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[00:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Linky source - 06Building the Ultimate Light Detector - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:21] <exec> 08└─When possible, can we get the news linked to the original source? Usually, the phys.org take their FA-s from universities/research centres news releases (see the "Provided by" at the end of TFA) and all it does is to "embelish" them with ads. In this case, the source is Ecole Polytechnique Federale...
[00:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:Linky source - 06Building the Ultimate Light Detector - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:22] <exec> 08└─Completely agree. An "original source" link at the bottom would be a huge value add, when possible and appropriate, though I realize it would be an editorial burden.
[00:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:not true evolution - 06The Origin of the Robot Species - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:33] <exec> 08└─I guess its modelling something more like a beehive or anthill then.
[00:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02University of Spin Doctors - 06The Origin of the Robot Species - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:35] <exec> 08└─The press release setup and the actual experiment bear no resemblance whatsoever. So they built a robot with QC capabilities. Nowhere is there anything resembling a mother in any reasonable sense of the word. FYI, when mothers select their progeny for fitness after production it involves many years...
[00:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Welfare State - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:54] <exec> 08└─I agree, corporate welfare needs to go. and not just corporate welfare in the form of direct funds. Corporate welfare in the form of overreaching IP laws and other anti-competitive laws (ie: taxicab monopolies, laws that limit competition in cable and broadband) that aren't designed to promote the p...
[00:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The Welfare State - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:57] <exec> 08└─OTOH, I don't see why you wouldn't want social darwinism in your corporate environment. It's the easiest way to implement a corporate death penalty, for example.
[00:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Prisoner's Dillemma - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:02] <exec> 08└─Cooperative behavior.
[00:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Prisoner's Dillemma - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:04] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I've been there. You cooperate with them and they profit.
[00:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Prisoner's Dillemma - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:05] <exec> 08└─You are implying you don't benefit. But despite the entirely idiotic claims to the contrary, developed world societies required a lot of cooperation to get where they are and you have benefited from that, even if you aren't in a developed world country. Access to the internet being one obvious benef...
[00:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:my calculation on the matter - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:11] <exec> 08└─Of course, I wasn't expecting that. Mercury gets no closer to the Sun than 46 million km and the Sun's radius is only about 700,000 km. I'm confident you'll be able to squeeze a millimeter thick solar panel in the 45 million km between those two objects. As to the extension cord, there are various...
[00:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:my calculation on the matter - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:13] <exec> 08└─You do realize that the entire food chain thing is a completely solved problem, top soil and all, from dirt to your plate?
[00:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Name names - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:16] <exec> 08└─in order to make things more manageable.
[00:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Interestingly enough... - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:20] <exec> 08└─Why? Because profit. Once a subscription service gets your membership it will tend to gradually reduce services and choices. Look at cable TV for example. When it was new it was great; lots of good quality content and no commercials. When you're building your own computer, or even buying a prebuilt,...
[00:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Interestingly enough... - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:22] <exec> 08└─Look at cable TV for example. When it was new it was great; lots of good quality content and no commercials.
[00:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02safeguards probably exist - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 1666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:23] <exec> 08└─I'm not being a blind optimist, but this kind of fearmongering and worrying overlooks a few facts. Malthus was terribly worried that population would overshoot, then crash catastrophically. Life has had this capability for billions of years. Population growth is exponential and given sufficient reso...
[00:38:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02the better way - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:57] <exec> 08└─Maybe SN could suggest a better way to measure earthquakes ...
[00:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Make it simple... - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:04] <exec> 08└─Those scales only work for inhabited areas, and depend on the quality of the ground and what's built on it. Cute for newscasters, but highly unscientific, leading to the need to use a different scale for serious work, confusion at the scientist/layman interface, and nothing gained...
[00:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Subject a enter Please error Filter - 06 Smart People Live Longer — Here's Why - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:00] <exec> 08└─I don't mind ridiculous viewpoints of the submitter being injected into the summary, but I thought this line came off as too descriptive. It's immediately following a science piece, and the dim-witted among us could confuse it for a legitimate statement of fact. If we're trying to make factual state...
[00:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn! - 06 Smart People Live Longer — Here's Why - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:12] <exec> 08└─Hey man, nobody's keeping you. You're free to go anytime!
[00:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes sense - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:42:49] <exec> 08└─You seem very concerned. I'm sure you wouldn't mind volunteering a year or two of your life as a test case.
[00:44:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Incidentally... - 06Mystery Deepens: Matter and Antimatter Are Mirror Images - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:13] <exec> 08└─How do you expect someone to measure G on anti-matter? "I get 1kg of anti-matter suspended by a magic string so I can measure G .... " probably will no go well on a grant application.
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[01:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Cameras, too. - 06Building the Ultimate Light Detector - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:30] <exec> 08└─A digital camera is nothing more nor less than an array of individual light detectors with color filters laid out in a pattern over the array. I've no clue if this new technique has even the theoretical possibility of scaling to the size of current cameras (typically in the range of a few to several...
[01:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Welfare State - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:07] <exec> 08└─I was at work comp court a few years ago, which also has a welfare court on the next floor. There was an obese black lady there with about 9 kids ranging from a few months old to about 12 years old. Then there was a neighbor I tried to help get employment where I work, he asked me why I work when I...
[01:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FunnyItWorkedLastTime [4713] (Score:1) 02Re:The Welfare State - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:08] <exec> 08└─And lets defund Planned Parenthood, one of the few organizations dedicated to quality of life by keeping the cockroach population in check. Burn, Baby, Burn!
[01:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Balderdash [693] (Score:2) 02Meh. - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:34] <exec> 08└─Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
[01:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:what is PET? - 06Cheap Prosthesis Made From PET Are Light and Heat Sensitive - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:48] <exec> 08└─Knowing that PET stands for "polyethylene terephalate" helps mere mortals know what it is?
[01:40:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Balderdash [693] (Score:2) 02Mudbone - 06 Smart People Live Longer — Here's Why - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:26] <exec> 08└─Ain't nobody ever got old by being a fool, but a lot of smart young motherfuckers is dead as a motherfucker.
[01:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The demise of the USA - 06Using Computational Methods, Scientists Tailor and Adapt Proteins to Mine Uranium From Seawater - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:39] <exec> 08└─safe fission An oxymoron. When the first fail-safe nuke is actually built that can run for 40 years without any humans ever in the loop, do note that here. As long as humans are involved--specifically a for-profit corporation with immunity from financial liability via gov't waiver--corners will be c...
[01:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Unwarranted confidence in the execution - 06Using Computational Methods, Scientists Tailor and Adapt Proteins to Mine Uranium From Seawater - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:40:45] <exec> 08└─Nobody wants to concentrate uranium in an ocean current Clearly, you haven't been paying attention to what megacorporations have been doing to the ecosystem for many many decades. and have to go track it down. Clearly, you didn't notice that after the Deepwater Horizon blowout and the subsequent dev...
[01:41:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:PNSFW not acceptable - 06How to Express Genesis One as Code? - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:41:12] <exec> 08└─require(tuneR) x=seq(-3,3,length=44100) y=abs(sin(x)) + 5*exp(-x^100)*cos(x) q=normalize(Wave(left=rep(y,10), pcm=F, samp.rate=44100, bit=32)) plot(q) play(q) It sounds like a heartbeat.
[01:41:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Pi - 06How to Express Genesis One as Code? - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:41:28] <exec> 08└─I rather liked the take on it in the movie Pi [wikipedia.org].
[01:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Vindication - 06Airbnb to Roll-over on Ireland's Hosts - 2880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:42:04] <exec> 08└─I have it on good authority that LaminatorX is the submitter not the writer, lest they be blamed for a crime they didn't commit! I also have it on good authority that the author had inserted the ellipses (members who struggle with word salads, that's a series of three dots) as an indication that the...
[01:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Illegal orders - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, I am serious. At the very least, a well-written letter to a congress person from a service member causes a letter to be written to that service member's commanding officer. At the most, heads roll over the contents of a well written letter. People who want out almost always get a discharge afte...
[01:42:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Illegal orders - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:54] <exec> 08└─There is a huge difference between finding out the NSA is doing something illegal, documenting it, redacting it and publishing it via reputable reporters, and going to an underground IRC chat saying: "I’m a 1337 haxor, here’s my warez, oh shiz the cops, how did they know it was me?" Snowden is a...
[01:43:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Arbitrary and Unnecessary - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 175 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:13] <exec> 08└─You'll have a hard time finding any active duty and/or veterans who don't know what Manning is. And, many in my crowd would love the opportunity to actually torture the bitch.
[01:43:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score:2) 02Re:Arbitrary and Unnecessary - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:43:19] <exec> 08└─Are you purposely misunderstanding the issue? Shooting the wrong armed men is what lost the USA any moral standing in Somalia, though most of the men were unarmed in any case and making no obvious hostile action. The official excuse made at the time was that the cameras were misidentified as RPGs, s...
[01:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Poor pigs - 06Surgeons Smash Records With Pig-to-Primate Organ Transplants - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:24] <exec> 08└─It's surprising to hear your grandfather was attached to his farm animals. My friends from farming families were punished for treating the food animals like pets, and their friends were highly discouraged from doing so as well when they came over. It seemed hard to me to differentiate the animals li...
[01:45:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Username [4557] 02Animal Farm - 06Surgeons Smash Records With Pig-to-Primate Organ Transplants - 147 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:27] <exec> 08└─The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
[01:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02two minor notes - 06TAILS Linux 1.5 is Out (Aug 11, 2015) - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:47] <exec> 08└─I found that if I put a file on Tails in my home directory (bookmarks.html), or in ~/Persistent, I cannot open that file in either the secure or insecure browser. Is this a bug or a feature? Also, installation of onionshare no longer works. It fails while running 'apt-get update', and the Tails webs...
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[02:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Objectification of creativity - 06Software Can Automatically Critique Composition of Digital Photographs - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:29] <exec> 08└─Soon they will "teach" their algorithm to critique photographs from non-friendlies as unworthy. But first they have to wait for their system to be adopted and get at least some respect. Then anyone not sharing the official view will have their photographs disregarded and rejected. I am just not comf...
[02:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Objectification of creativity - 06Software Can Automatically Critique Composition of Digital Photographs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:30] <exec> 08└─This is what is called "objectification of creativity"
[02:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:not true evolution - 06The Origin of the Robot Species - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:52] <exec> 08└─That would only hold if it were capable of constructing another one of itself before it breaks down.
[02:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:not true evolution - 06The Origin of the Robot Species - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:37:53] <exec> 08└─Hmm… actually another thought: this isn't a mother robot; this is a god robot. So I suppose the logical conclusion is that eventually it'll make a robot that's half mother-robot half child-robot. That one will be persecuted by the lawyers among the child-robots and eventually be killed. Then, it w...
[02:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prisoner's Dillemma - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:28] <exec> 08└─I was trying for a non-derogatory version of what others would call hippies, treehuggers, smug fart sniffers (as per southpark). In no way does it matter how they managed to enter their position. They are the exclusionary group that have the opportunity to cooperate on global resources because of ho...
[02:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Interestingly enough... - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:46] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about the parasites and freeloaders who get rich on other people's labor. Many investors, CEO's, and politicians offer little if anything in exchange for their profits. They may work hard, but they're working on ways to get something for nothing rather than on making value to be traded f...
[02:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Interestingly enough... - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:47] <exec> 08└─If you don't think their service is worth the cost, don't pay them, then.
[02:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Enough with the guilt trip, already! - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:51] <exec> 08└─Any time I hear any of these guilt-trip eco-doomsday news stories, I close the window / change the station / turn the page. I can appreciate that eco-guilt-trip-mongering is a core part of the National Geographic Society's mission, but I feel that their time would be better spent studying the world'...
[02:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's good for scientists - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:20] <exec> 08└─You can't fix stupid. Besides, it is almost the opposite of what was said. Metric Nazis want to force a one-size-fits-all unit on people, regardless of whether it makes sense. Don't you know, when you go into a pub, you are supposed to ask the publican for 568.26 ml of beer. If you ask for a pint, y...
[02:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's good for scientists - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:21] <exec> 08└─When the recepticle manufacturer catches on it will be 500ml.
[02:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the better way - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, but from the article: Many years ago, Hugo Benioff proposed describing earthquake size with energy. It never took hold in part because we could never agree just how much energy is released.
[02:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Arbitrary Measurments - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:43] <exec> 08└─There is a strong vocal minority here who hail metric units with unquestionable praise. These units were not created by Man, they were a gift bestowed upon Mankind by the French. They are not arbitrary, they are French! If you dare question them you get replies such as "I don't want to talk to you n...
[02:41:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tadas [3635] (Score:2) 02Does it need sudo? - 06How to Express Genesis One as Code? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:49] <exec> 08└─sudo apt-get install heaven earth
[02:43:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes sense - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:28] <exec> 08└─It’s not torture when it saves someone’s life. Do you think Manson would be alive today if he wasn’t in solitary?
[02:43:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Arbitrary and Unnecessary - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:43:43] <exec> 08└─"clueless about the context" May I ask how many battlefields you have seen, up close and personal? Context. I have serious issues with the government that decided to invade Iraq in the first place - but the grunts who went over there and fought the war? I have few issues with the grunts. I have zero...
[02:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Poor pigs - 06Surgeons Smash Records With Pig-to-Primate Organ Transplants - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:47] <exec> 08└─I saw that movie.
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[03:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Easy - 06Software Can Automatically Critique Composition of Digital Photographs - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:28] <exec> 08└─Automated criticism is a solved problem: http://www.insultgenerator.org [insultgenerator.org]
[03:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:not true evolution - 06The Origin of the Robot Species - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:51] <exec> 08└─Well, like many parasitic speices it relies on a host species, which it can't reproduce without. In this case, the host species is us. ;)
[03:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:The Welfare State - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:08] <exec> 08└─It's the conservatives who are to blame for the latter. For whatever pleiotropic reason, the asinine doctrine of "life begins at conception" almost always presents in individuals who hold conservative views on economics.
[03:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prisoner's Dillemma - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah the developing world loves to talk shit while they use our fertilizers, seeds, vaccines, import our technology, have benefit of our scientists/specialists consulting on their projects, and accept our aid hand over fist. Hey wiseasses, maybe if we didn't send so much shit to you we wouldn't have...
[03:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Here's why - 06 Smart People Live Longer — Here's Why - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:49] <exec> 08└─Albert Einstein never wrote an article with "Here's why" in the title: He was smart, and he respected his audience.
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[04:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02n/t - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:23] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong?
[04:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:n/t - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:24] <exec> 08└─You decide you don't like gin, even in your nose.
[04:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:n/t - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:26] <exec> 08└─Well, I misread the headline as "British Car Gets you Drunk..."
[04:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not New - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:28] <exec> 08└─This is nothing new. [google.com] In fact it has already reached the point where daytime medical entertainment shows are doing scare stories [aol.com] for their audiences of middle-aged housewives.
[04:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Objectification of creativity - 06Software Can Automatically Critique Composition of Digital Photographs - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:43] <exec> 08└─I think you have read way too much into it. It is nothing lie what you suggest, the system has no idea of the 3D scene, and is presented only with a 2d picture. Using this picture, and a whole bunch of similar pictures that it has been told are compositionally pleasing, it puts out comments about ho...
[04:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:The Welfare State - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:25] <exec> 08└─Well, that's fscking weird. *wobbles with b33r in hand* I don't pretend to understand non-Amazon women. Then again, granted, there's this annual festival thinger where the Amazons go out, get drunk, and fuck anything with a cock. But it's intentional! (No, boys, tonight is not the night! It's just F...
[04:38:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] 02Re:The Welfare State - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:26] <exec> 08└─The Welfare State encourages the out-of-control breeding of unskilled, uneducated populations, and when each and every person is fighting to the death over table scraps like bunches of rural Chinamen do now; they all have only themselves to blame.
[04:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02nah, we can solve this - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:29] <exec> 08└─As soon as the Japanese get done perfecting sexbots, we'll start assigning one each to every welfare recipient. (And think of all the jobs created at the sexbot factory!) Next, the US military can start sending them to foreign countries in lieu of armed drones. Everybody lives happily ever after.
[04:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:It's good for scientists - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:41] <exec> 08└─Good point...here in the US most beer and ale is sold in 12 ounce bottles or cans. So asking for a six pack of .354882 liter beer does seem a bit awkward.
[04:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:It's good for scientists - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:42] <exec> 08└─Just because you have to use your fingers and toes to count with doesn't mean we all have to. :-))
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[04:46:10] <exec> 08└─Why not grow people in tiny cubbies and then harvest organs from them at say 16 years?
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[05:37:30] <exec> 08└─Of all the gin joints all over the world I've ever walked into...this sounds just like they all smell.
[05:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Stand in Ethanol's Exhalation - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:33] <exec> 08└─It provides the same effect.
[05:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Reminds me of a startup - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:35] <exec> 08└─Saw something on TV, prolly CNBC, about some startup that's using the same tech used in jet engine nozzles to design shower heads. Supposedly they can make you feel twice as wet with half the water by atomizing the water as it leaves the showerhead. It was cool, but the bit sounded more like a press...
[05:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where the hell is Ethanol-fueled? - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:37] <exec> 08└─You can't miss this one, dude.
[05:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02If I wrote it - 06Software Can Automatically Critique Composition of Digital Photographs - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:54] <exec> 08└─and it only looked at my photos, the code would boil down to: System.out.println("sucks"); / Actually got to be a decent photographer some 30 years ago // Couldn't afford developing the pictures /// Slides were cheaper, but still cost too much and a pain to look at to boot
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[05:38:44] <exec> 08└─I'd like to point out that this precludes the conscientious party animal woman who is in control of her own body… of which I cannot find many examples of over here in flyover country. Party animals, yes. Party animals who take advantage of the menagerie of resources to get the pill for free? No so...
[05:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Anonymous Coward is wrong on the Internet - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:02] <exec> 08└─If you had continued reading the paragraph you quoted, you would have found these bits: I have hoped that seismic moment could deliver us from The Scale. It has everything a scientist could love, a physical reality that connects field geology to geodesy to seismology. Just tell them the moment and...
[05:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Viadd [1777] (Score:1) 02Re:Here's why - 06 Smart People Live Longer — Here's Why - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:41:21] <exec> 08└─If he's so smart, then why is he dead? When they administered the IQ test to both the living and dead twin, did they adjust by current age or age at the time of death?
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[05:42:25] <exec> 08└─Unresolved dependencies: quantum-law relativity-kit general-relativity specific-relativity systemd-sephirotd systemd-gufd watchmaker-kit systemd-thirdimpactd systemd! I recommend we perform an immediate refactor of the code!!! I have serous concerns about systemd-gufd! It clearly has an exhaustion c...
[05:43:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama should pardon her - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:33] <exec> 08└─Funny in that, as I understand it, the term nigger implies "ignorant" and Obama is clearly educated, far more than the GP appears to be?
[05:43:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obama should pardon her - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:43:34] <exec> 08└─Oh look, it's Runaway1956 posting anonymously.
[05:44:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes sense - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:10] <exec> 08└─Now now, let's not be hasty: I'm sure you could come up with a list of people who desperately deserve it.
[05:44:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score:2) 02Re:Arbitrary and Unnecessary - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 1202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:22] <exec> 08└─I live in an Australian army town with friends who've done their time. One guy (a veteran of Somalia) told me how some US soldiers put a heavy machinegun in the middle of an intersection so they could get around the rules of engagement. They shot the guys moving it out of the way because they were "...
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[05:44:23] <exec> 08└─Manning, on the other hand, used his "gender confused" status as a weapon against his brothers in arms.
[05:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where's the beef? - 06Mystery Deepens: Matter and Antimatter Are Mirror Images - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:27] <exec> 08└─What effect do you think the monster magnetic field would have on leptons which of course have as much electric charge as the baryons? Electrons are going to wind up lumped with antiprotons and protons with positrons. How do you make atoms or anti-atoms then without the appropriate leptons? It still...
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[06:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:30] <exec> 08└─Why would empathy, interpersonal skills, and who we are matter in a world made, run, and controlled by machines? Those skills would not be the ones that keep us employed. What would keep us employed would be ones that would help us interface with the machines that replaced the humans. Those machines...
[06:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:31] <exec> 08└─You're seriously asking why machines built by man should be controlled by people that behave like humans?
[06:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:32] <exec> 08└─Sounded like a parody of kind of criticism we can expect to hear from the spectrum-inclined hereabouts.
[06:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jamestrexx [5363] (Score:1) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:34] <exec> 08└─That's the thing about machine control. Who says it's better or worse than human control? Looking at the news this morning and the atrocities caused by man I still ain't convinced mankind is underrated. Might as well give the machines a shot at running the world. Technological achievements are great...
[06:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:36] <exec> 08└─Why focus in negatives exclusively? There are heaps of things you take for granted every day that actually show how awesome we are... for example: The fact that we're having this conversation in this fashion right now. It took millions of man-hours to make that happen.
[06:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stand in Ethanol's Exhalation - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:48] <exec> 08└─The aromatic components are somewhat, uh, different, shall we say.
[06:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reminds me of a startup - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:50] <exec> 08└─Delta does something like that with their 'H2Okinetic' [thesweethome.com] showerheads. I bought one and can attest that it works great - no moving parts, low flow that feels like high-flow.
[06:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where the hell is Ethanol-fueled? - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:53] <exec> 08└─I think I saw him out back yelling at some Latinos- something about welfare, Hillary's panties, then he just screamed "I'm a veteran!" when he fell over a trashcan.
[06:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02obvious question - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:55] <exec> 08└─While i expect inhaling *small* amounts of vaporized pure ethanol to be reasonably safe, can these people prove that long term regular users won't experience health problems from this, especially the additional flavor molecules? The linings of lungs and stomachs are very different.
[06:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03vistic [4958] (Score:1) 02Easy to get alcohol poisoning - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:56] <exec> 08└─I hope they have someone monitoring the crowds very closely since this is an easy way to get alcohol poisoning. When these inhalable alcohol things were in the news a while ago, the concern was that basically if you are drinking too much alcohol, you feel sick to your stomach and also have the oppor...
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[06:39:42] <exec> 08└─You nailed it. No one knows how much food all the gardens on Earth produce. The only data available are production numbers and estimates of all else. This is indeed an example of how to lie with statistics.
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[07:37:37] <exec> 08└─> Might as well give the machines a shot at running the world. Machines will never run the world. It will always be the people who program the machines that actually run the world. The machines will just be manifestations of all their biases and assumptions. Just like the way it is now, except you c...
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[07:37:38] <exec> 08└─No. I am asking why would softskills matter in a hypothetical world where the majority of humans are being replaced by machines. What value is swinging an axe to a modern lumbermill owner? What good is it to learn oil-based painting techniques for a web 2.0 graphic designer? Why would anyone care ab...
[07:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:40] <exec> 08└─Because the point of life is to interact with life, not robots. We design machines to make our lives easier not the other way around.
[07:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Reminds me of a startup - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:57] <exec> 08└─Here it is: http://www.marketwatch.com [marketwatch.com] Sounds neat but that is one pricy showerhead. Great for Silicon Valley types to feel good about reducing water consumption.
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[07:37:58] <exec> 08└─I bet it doesn't work for shit. When I take a shower I want velocity, that shower-head looks like it will create the opposite of velocity The smaller the water droplets the less kinetic energy they can contain, but they still have to contend with air resistance. Its going to be like standing in a r...
[07:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Reminds me of a startup - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:37:59] <exec> 08└─If you can repurpose it to atomize alcohol instead of water, you can compete with Bompas and Harry Parr in your own shower.
[07:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kryptonianjorel [4640] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:obvious question - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:04] <exec> 08└─Long term regular users of standard gin experience plenty of health related issues
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[07:39:20] <exec> 08└─Finland spends much more of their GDP on social services than the US (assuming you are from US because that's a popular buzzword in American politics) and has none of those problems. The communist bogeyman is so 1980. Get on with the times grandpa, the modern great enemy is terrorism.
[07:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kryptonianjorel [4640] (Score:1) 02Re:It's good for scientists - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:40:28] <exec> 08└─If the scale doesn't have units, what the hell are we measuring? "Well that felt like a big one. Lets call it a 6.3"
[07:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02echo $_WORD; - 06How to Express Genesis One as Code? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:02] <exec> 08└─void {NULL}; new var $_WORD; include ('heaven'); include ('earth'); $light="#FFF"; $_WORD = explode ($heaven, $earth [$light]); echo $_WORD;
[07:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02"The beginning" vs "a beginning" - 06How to Express Genesis One as Code? - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:43:03] <exec> 08└─Very few are aware it is actually not reading "the beginning" in the original Hebrew text. There it is reading "a beginning". Those translating it as "the begninning" consider the text to be poetic and in poetic Hebrew, you can use the "a beginning" form for something determined. To end up with "the...
[07:43:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cow tipping? - 06Airbnb to Roll-over on Ireland's Hosts - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:43:38] <exec> 08└─They dislike money THAT much?
[07:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kryptonianjorel [4640] (Score:1) 02Re:Arbitrary and Unnecessary - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:04] <exec> 08└─Chelsea Manning is Transgendered, not a transvestite
[07:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Arbitrary and Unnecessary - 06Chelsea Manning Faces Solitary Confinement - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:06] <exec> 08└─but he didn't. as much as i'd like to support manning on his crusade, there may be some things we aren't seeing. read his comments again, his outbursts of traitor are mostly emotional, but he does provide some solid arguments for it (unfortunate that he didn't have any supporting links for it though...
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[08:37:35] <exec> 08└─It's not a focus on negatives exclusively. It's nice to be able to reach people from all over the world, even better if we can support them, but if the only time the wealthy countries interfere with bad behaviour is when it comes to financial interests, what good is communicating with underprivilige...
[08:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:36] <exec> 08└─You've got countless people who get along peacefully, abide by rules we mostly agree on, see value in currency instead of using power, livings being made by pursuing our interests (art, sports, environmental, even video gaming), feeding and caring for the homeless, thriving charities, oh and we've g...
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[08:37:40] <exec> 08└─We're not talking about Skynet here, whatever the machines are doing will end up being for humans. It's the same reason we still prefer talking to a live CSR over an automated call center, even if it is with people glued to a strip.
[08:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:42] <exec> 08└─.... script, not strip, I hope you at least enjoyed the mental picture of that typographical mistake.
[08:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:43] <exec> 08└─Clearly you are not a network admin. Many machines only interact with other machines on a day-to-day basis. Do you expect a telephone pole to be able to interact emphatically with humans merely because it was made to do something for humans? There just is no point to your post other than to say you...
[08:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Interesting) 02That's it, I'm done. - 06Humans Are Underrated - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:45] <exec> 08└─The second and more original message is a take on which human abilities will remain important in light of growing computer efficacy. In a nutshell, those abilities are empathy, interpersonal skills and who we are rather than what we do.
[08:41:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02lifestyle < 5% influence - 06 Smart People Live Longer — Here's Why - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:56] <exec> 08└─the article says genetics. OP infers lifestyle. difference of opinion? or OP missed the point?>
[08:43:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"The beginning" vs "a beginning" - 06How to Express Genesis One as Code? - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:43:03] <exec> 08└─If you can accept that the Genesis story stems from Sumerian (and likely South African lore before that) then you can find a lot of the missing context and a time line that fits the "continuity errors" of the later religious traditions. Good point about the original hebrew, the passages iare encoded...
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[09:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Hey check it out! - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:13] <exec> 08└─Bad people DO die sometimes!
[09:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:38] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of a saying: “I have found the missing link between the higher ape and civilized man: It is we.” ― Konrad Lorenz
[09:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Evans [1094] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:43] <exec> 08└─Actually, your words evoked the image of customer support people glued to flypaper.
[09:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:That's it, I'm done. - 06Humans Are Underrated - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:47] <exec> 08└─Don't give up, we just have to come up with an evil plan to make the overlords depend on us. Like making their appendages of crappy quality, so they'll need us to keep replacing them.
[09:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Stand in Ethanol's Exhalation - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:04] <exec> 08└─That would depend on which end is doing the exhaling I presume.
[09:39:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Objectification of creativity - 06Software Can Automatically Critique Composition of Digital Photographs - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:31] <exec> 08└─I'm sure all great photographers just are simply following the rules better than everyone else. Just like Shakespeare, Bach, Picasso were expertly following the rules for how to create art. I recommend reading Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance which talks about this - it's really cool book.
[09:39:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02My Algorithm - 06Software Can Automatically Critique Composition of Digital Photographs - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:39:34] <exec> 08└─if((metadata indicates use of filter)||(JPEG quantize table indicates use of filter)) { print("using a filter on a picture is akin to polishing a turd.\n"); } else if(rand()*1.0/RAND_MAX>0.000001) { print("your picture is awful.\n"); } else { print("your work has promise.\n"); }
[09:41:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:what is PET? - 06Cheap Prosthesis Made From PET Are Light and Heat Sensitive - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:41:20] <exec> 08└─from the name and my minimal knowledge of chemistry, i know it's a chemical compound and with google/wikipedia i can know much more. writing just "PET" provides neither meaning nor context.
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[10:38:41] <exec> 08└─This news isn't nearly techy enough.
[10:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey check it out! - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:50] <exec> 08└─implying, that sometimes, they DON'T die??? huh?
[10:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02one down - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:52] <exec> 08└─couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! ;)
[10:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Unfortunate... - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:53] <exec> 08└─The obvious tactic will be to shift all blame for everything to Duffy. That would be unfortunate, as he was not the only slimeball involved in the Prenda scheme.
[10:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Will you celebrate these deaths also? - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:38:55] <exec> 08└─Richard Matthew Stallman Marshall Kirk McKusick Linus Benedict Torvalds Death is inevitable, after all. Who wants to start a betting pool on when these old folks will drop dead?
[10:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Doesn't wear out? - 06NASA Gecko Grippers Moving On Up - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:03] <exec> 08└─and their stickiness doesn't wear off with repeated usage.
[10:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dust and sand? - 06NASA Gecko Grippers Moving On Up - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:06] <exec> 08└─How does this interact with dust and sand? I mean - will it fall out? will it it stick until you bend the tape tape just the right way? will the tape end up as sandpaper? will it require to be stored in protective sleeves betweenn uses?
[10:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:24] <exec> 08└─No, there is no point in life. Life is nothing more than a complicated set of chemical and physical reactions. You can invent your own point if you like, but it will only apply to those that choose to apply it to themselves.
[10:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:29] <exec> 08└─My point... even though it has already clearly been made.. is that all of the machines are fulfilling goals set to satisfy humans. Seriously, that's an important detail. An unhappy human == unfinished job. This isn't about me liking humans, I'm following the paycheck.
[10:39:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Easy to get alcohol poisoning - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:59] <exec> 08└─Never mind the crowds, what about the staff?
[10:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is PET? - 06Cheap Prosthesis Made From PET Are Light and Heat Sensitive - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:42:16] <exec> 08└─I thought most people knew PET was a type of plastic. I didn't know what the expanded form was (and no doubt I will forget it soon), but the expanded form doesn't really provide any greater information to the average person. If I do want to find out more about it, I'll be looking it up either way.
[10:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interpretation!? - 06How to Express Genesis One as Code? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:16] <exec> 08└─I guess you do not like music or paintings either...
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[11:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03basstard [5595] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Ticks are scary - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:44] <exec> 08└─In Finland, where I live, we have bears and snakes and so on, but the only animal I really fear is tick.
[11:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ticks are scary - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:46] <exec> 08└─You should fear tapeworms; you could have a tapeworm inside you right now.
[11:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Funny typo - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:47] <exec> 08└─Centers for Disuse Control and Prevention.
[11:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Funny typo - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:50] <exec> 08└─The typo is in TFA!!!
[11:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Funny typo - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:51] <exec> 08└─Truly, TF-Author earned her masters degree in journalism.
[11:38:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Funny typo - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:38:54] <exec> 08└─Burning the weekend at both ends! Convert to Islam on Thursday! Convert to Judaism on Friday! Convert to Christianity on Saturday! Snub all the sabbath days every week!
[11:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Will you celebrate these deaths also? - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:04] <exec> 08└─Well, I won't morn the passing of Linus whenever it happens. Aside from the fact that he appears to be a first-class asshole, he said [bloomberg.com] recently that he's confident that Linux will continue without him. Well, what's keeping him? ;-)
[11:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will you celebrate these deaths also? - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:06] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be funny if Linus dies before Kirk and everybody switches to BSD.
[11:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score:1) 02Might be faked to avoid paying all the fines - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:08] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FdHq3WfJgs [youtube.com]
[11:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimios [201] (Score:2) 02Nuke it from orbit - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:09] <exec> 08└─Are you sure he's dead? Are you positive, 100%, certain? Did you drive a stake through the hole where normal people have their heart? After the SCO incident I'm pretty sure the only things surviving a nuclear holocaust are cockroaches and copyright trolls. And the cockroaches will wish they'd died i...
[11:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03wantkitteh [3362] (Score:2) 02Re:Nuke it from orbit - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:39:11] <exec> 08└─Nah, the cockroaches will be glad that they're still not the lowest form of life on the planet.
[11:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Don't celebrate. - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:39:13] <exec> 08└─Unless he ate kittens and literally raised hell, it's wrong to celebrate someone's death.
[11:41:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Welfare State - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:45] <exec> 08└─If they were logic and reality based from the start, they would be religious anyway...
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[12:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hey check it out! - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:53] <exec> 08└─Everybody dies, no matter how rich.
[12:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will you celebrate these deaths also? - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:37:59] <exec> 08└─Actually I wouldn't. These people have actually contributed to humanity in a positive way. So no, I wouldn't celebrate their deaths, but I would celebrate their birthdays even after they die.
[12:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't celebrate. - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:06] <exec> 08└─Is that true for all deaths? Personally I feel comfortable celebrating the deaths of the Stalins, Pol Pots, Maos, and Hitlers of the world.
[12:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Doesn't wear out? - 06NASA Gecko Grippers Moving On Up - 2695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:15] <exec> 08└─That's what I was thinking. But it could also be a good (product / tool) if the inevitable damage occurs slow enough to make it work functionally for a significant amount of time, I was thinking earlier in the day about the healing difference between biological entities and machines. And this led to...
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[12:38:18] <exec> 08└─You didn't watch the video. This is something they're looking at for robots to use in gripping external surfaces of space stations, for satellites gripping each other, etc.
[12:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dust and sand? - 06NASA Gecko Grippers Moving On Up - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:20] <exec> 08└─True that I didn't watch the video - I never do watch those (but I do read TFA unless its behind javascript or is a pdf). In space the fault-conditions matter even more, and reminds me, how does it handle being covered in the human-made biofilm that tends to coat stuff in many orbits we use?
[12:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Useless:"can support [...] 150 Newtons of force" - 06NASA Gecko Grippers Moving On Up - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:21] <exec> 08└─How big a surface is required to support this force? And if I double the surface, wouldn't I be able to approximately double the supported force?
[12:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy to get alcohol poisoning - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:13] <exec> 08└─Oh, they're the bristly leathery guys you usually see lying around in the Tube; they're immune.
[12:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:not true evolution - 06The Origin of the Robot Species - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:58] <exec> 08└─A long time ago, some members of a robot species crashed on this planet. Noting that they had no longer the resources to repair themselves and their ship, they decided on a different survival strategy: They looked for species which had a body that is well suited for manipulating the environment; suc...
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[12:40:56] <exec> 08└─Internet certainly did crap on their plans for world domination and set them back years or even decades.
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[13:37:18] <exec> 08└─... It would be a shame if something happened to it...
[13:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03SuperCharlie [2939] (Score:2) 02Call me cynical - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:19] <exec> 08└─I have completely lost faith in mainstream news and media. I look at every news article from the angle of who will benefit and what govt agency is pushing it and it all just smells like a big propoganda turd any more.. so ya..sure Reuters..whatever..
[13:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Might as well die. - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:35] <exec> 08└─Might as well die. Bet they charged her for this "help" Worse than the disease.
[13:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02FIRST CLASS! - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:52] <exec> 08└─You can't beat first class! And, just think - where would you be without an asshole? Ain't nothin' wrong with assholes.
[13:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Will you celebrate these deaths also? - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:54] <exec> 08└─When the fuck did Linus get old? The little turd is little more than a kid! Alright, 45 ain't a kid no more, but OLD?!?!?! Stallman's got one of those faces - he probably looked old before he got out of high school. McKusick? Ehhh - 61. He's getting there.
[13:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't celebrate. - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:37:59] <exec> 08└─Those kind of people fit the definition in my original comment.
[13:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Prisoner's Dillemma - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah the developing world loves to talk shit while they use our fertilizers, seeds, vaccines, import our technology, have benefit of our scientists/specialists consulting on their projects, and accept our aid hand over fist. Hey wiseasses, maybe if we didn't send so much shit to you we wouldn't have...
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[13:40:46] <exec> 08└─You do realize that the entire food chain thing is a completely solved problem, top soil and all, from dirt to your plate?
[13:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:It's good for scientists - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:36] <exec> 08└─Indeed, with a direct base 10, it would mean that increasing the magnitude by 1 would mean increasing the energy by one order of magnitude. However, in the end the scale is based on decimal values: A difference of 2 in the magnitude corresponds to a factor of 1000.
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[14:37:19] <exec> 08└─Exactly, AV is a protectionist racket. Nobody asked for them... they just showed up.
[14:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Call me cynical - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:21] <exec> 08└─So ya, sure Kaspersky, whatever.
[14:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Call me cynical - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:23] <exec> 08└─Coming so soon after Kaspersky was singled out as being the security packages that the NSA and GCHQ were having the most difficulty in compromising as well... I think I'll wait for some more supporting evidence, in either direction, before jumping to conclusions - some of the supposed bogus files up...
[14:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Call me cynical - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:25] <exec> 08└─Coming so soon after it being detailed in a 2013 presentation? Do we need to wait five or ten years for it then? So you're not going to believe it because he's your guy. Hey, he sounds pretty cool. He says bad things about the NSA. Gets money from the Russians? Hey, we all gotta eat! Maybe he should...
[14:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02This is news? - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:26] <exec> 08└─AV companies have been tricking most of the people in the world. Nearly everyone installs one resource-hungry AV or another. Mehhhh . . .
[14:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Might as well die. - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:37:40] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing. One arm or leg I could handle, but all four, no! It's not only losing the ability to be able to the the obvious big tasks, but think of all the little things that we take for granted that she suddenly can't do anymore: scratch your nostril, hold a knife and fork, press...
[14:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A tick bite can kill you - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:41] <exec> 08└─Left untreated, the disease kill rate is 75%. The patient lost her limbs because her body tried to save her by prioritizing blood flow to vital organs.This probably happened after she was hospitalized but I guess there isn't an effective treatment for severe damage to blood vessels.
[14:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Ticks are everywhere right now - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:42] <exec> 08└─I've pulled lots of them off me, my dog and cats too this summer. It's been that way a long time since I've lived in the country most of my life. You can't be afraid of them if you want to do stuff this time of year, like walk in the woods, pick berries, etc. The ones to watch out for are red with b...
[14:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't celebrate. - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:38:07] <exec> 08└─All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.
[14:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The story you can't put a stake into - 06NASA Gecko Grippers Moving On Up - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:21] <exec> 08└─This has got to be the third [soylentnews.org] or [soylentnews.org] fourth [soylentnews.org] gecko-inspired wall climber story posted here in the last year, and they all say pretty much the same thing.
[14:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Be honest when editing a copy/paste - 06NASA Gecko Grippers Moving On Up - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:22] <exec> 08└─Don't copy/paste into a blockquote and change the quote. The original article: The newest generation of grippers can support more than 150 Newtons of force, the equivalent of 35 pounds (16 kilograms).
[14:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Empathy, Interpersonal Skills - 06Humans Are Underrated - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:50] <exec> 08└─That's right; since robots have a long history of blowing each other up as a way to resolve disputes over scarce resources, and sometimes less substantial disputes, a stable robot civilization can only be achieved by including a substantial fraction of humans to act as mediators. Olympus, our new Ut...
[14:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:obvious question - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:39:15] <exec> 08└─What you say? I thought it was a known fact that British royal family members owe their longevity to generous application of oral gin.
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[15:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In other news - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:19] <exec> 08└─The DEA announces the ban on the sale of sugar.
[15:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:20] <exec> 08└─sweeeeeet mooooon suuugarr
[15:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:3, Informative) 02let me recap - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:23] <exec> 08└─- pharma studies natural ingredients, and try to synthesize its components because they are patentable. - genetic engineering alters other plants to produce that synthetic stuff naturally - in the meantime the world deposits of natural diversity, where who knows many effective cures exist, are destr...
[15:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score:1) 02Social implications - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:24] <exec> 08└─The yeast not in the hands of addicts is a mixed blessing. If a yeast strain producing an illicit drug makes it uneconomic for Afghan farmers to grow poppies because demand plummets, it would cut off an important way of funding of the Taliban. If you want to do something about the illicit drugs mark...
[15:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Could make drugs cheaper! - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:26] <exec> 08└─But won't. Will make higher profits for drug companys instead.
[15:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Call me cynical - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 1467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:37:38] <exec> 08└─Not sure what presentation you are referring to from 2013 (got link?), but I meant this story [firstlook.org] from June 2015 in reference to OP's comment about cynicism and mainstream media being in the pocket of government agencies. I also didn't say I wasn't going to believe it, I said I'd like to...
[15:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02defense of Kaspersky - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:41] <exec> 08└─I submitted the Reuters story after miljo did. When I checked on the story later, I found some skepticism. From the Reuters story itself: Avast Chief Operating Officer Ondrej Vlcek told Reuters in April that he suspected the offenders were well-equipped malware writers and "wanted to have some fun"...
[15:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Do read AV EULA's & don't just click through them - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:42] <exec> 08└─You'd be surprised how much data you share with these companies and their proprietary software. Even though both ClamAV/ClamWin kinda suck in detections, missing A LOT of malware, they've caught Trojans where some of the big boys did not. For example -- when I read Dr. Web's CureIt! program's privac...
[15:37:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03basstard [5595] 02Ticks are scary - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:50] <exec> 08└─In Finland, where I live, we have bears and snakes and so on, but the only animal I really fear is tick.
[15:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate... - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:38:13] <exec> 08└─If that happens, I'd double check the causes of death. You do not usually wait for the scapegoat to die from natural causes.
[15:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Good - 06Jupiter-Like Exoplanet Discovered 97 Light Years Away - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:45] <exec> 08└─Good. It gives me hope for the future of space exploration when I see that we're starting to find planets around systems that are only a few tens of light years away. It mean that, theoretically, there may be some that will become reachable within a human lifetime (for those waiting back on Earth) w...
[15:41:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:my calculation on the matter - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:41:18] <exec> 08└─Hey, I've got an idea. You've got the solutions to all the world's problems, so why don't you...like...you know? Solve all the world's problems? And if you say you can't, you're not in a position to or some other lame excuse like that, it only indicates your paltry imagination. After all, one of tho...
[15:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02Re:Interpretation!? - 06How to Express Genesis One as Code? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:44:35] <exec> 08└─On the contrary. I'm a semi-professional musician and an amateur photographer. What I don't do is pretend that fiction is reality. b&
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[16:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bjwest [5371] (Score:1) 02Re:In other news - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:21] <exec> 08└─That's actually not a bad thing. Maybe not an outright ban, but sugar should be regulated.
[16:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:22] <exec> 08└─Why should it be regulated?
[16:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:In other news - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:24] <exec> 08└─Yeast strains fall into the hands of the public and the DEA determines that sugar is a precursor for all evil drugs.
[16:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:let me recap - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:26] <exec> 08└─Pharma synthesizes natural products because of yield, transport, time, and stability. Patents are important in pharma becuase development is much more expensive than production. A company will not spend a billion dollars on clinical trials if they can't make the money back with profit on top. Rememb...
[16:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Could make drugs cheaper! - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:29] <exec> 08└─At least it means intellectual property that can be stolen.
[16:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Could make drugs cheaper! - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:31] <exec> 08└─TPP will take care of that. Must protect profits above all else.
[16:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Call me cynical - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:37:44] <exec> 08└─Coming so soon after Kaspersky was singled out as being the security packages that the NSA and GCHQ were having the most difficulty in compromising as well
[16:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Might as well die. - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:04] <exec> 08└─Reading horror stories like this make me think that I need to have a living will drawn up with a list of conditions under which the doctors should just let me die on the operating table. Situations like this make it scary to live anywhere that fights a patients right to end their own life.
[16:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The buddy system - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:07] <exec> 08└─"I'd like to check you for ticks" Brad Paisley tune [metrolyrics.com] -- gewg_
[16:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Unfortunate... - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:38:22] <exec> 08└─And it usually doesn't take three months to determine the cause of death.
[16:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Journalists - 06Humans Are Underrated - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:18] <exec> 08└─and the software of Narrative Science, which can write up stories and, in some cases, cover events as well as a human journalist.
[16:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where the hell is Ethanol-fueled? - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:39:42] <exec> 08└─He's at the methcloud bar in El Cajon.
[16:39:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Would this work for... - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:49] <exec> 08└─Marijuana? Cue Cheech & Chong.
[16:41:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:what is PET? - 06Cheap Prosthesis Made From PET Are Light and Heat Sensitive - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:42:00] <exec> 08└─The only time I've ever seen PET used was in manga/anime. Most Americans have probably never heard of it unless they work with plastic.
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[17:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02manufacturing autos or systems? - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:20] <exec> 08└─Automobile manufacturing is a radical departure from Apple's core business. Can they pull it off?
[17:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They'll incorporate Tree, Inc - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:21] <exec> 08└─to work on Big Game Changing Projects, and spin off Apple.
[17:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ticks are scary - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:08] <exec> 08└─Tapeworms can violate my asshole as much as they please.
[17:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Might as well die. - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:16] <exec> 08└─I used to think the same as your sentiment. But, then, I wrote a living will right before going in for a cancer surgery with a 5-20% mortality rate (from the surgery itself)-- what I wrote leaned a lot more on the resuscitate side than my earlier self would have written. When death is that close, it...
[17:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ticks are everywhere right now - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:38:20] <exec> 08└─Ones to look for--depends on where you live. Where I am we have tons of ticks too, but it is a super tiny variety (that I, thankfully, rarely encounter) that usually carries Lyme disease here. Lyme is the worst thing our ticks spread. One nice thing about being in a drought is that the tick populati...
[17:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's possible - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:23] <exec> 08└─My friend's father got bit by something, not sure what it was (some kinda bug). It gradually but temporarily paralyzed half of his body and eventually, after a week or two, the paralysis wore off. His family told him to see a doctor but he absolutely refused. Within like a month or two he died.
[17:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03forkazoo [2561] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Easy to get alcohol poisoning - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:03] <exec> 08└─There is mention of the "misting chamber" so I assume the staff is meant to spend most of their time outside of the chamber. They say the concentration is such that one hour is about the same as one stiff drink, so it would probably take quite a while to get dangerously drunk if you weren't already...
[17:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03naubol [1918] (Score:2) 02Re:Easy to get alcohol poisoning - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:40:04] <exec> 08└─Hi, Would you please take your reasonablenesh to another post, it has no place in this discushion! (hiccup)
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[18:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Kids are Easy - 06Why HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Want your Kids - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:19] <exec> 08└─One of the best and worst things about kids is that they will watch the same damn thing a million times. Who needs a subscription when you can set them up with a copy of Frozen and they will continuously rewatch it for a couple of months?
[18:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:manufacturing autos or systems? - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:29] <exec> 08└─This sounds a lot more likely. Apple already licenses iPod / iPhone docks and things in cars. A self-driving car is going to want a lot more by the way of in-car entertainment, so there are lots of opportunities for selling accessories for a company like Apple. There aren't any self-driving cars on...
[18:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02good i'll try and give myself a blowjob! - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:31] <exec> 08└─i hope the backseats are roomy so i can reach the tip and part of the shaft and hey maybe they could include Fleshlights!
[18:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02More importantly - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:33] <exec> 08└─How many malicious anti-features will these (or Google's or any company's) self-driving cars include? They'll obviously be filled with proprietary software, digital restrictions management, and every possible thing about them will be patented. I wonder how much spying they'll do for the companies an...
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:More importantly - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:35] <exec> 08└─How many malicious anti-features will these (or Google's or any company's) self-driving cars include?
[18:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:More importantly - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:36] <exec> 08└─There is nothing your car can tell "them" that your phone hasn't been doing for the last six years. If you own a cellphone then you might as well get a self-driving car too : )
[18:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02They’ll make a car - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:38] <exec> 08└─It will be unmodifiable, overpriced and highly acclaimed. Probably will require special tires and brake pads, only available from the apple store with special non standard bolts and screws to attach them. Most likely a huge success. After the launch there will be a commercial where the apple car 2.0...
[18:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:They’ll make a car - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 820 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:40] <exec> 08└─And each passenger will have to apply for and apple account before the car will allow them to enter. This to protect the Apple Car experience and the curated environment. NDAs and hold harmless agreements will be required. Yeah, we get it, its easy to make jokes about this with any Apple product. Yo...
[18:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:They’ll make a car - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:37:41] <exec> 08└─You're both thinking too small. It will only drive you to one of the now massive chain of Apple iStores (TM) and further will refuse to drive you back home until "the net" recognizes you've purchased an adequate supply of new shiny for this week. Marketers have been ejaculating about "driving traffi...
[18:38:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Might as well die. - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:33] <exec> 08└─Different people have different values. I would rather die any sort of horrific death than become a burden on the people that care about me the most. Better to have them lament that I am gone than lament that I will need 24-hour care for decades. Let the next generation live their own lives. When it...
[18:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Electronic safety - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:40] <exec> 08└─What we need is a secure electronic medical device (not a stupid smart watch) that continuously checks the body for all infections and foreign bodies and sounds an alarm when something bad happens. Instead of checking for all diseases, which is nearly impossible, it should compare what this body nor...
[18:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Unfortunate... - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:38:56] <exec> 08└─They still haven't found the head. It's too far up his ass to get.
[18:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Could this be karma?? - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:08] <exec> 08└─One wonders if this just might be karma catching up with this person...
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[18:40:26] <exec> 08└─Zaphod Beeblebrox and Roosta? Body debit card to Worm Hole Disco...
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[19:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:1) 02Re:Kids are Easy - 06Why HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Want your Kids - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:20] <exec> 08└─We keep Netflix for the kids on a roku. The instant access to the PBS kids library is worth it. Between Netflix and Amazon Prime, we have more than enough to keep them entertained with halfway worthwhile entertainment.
[19:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Kids are Easy - add Plex! - 06Why HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Want your Kids - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:21] <exec> 08└─Setup a PLEX box (linux and Plex cost $0, plus machine and power), steam anything internally. Plex player is on Roku, Blueray players, smart tvs, apps for phones and Chromecast. Download, copy form your own media, upload family videos. hours and hours of viewing for family.
[19:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yes: Amazon Prime, NetFlix; no: the rest - 06Why HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Want your Kids - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:23] <exec> 08└─Amazon Prime: is a yes. pay once per year, plus "free shipping" and other benefits Netflix: is a "yes". Value prop month to month. The rest no value. Redundant or over ad centric. RedBox: for a "new" movie that will be months or year before Amazon or Netflix. And yes, Amazon and Netflix are redundan...
[19:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02I was interviewed by the Onion on this topic - 06Why HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Want your Kids - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:24] <exec> 08└─http://www.theonion.com/article/area-man-constantly-mentioning-he-doesnt-own-a-tel-429 [theonion.com]
[19:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:More importantly - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:37] <exec> 08└─You should stop thinking of these devices as "cars with optional autopilots" and instead as "fully roboticized taxis and limos." I guarantee you, Apple won't sell it with any user interface more direct than Siri. No steering wheel, no pedals, not even a joystick. Maybe a touchscreen, but only for th...
[19:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:More importantly - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─The car "owns" your body for the duration of the trip. That is substantially different from you "owning" the phone that is turned off and in your pocket. If you thing its just about advertising, you are sadly mistaken. By and large, people's disposable income hasn't increased. You can advertise all...
[19:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They’ll make a car - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:44] <exec> 08└─Given the amount of research Apple has done on self driving cars (next to zero) I suspect much of this tech has been "borrowed" from others.
[19:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:They’ll make a car - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:46] <exec> 08└─You already have to apply for an [insert insurance company name] account before you can drive : )
[19:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:They’ll make a car - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:47] <exec> 08└─But they don't make cars.
[19:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02''Nobody asked for them'' - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:14] <exec> 08└─The niche for that industry wouldn't even exist if wasn't for MICROS~1's bug-riddled, insecure-by-design products. Even in spite that, if, after being notified of the holes in their stuff, Redmond actually PATCHED their stuff QUICKLY, again, there would be no need for 3rd-party band-aids. The proble...
[19:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is news? - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:22] <exec> 08└─If you know what you're doing AV is more likely to cause problems for your system than protect it. From false positives: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://news.thewindowsclub.com
[19:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Might as well die. - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah there are already 7 billion people on this planet. Death is not a problem for me (I'll eventually die anyway), it's the unnecessary extra suffering to me and to the people who might have to take care of me. Why be a waste of resources on this overburdened planet? Plus if you're a Christian or B...
[19:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey check it out! - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:03] <exec> 08└─Everybody dies, no matter how rich.
[19:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:n/t - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:18] <exec> 08└─I read it that way too.
[19:40:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reminds me of a startup - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:29] <exec> 08└─When I take a shower I want velocity, ...
[19:40:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Where the hell is Ethanol-fueled? - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:32] <exec> 08└─I think I saw him out back yelling at some Latinos- something about welfare, Hillary's panties, then he just screamed "I'm a veteran!" when he fell over a trashcan.
[19:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Would this work for... - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCXqbjo6cb0 [youtube.com]
[19:41:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02Linky source - 06Building the Ultimate Light Detector - 381 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:13] <exec> 08└─When possible, can we get the news linked to the original source? Usually, the phys.org take their FA-s from universities/research centres news releases (see the "Provided by" at the end of TFA) and all it does is to "embelish" them with ads. In this case, the source is Ecole Polytechnique Federale...
[19:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score:1) 02Re:my calculation on the matter - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:18] <exec> 08└─So you considered the solar output of "power" over the same period. Great for the Sun as a thermal engine operating between 6500K and 4K. Not so good for the Earth solar thermal heat engine running between 600K and 300K. Yes PV panels can get better thermodynamic efficiency. But 22 trillion years? D...
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[20:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02rare story - 06Xbox Controllers Rat Out Thieves - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:20] <exec> 08└─~$50 per controller? Sounds like genuine Microsoft® Xbox. Anonymous Coward must live in New York because I don't see this story in the tech press.. http://wivb.com [wivb.com]
[20:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More importantly - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:49] <exec> 08└─I don't have a cellphone, but your logic is nonsensical. The fact that your privacy is already violated in some ways doesn't mean you should increase the ways your privacy is violated, and increase the number of companies that violate your privacy. Yeah, let's make the problem even worse! And the is...
[20:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Curious - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 2541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:57] <exec> 08└─Curious that it is never mentioned in the summary (although the word appears in the article) that it is supposed to be a fully battery-electric vehicle like the Nissan LEAF or Tesla Model S/X. To my mind this is the most important aspect of the vehicle, that yet another non-car company believes they...
[20:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Curious - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:59] <exec> 08└─Range doesn't matter unless you own the vehicle. If, as some speculate, Apple does not plan to sell to individuals, but rather provide taxi-like rentals of driverless vehicles in big cities, the fact that it has to go charge itself after taking you to the office each morning really won't bother you....
[20:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Social implications - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:13] <exec> 08└─The Taliban do not use the opium/heroine trade to get money. In fact during the time the Taliban was in near full control of Afghanistan the amount of poppies being grown dropped to near zero.It wasn't until after the USA/Allies invaded and restored the local warlords/tribal/corrupt leaders to power...
[20:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A Disagree mod with no rebuttal - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:28] <exec> 08└─Color me thoroughly shocked. -- gewg_
[20:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''If you know what you're doing'' - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 1272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:37] <exec> 08└─Heh. You're funny. What about MICROS~1's notorious fonts that are rendered in Ring 0? [google.com] What about images that are processed in Ring 0 under Windoze? [google.com] What about macros that are executed with unnecessarily elevated privileges? [google.com] ...and before MICROS~1 started buildi...
[20:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't celebrate. - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:36] <exec> 08└─And extortionists don't? Those who prey on others with nothing but greed as a motivation get no sympathy from me. While I am not baking a cake to celebrate his death I am glad there is one less person like him in the world.
[20:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't celebrate. - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:38] <exec> 08└─If I really hate someone I would prefer to be able to make them to live forever, but I'd then encase them in a huge amount of concrete and bury them somewhere safe and stable. Barring that, medical technology can keep people alive way past the point where most people might want to be dead, despite v...
[20:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where's he buried? - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:41] <exec> 08└─I have some... business that needs taking care of at his grave.
[20:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Stand in Ethanol's Exhalation - 06British Bar Gets you Drunk with an Alcoholic Cloud - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:42] <exec> 08└─Which end?
[20:42:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02nah, we can solve this - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 297 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:42:12] <exec> 08└─As soon as the Japanese get done perfecting sexbots, we'll start assigning one each to every welfare recipient. (And think of all the jobs created at the sexbot factory!) Next, the US military can start sending them to foreign countries in lieu of armed drones. Everybody lives happily ever after.
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[21:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:rare story - 06Xbox Controllers Rat Out Thieves - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:19] <exec> 08└─what's surprising about this? walmart tracks the serial numbers of the devices, likely via an rfid sticker in the box [likely put there by MS and linked to the controllers unique serial number] and the XBox reports the serial numbers of itself and all connected controllers to Microsoft, and it's all...
[21:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02"parallel construction."? - 06Xbox Controllers Rat Out Thieves - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:20] <exec> 08└─Seems that even if the controllers did phone home, the average detective wouldn't know this, nor would they have all the serial numbers to pick the phoneing-home units out of the deluge of phoning home controllers. The manufacturer wouldn't have much to gain from the phoning home either. Seems like...
[21:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"parallel construction."? - 06Xbox Controllers Rat Out Thieves - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:22] <exec> 08└─> Seems like this is a cover story, to recreate a trail to these thieves from data sources they don't want to admit. Come on. We aren't at the point of deploying parallel construction of NSA finking for $200 shoplifting cases. That's not even a felony. Here's a scenario that is 1000x more likely: Pa...
[21:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''The total value of the devices was $219'' - 06Xbox Controllers Rat Out Thieves - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:23] <exec> 08└─With less than $4k involved, I'm surprised the cops did anything more than say "That's too bad. You should contact your insurance company". -- gewg_
[21:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Hardware survey - 06Xbox Controllers Rat Out Thieves - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:25] <exec> 08└─Microsoft surely performs a hardware survey and must be collecting serial numbers. If the empty boxes left at Walmart also had the serial printed on them then there would be a way to track them down. The thieves must have registered their xbox or had an online subscription via credit card in order t...
[21:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Kids are Easy - 06Why HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Want your Kids - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:35] <exec> 08└─Real reason...children are used as currency when trying to bribe some officials, so they need as many of them as they can get. And white virgin children have the most value...
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:manufacturing autos or systems? - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─I don't see why they need an actual self driving car in order to develop entertainment for one.
[21:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More importantly - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:53] <exec> 08└─They have a choice: Accept all liability and distract passengers, or foist all liability onto the driver, and prevent any distractions.
[21:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:They’ll make a car - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:02] <exec> 08└─They couldn't be bothered to make their own iPhones, why would they make their own cars? They will just contract that out to some Chinese/korean car manufacturer, and bolt on their electronics and sensor packages.
[21:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Curious - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 1133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:07] <exec> 08└─That's a hell of a speculation that I put no stock in. There are still too many tests to be done and regulations to be written before fully autonomous vehicles are going to be allowed to drive around by themselves on public roads. It will be years before you'll be able to order up a self-driving tax...
[21:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02a jar of yeast. - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:26] <exec> 08└─imagine the level of street crime and violence it would cut if you give every junkie a jar, some sugar and a packet of yeast...
[21:38:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02defense of Kaspersky - 06Kaspersky Lab may have Faked Malware to Harm Rivals - 665 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:47] <exec> 08└─I submitted the Reuters story after miljo did. When I checked on the story later, I found some skepticism. From the Reuters story itself: Avast Chief Operating Officer Ondrej Vlcek told Reuters in April that he suspected the offenders were well-equipped malware writers and "wanted to have some fun"...
[21:42:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:my calculation on the matter - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:55] <exec> 08└─Hey, I've got an idea. You've got the solutions to all the world's problems, so why don't you...like...you know? Solve all the world's problems?
[21:44:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Re:Arbitrary Measurments - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:09] <exec> 08└─What? You're suggesting that ""The metre is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1 ⁄ 299792458 of a second." is arbitrary? Or ""The kilogram is the unit of mass; it is equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram."? Then again who the he...
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[22:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Ring theory? - 06The Hidden Art of Star Wars - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:17] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I thought that was string theory. Because of course a species would have to master string theory before they could ever get hyperspace jumps, anti-gravity, and explosions that go boom in a vacuum.
[22:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02obligatory - 06The Hidden Art of Star Wars - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─The article is long and full of references and well worth a read, even if you didn't like the prequel trilogy.
[22:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02"petit larceny" ?? - 06Xbox Controllers Rat Out Thieves - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:32] <exec> 08└─They use French in NW New York! Who knew? As for being tracked by the controllers, I'm not a bit surprised. The X-Box runs with DRM, so why not licence rights for devices connected to it. Also the police must be bored in Lockport, going to all that trouble to track down a couple of petty thieves.
[22:38:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:In other news - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:27] <exec> 08└─Why should it be regulated?
[22:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:let me recap - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:31] <exec> 08└─Patents are not the only way. Research can be payed for by the tax payer. People don't like paying up front for things, even if it saves them money in the long run. So patents are the preferred method for paying for pharmaceutical research but don't pretend it is the only way. Instead we have a syst...
[22:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:let me recap - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:33] <exec> 08└─Except that ithe topic is about cultivating drugs, instead of synthesizing them. If synthesis were so superior we wouldn't be doing this. You have a point about less variation, but what happens IRL? people have variations, illnesses have variations, conditions under which illnesses develop and medic...
[22:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Social implications - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:36] <exec> 08└─The Taliban do not use the opium/heroine trade to get money.
[22:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nuke it from orbit - 06Prenda-Linked Copyright Trolling Lawyer Paul Duffy Dead at Age 55 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:56] <exec> 08└─I won't believe it until the autopsy is finished.
[22:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02this again - 06Humans Are Underrated - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:49] <exec> 08└─The overall message is a sobering one: The machines are now able to copy or even improve on a lot of human skills, and thus they are encroaching on jobs. We won't all have to join the bread line, but not everyone will prosper in this new world. That material is well argued, and those stories are bec...
[22:44:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Garbage Trucks - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:09] <exec> 08└─No good. We're going to need it in football fields per library of congress. Or, ummm....
[22:44:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Anonymous Coward is wrong on the Internet - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:14] <exec> 08└─So 1 Aki = 100 Terajoule? Then why not simply say the latter?
[22:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Anonymous Coward is wrong on the Internet - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:16] <exec> 08└─I would define the Aki to be equal to 1021 dynes-cm (or 1014 N-m for the SI police). The smallest earthquakes routinely recorded by most networks (M 2.0), would be about 0.01 Akis, a barely damaging earthquake (M 5) would be 400 Akis, Northridge would be 120,000 Akis, and the great Chilean earthquak...
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[23:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Holy crap - 06The Hidden Art of Star Wars - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:21] <exec> 08└─I was so impressed that I made it all the way to the end of the really long page, only to see "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9". Holy cow. This is more extensive than that guy on YouTube who tore apart the prequels with videos that ended up being longer than the actual movies. (I still laugh every time I remember...
[23:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Yeah, yeah... - 06The Hidden Art of Star Wars - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:23] <exec> 08└─...and if you watch The Wizard of Oz while playing Dark Side of the Moon it all syncs up. Look at how the start of two of the movies are quite similar. Ooooh! But also they are a bit different! Ahhhh! Sometimes a bunch of space movies are just a bunch of space movies. c.f. https://xkcd.com [xkc...
[23:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I was interviewed by the Onion on this topic - 06Why HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Want your Kids - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:51] <exec> 08└─Oxymoron - no TV but does have computer w/ a screen. The question is TV a thing by itself? Or is it just a monitor with built in wireless receiver, like every computer, smart phone or other device. The question is "who's software can run on it?" I have TV (with built in wireless receivers), but they...
[23:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:1) 02Siri driving? - 06Documents Confirm Apple is Building Self-driving Car - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:21] <exec> 08└─At first I couldn't imagine what would get Apple to want to venture that far out of their product zone, but then something occurred to me: Siri was originally an AI (not strong) project by DARPA, right? It was later developed into a smartphone app by whatever company Apple then bought. What if Apple...
[23:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:let me recap - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:39] <exec> 08└─Read what I wrote again. There is no mention of patents being the only solution. As you mention, taxpayers are unwilling to pay for anything besides basic research so the vast majority of drug development costs are covered by the private sector. This is the system the US wants and this is what they...
[23:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:a jar of yeast. - 06Genetically Engineered Yeasts Produce Thebaine and Hydrocodone - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:48] <exec> 08└─imagine the level of street crime and violence it would cut if you give every junkie a jar, some sugar and a packet of yeast...
[23:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gadgets as panaceas; USA as World Policeman - 06A Tick Bite Can Lead to Limb Amputations - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:39:39] <exec> 08└─like [...] Star-Trek The prequel was set in the mid 22nd Century with TOS set a century later. Seems we have a bit of a wait yet. spread democracy and freedom "Join the Army. Travel to exotic places. Meet new people--and kill them." -- gewg_
[23:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:44] <exec> 08└─Like I said, technology is nice and all, but when there are still so much more important issues in the world, the focus should be on fixing that and then feeling good about ourselves.
[23:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why - 06Humans Are Underrated - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:40:51] <exec> 08└─No, there is no point in life. Life is nothing more than a complicated set of chemical and physical reactions.
[23:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:my calculation on the matter - 06We’ve Consumed More Than the Earth Can Produce This Year - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:43:15] <exec> 08└─Not so good for the Earth solar thermal heat engine running between 600K and 300K.
[23:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FrogBlast [21] (Score:2) 02Re:Garbage Trucks - 06The Way We Measure Earthquakes is Stupid - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:15] <exec> 08└─My original suggestion was going to be "number of garbage trucks that seem to be driving by" (hence the title). I think feet per second is meeting you all more than half way.
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