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[08:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Emacs - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:54] <exec> 08└─XEmacs is all but dead, but GNU Emacs still lives. You should use Emacs, one component of a Linux-based GNU system.
[08:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emacs - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:55] <exec> 08└─Vi, you filthy hu-man!
[08:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Emacs - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:00:57] <exec> 08└─" Personally, I prefer them both to MS Office, although I do have MS Office on the Mac only because the people I work with don't use anything else. "
[08:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02It's whither, not wither - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:59] <exec> 08└─Well, I suppose it could be wither, but it'd be a very strange way to use it. Why What Which Where Whither
[08:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:00] <exec> 08└─It is "wither", you fool. Wither as drying out, dying, becoming decrepit.
[08:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Maybe they are happy with it as is? - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:02] <exec> 08└─I never understood why you just HAVE to keep adding crap, if it does the job they want it to and isn't being hit with security threats what is wrong with leaving it alone?
[08:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Blackboard works only with AOO - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:04] <exec> 08└─For work, we're using Blackboard Collaborate (an online presentation / classroom environment). Uploading slides works from Ubuntu works with ... Apache OpenOffice. LibreOffice? Nope. Installing them side by side is a hassle, but can be done. (I first tried living only on AOO. 5 minutes into that I r...
[08:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Retarted? - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:10] <exec> 08└─Making diamonds via molten carbonates... to counter CO2 production? lol
[08:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02From The Lucy-In-The-Sky-With-Diamonds Dept - nt - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:12] <exec> 08└─From The Lucy-In-The-Sky-With-Diamonds Dept
[08:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:4, Informative) 02One question - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:13] <exec> 08└─how many gigatons of carbon nanotubes would this process, scaled up to industrial level of course, be able to output in one year? I mean we only dump 9.9 billion metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere per year so it would only have to match that to flat line the current increase in CO2. Everything o...
[08:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:One question - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:15] <exec> 08└─I think the main benefit here is the relatively clean production of an in-demand product - carbon nanotubes - with any side-benefits to help lower the overall amount of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere being just a fortuitous bonus with some positive PR attached. Unless they work as advertised,...
[08:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:One question - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:17] <exec> 08└─To be pedantic. A ton of CO2 doesn't equal a ton of carbon. Googling around a bit, it seems a ton of carbon equals 3.67 tons of CO2, so they only need to produce about 2.7 tons of carbon nanotubes :)
[08:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Low-energy my ass - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:19] <exec> 08└─750 °C takes a lot of energy.
[08:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bd [2773] (Score:2) 0210% of the Sahara desert? - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 1462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:21] <exec> 08└─So, they say that it would take "just" 10% of the Sahara desert to impact atmospheric CO2 levels within 10 years? Somehow that just seems too good to be true. But I guess there is a catch. So, let's run the numbers... Volume of the atmosphere at ground level pressure: 5.13e18kg/(1.2 kg/(m^3)) = 4.3*...
[08:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02gouge out my eyes - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:24] <exec> 08└─The "hard hack" for using my neuroplasticity for cognitive gain.
[08:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Other side of the coin - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:26] <exec> 08└─As a youth I spent many years playing mostly by myself with Lego, Erector Set, Robotix, and other engineering and construction oriented toys. I have a highly developed sense of spacial modeling, but although my hearing is nearly perfect when tested, I have a very weak ability to separate audio signa...
[08:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Other side of the coin - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:28] <exec> 08└─I have a very weak ability to separate audio signal from noise. Attempting to do so takes a lot of effort
[08:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Glasses - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 2259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:30] <exec> 08└─Amusing anecdote, of total relevance: I noticed each time I got a new pair of glasses that there would be a warping effect around the edges of the glasses, and my eyes would feel funny for a while, maybe a day or two, but then everything would go back to normal. Moving to an older or backup pair of...
[08:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:36] <exec> 08└─No, that's a stupid idea, IMHO... If you can't see far enough ahead, including in front of whatever you are passing, especially if it is a situation with "sequences of bends and almost zero visibilty in front of the truck"..... YOU SHOULD NOT BE PASSING THIS VEHICLE!!! Regardless of how annoyingly...
[08:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:38] <exec> 08└─Anything with less than 8 cylinders, arranged in a V is a "watch winder"...
[08:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:40] <exec> 08└─My Ford Ranger's Vulcan V6 calls BS on your saying, as I can easily hit 110 MPH which is more than enough power to pass any semi you are likely to come across. As for TFA? We've been seeing "isn't that neat" whiz bang features for semi trucks for ages in the news...how many you seen in the wild? Ot...
[08:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:42] <exec> 08└─As for TFA? We've been seeing "isn't that neat" whiz bang features for semi trucks for ages in the news...how many you seen in the wild?
[08:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:43] <exec> 08└─My 34 year old 600cc transverse four does the same thing.
[08:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:45] <exec> 08└─Really? I watched the video and had two thoughts. 1: That's so fucking cool! (with some extra exclamation points in my head) 2: That's going to be pretty fragile, trucking companies are cheap, and I'll never see it here in the US. More than half the annoyance to me of being behind a truck, even at a...
[08:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:47] <exec> 08└─Jesus, way to miss the entire point!! This is so that you can see whats in front and make an informed/safer decision.
[08:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:48] <exec> 08└─I predict they'd get rear-ended more often.
[08:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Hacking or Advertising Target: - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:50] <exec> 08└─If you have a screen on the back of the truck, how long until someone with a sociopathic turn of mind finds a way to alter the image? Say, project clear roadway ahead when there's really a close approaching vehicle. Or, for just an annoying one, endless repeat of nyancat zipping back and forth acros...
[08:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hacking or Advertising Target: - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:52] <exec> 08└─Hacking a moving truck's display that may not even have wireless connectivity to the outside world (the camera and display are both on the vehicle)? Hardest hack I've ever heard of, or really bad design...
[08:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Hacking or Advertising Target: - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:53] <exec> 08└─I hadn't gotten up to the hacking/advertising thoughts yet. That would suck. And the video of it action says it's a wireless camera, meaning hackable.
[08:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Re:Hacking or Advertising Target: - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:55] <exec> 08└─Not every hack has to be done remotely. Trucks, and especially semitrailers often sit around unattended for fairly long periods. How well covered is the wiring back to the screen on the back of the trailer if it's not wireless? Seems pretty straightforward to do a hardware mod surreptitiously. Given...
[08:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hacking or Advertising Target: - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:01:57] <exec> 08└─A car advertisement with road.
[08:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02System Crash means Accident - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:59] <exec> 08└─All it takes is for the onboard computer to crash in such a way as an image remains on the rear screen that does not reflect what is currently in front of the truck.
[08:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02This could cause accidents - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:00] <exec> 08└─You're driving along at 70. The road ahead looks open and clear. You close on a truck which is perfectly camoglaged to look just like the road ahead of it. What, exactly, is there to indicate that there is an 80,000 pound rig ahead of you? Just the tail lights? I can't say how "most people" are goin...
[08:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This could cause accidents - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:02] <exec> 08└─It's all fiddling around while driverless cars come online. Although a world in which driverless cars check out the displays of Samsung® transparent trucks would be a weird one.
[08:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:This could cause accidents - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:04] <exec> 08└─Did you watch the video? The whole entire rear of the truck is not a display, just a nice big chunk of it. Still, it would be pretty obvious what you're seeing.
[08:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02all you critics are wrong - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:06] <exec> 08└─Transparent trucks will make billions of dollars for Samsung. Capitalism good, money good, greed good. Consequences are the courts' problem.
[08:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:all you critics are wrong - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:07] <exec> 08└─If you don't trust the information projected on the back of the truck, don't look at it!
[08:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Obvious question: - 06Volkswagen Finally Agrees to Publication Of Vulnerability Paper, After Removal of One Sentence - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:09] <exec> 08└─So, how long after they publish it does the deleted sentence get anonymously posted to pastebin?
[08:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Obvious question: - 06Volkswagen Finally Agrees to Publication Of Vulnerability Paper, After Removal of One Sentence - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:11] <exec> 08└─I feel like it will end up being some sort of petty attempt to keep a perceived, and likely actual, slight against VW out of the paper.
[08:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:13] <exec> 08└─Ok, I'm not an expert on this stuff, but I thought the whole idea of an endowment was that it was basically a nest egg. It's sorta like an individual's retirement fund: it's their entire life savings, and they're hoping to live off of it, and the interest it generates, for the rest of their life. Sa...
[08:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:15] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the part where Yale paid fund managers about 6% of its endowment fund to fund managers? Although I don't see any proposed changes directly affecting this. But really 6% of the fund paid to fund managers. Given the research that shows how ineffective fund managers are over the long term,...
[08:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:17] <exec> 08└─You expect me to read TFA? Yes, that seems rather ridiculous actually, unless they're really getting a huge return from the hedge fund, which seems unlikely. I was just speaking about endowments in general terms.
[08:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:19] <exec> 08└─It seems more likely that there was a mistake in the reporting there. I know that investment management fees for pension funds tend to be less than 0.4% per year and larger funds should be getting better deals. 6% is outlandish unless it's counting money that has to be locked up for multiple years f...
[08:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:20] <exec> 08└─FTFA: Last year, Yale paid about $480 million to private equity fund managers as compensation — about $137 million in annual management fees, and another $343 million in performance fees, also known as carried interest — to manage about $8 billion, one-third of Yale’s endowment.
[08:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:22] <exec> 08└─It seems more likely that you are full of sh*t. Just because you think you know about what normal funds charge does not mean that the article is wrong.
[08:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03eof [5559] (Score:1) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:24] <exec> 08└─Yale didn't pay 6% of its endowment to the fund managers, it paid $480M for managing $8B (of a ~$24B endowment). It isn't clear how that payment is structured. For example, do the managers have to meet some target to get paid? Was the payment covering costs for one year? I do think it is a lot, but...
[08:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:26] <exec> 08└─but I'm sure Yale knows how to hold onto its money.
[08:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score:1) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:27] <exec> 08└─As the amount invested increases, the percentage that is paid to the fund managers decreases. Frankly, for $8B, they should be paying at most 1%. Heck, I'm paying only ~ 1.7% on my investments, and it's several orders of magnitude less.
[08:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Seems to be conflating two issues - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 1131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:29] <exec> 08└─1. Are the universities overpaying the endowment money managers? Well, some probably are, especially in years where the endowment doesn't beat what the university could've gotten by investing in an S&P 500 index fund and other conservative investments. When the managers do handily beat the benchmark...
[08:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Dissemination ? - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:31] <exec> 08└─universities support the advancement and dissemination of knowledge
[08:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Interest rates - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:33] <exec> 08└─Interest rates are low so the amount of money that can be spent without spending down the endowment (generally regarded as a bad thing) is low. Higher risk investments can offset this to an extent, but that's also regarded as a bad thing. The expensive investment managers are supposed to pay for the...
[08:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Interest rates - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:34] <exec> 08└─Having to pay investment firms for managing the huge endowments, doesn't seem to speak well for the universities schools of business. Unless of course, there are some shady back room deals going on.
[08:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Interest rates - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:36] <exec> 08└─Let's put that in some perspective: "Having to pay people to handle IT does not speak well for the university's school of CS." Yeah, erm... no.
[08:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy solution - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:38] <exec> 08└─Instead of making them exempt from corporate income tax, make all those expenses that support the advancement and dissemination of knowledge (like paying scientists and teachers, buying experimental equipment, paying publication fees or subscriptions of scientific journals, etc.) deducible from corp...
[08:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy solution - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:40] <exec> 08└─Err ... s/still pay no money/still pay no taxes/
[08:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02What happens when ... - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:41] <exec> 08└─... a train carrying 300 people breaks down inside the tube 100 miles from anywhere? Long haul enclosed trains would require an _incredible_ amount of safety and maintenance support, that just isn't getting factored in during the gee-whiz phase.
[08:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:What happens when ... - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:43] <exec> 08└─There is probably no part of Central CA that is 100 miles from nowhere, anywhere, if by nowhere you mean a town with at least 25,000 people.
[08:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:What happens when ... - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:45] <exec> 08└─By anywhere I mean a facility with the staffing and equipment to safely evacuate the train before the folks inside cook, and clear the track ... errrm, tube. Sure, there will be cows within 100 miles, but that won't help (much?)
[08:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:What happens when ... - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:47] <exec> 08└─It might as well be the middle of nowhere. It's going to be incredibly high up and the local population isn't going to have the tools or expertise to get in there and help.
[08:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03korger [4465] (Score:1) 02Re:What happens when ... - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:48] <exec> 08└─I'd much rather travel in a train that might break down, than in a plane that might break down. When an engine failure occurs, trains would normally just slow down to a halt, and waiting for a rescue team 100 miles from anywhere always beats crashing into the ground at terminal velocity from 13km ab...
[08:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What happens when ... - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:50] <exec> 08└─I thought you were going to ask "What happens when a train leaves San Francisco, heading north at a speed of 350 miles an hour. Another train leaves New York traveling south at 246 miles an hour...."
[08:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pssst... - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:52] <exec> 08└─I have word from a good source whose identity I will not disclose that Musk is lobbying the CA governor pretty hard to try to make something happen on the hyperloop.
[08:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03SubiculumHammer [5191] (Score:2) 02Re:pssst... - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:53] <exec> 08└─Well the article kind of makes that obvious. Should have had your *source* tell you it 4 months ago, or something.
[08:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They've announced the first three cities to buy in - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:55] <exec> 08└─Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook.
[08:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:They've announced the first three cities to buy - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:02:57] <exec> 08└─That episode flew right over my head when I first saw it as a kid, but everytime I read about those kinds of ideas popping up in California, memories of that episode always nag the back of my head in disturbingly prophetic and unsettling ways. Not because public transpiration is a bad thing, but bec...
[08:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Gotta love that description... - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:59] <exec> 08└─> With extremely low air pressure [in the surrounding environment], capsules filled with people would zip through them at near supersonic speeds. If only anyone had invented such tech before, and installed infrastructure to allow slowdown of the capsules near their destination or at various points o...
[08:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Expensive "rollercoaster" ride for the rich - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:00] <exec> 08└─It doesn't have much carrying capacity for the cost. http://greatergreaterwashington.org [greatergreaterwashington.org] That means that the minimum separation between pods is probably closer to 80 seconds or more. Not a big deal. It still means 45 depa...
[08:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:02] <exec> 08└─DNA sample from a suspect, extract a profile, and match that profile against a database in less time than it takes to book someone
[08:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Locust-Of-Control [5815] (Score:1) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:04] <exec> 08└─But dude, what about the children! And evil dangerous villains such as this? [muckrock.com]
[08:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:05] <exec> 08└─Locally in San Diego there have been reports such as this [geneticprivacynetwork.org] one of police demanding DNA samples without arrest or probable cause. I tried but couldn't find the instances of the cops getting DNA swabs from routine traffic stops and without probable cause. Since American poli...
[08:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:07] <exec> 08└─don't be surprised if you are compelled to give up a cheek-swab during your next routine traffic stop.
[08:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:09] <exec> 08└─You're from New Hampshire, right?
[08:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:11] <exec> 08└─West Coast, actually. If I had to characterize myself, which seems to be your real question, it would be a hippie beach bum from Orange County. So... is New Hampshire the home of freedom fanatics like me or something?
[08:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:12] <exec> 08└─New Hampshire's motto is live free or die.
[08:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:14] <exec> 08└─They also don't mandate usage of seatbelts in cars, so there's that kind freedom... It's more of a I will participate in death because I an dumb enough to exercise my freedom to not wear my seatbelt.
[08:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:16] <exec> 08└─"I will resist at all costs, including my death, any attempts to curtail my freedoms guaranteed to me by the U.S Constitution and basic human rights." Our constitutionally guaranteed rights are violated every day.
[08:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Funny) 02Close the libraries and theaters... - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:17] <exec> 08└─Like 1984 before it, Gattaca wasn't intended to be a manual.
[08:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Close the libraries and theaters... - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:19] <exec> 08└─What I think you meant to say that 1984 wasn't a manual - and Gattaca wasn't supposed to be an add-expansion pack for it!
[08:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:21] <exec> 08└─They have never known a world without The Simpsons The American ones have never known a politically gridlocked Congress They have never had to learn how to program on finicky mini-computers and mainframes (as I did) They have always had a mobile phone They have always had free domestic long distance...
[08:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"We may be the generation that sees Armageddon." - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:22] <exec> 08└─Ronald Reagan said that during the 1980 campaign. The very height of the Cold War was not the Cuban Missile Crisis.
[08:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02USAian aggression continues to threaten the planet - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:24] <exec> 08└─The very height of the Cold War was not the Cuban Missile Crisis. Humankind is very lucky that "The other guy blinked" in 1962. The young, cocky, inexperienced US President kept playing Chicken with the USSR, a nuclear-armed nation capable of destroying the planet's ecosystem. [wikipedia.org] If it...
[08:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02H20 offers _some_ free foreign long distance - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:26] <exec> 08└─its a reseller for AT&T. But only if you call a land line, and only in certain countries. The prices on land lines are a scam.
[08:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:28] <exec> 08└─1. The Simpsons was just beginning its decline when they were born 2. Yes they have. What the fuck do you think 2010-today has been? 3. By the time they were old enough to learn to even maybe program, they could have been learning mobile development 4. Addressed in the article, 1997 phones were gian...
[08:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:1) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:29] <exec> 08└─I disagree on #1, I happen to like the new Simpson, since the switch to widescreen they double down on lighthearted absurdities.
[08:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:31] <exec> 08└─Simpsons is OK if you don't mind the fact that it's 95% recycled content by volume. I haven't bothered to watch in years because it got to the point where they were just assembling new episodes out of old jokes. It was still funny, but it never did any better than in the 7th season.
[08:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:33] <exec> 08└─The Republican party has always been dominated by neo-con, semi-fascist idiots
[08:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Mr. Conservative'' circa 1964 - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:35] <exec> 08└─Barry Goldwater was the Republican presidential candidate in 1964, running against LBJ. In that previous generation, the guy they called "Mr. Conservative" had a vision of a very muscular USA military. (He retired from the USAF Reserve as a Major General (2 stars)). You may find it shocking, however...
[08:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:36] <exec> 08└─They have always had access to legal abortion (in the US), which is in my mind not a good thing but that's my sense of morality talking The Republican party has always been dominated by neo-con, semi-fascist idiots
[08:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:38] <exec> 08└─Or just self-aware.
[08:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:40] <exec> 08└─Not at all. I find the practice of abortion to be abhorrent, but that does not make me a neo-con or a semi-fascist idiot. It's not an "all or nothing" thing. You won't find me standing in front of an abortion clinic carrying gory pictures of aborted fetuses. But I won't shed any tears if it is banne...
[08:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:42] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the Benoit list seemed plodding and unimaginative. Newspapers, magazines, and cable TV is how old people get the news. The idea of a personal computer without a connection to the Internet (except temporarily, as in a airline trip) is ludicrous. What could that be used for? Minicomputers were a...
[08:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:43] <exec> 08└─No, they didn't. Like the other annual lists (there are several others, the most depressing of which is probably the one of works that would have entered the US public domain had various copyright extension laws not been passed), this is a list of things that changed specifically for those born in t...
[08:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:45] <exec> 08└─They have never known a world without Rohypnol.
[08:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Too Soon - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:47] <exec> 08└─I felt like that list was really reaching. The state song of Virginia? Who the hell in Virginia even knows what that is? The last time I saw such a list was 10 years ago. That one was surprising, and it included many of the things this list like "email is the new formal communication--texting is cas...
[08:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Times change! - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:49] <exec> 08└─They have never seen fuel for less than 1$ a gallon. They can't remember walking through an airport without TSA. They can't remember the US not fighting in the middle-east. Music/MP3s have always been easily downloadable. They have always had GPS.
[08:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Times change! - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:51] <exec> 08└─They can't remember walking through an airport without TSA.
[08:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Times change! - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:52] <exec> 08└─First positive thing i've heard about the TSA : )
[08:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Times change! - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:54] <exec> 08└─Meh, easily done without the TSA. Just need a point of no entry without ticket. We had metal detectors before the TSA, the people running them could have asked to see tickets.
[08:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Times change! - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:56] <exec> 08└─Ahh, but do you remember getting on a commercial flight WITHOUT metal detectors... yeah I'm old.
[08:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Times change! - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:03:58] <exec> 08└─That wasn't due to the TSA, but the actions of the heroic Captain Rex Kramer [youtube.com].
[08:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score:2) 02Curious item in the list - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:00] <exec> 08└─43. Humans have always had implanted radio frequency ID chips—slightly larger than a grain of rice.
[08:04:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Curious item in the list - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:01] <exec> 08└─You weren't supposed to know about that one, citizen.
[08:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:1) 02Look forward to it - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:03] <exec> 08└─I look forward to this list ever year. Some years are better than others, but mostly, it's an interesting snapshot of some of the facts and world events (or lack of) that help define a particular group of people. I've found it especially helpful working in high-ed to remind myself of the ever growin...
[08:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kell [292] (Score:2) 02Re:Look forward to it - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:05] <exec> 08└─I feel it too - I was astonished when none of my students got TOP GUN references. So sad.
[08:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02AOL, Turbo Buttons, Clippy - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:06] <exec> 08└─Aka, the good ole days.
[08:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:AOL, Turbo Buttons, Clippy - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:08] <exec> 08└─They never knew what it was like for females to willingly get drunk and have sex with you and not call it "rape." They never knew what it was like to have only two types of queers - gays and lesbians. They never knew what it was like when cell phones and laptop computers in the classroom were not on...
[08:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AOL, Turbo Buttons, Clippy - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:10] <exec> 08└─Everybody pulled their weight... Those were the days!
[08:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02E-F's list - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:11] <exec> 08└─Purposely offensive at several points but accurate at several others. the official language of business There's an old saying: You can buy in any language. [google.com] To sell, OTOH, you have to speak your customer's language. American Exceptionalism [wikipedia.org] has kept a large number of USAia...
[08:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Never not - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:13] <exec> 08└─Never Not Known
[08:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Re:Never not - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:15] <exec> 08└─They use VHDL...
[08:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Never not - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:16] <exec> 08└─"always" was how they would've said it in 1996
[08:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score:2) 02AAAAAAAAA!!!! - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:18] <exec> 08└─Now I feel very old! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!??
[08:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Must be employee - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:20] <exec> 08└─Macy's is designed for people, not robots. I feel sorry for the employees who will have this tacked onto their responsibility list - I'm sure that the cute concept is designed to make the process feel automated and impersonal so you aren't guilted by the person's efforts to assist you. I cannot spea...
[08:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Must be employee - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:22] <exec> 08└─Good news though! Sometime they're figure out how to totally automate it, and fire that poor beleaguered employee. Yay capitalism in the age of pure automation!
[08:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Amazon clothing size reviews - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:23] <exec> 08└─One may provide feedback to Amazon as to how accurate the size of the clothing really is as delivered as compared to what one ordered. Men's clothing is reasonably accurate but women's sizes are all over the map. Women should not stand for this but try telling one to boycott a clothing brand.
[08:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Must be employee - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:25] <exec> 08└─"I feel sorry for the employees who will have this tacked onto their responsibility list" If the suggestion here is that shopping at Macy's results in more unhappy employees so shop at Amazon instead I think Amazon has been in the news lately for their allegedly unhappy employees. I guess the differ...
[08:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Misses the point - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:27] <exec> 08└─I have the feeling that this wouldn't help much. It's not that people like to shop online because it's so much more fun, but because it's a million times easier to compare prices between different stores. Once a customer is in a store he/she probably doesn't mind browsing (literally!), probably pref...
[08:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Misses the point - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:29] <exec> 08└─The *only* reason I shop for cloths at a store is because every brand has a different idea what 'size' is. So yes I *DO* have to try on your pants before I buy them. Because you say it is 34x32 it is actually 34x30. I did not suddenly gain 2 inches. I may in the other direction though :) Try the nex...
[08:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Misses the point - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:30] <exec> 08└─The *only* reason I shop for cloths at a store is because every brand has a different idea what 'size' is.
[08:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misses the point - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:32] <exec> 08└─Exactly my point. On top of that even from the same brand you can have 2 shirts that look identical. Same 'sizes' but one fits and the other doesnt. Why because someone didnt make the shirt correctly. There is a staggering amount of badly made clothing out there.
[08:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Misses the point - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:34] <exec> 08└─Sooo, would the dressing-room-tablets be an advantage for you? I completely agree with you, about size and fit and material and whatnot, and actually trying something on makes a huge difference. But even before you try something on, just looking at it and feeling it makes a big difference as well. S...
[08:04:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Misses the point - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:36] <exec> 08└─The advantage of shopping online is that there is less shopping involved. If you compare prices, there's less involved in that, but if you don't, there' still less. Yes, this kind of shopping does bring some of the online advantages to the offline. I'd much rather have this for clothes shopping.
[08:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Misses the point - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 1316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:39] <exec> 08└─This idea sounds like a disaster. On the surface, it sounds reasonable: you're in the dressing room trying on some yoga pants (from TFS), and they don't fit, so you tap a few times on the tablet in there to request a different size, and some faceless employee grabs them off the rack and drops them i...
[08:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Misses the point - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:42] <exec> 08└─Employees? This sounds like a job for robots. Taking something out of a rack and dropping it in a chute is the perfect job for it. You don't even need to take the clothes from the shop, directly from the storage is less disruptive anyway.
[08:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nail_Biter [4135] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Cameras in every dressing room - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:46] <exec> 08└─...oh and let's connect them to the internet. This is going to end badly.
[08:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Cameras in every dressing room - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:49] <exec> 08└─This. On the other hand, I'm pretty sure facebook/instagram/others already have "look what she's trying on (whether she realizes it or not)" patented, and the Japanese have patented what precedes it in the changing room.
[08:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03wolfinator [3173] (Score:1) 02Re:Cameras in every dressing room - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:53] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to combine that with the security conscious IT that retailers [washingtonpost.com] are known for [cnn.com]!
[08:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cameras in every dressing room - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:04:55] <exec> 08└─Speaking of Target (your first link), they made the news today claiming that 450 of their stores are also warehouses for internet delivery. It seems they were so good at filling online orders that the shelves are often out of stock for brick and mortar customers... So they haven't quite got it right...
[08:04:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Chutes - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:57] <exec> 08└─Just had visions of wallace getting up in the morning, hope they don't deliver the wrong trousers.
[08:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02naive marginal progress - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:58] <exec> 08└─Any day now someone'll make something like a hybrid between digital quilting machines and 3D printers, in combination with a camera-enabled app, and disrupt the entire garment industry with the advent of cheap, ubiquitous digital tailoring that allows clothing to be made on demand perfectly customiz...
[08:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Boulders - 06Three Years into its Mission, Curiosity's Stunning Martian Panorama - 1352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:00] <exec> 08└─How is it they think those boulders form? This is apparently how it is thought to happen on Earth: Sedimentary rocks are often saturated with seawater or groundwater, in which minerals can dissolve or from which minerals can precipitate. Precipitating minerals reduce the pore space in a rock, a proc...
[08:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Boulders - 06Three Years into its Mission, Curiosity's Stunning Martian Panorama - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:02] <exec> 08└─There is no water on Mars though.
[08:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boulders - 06Three Years into its Mission, Curiosity's Stunning Martian Panorama - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:04] <exec> 08└─So you think that they think the rocks formed the same way as on earth except billions of years ago? Also, I guess maybe those rocks are basalt rather than sedimentary, which is formed from lava (I know nothing of geology). I don't get how it would form those shapes. Id expect something flatter like...
[08:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Just round this next bend - 06Three Years into its Mission, Curiosity's Stunning Martian Panorama - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:06] <exec> 08└─Just around this next bend, look off to the left, and you'll see Shiprock. Errr, wait, maybe not. I don't see any barbed wire along the highway!
[08:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02New contest... - 06Three Years into its Mission, Curiosity's Stunning Martian Panorama - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:07] <exec> 08└─You get a Nobel prize if you're the first to spot Waldo
[08:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New contest... - 06Three Years into its Mission, Curiosity's Stunning Martian Panorama - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:09] <exec> 08└─What about bigfoot https://www.google.com [google.com]
[08:05:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Been there, Done that. - 06Three Years into its Mission, Curiosity's Stunning Martian Panorama - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:11] <exec> 08└─1997: http://93.174.104.65 [93.174.104.65]
[08:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:4, Interesting) 02That was sooner than I expected - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:13] <exec> 08└─I expected holographic televisions first, where there's glass between you and the image. All you would need is a high enough resolution LCD and three lasers (and related electronics, of course). They had holograms in a physics class I took back in the 1970s. Of course, back then they were film holog...
[08:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:That was sooner than I expected - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:14] <exec> 08└─There are some incredible holograms at Disney in the Haunted Mansion. On your way out there's a huge mirror, and in the mirror there's a monster in the car with you (I worked at Disney in the '80s).
[08:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:That was sooner than I expected - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:16] <exec> 08└─You're probably right, at least about most of them. There's a talking witch's head in a crystal ball, and if it's animatronics I'd be surprised.
[08:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2, Funny) 02Wording - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:18] <exec> 08└─"Holograms Without Screens That Float and Can Be Touched" Well, damn, I wanted holograms **WITH** those "Screens That Float and Can Be Touched"
[08:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score:1, Redundant) 02Re:Wording - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:20] <exec> 08└─"Holograms Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched" or even "Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched"
[08:05:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Redundant) 02Re:Wording - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:21] <exec> 08└─Your pedantry is strong and really fucking boring too.
[08:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Wording - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:23] <exec> 08└─"Des hologrammes sans écran, flottants et qui peuvent être touchés !" Original title, comma position preserved. Your translation is welcome.
[08:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Safety protocols - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:25] <exec> 08└─So first, the technology is dangerous
[08:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Safety protocols - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:27] <exec> 08└─That'll end well.
[08:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Safety protocols - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:29] <exec> 08└─Doubt it's still safe if one of the beams go into your eyes. So a technology that can be touched in complete safety might still be dangerous.
[08:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Finally... - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:30] <exec> 08└─Now it might be safe and efficient enough for the best lightsaber toys ever, if it can get microtized to fit and with a good enough battery and/or efficiency... Just need to do a simple continuous linear or tubular sweep instead of bothering to make it a whole display system. Bonus: can we modulate...
[08:05:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Obvious first application - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:32] <exec> 08└─We may have to introduce the 50's-style propaganda films: Don't Date Holograms!
[08:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02How will the ... - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:33] <exec> 08└─... porn industry adapt this technology. It's really all that matters. Once they get behind it (no phun) others will follow.
[08:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:How will the ... - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:35] <exec> 08└─I won't try to be a pioneer in the research of penile sensitivity to plasma shockwaves... You can get all the credit.
[08:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:How will the ... - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sure one of them japanese fellas will solve it. They said it was supposed to be safe to the touch ... Unless it burns horribly or something they have just discovered or introduced tactile sensation to their product line.
[08:05:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Miku - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:38] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be surprised if the next wave of Vocaloid concerts start using this technology. They pack enough of an audience in those shows even with the glass screen models.
[08:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Miku + pr0n - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:40] <exec> 08└─Does this mean we, who can't get a human female to save ourselves, can finally get our own anime girl? Or maybe those expensive sex dolls will become more than dolls, with only a few necessary parts in meat/rubber-space and the rest made of this hologram stuff. I'm really wondering now if the year 2...
[08:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Miku + pr0n - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:42] <exec> 08└─They banned men marrying girl children. You used to beable to get "and anime girl" for all of human existance. Young girls act like girls. What makes you think the cunts wouldn't ban that too?
[08:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OOooHhh! How Touching! - Q, ST:TNG - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:44] <exec> 08└─nt
[08:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Sound - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:45] <exec> 08└─When i saw this technology before it was extremely loud. Just imagine the sound associated with creating that plasma! In the video they say the femtosecond lasers are quieter than nanosecond ones but i'm not believing it. The sound comes from the plasma being created, not the laser. Smaller "hologra...
[08:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Sound - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:47] <exec> 08└─The haptic feedback is great! I wonder what it feels like?
[08:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sound - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:49] <exec> 08└─I wonder what it smells like? Seems like making the plasma might also make ozone as a by-product, that nice fresh smell after a T-storm...which (so I've heard) also turns your lungs to leather if you breathe it too often.
[08:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Sound - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:51] <exec> 08└─The article links to the other article with the larger and louder and unsafe to touch tech. The video is quite amazing. I'll take one unsafe for touch holographic lightsaber, please.
[08:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02sigh - definition misuse - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:52] <exec> 08└─Much like the term hacker was misused then completely destroyed, so will the term holography.
[08:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Re:sigh - definition misuse - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:54] <exec> 08└─This looks more like a step in the right direction as far as the "holodeck" hologram is concerned as opposed to your random pessimism.
[08:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sigh - definition misuse - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:56] <exec> 08└─Its not random at all, its quite targeted to the misuse and perversion of yet another term due to the public's stupidity.
[08:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sigh - definition misuse - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:05:58] <exec> 08└─Well, we have windows 10 at least. No one has seen to it to sully the name of Windows with a ridiculous use of the word as applied to a popular misconception. For that, we have Chrome!
[08:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score:2) 02Paycheck - Monitor of the Future - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:00] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the monitor of the future that Ben Affleck's character reverse engineered at the start of the movie. Now, if this technology wasn't "just 10 years away" . . .
[08:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:01] <exec> 08└─What I believe is, it's past time for the world community to wade into that mess, and put a stop to it. No, I'm not talking about kicking asses, and taking names. I'm talking about putting mad dogs down. We keep hearing that Islam is a religion of peace. Well, if that be true, then the rest of Islam...
[08:06:02] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 558 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:03] <exec> 08└─Ooops - apologies. I realize that many of you don't know what Daesh is. This article should aid in your understanding - https://www.bostonglobe.com [bostonglobe.com] PLEASE, stop referring to those animals as "ISIS"...
[08:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:05] <exec> 08└─Well, if that be true, then the rest of Islam should cooperate with the world community in putting their mad dogs down.
[08:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:07] <exec> 08└─I don't think there's too much doubt that Saudi Arabia and Qatar are among the biggest funders of ISIS. I don't think the average Muslim person in either of those countries would be particularly happy about what ISIS does, but since when do repressive governments like Saudi Arabia care what their su...
[08:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 1962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:08] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It is OK to call any people "animals", since it is literally true. But they are also obviously, plainly, uncontroversially "human" in every sense of the word. Most people who claim to be members of the Islamic State obviously think of their actions as ba...
[08:06:09] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:10] <exec> 08└─We keep hearing that Islam is a religion of peace. Well, if that be true, then the rest of Islam should cooperate with the world community in putting their mad dogs down.
[08:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:12] <exec> 08└─> Why are 1.7 billion Muslims somehow responsible for ISIS Good point. I sure hope 350 million Americans aren't responsible for them either.
[08:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:13] <exec> 08└─Well, America created the political situation that allowed them to thrive, so yes, America is responsible.
[08:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but for nut jobs like them you don't need to create anything. They'll do it all by themselves.
[08:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:17] <exec> 08└─No, you have to create something. Namely a space where they can grow to become a serious problem before anyone stops them. You think they would have had the slightest chance under Saddam Hussein?
[08:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:19] <exec> 08└─America created the political mess that is the Middle East? You, sir, are an ignorant dumbass that needs glasses that can look back a couple thousand years.
[08:06:20] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:20] <exec> 08└─Daesh didn't form 1000 years ago. It didn't form 500 years ago. It didn't even form 50 years ago. It didn't form until America entered Iraq, removed its government, and then didn't do the tedious job of rebuilding it into a reasonable state, but left it in a desolate condition. This power vacuum the...
[08:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:22] <exec> 08└─"America is responsible" sounds very like an arrogant "White Man's Burden" view of the situation. There's much more to it than that. Invading Iraq was a major blunder. The neocons oversimplified the problems, and mostly got it all wrong. They went charging in, pretending even to themselves that they...
[08:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:24] <exec> 08└─"America is responsible" sounds very like an arrogant "White Man's Burden" view of the situation. There's much more to it than that. Invading Iraq was a major blunder. The neocons oversimplified the problems, and mostly got it all wrong. They went charging in, pretending even to themselves that they...
[08:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:26] <exec> 08└─You, also, are neglecting to distinguish between groups given a name, and individuals given the same name. Very few of the individuals would agree with the actions that the "group with the same name" takes. This is why authoritarians love hierarchies--most people don't get a real voice, and certainl...
[08:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:27] <exec> 08└─The majority of Americans voted for a second term of Goerge W. Bush. Which shows that they did agree and actively support his politics. That's the difference between a democracy and a dictatorship. In a democracy, the citizens share some of the blame, because they could do something about it. In a d...
[08:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:29] <exec> 08└─Off topic? Really?
[08:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:31] <exec> 08└─Correction. That was supposed to be 1.57 billion. Don't get me wrong, I think they're animals that need to be taken out as well. I just think that holding 22% of the worlds population responsible for them based on their religion is inexcusable.
[08:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:33] <exec> 08└─Has the Protestant movement been responsible for the KKK? Well - yes, actually. A predominantly Protestant nation has indeed passed the laws to deal with those racist assholes, and that same predominantly Protestant nation has gone to some effort to enforce those laws. This shit incenses you? Well,...
[08:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:34] <exec> 08└─A predominantly Protestant nation has indeed passed the laws to deal with those racist assholes, and that same predominantly Protestant nation has gone to some effort to enforce those laws.
[08:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:36] <exec> 08└─What is your point?
[08:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:38] <exec> 08└─The very fact that he attributes all of this (good or bad) to the prevailing religion shows the bigotry behind his thinking.
[08:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:40] <exec> 08└─Is a parent not responsible for their children? Abramaic religions preach and control through a similar relationship between the followers and the one true god.
[08:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 1560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:41] <exec> 08└─Funny you say that...You realize that saying that a religion is to blame for the actions of a number of people, even when they use it as a justification for their actions is on almost the same level as blaming people with a different skin color are to blame for thievery (the difference being that yo...
[08:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:43] <exec> 08└─Those are all very fine academic arguments. Maybe you can arrange to bring Daesh into Academia, sot that nice academic solutions to the world's problems can be found. I'm not holding my breath, waiting for that to happen. Fact is, the world community needs to smash Daesh, and those Muslims you are d...
[08:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:45] <exec> 08└─Smash, burn, murder, gallows, chopping, and ditching...DIE! ah...the delights of seeing the world simple. Why strive for being civilized if you can just join the fun and burn and pillage (on either side of the conflict)... Interestingly, the guy killed in the FA was an Academic. He was also a Muslim...
[08:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:47] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, the guy killed in the FA was an Academic. He was also a Muslim. He defended his Academic interest and paid with his life. Did he not step up and take his responsibility? There are thousands like him and they are all heroes. But it is still silly to hold them as a group responsible for...
[08:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:48] <exec> 08└─A predominantly Protestant nation has indeed passed the laws to deal with those
[08:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Just so you know - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:50] <exec> 08└─I have close to zero respect for the SPLC.
[08:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Just so you know - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:52] <exec> 08└─Why? I'm genuinely curious. I've never heard a single bad thing about them. I noticed you were modded insightful, and I'm curious as to why.
[08:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just so you know - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:54] <exec> 08└─If you were curious you should have googled for it. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.breitbart.com [breitbart.com] http://www.motherjones.com
[08:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Just so you know - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:55] <exec> 08└─AC summed it all up very nicely - and I'll thank him for that link about Dr. Ben Carson being an extremist. Wow - holy shit - a man who spent his career advancing the state of the art in neuroscience, saving many, many lives along the way - he's an EXTREMIST?!?!?! Fact is, the SPLC is itself an extr...
[08:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Just so you know - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:57] <exec> 08└─Because last I checked they simply pretend groups like the Black Panthers do not exist or "don't count" because they tend to support the left, even when the leader of the BPP was calling for the extermination of white people? A hate group is a hate group is a hate group, no matter their party affili...
[08:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:06:59] <exec> 08└─Has the Protestant movement been responsible for the KKK? Well - yes, actually. A predominantly Protestant nation has indeed passed the laws to deal with those racist assholes, and that same predominantly Protestant nation has gone to some effort to enforce those laws.
[08:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:01] <exec> 08└─That is one perspective. Another perspective is that this nation was so sickened by slavery that it fought a civil war in protest of slavery. Having settled the question of slavery, the nation has gone on to combat terrorism against the former slaves. I am not committing to that position - it is mer...
[08:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:02] <exec> 08└─The difference is the KKK isn't waging war on everyone which isn't them and cutting off the heads of archaeologists. In the rare cases when they do commit crimes they are treated as criminals. ISIS and friends are treated with little more than a shaking finger at best in the Islamic world.
[08:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:04] <exec> 08└─> A predominantly Protestant nation has indeed passed the laws to deal with those racist assholes, It just took them over a century to do it. And if you don't think protestantism created the KKK, you haven't been paying attention. Those fuckers put burning crosses on the land of the people they are...
[08:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:06] <exec> 08└─You are a gamergater too aren't you?
[08:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:07] <exec> 08└─Honestly you should watch the video.
[08:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:09] <exec> 08└─Why are 1.7 billion Muslims somehow responsible for ISIS...relatively speaking, an infinitesimal minority of their numbers.
[08:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:11] <exec> 08└─For example, the Khymer Rouge probably could be similarly dismissed as a "infinitesimal minority" of Cambodia, until they took over and killed more than a million people.
[08:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:13] <exec> 08└─Seriously bad analogy. The bottom of your fraction (the population of Cambodia at that time) was less than 8 million people. How does that compare to blaming 1.57 billion Muslims all over the world for the actions of ISIS?
[08:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:14] <exec> 08└─Insightful? Really mods? Its in fact a PERFECT analogy as a majority that does nothing does not matter, for some examples see the last century. the majority of Soviets were nice people, but that didn't stop Stalin from killing over 40 million, did it? I'm sure the average German didn't support the c...
[08:07:15] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:16] <exec> 08└─Well, if that be true, then the rest of Islam should cooperate with the world community in putting their mad dogs down.
[08:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:18] <exec> 08└─Turkey. Let me offer you a new source of news - http://kurdishdailynews.org [kurdishdailynews.org]
[08:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:19] <exec> 08└─Turkey considers the Kurds their enemy and treats them accordingly. That's not news, nor is it surprising: the Kurds have been in armed rebellion against the Turkish government for decades. But your position was that Muslims were not fighting Daesh. That Turkey is also fighting the PKK does not refu...
[08:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:21] <exec> 08└─"But your position was that Muslims were not fighting Daesh." I don't think that I said that. Nor was it my intent to imply that. It WAS my intent to imply that Islam in general is far to tolerant of Daesh, and all the lesser militant groups.
[08:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:23] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight: Your argument is "Muslims are too tolerant of Daesh ... and the fact that a lot of Muslims are currently taking the lead in defeating Daesh is irrelevant"?
[08:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Disagree) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:25] <exec> 08└─"It WAS my intent to imply that Islam in general is far to tolerant of Daesh, and all the lesser militant groups." Recruits from around the world are making their way to Iraq and Syria, mostly by way of Turkey, to join Daesh. These people were taught by SOMEONE that Daesh' goals are laudable, even a...
[08:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Post-Nihilist [5672] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:26] <exec> 08└─Adil Charkaoui [wikipedia.org] is one of those hyenas. He is an expert at using western democracies to avoid imprisonment and deportation while teaching that democracy is bad and that being a desert hyena is good. p.s. if you know of an animal more hateful and coward than the hyenas please reply, I...
[08:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:28] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a rat—besides the obvious I understand that they are considered "servants of Satan" by muslims. Failing that, you could hardly go wrong with "pig".
[08:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:30] <exec> 08└─How dare you compare us large rodents to ISIS?! Rats are decent creatures with moral fiber, unlike ISIS, which is probably why they always have the shits.
[08:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:31] <exec> 08└─What's wrong with hyenas? Yeah, that have a weird laughing sound, and they mostly feed on carrion, but so what? Someone needs to clean up dead carcasses. As for rats and pigs (which someone else suggested), what's wrong with them? Rats are intelligent (really, really intelligent for their size and s...
[08:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:33] <exec> 08└─the mosquito, [...] animals which really serve no useful purpose in the natural order
[08:07:34] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:35] <exec> 08└─WHO IS TEACHING YOUNG PEOPLE THAT IT IS ACCEPTABLE TO BECOME A JIHADIST?!?!?!?!?!
[08:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:37] <exec> 08└─Exaggerate, much? You seem to suggest that I've called on the western world to just nuke the mideast. Atrocities? That is what is happening right now, today, everywhere within Daesh's power. Did you read the story about - uhhmm, I think it was 19 - women put to death because they refused to marry th...
[08:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:38] <exec> 08└─Is it an atrocity to kill a man who is standing over the bodies of women and children he has butchered? If so, then I'm all for atrocities. There's a whole bunch of groups of armed Muslims fighting Daesh right now; do you think they're worried about fighting them fairly? I don't. I'm sure the Kurds,...
[08:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 1873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:40] <exec> 08└─Then it's time we did OUR PART. The Kurds have been clamoring for the weapons needed to do the job. Turkey objects to arming the Kurds. The US is honoring Turkey's objections. The Kurds have done a magnificent job, considering their very limited resources. The United States and Europe need to supply...
[08:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:42] <exec> 08└─> WHO IS TEACHING YOUNG PEOPLE THAT IT IS ACCEPTABLE TO BECOME A JIHADIST?!?!?!?!?! You are. Look in the mirror, half your life is dedicated to preaching that the only good muslim is a former muslim. Your entire worldview is defined by your belief that regular and crazy and are interchangeable. And...
[08:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:44] <exec> 08└─half your life is dedicated to preaching that the only good muslim is a former muslim
[08:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:45] <exec> 08└─People like you, who discriminate them. They want to fight back against that...and there just happens to be an organization that seeks them out...
[08:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03M. Baranczak [1673] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:47] <exec> 08└─Back on topic: this story is about Khaled al-Asaad, a guy who stood up to those swine, and paid for it with his life. So far, you haven't said a word about him. I'm gonna go out on a limb, and say he was probably a Moslem. Just like most of the victims of ISIS (or whatever the hell they're called no...
[08:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:49] <exec> 08└─"Just like most of the victims of ISIS" Bingo. Most of the victims of Daesh HAVE BEEN Muslims. But, that will change, eventually. Once Daesh has executed all the convenient victims, they'll move abroad, looking for more victims. Your neighborhood, mine, they'll get to all of us in turn. And, once ag...
[08:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02News headlines for today: #17 will shock you! - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:51] <exec> 08└─As if we hadn't dumbed down our information sources enough.
[08:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News headlines for today: #17 will shock you! - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:52] <exec> 08└─As if we hadn't dumbed down our information sources enough.
[08:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02is anybody NOT thinking... - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:54] <exec> 08└─...there goes BuzzFeed? It seems that any time these big companies purchase websites and get their idiot MBAs to try and create value from the purchase, it results in the death of the site. Fun fact for you: the average age of decision makers on boards of directors is 63. Theis sounds like another o...
[08:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is anybody NOT thinking... - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:56] <exec> 08└─No, I'm actually thinking there goes NBC Universal. Have you ever even been to Buzzfeed?
[08:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:is anybody NOT thinking... - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:58] <exec> 08└─This one crazy thing that will kill buzzfeed that NBC does not want you to know click here to find out
[08:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Funny thing - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:59] <exec> 08└─Traditional media companies have merged with online media before, such as the Time-Warner/AOL deal and News Corporation's acquisition of MySpace. Can it work this time, or are the cultures of the two realms fundamentally incompatible?
[08:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Err ... - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:01] <exec> 08└─On the risk of having to hand in my geek card: WTF is BuzzFeed? You could at least have included a Wikipedia link.
[08:08:02] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03WizardFusion [498] 02Re:Err ... - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:03] <exec> 08└─From what little I know, it takes days old (sometimes hours old) stories from Reddit and posts them as "News" That's about the extent of my knowledge on them and their functionality as a web service.
[08:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Err ... - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:05] <exec> 08└─If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's a clickbait site that operates in a format similar to Cracked (which is almost as bad) except it's less content and more gifs. That is, vapid top 10 lists and topics an inch deep and mile wide that no thinking person cares about to begin with. This is a 'nothing...
[08:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Err ... - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:06] <exec> 08└─At least Cracked is original content in both their magazine and online, and isn't one-slided. Buzzfeed is regurgitation of other sites' work.
[08:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Err ... - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:08] <exec> 08└─I didn't know, either, but I just took a quick look at buzzfeed.com. Imagine a tabloid [wikipedia.org], but on the WWW.
[08:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02systematic - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:10] <exec> 08└─"Their systematic campaign seeks to take us back into pre-history. But they will not succeed."
[08:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NBC invests $400 million in Clinton campaign - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:12] <exec> 08└─There's a conspiracy theory going around that this money is meant to fund "journalists" of a specific partisan slant. Given that NBC has its own competing news operation that could have used the money, it makes one wonder.
[08:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:NBC invests $400 million in Clinton campaign - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:13] <exec> 08└─There's a conspiracy theory going around that this money is meant to fund "journalists" of a specific partisan slant. Given that NBC has its own competing news operation that could have used the money, it makes one wonder.
[08:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NBC invests $400 million in Clinton campaign - 06A Shift in the Media Landscape: NBC Invests in Buzzfeed - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:15] <exec> 08└─Damn excellent.
[08:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Insightful) 02That's their job - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:17] <exec> 08└─They are an R&D funding agency responsible for this kind of thing. They fund research all the time. They are a very large organization. If you work for a university or company, big or small, and you have wonderful ideas about Internet stuff like security, protocols, etc. you too can apply for resear...
[08:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's their job - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:19] <exec> 08└─To expand on this: It is the "National Security Agency" NOT "National Spy Agency". They may have lost their way trying to chase after terrorists or something.
[08:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:That's their job - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, they are, which is a comment I've made before as well. The quandary they, and similar agencies, seem to be having is that the two roles - securing the nation against hostile powers and gathering intelligence on those hostile powers - often conflict, and when they do they need to choose one or t...
[08:08:21] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] 02Re:That's their job - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:22] <exec> 08└─Ummm... So: $299 K for reasearch, $10.8 Billion for spying. Okay, got it. Spying is not the "only" thing they do.
[08:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:That's their job - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 828 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:24] <exec> 08└─Best to not get caught up in the semantics of naming. How many recent PACs have had names like "committee for the preservation of liberty and freedom" when in reality all they're doing is funneling money to special-interest congressmen for business interests? These days, names mean little. They may...
[08:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:That's their job - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:26] <exec> 08└─They aren't monolithic. It's not totally unreasonable that some division within the NSA is actually funding real security. The problem is, you can never be sure that it's not the spys pretending to be good guys, and they've so manipulated the laws (see NSL) that to count on them being helpful is fol...
[08:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Re:That's their job - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:28] <exec> 08└─You get ten points for having a sig. that basically coMplements your post,
[08:08:28] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:That's their job - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:29] <exec> 08└─Because of them doing things like bribing RSA to weaken their security many of us have trouble trusting *anything* they're involved with, and for good reason, I think.
[08:08:30] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03nyder [4525] 02Re:That's their job - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:31] <exec> 08└─Sort of hard not to think of the NSA as the creepy guy when they are spying on all of us. Just because they fund stuff doesn't make them good. It's like saying John Wayne Gacy wasn't all bad, because he used to dress up as a clown for kids.
[08:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02I know! - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:33] <exec> 08└─I know how to make a safer IOT. Start pulling chips out of appliances. Jerk those chips out, and throw them in the trash. If the appliance stops working due to the lack of a chip, send it back to the manufacturer. The manufacturer's incompetence resulted in an unsafe "internet of things", so he can...
[08:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 022 in 1... - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:35] <exec> 08└─The basic thing about NSA is that it both spies on the communications of "others" and safeguard the communications of the US government. The latter is what ends up crossing into things like producing SELinux.
[08:08:35] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] 02"Safe" - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:36] <exec> 08└─How to have a safer Internet of Things: Do not connect your Things to the Internet without a damn good reason. There are no good reasons to connect your refrigerator, toaster, or breadbox to the Internet. There are somewhat good reasons to connect your oven or coffee pot to a network (for home autom...
[08:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Safe" - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:38] <exec> 08└─Agreed. LAN of Things is fine for me but absolutely no IoT ever.
[08:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Safe" - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:40] <exec> 08└─There are no good reasons to connect your refrigerator, toaster, or breadbox to the Internet.
[08:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Safe" - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:41] <exec> 08└─sudo make me a sandwich --fastest
[08:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Safe" - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:43] <exec> 08└─And after you eat it... sudo gas chromatography && flush toilet
[08:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:4, Insightful) 02I still don't get it. - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:45] <exec> 08└─I don't WANT my things on the internet. I don't want a hackable TV, I want the computer to just send a picture to it and sound to the stereo. I have no need to adjust my fridge or air conditioner when I'm not home. I see very little upside to an "internet of things" and huge downsides.
[08:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:I still don't get it. - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:47] <exec> 08└─I don't want a hackable TV
[08:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:I still don't get it. - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:48] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, anything's hackable if it's in your hands. When I was a teenager I made guitar fuzzboxes out of broken transistor radios. But I don't want it remotely hackable. I'm still running XP on one computer, so of course the network cable is unplugged. It's no longer remotely hackable, so it's sil...
[08:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:I still don't get it. - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:50] <exec> 08└─Have you tried Windows 7 Tiny? It only uses 145Mb of RAM on the desktop and is less than 2GB installed so it will run quite well even on seriously old hardware. The oldest hardware I tried it on was a P3 with IIRC 640Mb of RAM, the result? The majority of the OS ran in RAM, it was quite zippy, and b...
[08:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I still don't get it. - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:52] <exec> 08└─Every TV is hackable. If you don't believe it, take an axe and try for yourself. ;-)
[08:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Two things... - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:54] <exec> 08└─First: $300k is nothing. This is a tiny project, testing out a couple of simple ideas. Second, we come to the question: "Why would the NSA invest in a project that would make it harder for them to spy on you?" The answer is simple: get in on the ground floor, influence the architecture. That way you...
[08:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Why would the NSA do it? - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:56] <exec> 08└─"Why would the NSA invest in a project that would make it harder for them to spy on you?" The answer is simple: get in on the ground floor, influence the architecture. That way you know where the weaknesses are and how to exploit them. Heck, when it comes time for implementation, you can probably b...
[08:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Propaganda comments - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:57] <exec> 08└─The fuck is with all those comments in that Sophos Naked Security blog that advocate for unconstitutional human rights-violating mass surveillance for security purposes? In general, I get absolutely depressed reading any article about mass surveillance except in places like this, because it seems ot...
[08:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03albert [276] (Score:2) 02Re:Propaganda comments - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:59] <exec> 08└─it seems other websites are filled with authoritarians and/or government shills
[08:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Propaganda comments - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:01] <exec> 08└─Well, you're one of the few people here who is foolish enough to argue for unconstitutional human-rights violating mass surveillance. Congratulations. cold fjord was a similar fool on that other site, only he was a fan of irrelevant link spam. You're getting a pretty twisted view of what normal peo...
[08:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Propaganda comments - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:03] <exec> 08└─though of course misinterpretation is possible.
[08:09:03] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02NSA does 2 things - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:04] <exec> 08└─As pointed out above, the NSA has 2 missions: 1. Protecting the nation, 2. Spying. In line with 1: they influenced the DES design so that it was secure from an analysis technique only discovered by science (about) 20 years later. I don't mind bashing the NSA, but in this case: the NSA is paying scie...
[08:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Virtualization architecture - 06NSA: Here’s $300,000, People. Go Build Us a Safer Internet of Things - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:06] <exec> 08└─Like every penetration tester, they want VMs to practice on.
[08:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03engblom [556] (Score:2) 02Are you able to access GPIO from JVM? - 06Raspberry Pi Gains New FreeBSD Distribution - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:08] <exec> 08└─Linux is having /sys/class/gpio/* so adding GPIO library to any language is trivial. How do you access GPIO from FreeBSD? Are you at all able to run something on JVM manipulating GPIO? My favorite programming language is Clojure and if I can use Clojure together with FreeBSD on Pi2, then I will rein...
[08:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are you able to access GPIO from JVM? - 06Raspberry Pi Gains New FreeBSD Distribution - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:09] <exec> 08└─Take a look here: https://www.freebsd.org [freebsd.org]
[08:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are you able to access GPIO from JVM? - 06Raspberry Pi Gains New FreeBSD Distribution - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:11] <exec> 08└─Looks easy to me though not trivial https://vzaigrin.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] You could work with it from the JVM through a couple different ways depending on performance requirements though you might have to write a touch of C integrat...
[08:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Fun Pi Projects - 06Raspberry Pi Gains New FreeBSD Distribution - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:13] <exec> 08└─Anyone working on fun Pi projects this summer?
[08:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Fun Pi Projects - 06Raspberry Pi Gains New FreeBSD Distribution - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:15] <exec> 08└─Good idea. The raspberry Pi is great fun, easy to figure stuff out on, but also really powerful. If your kids are interested and happy to put some effort in, they'll have a blast. You're a good parent.
[08:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:4, Informative) 02no systemd! - 06Raspberry Pi Gains New FreeBSD Distribution - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:16] <exec> 08└─Remember kids, FreeBSD has no systemd infection, and while they're planning on replacing init scripts eventually with something better, history shows the FreeBSD project will think long and hard about it before doing it. In the meantime, installing FreeBSD on your Raspberry Pi means it will stay bli...
[08:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ZFS on ARM? - 06Raspberry Pi Gains New FreeBSD Distribution - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:18] <exec> 08└─Not the low-ram boards listed in the summary (more like on an odroid X/U or jetson), but does anybody know the state of ZFS on ARM? I remember Sun working on an ARM port, but it used a different on-disk format. And, it also seems to have died with Oracle.
[08:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Target market - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:20] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia: [wikipedia.org] Apple Pay does not require Apple-specific contactless payment terminals and will work with Visa's PayWave, MasterCard's PayPass, and American Express's ExpressPay terminals.
[08:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score:1) 02Re:Target market - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:22] <exec> 08└─It works with those terminals. You still get the security of the Apple Pay system.
[08:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Target market - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:23] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not Apple's offerings, like all technology, are not magic. This is a payment chain. If even one link breaks, the whole thing fails.
[08:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Target market - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, if one links breaks the whole thing fails, but that doesn't mean the failure mode is Apple Pay users losing money.
[08:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Target market - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:27] <exec> 08└─You are a paranoid AC. Happy now?
[08:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Target market - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:29] <exec> 08└─And yet it's still far more secure than mag-stripe.
[08:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Target market - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:30] <exec> 08└─Mag stripe can't be read through a pocket and you don't have to wear one on your wrist.
[08:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Five customers! - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:32] <exec> 08└─80% is four out of five. Meaning at least five people bought those useless things. ... come to think about it, that's still two more than bought Windows Phones.
[08:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Five customers! - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:34] <exec> 08└─No. that can't be correct. The article says that 78% are frequent users. So, sorry, but you are off by an order of magnitude. It's 39 out of 50.
[08:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanderDecken [5216] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Preferred payment method - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:35] <exec> 08└─I prefer retailers that don't twitch when you pay cash. And that don't hand you a bunch of $5 notes when you break a $50. And that accept $50 and $100 notes. Bonus points if you can find a cashier under 45 that actually knows how to make change without a register or calculator telling them the answe...
[08:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Preferred payment method - 06Study Says 80% Of Apple Watch Users Are Already Using Apple Pay - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:37] <exec> 08└─Never had a problem with a $100 bill at any large food market / supermarket. Some gas/petrol stations in scary neighborhoods won't make change (all cash goes into the safe immediately). Where do you have problems spending cash?
[08:09:38] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] 02He went on to add - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:39] <exec> 08└─The ethical concerns were non-existent, said Rene Anand of Ohio State University. "We don't have any sensory stimuli entering the brain. This brain is not thinking in any way."
[08:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:He went on to add - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:41] <exec> 08└─I heard the name was Abby ... something.
[08:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Better check the brain for dreams. - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:42] <exec> 08└─In that sleep of unconscious sensory deprivation what dreams may come.
[08:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Better check the brain for dreams. - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:44] <exec> 08└─In that sleep of unconscious sensory deprivation what dreams may come.
[08:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ladies and gentlemen... - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:46] <exec> 08└─I can envision a day when the brains of brilliant men can be kept alive in the bodies of dumb people.
[08:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ladies and gentlemen... - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:48] <exec> 08└─The bodies of dumb people who didn't brush or floss or exercise or eat healthy food? No brilliant man would want to live in there.
[08:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:2) 02fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:49] <exec> 08└─> Personally I'd like to see it hooked up to an fMRI just to check. And what does the signature of thinking look like on an fMRI scan?
[08:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:51] <exec> 08└─beats me. but it would be interesting to see what, if any, activity it did show. for instance, does it show the same areas active/inactive as a sleeping person? as one doing a crossword? that sort of thing.
[08:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:53] <exec> 08└─According to the post, it's the size of a 5 months week foetus' brain. I don't know much about brain development, but that's really, really tiny (a 5 week old foetus is smaller than 1cm), and has never been scanned, AFAIK. Also, our brain is heavily shaped by being exposed to sensory input over year...
[08:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03fleg [128] (Score:2) 02Re:fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:55] <exec> 08└─sure, i'm just saying it would be *interesting* to perform the scan. i'm not making any predictions or comparisons, it would just be interesting. in other news, i was at an MRI conference a few years ago and someone there presented a sequence of scans (just MRI no f) of a baby's brain, dont recall t...
[08:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:56] <exec> 08└─Did you rtfa? They want to eventually grow these brains from your skin cells so that they can then ask the brain what is going on. They plan on making thinking ones. If the team’s claims prove true, the technique could revolutionise personalised medicine. “If you have an inherited disease, for e...
[08:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 618 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:58] <exec> 08└─I guess the skin cells would be if you had an inherited skin disease. If you have colon cancer you would grow a brain from those so you can just ask the cells straight up what exactly their problem is. This would revolutionize medicine if it worked. All medical research and diagnosis would consist o...
[08:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:00] <exec> 08└─You can't compare the brain of a being that has never even seen light to one of a being that can recognize trains, planes and automobiles.
[08:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:02] <exec> 08└─Yours is the post I was looking for. A five week fetus does not have much of a brain. It is nowhere near "fully formed". A full term baby doesn't even have a "fully formed" brain. If I didn't already know this, I would have learned it when my youngest son was born. His skull was already all fused to...
[08:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:04] <exec> 08└─The brain isn't "fully formed" until sometime in a person's late 20s. That's when the skull generally finishes hardening and can no longer expand to allow for more brains. At that point, all you can really do is shuffle the space and glucose allocated to various functions between each other. The pre...
[08:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:05] <exec> 08└─While I don't think this "brain" is capable of thought am i the only one that read the headline and thought about that Tales From the Darkside Episode [imdb.com] where the rich could escape death by becoming a "brain in a box"?
[08:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:fMRI? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:07] <exec> 08└─http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.jpg [prefrontal.org]
[08:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02I must know, is it a nigger brain?! - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:09] <exec> 08└─What skin color is encoded in its DNA, if it were to use its DNA to grow skin??!!!
[08:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:I must know, is it a nigger brain?! - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:11] <exec> 08└─Green
[08:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Flowers for Algernon - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:13] <exec> 08└─To me, this certainly is way creepier than the recently reported mouse with the improved brain (à la Flowers for Algernon, by Daniel Keyes). I foresee ethics committees descending on this case, sensory deprivation or not. Do the same with non-too-bright animal brains, and you might construct a neur...
[08:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cue pro-lifers - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:14] <exec> 08└─Experimenting on this brain is ethically equivalent to aborting a five-week-old foetus.
[08:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:cue pro-lifers - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:16] <exec> 08└─Not exactly. 1) We deliberately created this thing. 2) There is no question about rights of the entity vs rights of the human carrying the entity. The ethical problems are completely different.
[08:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cue pro-lifers - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:18] <exec> 08└─Hmm, so who creates a baby then? Clearly not scientists; they don't get any. Are you suggesting the dumb people that the scientists brains will surely inhabit in the future? I imagine they'll be selective and only allow for attractive dumb bodies to receive their brilliant minds. It seems that is ea...
[08:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:cue pro-lifers - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:19] <exec> 08└─Indeed, which is why they proceeded with the experiment.
[08:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Quite concerning - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:21] <exec> 08└─The ethical concerns were non-existent, said Rene Anand of Ohio State University. "We don't have any sensory stimuli entering the brain. This brain is not thinking in any way."
[08:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03quadrox [315] (Score:2) 02Re:Quite concerning - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:23] <exec> 08└─I usually have very few ethical concerns when it comes to cloning, gene-splicing and similar research. However in this instance I cannot avoid having the same thought as you - it's very arrogant to suppose that it cannot be thinking in any way. Luckily the brain is still very immature, so odds are t...
[08:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quite concerning - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:25] <exec> 08└─This whole thing is an ethical maze and there are no clear answers. That being said... My understanding is that brains are very much a combination of potential and stimuli. For example, I seem to recall something like if a person has not heard something for x years their brain loses the ability to u...
[08:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Quite concerning - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:27] <exec> 08└─What do you think would happen to a brain after a year of no stimuli? Not a typical adult brain, mind you. A fetal brain, which has never had any stimuli at all. How would such a brain even grow a concept of "torment"? No stimuli forever would be a constant so peaceful you might better compare it to...
[08:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score:1) 02Re:Quite concerning - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:28] <exec> 08└─Even a mature brain might be ethically "ok" to create. Current studies (and everyone's own personal experience) show that "self awareness" does not emerge until 15-24 months after birth, and that's with normal stimulation. However, what you do with your maturing brain specimen when it does start exh...
[08:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quite concerning - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 1438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:30] <exec> 08└─Yet, many animals respond negatively to being poked, prodded, or eaten by a larger animal. Many insects and such would likely not respond to your self-aware test, but would try to bite you anyway if you were mean to it. The brain in a jar is more defenseless than anything else out there, as it can't...
[08:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Quite concerning - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:32] <exec> 08└─"I suppose Epsilons don't really mind being Epsilons," she said aloud. "Of course they don't. How can they? They don't know what it's like being anything else. We'd mind, of course. But then we've been differently conditioned. Besides, we start with a different heredity." "I'm glad I'm not an Epsilo...
[08:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Quite concerning - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:34] <exec> 08└─If that brain were allowed to continue to grow for a year in that environment, with no stimulae, would they still say the same thing? It could become aware of the passage of time and of itself and feel tormented and trapped by the lack of an external environment or even a body. We know so little abo...
[08:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score:2) 02Re:Quite concerning - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:35] <exec> 08└─With all those neurons and cortices I can't see how your comparison to a liver is valid. Your assumptions may be right but the issue is exactly that they are mere assumptions. We honestly do not know what activity, thoughts or level of consciousness would occur in a brain in such a situation. I take...
[08:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:Quite concerning - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:37] <exec> 08└─Well, I suppose even fetuses have dreams of a sort. There's something in there. I just don't believe it will be recognizable as a human consciousness or necessarily be experiencing either enjoyment or discomfort as we would perceive it. But there's only one way to know for sure. How fascinating it w...
[08:10:38] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03darkfeline [1030] 02Connected to the aether - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:39] <exec> 08└─>"We don't have any sensory stimuli entering the brain. This brain is not thinking in any way." Great, for all we know that means it will develop extradimensional logic which it will then use to warp reality. I for one welcome our new eight dimensional overlords.
[08:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:3, Funny) 02Outstanding work - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:41] <exec> 08└─Now if we could just manage the same in politicians...
[08:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03threedigits [607] (Score:2) 02Re:Outstanding work - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:43] <exec> 08└─It would serve no purpose. As with the appendix, a politician's brain only purpose is to get inflamed and kill his career.&lt/grin&gt
[08:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Has a retina? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:44] <exec> 08└─Well, then how can you be sure its not thinking. Even in total darkness retinas tend to produce stimulus due to random firing .. If that is *all* a brain sees, then it will interpret that as the world it lives in. Not that i'm against this in any way, but they need to step back and think about their...
[08:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So does it prefer - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:46] <exec> 08└─The Mozart piece, or Justin Bieber?
[08:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So does it prefer - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:48] <exec> 08└─It was cloned off Justin Bieber, they wanted to make sure it wouldn't develop into a full intelligence.
[08:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Desperation? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:50] <exec> 08└─Neuroscience must be feeling a funding crunch. The last neuroscience article was about a paper with no methods section available: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Now for this one there is even less information: Note, no paper or data has yet been...
[08:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02Brain in a vat? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:51] <exec> 08└─So finally, we have a Brain in a vat [wikipedia.org], not as a thought experiment, but as a lab experiment. Now, I don't think such a brain can feel, simply because it is not connected to any sensory organs, such as sight, touch, smell, sound, ...etc. Is it conscious? Who knows? How can it be withou...
[08:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03jtgd [4875] (Score:1) 02Re:Brain in a vat? - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:54] <exec> 08└─If a person were in a coma, and you cut all nerves to senses (optic, auditory, skin, etc) would the person still be able to think? I would say yes, but of course they have their life before the coma to think about. Here we have a brain with no prior experience, but I still think it's a stretch to sa...
[08:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Post Humanism IoT - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:55] <exec> 08└─Let's definitely connect it posthaste to the INTERNET (tm) & see what happens!!!
[08:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Post Humanism IoT - 06Researchers Claim "Almost Fully Formed" Human Brain Grown in a Lab - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:57] <exec> 08└─A mind forever voyaging...
[08:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:3, Interesting) 02$2m - 06ProtonMail Open Sources Its Encrypted Webmail Interface, Releases v2 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:59] <exec> 08└─I'm also wondering what form of ROI the 'institutional backers' expect to receive from the $2M seed.
[08:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:4, Insightful) 02How much of a factor is cost? - 06ProtonMail Open Sources Its Encrypted Webmail Interface, Releases v2 - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:00] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure cost is a relevant factor here. You can discuss the right price point for a service like this, but I think the bottom line is: If someone cares enough about there privacy to want email encryption, and to want servers outside the USA - then they will be willing to pay for that. I've made...
[08:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beryllium Sphere (r) (5062) (Score:2) 02Already someone in that space - 06ProtonMail Open Sources Its Encrypted Webmail Interface, Releases v2 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:02] <exec> 08└─Hushmail has been around for years.
[08:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03szopin [5710] (Score:4, Touché) 02paranoia? - 06ProtonMail Open Sources Its Encrypted Webmail Interface, Releases v2 - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:04] <exec> 08└─'The startup was founded last year to capitalize on post-Snowden paranoia' Is it paranoia when it has been confirmed they are out to get us?
[08:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:paranoia? - 06ProtonMail Open Sources Its Encrypted Webmail Interface, Releases v2 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:06] <exec> 08└─Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. So, yes.
[08:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good. - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:07] <exec> 08└─The less easy it is commercials to pose as editorial content, the better. The FTC came down on regular bloggers for the same problem in their writings a few years back. https://www.ftc.gov [ftc.gov]
[08:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about product placement? - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:09] <exec> 08└─Hollywood studios routinely cut deals with consumer goods companies so that the star casually grabs a can of Pepsi out the fridge, let's say, instead of Brand X.
[08:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about product placement? - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:11] <exec> 08└─Thank you for explaining to us what Product Placement is...
[08:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score:2) 02Re:What about product placement? - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:13] <exec> 08└─We don't have Pepsi, will Coke be OK.?
[08:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about product placement? - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:15] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no drugs allowed on the set.
[08:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about product placement? - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:16] <exec> 08└─NO COKE. PEPSI!!!!!!! Cheeseburger cheeseburger cheeseburger cheeseburger
[08:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:What about product placement? - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:18] <exec> 08└─I notice that you name the brand he takes out, but use "Brand X" for the brand he doesn't. How much did the former brand pay you so that you name them in your comment? :-)
[08:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlphaSnail [5814] (Score:1) 02Re:What about product placement? - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:20] <exec> 08└─How about the cutoff is if you start to mention and or talk about the product at all it crosses the line. Show me the pepsi, fine. Drink the pepsi, fine. Climb into your 18 wheeler with the pepsi logo on the side, fine. While chatting in conversation mention the name Pepsi out loud like at all, then...
[08:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:What about product placement? - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:22] <exec> 08└─And other countries routinely make the studios photoshop them or edit them out entirely in their local releases. Some countries actually have LAWS against such things if they're not clearly shown as being advertisements. That aside, it ruins Hollywood movies. Please stop. There are two entire scenes...
[08:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Disclosure - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:23] <exec> 08└─Great, now we'll find out that absolutely no one likes the Apple Watch except for paid Apple shills.
[08:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02The real story? - 06UK Vloggers "Must" Comply With Advertising Guidelines - 1368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:25] <exec> 08└─What the hell is a vlog and who on earth came up with that name and WHY, why oh why, are others propagating such an awful name? I'm assuming it's short for video blog, but blog was short for web-log, I believe. Video log should really be something like, I don't know, vidlog - but all possible names...
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[09:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VortexCortex [4067] (Score:2) 02Re:Emacs - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:09] <exec> 08└─laugh at how much MS Office curb-stomps the competition, including both your precious Vi and EMACS?
[09:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emacs - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:10] <exec> 08└─This could be a good discussion about why the many numerous distros and forks of everything *Nix-like is a good thing
[09:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emacs - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:11] <exec> 08└─Really? I thought their economy collapsed after those stupid commies wasted their treasury on pointless wars in the middle east, which is exactly those stupid capitalists are doing right now. How many decades of unproductive war can capitalism sustain before total failure? Well let's see.
[09:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:15] <exec> 08└─Then replacing it with a synonym should make sense: "Dry out OpenOffice?" "Shrivel OpenOffice?" "Die OpenOffice?" "Become decrepit OpenOffice?" Still looks kind of nonsense-y to me.
[09:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:17] <exec> 08└─it's probably an obscure reference to https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] you can turn in your geek-card now
[09:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe they are happy with it as is? - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:19] <exec> 08└─it's not crap - it seems the majority of LibreOffice changes are things that make the code more efficient, improve importing and exporting third party file formats (I'm looking at you, MSOffice), and making the UI more sane
[09:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:One question - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:30] <exec> 08└─Your probably right. I was just being a little snarky because the summary/article made it sound like the tech was being touted as a solution to the atmospheric CO2 issue and I hadn't RTFAd at the time I wrote that. Only the first paragraph, that the summary cut/pasted, talks about it in the AGW cont...
[09:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One question - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:32] <exec> 08└─Googling around? Basic school knowledge should be enough to make a good estimate. The most common isotope of carbon has atomic weight 12, the most common oxygen isotope has atomic weight 16. Since only the relation is important, let's cancel the common factor to make more manageable numbers. So carb...
[09:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:One question - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:34] <exec> 08└─Basic school knowledge is that when you're not entirely sure how to calculate something, it's better to search the web than to come up with some half-assed solution. I could have done the same calculations, but I didn't know if there were factors it didn't account for, so I googled. I'm sorry if tha...
[09:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:One question - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:01:36] <exec> 08└─Very true, I forgot to take into account that the carbon, with only an atomic weight of 12.01 against oxygen's 16.00 (x2), in CO2 is only ~27% of the total molecular weight. Thank you for pointing that out. I'll try and be more careful next time :)
[09:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:USAian aggression continues to threaten the pla - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:37] <exec> 08└─Well, what exactly did he say? Did he say "I want a world without nukes"? Or did he rather say "I want to get rid of the nukes"? Because the latter could well be interpreted as "I want to get rid of the nukes, to make place for better ones."
[09:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:03:50] <exec> 08└─As far as they remember, Apple has always been in the Music business. China has always had a sort of capitalism; it's communism only refers to the political system. As far as they remember, Putin has always been in power in Russia, either as president, or as prime minister. Computers were always abl...
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[10:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02sponsor a Battlebots team - 06Duel with Japan: Americans Collect Money for Robot Battle - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:14] <exec> 08└─The market for robot on robot combat is small. TV shows are notorious for small budgets. I hope enthusiasts will sponsor a team on the revival of the TV show Battlebots, instead of putting money into Megabots.
[10:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:40] <exec> 08└─Then it would be spelled with a "wh", wouldn't it? It sounds like you think the phrase "Whither [X]?" originated with Monty Python. I think it might predate that by a bit.
[10:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:41] <exec> 08└─It is "wither", you fool. Wither as drying out, dying, becoming decrepit.
[10:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:02:42] <exec> 08└─http://grammarist.com/usage/wither-whither/ [grammarist.com] no.
[10:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:4, Informative) 02LibreOffice here - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:47] <exec> 08└─LibreOffice works well enough. Except for the database frontend. The devs should eliminate "Base" until they get it to the point where Java is no longer a prerequisite. That's my only real gripe with it and it's not a huge one since I wouldn't be using Base either way. Plenty of "free" database solu...
[10:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score:1) 02Happy LibreOffice User - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:49] <exec> 08└─Anybody else remember when it was StarOffice? I jumped ship from OpenOffice to LibreOffice when Debian (stable) made the change. I consider a fully free and open source multiplatform office suite to be one of the wonders of the modern age. The fact that it is able to (almost) seamlessly work with a...
[10:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score:2) 02Progress? - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:50] <exec> 08└─Took me a while to find this link again. I read this shortly after I found out LibreOffice 5.0 was released: https://people.gnome.org [gnome.org] Apparently they are squashing a lot of bugs behind the scenes, generally making the code more robust, and...
[10:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Glasses - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:03:24] <exec> 08└─People use the visual cortex for a lot of things. I'm probably an extreme example, but I can't touch things and look at the same time and I have a huge problem trying to hear and look at the same time as well. I'm not sure why, but that never separated out correctly. And good luck if I need to remem...
[10:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Hopefully it is configurable - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:54] <exec> 08└─since the video projection acts basically as a hole, and a truck with a big hole in the rear is a bit LESS visible under some conditions like fog, I hope an option to display solid color or warnings is implemented.
[10:05:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fluffeh [954] 02Re:Close the libraries and theaters... - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:05:16] <exec> 08└─What I think you meant to say that 1984 wasn't a manual - and Gattaca wasn't supposed to be an add-expansion pack for it!
[10:05:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Re:AOL, Turbo Buttons, Clippy - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 888 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:05:58] <exec> 08└─They never knew what it was like for females to willingly get drunk and have sex with you and not call it "rape." They never knew what it was like to have only two types of queers - gays and lesbians. They never knew what it was like when cell phones and laptop computers in the classroom were not on...
[10:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Miku + pr0n - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:21] <exec> 08└─You are very retarded if you cannot handle a grown up woman. Learn to be a man.
[10:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So non-free software on non-free hardware... - 06Raspberry Pi Gains New FreeBSD Distribution - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:09] <exec> 08└─I think I'll pass. https://www.gnu.org [gnu.org] https://www.fsf.org [fsf.org]
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[11:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02children don't need to socialize - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:17] <exec> 08└─Children don't need to develop conscience or impulse control or empathy. They need to get their asses to mandatory schooling, earn straight C's, go straight home, spend all their leisure time indoors playing video games, and join the Army as soon as they turn 18. We don't need well rounded adults. W...
[11:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:52] <exec> 08└─Another option comes to my mind: "Wither OpenOffice!" (imperative). That headline would summarize the intention of the open letter.
[11:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:53] <exec> 08└─It should be either "Whither OpenOffice?" (if the intent was to ask where is or what has happened to OO)
[11:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:55] <exec> 08└─I hope you're trying to be facetious. No, it's whither. "Where is". Like wherefore, and whence, and lots of other "wh-" words that come from old English. Whither OpenOffice? Where is it? Where is it up to, and what state is it in? If you have never studied Shakespeare, you might be forgiven. But the...
[11:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SuperCharlie [2939] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe they are happy with it as is? - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:02:59] <exec> 08└─I have said this for forever. The only reason in corpworld is to keep milking users and in the FOSS world, to keep up with corpworld it seems.
[11:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Happy LibreOffice User - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:03] <exec> 08└─Anybody else remember when it was StarOffice?
[11:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Progress? - 06Wither OpenOffice? - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:03:05] <exec> 08└─LibreOffice needs to win some kind of award for their changelogs. Seriously, they are perfectly detailed - just enough but not too much - and graphically demonstrate every visual change and new feature. You don't need to look "behind the scenes", their changelogs are perfect to tell you exactly how...
[11:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Let's have details - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:25] <exec> 08└─"The system focuses the sun's rays on a photovoltaic solar cell to generate electricity and on a second system to generate heat and thermal energy" Let's have a bit of detail on how much carbon waste is produced making the energy to run that "second system" before I start believing in perpetual moti...
[11:04:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 345 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:04:31] <exec> 08└─Did you miss the part where Yale paid fund managers about 6% of its endowment fund to fund managers? Although I don't see any proposed changes directly affecting this. But really 6% of the fund paid to fund managers. Given the research that shows how ineffective fund managers are over the long term,...
[11:05:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They've announced the first three cities to buy - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:05:10] <exec> 08└─I was curious whether anyone was old enough to get the reference (and I don't even consider that an "old" reference). I'm afraid I'm further out on the tail-end of the age distribution here.
[11:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Miku + pr0n - 06Holograms, Without Screens, That Float and Can Be Touched - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:33] <exec> 08└─Why encourage him to interact with grown up women? If people like him only fucked dolls there would be fewer people like him. There are already 7 billion people on this overpopulated planet. Way past time to start focusing on quality and not quantity.
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[12:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02This is nothing new - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:52] <exec> 08└─I know of an extremely sophisticated tool for turning CO2 into valuable products that has been around since pre-history. Actually, not just a single tool - there are a ridiculously huge number of variations on the tool I'm thinking of. Both the tool and the valuable products can be found just about...
[12:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:02] <exec> 08└─I read TFA yesterday when it was on the green site. They did pay 6% to the fund managers, but at the same time the fund grew by 20-30% (I don't remember which out of Yale and Harvard was closer to 20 and which to 30). Most of the 6% that they got was the share of the growth that they're paid. If I c...
[12:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:Interest rates - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:08] <exec> 08└─That used to be considered sensible thinking, although today it handcuffs you to a passive investment strategy, which may or may not be a great loss. The investment managers are basically overseeing the implementation, execution and reporting of a strategy for searching for and exploiting investment...
[12:04:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:04:50] <exec> 08└─By the TSA, by government thugs anywhere near the border, by the NSA, by the drug war, by DUI checkpoints, by asset forfeiture, by stingrays, and by numerous other things. But we're the land of the free, and we have lots of brave people living here. Really.
[12:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:18] <exec> 08└─The truth is, huge numbers of Muslims in the world are very like the ISIS or prefer an interpretation of Islam that would result in ISIS like behaviour. http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] Many of them would want to treat their en...
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[13:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02perfect for adservers - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:07] <exec> 08└─Sell crap to idiots, faster.
[13:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meisterister [949] (Score:2) 02Better Name... - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:08] <exec> 08└─This sounds like someone choking as they try to say "opteron" at a car show.
[13:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Release date + 5 years before anyone can afford it - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:10] <exec> 08└─As much as I'd like to get excited about new tech deep down I know it will be years before I can actually afford it. By my count it took 5 years before I could afford[and trust] a decent SSD.
[13:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02too slow - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:12] <exec> 08└─how many GT/sec will the CPU (and chipset?) need to have if you want to use TWO of these?
[13:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:too slow - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:14] <exec> 08└─you mean, like did the article mention the test setup, thus revealing the GT/sec capabilities of the CPU used in obtaining : ) these IOPS results? no.
[13:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:children don't need to socialize - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:22] <exec> 08└─You think in 18 years, they still need people to pilot drones and pull the trigger? Isn't it more likely that by then, the drone is given the destination and the targets, and will do the rest fully autonomous?
[13:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Easy Way To Address This - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:23] <exec> 08└─Let's take all crawling babies & toddlers and put them on the playing field in a big stadium. Then they can have a "Little Tikes Demolition Derby" amongst themselves. That will address their needs for touch, attention, reducing stress, impulse control, empathy, aggression, social capacity and ego re...
[13:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:25] <exec> 08└─Why "on the other side"? There is no difference between this and helicopter parenting. It's all about selfishness on the part of the parents. - Too much day care, too much time in carriers and cribs: that's so that they don't interfere unduly with the parent's "wanna have it all" lives. - Free play...
[13:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:27] <exec> 08└─You're statements may be true, but it's like Freudian psychology and Intelligent Design... utterly unprovable as anything is reverse-justifyable. Let me give an example. -Mother goes to teacher saying that Son's test was unfairly graded: entitled "my kid deserves an 'A' for effort!" helicopter paren...
[13:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:56] <exec> 08└─That is my take... they are summarizing the intent of the letter, while, at the same time making a clever play on words of "Whither [x]?".. I think it's brilliant personally..
[13:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe they are happy with it as is? - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:03] <exec> 08└─The current OpenOffice does have open security issues. Their advice is to delete one of the DLL files, see https://www.openoffice.org [openoffice.org] vs https://www.libreoffice.org [libreoffice.org]
[13:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Blackboard works only with AOO - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:06] <exec> 08└─Did you file a bug? Maybe it would just be a small amount of work for LO to be made compatible. Maybe someone at the document foundation could have a work with someone at blackboard and make it happen.
[13:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Progress? - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:12] <exec> 08└─OO has brand recognition and LO doesn't. Choice is one of the great features in the open source world but a critical mass of market share is what has won Microsoft the office world. OO pulling out of the race and endorsing LO would help displace Microsoft.
[13:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02My office suite - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:14] <exec> 08└─I use the mousepad text editor from XFCE. I don't recall the last time I needed more than that.
[13:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My office suite - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:16] <exec> 08└─I see, you never have to open .doc files other people send you.
[13:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Libre office - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:17] <exec> 08└─I don't know what a Soylentil is, but i use libre office even at work. Documents that i make are made with libre office, sometimes i convert them to .xls or .doc. If there's no need for the customer to edit it, i convert it to pdf. If someone else has made the document with ms office, i use ms offic...
[13:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Open/Libre Office for more than a decade - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:19] <exec> 08└─I've been using OO/LO exclusively for a little over ten years. The only problems that have ever really came up were MS Office compatibility related. To me, it is simply a superior product. I just hope MS has another "doc -> docx" compatibility or UI disaster that will disrupt the MS inertia.
[13:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Talk about unbiased sources - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:21] <exec> 08└─El Reg has published an article that suggests, at least according to one person in the LibreOffice community, that OpenOffice development is essentially moribund and Apache should abandon it.
[13:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's have details - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:02:38] <exec> 08└─WTF? How does focusing the sun's rays on something produce "carbon waste"? And how do you get from "solar concentrator(s) aimed at both PV and thermal systems" to "perpetual motion"?
[13:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02INCOMPATIBLE TYPES AT LINE 8 - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:40] <exec> 08└─...low-energy process... ...high-temperature electrolytic bath of molten carbonates at 1,380 degrees F (750 degrees C)...
[13:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02ObXKCDs - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:25] <exec> 08└─891 [xkcd.com] 1093 [xkcd.com] 647 [xkcd.com] 1477 [xkcd.com] 1393 [xkcd.com] 893 [xkcd.com] 218 [xkcd.com] (Okay, the last few aren't really obligatory...)
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[14:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Homeostasis - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:46] <exec> 08└─Humans ain't so good with homeostasis are grokking the implications of exponential growth. At least not the ones around me.
[14:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Homeostasis - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:47] <exec> 08└─Since humans killed most of the top level predators for deer (here = Northeast USA), we are now overwhelmed with nuisance suburban deer. Not to say that I want mountain lions landing on me when walking in the woods, but it would be nice if there was a better solution. Maybe getting wild venison on m...
[14:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03OwMyBrain [5044] (Score:1) 02Re:Homeostasis - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:49] <exec> 08└─I would love for that to happen, but here in Georgia it is illegal to sell venison meat that isn't farm raised. To get wild deer meat, you basically have to know a hunter or processor that is willing to give it away. Sadly, I don't run in circles of hunters (there don't seem to be very many of them...
[14:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:51] <exec> 08└─There's this thing, humans invented it a couple dozen thousand years ago. It's called "animal husbandry" or in layman's terms, "farming". Most food species we rely on are not "wild" species. Beef comes from domesticated cattle, chicken and eggs from domesticated chickens, pork and bacon from domesti...
[14:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:00:52] <exec> 08└─What a bunch of arrogant, selfish garbage.
[14:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In soviet russia - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:03] <exec> 08└─in soviet russia beowulf cluster optains you!
[14:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Client like workload" of a queue depth of 1? - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:04] <exec> 08└─I am having a hard time believing that a massive array of solid state memory has a hard time accessing a single thing at a time. This seems like a very cherry picked result. My business provided encrypted traditional hard disk drive with platters -- is constantly at 100% activity with queue depths e...
[14:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:"Client like workload" of a queue depth of 1? - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:06] <exec> 08└─It's precisely because flash SSDs use massive arrays of memory that they scale better with higher queue depths, because they can perform multiple requests in parallel. Most modern, consumer-level SSD controllers are eight-channel designs (server-level controllers have more channels, eg. Intel's top...
[14:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FlyingSock [4339] (Score:2) 02Re:children don't need to socialize - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:17] <exec> 08└─Nice post except for the false dichotomy in the last sentence. Besides, I do not think that button pushing yes men without the ability to improvise make good soldiers.
[14:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Re:On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:21] <exec> 08└─It's not all selfishness. Is it a "wanna have it all" life to want a career to return to when the kids are in school? Because people who take years off to raise their young children often can't get jobs anymore because of the hole in their resumes. And free play? Well if you let your kids wander off...
[14:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:23] <exec> 08└─And free play? Well if you let your kids wander off into nature without supervision (like children have done forever and ever until now) you could be charged with criminal neglect.
[14:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Emacs - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:44] <exec> 08└─Some people are actually making money on the venture.
[14:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:1) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:56] <exec> 08└─Considering that the final article title is "Die, OpenOffice!", I'd say that it was probably "wither".
[14:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Blackboard works only with AOO - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:04] <exec> 08└─I talked with the folks at Blackboard support. The thing is: it requires a helper program. They do this for Powerpoint using VBScript (I kid you not - solved a colleague's problem by installing vbruntime.exe). They also have something for AOO - I completely forgot what. The problem is not with Libre...
[14:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Re:My office suite - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:13] <exec> 08└─For that I use abiword. Hasn't happened in like forever however.
[14:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Talk about unbiased sources - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:18] <exec> 08└─In the past I've had the impression that LO was adding lots of features (which I didn't need). Certainly the download size of LO is much larger than OO. What I need is solid compatibility with MS-Office (all recent versions) because I work with several large companies that are Microsoft shops. It wa...
[14:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:1) 02Star / Open / Libre Office - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:20] <exec> 08└─I've been using this software as a replacement for MS Office for about a decade I think. I first tried it on Linux while seeing if I could move my main desktop to Linux about 2004ish...the answer was, maybe :D I decided to keep using it on Windows from there. While the software is pretty good, I jus...
[14:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Other side of the coin - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:02:52] <exec> 08└─So, you walk into a noisy club, lounge, or bar, and you can't make out conversations? That's me. If you've got something to say to me, you have to get close, and talk TO ME, moderately loud, and very clearly. And, if the band happens to start playing while you're talking to me, you might as well giv...
[14:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So... - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:55] <exec> 08└─...offloading to the GPU.
[14:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:06] <exec> 08└─Not that I have anything against the jazz music! I love the jazz music!
[14:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:This could cause accidents - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, BUT - they get this rather modest version approved for highway use, then someone convinces people that a larger size would be better, and on and on it goes. And, advertisers - they'll be looking to horn in on this square footage. I don't want to see ANY optical illusions introduced, period. If...
[14:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:This could cause accidents - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:23] <exec> 08└─If you don't want to look at it, just close your eyes.
[14:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:all you critics are wrong - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:03:28] <exec> 08└─What's the advantage for the truck owner? Because in the end, he is the one who will have to pay for it.
[14:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03blackhawk [5275] (Score:1) 02Distracted Drivers - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:30] <exec> 08└─Do drivers really need any more things to distract them while hurtling in a thinly skinned vessel at 100km/h? I think the potential for read ender accidents would go up significantly with this technology. It's bad enough the increase in accident rates with people distracted by their phones, sat nav,...
[14:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:41] <exec> 08└─So... is New Hampshire the home of freedom fanatics like me or something?
[14:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:04:44] <exec> 08└─Excuse me to rain on your parade but if your death were to be on the news, you’d just be a “dangerous criminal killed while resisting arrest at a traffic stop.”
[14:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02Re:Times change! - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:05:19] <exec> 08└─One Touché point for you. Now I'll get off your lawn.
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[15:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Steadier, but dumber hands - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:47] <exec> 08└─http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/mishaps-and-deaths-caused-by-surgical-robots-going-underreported-to-fda/ [pbs.org]
[15:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Homeostasis - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:00:59] <exec> 08└─Bow hunting around the burbs should be plenty safe. Though i doubt the people that live there would be comfortable with it.
[15:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:02] <exec> 08└─What a well-thought-out, elaborate argument. </sarcasm>
[15:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:03] <exec> 08└─I thought someone would say so, but I'm under no obligation to satisfy your curiosity.
[15:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:05] <exec> 08└─Nah, he's not far from the mark. Animals that aren't domesticated are either ignored, vermin (shot when they become a nuisance), or hunted (to keep their population down). Sustainable fishing and husbandry has been around for a long time. The typical unsustainable issue arises when dealing with wild...
[15:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:07] <exec> 08└─Ya, The Civilization games shows you this, dang scientist should just learn to play video games.
[15:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 2430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:08] <exec> 08└─Humans are one of the few animals that do modify their environment as a matter of course. A cat will not drag its bed to somewhere more comfortable, it'll either sit in it or not. A beaver, however, will dam a river deliberately to give itself a home free from predators. But similarly other animals...
[15:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Sustainable/unsustainable - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:10] <exec> 08└─Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator
[15:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Physicists vs "other" scientists - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:11] <exec> 08└─I think it is interesting how easy it is for ecologists, sociologists, biologists, etc to determine causes while the most successful branch (physics) studying the most fundamental aspects of the universe leaves that to philosophers. Instead they focus on achieving good quantitative descriptions of r...
[15:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Release date + 5 years before anyone can afford - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:20] <exec> 08└─I am with you. These releases are currently vaporware. They have very deliberately NOT given sizes. Just generalizations of what it might do. I was very excited at first but now not so much. If they can do half of what they are speculating then these will be interesting. But does not look like they...
[15:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Client like workload" of a queue depth of 1? - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 1582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:26] <exec> 08└─I agree with everything you said -- do you think their benchmark was appropriate, though? It seems like they are doing a benchmark on "server" hardware, that is baselined against some sort of client workstation hardware in a vacuum with a spinning disk with a queue depth of one and a workload with a...
[15:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:"Client like workload" of a queue depth of 1? - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:28] <exec> 08└─If you look at their actual presentation, they ran benchmarks at various queue depths, not just QD1. QD1 merely had the highest split between flash and xpoint. Both scale to higher queue depths, but xpoint is held back less by low queue depths. I agree that QD1 isn't particularly relevant for server...
[15:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:children don't need to socialize - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:40] <exec> 08└─Besides, I do not think that button pushing yes men without the ability to improvise make good soldiers.
[15:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:children don't need to socialize - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:41] <exec> 08└─I do not think that button pushing yes men without the ability to improvise make good soldiers.
[15:01:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 1130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:43] <exec> 08└─Why "on the other side"? There is no difference between this and helicopter parenting. It's all about selfishness on the part of the parents. - Too much day care, too much time in carriers and cribs: that's so that they don't interfere unduly with the parent's "wanna have it all" lives. - Free play...
[15:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:47] <exec> 08└─I'm tired of hearing about the "me" generation. I've only known a few families that actually fit the description. Maybe I'm just surounded by unusually good parents but from what I can see this kind of stuff is nowhere near common enough to label a generation. When it does happen it's a train wreck...
[15:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:01:48] <exec> 08└─Kids these days are worse than ever. Ignore all the countless people throughout history who said the same thing; we're right this time.
[15:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:3, Interesting) 02We're not all doing the same thing! - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:50] <exec> 08└─The United States has been on a downward trajectory on all of these care characteristics
[15:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03nyder [4525] (Score:2) 02Maybe they should teach Parenting in school? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:52] <exec> 08└─Why don't they teach parenting at school? We go to school to learn and get ready for adult life, but generally a few things are missing. One is financials and the other is parenting. Schools don't teach those and honestly, those are probably the most important skills a kid growing up/teenager coul...
[15:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Locust-Of-Control [5815] (Score:1) 02Re:Emacs - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:14] <exec> 08└─Ha! Vi is also for humans. "Bruce Schneier doesn't use an IDE, or even a text editor, he uses an AK47 and a punch card." [schneierfacts.com] Check your facts, bro
[15:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:20] <exec> 08└─When I read this, I presumed it was whither -- as for "what is next, what shall replace it -- whatever will happen to Open Office" It also can be read as "O Open office, you have withered on the vine, long before your time" Or "Die die die open office, I imperatively state that thou shalt wither!" O...
[15:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:22] <exec> 08└─"Wohin OpenOffice?" It's much clearer in the original German.
[15:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:28] <exec> 08└─[I]f the intent was to say, in newspaper-style shorthand, "Is OpenOffice dying?".
[15:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:32] <exec> 08└─Considering that, as far as I can see, the submitter nowhere took part in this discussion, all we know is that Subsentient interpreted it that way.
[15:02:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03No Respect [991] 02LibreOffice here - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 814 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:40] <exec> 08└─LibreOffice works well enough. Except for the database frontend. The devs should eliminate "Base" until they get it to the point where Java is no longer a prerequisite. That's my only real gripe with it and it's not a huge one since I wouldn't be using Base either way. Plenty of "free" database solu...
[15:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02Re:LibreOffice here - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:42] <exec> 08└─I don't have Java on ANY of my boxes. No more Java worries and in the past 3 years, No web sites begging for it either. I was curious about BASE but now I know not to bother.
[15:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Happy LibreOffice User - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:44] <exec> 08└─The only software I ever recall running on OS2 Warp was some crazy executable that came from Japan that made the LPCVD furnace run. (Low Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition - you typically find them in the Diffusion section of a semiconductor fab. It's what builds the layers of substrate)
[15:02:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02Talk about unbiased sources - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 191 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:53] <exec> 08└─El Reg has published an article that suggests, at least according to one person in the LibreOffice community, that OpenOffice development is essentially moribund and Apache should abandon it.
[15:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Talk about unbiased sources - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:02:55] <exec> 08└─Seriously? Of course the LibreOffice community isn't impressed by OpenOffice. That's why they forked it. The lack of satisfaction with OpenOffice is the raison d'etre of LibreOffice. This is like quoting a Soylentil's opinion on whether Slashdot is a good place to read technology news.
[15:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Office Software? - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:57] <exec> 08└─I haven't really used any kind of office software for about a decade. g/vi/m has been my go-to. I even installed the Vimperator add-on to FF to make it behave like vi. It makes me much more productive to be able to instantly, intuitively (from a vi perspective) control coding and web activity. I did...
[15:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:One question - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:13] <exec> 08└─Given the many fantastic properties of carbon nanotubes and the many, many applications of the material, it's not too hard to see demand for it scaling to a level where it could put a dent in atmospheric carbon. Think of all the cotton fields alone that we wouldn't have to have anymore if we could w...
[15:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Sun Does Most of the Work - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:20] <exec> 08└─I think the idea is that they're using solar concentrators to heat up the carbonate bath. It's perfectly feasible. There's an artist who uses a solar concentrator [youtube.com] to "3D print" (really it's sintering) objects from sand in the Sahara. The melting point of sand [ask.com] is about 2930 de...
[15:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Atmospheric CO2? I doubt it. - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:22] <exec> 08└─If someone comes up with a good way to make money from atmospheric CO2 then why wouldn't the power plants, factories, etc... who emit CO2 start trapping their own emissions. They would have way more carbon to work with and would probably quickly outcompete anyone who was just sucking air. Well.. exc...
[15:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Other side of the coin - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:34] <exec> 08└─I have this exact same experience. It's weird, because I keep going back to the doctor and they run tests to see if I have gaps in my hearing (in a past job I worked in a very loud server room), but they always say my hearing's fine. Perhaps the problem lies in the brain, not the ears. Could we have...
[15:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02That's been seen before - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:38] <exec> 08└─That was already discovered in blind adults. In fact, I remember reading about an experiment where people went long lengths of time (I forget how long) with blindfolds on and they discovered it happened with them! After removing the blindfolds for some number of days their brain activity eventually...
[15:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03morgauxo [2082] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:03:57] <exec> 08└─Anyone who likes that quote has obviously never driven a straight 6! I usually drive a little 4-banger myself though. For years I drove 6-cylindars, dreamed about 8 and promised myself I would never ever buy a 4. But hey.. 80 cents/gal gas was expensive once! If your drive is so short that the price...
[15:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:System Crash means Accident - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:04:04] <exec> 08└─Apparently the samsung guys have not been near a real used truck in awhile. Lets just say 'lightly used' is not something in the parlance of truck drivers. Those bad boys are abused. You are lucky sometimes if the pigtails are in good condition and that is on a 'good' fleet where they take care of t...
[15:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:What happens when ... - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 1341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:03] <exec> 08└─Don't be so sure. You are sealed inside a tube inside another tube. The outside air temperature is over 100deg many days. Hopefully the low air pressure in the outer tube will limit heat conduction to the train, but if by "break down" I mean AC/air pressure/air circulation system goes offline, and...
[15:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fliptop [1666] (Score:2) 02Re:Translation - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:05:32] <exec> 08└─I cannot *possibly* be unique in this
[15:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02the accuracy excuse is a lie - 06EFF Sues Justice Dept. Over FBI's Rapid DNA Plans - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:35] <exec> 08└─''Rapid DNA can't accurately extract a profile from evidence containing commingled body fluids, increasing the risk that people could be mistakenly linked to crimes they didn't commit.''
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[16:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Steadier, but dumber hands - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:00:48] <exec> 08└─That article doesn't answer the biggest question it raises: "what are the net impacts on health care?" It addresses flaws in reporting, and concerns about that question. But it doesn't actually answer it.
[16:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02My father had Da Vinci surgery - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:49] <exec> 08└─My father had a cancerous prostate remove by a surgeon using Da Vinci equipment, the human surgeon was on-site with the robot. All went well, no complications. Your mileage may vary.
[16:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Steady as she blows - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:51] <exec> 08└─...all while reducing the risks associated with a surgeon's trembling hands.
[16:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:10] <exec> 08└─However, we are probably the only animal that kills things for sport, and not for defence, food or other sensible reasons.
[16:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hunting the largest to drive domesticaltion - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:13] <exec> 08└─It's entirely possible that our habit of hunting the largest and strongest of our prey is part of the reason we've been able to domesticate animals so successfully. It's like constantly pruning the most successful genes from the pool so that the population as a whole becomes more docile or more easy...
[16:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03daaelar [5403] (Score:1) 02The Ethical Fourier Transform - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:14] <exec> 08└─Did this article just invoke SMBC's "Ethical Fourier Transform"? http://www.smbc-comics.com [smbc-comics.com]
[16:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:51] <exec> 08└─"Think of the children!!1one" *clutches pearls*
[16:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Disagree) 02Re:Maybe they should teach Parenting in school? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:56] <exec> 08└─We go to school to learn
[16:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe they should teach Parenting in school? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:01:58] <exec> 08└─They do teach it. Maybe not enough of it, but that stuff gets covered in things like health class - where they give the students a baby surrogate like an egg or, at the nicer schools, a fancy programmable doll, to take care of for a week.
[16:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:sponsor a Battlebots team - 06Duel with Japan: Americans Collect Money for Robot Battle - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:07] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, it would take a TV genius to make more than one episode of "big slow robot lines up and uses cannon on other big slow robot/ High-speed cam declares the US winner by 0.003 s" There's a reason NO military uses giant robots.
[16:02:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:26] <exec> 08└─It is "wither", you fool. Wither as drying out, dying, becoming decrepit.
[16:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Happy LibreOffice User - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:02:53] <exec> 08└─Yes! I was already anti-MS before it became cool :-) Started with OS/2 2.1, iirc, and stopped after 3.0 (was a Linux early adaptor, I guess. My first SuSE Linux ran on x486, 4MB RAM, soon extended to 8MB to run the X server more fluently, especially with EMACS (Eight Megabyte And Constantly Swapping...
[16:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Other side of the coin - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:03:43] <exec> 08└─My girl won't understand that I'm both color-lazy and fashion-lazy. As soon as there are shops around, she keeps asking those questions that few men can ever answer.
[16:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alternative - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:50] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Before modeling, data were realigned to correct for head motion, normalized to a standard adult template in Montreal Neurological Institute space, and smoothed with a 5 mm smoothing kernel. Data were normalized to an adult template. Although small anatomical differences exist in the shape...
[16:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Non Sequor [1005] (Score:2) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:48] <exec> 08└─Okay, this makes more sense. A typical hedge fund fee arrangement is supposed to be 2% of net asset value plus 20% of performance in excess of a benchmark. Those fees make sense on 8 billion, assuming a banner year performance-wise. Locking up a third of assets in this kind of thing is outside of my...
[16:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:endowments = nest egg - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:04:55] <exec> 08└─They did pay 6% to the fund managers, but at the same time the fund grew by 20-30% (I don't remember which out of Yale and Harvard was closer to 20 and which to 30). Most of the 6% that they got was the share of the growth that they're paid. If I could pay someone 6% of my net worth in exchange for...
[16:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:They forgot a few things - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:15] <exec> 08└─I am a programmer that was born in the late 70's and I have never had to program on a mini or a mainframe. (I did do some work on a java app that communicated to a bank's mainframe a decade ago. They managed to have y2k bugs in 2005.) When I was a kid in school in the 80's it was all Apple and in hi...
[16:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:AOL, Turbo Buttons, Clippy - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:06:32] <exec> 08└─"Only two types of queers" reminds me of "we play BOTH kinds of music here, Country and Western!" which both remind me of the two things that come from Texas, steers and queers. Help I am caught in a loop of references!
[16:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm worried about their politics - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:38] <exec> 08└─9/11 never happened, or was an inside job if it did. Al-Qaeda was made up by the US government. The Muslim Brotherhood does not exist. It is a hate crime to mention its name. Jews are foreign invaders in Palestine and have no history there. Islamic jihad is the resistance to American aggression. Rac...
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[17:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Vote Them Off The Planet - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:48] <exec> 08└─Years ago I proposed a TV Reality show called: "Vote Them Off The Planet!" http://science.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] Yeah, I told my friend to call it "Voted off the planet" or "Vote them off the planet". The voting options: keep, return and one-way. We can star...
[17:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Cool PR - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:49] <exec> 08└─But it feels like I'm contributing to interplanetary space trash, even if it is only 1 chip. Pretty awesome idea though. :)
[17:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Cool PR - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:00:50] <exec> 08└─> Pretty awesome idea though. Why? Even sending the boringest bacteria from my colon, or some skin cells, would be a much more grandiose achievement than having some program code my name into bits to be sent alongside millions of others where no-one could read them, or give a [bleep] if they could....
[17:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alfred [4006] (Score:2) 02But why? - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:52] <exec> 08└─I don't see the value here since I already have a star named after me. Which name all alien races have to abide by. </sarcasm>
[17:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02More than 2 hands? - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:03] <exec> 08└─How about having more than 2 robotic hands? Two seems suboptimal for many common scenarios - needing to hold/do various stuff while doing the sutures. Perhaps you may need two doctors to control 4 robotic hands for advanced/difficult surgeries but for other surgeries one doctor could control 4 robot...
[17:01:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03gman003 [4155] 02Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 1230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:16] <exec> 08└─There's this thing, humans invented it a couple dozen thousand years ago. It's called "animal husbandry" or in layman's terms, "farming". Most food species we rely on are not "wild" species. Beef comes from domesticated cattle, chicken and eggs from domesticated chickens, pork and bacon from domesti...
[17:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:20] <exec> 08└─And I'm under no obligation to consider your comment valuable in any way.
[17:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:26] <exec> 08└─"P.S. Every time you think we're "unique", we're not... our uniqueness only comes from being able to do combinations of things that others don't, not from doing those things themselves, and that's easy and cheating!" I think one thing we are unique about is that we have the ability to ask how we, li...
[17:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:28] <exec> 08└─We have an innate ability to ask about ultimate causality and to ask about causality that relates to before our proximal birth. Where were my parents born. Where were their parents born. Where did it all begin. Questions about our history both as individuals and as a species. That's why we have ance...
[17:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:29] <exec> 08└─[Hunting elephants] But we aren't doing this to feed.
[17:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:31] <exec> 08└─Every time you think we're "unique", we're not Of course we are. Every species is unique, although all species have attributes shared by other species. we are probably the only animal that kills things for sport, and not for defence, food or other sensible reasons. Cats do it. They don't chase mice...
[17:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Sustainable/unsustainable - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:33] <exec> 08└─Kind of a good summary of the human race. You're the excessively successful sum of your converging selfishness, laying waste to everything else in your path. Would make me glad I'm a cat, but honestly I don't need your inferiority to be proud of my perfection.
[17:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Obvious - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:36] <exec> 08└─Kinda obvious, I've said similar stuff before and I doubt I'm the first one: http://news.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[17:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:0) 02This is just stupid - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:38] <exec> 08└─What I just said.
[17:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Client like workload" of a queue depth of 1? - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:01:55] <exec> 08└─What test did they do that the read IOPS of their p3700 is so low? http://www.pcper.com [pcper.com]
[17:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:children don't need to socialize - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:06] <exec> 08└─"the drone is given the destination and the targets, and will do the rest fully autonomous?" Hah. As if anyone will take care to ensure the drones don't kill the wrong person. There will still be casualties because those funding the operation won't do enough to ensure the drone is careful not to kil...
[17:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:children don't need to socialize - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:10] <exec> 08└─Yes men don't make it far in the military.
[17:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:0) 02Re:children don't need to socialize - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:12] <exec> 08└─Well said sir!
[17:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score:0) 02Re:On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:22] <exec> 08└─There is nothing wrong with being friends with your children. Would you rather they be your enemy? My ex is my children's enemy much of the time because she values disciple and structure over dialogue, acceptance, tolerance and understanding. My kids are my kids, but also my friends because I'm pret...
[17:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe they should teach Parenting in school? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:26] <exec> 08└─That's only true in US public schools (possibly private ones as well), but if you ever go to college you'll find out differently.
[17:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02So that's why! - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:28] <exec> 08└─My daughter is Phi Beta Kappa at Cincinnati State while holding down a full time job; we raised our kids old school. And here I thought it was genetics!
[17:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I think this misses the point - 06Duel with Japan: Americans Collect Money for Robot Battle - 1267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:38] <exec> 08└─The point should be who can make the most powerful robot at the cheapest price. Sure, if the U.S. puts more money into it they can win. But it would be embarrassing if a $500 K American robot lost to a 10K Japanese robot. Then again perhaps the cost of labor in Japan is different but still. Isn't th...
[17:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Emacs - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:54] <exec> 08└─Microsoft Office is beating the hell out of the rest because it's so often mandatory. I much prefer Open Office Write to Microsoft's word processor, but magazines only take submissions in Microsoft Word format. And I absolutely HATE that word processor, getting away from it was one reason I was so h...
[17:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emacs - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:02:56] <exec> 08└─EmacsOS runs Vi [emacswiki.org] just fine.
[17:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:09] <exec> 08└─"Wither OpenOffice?" is a sentence fragment No, it isn't. "Wither"=="where is", a verb. Open Office is a noun. Noun+verb=full sentence. "Where is Open Office?" is not a fragment, either. whither [thesaurus.com] adv. in what direction It's one of those words like "whom" and "shall" that one never hea...
[17:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:14] <exec> 08└─It's a shame that the original headline was edited, now this discussion thread will wither :)
[17:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score:1) 02Re:LibreOffice here - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:25] <exec> 08└─My workplace (State Assembly) has 3000+ workstations, and uses LibreOffice almost exclusively. I use it on all three platforms (Linux, Mac, & Win). But you're right, Base sucks terribly.
[17:03:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02Re:Progress? - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 415 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:03:32] <exec> 08└─LibreOffice needs to win some kind of award for their changelogs. Seriously, they are perfectly detailed - just enough but not too much - and graphically demonstrate every visual change and new feature. You don't need to look "behind the scenes", their changelogs are perfect to tell you exactly how...
[17:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Hacking or Advertising Target: - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:47] <exec> 08└─> Before you know it, you'll have moving rolling commercials. Modern city buses come with screens, though usually on the sides. My question is which one, of the hackers or the drivers, is going to come up first with a Max-brightness-blink-full-white button, to screw up your night vision if you're a...
[17:04:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03danomac [979] (Score:2) 02Re:System Crash means Accident - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:04:50] <exec> 08└─I was thinking it'd be used for advertisements, not actually showing what's in front of the truck...
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[18:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We can tag Mars now? - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:01] <exec> 08└─Graffiti always shows up shortly after humans do.
[18:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02nasa version 2 point oh - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:02] <exec> 08└─can we send photosensitive ink with special unicode characters ( that will form a solar powered self replicating nano bot that eats graphit names) too?
[18:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ok! - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:15] <exec> 08└─first person to bring their appendix to mars and back. nevermind the lag and network terrorists!
[18:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:ok! - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:16] <exec> 08└─you mean like the machine in newer movie that pre-dates the movie "alien" featured in movie?
[18:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:34] <exec> 08└─I agree, and the same applies to yours.
[18:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:43] <exec> 08└─I recently read somewhere that wild dogs are more dangerous than wolves because over the centuries they learned from their masters to kill without them being hungry. Maybe this is also true for cats?
[18:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Physicists vs "other" scientists - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:48] <exec> 08└─Considering you mentioned all but one (mathematics) of the fields that have put the puzzle pieces together I am sure you already know that cause, as you put it, is a red herring when deriving fundamentals of reality. Cause only is useful when applied to practical applications. When wishing to know h...
[18:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02old crap. - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:54] <exec> 08└─bullshit! the old ones are full of tachyons so eat them first. the young ones will mature fast and be less radioactif. yoda knows!
[18:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:old crap. - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:01:55] <exec> 08└─you mean like in chaos theory? lose all or win all is not possible?
[18:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:39] <exec> 08└─No, you're just completely and utterly wrong. We raising two boys and do all the things mentioned in TFA, which is absolutely not "Helicopter Parenting". I let my children fail at a task before offering guidance, and try never to just do something for them, rather I try to help guide them to succes...
[18:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe they should teach Parenting in school? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:02:44] <exec> 08└─but if you ever go to college you'll find out differently.
[18:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:34] <exec> 08└─But whither will it wither too? Oh well. Whether it withers or whether it weathers the withering, we will, uh... nah, I'm done. Now they've put the headline in German, and it makes even less sense!
[18:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:35] <exec> 08└─But whither will it wither too?
[18:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LibreOffice here - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:03:46] <exec> 08└─LibreOffice Base, in itself, will always be limited when compared to other databases. However, Java allows LibreOffice to seamlessly utilize other, more powerful, databases as a backend. For example, I use the Java inetrface to a MariaDB (MySQL) database. In this way, LibreOffice functions as a grap...
[18:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is nothing new - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:21] <exec> 08└─Yep, it might be easier to re-forest 10% of the Sahara (maybe working in from the edges) than to cover 10% of it with man-made solar collectors and carbon nanotube factories. Neither seem very likely...
[18:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid idea - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:04:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but those are cheap investments improving fuel efficiency. I think it's safe to say that this is going to be relatively expensive. And worse, there's no expected return on investment. Zilch. Expect to see this only on Samsung trucks unless legally enforced.
[18:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:Hacking or Advertising Target: - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:07] <exec> 08└─The video in TFA (the video is in English, not French!) says the connection between camera and display is wireless.
[18:05:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:1) 02No accident because the image quality will be crap - 06Samsung Invents the 'Transparent' Truck - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:05:18] <exec> 08└─You're driving along at 70. The road ahead looks open and clear. You close on a truck which is perfectly camoglaged to look just like the road ahead of it. What, exactly, is there to indicate that there is an 80,000 pound rig ahead of you? Just the tail lights?
[18:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Expensive "rollercoaster" ride for the rich - 06The Hyperloop Takes a Step Forward - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:06:23] <exec> 08└─All true, but I love the first comment on TFA's thread. "Maybe, but if it were to bankrupt a consortium of investors rather than the entire state of California, it would represent a vast improvement on current HSR plans." Looking at it that way, yes, I have to agree. Privatize it, but don't subsidiz...
[18:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:Misses the point - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:55] <exec> 08└─Sooo, would the dressing-room-tablets be an advantage for you?
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[19:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Scale - 06Switching Mechanism for DNA Computing Found - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:48] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't a chemical-based switch make for slower performance?
[19:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Looks like it's free too... - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:02] <exec> 08└─I guess they wouldn't be allowed to charge $1 or $2 for the engraving being a federal agency mayb? That would be nice and generate some (little) revenue, at least to cover the costs of checking names, getting the engraving done etc. I'd pay something like $5 to get that up in the air, just for the f...
[19:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:More than 2 hands? - 06The Da Vinci Surgical Robot Sews a Grape - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:15] <exec> 08└─That would be awesome but not reasonable without having a program that could to simple surgeries on its own. The doc trains and trains with two hands, asking him or her to control > 2 sounds like it would blow up quickly because you are asking them not to adapt heavily practiced motor skills to a ma...
[19:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Ethical Fourier Transform - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:52] <exec> 08└─rofl, that hilarious... very very nice :)
[19:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Welp - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:57] <exec> 08└─Good thing I'm vegetarian.
[19:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mr_mischief [4884] (Score:2) 02Re:Welp - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:59] <exec> 08└─But do you only eat the seeds, or do you wait for the plants to mature and ripen? Surely waiting for fruits and vegetables to be mature will cause an unsustainable collapse, excepting that it doesn't just like ranching doesn't. BTW, we generally don't eat much cow. We eat steer, unless the rancher h...
[19:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Release date + 5 years before anyone can afford - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:11] <exec> 08└─I'd have to buy a new computer anyway. I have two PCIe x8 slots (PCIe 2), and one of those it the video card. No way am I going back to lame onboard video, and my double-width video dictates that I can't plug anything else into the other PCIe slot. Ehhh - expect to see motherboards in the not-distan...
[19:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:1) 02XPoint DIMMs require proprietary DDR4 extensions - 06Intel Announces "Optane"-Brand 3D XPoint SSDs and DIMMs for 2016 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:20] <exec> 08└─Good luck using those these DIMMS in your AMD box or ARM server. They are non-standard [eetimes.com]
[19:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe they should teach Parenting in school? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:53] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when your entire education system is based on maximizing profit - everything is only ever "just good enough" to keep the money flowing, actually doing things right and putting education first costs money, and it means less cush, do-nothing "administration" jobs for your buddies.
[19:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe they should teach Parenting in school? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:55] <exec> 08└─Why don't they teach parenting at school?
[19:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emacs - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:23] <exec> 08└─Competition is good if there are enough resources to maintain the competition. Once enough forks have formed so that there's only one programmer per fork, competition is nonexistent. This is exactly what TFA is about - the Open Office project has run out of steam and is no longer competitive. Somet...
[19:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Emacs - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:03:26] <exec> 08└─What I want to know is, what exactly makes you hate Word? I have used all three, OpenOffice, LibreOffice and MS Office. When MS rolled out Office 2010 everyone threw a shit fit because of the ribbon interface. I use MS Office at work. I have no choice so I got used to it. You know what? I find the r...
[19:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:10% of the Sahara desert? - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:28] <exec> 08└─Space elevator?
[19:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:This is nothing new - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:33] <exec> 08└─I wasn't advocating re-foresting the Sahara, but re-foresting the large swaths of the Amazon that are no longer forest.
[19:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillAdams [1424] (Score:1) 02Re:Atmospheric CO2? I doubt it. - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:37] <exec> 08└─Actually, a fair bit of carbon scrubbing is done to capture carbon for market uses such as soft-drink carbonation --- the problem is capturing 100% of the output isn't cost-effective.
[19:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Other side of the coin - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:04:51] <exec> 08└─That is a possibility. I've just chalked it up to some deficiency on my part. I could make a list of my deficiencies - but there is already a list of people who have declared themselves to be my enemies here, LOL! No point in giving ammunition to those people who have no deficiencies, right?
[19:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:49] <exec> 08└─By that logic, all Jews and Christians are responsible for the actions of Muslims, especially Christianity for being the parent religion of Islam. So every single individual believer of an Abrahamic religion is personally responsible for ISIS's actions.
[19:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:02] <exec> 08└─Another perspective is that this nation was so sickened by slavery that it fought a civil war in protest of slavery.
[19:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm a believer! - 06ISIS Beheads Renowned Archaeologist for Refusing to Divulge Locations of Hidden Antiquities - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:11] <exec> 08└─Why are 1.7 billion Muslims somehow responsible for ISIS
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[20:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Leon Uris - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:48] <exec> 08└─There was a pulp fiction author of the 1960s who had a defamation case [blogspot.com] brought against him. As in this case, in that case, the plaintiff also scored a pyrrhic victory. [google.com] The author went on to use the real case as a plot point in a subsequent book: QBVII (Queen's Bench Numbe...
[20:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:49] <exec> 08└─Really? M$? I thought we had some sort of editing standards here. We all may have our own opinions on Microsoft, but calling them M$ is immature and unprofessional.
[20:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:3, Insightful) 02citation required - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:51] <exec> 08└─>M$ has been using them for ages to push their agenda [citation required] I know this sounds plausible enough, but I don't see any evidence backing that claim. Then again, maybe that whole article is some subtle anti-Putin, anti-Microsoft and pro-BBC astroturf too.
[20:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Troll/astroturfer - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:53] <exec> 08└─The BBC confuses "troll" with "astroturfer"
[20:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Scale - 06Switching Mechanism for DNA Computing Found - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:02] <exec> 08└─Copper salts - check. Shampoo - check. Wife in the bathtub - check. If you don't hear from me again, you'll know this experiment blew up on me.
[20:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03skullz [2532] (Score:2) 02Re:Scale - 06Switching Mechanism for DNA Computing Found - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:04] <exec> 08└─Well, if you are successful you will have created your own DNA computer. It gets delivered in 9 months and comes with a mandatory 18 year support contract.
[20:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tork [3914] (Score:2) 02Re:Scale - 06Switching Mechanism for DNA Computing Found - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:05] <exec> 08└─This sorta sounds like how my dad invented the automatic lawn mower.
[20:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:We can tag Mars now? - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:16] <exec> 08└─You jest in hostility, but many other animals do it too. Bears, ungulates, and even insects all make their mark in their own way. Ours just so happens to be easy for us to spot. Shocking.
[20:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Not the first time - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:19] <exec> 08└─In 2003 there was this campaign: https://en.wikipedia.org(spacecraft)#Send_Your_Name_To_A_Comet_campaign [wikipedia.org].
[20:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Homeostasis - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:01:48] <exec> 08└─In NJ some 20-30 thousand plus deer are estimated killed by motor vehicles every year, plus there are around 50,000 legally killed by hunters. Yet in any suburban area with woods nearby you still constantly see them. Years ago some friends and I drove into Jockey Hollow State Park at night, the plac...
[20:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:04] <exec> 08└─Cats do it. They don't chase mice for food, especially if they're well fed, they do it for fun. I had a cat that trophy hunted. We'd moved into a house infested by mice, and every day there was a dead mouse laying next to my chair.
[20:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03eof [5559] (Score:1) 02Poor solution - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:02:05] <exec> 08└─A world without wild species sounds unappealing to me. According to one site [chgeharvard.org] Of the myriad species of plants and animals available for human consumption, modern agriculture uses only a few. According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, only 12 plant species provide 75%...
[20:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:03] <exec> 08└─It's not all selfishness. Is it a "wanna have it all" life to want a career to return to when the kids are in school? Because people who take years off to raise their young children often can't get jobs anymore because of the hole in their resumes.
[20:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emacs - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:46] <exec> 08└─The last time I tried Libre Office it didn't have full justification, which is absolutely necessary for me, since I publish my books straight out a PDF made by the Open Office file.
[20:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02VI...the lowest common denominator - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:03:49] <exec> 08└─VI here as well. It ALWAYS works, in an emergency crash I can ALWAYS count on VI to work at the console of any *Nix system I have to deal with. Granted there are, IMHO easier editors to use but I'd rather just have to know one system really well, rather than try and keep up with several depending on...
[20:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe they are happy with it as is? - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:04:17] <exec> 08└─I never understood why you just HAVE to keep adding crap, if it does the job they want it to and isn't being hit with security threats what is wrong with leaving it alone?
[20:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Interest rates - 06Stop Universities From Hoarding Money - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:06:30] <exec> 08└─I remember most of the comp labs being run by students. There was one full-time guy "running the show" who ate like two pizzas a day and rolled his chair around randomly. After the infrastructure is setup the maintenance isn't difficult. The knowledge to set it up initially however..
[20:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03soylentsandor [309] (Score:2) 02Re:E-F's list - 06Things College Freshman Born In 1997 Have Never Not Known - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:04] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with being proud of your country's accomplishments.
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[21:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03penguinoid [5331] (Score:2) 02Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:44] <exec> 08└─I don't think so.
[21:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:45] <exec> 08└─They don't literally mean the word. It's a (stupid-as-fuck) metaphor for broadening senses of identity that modern biology is providing.
[21:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:47] <exec> 08└─This is as ridiculous as the idea of the singularity. Just because an idea is edgy or mind boggling doesn't mean we should accept it, especially when it is a philosophical idea only.
[21:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:00:58] <exec> 08└─For a while it was, but now after Windows 10 they earned the right to be called M$ again.
[21:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:00] <exec> 08└─Well, "earn" "$" and "microsoft" are 3 things that don't go together so much as they used to.
[21:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:01] <exec> 08└─I prefer to call them MICROS~1 -- gewg_
[21:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:03] <exec> 08└─Haha, I can get on board with that!
[21:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:05] <exec> 08└─Use your own account, asshole. That is all. -- gewg_
[21:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:citation required - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:06] <exec> 08└─I don't see any evidence backing that claim
[21:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:citation required - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:08] <exec> 08└─People demanding citations for stuff easily googled generally are not prepared to accept any citations what so ever. On the off chance that does not describe you: http://www.pcworld.com [pcworld.com] http:...
[21:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marneus68 [3572] (Score:2) 02Re:citation required - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:01:10] <exec> 08└─Oh that's not what I meant by that. Like I said I'm fairly certain this is the case, but in the context of an article I expected a link there asserting that this offhand and somewhat inflammatory comment isn't just a product of the imagination of the demented writer. The way this was written made it...
[21:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02One Rouble - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:12] <exec> 08└─Probably about the cost of on 7.62×39mm round with her name on it. Stay away from bridges, especially the Bolshoy Kamenny Bridge.
[21:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02The Pope! - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:35] <exec> 08└─2 people so far from the Vatican City... the Pope wants to be closer to God?! The pope and.... his child buggery playmate? (and yes, this is my version of humour)
[21:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:On the other side? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:03:16] <exec> 08└─You got the wrong lesson out of that. The right lesson is don't have children. You'll be a rotten parent no matter what you do anyways.
[21:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02A few things - 06Duel with Japan: Americans Collect Money for Robot Battle - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:44] <exec> 08└─First off; its not a robot, its a mech. A robot is autonomous, capable of following programmed instructions with out human intervention. This thing needs a pilot for it to do anything. (I know, I know, everyone calls them robots, its a pet peeve that i need to take out every now and then so it gets...
[21:04:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Microsoft Word format'' - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:06] <exec> 08└─Without specifying A VERSION NUMBER, that isn't calling out an actual format. This paradigm ONLY WORKS IF YOU STAY ON THE M$ TREADMILL and constantly pay M$ their filthy lucre. Try sending your "M$-standard" document to someone who doesn't use THE SAME VERSION and you are headed for problems. ...and...
[21:04:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:24] <exec> 08└─You're mixing up "wither" and "whither". Wither != Whither
[21:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03No Respect [991] (Score:2) 02Re:LibreOffice here - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:04:43] <exec> 08└─It does allow the use of other database backends, but then again so do any number of other db frontends, many of which do not require Java. If you're a regular Java developer then it's not much of a hindrance, but if it were written in, say, Python, it would attract a whole lot more people.
[21:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:One question - 06'Diamonds from the Sky' Approach Turns CO₂ Into Valuable Products - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:05:05] <exec> 08└─No offense taken. :) My initial reaction to your post was actually along the lines of "Crap! They're right! Argh! how did I miss that?" I am quite sincere in my thanks.
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[22:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:50] <exec> 08└─Identity and consciousness are illusions, along with categorization.
[22:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:52] <exec> 08└─Just because an idea is edgy or mind boggling doesn't mean we should accept it,
[22:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:54] <exec> 08└─> This is as ridiculous as the idea of the singularity. You're just saying that because wonkey_monkey's sig has doomed us all.
[22:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:56] <exec> 08└─I invoke Betteridge.
[22:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:1) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:00:57] <exec> 08└─We think you all are wrong.
[22:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02We are quite pleased :-)) - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:59] <exec> 08└─We are quite pleased that they have finally uncovered what we have always known.
[22:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:We are quite pleased :-)) - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:01] <exec> 08└─Speak for yourselves. Fags. -- Signed, the loner e-coli trapped in your lower intestine.
[22:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obligatory - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:03] <exec> 08└─We Are Not Amused [wikipedia.org] by this article!
[22:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02The Logical perspective - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:04] <exec> 08└─"Crowd" exists and it's a useful term, and we hopefully all agree a crowd is made of different independent individuals. The biological perspective doesn't make "Crowd" less useful, so why should do something different to "I"? Language uses abstractions and conventions, and challenging them is more o...
[22:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03drpylons [5057] (Score:1) 02Just had to login to say... - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:06] <exec> 08└─This is very, very silly.
[22:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Does Betteridge Law ever fail? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:08] <exec> 08└─The man as a network influenced by different independent entities, now where did I see that before... "And they were casting out many evil spirits" (Mark,6)
[22:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what the fuck - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:10] <exec> 08└─what do bacteria have to do with pronouns?! are they implying some sort of reverse lingistic relativity* might happen by itself? What for? *shakes head* *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity#Benjamin_Lee_Whorf
[22:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:what the fuck - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:11] <exec> 08└─> what do bacteria have to do with pronouns?! I'll have you know that I'm a bacteria-kin and only respond to the third-person pronouns "", "", and "" because bacteria don't make noise.
[22:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:21] <exec> 08└─I am using my own account. That is all. -- gewg_
[22:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:23] <exec> 08└─__gewg~1
[22:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:citation required - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:27] <exec> 08└─I refer you to my original statement.
[22:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Re:One Rouble - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:30] <exec> 08└─I was thinking more of polonium sushi
[22:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Scale - 06Switching Mechanism for DNA Computing Found - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:01:41] <exec> 08└─It takes several years to install enough updates to be useful, then after a few more it stops accepting commands.
[22:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:38] <exec> 08└─Predator animals have to be taught to hunt and kill, and this has been obseverd in multiple species, including cats. What you are likely observing is extinctual behavior where the cat does not know it should kill. It is just "playing" and since adult cat (experienced at hunting for food and survival...
[22:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:42] <exec> 08└─No, it is the ivory, which is sold to fund warlord and terror groups. Ivory sales are banned in many countries, but there are loopholes, including the USA for pre-existing items made of ivory, which is exploited by profiteers to sneak in new items, but claim they are old. http://ecowatch.com
[22:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Poor solution - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:48] <exec> 08└─the Cavendish banana comes to mind as one example
[22:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:02:50] <exec> 08└─Give it a couple more centuries, and there won't be any "wild" species left,
[22:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Easy Way To Address This - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:42] <exec> 08└─Hundreds enter, but only one shall leave. Baby Thunderdome.
[22:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:We're not all doing the same thing! - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:03:55] <exec> 08└─When someone says "the United States has been ...", and they're talking about individual acts, then you need to assume that they are talking about some sort of statistical abstraction, sort of like "The parents of the mean family in the United States...". This, however, doesn't mean that they actual...
[22:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe they should teach Parenting in school? - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:03] <exec> 08└─Why don't they teach parenting at school? Because you'll piss people off by having the government teach morals, effectively. The religious people will be pissed that the parenting course doesn't include teaching kids how important $RELIGION is, and other people will be pissed that the parenting cour...
[22:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So that's why! - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:04:06] <exec> 08└─Yep. She will burn out by 30, get seriously depressed, get addicted to something, then blaim you for everything.
[22:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Other side of the coin - 06The Amazing Adaptability of Brain's Vision Center - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:06:06] <exec> 08└─I think it's like G.U.R.P.S. You have so many points to allocate; how would you like to spend them? People who are extraordinarily good at something often show a lacking in another area.
[22:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Misses the point - 06Macy’s Tests Chutes, Tablets in Dressing Rooms to Repel Amazon - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:30] <exec> 08└─Won't work. The sales floor of a department store is not remotely orderly enough for robots to do that job well. Yes, if you had everything pre-packaged in storage bins, you could do it, but there's two problems with that: 1) what do you do with all the clothes that are tried-on and rejected? Now yo...
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[23:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Before and After - 06Augmented Reality Glasses Could Visually Encrypt Secrets - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:48] <exec> 08└─Before Glasses My chance will come. I believe in America. I follow the rules. Everybody has got their own hard times, these days. After Glasses Fuck it!
[23:00:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03penguinoid [5331] 02Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:56] <exec> 08└─I don't think so.
[23:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:00] <exec> 08└─Identity and consciousness are illusions,
[23:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Daiv [3940] (Score:2) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:02] <exec> 08└─Mine apparently, since I can only know I exist. Thanks Descartes!!! ...I mean, me?
[23:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:06] <exec> 08└─Singularity is a fact, not an idea. It's already happening.
[23:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does Betteridge Law ever fail? - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:15] <exec> 08└─> Does Betteridge Law ever fail? No.
[23:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Ugh... - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:18] <exec> 08└─This is a bullshit story. Good bit of phenix666's submissions are crap. They get posted because ...
[23:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Redundant) 02Re:Ugh... - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:20] <exec> 08└─To cause such wonderfully and elegantly worded retorts obviously... could try POSTING SOMETHING yourself instead...
[23:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Dear cmn32480 - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:21] <exec> 08└─If you don't want to do this, bow out. At this point, I am suspecting you're slashdot's samzempus trying to ruin this site.
[23:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mur Burns - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:23] <exec> 08└─"What do you fellow "holobionts" say, does it disturb or comfort you to think of yourselves as a walking constellation of bacteria?" The human side of me says to kill all the bacteria inside me but the bacteria side says the human side is the infection and it wants my human side killed. So as a holo...
[23:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mur Burns - 06Will the Pronoun I Become Obsolete? A Biological Perspective - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:25] <exec> 08└─Mr Burns *
[23:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Use your own account, asshole - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:39] <exec> 08└─See how it's done now? (You have to put that on the Subject line.) Thanks anyway for the assist. For the GP: MICROS~1 refers to their 4th-rate technology. M$ refers to their greed (E,E,E; the treadmill; shills & paid FUDsters; etc.). MSFT refers to mergers & acquisitions and other business-related s...
[23:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:M$? - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:40] <exec> 08└─This is a meta I-am-astroturfing-for-M$-so-I-fake-being-offended joke, I guess?
[23:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:citation required - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:46] <exec> 08└─My sides still hurt from all those "Vista is fine" and "Metro is fine" posts that were polluting the green site...
[23:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:One Rouble - 06Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory' - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:01:51] <exec> 08└─What about brutal limb chopping and burning?
[23:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:Looks like it's free too... - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:18] <exec> 08└─I think that what they're doing is putting your name into the "blank" unused portion of a silicon chip at whatever resolution the rest of the chip is at. If they print them that small there really isn't any additional cost, especially since they won't be proofing the names.
[23:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:The Pope! - 06NASA Issues Boarding Call to Take Your Name to Mars - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:21] <exec> 08└─The pope and the ex-pope?
[23:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Solved problem - 06Scientists Say Humans are an Unsustainable (Super)Predator - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:02:59] <exec> 08└─No. Things *called* sustainable hunting, fishing, etc. have been around for a long time, but the sustainability usually fails. Often within a couple of centuries, sometimes sooner. Farming we can manage reasonably well, but sustainable harvesting of wild animals we don't have a good record at. It's...
[23:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:We're not all doing the same thing! - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:21] <exec> 08└─When someone says "the United States has been ...", and they're talking about individual acts, then you need to assume that they are talking about some sort of statistical abstraction
[23:04:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So that's why! - 06Modern Parenting May Hinder Brain Development, Research Suggests - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:32] <exec> 08└─Girls should be married off as children. This is how it was done in the past. Such was correct.
[23:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:sponsor a Battlebots team - 06Duel with Japan: Americans Collect Money for Robot Battle - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:04:43] <exec> 08└─As I understand the dialog between the two companies involved the Japanese company essentially saying, "you need to use something besides big guns in the battle." As I understand Japanese law firearms of any sort are inaccessible to the public. The exact wording was: “Just building something huge...
[23:05:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emacs - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:04] <exec> 08└─Do you remember when the Ribbon was the way of the future, and soon everybody would be changing their interfaces to that style? Didn't happen, did it? The Ribbon isn't nearly as incredible as people think. I won't use Microsoft Office because of it being there.
[23:05:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Emacs - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:07] <exec> 08└─magazines only take submissions in Microsoft Word format
[23:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:It's whither, not wither - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:32] <exec> 08└─I totally agree, in German it should be "Das" OpenOffice or even "Das offene Büro". Quo vadis, librum officium?
[23:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Blackboard's lack of support'' - 06Die, OpenOffice? - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:05:41] <exec> 08└─...is the stuff of legend. Trying to find something equally awful is a true challenge. Have you contacted your local Moodle guru and asked if Moodle has this problem? While you have his ear, you might ask for a presentation for TPTB. Moodle is GPL'd, BTW. -- gewg_
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