants sound like an awesome idea, how do we regulate implants? If this enables the control of the most violent members of society, someone may one day decide that implants are the perfect tool to "prevent sedition". Imagine a law mandating that every adult must have a device implante...
[08:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:24] <exec> 08└─Brain control is really something that shouldn't be touched as long as the concept of government exists.
[08:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02Re:it's on twitter - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:35] <exec> 08└─Or people talking offline. Would terrorists really be so stupid as to discuss their plans in public on twitter?
[08:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FBI wants crypto banned. - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:38] <exec> 08└─What a rambling moron.
[08:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"live long and prosper" - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:40] <exec> 08└─enter abuse
[08:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Or not... - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:41] <exec> 08└─Or...we could just eliminate these jobs, because they are so totally unnecessary. What is this, yet another job security program for the unemployable? Sort of like how the TSA hasn't actually stopped any threats to any flights ever: real threats are extremely rare, and competent conspirators aren't...
[08:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sounds like a good ending... - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:54] <exec> 08└─You assume that development can only go one way. But that's not the case: A pretty civilized society (which is capable of achieving spaceflight) may well turn back into a barbarian society (but still with space ships) if the conditions are right. Moreover, even in a civilized society there will be t...
[08:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:11] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem [wikipedia.org] I wish people would stop speaking about "spooky action at a distance" when speaking about entanglement. If you don't already know this stuff well, it makes you believe wrong things. To detect entanglement, you absolutely 100% nee...
[08:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02too far - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:18] <exec> 08└─can't we just ask "god" if there are aliens? i mean we have the "god particle". can't we build a "god-particle" powered radio and ask him? afterall he created the universe, so he should know. - maybe there is a psychological classification for people who don't see the forest for the trees and believ...
[08:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink"? - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:15:38] <exec> 08└─ask the fish!
[08:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02i don't understand - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:17] <exec> 08└─why are OS vendors hoempage not like lourdes or the ganges or other holy places? you got here to be enlightend or/and healed. so instead of having to open soem update program, research the bug, click thru a bunch of links, etc.etc. you just point your browser at "www.windblows.the-holy-place.com" an...
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[09:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sometimes the medication is worse than the disease - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:20] <exec> 08└─This is obviously one of those cases.
[09:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In other words - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:21] <exec> 08└─In other words, the wet dream of any dictator out there: Just implant them a chip that suppresses even the thought of revolt. And if you need it, you can also control someone in other ways. For example, you want to get rid of someone for reasons the brain chip cannot control, well, simply make someo...
[09:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Already done - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:22] <exec> 08└─Instead of killing someone who has committed a terrible crime, should we instead alter their brain and the way it functions to make them a better person?
[09:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FBI wants crypto banned. - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:37] <exec> 08└─Will the opensource devs cave or will they defy and fight.
[09:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02Further Reading: The range of cases for alien... - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:18] <exec> 08└─"The Fermi Paradox", Analysis of the range of cases for alien existence and the fate of earth beings. Tim Urban, May 2014, Article [waitbutwhy.com]
[09:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:10] <exec> 08└─BPA free only means it's made of biphenol B for which the safety norms still don't exist. Use glass. Plastic doesn't belong to food chain.
[09:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:11] <exec> 08└─As far as I understand it, BPA was replaced by BPS in those "safe" water botles, and BPS (from what I've read, I'm no chemist) is even worse than BPA for leaching into water and it has basically the same impact as BPA. So we traded the frying pan for the fire - all in the name of marketing!
[09:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:No I didn't RTFA - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:14] <exec> 08└─Slow submission day - there is lots of news if someone would just prepare a submission and press the appropriate button.
[09:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:lake water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:19] <exec> 08└─Plastics will leech BPA.
[09:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:30] <exec> 08└─I have a desktop water distiller, it also sits in the laundry. Mine's 10-14 years old. It's due for the trash heap sometime (the fan now goes off balance, the unit is rusting, the plugs have all cracked and broken, the plastic cap that holds the carbon filter long ago disintegrated) although with a...
[09:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solar water disinfection - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:15:37] <exec> 08└─I think the solar water disinfection thing is really about the lesser of two evils.
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[10:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Global warming - 06NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Earth-Like Planet In Sun-Like Star's Habitable Zone - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:07] <exec> 08└─quote [bbc.com] While similar in size and brightness to the Sun, Kepler-452b's host star is 1.5 billion years older than ours. Scientists working on the mission therefore believe it could point to a possible future for the Earth. "If Kepler-452b is indeed a rocky planet, its location vis-a-vis its s...
[10:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02as the guy with thick glasses says... - 06NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Earth-Like Planet In Sun-Like Star's Habitable Zone - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:08] <exec> 08└─- "Good news everyone! we found a planet just like ours whose climate is even more f*cked up than ours! Man the spaceships!" while the shiny metal ass guy says "Hey, better make it a male-only crew. If that planet is more massive than earth we don't want all females complaining about their weight in...
[10:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:19] <exec> 08└─G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate
[10:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:20] <exec> 08└─This will never happen because insurance companies will never cover the cost of the procedure.
[10:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Like jeeps - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:25] <exec> 08└─It is a safe bet these will be hijacked by the same guys that hijacked the jeep OTA, and will hijack smart watches, and probably just as quickly.
[10:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whither the Manchurian Candidate? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:26] <exec> 08└─This sort of artificial behavior control (oh, sorry, "modification") is exactly what the tin foil hat brigade and sci-fi writers have warned us about. If we go down this road, we as a species may consider ourselves an epic failure.
[10:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Oh goodie! - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:28] <exec> 08└─It appears that once brain manipulation, obviously in the hand of the status quo who sponsors its research, takes off, I mindless bot will have some billion more pals to play games with!
[10:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Your tax dollars at work - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:45] <exec> 08└─Sitting around on facebook/twitter/4chan isn't something that tax paying citizens should be paying for.
[10:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:20] <exec> 08└─If you don't already know this stuff well, it makes you believe wrong things.
[10:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Frame of reference for reason - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:15:27] <exec> 08└─How hard have we really looked for ethics in animals? http://www.canada.com [canada.com]
[10:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02There's no contradiction here - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:31] <exec> 08└─And yet, it seems Hawking's desire to know if there is intelligent life elsewhere in the universe trumps his fears.
[10:17:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Every nation has the right to territorial... - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:17:14] <exec> 08└─The US may have never threatened to invade North Korea; but it sure does invade countries on a regular basis; for that alone the double standard should apply negatively towards the US instead of North Korea. In addition, the US is the only nation that has actually actively used all weapons that you...
[10:18:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Re:The OS X 10.10 issue - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:34] <exec> 08└─UUOP - useless use of python. You can tell from the '|' and ';' that you're already in a shell, so why not use shell builtins (such as echo), or trivial lightweight binaries (such as echo) rather than a great bloaty interpreted language? Here, of course, "you" = whoever you're quoting.
[10:18:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Portable code is among my concerns - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:39] <exec> 08└─If anyone really gave a shit, they would be reading bugtraq. Stop blowing shit. Your whole post is shit. Shit literally blew out of my screen all over the place. Thanks a lot jerk.
[10:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"May I speak to your security manager please?" - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:40] <exec> 08└─I have lots of zero-days but am reluctant to tell anyone because I know they wont get fixed.
[10:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:i don't understand - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:18:43] <exec> 08└─you just point your browser at "www.windblows.the-holy-place.com" and instantly get bug-elevated infected to the newest standard
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[11:14:35] <exec> 08└─What if it makes the drone more risk-adverse, therefore lowering the likelihood of an insurance claim?
[11:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whither the Manchurian Candidate? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:40] <exec> 08└─Dodo simulator 2015... You too can experience the thrill of being a Dodo...
[11:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it's on twitter - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:14:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, because people are dumb
[11:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:There's no contradiction here - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:47] <exec> 08└─Thankfully the obelisk came and dealt with that leopard problem.
[11:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Metrics aren't all equal - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:17:45] <exec> 08└─It seems unlikely that the average IQ of a surgeon is the world-record [mostextreme.org] IQ. [quora.com]
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[12:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Flawed/ Will never work - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:59] <exec> 08└─The idea of a better "Lie Detector" is flawed because the original "Lie Detector" is flawed. Build a sociopathy detector instead; but I suspect you would have trouble seeking funding from those above your station in life. I wonder why?
[12:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score:2) 02Re:Already done - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:25] <exec> 08└─Instead of killing someone who has committed a terrible crime, should we instead alter their brain and the way it functions to make them a better person?
[12:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whither the Manchurian Candidate? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:29] <exec> 08└─They aren't tinfoil if it becomes reality.
[12:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:3, Interesting) 02interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:32] <exec> 08└─Sometimes I can't tell if a Soylentnews article is about technology, philosophy, or an elaborate sociological experiment in which *we the audience* are the lab-rats. Is anybody else familiar with the German expression and song, "Die Gedanken sind frei" [wikipedia.org]? The thoughts are free. This id...
[12:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SiriusStarr [5001] (Score:1) 02The Terminal Man - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:33] <exec> 08└─Anyone else having flashbacks to old Michael Chrichton? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score:2) 02Re:Your tax dollars at work - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:54] <exec> 08└─And the next time a group organizes a riot online, are we supposed to just shrug and say "oh, well"? I'd rather have a small group of people centralized in one location with adequate tools do it, than every police department be responsible for their own jurisdiction. (And how exactly do you determin...
[12:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your tax dollars at work - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:56] <exec> 08└─In that case let's preemptively imprison ^h^h^h^Lock up "Undesirables" What's the worst that could happen? Fear is a weakness, Grow a pair.
[12:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your tax dollars at work - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:57] <exec> 08└─Still waiting for you to show that a riot was ever organized inside of the U.S. using online media. Your definition of riot once you start grasping at straws will be no different than a protest at best. You'll show your true colors.
[12:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your tax dollars at work - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:59] <exec> 08└─Police can handle riots just fine. Why do we need to tap everybody's phone? Because just maybe? Unacceptable.
[12:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Your tax dollars at work - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:01] <exec> 08└─And the next time a group organizes a riot online, are we supposed to just shrug and say "oh, well"?
[12:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Your tax dollars at work - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:02] <exec> 08└─Thank you for summing it up appropriately.
[12:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Frame of reference for reason - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:15:36] <exec> 08└─Lifeform doesn't develop empathetic and cooperative traits, but does manage to develop communication, society, technology, pursuit of science, space programs, and interstellar travel (after a long gap following the first space programs). Lifeform then threatens humanity. It doesn't seem likely.
[12:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Economics - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:15:55] <exec> 08└─It's simple: Tech corps want people to do the same job for less. They can't find that here so they want the law changed so they can import people who will work for less from elsewhere. They don't want to pay a living wage. Why do we keep buying their backdoored garbage anyway?
[12:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SiriusStarr [5001] (Score:1) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:16:58] <exec> 08└─Thanks! Cheers, mate.
[12:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Useless UN - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:17:28] <exec> 08└─They'd just whack him and take over. They'd keep the U.S. out of it by insisting that it is a "Regional Matter". They'd crush NK like a bug and claim it for themselves. NK is just a buffer zone anyway. They aren't letting a U.S. puppet like SK in there without control of the area. U.S. knows this to...
[12:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02Solution and Notes for WINDOWS XP users ... - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 3682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:55] <exec> 08└─Save to text file... ______________________________________________________________________________ The font drivers installed in your system are listed at this registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Font Drivers -- Ref: https://support.microsoft.com
[12:19:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] 02Re:This is why you need supercomputers - 06Molecule-Sized Transistors - 925 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:19:09] <exec> 08└─I do run on supercomputers. The overriding problem with supercomputer progress is that communication latency has not improved in at least 10 years (~ 1us). This doesn't hurt DFT calculations so much, as they are very dense and pegged to LINPACK which gets optimization. The latency does limit the bio...
[12:20:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:I may attend - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:20:54] <exec> 08└─The smoke that would normally come from a grill is supplied when the chips in the computers scream "NO MAS!"
[12:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Could'nt we use something else than Skype? - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:06] <exec> 08└─You are correct... let's use FaceTime instead!
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[13:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dogvomit [5452] (Score:1) 02Inflict pain? What? - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:31] <exec> 08└─The reference to 1984 seems like a real red herring. Inflict pain? What? A real (actually reliable) lie detector would be a great boon to society. No more "my word against your word." I think a much better reference than 1884 would be H. Beam Piper's Little Fuzzy. You go under oath and if you lie, w...
[13:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Inflict pain? What? - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:32] <exec> 08└─The problem is then that only pathological liars (who really, truly believe their own lies -- just like 1984's doublethink) will be able to pass the lie detector test and enter into positions of trust and power in society. To a large extent, this is already the way society works anyway. Improved "de...
[13:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Worth exploring - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:35] <exec> 08└─Imagine a world in which every time anybody lied in court, they were caught. That would certainly help achieve some justice - among other things, cops routinely lying about what they saw and did would be much harder to pull off. (And yes, cops lie all the time. A great example of this was audio wher...
[13:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03githaron [581] (Score:2) 02Re:Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:55] <exec> 08└─They will when they get the implant!
[13:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:13:56] <exec> 08└─This reminds be of the Nebari from Farscape.
[13:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whither the Manchurian Candidate? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:07] <exec> 08└─why? not trolling, I just want to see your reasoning. what is this set of values that you're using to judge an entire species? objectively speaking, the species is only a failure if it dies off (in the sense that none of the members of the species have live descendants). unless you bring religion in...
[13:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:10] <exec> 08└─one can argue that since society is willing to kill the person involved, it has already decided that the person is no longer entitled to human rights. personally I haven't thought about this thoroughly (maybe I should), but this is one way of looking at it.
[13:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:11] <exec> 08└─If it can be applied to 'people you dont like' it can be applied to you. This is a horrible horrible horrible idea. I am thinking I would rather be put to death than have someone manipulate me on that level.
[13:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Since you asked, - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:38] <exec> 08└─mY plAN IS tO Use A KitcHen knifE Duct TApED tO THE nOSE oF a QuADCopTer TO KilL PrESidEnT obAma at fiVE-tHIRty PM tOMORrOW AfTernoOn. AS a kliNgon migHT say, Any DAy Is a GoOD DaY for ASsasSInATiOn. over AnD OUt.
[13:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:15:01] <exec> 08└─The only way Klingons make any sense at all is to presume that they never invented interstellar travel themselves, but instead somehow stole it from another species.
[13:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:16:16] <exec> 08└─And glass does? Anyhow I thought we were done being afraid of BPA after gluten became the new boogeyman.
[13:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Calculating moon temperature - 06 Recession, Not Fracking, Responsible for Drop in U.S. Emissions - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:17:46] <exec> 08└─Also, sorry for any confusion but I was looking for surface temperature. My understanding is that the core is thought to have little role there.
[13:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:19:46] <exec> 08└─No, it's fucking stupid. This isn't some disagreement where I don't get your intention. Seriously. You take a naive version of evolution by natural selection, decide it's automatically a good thing(it's called the naturalistic fallacy, and it's way too common), then apply it stupidly to "solve" a pr...
[13:20:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What is 5 PM EST in UTC? - 06Doing a eBBQ This Weekend - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:46] <exec> 08└─What is 5 PM EST in UTC?
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[14:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worth exploring - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:30] <exec> 08└─Which scenario do you think is more likely - a citizen compelling a cop to take a lie detector test, or a cop compelling a citizen to take a lie detector test? My money's on the latter, not the former. So the cops will have yet another tool of oppression. "He's nervous, so he must be lying! Tase/sla...
[14:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Worth exploring - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:31] <exec> 08└─The issue with a goal to detect lies is that memories are fallible - they don't record reality. People can be telling the truth and also not be given any account of reality. This is especially true in stressful encounters, where every participant in an event can be completely *truthful*, give comple...
[14:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ACM - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:33] <exec> 08└─And I had thought ACM was a respectable outfit. Eh, fuck it.
[14:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:as the guy with thick glasses says... - 06NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Earth-Like Planet In Sun-Like Star's Habitable Zone - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:42] <exec> 08└─The thing is, we found one much closer to home already: Venus. It has a similar size to Earth, at one point had extensive liquid water, and quite possibly life. Then a runaway greenhouse effect happened about 600 million years ago, and probably killed anything that was alive down there.
[14:13:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03penguinoid [5331] 02Already done - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 153 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:58] <exec> 08└─Instead of killing someone who has committed a terrible crime, should we instead alter their brain and the way it functions to make them a better person?
[14:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Whither the Manchurian Candidate? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:06] <exec> 08└─think about it: most ants are slaves.
[14:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:11] <exec> 08└─> Everyone has the right to freedom of thought. Period. End of discussion. The research in methods to interfere with freedom of thought, like modern advertisement, and age-old disinformation, propaganda, astroturfing... prove that this self evident right is far from being self evident. Like most of...
[14:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unnecessary - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:14] <exec> 08└─We already have the Ludovico Technique, why bother with all the risks of invasive surgery?
[14:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Or not... - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─Or...we could just eliminate these jobs, because they are so totally unnecessary. What is this, yet another job security program for the unemployable?
[14:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score:2) 02Re:Or not... - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:34] <exec> 08└─It is a no-win scenario. If they don't look, then when some yahoo rambles on social media then kills a politician, there will be the outcry of "why wasn't someone monitoring social media." Then when they are monitoring, it appears as if they never find anything but false positives and miss actual th...
[14:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Since you asked, - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:43] <exec> 08└─Assuming that you know whereabouts in the world he is?
[14:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SETI not CETI - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:24] <exec> 08└─As I said the last time we discussed this. Relativity is a bitch and so is SNR. At this point in time it is a waste of resources to 'search for aliens'. Upgrading the equipment to do better science? Sure thing. Looking for little green men? If you happen across them fine. But I would not spend time...
[14:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:11] <exec> 08└─...then your pallet is permanently ruined, my friend.
[14:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:12] <exec> 08└─At almost 12,000 feet above sea level on the west side of Baldy Mountain in New Mexico from a spring coming out of the side of the mountain. That water was about 36 degrees and was by far the best tasting water I have ever had.
[14:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:24] <exec> 08└─He painted the barn with it. I bet the smell was something to behold!
[14:16:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:25] <exec> 08└─And so was the roaring fire!
[14:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:29] <exec> 08└─I can eat glass, it doesn't hurt me. [archive.org]
[14:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NK's conventional short range missiles - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:04] <exec> 08└─I expect the South experience's denial because to experience reality would have called for retaliation. I think it has more to do with China and the US basically sitting on them saying 'sure would suck for all this monetary aid to go away wouldnt it'. China and the US are not really spoiling for a f...
[14:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Keep those rockets coming - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe this would be a good strategy for dealing with N Korea... Keep picking on Kim Jong-un by telling him that there is no way North Kora can make an ICBM that goes a full 360 degrees around the earth before landing. Push him until he does so.
[14:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:19:54] <exec> 08└─What "problem" am I trying to solve? I have the Bill of Rights - and the right to bear arms. You're the one who doesn't like that fact. That kid with the quad-chopper also has his 2nd amendment rights, along with his property rights, etc. Anti-gun people don't like the fact that the kid is exercisin...
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[15:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Funny) 02I, for one - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:17] <exec> 08└─welcome our new 4 legged snake overlords.
[15:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02The Bacterial Origins of the CRISPR Genome-Editing - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:18] <exec> 08└─http://www.kurzweilai.net/the-crispr-craze-genome-editing-technologies-poised-to-revolutionize-medicine-and-industry [kurzweilai.net] http://online.liebertpub.com [liebertpub.com] The power and promise of this innovation are presented in the Review article “The Bacterial...
[15:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:The Bacterial Origins of the CRISPR Genome-Edit - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:20] <exec> 08└─So... why are you trying to teach us about the bacterial origins of the approach? What's the gain? I mean, those are nice articles, but help me out.
[15:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02What if... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:22] <exec> 08└─Something this important should NOT be patented? I mean, if it is really so damned important and all. Or is that idea commie/terrorist bullshit?
[15:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02That's no snake - 06Fossil of the First Four-Legged Snake Found From Brazil - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:29] <exec> 08└─That's no snake, it's a Goa'uld
[15:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:3, Funny) 02But... - 06Fossil of the First Four-Legged Snake Found From Brazil - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:31] <exec> 08└─The world is only 2015 years old, how can this be older than that.? /troll /sarcasm
[15:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Flawed/ Will never work - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:39] <exec> 08└─It doesn't take much searching to come up with tons of links to prove that lie detectors are bogus. I'll put in the search terms, and anyone can click the links - http://lmgtfy.com [lmgtfy.com] Some who bother to read any of the links will be saying, "Yeah, but -" Befor...
[15:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Flawed/ Will never work - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:41] <exec> 08└─Indeed. There was a Penn and Teller "Bullshit" episode in which they showed that the machine doesn't work. The process is designed to convince people to voluntarily give up their secrets. The operator of the machine tells the subjects that the machine showed that they were being evasive and convince...
[15:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Impossible task - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:47] <exec> 08└─Humans are too good at self-delusion. We can delude ourselves into believing anything. We can forget anything inconvenient to remember. We can edit our own memories without even meaning to. A lie detector is inherently unreliable because people are unreliable. All it takes to beat them is the abilit...
[15:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Good catch! - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:15] <exec> 08└─Lobotomies aren't all that far in the past. I had an uncle who was a prime candidate for one. He narrowly missed the knife, but the doctors sure wanted to cut on him.
[15:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:26] <exec> 08└─one can argue that since society is willing to kill the person involved, it has already decided that the person is no longer entitled to human rights.
[15:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Life Imitates Art - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─Similar concepts [wikipedia.org] have been explored by science fiction. Heinlein in particular wrote a lot of stories about revolution and freedom in the future when technologies like thought control exist. We all know science fiction can inspire engineers and scientists to explore new directions (s...
[15:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Make them better? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:32] <exec> 08└─If we rehabilitate them, how are we supposed to enact vengeance upon them and punish them?
[15:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Deep argument. - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 3257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:34] <exec> 08└─So better I resort to Science Fiction (and a bit of decent trolling, see below) instead of philosophy. By year 2100 tech advancement in the hands of the existing power system (who hides behind most financial, social, political, military, masonic, religious, criminal, terroristic institutions withou...
[15:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:FBI wants crypto banned. - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:49] <exec> 08└─Anybody in government who uses the execrable term, "homeland," to refer to America needs to be summarily fired, stripped of his citizenship, and exiled to North Korea.
[15:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:FBI wants crypto banned. - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─WHEW! For a second there, I thought you wanted to send them to North Ireland!
[15:14:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02Or not... - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 1000 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:55] <exec> 08└─Or...we could just eliminate these jobs, because they are so totally unnecessary. What is this, yet another job security program for the unemployable? Sort of like how the TSA hasn't actually stopped any threats to any flights ever: real threats are extremely rare, and competent conspirators aren't...
[15:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Skippy the Government Wonder-flunky - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─Yet, when allies or even rivals tell the United States government specifically that specific people are specific threats, they can't put two and two together. (like the 9/11 hijackers or the Boston bombers). To me the government has degenerated into a grand exercise in misdirection meant to distract...
[15:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03broggyr [3589] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:33] <exec> 08└─It's what the body craves!
[15:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:37] <exec> 08└─I generally applaud what you're saying. For myself, I must say that I prefer the taste of New York City tap water to anything bottled or even the tap water in the town where my family lives in the Rockies, which comes straight to the faucet from a natural spring without treatment and which the town...
[15:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:No I didn't RTFA - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:57] <exec> 08└─And yet, it's one of the most-discussed articles on the site in the past couple of days. There are articles that inform you about science and tech you didn't know about, and others that are fun to discuss. Isn't it better to have some mixture of both?
[15:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:11] <exec> 08└─If you do come across it, perhaps you could submit it as a story? Seems to me "Engineer your water for optimum taste" would be be far more deserving of attention than speculation about the safety of day-old water. b&
[15:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score:2) 02Re:Distilled water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:12] <exec> 08└─The next time I run across something new on the topic (should be soon) I'll keep that in mind. No sense submitting research from the 50s as news, I think.
[15:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Portable code is among my concerns - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:19:05] <exec> 08└─Whether you fix it downstream and send the patch upstream or if you report it up and wait for the patch to come down, there will be a period of time that systems are vulnerable. That is perfectly normal. The alternative of not reporting bugs is far worse.
[15:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:20:22] <exec> 08└─Oh Christ. Defensive as fuck gun owner gets side tracked with imaginary decision to take your guns. "The problem" you're trying to solve is that people are dying because of unsecured firearms. You're solving it by being a callous dick with a shitty understanding of evolution. HOPE THAT HEEEEEEEEEEEE...
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[16:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Spain and greece, same solution... - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:19] <exec> 08└─When you're north of 20% unemployment, give people a shovel and a spool of fiber. They dig to place fiber until they find a better full-time job. In the meantime, the government improves infrastructure and saves on health costs.
[16:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Bacterial Origins of the CRISPR Genome-Edit - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:30] <exec> 08└─So... why are you trying to teach us about the bacterial origins of the approach? What's the gain? I mean, those are nice articles, but help me out.
[16:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The Bacterial Origins of the CRISPR Genome-Edit - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:32] <exec> 08└─CRISPR is the most important development in biotechnology. Everyone here should know more about it. If gene editing gets any easier and cheaper than CRISPR, you are looking at an interesting state of affairs.
[16:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:What if... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:34] <exec> 08└─It's pretty commie, yeah. Those of us who don't mindlessly hate communist ideology could have a debate about, for sure. But in the US, you're at least supposed to be financially rewarded for creating something that benefits society by being able to sell it. The fact that we have a big corporate mach...
[16:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:35] <exec> 08└─The patents are too broad and the applications are obvious to anyone trained in the field. That is why the science has moved forward so much so quickly. Scientists can patent a method of gene therapy to cure X disease with N sequences but they should not be able to patent "all methods of gene therap...
[16:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:37] <exec> 08└─By the time the technology becomes practical, the patent will have expired and society will have full access.
[16:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:39] <exec> 08└─i'm normally against patents because they've been extended to infinity. i think everything should pass into public domain within 50 years. i think this way because our current system of patents increases big corp power exponentially. however, in this case, i'm thankful/hopeful this technique is pate...
[16:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:3, Funny) 02Finally we will have real-life Zombies! - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:40] <exec> 08└─Well I don't really want them but 'm sure a bunch of idiots and US generals want them.
[16:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Two words: - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:42] <exec> 08└─Biological warfare.
[16:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two words: - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:43] <exec> 08└─..already exists.
[16:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:But... - 06Fossil of the First Four-Legged Snake Found From Brazil - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:49] <exec> 08└─No it isn't: You're leaving out all the prequels. Lots of people understand that the Earth is 6019 years old.
[16:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:48] <exec> 08└─That's a good point. I guess advertisement and propaganda are tolerated, because it is believed they don't always 100% work. I don't know much about ethics, but what if it's an imprecise, blurred distinction; a mind control technique that works below x % efficiency is societally acceptable, above x%...
[16:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:Life Imitates Art - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:52] <exec> 08└─Similar concepts have been practiced in real life. Alan Turing, a hero of both computer science generally and of World War II in particular, was offered chemical castration rather than prison. His crime? Homosexuality. He eventually committed suicide.
[16:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Or not... - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:19] <exec> 08└─It is a no-win scenario. If they don't look, then when some yahoo rambles on social media then kills a politician, there will be the outcry of "why wasn't someone monitoring social media."
[16:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:SETI not CETI - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:12] <exec> 08└─Well, if you do astronomy, SETI comes almost for free-it's mostly just re-analysis of existing data with an eye towards intelligent signals. And there is the distinct possibility that alien life might be generating signals we could detect. Sure, we're unlikely to detect planetary TV broadcasts acros...
[16:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Economics - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:29] <exec> 08└─Beat me to it.
[16:16:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score:1) 02Re:Economics - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:30] <exec> 08└─It's simple: Tech corps want people to do the same job for less. They can't find that here so they want the law changed so they can import people who will work for less from elsewhere. They don't want to pay a living wage. Why do we keep buying their backdoored garbage anyway?
[16:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metrics aren't all equal - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:18] <exec> 08└─After reading multiple comments critiquing the post for the same thing, it's clear that I did a poor job of explaining what the table purports to show. It's not supposed to be an exact measure of IQ by profession by any means, as it is based entirely on average annual income figures. In other words,...
[16:18:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Metrics aren't all equal - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:23] <exec> 08└─which is why activists scream about all sorts of hideous abuses (sometimes they're even right, although they're infamous for cherry-picking data to fit their predetermined narratives)
[16:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Professions - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:33] <exec> 08└─The incompetent are weeded out in the long educational and training period most professions require, and again, by the judgment of accomplished professionals.
[16:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Teachers next - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:18:37] <exec> 08└─Schools and tests are absolutely failing at encouraging people to truly understand difficult topics, and instead encouraging them to mindlessly memorize information. Still, that is not necessarily the fault of individual teachers, and you can't assess their actual teaching ability with the same sort...
[16:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:20:52] <exec> 08└─Nope. People don't die because of firearms, secured or non-secured. People die because other people decide to kill them.
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[17:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:Spain and greece, same solution... - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:19] <exec> 08└─Yes. When you're in an economic catastrophe caused by socialist economic policies, what you really need is one more socialist economic policy.
[17:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Spain and greece, same solution... - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:22] <exec> 08└─You're already paying them unemployment. Is it "socialist" to require them to work if they are able?
[17:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02the best solution? - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:23] <exec> 08└─they dont want the best solution, they want what will make them the most money the fastest with the least amount of investment and risk. the best solution wouldn't involve the people that are currently pulling the strings, so they dont want that.
[17:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:the best solution? - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:25] <exec> 08└─So...mandatory ads like in the old 'free' tiers of dial-up services?
[17:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I, for one - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:33] <exec> 08└─With genetic engineering I will become a black-snaked overlord, if you know what I mean. Finally, a real pants-bulge, one that ain't socks.
[17:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I, for one - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:35] <exec> 08└─That desire is solely for your own insecurities, not to use as a woman-pleaser. Very few women are size queens, and men look at other guy's cocks [neatorama.com] far more than women. Its fine to love cock, there's nothing wrong with that, but be honest with yourself.
[17:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Bacterial Origins of the CRISPR Genome-Edit - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─CRISPR is the most important development in biotechnology.
[17:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:What if... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:45] <exec> 08└─I think you should look up the difference between patent and copyright.
[17:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What if... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:47] <exec> 08└─why? is someone talking about copyrights? besides you?
[17:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Re:Two words: - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:50] <exec> 08└─Not like this will be. First off there are a lot of ways to kill people dead by altering the genes of basic biological functions. Secondly, the weapons will be able to act far faster than cures or fixes will be able to be developed. Thirdly targeting of specific populations by the vector itself will...
[17:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Two words: - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:52] <exec> 08└─http://www.nature.com/news/regulate-gene-editing-in-wild-animals-1.17523 [nature.com] Gene drive achieves rapid changes in a sexually reproducing population because it relies on genes that are capable of preferential spread through generations. Without this, introduced traits meet the statistical o...
[17:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"need cheaper paper to print money" - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:54] <exec> 08└─damn and i thought "Crispr-Cas9" was the new name of the latest iteration of m$ visual basic ... errr .. dotNet. - bio-ransom ware? buy this vaccine now or die? perpetual income : )
[17:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:But... - 06Fossil of the First Four-Legged Snake Found From Brazil - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:03] <exec> 08└─Everything reproduces after its kind. If the ancestor was a tetrapod, the descendent will be a tetrapod.
[17:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Inflict pain? What? - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:16] <exec> 08└─The pathological liar does not believe his own lies, 'pathological liar' is just another way to say sociopath. The pseudologue is the one who believes his own lies. The more you know.
[17:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02"Better" implies they're already "Good" - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:22] <exec> 08└─Anyone with a handful of brain cells knows that today's polygraphs only detect lies with a 50% probability of being correct in its determination. What we have today is snake oil. How do researchers strive for "better" snake oil? Polygraphs today depend more on intimidation than actual detection of p...
[17:14:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03t-3 [4907] 02Re:Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─Brain control is really something that shouldn't be touched as long as the concept of government exists.
[17:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:47] <exec> 08└─It will be interpreted as 'the mark of the beast' by religious people, who I hope would either flee or revolt.
[17:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:07] <exec> 08└─I guess advertisement and propaganda are tolerated, because it is believed they don't always 100% work.
[17:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:09] <exec> 08└─Everyone has the right to freedom of thought. Period. End of discussion.
[17:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:FBI wants crypto banned. - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:30] <exec> 08└─Good lord who is this guy, the head of the Spanish Inquisition?
[17:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Your tax dollars at work - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:47] <exec> 08└─And the next time a group organizes a riot online, are we supposed to just shrug and say "oh, well"? Exactly what criteria do you use to determine when someone is planning to riot, vs. planning to peaceably assemble to petition the government for a redress of grievances? Riots are't really kn...
[17:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Since you asked, - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:50] <exec> 08└─Posted anonymously like a true pussy.
[17:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:24] <exec> 08└─So many things to say. Firstly, have you noticed who is extolling the benefits of tap water? How is he not modded +5 funny? Secondly, what the hell is this off taste? I find water that has been allowed to rest and lose its chlorine to taste more like real water than right off the tap. This is with t...
[17:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:I think maybe they overlooked something - 06Claims That N. Korea is Preparing to Launch New Long-Range Rocket - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:27] <exec> 08└─Only if the guys inside hold on to the panels really tight.
[17:18:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Professions - 06Giving Doctors Grades Has Backfired - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:18:56] <exec> 08└─I am getting the idea that I may have been too harsh here, and apologize if you have actually had a bad experience. Such things do happen. But they would be much, much worse if medical decisions where made by bean-counters and angie's list.
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[18:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score:2) 02"Why do I smell bacon? Oh, that's my hand" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:17] <exec> 08└─There are good reasons why we feel pain. Perhaps they are looking for applications to deal with chronic pain.
[18:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Why do I smell bacon? Oh, that's my hand" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:18] <exec> 08└─That's exactly what they're looking for.
[18:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Why do I smell bacon? Oh, that's my hand" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:20] <exec> 08└─It's not just hard to RTFA, it's megahard!
[18:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:22] <exec> 08└─Superhuman in the sense that somebody with Downs syndrome is "superhuman" because he has more muscle.
[18:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:24] <exec> 08└─That's the idea. Pick from a cornucopia of genetic aberrations, mix and match to pack on muscle, increase pain tolerance, and boost thinking and reaction times. Target a handful of embryos with enhanced-accuracy CRISPR, then let them mature. For best results, raise your uberkinder in a controlled an...
[18:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─Didn't the Nazis also dunk those newborns in ice water to "toughen them up"? With big plans to raise them like Spartan children? Not that it matters if they're immune to pain, I suppose.
[18:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Michael Tiemann can't smell - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:27] <exec> 08└─I have met him a few times as I knew his brother Bruce. In Mike's case it is due to a head injury from a bicycle accident. He didnt seem to mind but I expect food is uninteresting to him, also he cant smell gas leaks.
[18:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:the best solution? - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:37] <exec> 08└─More like a "flatrate" with a stunning 10-25 Gigs of traffic and following speedcap of 384/128 kbps.
[18:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's Easy - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:39] <exec> 08└─Nationalize it and treat it like a public utility.
[18:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:I, for one - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:50] <exec> 08└─Keep telling yourself that. Have sex with a woman, then have sex with a woman using a penis-extender. Come back and say what you just said with a straight face after she's louder, friskier, and asking for more visits. Sure, of course she will 'love you the same', but behave very differently in certa...
[18:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:The Bacterial Origins of the CRISPR Genome-Edit - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:56] <exec> 08└─It's a very cheap, fast, and powerful method of altering the DNA of organisms. Chinese Scientists Have Genetically Modified Human Embryos [soylentnews.org] NIH Won't Fund Human Germline Modification [soylentnews.org] The Rapid Rise of CRISPR [soylentnews.org] "Double-Muscled" Pigs Created Using Simp...
[18:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:What if... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:00] <exec> 08└─But in the US, you're at least supposed to be financially rewarded for creating something that benefits society by being able to sell it.
[18:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Engineered Humans - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:11] <exec> 08└─We only need one, even a half, generation of disease resistant humans. Then we can let natural selection and the anti-vaccine movement run its course.
[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Re:Inflict pain? What? - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:35] <exec> 08└─Just because you think you said the truth does not mean you actually did, though.
[18:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Impossible task - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:41] <exec> 08└─Exactly. If an actor answers a question in character, is he lying? What should a lie detector show in that circumstance? If I am in denial about my alcoholism and say that I drink responsibly, am I lying? If a white guy yells at some black teens to turn off their music and one of them gives him a di...
[18:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:as the guy with thick glasses says... - 06NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Earth-Like Planet In Sun-Like Star's Habitable Zone - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:53] <exec> 08└─and probably killed anything that was alive down there.
[18:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:04] <exec> 08└─The concept of government will exist for as long as the concept of large groups of humans living together exists.
[18:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:Regulation? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:11] <exec> 08└─The Mark of the Beast isn't a brain control issue. It's an identification issue. An RFID tag under your skin might actually qualify as that. Depending on what that RFID tag is used for.
[18:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:2) 02Re:Make them better? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:37] <exec> 08└─To show respect to the fallen you treasured, kill those you can't turn your back to... I think, so many noble people have been consumed by life, that to kill some "psychologically unbalanced" individuals (even called garbage) is just a mild distraction from the pain of reality.
[18:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Since you asked, - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:16] <exec> 08└─No, he's brave and determined. Unfortunately, the kitchen knife he chose is a butter knife. Expect the POTUS with a bruise on his cheek to be very pissed at not having thought of banning knives before talking about guns.
[18:16:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:1) 02Re:Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:51] <exec> 08└─Because no individual state has control over all possible transmitters and some idiot will reply. Imagine what damage these fools [wikipedia.org] could do with a known target instead of crapshoots.
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[19:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Informative) 02Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:22] <exec> 08└─Look, I'm as anti-Microsoft as they come, but can we please not get our reproductive health news from conspiracy theory quacks with something against birth control? I mean, it's not like the Gates Foundation is going to have any more luck forcibly implanting poor women with these devices than they w...
[19:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:24] <exec> 08└─This is the site we're linking here [rationalwiki.org] Somehow being Alex Jonesesque hard right conspiracy theories while also being Hard Left pseudoenvironmentalists. This largely puts them into the "never met a conspiracy theory they didn't like" territory. You only need to get 8 words in before y...
[19:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:26] <exec> 08└─read this article instead [thewindowsclub.com] then
[19:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, okay, I know. The underlying news is nice. It's a good thing. Good for our entire species, unless we somehow magically get to a point where we're underpopulated.
[19:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:29] <exec> 08└─Luckily, one of the (at least two) states of the device is "off", and there are many smartphones in the developing world.
[19:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:31] <exec> 08└─Right, and people have a right to reproduce if they want to. But recent history has shown giving people power over when they reproduce tends to be good for society, and limits birth rates naturally.
[19:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:33] <exec> 08└─"limits birth rates naturally." Yep - that image looks pretty natural to me!
[19:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:35] <exec> 08└─Two pedants walk into a bar. Okay fine. To be more precise: two pedants get beaten to death with a bar.
[19:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:37] <exec> 08└─Compare to the original submission, which was just the text pasted from natural news. I have balanced it significantly by adding the facts.
[19:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:39] <exec> 08└─But why leave any of the bullshit in at all? Couldn't you just link directly to either the Gates Foundation or non-nutjob coverage? Maybe even a peer-reviewed article or FDA approval documentation or the like? I'd think this technology would be of huge, perhaps even bigger, interest in the West, too...
[19:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:41] <exec> 08└─"either the Gates Foundation or non-nutjob coverage" I'm glad that you distinguished between Gates and non-nutjobs.
[19:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, thanks for that. That's the kind of editorial work that makes sites better. I'm pretty sure that other site would've just dumped it as is.
[19:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─I agree that the first link is very polarised but I believe that takyon has balanced it by providing a second link. Quoting a source that we don't necessarily agree with is not that uncommon. It is the discussion here that should be the driver. Please argue the case against it.
[19:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:46] <exec> 08└─It's not about agreeing or disagreeing. It's about giving air to batshit fucking insane lunatic conspiracy theorists. What's next? Are you going to start including responses from the Discovery Institute on all biology stories, and rants from the Flat Earth society every time you mention NASA? Jenny...
[19:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:48] <exec> 08└─Not necessarily. Yeah, well, what if I were to tell you that an existent being wasn't responsible for the burning phone on your back of backs?
[19:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:50] <exec> 08└─...ZOMG ENCRYPTION angle makes them any functionally different from any other form of long-term implanted birth control. For once, it's a feature not a bug. Author begs the question of who holds the encryption keys. If it's the woman in question, then ENCRYPTION IS GOOD.
[19:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:52] <exec> 08└─My guess is handling the actual keys is too technical for the average user, and that there will be some account accessible by both medical professionals and the owner that can control them.
[19:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Shelf life - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:54] <exec> 08└─What's the shelf life for hormones stored at 98 F?
[19:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Berky [5657] (Score:1) 02Encryption - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:56] <exec> 08└─".. the encryption is meant to prevent hackers or cybercriminals from accessing the device. Robert Langer says the chips could hit the market in 2018." And there is also speculation about incorporating this encryption technology in Microsoft Windows as soon as 2019!
[19:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Calling all lawyers (again) - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:13:58] <exec> 08└─They better use this on poor people, because in case of bug there will be lots of Gates money to chase. What's most expensive? paying for unexpected births, or for the side-effects of accidental release of the whole payload at once?
[19:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Real purpose: - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:00] <exec> 08└─People who don't have kids are more likely to have disposable income for Microsoft's Software. As such he sees this as an investment in their bottom line :) Philanthropy work isn't cheap, and maintaining a home on an isolated island isn't either!
[19:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blue screen of "Oops"? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:02] <exec> 08└─Windows OS? What happens when it "Blue Screens"?
[19:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Comes with... - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:04] <exec> 08└─Clippy, it talks you into buying MS products when you really wanted a Mac or Penguin.
[19:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:07] <exec> 08└─They did the ice water thing to see if different 'races' had different tolerances for extreme conditions. Spoiler alert: they don't.
[19:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:10] <exec> 08└─Nazi experimentation occurred before they even knew that the double helix structure contained heritable genetic information. Even if the Nazis created a supersoldier through trial and error, they couldn't have created an army of them. CRISPR is a tool of creation that allows you to insert synthetic...
[19:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:11] <exec> 08└─And secretly, I think that maybe might possibly be a good thing. Eugenics was bad because it was denying people their natural right to reproduce to enforce poorly understood standards. We can't repeat that human rights violating mistake. Genetic engineering puts the power not in the hands of committ...
[19:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Michael Tiemann can't smell - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:13] <exec> 08└─Are you the new Forrest Gump?
[19:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Michael Tiemann can't smell - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:15] <exec> 08└─He's MDC, and his insightful and candid contributions to SN are some of the most interesting reads we get here. He has an extremely unique set of experiences and world views. I applaud his posts, even the ones that may reveal very personal and private things. Do not mock MDC; he is part of what make...
[19:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:16] <exec> 08└─These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions
[19:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:19] <exec> 08└─Does that headline strike anyone else as being just a little bit click-baity? And these aren't superpowers, even metaphorically:
[19:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what could possibly go wrong... - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:20] <exec> 08└─Yet another batch of reasons that I'm quite happy with my decision to not have children. One more awful thing about the future that I can safely ignore (in addition to overcrowding, etc).
[19:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Spain and greece, same solution... - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pretty much. Socialism is all about forcing you to work for the gain of others. We used to call that slavery.
[19:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03CRCulver [4390] (Score:2) 02Re:Spain and greece, same solution... - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:26] <exec> 08└─Yes. When you're in an economic catastrophe caused by socialist economic policies
[19:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Bacterial Origins of the CRISPR Genome-Edit - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:42] <exec> 08└─That's what they SAY, but I wonder how careful they are. I took a look at this paper (no idea if it is representative): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov] My initial concern is that somehow the protocol is selecting for pre-existing variants that are missing the dna segment to be...
[19:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Bacterial Origins of the CRISPR Genome-Edit - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:44] <exec> 08└─Sorry, that should be ~10-20x rather than 10-100x for the proliferation and also that for this assay they used 3e4 cells. It is also interesting that proliferation appears to be so low, only a small fraction of of the cells would be dividing to get these results (you would expect N0^t cells where t...
[19:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:What if... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:48] <exec> 08└─Well, okay. I simplified the premises of capitalism to present a minimal counter-argument. Let me cede the point that it's not necessarily an accurate assumption. (Hitmen being an example of a service being old that's a net harm, e.g.)
[19:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:What if... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:53] <exec> 08└─Because patents only last 20 years, moron.
[19:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Pandora's Box - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:01] <exec> 08└─Crispr does fit the definition of Pandora's Box pretty well. I would like to be able to sample my DNA now and re-inject it in 20 years when I start to feel old & tired. It would be great to pump up my visual, aural, and mental acuity. An eidetic memory would be quite handy. But then there's the pros...
[19:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02We can write the code - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:03] <exec> 08└─All we need now is a better compiler.
[19:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Worth exploring - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:30] <exec> 08└─This is more for dealing with complete fabrications which also appear to be common. For example, in the high-profile cases involving police misconduct, the reports filed by the officers (shortly after the fact, before the case became noteworthy) did not even come close to matching video evidence. I...
[19:15:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Big deal? - 06NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Earth-Like Planet In Sun-Like Star's Habitable Zone - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:47] <exec> 08└─I'm somewhat shocked that this is halfway down the front page and there are only three pretty uninterested comments so far. Have we become so jaded to reality that we can't get excited that we have finally discovered a REAL Earth-like planet in the Habitable Zone? Even having spent my entire life re...
[19:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:25] <exec> 08└─If you mean, you have to choose between killing people or mind-controlling them, I believe that's called a "false dichotomy". There are more options than those two. For example, several countries have lifetime imprisonment. That is much more expensive, but also protects society from the individuals...
[19:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03similar_name [71] (Score:1) 02Re:Partly right.. - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:35] <exec> 08└─Considering rockets were developed during war along with nuclear fission I'm not sure I would agree. The space race was the result of a cold war. It actually might make more sense if Klingons were the most advanced species in Star Trek given that necessity is the mother of invention and war is the f...
[19:17:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Why "anyway"? - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 395 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:37] <exec> 08└─If the aliens might wipe us out, it is a very good idea to search for them, because that way we are at least warned, and can try to prepare (for example, intensify our space programs so we have a better chance for at least some humans to escape when they come). If we expect them to be dangerous for...
[19:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Interesting) 02HEY - 06Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:26] <exec> 08└─Leave my mom out of this! I speak with confidence about the subject: this is retarded. Why? because simulating evolution instead of waiting for bots to build other bots would yield many more interactions and tries per unit of time with little expenditure of energy. Since life is a product of time an...
[19:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:HEY - 06Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:27] <exec> 08└─*than darwinist
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[20:13:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:24] <exec> 08└─Look, I'm as anti-Microsoft as they come, but can we please not get our reproductive health news from conspiracy theory quacks with something against birth control? I mean, it's not like the Gates Foundation is going to have any more luck forcibly implanting poor women with these devices than they w...
[20:13:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 344 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:26] <exec> 08└─This is the site we're linking here [rationalwiki.org] Somehow being Alex Jonesesque hard right conspiracy theories while also being Hard Left pseudoenvironmentalists. This largely puts them into the "never met a conspiracy theory they didn't like" territory. You only need to get 8 words in before y...
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─The problem in the world is not created by a super-abundance of of the impoverished. It is the superfluity of the mega-rich.
[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:35] <exec> 08└─There world can have more than one problem. Population strain has had its negative effects and will continue to do so. It's not that I see there as being a surplus of people, just that there are some problems that are exacerbated by rapid population growth. If the 20th century was characterized by e...
[20:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:37] <exec> 08└─And we need to stop motherfuckers who lack the resources to take care of their kids, from having kids. This is the one time I agree with Ol' Billy. Go Billy!
[20:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:38] <exec> 08└─The problem is that you can have kids much more easily than you can have a sustainable healthy, productive lifestyle. Hell, complete dipshits like you can get by, and you're barely capable of forming an opinion.
[20:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:47] <exec> 08└─It would kinda suck to lose the keys. Surgically remove implant or brute force it.
[20:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:48] <exec> 08└─Author begs the question of who holds the encryption keys.
[20:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03joshuajon [807] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Shelf life - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:50] <exec> 08└─About 16 years.
[20:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Michael Tiemann can't smell - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:15] <exec> 08└─Thank you, sock puppet
[20:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:18] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure the Hulk considers his powers to have caused him grief as well.
[20:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spain and greece, same solution... - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:32] <exec> 08└─They could give them a shovel and a gun. Just instruct them to use the shovel first... and return the shovel as it's reusable. Actually instruct them to return the gun also.
[20:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Bacterial Origins of the CRISPR Genome-Edit - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:56] <exec> 08└─In a rush and found more errors "(you would expect N0^t cells where t is doubling times)" should be N0*2^t. So the treated cells are dividing at approximately half the rate of the controls...
[20:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Two words: - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:12] <exec> 08└─Is ineffective compared to conventional warfare.
[20:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pandora's Box - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:16] <exec> 08└─Your genome does not change much as you get older. The turnover rate of your cells and their function start to depreciate.
[20:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's no snake - 06Fossil of the First Four-Legged Snake Found From Brazil - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:27] <exec> 08└─Badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger Argh! Snake, a snake! Snaaake! A snaaaake, oooh its a snake!
[20:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What are your views? - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:53] <exec> 08└─A lie detector (polygraph) is just as scientifically valid as a Ouija board, as far as I am concerned.
[20:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sparky [5496] (Score:1) 02Re:Big deal? - 06NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Earth-Like Planet In Sun-Like Star's Habitable Zone - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:07] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I've spent way too much time at work today coming up to speed on NASA's Kepler mission. I really like this summary [nytimes.com] of results.
[20:17:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] 02Re:Sounds like a good ending... - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 796 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:42] <exec> 08└─Because any other known species is morally superior? Cats (and other predators) hunt for fun, play/torture their prey. Non-carnivores just evolved that way, no moral superiority. And if any alien race gets to wipe out humans there is hardly a reason to celebrate, as this would prove them to be just...
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Weak on his History - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─rockets were developed during war The first liquid-fueled rockets were developed during peacetime [wikipedia.org] by a guy working without Department of War funding. Had you used the word "improved" or "further" or "weaponized", you would have been accurate. along with nuclear fission That chronolog...
[20:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:too far - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:20] <exec> 08└─Please note that the 'god particle' is actually just short for 'that goddam particle', so named because it is (was) so hard to find.
[20:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:36] <exec> 08└─They want to make everyone, regardless of ethnicity, paupers so they can keep as much of the wealth as they can for themselves.
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reckless endangerment? - 06Connecticut Student's Gun-Firing Drone Apparently Legal - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:07] <exec> 08└─In 'Merkuh, we make two kinds of laws: 1) Overly broad, catchall laws that can be used and/or abused by the State to selectively prosecute people. 2) Overly reactionary laws that are abused by the State to selectively prosecute people.
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[21:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02ready - 06eBBQ: 5PM EDT - Information Below - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:19] <exec> 08└─I'm ready to make fun of you, and these beers are strong.
[21:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03N3Roaster [3860] (Score:2) 02Time Zones - 06eBBQ: 5PM EDT - Information Below - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:20] <exec> 08└─The previous story mentions it, but it's probably worth mentioning the time zone (EST previously) next to at least the first time.
[21:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Time Zones - 06eBBQ: 5PM EDT - Information Below - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:22] <exec> 08└─Thanks, made the edit. It's EDT BTW [navy.mil].
[21:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"I understand you used to work for IBM." - 06IBM Acquires Compose to Add Another Service Stack to Bluemix - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:29] <exec> 08└─My manager asked that of a coworker. "I used to wear a thin black tie."
[21:13:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:45] <exec> 08└─Two pedants walk into a bar. Okay fine. To be more precise: two pedants get beaten to death with a bar.
[21:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:50] <exec> 08└─That's the best, wish you could get a +50 on that.
[21:13:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:52] <exec> 08└─There's more than one context and more than one connotation for "natural".
[21:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:59] <exec> 08└─Actually, we were thinking of giving a former NSA officer a little time to bash Snowden later, another submission from an Anonymous Coward. Got any thoughts on it [soylentnews.org]? Anyway, the quoted material in the summary is less infactual and more inflammatory (it's "asking questions"). With the...
[21:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Wha...? - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:01] <exec> 08└─As a sometimes [scienceblogs.com] (though increasingly rarely) wise man put it, "Squatting in between those on the side of reason and evidence and those worshipping superstition and myth is not a better place. It just means you’re halfway to crazy town." If you really want to show what the crazies...
[21:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Encryption - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:09] <exec> 08└─Hah, putting the same technology in something like Windows would be tantamount to murdering those women.
[21:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03purpleland [5193] (Score:1) 02Avoid links to pseudo science sites - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:14] <exec> 08└─Please don't link to pseudo science garbage like naturalnews - see wikipedia commentary https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:30] <exec> 08└─Genetic engineering puts the power not in the hands of committees, but individuals seeking to exercise that right.
[21:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:31] <exec> 08└─Do you post not crazy things?
[21:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I dont post anonymously - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:37] <exec> 08└─While sometimes I cant be bothered to log in I make plain who I am.
[21:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:42] <exec> 08└─Thank you for pointing that out. You beat me to it. Some bad may come with genetic changes. Since there is no way to alter the DNA of a mature adult, say to reduce chronic pain, this is presently only something to look forward to, like FTL starships. Yeah, that won't happen either, at least not in p...
[21:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Katastic [3340] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:43] <exec> 08└─>Their genes also have caused the two men enormous suffering. You could say many, if not the majority of, superheroes suffered great consequences for having their powers.
[21:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Cognizant [3932] (Score:1) 02Re:what could possibly go wrong... - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:45] <exec> 08└─I was sitting here pondering the gains of society based on your statement.
[21:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03seeprime [5580] (Score:1) 02Re:what could possibly go wrong... - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:46] <exec> 08└─When you're old enough, you'll probably miss the grandchildren that you never had since you never had any children.
[21:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Wim Hof, the Iceman - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:48] <exec> 08└─Wim Hof (born 20 April 1959) is a Dutch world record holder, adventurer and daredevil, commonly nicknamed the Iceman for his ability to withstand extreme cold. In 2007 he climbed to 6.7 km altitude at Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts, but failed to reach the summit due to a recurring foot in...
[21:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pfaffa [4941] (Score:1) 02Humans - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:50] <exec> 08└─Humans should not play god. Not because there is anything inherently wrong with it, but because we have such a lousy record at it.
[21:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Humans - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─Humans should not play god. Not because there is anything inherently wrong with it, but because we have such a lousy record at it.
[21:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 02Re:Spain and greece, same solution... - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:01] <exec> 08└─Requiring a long-term recipient of unemployment insurance benefits to volunteer part-time acts as an investment in the insured's skills until the insured can be employed again in the market.
[21:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Spain and greece, same solution... - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:03] <exec> 08└─That's fair. Not everyone's problems are caused by socialism. My booty call bailing on me this weekend had nothing to do with either socialism or capitalism, for instance.
[21:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:1) 0230 kbps bursting to 30 Mbps - 06What is the Best Solution to Universalize 30 Mbps Broadband? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:09] <exec> 08└─In theory, LTE delivers a peak 30 Mbps. In practice, telco rate structures limit LTE to a sustained 80,000 Mbit (10 GB) per month, which is closer to 30 kbps, and that's for those subscribers who pay extra for a higher cap.
[21:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02Cautiously optimistic - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 1258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:51] <exec> 08└─CRISPR is great, but it's worth pointing out that it's not 100% effective. You can't just give someone a pill and transform all their DNA in exactly the right place in a couple of weeks. I attended a talk yesterday from a representative of a company making CRISPR-related products. With the right tec...
[21:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Worth exploring - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:22] <exec> 08└─Here is some advice for you, Jerry. [youtube.com]
[21:17:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Whither the Manchurian Candidate? - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:17:12] <exec> 08└─Think about what they did to Alan Turing, this is no different. The only thing he did wrong was be homosexual. Even if it was moral or ethical to do this thing, the people with the power to wield it would not use it so. They would use it against everyone that dared speak out against them.
[21:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Missing the point - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:29] <exec> 08└─In what way would brain implants make executions obsolete? I'm sorry but it's right there in the summary: Supporters of the death penalty fire back saying capital punishment deters violent crime in society and serves justice to wronged victims.
[21:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Your tax dollars at work - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:04] <exec> 08└─The L.A. and Watts rioters didn't need no steenking internet to organize their riots. Hell, they wouldn't have rioted if they had the internet - they would have just bitched about it on Twitter and Facebook. If you're talking about flash mobs organized by 'urban youths', well, good luck stopping tho...
[21:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Since you asked, - 06The Secret Agents Who Stake Out the Ugliest Corners of the Internet - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:10] <exec> 08└─2nd layer of that was too subtle ? Remove spaces and break up into groups of 8 characters. mYplANIS tOUseAKi tcHenkni fEDuctTA pEDtOTHE nOSEoFaQ uADCopTe rTOKilLP rESidEnT obAmaatf iVEtHIRt yPMtOMOR rOWAfTer noOnASak liNgonmi gHTsayAn yDAyIsaG oODDaYfo rASsasSI ...
[21:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:Water bottle - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 1898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:20:10] <exec> 08└─Most of the containers labeled "BPA Free" have had Bisphenol A replaced with Bisphenol S, Bisphenol B, or another bisphenol. BPA is dangerous at high enough levels. Here's the rub, though. There's no evidence other bisphenols are any less active as estrogenic compounds than BPA is. The whole bisphen...
[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Having a bad hair day? - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─Filter error: AC has potty-mouth
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[22:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheMessageNotTheMessenger [5664] (Score:1) 02"Internet Service" - 06"Teledildonics" Patent Used to Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:22] <exec> 08└─These guys understand how you'd want to be billed on your credit card
[22:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:Avoid links to pseudo science sites - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:26] <exec> 08└─It's not just natural news. The article itself at the 'The Windows Club' site seems ok. Look at the comments though! Did the regulars over at 'The Natural News' all jump over there too or what?
[22:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Michelle [4097] (Score:1) 02Re:Avoid links to pseudo science sites - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:27] <exec> 08└─If the story is true (and I honestly hope it isn't), then what difference does it make?
[22:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Superhuman?!" - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:47] <exec> 08└─"Why can't parents guarantee their children won't have down's syndrome?"
[22:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:I dont post anonymously - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 1016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:53] <exec> 08└─Well, I for one, have an account and and sometimes too lazy to log in or reveal who I am because I don't really feel the need to make it known who I am for idle commentary that I don't expect to go beyond a 2, irrelevant. In any event -- I had a friend that got mugged, and he lost his sense of smell...
[22:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I, for one - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:37] <exec> 08└─So, they will overcome our actual two-legged rat overlords?
[22:16:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Michelle [4097] (Score:1) 02Just because you can doesn't mean you should... - 06Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:10] <exec> 08└─...humanity never learns. Never.
[22:16:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02What are my views? - 06Researchers Strive for a Better Lie Detector - 1301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:47] <exec> 08└─I've met polygraph operators, and been briefed on what to expect as results from a polygraph-assisted interview. Short version? The machine is a prop used to give extra credibility to the skills of a highly-trained interrogator. It is basically a machine-assisted interrogation approach, [army.mil] c...
[22:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting - 06How Brain Implants (and Other Technology) Could Make the Death Penalty Obsolete - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:17:40] <exec> 08└─Curiously, the policy about drugs seems about maximising its economic impact. That is, making sure it's still feasible to obtain drugs, but at high prices. It's not legalization, it's not prohibition (some dictators successfully clamped down on drug crime, by simply making it not worthy with harsh p...
[22:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Re:Sounds like a good ending... - 06Stephen Hawking: Intelligent Aliens Could Destroy Humanity, But Let's Search Anyway - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:43] <exec> 08└─Cats (and other predators) hunt for fun, play/torture their prey.
[22:19:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Chart of coworkers' compensation - 06What Tech Giants Are Spending Millions Lobbying For - 1433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:19:41] <exec> 08└─Google Employees Have Been Sharing A Doc With Their Salary Info [refinery29.com] N.B. Many sites split their tiny articles on this across multiple pages. A pox on the lot of them. former Google employee Erica Baker began tweeting about an internal spreadsheet she created where employees could share...
[22:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Best Water - 06 Is Day-old Water Safe to Drink? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:18] <exec> 08└─Best water I ever drank was straight on my hands and knees from a Washington stream.
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[23:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Another definition of being screwed - 06"Teledildonics" Patent Used to Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:22] <exec> 08└─These guys probably have a patent on the G spot, the G spot presser (usually called two fingers), and on the process called "Method of Bi-gender Biological Genetic Material Injection".
[23:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Thank you, SoylentNews - 06"Teledildonics" Patent Used to Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:23] <exec> 08└─Just one of the many reasons why SoylentNews makes me happy.... Teledildonics. I learned a new word today, although I'm not sure you can put something in double quotes that is being controlled remotely and jammed into a person..... unless it's being done ironically.
[23:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Thank you, SoylentNews - 06"Teledildonics" Patent Used to Sue Six Nascent Cybersex Companies - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:25] <exec> 08└─For you, I will edit away the double-quotes. Embrace
[23:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Countries - 06eBBQ: 5PM EDT - Information Below - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:37] <exec> 08└─Good choices, both large enough to do something but historically weaker powers in this era. I would suggest starting the game with a quirky end goal. Aragon is a good choice for this as they have some Lord of the Rings missions to strive for (Become King of Gonder). If you aren't familiar with EU4,...
[23:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OMG it's NCOMMMANDER - 06eBBQ: 5PM EDT - Information Below - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:38] <exec> 08└─HE SO MANLY WE R GAY FOR THE NCOMMMMMMANDER
[23:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:OMG it's NCOMMMANDER - 06eBBQ: 5PM EDT - Information Below - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:40] <exec> 08└─NCom Yes
[23:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Title Case is Stupid - 06IBM Acquires Compose to Add Another Service Stack to Bluemix - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:47] <exec> 08└─IBM Acquires Compose to Add Another Service Stack to Bluemix
[23:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Birth Control From A Proprietary Software Magnate - 06Bill Gates Foundation to Roll Out Remote Control Microchip-Based Birth Control - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:34] <exec> 08└─Birth control from a proprietary software magnate? I'm sure that'll work out well. Since this birth control was last discussed [soylentnews.org], Microsoft back-tracked on [theverge.com] free Windows 10 upgrades for copyright infringers [theverge.com]. I'm sure the Gates Foundation *totally* won't r...
[23:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:04] <exec> 08└─It didn't have to be.
[23:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:06] <exec> 08└─Media outlets all along the spectrum of respectability employ headlines designed to draw attention. I employ cut & paste in almost every case to avoid putting words in anyone's mouth. Please direct your comments to those who wrote the headline.
[23:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clickbait headline - 06These Superhumans Are Real and Their DNA Could be Worth Billions - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:08] <exec> 08└─Bruce Banner hates his powers, he fails to accept that the Hulk is part of who he is. The Hulk loves being the Hulk.
[23:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:The OS X 10.10 issue - 06Two Ugly Bugs: Microsoft Font Driver and OS X - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:56] <exec> 08└─You mean? $ echo "ALL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" >> /etc/sudoers Am I missing something? Did they really leave /etc/sudoers world writable?
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