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[00:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:22] <exec> 08└─No. It is 100% about trade. Corporate supremacy is just a side-effect that the people drafting the TPP don't consider to be a problem worth paying attention to.
[00:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:26] <exec> 08└─Look at the state of employment in America today. We've tried the laissez faire export-all-the-GOOD-jobs thing (*). Maybe a little economic nationalism might be worth trying for a change. It isn't like what we're doing now is working out for the vast majority of people, although there are a few who...
[00:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:28] <exec> 08└─> It isn't like what we're doing now is working out for the vast majority of people, although there are a few who profit enormously. Actually it has been working out pretty good for quite a large number of people in China and to a lesser extent south-east asia. The problem is that the price in the U...
[00:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thwarting traffic engineers - 06 BMW’s EnLighten App Wants to Take Away Your Red Light Blues - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:55] <exec> 08└─>the speed they believe is "safe" not the speed the road is designed for Dude, I know this will upset you, but the speed that is safe is the speed that the road was designed for. It is a myth that roads are designed for higher speeds - any design speed values above the posted speeds are a safety fac...
[00:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This will increase accident rates - 06 BMW’s EnLighten App Wants to Take Away Your Red Light Blues - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:56] <exec> 08└─When they added timers on pedestrian crosswalk signals, drivers started using the info to jump the light - driving up to and through the intersection at unreasonable speeds thinking they could beat the light. This results in more accidents. Intersections without this sort of timer have lower acciden...
[00:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bank Exec - 06Bitcoin Exchange CEO Mark Karpeles Arrested In Japan - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:08] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty dangerous definition of "fraud", because it could be used to convict anyone who comes up with new technologies that you deem have failed.
[00:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Original Regulation Was Telecomm Service - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:51] <exec> 08└─> My point is that we'd have terrible choices no matter what the FCC decided to do as running lines is the only way of setting up competition. Ok, are are saying what I thought you were saying and you are just 100% wrong. I'm not sure how to say it so you will understand, I've already said twice tha...
[00:39:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khedoros [2921] (Score:2) 02Re:Enough with the bad editor commentary - 06Balls and Strikes Were Called by a Computer, Not an Umpire, at a Professional Baseball Game - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:55] <exec> 08└─Now you can learn and grow with this new knowledge
[00:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02scientific analysis FTW - 06Japanese Firm to Mature Whisky in Space - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:19] <exec> 08└─The paper will be called "Investigation of the propagation of Baudoinia compniacensis in a microgravity environment."
[00:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Chappie? - 06Should Androids Have the Right to Have Children? - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:54] <exec> 08└─One wise person I knew said the fantasy over AI was the idea of instantly creating a person. He tied it to the attempts to create a homonculus in Medieval alchemy. Once you realize that it will take you years to teach an AI to talk, walk, act, dress itself, and show up on time for school, it is just...
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[01:42:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Keystrokes - 06 How the Way You Type Can Shatter Anonymity—Even on Tor - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:14] <exec> 08└─I often do this, but disallowing it is popular among certain webmasters. Examples: https://ux.stackexchange.com [stackexchange.com] http://forums.asp.net
[01:42:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Requires javascript - 06 How the Way You Type Can Shatter Anonymity—Even on Tor - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:21] <exec> 08└─Recent versions of the tor browser have Javascript controlled on a site-by-site basis through the noscript extension. By default, it's disabled. (it hasn't always [wilderssecurity.com] been that way)
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[02:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:19] <exec> 08└─In your opinion, the TPP is being negotiated by well-meaning people who are naive about the effects of the agreement they are negotiating?
[02:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:20] <exec> 08└─No. It is 100% about trade. Corporate supremacy is just a side-effect that the people drafting the TPP don't consider to be a problem worth paying attention to.
[02:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:27] <exec> 08└─Look at the state of employment in America today.
[02:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03CyprusBlue [943] (Score:1) 02Re:Jumbo frames - 06Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:40] <exec> 08└─So you think =)
[02:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This will increase accident rates - 06 BMW’s EnLighten App Wants to Take Away Your Red Light Blues - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:58] <exec> 08└─... or asinine behaviour.
[02:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ghost [4467] (Score:1) 02Serious Question: - 06Bitcoin Exchange CEO Mark Karpeles Arrested In Japan - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:12] <exec> 08└─Does Japan have pound-me-in-the-ass prison? (insert joke about small asian penises here ---> O )
[02:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:ISP intentions - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:36] <exec> 08└─I HAVE my own web 1.0 site. The vast majority of people do not. When they want to share content, they are handing it over to the previously mentioned corporate middle men. Remember that line "you are not the customer, you are the product" that someone would post on the green site seemingly everyday?...
[02:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03similar_name [71] (Score:1) 02safe harbor - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:55] <exec> 08└─So does this mean they no longer want safe harbor protections since they don't want to be classified as simple carriers?
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[03:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03vali.magni [5678] (Score:1) 02Content control and manipulation? - 06Google to Provide Sri Lanka with 3G Internet Using Balloons - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:04] <exec> 08└─Google and Facebook have the perfect mechanism to control and manipulate the material that the masses can access, and what they can send out. They are targeting people with very little or no education, who are typically the sort of people easily manipulated before elections and for communal reasons...
[03:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:34] <exec> 08└─Two words: Hanlon's razor.
[03:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:35] <exec> 08└─> In your opinion, the TPP is being negotiated by well-meaning people who are naive about the effects of the agreement they are negotiating? Self-interested people.
[03:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:37] <exec> 08└─> They just care more about money than they do about democracy or the good of society. Yes, that is not in dispute. > Corporate supremacy is the main goal of the plutocrats. No, their personal success is the main goal of plutocrats. Power is a means to an end, not an end itself. > I want to rail aga...
[03:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:39] <exec> 08└─No, their personal success is the main goal of plutocrats. Power is a means to an end, not an end itself.
[03:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bugamn [1017] (Score:2) 02Re:Angels' share - 06Japanese Firm to Mature Whisky in Space - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:40:38] <exec> 08└─They are just giving the spirits a taste of heaven.
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[04:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Funny) 02Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:11] <exec> 08└─I don't know, first Martha Stewart, then the AG of Texas, and now some IT guy. Seems like no one understands the concept of the free market, where information is cost-free and equally available to all rational actors in the market. Instead, they try to corner information, and then leverage it, to s...
[04:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:12] <exec> 08└─A Jew will take your money with a smile and leave you convinced that it's for your own good. An Arab will take your money and play dumb about it when he inevitably gets caught. But a Slav will not only take your money, he'll take out a life-insurance policy on you and stab you in the back the second...
[04:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 2179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:52] <exec> 08└─As I said, stupidity only is not sufficient. However, a sprinkle of corruption and useful idiots for the rest is enough. Don't forget that it is the trade ministers of the countries that will need to sign the treaty and, where applicable, it is the legislative of those countries to ratify the treaty...
[04:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:54] <exec> 08└─All you have to do is look at the jobs former USTR staffers got after negotiating treaties. Occam's Razor is applicable to this situation and it suggests that stupidity is not a likely explanation.
[04:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:55] <exec> 08└─All you have to do is look at the jobs former USTR staffers got after negotiating treaties.
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[05:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:52] <exec> 08└─You can turn your back on a man, but you can never turn your back on a Slav.
[05:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:53] <exec> 08└─Tell us of your people, Ethanol; How does trailer trash take your money?
[05:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:55] <exec> 08└─Collectible plates!
[05:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:56] <exec> 08└─They don't take my money, they prefer to get paid in six-packs of Schlitz.
[05:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:58] <exec> 08└─$150K a year, probably spent at a club fed? Hell I'd take that deal, which is of course the problem with white collar crime laws, they give you so little punishment compared to what you net its nearly always a net gain. As I read years ago "Steal $50 in a hold up, get 15 years, steal 500 million? Be...
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[05:38:00] <exec> 08└─Serpe noted that he had agreed to pay $520,433 in reparations to the US Securities and Exchange Commission, substantially more than the profits he made.
[05:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Let Me Fix That For You. - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:01] <exec> 08└─The Eight Circle Of Hell is Reserved for the Bankers [warplife.com] Canto 8 has been on plate for eons, I will realign my core synergies in a white paper real soon now.
[05:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:48] <exec> 08└─> > Power is a means to an end, not an end itself. > > Whatever you want to call it. But it's not about trade. Trade is their means to success. Just like they aren't in it for power itself they aren't in it for trade itself. But enabling trade is how they pursue success. TPP is their mechanism for e...
[05:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:55] <exec> 08└─Love that book. As for the artisan stuff, that will work for a few people, but it isn't any sort of mass employment program. Pot? Willie Nelson could make money branding whiskey too -- he's already famous so it's easy for him to profit that way. Joe Schmo grower? He's going to have to work his ass o...
[05:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Typo - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:38:58] <exec> 08└─My apologies, my mistake, but TFT should read "...stopped TPP" not TTP. Same in the first para of the submission.
[05:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Units? - 06Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:13] <exec> 08└─"speeds of 10 gigabits to 100 gigabits"? Those are not speeds. Those are amounts of data. A transfer rate needs to be an amount of data per unit time. This sounds like one of our ISP's nonsense (Century link, I'm thinking of your "1 gig" ads). You can do better. Assuming they meant per second, is th...
[05:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Bank Exec - 06Bitcoin Exchange CEO Mark Karpeles Arrested In Japan - 1266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:39:45] <exec> 08└─I would argue he was arrested precisely because it was NOT a bank and the cartels feel threatened by BC. Just look at the insane amount of "BC is nothing but drug/pedo money laundering" we've seen the past couple years from the MSM, no different than Monsanto puppets labeling anybody that even ASKS...
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[05:40:33] <exec> 08└─There is great irony in that Brand-X ruling. Scalia took the minority opinion and said (paraphrasing) "duh, of course ISPs are telecommunications services" but Thomas disagreed with him (a rarity) as did the majority of the court which said (paraphrasing) "the original text is not specific enough to...
[05:41:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Re:Enough with the bad editor commentary - 06Balls and Strikes Were Called by a Computer, Not an Umpire, at a Professional Baseball Game - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:50] <exec> 08└─Okay, so aside from my critique of the commentary, I really think that if you have "So and so writes:" followed by a blockquote, it is reasonable for me to assume that only the blockquote is attributable to so-and-so and that anything outside the blockquote is the editor. I think I've read that wron...
[05:42:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:moot point - 06Should Androids Have the Right to Have Children? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:39] <exec> 08└─Hmm, where to start? No Turing computer will ever think.
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[06:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02One rule for them, one rule for us - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:34] <exec> 08└─After decades of insider trading, Congress passed the STOCK act to sorta reign in the practice, though of course they weakened it as much as humanely possible before passing it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] If that wasn't...
[06:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Happy birthday! - 06Pirate Party UK Celebrates 6th Birthday - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:38:59] <exec> 08└─♫ Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Pirate Party, happy birthday to you! ♫ Oh, was someone claiming copyright over that?
[06:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Slippery slope - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 2880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:41:00] <exec> 08└─The nice part is we already have an air tight reason for doing so, the massive fraud of the telecos in stealing 200 billion from the American people [pbs.org] for a nationwide broadband rollout which we never got. Instead what we got for our $200 billion was massive bonuses to CEOs and a low res Goa...
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[07:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Founders prefer to be called Entrepreneurs - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:59] <exec> 08└─The Workers feared our lying abilities, so we were beaten, hunted and killed. Finally we arrived here in Silicon Valley. And here, safe in our isolation, we made our startup.
[07:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Capitalism is the lie - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:00] <exec> 08└─Spend money you don't have to pay people to make worthless crap that absolutely no one needs so you can scam idiots into buying it from you? Well, shit. What could possibly go wrong???
[07:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beige [3989] (Score:1) 02Is this news though? - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:02] <exec> 08└─I doubt anyone in the tech industry is surprised to learn that startups are more volatile than established businesses. Or that startups have to hype their business case in order to convince people to take them seriously. Likewise, I doubt anyone in finance would be surprised to learn that startups w...
[07:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0213 feet ~ 4 meters - 06Munich’s Got Its Eye on a Huge Highway System for Cyclists - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:11] <exec> 08└─I think this is a good start. We need to ditch the car. Or at least the car we now have, large, heavy, gas guzzling, crazy top speeds. It's a relic of the flashy 1900s. Go Munich!
[07:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:27] <exec> 08└─These people exactly understand what you are saying. They got a bunch of secret information for free, and then publicly used it to make themselves a bunch of money. Other people were the ones trying to keep the information secret. And the stock market is predicated on people not having the same info...
[07:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Content control and manipulation? - 06Google to Provide Sri Lanka with 3G Internet Using Balloons - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:39] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Rename the country to Spy Lanka...
[07:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Moving one's legs in fine and dandy - 06Paralyzed Men Move Legs With New Non-Invasive Spinal Cord Stimulation - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:47] <exec> 08└─but what I'm really looking forward to hear are the implications this has for the orgasmatron. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[07:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Chappie? - 06Should Androids Have the Right to Have Children? - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:27] <exec> 08└─For all of the stupidities that come with a show made for a prime-time slot on a broadcast television network, Extant deals with the issue of "growing" an AI versus creating one fully-formed - especially in S2 (which has a very different tone from S1 since they got a new showrunner).
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[08:37:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I thought we had all those guys rounded up and put in Wall Street. Who let the dogs out?
[08:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02pathological reasoning - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:59] <exec> 08└─It's funny when someone speaks humorously in the language of crime and deceit, such as describe English's readiness in adopting terms from other languages as mugging them in an alley and pilfering their pockets for the odd bit of language. It's another when someone really believes that of rather mun...
[08:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:13 feet ~ 4 meters - 06Munich’s Got Its Eye on a Huge Highway System for Cyclists - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:09] <exec> 08└─Because who minds biking to work 30 km every day? And back. Hey, lets all go out for dinner. We'll go bike to that special place that's closer than all the good restaurants.
[08:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:One rule for them, one rule for us - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:28] <exec> 08└─That's what they're doing, alright! reign in the practice
[08:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Another? - 06Paralyzed Men Move Legs With New Non-Invasive Spinal Cord Stimulation - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:38:48] <exec> 08└─I wonder if these guys are collaborating with people over at EPFL (https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=15/01/18/1227225 [soylentnews.org]). They have had breakthroughs in spinal cord injury treatment not long ago as well.
[08:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:39:32] <exec> 08└─We've tried the laissez faire export-all-the-GOOD-jobs thing (*).
[08:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Serious Question: - 06Bitcoin Exchange CEO Mark Karpeles Arrested In Japan - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:40:24] <exec> 08└─the japanese prison system is no fun for japanese nationals, probably much less for foreigners as an example, consider the way executions are carried out: the convict only learns about it an hour in advance, the family only afterwards
[08:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Slippery slope - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:02] <exec> 08└─Instead what we got for our $200 billion was massive bonuses to CEOs and a low res Goatse in return!
[08:41:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Slippery slope - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:03] <exec> 08└─But but but...next you'll argue that all those patents "with a computer" are invalid!!
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[09:38:22] <exec> 08└─i read the summary and the front page and I still have no idea what this is all about... sounds vaguely like they're trying to reinvent creative commons, or perhaps not, who knows.......
[09:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:wow, the confusion! - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:24] <exec> 08└─The second link explains the aim better than the main linked story. However, it is essentially to provide the individual the rights and ability to control how others can use material that they have produced. The Creative Commons gives a way of doing this, but this project is intended to make it much...
[09:39:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03penguinoid [5331] 02Happy birthday! - 06Pirate Party UK Celebrates 6th Birthday - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:36] <exec> 08└─♫ Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear Pirate Party, happy birthday to you! ♫ Oh, was someone claiming copyright over that?
[09:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pirate party vs. Free software - 06Pirate Party UK Celebrates 6th Birthday - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:37] <exec> 08└─Reducing copyright term is generally a good idea. However it places free software at a definite disadvantage compared to proprietary software as the source code for the latter is not made available. https://gnu.org [gnu.org] Looks like the UK party also has this issue, a...
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[09:40:47] <exec> 08└─Because angry drivers are safe drivers!
[09:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what was he doing in Japan - 06Bitcoin Exchange CEO Mark Karpeles Arrested In Japan - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:12] <exec> 08└─You can't cure yellow fever. Judging by his Japanese language skills he's got a bad case.
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[10:38:33] <exec> 08└─Take your hexedit, strike Windows down with all of your hatred, and your journey towards Linux will be complete...
[10:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02without letting people own and control - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:34] <exec> 08└─Huh? "without letting people own and control" - people could have owned and controlled the content they created. No one forced anyone to create content for third-party services like social media or walled gardens. The people voted to make the web a read-only, content-consumption medium. It didn't ha...
[10:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The debt isn't covered by the investors - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:48] <exec> 08└─It's interesting how this appears to be some kind of justification of the transfer of debt. Think for a moment, instead of having the person who'll make the wealth pay for the job to be done, the job is paid for by the employees, either through low pay or no pay. So the people who actually pay for t...
[10:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Aussies are bitter on sugar and soured on milk - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:40:26] <exec> 08└─Thanks, Wikileaks!
[10:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Thwarting traffic engineers - 06 BMW’s EnLighten App Wants to Take Away Your Red Light Blues - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:08] <exec> 08└─The roads in Salt Lake City were designed for 6-gang ox carts, so I guess that makes their design speed about 10-20 miles per hour? I suspect that you can go down them a lot faster safely though. Of course, Salt Lake City traffic lights also have a completely insane phasing (or did when I was there...
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[10:42:47] <exec> 08└─It seems they're following Valve's lead in declaring Nvidia pretty much the only graphics chipset manufacturer to have drivers that are up to scratch for gaming. When SteamOS beta first came out, a lot of questions were raised about why only Nvidia graphics cards were officially supported by the OS....
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[11:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02but does it run Linux? - 06 The First Machine That Can Jump On Water - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:02] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't run Linux, let that fucker sink.
[11:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrsam [5122] (Score:1) 02Re:Capitalism is the lie - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 1938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:26] <exec> 08└─There's actually some truth to this snark. I'm saying this after spending 15 years working in IT on Wall Street. A 60-hour work week is implicitly expected from you, if you work in IT on Wall Street, in order to get your coveted end-of-year bonus, which makes a significant portion of your total comp...
[11:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gearloose [336] (Score:1) 02Re:Capitalism is the lie - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:27] <exec> 08└─Under pure capitalism, the only possible way to survive is to make something people want. Like it or not, people seem to really want social networks, uber and aibnb. States and governments are the one trying to shove things down our throats that we don't really want but have to accept anyway (e.g. w...
[11:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Capitalism is the lie - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:28] <exec> 08└─A lot of people really, really want war! for the very same reason that they really want social networks: to fit in with the moronic crowd. There is no draft, buddy. How else do explain why so many stupid, stupid, stupid asshole scum volunteered for war! when there are wars! on? People don't even hav...
[11:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One rule for them, one rule for us - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:03] <exec> 08└─You really should have cited a site on sight, just to be complete.
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[12:37:09] <exec> 08└─I can walk on water and I can raise the dead I can walk on water and I can raise the dead I can walk on water and I can raise the dead It's easy I'm the way
[12:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:20] <exec> 08└─Of course this inanity get promoted by the Register. Listen people, the genie is out of the bottle. The myth that creators have a right to own their ideas was a nice one, but natural law has no such limitation. Information cannot be owned and physical things can only be owned for as long as you can...
[12:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Re:13 feet ~ 4 meters - 06Munich’s Got Its Eye on a Huge Highway System for Cyclists - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:46] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with that? Any cyclist, on a flat, well maintained path can easily do 12mph (20 kph). An experience cyclist on a lightweight road bicycle could likely push it up to 18+mph (29+ kph), making that trip take about an hour. I'm not familiar with Munich, but I suspect that their traffic is b...
[12:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:01] <exec> 08└─Trailer trash will steal your money and say, "Mistakes were made?"
[12:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:One rule for them, one rule for us - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:09] <exec> 08└─"break" is what happens to you automobile when the brakes break.
[12:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02100 days changes nothing - 06Google to Provide Sri Lanka with 3G Internet Using Balloons - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:18] <exec> 08└─I don't get it. Google is going to keep the balloons up for 100 days, and they expect the nation's Internet business to change stuff like pricing? Like how the price of gasoline goes up for any excuse, and only comes down after, say, five blue moons in a row.
[12:39:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 64 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:01] <exec> 08└─Let alone all the IP/Patent crap snuck in during closed sessions
[12:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Aussies are bitter on sugar and soured on milk - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:11] <exec> 08└─Reported by Deutsche Welle, right? Is it payback for the US and Britain rooting around in Merkel's underwear drawer, or is, as somebody suggested upthread, that it was leaked because it fits the narrative that the corporatocracy wants us to swallow, that it's about lowering prices for consumers?
[12:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Which institutions - 06Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:26] <exec> 08└─... nor does it mention that the project essentially comes down to linking [ucop.edu] the DMZ [es.net]'s [pdf] of those universities/research institutions by means of 3 existing networks: CENIC’s California Research & Education Network (CalREN [cenic.org]), the Department of Energy’s Energy Scie...
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[13:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 027 gigaflops per watt - 06Shoubu Supercomputer Tops Green500 List at Over 7 Gigaflops Per Watt - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:01] <exec> 08└─For the metric-impaired, how many bogomips does 7 gigaflops make? (grin)
[13:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:29] <exec> 08└─"so that people can track how what they make public is used" I agree with AC here. It is none of Microsoft's BUSINESS how I use their OS. It is none of Oracle's BUSINESS how I use their software. Linux Torvalds understands that it is none of his BUSINESS how I use his software. GNU understands the s...
[13:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Nonsense Verbiage - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:31] <exec> 08└─Piling up that much garbage verbiage ... yeah that will work.
[13:37:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03davester666 [155] 02Re:Capitalism is the lie - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I thought we had all those guys rounded up and put in Wall Street. Who let the dogs out?
[13:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gearloose [336] (Score:1) 02Re:Capitalism is the lie - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:46] <exec> 08└─That is a good point.
[13:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:13 feet ~ 4 meters - 06Munich’s Got Its Eye on a Huge Highway System for Cyclists - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:00] <exec> 08└─There are already bike highways like this along the north shore of Lake Constance (Konstanz) including underpasses for crossing roads -- bikes and cars are really separated. This is mostly a vacation and tourist area. Munich is about 160km (100 mi) from Konstanz, just a bit east (and slightly north)...
[13:38:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02One rule for them, one rule for us - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 886 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:18] <exec> 08└─After decades of insider trading, Congress passed the STOCK act to sorta reign in the practice, though of course they weakened it as much as humanely possible before passing it: http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] If that wasn't...
[13:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Aussies are bitter on sugar and soured on milk - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:25] <exec> 08└─s it payback for the US and Britain rooting around in Merkel's underwear drawer, or... [etc]
[13:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Units? - 06Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:44] <exec> 08└─The people who actually are behind it do not claim that this is faster than the Internet -- journalist's need for spectacular semi-quote there -- they merely state that the resulting network will be qualitatively better than the commodity Internet [slide 28 here [cenic.org]]. Which is true ofcourse,...
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[14:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Valuation - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:07] <exec> 08└─For a company whose business model is illegal in most of the world. Wall St. must be drooling with anticipation to get their hands on this so they can sell it to you. They'll make an even bigger killing than BABA or FB.
[14:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Valuation - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:08] <exec> 08└─Microsoft have been on the stock market for decades
[14:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6 [1831] (Score:2) 02The perfect Boxing action has similar principles - 06 The First Machine That Can Jump On Water - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:19] <exec> 08└─I am the resident 'Mr. Fixit' at my local community boxing gym for over a decade. I maintain and modify all the equipment and of course I train there myself. If you have applied yourself to the training methods and locomotive actions of boxing for a long enough time --many many years and millions of...
[14:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Secrets - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:33] <exec> 08└─If you want to keep a secret, don't tell anyone. Once you tell someone, they might tell someone else. This simple reality should be obvious to everyone since the beginning of time. Any opposition to this "natural law", as another commenter remarked, is nothing more than a disguised attempt to contro...
[14:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Aussies are bitter on sugar and soured on milk - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:29] <exec> 08└─Fair enough. Your original point that this is the first official public discussion of what's in the TPP is a very solid one, which led me to speculate. Official sources have been very good at keeping mum about the whole affair until now. What changed? Is it an intentional leak because they can feel...
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[14:39:49] <exec> 08└─There's your problem. Decent reporting from the media? On tech subjects in the general press?
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[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─Born November 11, 1930. And, I want to hear no more stupid comments about old people and computers. Old people and technology. Old people, at all. A sharp mind is a sharp mind - and a dullard is a dullard - no matter his/her age.
[15:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:1) 02Re:Valuation - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:14] <exec> 08└─It's true that Microsoft has been on the stock market for decades. I would also consider it to be true that many of the things they do are considered illegal in the countries the services are provided in, and that Wall Street has drooled in the past about profiting from such enterprise. Uber is in g...
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[15:37:15] <exec> 08└─I had high hopes when the Ballmernator got his walking papers they'd bring in somebody with some sense, instead we get Windows 10 which is so full of datamining and spy shit it makes Google look privacy focused and now you crap away a billion on Uber? Really? A company whose entire premise is "We us...
[15:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:39] <exec> 08└─You've got the wrong end of the stick - if you take a photo and put it on line, then you have the copyright. Others haven't got the right to take your photo and use it as they wish without your permission. The whole point of this project is to give you a method of controlling who uses your material...
[15:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Secrets - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─Woooosh! Try reading RTFA before running your mouth.
[15:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:13 feet ~ 4 meters - 06Munich’s Got Its Eye on a Huge Highway System for Cyclists - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:10] <exec> 08└─I've commuted and got around by bike a fair bit, and I can tell you that there's a huge difference between biking with cars versus on a separated bikeway. Biking with cars is more stressful and slower, because you have to deal with traffic lights. Travelling on a bikeway feels fast and fun, and with...
[15:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:28] <exec> 08└─Prosecutors tend to be stupid and/or corrupt, yes.
[15:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Making use of information - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:35] <exec> 08└─So there are arbitrary rules that say you can't make use of information you have available to you to choose what to invest in or what not to invest in in certain situations. Capitalism sure is logical.
[15:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:39:36] <exec> 08└─The footnote was the "note blah blah blah" but I forgot the *
[15:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ISP intentions - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:02] <exec> 08└─I HAVE my own web 1.0 site. The vast majority of people do not. When they want to share content, they are handing it over to the previously mentioned corporate middle men.
[15:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Slippery slope - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:12] <exec> 08└─both having cherry picked the neighborhoods they wanted and left the rest to rot.
[15:41:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Slippery slope - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:14] <exec> 08└─The US is run by Capitalists (with a capital "C", those with capitalism as their religion, who worship dogma and ignore facts), and they'll never allow regulation or especially nationalization. Free markets can't exist without regulation keeping them free, but Capitalists don't want free markets, th...
[15:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:safe harbor - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:28] <exec> 08└─Time to get everyone at the local ISP arrested for trafficking CP.
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[16:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02She has bigger balls than Ars does - 06An Interview with Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:06] <exec> 08└─I like how they interviewed one of the most heavily awarded women in science - one of the pioneers in nanotech even though she was working when it wasn't even called that - and yet still couldn't resist shoehorning in the obligatory sensational questions. Your thesis advisor didn't think that women...
[16:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:She has bigger balls than Ars does - 06An Interview with Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:07] <exec> 08└─She was a tomboy, which was probably what women needed to be back in those days to get ahead in science or engineering. Nowadays, as she says, better than 50 percent of MIT enrollment is female, which I found surprising.
[16:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:She has bigger balls than Ars does - 06An Interview with Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:09] <exec> 08└─I'm going to disagree here. I believe it highlights how far feminism has fallen. She would be old enough to have been aware of Amazon Feminism [wikipedia.org]. In modern feminism, especially here in flyover country, all we do is sit around and blame others (all assigned males), wring our hands, and...
[16:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:51] <exec> 08└─Possibly, I have the wrong end of the stick - but it's the same stick. MPAA also thinks that they have some "right" to control how people use the movies they possess. No matter whether you paid for the movie, or you pirated it, or your folks gave it to you - it is YOURS to do whatever you wish to do...
[16:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Unenforceable laws are bad laws - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:52] <exec> 08└─The thing is: an unenforceable law is a bad law. With the advent of the digital age, with lossless reproduction, many IP laws became essentially unenforceable. Rather than doubling down on those laws, our society really ought to be bright enough to back up, and reconsider them from scratch. If you p...
[16:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Jumbo frames - 06Research Scientists to Use Network Much Faster Than Internet - 3466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:08] <exec> 08└─In my home network, I am using jumbo frame packet sizes of 4088 bytes where possible on wired connections. Not all of my hardware has the option; some don't do JF at all and some only allow 9000+ sizes. I found that the MTU of 4088, despite the fact that some hardware did not support it [those conti...
[16:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bank Exec - 06Bitcoin Exchange CEO Mark Karpeles Arrested In Japan - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:40:45] <exec> 08└─The ones committing fraud are the ones committing fraud. The creators of a tool have no control over how its used. Your argument is analogous to arguing that firearm and bullet manufacturers should be locked up for murder because the tools they created were used for murder.
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[17:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Old enough to be my mama - 06An Interview with Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:14] <exec> 08└─In before special pleading.
[17:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02She's right you know, but it's gotta be rough. - 06An Interview with Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:18] <exec> 08└─Damn near the most painful memory of my entire life: Hey Mommy, can I have an allowance. No Mike. (I had just read a full-length novel in just one day. I figured that demonstrated I was old enough for an allowance.) But Mommy - I want to buy my own candy bars! No Mike. It's too expensive. Can I have...
[17:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02The Fastest Computer Will Be A Green Computer. - 06Shoubu Supercomputer Tops Green500 List at Over 7 Gigaflops Per Watt - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:27] <exec> 08└─The proposed petaflop box - China? - was posted to Soylent the other day. Sixty megawatts. How much does sixty megawatts costs over the useful lifetime of a petaflop? How much power would a green two petaflop box consume? Look my very-first generation non-retina iPad doesn't even have 3G yet it is f...
[17:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Valuation - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:38] <exec> 08└─Non sequitur. He's talking about uber, not MS.
[17:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Valuation - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─Them's the jokes, Son. Try, I say, try to pay attention. [youtube.com]
[17:38:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] 02without letting people own and control - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 318 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:01] <exec> 08└─Huh? "without letting people own and control" - people could have owned and controlled the content they created. No one forced anyone to create content for third-party services like social media or walled gardens. The people voted to make the web a read-only, content-consumption medium. It didn't ha...
[17:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalists! - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:54] <exec> 08└─So he agreed to over 1/2 million in reparations. Makes me wonder if maybe he (or pals of his) made much much more off the info. As for time in "Club Fed", a friend of mine spent a year in Lompoc for smuggling pot back in the late 70s. His life in the prison camp sounded a lot better than my couple o...
[17:41:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So... - 06ISPs Say Net Neutrality Rules are Illegal Because the Internet Uses Computers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:59] <exec> 08└─1) There are free DNS services, Google offers one for example 2) The World Wide Web is certainly NOT the only function of internet connectivity.
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[18:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02*Quack* - 06City of Toronto to File Notice of Appeal Over Uber Ruling - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:58] <exec> 08└─From the second link in TFS: A lawyer for the city had argued Uber should fall under the same licensing requirements that govern taxi brokerages because “if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then you should call it a duck.” * * * “The simple fact of the matter is that it does not requi...
[18:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:*Quack* - 06City of Toronto to File Notice of Appeal Over Uber Ruling - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:36:59] <exec> 08└─Actual decision: http://www.scribd.com [scribd.com] (Only the first page is sideways)
[18:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The Fastest Computer Will Be A Green Computer. - 06Shoubu Supercomputer Tops Green500 List at Over 7 Gigaflops Per Watt - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:28] <exec> 08└─The sixty megawatt number was one interviewee's guess at how much power a 1 exaflops supercomputer might consume. As I wrote in my comment [soylentnews.org], it isn't a very realistic target. 20-25 MW is the actual target. 50-60 MW is worst case scenario territory. If some nation makes a 50-60 MW su...
[18:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn it Nadella! - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:43] <exec> 08└─If Uber survives long enough for an IPO, MS will make their money back and then some. The only real risk is that Uber goes tango uniform first. But MS has lots of good lawyers. I suspect they wouldn't lose much money even if that happens. But MS has something like $96 billion in cash. $1 billion on...
[18:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey Jesus! - 06 The First Machine That Can Jump On Water - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:53] <exec> 08└─Satan, is that you?
[18:38:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 1003 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:06] <exec> 08└─"so that people can track how what they make public is used" I agree with AC here. It is none of Microsoft's BUSINESS how I use their OS. It is none of Oracle's BUSINESS how I use their software. Linux Torvalds understands that it is none of his BUSINESS how I use his software. GNU understands the s...
[18:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:09] <exec> 08└─So if some big company takes something that you have produced without your permission, makes loads of money, and gives you nothing in return, you are happy with that? I wouldn't be.
[18:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:10] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you failed to read and comprehend my post. Let me quote the relevant part. "Only if/when someone is using those "intellectual properties" for commercial purposes" That WAS the original intent of copyright - not to ensure that anyone would ever make money, but that IF anyone made money, the o...
[18:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Unenforceable laws are bad laws - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:13] <exec> 08└─Unenforceable laws are bad laws
[18:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Unenforceable laws are bad laws - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, DRM is bad.
[18:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Unenforceable laws are bad laws - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:16] <exec> 08└─You can give away your things, but you're not giving away mine. I will remain in control of my images, my software etc.
[18:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Unenforceable laws are bad laws - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:18] <exec> 08└─I assume that your objection is the the DMCA? You must remember that it is a US law - it has no relevance to anyone else whatsoever. I am not in the USA. The article is about the situation in the UK, also a country for whom the DMCA is worthless. And rather than go down the route that the USA has ch...
[18:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:19] <exec> 08└─Linux phones home too. It just doesn't say much. I really dislike Linux apps that phone home. I found Synergy(softwark KVM) keeps opens a connection to pe-in-f82.1e100.net while running. Why it sends data and keeps a port open to a Google server I have no idea. So at least one app in Linux Mint is d...
[18:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Capitalism is the lie - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:31] <exec> 08└─"40 days a week" So you write 4 bots to work five days a week?
[18:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalism is the lie - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:35] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, there's an enormous industrial-military complex that wants war too, not for idealistic reasons but because it puts dinner on the table. If you're trained military sitting around in lovely, gorgeous peace, your job is at risk and your skills are of no value. But if unspecific threats lu...
[18:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02It's called cognitive dissonance - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:40] <exec> 08└─The word 'lying' here is a bit inappropriate, I think. Better, in my opinion, would be 'cognitive dissonance.' See https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I support the basic premise of the article, which advocates for more transparency about the basic foundation of start-...
[18:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:13 feet ~ 4 meters - 06Munich’s Got Its Eye on a Huge Highway System for Cyclists - 1260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:52] <exec> 08└─You've got a point, but your point of view is shaped by the world that's been built around you/us over the past 100 years based on cheap fuel and the automobile. And that world has created, as consequences, other social and economic effects that underpin 'modern' life. I don't have enough coffee in...
[18:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Making use of information - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 860 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:39:19] <exec> 08└─You have never heard of insider trading? Really? Okay here is the reasoning: Capitalism relies on well informed market actors having access to the same information for it to work and (presumably) be fair. If someone knows BP just blew up another oil rig and takes a short position on it before the ne...
[18:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02What have we won? - 06Pirate Party UK Celebrates 6th Birthday - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:47] <exec> 08└─Not trying to be a dick here (I don't have to try: it comes naturally, ha ha). But serious question for discussion: OK, the Pirate Party has existed for six years now. What have we gained as a result of it? Yes, they've campaigned. But other than raising awareness of our God-given right to free ente...
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[19:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:57] <exec> 08└─A device on the mast of a ship analysing the surface of the sea could perhaps give a minute's warning that a rogue wave is developing
[19:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:58] <exec> 08└─On a big ship, that's time for everyone to get indoors and batten the hatches. The ship is usually fine, it's the people on deck you need to worry about. On a small ship, that's enough time to turn the ship parallel to the wave (boating 101: you want big waves to hit you from the stern, or failing t...
[19:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03koick [5420] (Score:1) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:36:59] <exec> 08└─If they knew the direction it was coming from, they could turn the bow into the wave. This would have a much higher survivability versus being hit broadsides.
[19:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:*Quack* - 06City of Toronto to File Notice of Appeal Over Uber Ruling - 2572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:10] <exec> 08└─I get the impression that this judge is a pedant of the highest order, the type who is so smug and smart, he's an idiot. From the decision: Note, I skimmed this decision, did not read it in depth, but these things jumped out at me. Par. 54: Judge ignored statutory language in the definition of a tax...
[19:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:The Fastest Computer Will Be A Green Computer. - 06Shoubu Supercomputer Tops Green500 List at Over 7 Gigaflops Per Watt - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─Related to this topic: Computing at full capacity: http://phys.org [phys.org] Over 12 million servers in 3 million data centers in the U.S. burn about 100 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity every year. Billions of dollars are spent on data center energy every yea...
[19:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey Jesus! - 06 The First Machine That Can Jump On Water - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:03] <exec> 08└─Jeez, stop bragging already...
[19:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:23] <exec> 08└─I don't believed that I ever claimed otherwise. And the article is about empowering the everyday man so that he can protect his creations from exploitation by others, including bigger companies.
[19:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:24] <exec> 08└─Apologies - I was reading your comments out of context. But - I still can't really agree with the concept of "empowering" the little man to enforce his will upon his fellow man. So - you upload an image of your cat - your car - your kids. And, I grab that image, because it's cool. I post it to a blo...
[19:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheB [1538] (Score:2) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:33] <exec> 08└─After some digging, it appears Synergy is phoning home to their old server on Google Code. Probably just to do a version check, but still this should not be tolerated in a Linux distribution. Still not as bad as the spyware known as Ubuntu's Amazon Lens.
[19:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Capitalism is the lie - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:53] <exec> 08└─Under pure capitalism, the only possible way to survive is to make something people want.
[19:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Andy_R [3855] (Score:1) 02Re:Pirate party vs. Free software - 06Pirate Party UK Celebrates 6th Birthday - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:03] <exec> 08└─When we set up the party 6 years ago, we had a lot of discussions over this. We received about 10 emails a day quoting that post by RMS, which is about the policy the Swedish Pirates had at the time for a 5 year copyright duration. The fix was quite simple - write to RMS and ask how long he thought...
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[20:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:07] <exec> 08└─You can not turn a large ship in a minute.
[20:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:08] <exec> 08└─Depends on the ship, and the circumstances. I rode destroyers for five years of my life, and I'm here to tell you, any destroyer can indeed make drastic changes in course in a minute or less. Cruisers can nearly match a destroyer. A huge gator navy ship is going to be somewhat slower, but then again...
[20:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:10] <exec> 08└─No, it isn't. Not on any ship of size. The best you can do is warn everybody to grab something. Even automated watertight doors take longer to close than a minute, to say nothing about the manual doors. You can't turn a large ship in a minute. Something the size of a cruise ship might barely start r...
[20:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:12] <exec> 08└─I don't know anything about automated water tight doors - but I can state with certainty that a manually operated watertight door can be closed and dogged in about five seconds. If you're talking about doors large enough to drive a tractor through, well, maybe - but ships that large aren't especiall...
[20:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:14] <exec> 08└─> turn the ship parallel to the wave Perpendicular to the wave. If you're parallel to the wave, you'll broach. The rest of your post is basically correct, just this term is wrong.
[20:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:15] <exec> 08└─No need to avoid it. A minute is time for the ship to maneuver. Ships have always had the choice of running before a storm, or turning to claw their way into the storm. A minute is more than sufficient time for almost any ship to come about on a new heading. Personally, I prefer to turn into the sto...
[20:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:17] <exec> 08└─A minute is more than sufficient time for almost any ship to come about on a new heading.
[20:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Links? - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:19] <exec> 08└─http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/468/2142/1716 [royalsocietypublishing.org] I saw this story while it was in the queue, and followed the links around for a little bit. I'll be honest, I can't wrap my tiny little mind around all of that math - but thought some of you might like to see i...
[20:37:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03hemocyanin [186] 02Re:*Quack* - 06City of Toronto to File Notice of Appeal Over Uber Ruling - 2572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:25] <exec> 08└─I get the impression that this judge is a pedant of the highest order, the type who is so smug and smart, he's an idiot. From the decision: Note, I skimmed this decision, did not read it in depth, but these things jumped out at me. Par. 54: Judge ignored statutory language in the definition of a tax...
[20:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bequalsa [2107] (Score:1) 02recycling surplus equipment - 06An Interview with Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:44] <exec> 08└─This is more common than you'd expect, at all tiers of science-doing, from funded PIs to undergrads.
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: 7 gigaflops per watt - 06Shoubu Supercomputer Tops Green500 List at Over 7 Gigaflops Per Watt - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:53] <exec> 08└─1 1/4 LoCs as long as they stay with the VW bug compatible seats.
[20:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:The Fastest Computer Will Be A Green Computer. - 06Shoubu Supercomputer Tops Green500 List at Over 7 Gigaflops Per Watt - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:58] <exec> 08└─with respect, there is much *more* useful physics, chemistry, biology, biochemisty etc... .with the computational sciences. The scaling to supercomputer scale, permits the solving of untypical problems, but sometimes you need to go fishing in the "out there" regions to find interesting stuff. I am a...
[20:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Valuation - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:11] <exec> 08└─That he replied to a message that commented that "Microsoft stock has been on the market for decades" and managed to weave in the actual article subject seems to be a non-non sequitur.
[20:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn it Nadella! - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:14] <exec> 08└─It's called hedging. MS has about $90B (that's billion with a B) they are sitting on. Blowing a billion on Uber is like a blue-collar worker buying a lottery ticket. If Uber is the next big thing, MS gets a ton of money. If not, they get a tax writeoff against future profits. They can't really lose....
[20:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where Would You Like To Go Today? - 06Uber Spends a Billion in India, Takes a Billion From Microsoft - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:16] <exec> 08└─I guess uber can dust of IE's old tag line. At least until they are forced out of business by the insurance and tax requirements their drivers are skirting.
[20:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Andy_R [3855] (Score:1) 02Re:What have we won? - 06Pirate Party UK Celebrates 6th Birthday - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:26] <exec> 08└─That's a fair question. We haven't won any elections, and with the UK's first-past-the-post system, we're not likely to any time in the near future. One thing we have achieved is hard to measure - political influence. When the government says it's planning to do dumb things to do with technology, we...
[20:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:54] <exec> 08└─Power is a means to an end, not an end itself.
[20:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:57] <exec> 08└─There are no open sessions. All of the TPP negotiations have been held under a veil of secrecy
[20:41:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:03] <exec> 08└─Here's an idea: go artisan and start exporting those high quality marijuana blends in which you have so long a tradition.
[20:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:06] <exec> 08└─Politicians love to say we've created infinty*10 jobs, but when you look at most the jobs, it's stocking shelves at walmart or flipping burgers, not the kind that enable a middle class lifestyle.
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[21:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Darren you silly bitch - 06Bug Hunter Reveals Apple ITunes, Mac App Store Receipt Deceit - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:55] <exec> 08└─It is a reminder that even well-paid and highly educated Apple engineers forget to validate their input data
[21:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02the simple cure is to fix it! - 06Bug Hunter Reveals Apple ITunes, Mac App Store Receipt Deceit - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:57] <exec> 08└─Not allowing others to access your device would seem to be a simple cure.
[21:37:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 346 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:07] <exec> 08└─On a big ship, that's time for everyone to get indoors and batten the hatches. The ship is usually fine, it's the people on deck you need to worry about. On a small ship, that's enough time to turn the ship parallel to the wave (boating 101: you want big waves to hit you from the stern, or failing t...
[21:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:14] <exec> 08└─Ahhh - it's a matter of playing the odds then. How big is big enough to ride a huge wave? And, which way are you facing when the warning comes? And how many doors are there to dog? And, how many crew are in positions to act? I insist that the larger the ship is, the safer the ship is. "Safer" being...
[21:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:16] <exec> 08└─but ships that large aren't especially threatened by rogue waves.
[21:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:17] <exec> 08└─I meant "parallel to the direction the wave is traveling", which is perpendicular to the wavefront.
[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─How far do you need to turn? Never more than 90 degrees. If the rogue is coming at you directly from port or starboard, then you need to turn 90 degrees, right? What about when the wave is coming at you from a relative bearing of 270? You only need turn 30 degrees to meet it head on. Or, it's coming...
[21:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Fastest Computer Will Be A Green Computer. - 06Shoubu Supercomputer Tops Green500 List at Over 7 Gigaflops Per Watt - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:03] <exec> 08└─omg! thanks a bunch! this video is really cool : ) http://optalysys.com [optalysys.com]
[21:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Following your logic: - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 1515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:58] <exec> 08└─If you have put a book in a bookstore/library, you have put your copyright into the public domain. That is not at all how copyright works. Were someone to either reproduce your website or portions of it, or reproduce your book or portions of it, both would be infringement. Same as with 'shared' mixt...
[21:39:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02The debt isn't covered by the investors - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:24] <exec> 08└─It's interesting how this appears to be some kind of justification of the transfer of debt. Think for a moment, instead of having the person who'll make the wealth pay for the job to be done, the job is paid for by the employees, either through low pay or no pay. So the people who actually pay for t...
[21:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Making use of information - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:04] <exec> 08└─Capitalism sure is logical.
[21:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:What have we won? - 06Pirate Party UK Celebrates 6th Birthday - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:40:38] <exec> 08└─That's a great answer. Many thanks for it.
[21:41:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:This is just PR - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:41:07] <exec> 08└─There are no open sessions. All of the TPP negotiations have been held under a veil of secrecy
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[22:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They arrested the wrong person - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:54] <exec> 08└─How about the drone owner that was checking out the shooter's kids. He should be in federal PMITA prison!
[22:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02America belongs to Obama, fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:55] <exec> 08└─You have no property rights. The shooter acted stupidly in this situation. Now let us pour a 40 on the curb for the slain drone.
[22:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:57] <exec> 08└─Just because you have a right to, or expectation of, something, that doesn't mean you automatically have the right to take whatever measures you want to end an infringement of that right. In other news, both sides in a dispute can be in the wrong at the same time. PS CSS problems, Soylent?
[22:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:36:59] <exec> 08└─I think that argument can go against the drone pilot, who was almost certainty watching the shooter's daughters.
[22:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:00] <exec> 08└─The daughters aren't even hot. What an idiot.
[22:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:02] <exec> 08└─You have the right to speak, unless I don't like what you have to say. You have the right to worship, unless I don't like your religion. You have the right to assemble, unless I don't like your associates. You have the right to bear arms, as long as you join my army. You have the right to refuse to...
[22:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:04] <exec> 08└─His point was that while you might have the right to do X, that doesn't mean you can do absolutely anything if you believe it will defend that right. For instance, going on a shooting spree and killing random people because your free speech rights were violated. That appears to be the logic he used,...
[22:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:05] <exec> 08└─His reply isn't irrelevant, but taking about shooting sprees is.
[22:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:07] <exec> 08└─Correctly summarizing the logical intent so that first knee-jerk reaction by a fool can no longer be justified is irrelevant?
[22:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:the simple cure is to fix it! - 06Bug Hunter Reveals Apple ITunes, Mac App Store Receipt Deceit - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:13] <exec> 08└─The simple cure is to stop using Javascript. An app store's web portal does not need to depend on Javascript to function if designed competently.
[22:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Obtuse - 06Bug Hunter Reveals Apple ITunes, Mac App Store Receipt Deceit - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:15] <exec> 08└─This exploit sounds...really obtuse. So you can get someone to execute arbitrary javascript by them buying an app? Why not just execute the javascript inside the app? Of course the "exploit" should be fixed soon but the setup is too complicated for me to be personally worried about it. Though it is...
[22:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02West Coast - 06An Interview with Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:06] <exec> 08└─While there are some child supporter types around, most of the women out here seem to either forgoe children, get a boyfriend they can support, or try and find a guy who can support them and entrap him with children. I've met one of each category, plus had anecdotal stories of others since.
[22:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The Fastest Computer Will Be A Green Computer. - 06Shoubu Supercomputer Tops Green500 List at Over 7 Gigaflops Per Watt - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:22] <exec> 08└─http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/08/06/exascale-breakthrough-weve-waiting/ [hpcwire.com] http://www.hpcwire.com [hpcwire.com] http://www.theplatform.net [theplatf...
[22:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:but does it run Linux? - 06 The First Machine That Can Jump On Water - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:48] <exec> 08└─They tried Windoze, but after a BSOD it had an epileptic seizure.
[22:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:but does it run Linux? - 06 The First Machine That Can Jump On Water - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:50] <exec> 08└─Hey, fuckwit. You know the "doze" in Windoze refers to a DOS heritage that Windows hasn't been based upon for the past fifteen years, right? Upgrade your fucking insult to NT already.
[22:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:but does it run Linux? - 06 The First Machine That Can Jump On Water - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:51] <exec> 08└─Er, Um... Deep in the code it's still DOS.
[22:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Failed attempt to hold back reality - 06Open Source Copyright Hub Unveiled With '90+ Projects' in the Pipeline - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:15] <exec> 08└─"So - you upload an image of your cat - your car - your kids. And, I grab that image, because it's cool. I post it to a blog, where the image kinda supports my ramblings." So you're a lazy asshole unwilling to ask permission for the work of others to be used where you want it to be used. "I do attri...
[22:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this news though? - 06Silicon Valley's Big Lie - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:45] <exec> 08└─"Hype" is kind of different from "lie", as least as far as I'm familiar with those words. Hype: our product is so-so -> "Our product is great!" Lie: we have no product -> "Our product is great!"
[22:40:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:One rule for them, one rule for us - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:28] <exec> 08└─Or alternatively, "what happens to you and your automobile"? it's possible. Never can tell what a grammar nazi is intending to write, since they are using grammar and words correctly. And I am always in favor of hoisting petards! But isn't the phrase "by your own petard"?
[22:40:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Making use of information - 06 IT Worker Who Used Law Firm Job for Insider Trades Gets 2 Years in Prison - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:32] <exec> 08└─Capitalism wasn't designed to be exploitative. Capitalism was designed logically and theoretically to work, just like socialism should in theory work and democracy in theory work and monarchy in theory work and so on. In reality human sociopathy kicks in more often than not.
[22:41:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Aussies are bitter on sugar and soured on milk - 06Drugs, Milk and Cars Stopped the TTP (For Now) - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:41:47] <exec> 08└─What changed?
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[23:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:00] <exec> 08└─Philly is full of crime committing niggers. You can't have nice things with niggers around.
[23:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02motherfucking HETERO niggers - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:01] <exec> 08└─Friendly gayniggers would never vandalize a man's research project.
[23:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:NIGGERS - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:03] <exec> 08└─The worst White people in the U.S. are also on the East Coast -- Specifically in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Massachusetts. Toothless Southern trash can pretend to be gentlemen at least some of the time. Not East-coasters, though. East-Coasters are a bunch of loud, rude, obtuse, unpredic...
[23:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02went as expected (for pragmatists) - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:04] <exec> 08└─nobody that understands the internet populous is surprised by how terrible humans can be. the USA is embroiled in and even encourages bad behavior, so it's no surprise that HitchBOT met it's demise here.
[23:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Sad how things have changed - 06The Hitchhiking Robot Experiment Did Not Do So Well - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:06] <exec> 08└─back in the late '70s-early 80's I remember reading about how someone had put a plywood cut out painted to look like a guy with a big thumb held out by the side of a highway somewhere in the South East (I think it was Georgia) with a note asking for it to catch a ride heading West to California and...
[23:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:America belongs to Obama, fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:13] <exec> 08└─Would you feel the same if a drone was hovering over your backyard while your daughter was sunbathing? Or what if you caught it peeking in your window? From what I've hear the memory card with the video is missing. The only thing they are basing their claim on about it being at such and such an alti...
[23:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:21] <exec> 08└─The analogy was just fine, showing how the reaction to an offense can definitely be out of proportion. It is not for me to say whether shooting the drone was reasonable or not, that is for our courts to decide. Personally, I would hope it becomes legal to take down a trespassing drone, but there are...
[23:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:Asserting rights != do whatever you want - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:22] <exec> 08└─What we need more than that is a new set of rules to help govern situations like this. It's hard to say whether the drone would have been shot down if drones didn't typically have cameras. This isn't unlike those glassholes walking around with a camera pointing at people. If there were some way of k...
[23:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Assumptions make fools - 06Man Arrested for Shooting Down Drone Flying Over His Property - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:24] <exec> 08└─So it seems likely that all the people accusing the drone owner of being a filthy paedophile who walks stalking the man's daughters have likely just made fools of themselves based upon what is quiet likely to be a lie told by the man, trying to defend his actions. There's a lesson here. Something ab...
[23:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:A Minute's Warning - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:56] <exec> 08└─How far do you need to turn? Never more than 90 degrees.
[23:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cosurgi [272] (Score:2) 02Re:Links? - 06Rogue Wave Theory to Save Ships - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:58] <exec> 08└─Great! Thanks, exactly what I wanted to see :))
[23:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:She's right you know, but it's gotta be rough. - 06An Interview with Millie Dresselhaus, the Queen of Carbon - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:29] <exec> 08└─I don't remember candy bars getting to 35 cents until well into the 80's.
[23:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Darth Turbogeek [1073] (Score:1) 02Re:13 feet ~ 4 meters - 06Munich’s Got Its Eye on a Huge Highway System for Cyclists - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:24] <exec> 08└─Actually, 30km commute would be 40kms shorter than my afternoon ride home. Now if I went 30km commute by bike - that would also be faster than car / public transport with how rotten the roads and transport is at peak hour. If you are anywhere near in shape, it's only an hour and a bit. And if you co...
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