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[00:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:At least name the candidate - 06Political Campaign Harvesting Data on Facebook Users - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:47] <exec> 08└─If they aren't all doing it, they will soon. There is just too much money at stake for any serious candidate to rule out anything that might give them an edge.
[00:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Low hanging friuit refutation - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:57] <exec> 08└─Whooooooosh
[00:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Low hanging friuit refutation - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:44:58] <exec> 08└─I'd like my small gift of a million dollars plz
[00:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Strawman much? - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:14] <exec> 08└─Yes -- Remember, this message was not sent to us because we are high IQ people that are being personally contacted to both critique and implement his vision. It was written for the commoner.
[00:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Solar Energy Climate Change - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:23] <exec> 08└─From that link I got the estimate "Just 496,905 square kilometers". So this would be like losing the albedo[1] due to the largest iceberg[2] 50x. The temperature would be affected similarly except this would be energy absorbed near the equator where insolation is much higher. What would be the effec...
[00:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Well, this time it's not astronauts - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:25] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Damn hippy FAGs (film actors guild) need to shut up and get back in the kitchen.
[00:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:What this really proves.... - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:30] <exec> 08└─I am wondering who the civilians are that are seeing through the clothes. I suppose a few us us in ivory towers of our making (stained with the pollution of our fossil fuel society, no less) may notice the problem... but a lot of people seem to be endorsing the likes of Trump, or if not endorsing Tr...
[00:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hoax. Conspiracy. - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:35] <exec> 08└─They want to get good environment for free, which is a communist’s idea. We need a market for clean earth so we can make money selling it to people. To get there it has to be polluted first. In fact the only way to get people from one commodity to the next is to exhaust the old one. For example, w...
[00:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''every phone I've had recently has had FM'' - 06Developers Working to Get FM Radio Function Enabled in BQ Ubuntu Phones - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:59] <exec> 08└─a radio app ...which allows you to *stream* digital bits **across the Net**. If your internet provider goes down, you lose "radio". That internet radio paradigm also requires your radio station to have a stream. Some don't. Wtf is this article talking about? A radio receiver that grabs analog radio...
[00:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''every phone I've had recently has had FM'' - 06Developers Working to Get FM Radio Function Enabled in BQ Ubuntu Phones - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:00] <exec> 08└─Receiving analog radio signals from the radio station also doesn't count against your bandwidth cap. -- gewg_
[00:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score:2) 02Re:Digital or Analog radio stations? - 06Developers Working to Get FM Radio Function Enabled in BQ Ubuntu Phones - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:04] <exec> 08└─Yes there is. Consumers might listen to the free FM radio instead of using Google Play or Pandora or any other revenue generating scheme. AND THAT IS WHY PHONES DON'T HAVE FM RADIO. Money.
[00:46:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02"Cost of publication"? - 06Elsevier Agrees to Open Up Some Dutch Research Articles - 118 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:24] <exec> 08└─But for-profit publishing companies like Elsevier have argued that someone has to pay for the cost of the publication,
[00:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:One caveat: Gigster will still own the code - 06Gigster Wants to be the Uber of Software Developers - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:45] <exec> 08└─...yet.
[00:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:I want an app - 06Gigster Wants to be the Uber of Software Developers - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:54] <exec> 08└─That takes people's electronic watches and other wearables as donations, then leases them back to the donators for a monthly fee. This is a cloud app that shall result in a $1 billion pre-IPO valuation for my company, so I can fly around the world on the corporate jet with babes on each side of me.
[00:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03basicbasicbasic [411] (Score:2) 02Re:good encounter - 06Rare 'Flasher' Squid Caught on Video With 'High Beams' On - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:03] <exec> 08└─Well, it would be better if we weren't blinding them [theguardian.com].
[00:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dieties are fiction - 06Rare 'Flasher' Squid Caught on Video With 'High Beams' On - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:07] <exec> 08└─snufu, below, used the word "evolved". Too bad that you can't be convinced that, given billions of years, stuff can just happen. [google.com] ...and, again, given billions of years, that ionizing radiation can mutate lifeforms into a chain of similar but different organisms. -- gewg_
[00:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pinchy [777] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:So where's the video? - 06Rare 'Flasher' Squid Caught on Video With 'High Beams' On - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:12] <exec> 08└─I found a CNN youtube link https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[00:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:the obvious - 06Company Sells Endohedral Fullerenes (Buckyballs) for $167 Million per Gram - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:29] <exec> 08└─if you have blocked all modes of wireless communication, it's not really a cell phone anymore. if you didn't know, they share the antenna.
[00:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How much for 1? - 06Company Sells Endohedral Fullerenes (Buckyballs) for $167 Million per Gram - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:35] <exec> 08└─I'm to lazy to do the math or read TFA.
[00:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cngn [1609] (Score:1) 02Re:We'll see if it even draws a dismissive tweet - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:32] <exec> 08└─I'll concur, I've given up on the Human Race, animals are a better cause.
[00:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good luck with that - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:43] <exec> 08└─Sure, Mrs. Clinton is a shill for the ultra-rich, fine, but Mr. Trump is himself ultra-rich. I wouldn't expect him to do things against the interest of his class. As for him being an enigmatic, mysterious, unknown person, it's difficult not to know at least a few things about him, thanks to the heav...
[00:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good luck with that - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:48:48] <exec> 08└─there will NEVER be a third party win the white house
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[01:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:At least name the candidate - 06Political Campaign Harvesting Data on Facebook Users - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:47] <exec> 08└─Hmm, Ted. Facebook. Harvard. . . .Yard. Mark. . . Zuckerbot. . . I sense a deep, very deep, disturbance in the Force. And you know what? God feels it too. Cruz is going to drop out of the presidential race in a fortnight. God told me. Oh, and is Dad is not really a Christian! Catholics told me so...
[01:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:0, Offtopic) 02Closely related news - 06Political Campaign Harvesting Data on Facebook Users - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:48] <exec> 08└─https://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Hillary-Clinton-women-voters-Priorities-USA/2015/08/17/id/670434/ [newsmax.com] Hillary can't understand why over-the-hill women support her, and young women don't have the time of day for her. Her campaign is doing much the same thing, targeting very specifc advert...
[01:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TOSMuch? - 06Political Campaign Harvesting Data on Facebook Users - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:50] <exec> 08└─WTF? "He paid mechanical turk workers for access to their facebook accounts" Is that not a direct violation of Facebook terms-of-service?
[01:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't get your hopes up - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:00] <exec> 08└─In times past, lie detector results were admissable in court. I'm not sure that they aren't admissable in some courts still today. The US isn't the whole world, after all. Aside from court, government relies on lie detectors. We had a recent discussion about FBI, CIA, and other agents who have to ro...
[01:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't get your hopes up - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:01] <exec> 08└─> In times past, lie detector results were admissable in court. Yeah, 80 years ago for a handful of cases. If only our courts had a way of maintaining institutional knowledge of precedent! > Aside from court, government relies on lie detectors. I get it, you are called runaway because you lurve to r...
[01:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't get your hopes up - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:03] <exec> 08└─I get it, you are called runaway because you lurve to runaway with the goal posts!
[01:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't get your hopes up - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:05] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you would like to familiarize yourself with the law. As I have already stated, government relies on polygraphs for it's own purposes. Government can and will admit a polygraph test if it suits government's purpose to do so. And, government will bar a polygraph result from evidence if and whe...
[01:45:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BsAtHome [889] 02Total honesty is not part of us - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 268 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:07] <exec> 08└─Everybody is lying a lot all the time. It is ingrained in our being and it has served us well. It also has drawbacks, but detecting every lie would be detrimental to our being and society. Imagine a society that never lies. Ever seen the film "The invention of lying"?
[01:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Total honesty is not part of us - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:09] <exec> 08└─> Everybody is lying a lot all the time. Not only that, but there are all kinds of different lies. Broadly, there are lies that are for the benefit of the liar (I didn't steal that money) and lies for the benefit of person being lied to (you don't look fat in those pants). And there are lies where...
[01:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score:2) 02Re:Total honesty is not part of us - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:11] <exec> 08└─That's a really good comment. I'll add one more in to the mix here: What happens when I am saying something that I truly believe in, so in that way I am not "lying" but I am wrong - therefore technically not saying the truth. Eg: "Do you sleepwalk?" ... "Nope..." (I have no knowledge or inkling that...
[01:45:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Low hanging friuit refutation - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 107 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:12] <exec> 08└─prototype was up to 75 percent accurate in identifying who was telling a lie (as defined by trial outcomes)
[01:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Scenarios - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:15] <exec> 08└─Well I don't understand YOU but if your implication is that in spite of this nonsensical and weak application of technology, the premises it's based on could almost certainly be used in a larger more well-funded and well-thought-out endeavor to attain much more useful results.... I agree.
[01:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score:1) 02Calibration, how? - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:17] <exec> 08└─Assuming someone is lying based on the outcome of the case (ie. guilty/not-guilty verdict) is a pretty poor metric to calibrate against. That 75% could easily be eaten back to 50% on the assumption that there is a potentially high rate of convicting innocent people. The other problem is confirmation...
[01:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trial outcomes? - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:18] <exec> 08└─Trial outcomes? That's more a measure of lawyer expenditures.
[01:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Well, this time it's not astronauts - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:40] <exec> 08└─Well, if you've ever wondered what an "Ad Hominem" was, this is an excellent example.
[01:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:What this really proves.... - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:45] <exec> 08└─Ok, Republican resistant, then?
[01:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What this really proves.... - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:47] <exec> 08└─I feel like gewg_ is becoming the new Phoenix666 with all the clickbait BuzzFeedesque articles on climate change, graphene, and so on. Which is funny, because I like some of Phoenix666's most recent submissions, but that's primarily because they're covering his main level of expertise: programming....
[01:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score:2) 02Re:Hoax. Conspiracy. - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:53] <exec> 08└─One possible answer is carbon taxes, but a simpler one is "nothing". People are capable of doing all sorts of things for their ideology and prejudices. These things need not have any prospect of any benefit more concrete than "we're good guys and they're bad guys". What did the movie industry hope t...
[01:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Ooooh, I want to be the first one to say it!! - 06Developers Working to Get FM Radio Function Enabled in BQ Ubuntu Phones - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:08] <exec> 08└─it has nothing to do with the quality of your headset. It has a lot to do with how far you've extended your headset wires and the direction in which they are deployed.
[01:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''every phone I've had recently has had FM'' - 06Developers Working to Get FM Radio Function Enabled in BQ Ubuntu Phones - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:20] <exec> 08└─Don't be an even bigger idiot than normal, --gewg_. The radio app called "Radio FM" is used to *stream* analog modulations **across the VHF broadcast band**. It's exactly what it says on the tin, and of course wouldn't work on a phone without appropriate hardware and drivers to receive FM radio. But...
[01:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:whatever - 06Gigster Wants to be the Uber of Software Developers - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:11] <exec> 08└─The thing is, what you see as desperation, upper management sees as efficiency. The idea that you should see your employer as anything other than a potentially hostile source of money is simply incorrect. And it doesn't even have to be your boss that's the problem - anybody above your boss in an org...
[01:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:HOWTO Impress Chicks - 06Company Sells Endohedral Fullerenes (Buckyballs) for $167 Million per Gram - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:52] <exec> 08└─Is this supposed to be a stealth "dick in a box" joke?
[01:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much for 1? - 06Company Sells Endohedral Fullerenes (Buckyballs) for $167 Million per Gram - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:57] <exec> 08└─A mole of these things would have a mass of around 60 times 12 grams plus 14 grams, or 734 grams (because you've got 60 carbon atoms and one nitrogen atom). At $167 million per gram, that much would cost $122.6 billion. Then for just one molecule, divide by Avogadro's number [wikipedia.org], 6.022 X...
[01:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You're way too thin-skinned, dude - 06195 Nations Approve Historic Climate Accord - 961 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:48:28] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you haven't noticed that I have repeatedly said here that Lamestream Media is an unreliable source of information and that their stuff, if consumed, should be treated with extreme skepticism unless validated by news outlets who haven't taken payoffs from megacorporations meant to influence t...
[01:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02COPOUT - 06195 Nations Approve Historic Climate Accord - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:32] <exec> 08└─COP21? More like COPOUT. It's like a corporate meeting on a global scale.
[01:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Real time Linux - 06Hacked at Sea: Researchers Find Ships’ Data Recorders Vulnerable to Attack - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:43] <exec> 08└─I know Linux probably wouldn't qualify for industrial real-time applications, but Linux does have a realtime patch set that provides hard realtime guarantees.
[01:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck with that - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:17] <exec> 08└─You're just digging yourself into a deeper hole here in my estimation. If you really hate the main 2 parties, and you say no third party will ever get elected, why not at least vote third party to register your anger instead of refusing to vote at all? Besides we have already seen what happens when...
[01:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Troll movement mascot - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:49:24] <exec> 08└─Trump has the Turkey Farm vote. Shocked I tells ya, simply shocked!
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[02:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02sounds cool - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:38] <exec> 08└─Has anyone here had a chance to try one of these new vr headsets? Was it cool? Anything not cool? I hope I get an opportunity to try it.
[02:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds cool - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:39] <exec> 08└─I tried one in a store. Vertigo. Then later headache. Still it was fairly immersive, and you could get involved in it really easy.
[02:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is pointless. - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:41] <exec> 08└─It has a total of 392 votes? Why is this a fucking story? https://microsoftstudios.com [microsoftstudios.com] Fuck I have seen polls on the other site that have more votes then this.
[02:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oil wrestling - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:42] <exec> 08└─I want to see Siri and Cortana mix it up, oiled up and wrestling. Seriously, when I'm searching for some information with my phone or computer, I don't desire to look at an NPC or be titillated* while I search. But, sadly, I'm not a teenage boy. * unless it's that sort of a search
[02:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Cortana teenage wet dream. - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:44] <exec> 08└─Personally I find just about everything about Cortana Digital Assistant irritating on my Surface tablet, and have pretty much shut it all down except the search bar. (The type-it-in kind). I detest asking questions verbally, there is just about no use case other than living alone where this seems ap...
[02:44:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Serach bar is essential - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:46] <exec> 08└─I think you are onto something: Windows is evolving in a crappy command-line interface. Often the ONLY way to talk people through computer problems is to have them use the search bar.
[02:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03undefinedvalue [1755] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:TOSMuch? - 06Political Campaign Harvesting Data on Facebook Users - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:56] <exec> 08└─It's also against Mechanical Turk's policies: https://www.mturk.com [mturk.com]
[02:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TOSMuch? - 06Political Campaign Harvesting Data on Facebook Users - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:58] <exec> 08└─LOL! There are 11 prohibited things and this hits about 8 of them.
[02:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Standard warning about false positives - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:24] <exec> 08└─If the percentage of liars seen in courtroom testimony is much different from 50-50, then the anomaly of a false positives (or negatives) from Bayes' conditional probably formula has to be taken into account. Here's an example that's often brought up (exact numbers varying) early on in a stats cours...
[02:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The other side of that coin - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:50] <exec> 08└─In SoCal, we depend on snowfall in the mountains in Winter to form snowpack which melts during the rest of the year to provide a significant portion of our water supply. Snowpack has been very low for several years and we have been drought. Water conservation measures have been mandated. I expect th...
[02:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The other side of that coin - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:52] <exec> 08└─Portland, Maine will be a boomtown in thirty years, but it's too early to start buying up property.
[02:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hi there, Newbie - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:58] <exec> 08└─You seem to have missed a phase in the history of this site. -- gewg_
[02:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Partly right - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:05] <exec> 08└─More significantly, a dude named Drake noticed that, in some places in Pennsylvania, petroleum oozes to the surface. He figured if he drilled down he would find more and could pump that out. His experiment was successful. ...and it was cheaper to get that stuff than to get whale oil. To overcome the...
[02:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Re:Hoax. Conspiracy. - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:07] <exec> 08└─If we are looking for the simpler explanation, which of the following seems more plausible: A) Based on a preponderance of empirical data and modeling, a majority of the international community of scientists concludes that climate change is occurring and the consequences to society could be dire. B)...
[02:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:What about KVM? - 06Server Reboots Again for Xen Updates - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:50] <exec> 08└─We need to test if our setup is KVM compatible. As they did not give us much time to prepare, I thought it best to hold off on that migration.
[02:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:2) 02Necessary downtime? - 06Server Reboots Again for Xen Updates - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:53] <exec> 08└─I don't know about Linode, but AWS (and surely other provides) gives you the option to launch instances onto Xen hosts that already have the update applied. That means you can migrate your instances to new hosts in advance of the reboot, and avoid downtime - assuming you are using a configuration ma...
[02:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03paulej72 [58] (Score:2) 02Re:Necessary downtime? - 06Server Reboots Again for Xen Updates - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:55] <exec> 08└─Our setup is a bit too small to have configuration management. It would be more work than what it would get us.
[02:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want an app - 06Gigster Wants to be the Uber of Software Developers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:47:32] <exec> 08└─If Scott Adams uses it, I'll accept royalties from Dilbert.
[02:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Good luck with that - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:33] <exec> 08└─It's happened before: the candidate of the Progressive Party (you might know it as the Bull Moose Party) was elected president in 1912.
[02:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck with that - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:34] <exec> 08└─Isn't it just sad when they do that? When they are so damned desperate to find ANY citation to support their belief they don't even bother to read beyond the first line and see it is in reality against their position but they didn't read beyond the first line? At the end of the day voting third part...
[02:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck with that - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:38] <exec> 08└─No it isn't besides the point, its EXACTLY the fucking point! We got 8 years of debt, over 1 million dead Iraqis, 55,000 Americans, because of guys like YOU that completely pissed away your vote, thus draining crucial swing state votes which allowed Bush to win the white house. That is VERY much on...
[02:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck with that - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:49:40] <exec> 08└─So when *I* vote third party it's wrong, but when you refuse to vote it's fine? Somehow I'm the one responsible for one of the big two getting in office? ...which you said is inevitable anyway. You're not making any sense.
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[11:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Let's be reasonable, alright? - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 1206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:55] <exec> 08└─The guy in Florida who was killed by a gator? No - he wasn't killed by police. Death by misadventure would cover that, or death by exposure, or death by stupidity. That death could be characterized a number of ways, but he was not killed by police. If I'm playing hide and seek with the grandkids, an...
[11:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem... - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know if Ill be around that long. But I'm sure there will be a way around in car ads for people like cops, or the happy few.
[11:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem... - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:05] <exec> 08└─It's unlikely any of these systems are a money-losing proposition. The NSA will pay for unfettered access to this information, and since it is 'new', as in, invented after the constitution, it isn't covered by it. Somewhere, someone is being secretly filmed beating off to the idea of being able to t...
[11:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem... - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:07] <exec> 08└─As long as it can all be easily blocked by choice.
[11:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No problem... - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:09] <exec> 08└─I bet you're one of the people who thinks that cell phones should also be turned off *by choice* when driving. Ads distracting from driving should be illegal. Non-distracting ads don't exist, because ads are designed to get your attention.
[11:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Powered by ads... random thoughts - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:11] <exec> 08└─Someone has to pay for the adverts, they are a drain on society. Either pay directly via taxes, or pay via adverts for products. Sure, the market will mean you can just buy from the companies that don't advertise, thus can charge less than those that do. Good luck with that.
[11:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jamesbond [2383] (Score:1) 02Re:No. - 06WebTorrent, a BitTorrent Client Running Within the Web Browser - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:29] <exec> 08└─There is just too much bloat with browsers today. People are trying to do everything with it. Soon there will be an embedded virtual machine that will be used to run win32 in the browser.
[11:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02But streaming is in-order, torrents not - 06WebTorrent, a BitTorrent Client Running Within the Web Browser - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:21:30] <exec> 08└─The whole point of the torrent protocol is that chunks can come from any peer in an arbitrary order. Streaming requires the blocks in order. Unless it doesn't start showing the content until the whole file is downloaded, in which case it's not actually streaming. If it's abusing the protocol to prio...
[11:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is what happens - 06Vandals Attack Facebook Building in Germany - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:40] <exec> 08└─This was a serious question. The CEO of a large organisation is quoted as being pro islam. On the other side of the world a building owned by that organisation is defaced. Perhaps this is why the CEO of IBM does not go on record giving an opinion on a highly charged emotional topic.
[11:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is what happens - 06Vandals Attack Facebook Building in Germany - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:21:42] <exec> 08└─Some things are more important than profits. And even if you don't think zuckerberg has an altrustic bone in his body, 1.6 billion potential users is worth pissing off the substantially smaller number of racists who will lose their shit over someone standing up for anti-racism.
[11:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Out of control - 06UK to Lengthen Copyright on Works of Artistic Craftsmanship - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:02] <exec> 08└─The average person doesn't give a rat's ass about copyright until somebody DMCA's one of their family video YouTube uploads.
[11:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I have a better idea - 06UK to Lengthen Copyright on Works of Artistic Craftsmanship - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:03] <exec> 08└─for example a book or film in which a work of artistic craftsmanship was photographed, will be obliged to obtain permissions
[11:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Delusional AC - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:27] <exec> 08└─Your brilliant shit fails to convince so of course it's the readers' fault.
[11:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I’d like to thank Global Warming - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:44] <exec> 08└─Winter is still a week away.
[11:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score:2) 02Re:Digital or Analog radio stations? - 06Developers Working to Get FM Radio Function Enabled in BQ Ubuntu Phones - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:35] <exec> 08└─Except they are turned off in this market.
[11:24:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What about KVM? - 06Server Reboots Again for Xen Updates - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:24:49] <exec> 08└─I converted our 5 remaining Xen Linode VPSs to KVM this weekend. No issues whatsoever. Plus, the downtime was much shorter than the Xen maintenance window. The response time on KVM seems to be improved as well. It's certainly something SN should consider.
[11:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck with that - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:38] <exec> 08└─At the end of the day voting third party in the USA simply DOES NOT WORK
[11:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:Good luck with that - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:27:39] <exec> 08└─LOL you really don't know how national elections work, do ya?
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[12:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's be reasonable, alright? - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:20:59] <exec> 08└─The trouble with including the "death by gator" statistics is it detracts from the far more serious "death by murdering cop" statistics, or the rugby tackled while waiting for taxi [youtube.com] statistics. (Good job there was no "good guy with a gun" in the James Blake case. Seening an innocent man...
[12:20:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Uh... no - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:00] <exec> 08└─A burglary suspect fleeing police dogs and a helicopter in Florida wades into a dark lake and disappears. Three weeks later his remains are found inside an alligator. Was he killed by police?
[12:21:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02the 2016 US election cycle - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:01] <exec> 08└─Sounds like influence from Soros, who is a bit notorious for pushing the US police violence angle and for supporting Hillary Clinton who is the likely Democrat nominee for the 2016 presidential election. Well, I guess that actually doing something about real problems is a big part of the point of el...
[12:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:the 2016 US election cycle - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:03] <exec> 08└─it is a bit peculiar to see so much interest in this particular niche problem of US affairs from the UK It makes Guardian readers feel superior. It also emphasises to UKians that things could be much worse.
[12:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Great. I can hardly wait. - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:16] <exec> 08└─What a horrible idea. Inevitable, but horrible. Anything but audio would be distracting. So what's going to happen is this: you're going to be driving down the highway, as you approach the next exit, your music is interrupted and you hear "TAKE THE NEXT EXIT TO TO BILLY BOB'S BARBECUE". Heck, even i...
[12:21:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Cars are hackable - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:17] <exec> 08└─At least it's what my brother does. He modifies the firmware in his car often. He's an automotive engineer. Sorry I can't provide more detail than that, because I tune out when he talks about ICEs, but it is possible. Seems you could mod a car to block advertising as well.
[12:21:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Drake_Edgewater [780] (Score:1) 02Re:Sunspots - 06Jupiter-Like Storm Detected on a Low Mass Star - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:27] <exec> 08└─From the article [nasa.gov], the infrared light detected using Spitzer allowed them to distinguish clouds over starspots Follow-up observations with Spitzer, which detects infrared light, revealed that the dark patch was not a magnetic star spot but a colossal, cloudy storm with a diameter that cou...
[12:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sunspots - 06Jupiter-Like Storm Detected on a Low Mass Star - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:29] <exec> 08└─According to Wikipedia, L dwarfs have high metal content (here, actual metal, not just elements heavier than helium). The subsequent identification of many field counterparts to GD 165B ultimately led Kirkpatrick and others to the definition of a new spectral class, the L dwarfs, defined in the red...
[12:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This is what happens - 06Vandals Attack Facebook Building in Germany - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:21:53] <exec> 08└─This was a serious question. The CEO of a large organisation is quoted as being pro islam. On the other side of the world a building owned by that organisation is defaced.
[12:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score:2) 02Re:Out of control - 06UK to Lengthen Copyright on Works of Artistic Craftsmanship - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:14] <exec> 08└─Laws like these are changed because politicians make money from changing them. No amount of protest or letter writing will compete with that. Best thing to do is just disobey copyright law to the extent you are able.
[12:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hi there, Newbie - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:05] <exec> 08└─And you need to upgrade your troll-fu. This one is a disgrace.
[12:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Headline Suggestion - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:16] <exec> 08└─I don't mind flamebait every now and then. It lets some blow their steams off, and can be entertaining. But in the interest of varied ... interests, can we flag such posts, like "breaking news" and "ask ..."? Say, "for a good time".
[12:28:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Re:Troll movement mascot - 06Anonymous Goes After Donald Trump - 879 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:05] <exec> 08└─The disease is that the American political system is so openly corrupted and full of shit that people are supporting somebody they perceive to be the (most) honest and unable to be bought-off. We could argue all damn day about whether or not Trump is really speaking with honesty, but unlike other po...
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[13:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Like voting - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:01] <exec> 08└─It's like just about any vote, it just makes you feel like you participated, but the people in control are going to make some decision unrelated to your opinion anyway.
[13:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:3, Insightful) 02The American Media is Corporatist - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:02] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows that anyone further left than center-right is never going to be Time's "Person of the Year". It goes against the nature of the lapdog press to not uphold the system.
[13:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Importance - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 1669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:04] <exec> 08└─To help judge the (lack of) importance of Time magazine in the 2010s, http://www.stateofthemedia.org [stateofthemedia.org] So about 1% of the USA population subscribes, 99% of the population don't care. In terms of relative impo...
[13:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Moderation is the Key - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:06] <exec> 08└─Once in a while, it's entertaining, but don't flood the site with juvenile flamebaits, especially from the same senders.
[13:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's be reasonable, alright? - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:14] <exec> 08└─What gets me about all of this is, I've always presumed that the FBI actually compiled passingly accurate statistics. They publish those statistics every year, along with several other agencies. XXX number of police shootings, blah blah blah. Call me gullible for believing them.
[13:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cars are hackable - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:21:33] <exec> 08└─I know of about half a dozen vendors that will offer custom tunes for my car as I add and subtract parts. You log data and send it to them, they revise, and repeat. I had my car tuned by Ford's racing department which keeps the warranty intact. It's pretty amazing how easy it is. You have to buy the...
[13:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Defensive Patents - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:34] <exec> 08└─Knowing GM, this is probably a defensive patent, to plant a stake in the ground in case a patent troll comes along.
[13:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:2) 02Hacking... - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:36] <exec> 08└─Does it show pictures? Can I hack my car to just send inappropriate pictures everywhere? Who's fault is it if your car starts showing endless pictures of dicks?
[13:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sudo rm -rf [2357] (Score:2) 02Re:Vandals.... - 06Vandals Attack Facebook Building in Germany - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:14] <exec> 08└─That reminds me of the sign I saw at a roman watch tower near the limes [wikipedia.org], reading (more or less) Because of the acts of vandals, this tower is closed for the public
[13:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Standard warning about false positives - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:44] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the article was remarkably light on the distribution of the errors between false positives and false negatives. That's sloppy reporting, or an attempt to deceive us how effective the test is.
[13:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03skater [4342] (Score:2) 02Re:Strawman much? - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:05] <exec> 08└─Read the comments. There's a guy claiming pollution is fine "as long as the room is large enough". And, "We need fusion power." No word on how fusion power is going to be useful in a car. I assume it's either using electric cars, which he seemed to be against, or a fusion nuclear reactor in each car...
[13:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Be The Change You Want To See - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:27] <exec> 08└─You should submit the articles you would like to appear on the home page. Anybody can. There's a wiki, linked to from the left-hand margin, that shows you how.
[13:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Hoax. Conspiracy. - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:32] <exec> 08└─Big Oil's trillions of dollars in revenue is just a drop in the bucket compared to all the money those baller scientists are getting suckling at the sweet teat of the government.
[13:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:name and wtf - 06Gigster Wants to be the Uber of Software Developers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:52] <exec> 08└─it becomes harder and harder to appear qualified in their eyes.
[13:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:name and wtf - 06Gigster Wants to be the Uber of Software Developers - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:53] <exec> 08└─"Ever wanted to see the best items for sale on Craigslist in a social, visual interface that doesn't suck?" I actually laughed out loud at that one.
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[14:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:The American Media is Corporatist - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:50] <exec> 08└─That's not how I understand /Time/'s award. The award isn't supposed to be a complement, or an honour - it's quite often a sly insult. I don't think the Merkel one's particularly positive - "a /de facto/ leader of a continent" sounds a bit like dictator-like to me - which reminds one of a previous t...
[14:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:The American Media is Corporatist - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:51] <exec> 08└─The fact that the leader of Islamic State was on the short list tends to reinforce your point.
[14:20:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:Importance - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:20:53] <exec> 08└─This, sir, is an offense to perfectly respectable lasagnas everywhere.
[14:20:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03snick [1408] (Score:2) 02Online poll? - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:56] <exec> 08└─Online polls aren't worth the paper that they aren't printed on. Irrespective of who should be person of the year, anyone who takes guidance from an online poll deserves what they get.
[14:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's be reasonable, alright? - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:06] <exec> 08└─the police unions fight them tooth and nail, and many of the rank-and-file officers do everything they can to ignore the new completely lawful orders
[14:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why I do not trust UPnP - 06WebTorrent, a BitTorrent Client Running Within the Web Browser - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:44] <exec> 08└─Well you're right. When I was finishing up the submission I went to the WebTorrent homepage and it started preloading a 130 MB video!
[14:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:But streaming is in-order, torrents not - 06WebTorrent, a BitTorrent Client Running Within the Web Browser - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:21:52] <exec> 08└─Is it really abuse to prioritize beginning of files (like uTorrent can already do with torrent streaming)? You can give higher/lower priority to different files in a torrent, why not different pieces of a file as well?
[14:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I yield to the great American sage - 06UK to Lengthen Copyright on Works of Artistic Craftsmanship - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:22] <exec> 08└─I like this quote better: Around Whites, eternal copyrights. --Ethanol-Fueled [soylentnews.org]
[14:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Eskimos and snow - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─The linguist that came up with the 50 words of snow theory hadn't properly understood the grammar of the language. It turns out that those alleged 50 words are actually only a few words modified by adjectives, and that combining adjectives to nouns is one of the places where this language chose to p...
[14:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Dishonesty is Dishonesty - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:34] <exec> 08└─For new cars, it's actually no longer a good suicide method, though, because of emissions control That's why I buy Volkswagen [wikipedia.org]. You can always rely on Germany when you need to gas someone in a locked room.
[14:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Cost of publication"? - 06Elsevier Agrees to Open Up Some Dutch Research Articles - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:37] <exec> 08└─(Even LaTeX in the CS, math, and theoretical physics fields usually needs tweaking.)
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[15:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Death is the only adventure I have left, Smee. - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:03] <exec> 08└─Captain James Hook: [holding a pistol to his head] No stopping me this time, Smee. This is it. Don't make a move Smee, not a step. My finger's on the trigger. Don't try to stop me, Smee. Smee: Oh, not again. Captain James Hook: This is it. Don't try to stop me this time, Smee. Don't try to stop me t...
[15:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Suicide Gene Therapy - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:04] <exec> 08└─"Suicide Gene Therapy"
[15:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:06] <exec> 08└─but it also sounds like it could so lead to an autoimmune disease. there's only one way to find out... SCIENCE! :)
[15:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:08] <exec> 08└─SCIENCE! :)
[15:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Like voting - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:17] <exec> 08└─Now, I'm a sanders supporter, approximately speaking, but I can understand an editorial board not selecting someone for recognition their achievements and impact based on their current popularity in an election. Sanders has a much bigger popularity contest to win coming up.
[15:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Like voting - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:19] <exec> 08└─I agree with you here. Its like when Obama got a peace prize before he even took office. Lets give these awards to people that have done something, not to candidates. That being said, that there is so much hand wringing over an essentially meaningless title is completely useless.
[15:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Importance - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:24] <exec> 08└─Oh lasagna is not offensive, or at least I didn't try to imply that. Some of my best friends are lasagnas. I was trying to run with the hideous pun that lasagna recipes are the "copypasta" of the dying legacy media. Any time you need bland inoffensive filler on the daytime talk show they'll roll som...
[15:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moderation is the Key - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:26] <exec> 08└─Don't you mean: especially from the same Sanders? Eh? Eh? I'll leave now.
[15:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Excess is the Key - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:27] <exec> 08└─When making a lame joke, make it ridonculously lame so it circles back.
[15:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Online poll? - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:29] <exec> 08└─irrespective again? I thought we all agreed not to irrespective anymore.
[15:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Feel the hernia - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:31] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Bernie only won because he promised free stuff to everyone who'd vote for him.
[15:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's be reasonable, alright? - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:41] <exec> 08└─In practice the way it works abstracted away from cops
[15:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's be reasonable, alright? - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:43] <exec> 08└─The guy in Florida who was killed by a gator? No - he wasn't killed by police. Death by misadventure would cover that, or death by exposure, or death by stupidity. That death could be characterized a number of ways, but he was not killed by police. If I'm playing hide and seek with the grandkids, an...
[15:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gator Train'n - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:46] <exec> 08└─"Three weeks later his remains are found inside an alligator. Was he killed by police?" The answer is of course, Yes. Clearly this alligator was a fully trained agent of the PoPo. Hell, it even has a badge and a gun. If you call me a liar I'll call you a racist.
[15:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Here's the next data point - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:48] <exec> 08└─How up to date are the statistics? Do they have this one yet? Cop shoots guy crawling out of wrecked car. [reason.com] Of course, the guy is still alive, for the moment, but at best he will be completely paralyzed. The cop is, of course, on paid administrative leave; the chief of police sees no reas...
[15:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem... - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:21:58] <exec> 08└─What makes you think they're not already doing this, by sniffing MAC addresses? I hesitate to pimp Hak5, although its not that bad, but they had a segment last spring along the lines of hardware is already available to sniff and identify cars based on the RF tire pressure transducer serial numbers....
[15:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Hacking... - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 1502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:08] <exec> 08└─This has been an issue already with NOAA weather alerts. If you know what to google for. Not for bags of dicks but its fairly trivial via fm capture effect and some modest communications knowledge and effort to send whatever weather warning you'd like. You should see the whining by idiots who don't...
[15:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Unacceptable - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:10] <exec> 08└─I don't buy Samsung products because a family friend bought a TV with ads built in that would turn back on whenever disabled. I stopped playing games by EA Games when they put billboard ads into Battlefield 2. I stopped buying at Fred Meyers because I didn't want to listen to ads the entire time I w...
[15:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Unacceptable - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:12] <exec> 08└─Oh please. At those freqs they'll be using a semi-directional horn antenna about the size of a coffee mug. Don't want too narrow of a beamwidth but do want some forward pointing gain (assuming you'd be more interested in stuff in front of the car than stuff you already drove past... or would you?) S...
[15:22:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02spam - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 2100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:14] <exec> 08└─Two spam comments 1) We did this in the late 70s when at the peak of the CB craze we had vehicle to vehicle communications and it was totally worthless and all the old baby boomers and older are so embarrassed they'll deny it ever happened. Just like no one wore leisure suits or corduroy or disco cl...
[15:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:LOL priorities - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:36] <exec> 08└─It's hard to sway people when you don't know what they really believe. I know a lot of Republicans and I don't know a single one that actually believes that clean energy is going to kill the economy. If you demonize people as money grubbing rich people and then try to persuade them on that basis and...
[15:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:1) 02Doesnt need to be on Earth. - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:22] <exec> 08└─Space elevator when?
[15:26:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02One caveat: Gigster will still own the code - 06Gigster Wants to be the Uber of Software Developers - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:44] <exec> 08└─Hahahahahahahahaha! So you want me to 1) come up with great software ideas 2) pay you to write those and then YOU will own it? Oh wow.
[15:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Whose poverty wages? - 06Gigster Wants to be the Uber of Software Developers - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:27:00] <exec> 08└─What is a far-below-poverty wage in California can be a far-above poverty wage in a third-world country. That's the way exchange rates work. They are set by the market in internationally transportable, tradable goods, rather than nontransportable goods. But a lot of what you need to live on, such as...
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[16:21:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:01] <exec> 08└─Where are the bits where Luke and the gang blow up civilian bystanders by the truck loads?
[16:21:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bucket58 [1305] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA [youtube.com]
[16:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03rliegh [205] (Score:1) 02Deathstar - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:04] <exec> 08└─one and two
[16:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:05] <exec> 08└─Where are the bits where Luke and the gang blow up civilian bystanders by the truck loads?
[16:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_IGDcPprjg [youtube.com]
[16:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:09] <exec> 08└─Why do you think there is nothing but military personnel on the death stars? Especially the second death star, which is undergoing construction. To build something the size of a large moon(the second death star was much bigger than the first) would have involved millions of construction workers work...
[16:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Innocent bystanders - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:11] <exec> 08└─The Death Star must have had some non-military personnel, but they're merely "collateral damage" http://www.theonion.com [theonion.com]
[16:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Skywalker Family's conspiracy - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:13] <exec> 08└─Just another cover story to distract from the Skywalker Family's conspiracy to control the Galaxy: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] And is Anakin really dead? Who confirmed it? How many really know what he looks like under that mask that conveniently hides his face?
[16:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Skywalker Family's conspiracy - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:15] <exec> 08└─That gives Lucas more credit to string together a coherent plot than I'm frankly comfortable with.
[16:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah if you ignore the actual dialog in the movie. "Fear will keep the local systems in line" AND dissolving the senate to cement his power AND blowing up a planet just to make a point of how powerful the are. tells Luke he must abandon his family and join him Which Luke immediately ignores. He goes...
[16:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Score -1, Troll - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:19] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell the Rebellion were as much terrorists as George Washington or Thomas Jefferson. They didn't engage in acts of terror on Imperial civilians, only on the military. The ones who engaged in terrorism were Tarkin and his ilk, it was why they built the Death Star. The ultimate state-s...
[16:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02jumping to conclusions - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:20] <exec> 08└─Star Wars is clearly a cautionary tale of the dangers of radicalization
[16:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:24] <exec> 08└─Which would mean doing it with a control group, double-blind. Both of which they failed to do. Apparently they need to learn some scientific methodism at that hospital
[16:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:21:26] <exec> 08└─Let's extrapolate!! one group received the gene therapy twice and the other group received the treatment three times. Both groups also received radiotherapy. Survival rates after five years were 97% and 94% Conclusion: each application of the treatment *decreased* their survival rate by 3%! Therefor...
[16:21:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02The American Media is Corporatist - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:35] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows that anyone further left than center-right is never going to be Time's "Person of the Year". It goes against the nature of the lapdog press to not uphold the system.
[16:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Did TIME have an online poll in 2011 - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:46] <exec> 08└─If they did, then Ron Paul would've won, probably with votes from many of the same people who stuffed the box for Sanders this year.
[16:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Not a Secret - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:47] <exec> 08└─Time has always said that the poll results will not determine who they give the titles to. Each year they say right up front that the editors make the decision. The poll is just a way to sell page-views and generate media buzz around the Man of the Year award. It isn't a popularity contest folks.
[16:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Online Poll Credibility: - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:49] <exec> 08└─So, is this like when Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf won the People Magazine online poll for the most beautiful person in 1998?
[16:22:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's be reasonable, alright? - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:01] <exec> 08└─The guy in Florida who was killed by a gator? No - he wasn't killed by police.
[16:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Powered by ads... random thoughts - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:23] <exec> 08└─If naming rights for a legacy sportsball stadium are so valuable, perhaps naming rights for police stations, fire stations, prisons, and jails could be valuable. Not entirely kidding... how much would a local bail bondsman pay to name the local jail after his bail bondsman service? Imagine a police...
[16:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score:2) 02Re:Defensive Patents - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:28] <exec> 08└─In other words, the best possible hope we have of overhauling the patent system is through the efforts of patent trolls. The patent system must be annoying for large companies but they can probably live with it - they can absorb the "costs of doing business" and it does prevent upstarts challenging...
[16:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Prepare to turn BUT NOW A WORD FROM SPONSOR - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:34] <exec> 08└─I thought the idea of a car-to-car data network was to help autonomous vehicles, in which case increasing the latency with ads could be dangerous.
[16:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03loic [5844] (Score:1) 02Re:But streaming is in-order, torrents not - 06WebTorrent, a BitTorrent Client Running Within the Web Browser - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:01] <exec> 08└─+1 How is selecting preferably some blocks more than others is abusing the system? About every single torrent client allows to prioritize files, or even to skip some specific files, and it could probably be extended to specific blocks. The bittorrent protocol does not specify any download order AFAI...
[16:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:But streaming is in-order, torrents not - 06WebTorrent, a BitTorrent Client Running Within the Web Browser - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:02] <exec> 08└─The original (and current) specification advised random piece order so that peers do not end up with the same pieces and lacking the same pieces of the file, which is a natural but unwanted consequence of in-order requests. The fastest leecher can effectively only ever download from the seeder, and...
[16:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'd rather have Rommie from Andromeda - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:56] <exec> 08└─http://andromeda.wikia.com/wiki/Rommie [wikia.com]
[16:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eskimos and snow - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:35] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a distinction without a difference.
[16:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LOL priorities - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:05] <exec> 08└─Someone who actually gets it. I tell my fellow republicans 'it does not matter, you want less pollution'. Pollution is waste. Waste costs money. Remember 'give a hoot dont pollute' it is simple and works. When people start speculating about the possible consequences that is where it went off the rai...
[16:25:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Strawman much? - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 488 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:08] <exec> 08└─Sometimes you need stupid simple strawman arguments for stupid people? Yes it is a strawman argument but it could work for many stupid people. Quite often I write what I think is a well written argument, with clear logic, reasoning, citations and links, but nobody reads em, they don't even seem to r...
[16:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hoax. Conspiracy. - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:43] <exec> 08└─You're leaving out power, and not in the oil/solar sense. A large part of all of the stop global warming proposals include vast expansions of government power. Which is really the default mode of operation for a bureaucracy, but doesn't do anything but encourage the conspiracy theories.
[16:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ooooh, I want to be the first one to say it!! - 06Developers Working to Get FM Radio Function Enabled in BQ Ubuntu Phones - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:09] <exec> 08└─Yes I had it plugged in (as per the instructions that came in the box). Without the head set it got a sum total of 0 stations. With the headset 1-2. Outside I may get 3-4. It was rather underwhelming. if it was wired at all That was kinda my point. Dont expect much.
[16:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03hankwang [100] (Score:2) 02Re:"Cost of publication"? - 06Elsevier Agrees to Open Up Some Dutch Research Articles - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:54] <exec> 08└─Computer Modern is a bit boring because it makes all LaTeX'ed papers look the same. But most journals are in Times (New) Roman, which doesn't look that much better IMO. In TR, the lowercase italic v (vee) and Greek nu are very difficult to tell apart. Not so many fonts have a matching math font. For...
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[17:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:12] <exec> 08└─Seabees? The story is pretty vague on economic systems, aside from there seems to be a lot of smuggling. A lot of law breaking would imply theres a lot of laws to break. My guess is limited nationalization. If everyone works for the state there's very little difference between a civilian and militar...
[17:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:13] <exec> 08└─You've got to see the Phineas and Ferb Star Wars version [wikia.com]. Just after the Death Star blows up: Baljeet: Oh, but what about all those innocent baristas and bank tellers and bowling alley attendants?
[17:21:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score:2) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:16] <exec> 08└─Poor Wilhelm didn't stand a chance...
[17:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:21] <exec> 08└─Darth Jar Jar is foreal.
[17:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:22] <exec> 08└─I think you miss the point. The empire is a bit more evil compared to states like the US, and Luke a bit nicer than your average suicide bomber. He would still classify as a terrorist however. I think the story is good for pointing out that simple people, fighting for their cause, and for what they...
[17:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:24] <exec> 08└─To play Devil's Advocate, the Western interference in the Middle East could be compared to the Empire. I'm sure many kids over there have been radicalized after having people they knew killed in various ways. Personally I also find the comparison pretty silly since you can almost always find a way t...
[17:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SecurityGuy [1453] (Score:3, Informative) 02Having JUST watched Episode IV Saturday... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:26] <exec> 08└─...this is nonsense. Luke wanted to join the rebels before Episode IV even started. He barely knew Ben Kenobi (as he knew him). Luke wasn't isolated or disaffected. He wanted to go hang out with his friends and his uncle didn't allow him because he had chores to do. It sounded like he often hung out...
[17:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Having JUST watched Episode IV Saturday... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:28] <exec> 08└─Luke-like all of his friends-were joining the Imperial Academy to be pilots in the Navy. Most of the Rebel soldiers, especially the pilots were Imperial defectors.
[17:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Having JUST watched Episode IV Saturday... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:30] <exec> 08└─One can argue that iron-fisted dictators like Vader "keep the peace" similar to Middle East dictators before "the spring" and "WMD" invasion that triggered civil wars and zealotic semi-nomadic groups. If the semi-democracies or localized governments created a lot of interplanetary instability (which...
[17:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Walk a mile in another persons shoes - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:32] <exec> 08└─One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
[17:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Walk a mile in another persons shoes - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 1573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:34] <exec> 08└─(spoiler alert) Speaking of "another man", for a supposed religious analogy, there's only 5 mystics in the entire original trilogy, Luke, Vader, Yoda, Emperor, and Kenobi. But the greater overall battle is between at least tens of thousands of fighters on both sides, maybe billions total, and there'...
[17:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02The winners write the history books - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:36] <exec> 08└─The analysis isn't wrong. Young men are stuffed full of hormones and out to prove themselves. Give them a cause they can believe in, and you can get them to fight for you. That's been the story of countless conflicts throughout history. We shouldn't forget that the winners write the history books, s...
[17:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is SO 20 years ago - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:37] <exec> 08└─I recall an analysis like this done in the early Interwebs, somewhere on Usenet. I'll dig around and see if I can find it.
[17:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is SO 20 years ago - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:39] <exec> 08└─Here [weeklystandard.com] is one version, but I remember one earlier than this. Whoever said anything put on the Internet will be there forever, never tried looking for anything older than 10 years.
[17:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:41] <exec> 08└─I just want to know how much ISIS is paying Hugh Pickens for this drivel. Yeah, I get it: one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. But, has it really come to this now? At long last, have you no shame, sir?
[17:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Please don't get your knickers in a twist - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:43] <exec> 08└─over a 30 years old fantasy farce!
[17:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:48] <exec> 08└─Which would mean doing it with a control group, double-blind.
[17:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:49] <exec> 08└─Do you not understand how a control works - you don't refuse all treatment from the control group!?!?!? The control group should differ only in the smallest possible way, such that the efficacity of that change can be measured. So the control group still gets all the standard current treatments. Did...
[17:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:21:51] <exec> 08└─The vector was herpes simplex in this one, not HIV. Still the potential for some crappy side effects if they aren't completely emptying the viral DNA from ALL of the protein coats prior to injection. I'd personally be pretty worried about that. Then again, given the choice between cancer or herpes.....
[17:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The American Media is Corporatist - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:02] <exec> 08└─Guide to moderation for this article: Lapdog, Troll = person who doesn't agree with me Insightful, Informative = person who habitually make excuses, just like me
[17:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02This isn't remarkable if u know what the award is - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 1768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:15] <exec> 08└─Sanders was never going to win the Person of the Year because he doesn't satisfy either of the criteria. 1. The Person of the Year must move units. The slot for Person of the Year is normally a very slow selling issue because few major stories tend to break this time of the year. It was the major re...
[17:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02A what now? - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:16] <exec> 08└─An even better response would be: "Whats a Time Magazine?". Aside from being a mediocre news magazine no one really cares about it aside from its overinflated ego due to people getting some "X of the X" oped piece and their mug on the cover. Boo time, boo.
[17:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Corollary to Too-Big-To-Fail - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:17] <exec> 08└─is of course too-small-to-succeed...
[17:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's be reasonable, alright? - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:30] <exec> 08└─If the cops had knowingly herded the fool into a pond/swamp/bayou/swamp where they knew an alligator was prowling, then we could claim he died at the hands of the cops. In this case, a criminal was trying to avoid the cops, and of his own free will went into the pond. He falsely believed the pond to...
[17:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Let's be reasonable, alright? - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:32] <exec> 08└─I say that he died as a consequence of his own criminal actions and stupidity. But, I'll have to agree that any time a death occurs during a police chase, there should be an inquiry.
[17:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But streaming is in-order, torrents not - 06WebTorrent, a BitTorrent Client Running Within the Web Browser - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:34] <exec> 08└─In a streaming media scenario, the fast downloader will probably stay connected until the video finishes playing (unless the stop halfway through). I can envision such downloaders seeding for as much as 90% of the time. If many people stop watching the video half-way though (due to the content, not...
[17:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Out of control - 06UK to Lengthen Copyright on Works of Artistic Craftsmanship - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:08] <exec> 08└─Every time you download a copyrighted material with no intention of buying the original material, you're standing up against them. The internet has made this possibly the easiest ever bit of civil disobedience.
[17:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I can see it now... - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:31] <exec> 08└─So. In today's "progressive", PC, SJW environment, what ethnicity will Cortana be and how much armchair activist outrage will we have to wade through?
[17:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:LOL priorities - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:40] <exec> 08└─There is also the point that courts earlier in American history started permitting people to pollute the property of others without legal consequence. That's really where a huge part of our problem started. https://mises.org [mises.org]
[17:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Re:Strawman much? - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:50] <exec> 08└─You did not get the point, or at least, you didn't scale up to it. The sealed room represents a closed system like our planet, the car engines are the way we use energy.
[17:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03gnuman [5013] (Score:2) 02Re:Solar Energy Climate Change - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:59] <exec> 08└─From that link I got the estimate "Just 496,905 square kilometers"
[17:27:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Cost of publication"? - 06Elsevier Agrees to Open Up Some Dutch Research Articles - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:27:29] <exec> 08└─What font did you end up using?
[17:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How much for 1? - 06Company Sells Endohedral Fullerenes (Buckyballs) for $167 Million per Gram - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:52] <exec> 08└─I'll wait until it's free shipping with Amazon Prime then.
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[18:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Old idea - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:04] <exec> 08└─Its a old idea from the 1950 analog science fiction. The latest book I've read that did this were the troy series of book by John Ringo. Larry Niven called it bubble forming and so on.
[18:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02O RLY? - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:05] <exec> 08└─Pish, asteroid. We use small moons.
[18:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soybean [5020] (Score:1) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:22] <exec> 08└─Besides, if you're like most Americans, you'd view the USS Cole bombing, the pentagon attack on 9/11, and the Fort Hood shooting all as terrorism in spite of being military targets.
[18:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:30] <exec> 08└─> I think the story is good for pointing out that simple people, fighting for their cause, > and for what they believe in, are labeled terrorist by the powers that be. The classic quote is that "One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter." But that was first used in reference to the troubl...
[18:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I would daresay.... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:38] <exec> 08└─Luke+co are more like a bunch of fresh faced US Air Force Academy fighter pilots, who upon their first assignment to the middle east realize their cushy home lives were all a scam, their government is using foreign expeditions as a trial run for control of their domestic populace with peoples who do...
[18:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Having JUST watched Episode IV Saturday... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:40] <exec> 08└─So mapped into planet earth equivalents, the bad guy is the one who bombs charities' hospitals and invades overseas countries?
[18:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Walk a mile in another persons shoes - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:43] <exec> 08└─But not all freedom fighters blow up civilians to sow fear into the hearts of nations they dislike.
[18:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Walk a mile in another persons shoes - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:45] <exec> 08└─The methods have changed slightly. And over the millennia, innocent people have been slaughtered to instill fear in a populace. Ever hear tales and stories where entire villages were burned to the ground? Same damn thing. Perhaps it wasn't always religious but the basic idea is someone either has so...
[18:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:The winners write the history books - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:47] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that immediately after the North won the war, the USA freed *all* slaves in the country. The Constitutional Amendment to abolish slavery was drafted before the war was even over and was passed by both Houses on January 1865, and took effect December 6, 1865 when at least 3/4 of the stat...
[18:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The winners write the history books - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:49] <exec> 08└─BTW, I wrote the AC response to your post. I will clarify that I agree with you, and while your Emancipation Proclamation example is correct (it didn't free all of them), let's not overstate it since, as I replied, all slaves were freed pretty soon after. The Constitutional process had to play out,...
[18:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kbahey [1147] (Score:2) 02Rewriting history ... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:21:52] <exec> 08└─What the hell is this nonsense? So, Luke's uncle and aunt were killed in a mistaken raid? Collateral damage? He had nothing to return to after his meeting with Obi Wan. And the Death Star did not vaporize a planet? And the Emperor did not declare the Galactic Empire dissolving the senate? And Queen...
[18:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Rewriting history ... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:21:54] <exec> 08└─This revisionism is really stupid No kidding. It is the sort of thing we see every day with real events. Revisionism cherry picking things and overblowing them (like this "Obi Wan — a religious fanatic"). It was like that Karate Kid one where they made the victim into the bully. When it was clear...
[18:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:07] <exec> 08└─Do you not understand how a control works - you don't refuse all treatment from the control group!?!?!?
[18:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:09] <exec> 08└─I don't have access to the study, but the abstract says that the vector is adenovirus-based and encodes the HSV thymidine kinase. Adeno-associated virus vectors are usually thought to be superior for safety and lack of Immunogenicity (if you were infected with the same serotype of adenovirus, someti...
[18:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Like voting - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:19] <exec> 08└─> Its like when Obama got a peace prize before he even took office. When your memory lies, Google is your friend. Obama got the fourth "you're not W" peace prize in 2009, right AFTER he took office. (the first three recipients were Carter, the IAEA, the IPCC).
[18:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Moderation is the Key - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:32] <exec> 08└─I felt the Bern.
[18:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02Re:Did TIME have an online poll in 2011 - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:36] <exec> 08└─They did and here are the results [time.com]. Ron Paul didn't even make the list. (Paul Ryan did, though.)
[18:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Powered by ads... random thoughts - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:18] <exec> 08└─Sure, the market will mean you can just buy from the companies that don't advertise, thus can charge less than those that do. Good luck with that.
[18:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Powered by ads... random thoughts - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:20] <exec> 08└─"You may skip this ad in 30 seconds to resume firefighting. Blocking scripts will prevent the police department from securing your house"
[18:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This Has Fail Written All Over It - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:23] <exec> 08└─I agree, and even worse is that the ads would be in the system for urgent alerts. Not a traffic jam 2 miles ahead, says TFA, but more immediate danger from another vehicle. So your music is interrupted by, "Alert! Dangerous 'EAT AT BILLY BOB'S BARBECUE TODAY. AT THE NEXT EXIT, THEN LEFT AT THE SECON...
[18:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Buy up classic cars - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:33] <exec> 08└─To get around all the crap in cars today, I think it’s better to invest in older cars. Get three or four of them and use classic plates. You can even install an electric drive train into them whenever those systems reach maturity. Problem solved.
[18:24:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03BrockDockdale [5983] (Score:1) 02Netflix applied for a job? - 06WebTorrent, a BitTorrent Client Running Within the Web Browser - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:24:04] <exec> 08└─Poor thing's out of work, now reduced to desperately mentioning bot keywords like WebTorrent on its job applications.
[18:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I have a better idea - 06UK to Lengthen Copyright on Works of Artistic Craftsmanship - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:44] <exec> 08└─1. "mere object" != "a work of artistic craftsmanship" 2. "has long been held to not infringe copyright of the object itself": in which country? it might be the case in the UK, I don't know, just pointing out that you didn't specify and that copyright laws vary from one country to the other.
[18:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03BrockDockdale [5983] (Score:1) 02hmm - 06Political Campaign Harvesting Data on Facebook Users - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:18] <exec> 08└─Can't imagine this backfiring at all. (Tagless sarcasm tag.)
[18:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03BrockDockdale [5983] (Score:1) 02So 75% is considered "good?" - 06Lie Detecting Software Uses Video from Trials, Claims 75% Accuracy - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:02] <exec> 08└─Like "only" 1 out of 4 honest people deemed deceptive, and only 1 out of 4 liars not caught?
[18:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Re:Strawman much? - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah. My first thought was similar, but in the other direction, since behind Door Number One would also be the entire carbon dioxide cycle (e.g. trees). And once you take that into consideration, you're pretty much back to square one, since we're back in partisan territory of whether or not we're pr...
[18:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Solar Energy Climate Change - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:35] <exec> 08└─> And since US has less than 5% of world's population, then it only needs 5% of total energy, right? Only if it wants to have the same shitty capacity as much of the rest of the world. I.e. "wrong!". Using your logic on another finite resource, it only needs 5% of the world's mobile devices - would...
[18:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:Ooooh, I want to be the first one to say it!! - 06Developers Working to Get FM Radio Function Enabled in BQ Ubuntu Phones - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:23] <exec> 08└─I now just buy a 128gig sd card slap a bunch of music on it
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[19:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Questions left unanswered - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:04] <exec> 08└─But the real question is: did they donate to the women's Patreons, shitlord?
[19:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:3, Interesting) 02When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:04] <exec> 08└─Just wondering.
[19:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:06] <exec> 08└─Every other demo day is demo day for males.
[19:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:08] <exec> 08└─Except for all those women who also get to participate. Although I guess I shouldn't assume what gendyr these persyn identyfy as. (for those replying to this comment, my pronouns are poot slap/dansk/staunch)
[19:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:10] <exec> 08└─Generally, if a person strongly identifies with a specific gender, they will present as such.
[19:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:12] <exec> 08└─Stop raping my safe space, bigot.
[19:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:14] <exec> 08└─There won't be one, for the same reason that there won't be a Caucasion Demo Day, or a Christian Demo Day, or a Hetero Demo Day. All other groups are to be promoted above white hetero Christian males, and that word is official from Washington, as well as most universities in this nation.
[19:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:O RLY? - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:20] <exec> 08└─Small moon, large asteroid - what's the difference? Park that asteroid in orbit around a world, and it is a moon!
[19:21:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Planet killers - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:22] <exec> 08└─An asteroid can be a planet killer, without any weapons. Enough mass, moving fast enough, and it can break a planet wide open. It's anybody's guess how much planet goes spinning off into space, how much asteroid spins off in another direction, and how much mass settles down to form a new planet.
[19:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet killers - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:24] <exec> 08└─You don't even have to impact...just pass by close enough to perturb the orbit of the planet, thus ejecting it from its solar system or throwing it toward its star. And now your "death star" is reusable, too. Doesn't have the shock and awe value of an impact, but it's just as deadly. You can even us...
[19:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet killers - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:26] <exec> 08└─Can't fault your thinking, because that story has been written several times already. But, most authors envision a dark star, or at least a giant planet, to have enough gravity to pull a planet out of orbit, and send that planet out of the solar system. Cixin Liu put a new twist to the story here: h...
[19:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet killers - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:28] <exec> 08└─As one evil mastermind to another, I really appreciate the elegance of your doomsday device. It is really quite simple once you solve the energy requirements of changing the orbit of an asteroid of sufficient mass to cause an earth shattering kaboom. If I wasn't so vested in my greenhouse gas doomsd...
[19:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet killers - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:29] <exec> 08└─Related Article: NASA SCIENTIST RECOMMENDS MINING ASTEROIDS TO BUILD DEATH STARS http://www.popsci.com [popsci.com] +++
[19:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Holy Mimas, Batman! - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:21:31] <exec> 08└─Looks like somebody already has [wikimedia.org], complete with laser dish.
[19:21:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03moondrake [2658] 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 771 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:49] <exec> 08└─I think you miss the point. The empire is a bit more evil compared to states like the US, and Luke a bit nicer than your average suicide bomber. He would still classify as a terrorist however. I think the story is good for pointing out that simple people, fighting for their cause, and for what they...
[19:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:53] <exec> 08└─"that would lead them back home..." and well they were quite melted were they not? And they swung by the local hell hole and lo and behold what were the storm troopers canvasing the area for? The two droids... Out of the storm troopers own mouths. Even at the beginning he was planing on joining what...
[19:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Score -1, Troll - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:56] <exec> 08└─Yet the country they founded build the A-bomb. Replace Leah with the Japanese emperor and Alderaan with Hiroshima...... (Even the empire had the decency to stop after one planet, the US bombed Nagasaki as well) You can cherry pick your favorite part of history to prove just about any point. Or look...
[19:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Score -1, Troll - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:21:57] <exec> 08└─You can cherry pick your favorite part of history to prove just about any point.
[19:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Incest is Best - Put your sister to the test - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:06] <exec> 08└─The tension between Luke and his sister? Not sure what species they are, but it isn't human.
[19:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Is everyone missing the obvious? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:18] <exec> 08└─This is just some guy who wrote an article he thought was funny and satirical but is actually just pretty tired, lame, and full of deliberate misinterpretations because he wasn't clever enough to find a better way to draw his parallels.
[19:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain_nifty [4252] (Score:2) 02Rebel vs Terrorist - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:19] <exec> 08└─What is far too often missed in todays society is using words based on what they actually mean, not to try and prove a point. You are not a terrorist if you fight for a religious cause, even if unpopular. You are not a terrorist if you fight against an established government. You are not a terrorist...
[19:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Rebel vs Terrorist - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:21] <exec> 08└─You are a terrorist if your fighting is directed against civilian targets with the intent to provoke terror. Only two groups of people trying to provoke terror today, and the main one is the media.
[19:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02The Oppressors of the Universe - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:22] <exec> 08└─You might be interested in this series I saw decades ago. It's about a royal heir apparent using superior weaponry to maintain his family's hereditary regime. He repeatedly foils the rebellions of an underclass comprised almost completely of physically deformed people. The show is called "He-Man". I...
[19:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Love it. - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:24] <exec> 08└─I love this interpretation!
[19:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─The survival rates of a common disease, like prostate cancer, with standard therapy would be well known so differences can be observed (qualitatively). While a placebo control group (standard therapy + placebo injection) under double-blind study would be ideal for determining efficiency, these are r...
[19:22:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Like voting - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:48] <exec> 08└─It's like just about any vote, it just makes you feel like you participated, but the people in control are going to make some decision unrelated to your opinion anyway.
[19:22:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Geezer [511] 02Re:Importance - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:59] <exec> 08└─This, sir, is an offense to perfectly respectable lasagnas everywhere.
[19:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Online poll? - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:08] <exec> 08└─irrespective again? I thought we all agreed not to irrespective anymore. Did I miss the meeting again?
[19:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a Secret - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:13] <exec> 08└─Yes, and the decision is based on usefulness as propaganda. Now I'm not asserting who the propaganda benefits. To decide that I'd need to review their historical decisions and the context in which they occurred, and I'm not that interrested. The exclusion of Sanders coupled with the inclusion of Tru...
[19:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uh... no - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:33] <exec> 08└─Responding to the least important part of the story with a dismissive, good job. Also, you can not answer it correctly since he could have been killed then eaten. The REAL story is the FBI increasing their effort to track police killings and provide more detail about what happened. I see this as a g...
[19:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh... no - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:34] <exec> 08└─Well, I *hope* it's a good thing. The FBI itself has a record that's far from spotless, and are well known as abusers of power. OTOH, most of the evidence I know of happened under a prior director. It's *possible* that they've cleaned up. Unfortunately, in this case evidence is hard to come by, as t...
[19:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem... - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:48] <exec> 08└─I rather suspect you will BUY a car—which you will not own thanks to EULA magic—that will provide transport—at your own cost—and yet is "supported" by ads. Call me cynical if you want but that's pretty much what I'm seeing in every industry these days.
[19:25:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03unzombied [4572] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Out of control - 06UK to Lengthen Copyright on Works of Artistic Craftsmanship - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:19] <exec> 08└─Only appears "out of control" at first glance. These are simple changes with obvious beneficiaries. What they show is who is currently in control.
[19:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Strawman much? - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:02] <exec> 08└─You still miss the point. It's not about cars, it's about the entire system. The cars are just an analogy. It's not meant to be taken literally. It's not "Everyone go buy electric cars! No pollution!" -- it's "Hey, maybe we should switch to technology that pollutes less, because we're trapped in her...
[19:27:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Strawman much? - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:06] <exec> 08└─once you take that into consideration, you're pretty much back to square one, since we're back in partisan territory of whether or not we're producing more CO2 than the world can process.
[19:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aichon [5059] (Score:2) 02Re:Strawman much? - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe I am missing the point, but if so, I'd suggest it's a point not worth making, since I'd argue that whether or not we breathe it is irrelevant to anyone who understands even elementary-level science (which, admittedly, may be more than we can ask of the people at whom he's targeting his remarks...
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[20:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:18] <exec> 08└─It's not my job to educate you about presentation policing.
[20:21:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:19] <exec> 08└─> Except for all those women who also get to participate. When 95+% of the participants are men, it's a men's event. Just because there isn't a sign on the front door that says "yay men!" doesn't mean that's not the practical result.
[20:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:21] <exec> 08└─When 95+% of the participants are men
[20:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:22] <exec> 08└─And, you would have been a douche no matter what you were born with. At the end of your life, you can say that you've been the best nozzle you could be.
[20:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:24] <exec> 08└─Huh, that's nothing. Try being a white, atheist male. Stop oppressing me, bro - it's way uncool.
[20:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:27] <exec> 08└─> Try being a white, atheist male. Well, I get there's always the Steve Shives route of being abused by your wife on Youtube for ad impressions.
[20:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:28] <exec> 08└─What do you care? You going to hell anyways.
[20:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The day of men ended over 100 years ago - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:30] <exec> 08└─>In the United States, ...as late as the 1880s most States ...set the minimum age at 10-12, (in Delaware it was 7 in 1895). ...[8] Inspired by the "Maiden Tribute" female reformers in the US initiated their ...own campaign[9] which petitioned legislators to raise the legal minimum age to at least 16...
[20:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The day of men ended over 100 years ago - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:32] <exec> 08└─Deute...ronomy 22 28-29, ... hebrew allows men to rape girl children and keep them.
[20:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The day of men ended over 100 years ago - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:34] <exec> 08└─hebrew allows men to rape girl children and keep them.
[20:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:36] <exec> 08└─From TFA: All of the startups at Wednesday’s event were already actively raising series-A funding, and collectively had already raised more than $10 million in capital from 40 different investors. But the Director of Google for Entrepreneurs pointed out at female founders received only 3 percent...
[20:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:37] <exec> 08└─And what is that percentage adjusted for amount of applications?
[20:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:39] <exec> 08└─The adjusted number would be 3 percent you dumbass.
[20:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:41] <exec> 08└─What he meant to say was, "What is the number if you adjust away all of the unstated advantages the system inherently awards men." Take away all of those and women are actually getting 100 percent! It is sooo unfair.
[20:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:43] <exec> 08└─I'm reminded of a line from Mal, in Firefly. "I'd like a pony" or something close to that.
[20:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:45] <exec> 08└─So I skimmed through the video... and watched one of the advertised women founders hand the mic off to a male co-founder as soon as questions were to be answered. So, yeah. Just a nice little show to keep Google off the radar of bored college students with too small a courseload and too large a trus...
[20:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:47] <exec> 08└─Let me see if I understand your point: The companies participating in this event are not 100% female employees so it is actually a sham. Where was this 100% female requirement stated?
[20:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gravis [4596] (Score:2) 02This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:49] <exec> 08└─There is no avoiding the truth here, if you are favoring one sex over another then it's discrimination. There should not be any events held that discriminate based on genetic traits.
[20:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:O RLY? - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:51] <exec> 08└─The difference is when you put the asteroid into orbit, people on the planet might get suspicious. However if you use a moon that's already there, you might be able to hide your activities.
[20:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:O RLY? - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:52] <exec> 08└─I think SOMEONE might notice that the moon was being completely terraformed into a death star, just with the space ships going back and forth ferrying workers around, nevermind materials. Even if they only worked on the far side of our moon and then planned to rotate it 180 degrees to fire at us.
[20:21:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Covalent [43] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet killers - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:54] <exec> 08└─Fascinating. I suppose an asteroid wouldn't have the mass to significantly perturb a large planet (for smallish values of "asteroid"). I guess the name Death STAR is somewhat more appropriate than I had previously considered. So here's the follow-up question: Is it possible to PROPEL a "star" or sup...
[20:21:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet killers - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:56] <exec> 08└─Well, I'll mention Cixin Liu again - he's propelling the earth with thousands of fusion engines, anchored to the living rock of the earth's crust. I suppose it is within the realms of the scientifically possible, without considering what is economically possible, or politically possible. I suspect t...
[20:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Foobar Bazbot [37] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet killers - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:21:58] <exec> 08└─You don't even have to impact...just pass by close enough to perturb the orbit of the planet, thus ejecting it from its solar system or throwing it toward its star.
[20:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Planet killers - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 1424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:00] <exec> 08└─If the goal is to depopulate the planet, then you it would suffice to put the asteroid into a parabolic, or even hyperbolic, orbit with the closest approach well within the atmosphere. This should create a sonic boom loud enough to destory everything living on the planet. It MIGHT result in the aste...
[20:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:18] <exec> 08└─Ugh. You know what sucks about the new moderation system? You can't un-moderate by posting a reply any more. Your post was inane, not insightful and I only up-modded it because any moderate button applies all moderations on a page, not just the one next to the moderate button.
[20:22:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03romlok [1241] 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:30] <exec> 08└─He goes along because the empire made it clear 'he is their enemy' by melting his aunt and uncle he had nothing to lose doing it.
[20:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Score -1, Troll - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 1381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─Every country whitewashes its history to school children. And in every country many adults never notice. The US isn't any worse than average on that scale. Where the countries differe is in what they consider reprehensible, and even within one country that shifts over time. Face it, there's so much...
[20:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Score -1, Troll - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─Where does the attack on Pearl Harbor fit into that?
[20:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:17] <exec> 08└─Read for comprehension next time.
[20:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a Secret - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:51] <exec> 08└─> the decision is based on usefulness as propaganda Time's criteria for the award is that the person must have a big impact on the world. For better or for worse. Trump beats Sanders by a million miles. The guy has done an enormous amount to legitimize the racist elements of the GOP. He made explici...
[20:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Here's a solution - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:56] <exec> 08└─If I were Time, I would use a "group phenomenon" label to describe "The D.C. Outsider" as Person of the Year and include both Sanders and Trump. Time has used group phenomenons before as POTY* (Person of the Year). While Sanders is a career politician, he's never really been part of the established...
[20:24:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02Defensive Patents - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:43] <exec> 08└─Knowing GM, this is probably a defensive patent, to plant a stake in the ground in case a patent troll comes along.
[20:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:OP (me) messed up a bit. UPnP on used.. - 06WebTorrent, a BitTorrent Client Running Within the Web Browser - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:10] <exec> 08└─I looks like WebRTC [w3.org] uses TURN and STUN for NAT traversal, not UPnP.
[20:26:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:I can see it now... - 06Microsoft Could Build a Life-Sized Cortana for HoloLens; Cortana for iOS and Android Launches - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:26:23] <exec> 08└─The video game industry solved that problem by letting choose your character's sex and body type. Microsoft will sell you custom skins and clothing. If you thought IRL lingerie was expensive...
[20:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Strawman much? - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:53] <exec> 08└─And which ICE emits nothing but pure CO2?
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[21:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03SrLnclt [1473] (Score:2) 02Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe this could lead to a more confusing name/numbering scheme than Final Fantasy X-2 [wikipedia.org]. Also... am I the only one that thinks having all these Final Fantasy games makes about as much sense as a squeal to The NeverEnding Story [wikipedia.org]?
[21:21:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Not angry at episodic per se, but what it implies - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:06] <exec> 08└─Fans aren't angry about the game being episodic in and of itself. They're angry because we know how Square does episodic gaming: poorly, and ridiculously overpriced. The original FFVII would be a reasonable fit to an episodic model. It was split across three discs, and there are even some pretty nat...
[21:21:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The outrage! - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:08] <exec> 08└─The wrath of a dozen or two is a sight to behold!
[21:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gender Policing - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:23] <exec> 08└─Did not find much when searching for that term, but did come across this: Psychology and the Transgendered: Policing the Gender Borders [unf.edu] by Lynn Caroll, Associate Professor/Program Leader University of North Florida), Counselor Education As Bornstein (1994) noted: There is most certainly a...
[21:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1) 02Re:The day of men ended over 100 years ago - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:34] <exec> 08└─Rot in Hell, Fizzbuzz. We know it's you. You couldn't get it up for the blessed virgin herself; that's why you prey on children.
[21:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:39] <exec> 08└─What he meant to say was
[21:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:41] <exec> 08└─"Let's use crooked numbers to 'prove' my narrative! People are dumb, that'll work. Oh shit, they're catching on! Quick, insult them!"
[21:21:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:43] <exec> 08└─>the number of applications by women is lower >somehow that would make the percentage lower as well Hurr durr, I'm a fucking retard. t. you
[21:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:45] <exec> 08└─I think that what Archon was saying, is that at least one of those female entrepreneurs was a bubble headed piece of fluff, a showpiece, a trophy. He may or may not have meant to imply that more were bubble heads, but he most certainly seems to have implied that at least one of them was there for ad...
[21:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:47] <exec> 08└─Correct. A founder with business expertise rather than technical expertise is just a trophy and has no practical value in launching a startup.
[21:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:49] <exec> 08└─A founder who can't talk fluently in his own company's jargon is a showpiece. Male or female. And, yes, I've met those creatures in male form before. The dipshit's parents had money, so he went to a good school where he partied for 4 to 8 years, and after graduation Daddy set the putz up in business...
[21:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:51] <exec> 08└─> A founder who can't talk fluently in his own company's jargon is a showpiece. It is revealing that you've moved the question from who has the best expertise to address technical questions to being able to speak jargon. Can't win on merits of your argument, so you change the argument.
[21:21:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:53] <exec> 08└─The idea is that the one answering questions, i.e., the one who actually has any idea what's going on, is still male. Certainly there's nothing wrong with having a female "founder" step up to give a prepared speech, right?
[21:21:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:55] <exec> 08└─How do you propose to eliminate structural discrimination?
[21:21:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:56] <exec> 08└─Step 1: Stop confusing equality of outcome with equality of opportunity.
[21:21:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:21:58] <exec> 08└─> Step 1: Stop confusing equality of outcome with equality of opportunity. If you personally can't see the forces at work, then they don't exist. Fuckin' magnets, how do they work?
[21:21:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02pandering - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:00] <exec> 08└─I hope there was plenty of head pats and lollipops to go around.
[21:25:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02Speaking as an artistic craftsman... - 06UK to Lengthen Copyright on Works of Artistic Craftsmanship - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:17] <exec> 08└─25 years is too long.
[21:27:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Hoax. Conspiracy. - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:53] <exec> 08└─Breathing in L.A., avoiding river fires, and unleaded gasoline were once considered vast expansions of government overreach landgrabbing too...
[21:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:''traffic cockups'' - 06Developers Working to Get FM Radio Function Enabled in BQ Ubuntu Phones - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:28:09] <exec> 08└─It is the sacred duty of federal politicians to defund Big Bird on PBS and also terminate NPR, this atrocious commie-inspired competition to the good American values of proper corporate radio meganetworks.
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[22:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TrumpetPower! [590] (Score:2) 02The next milestone - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:03] <exec> 08└─The first major manufacturer to release an electric version of its pony car (Ford's Mustang, Chevy's Camaro, etc.) will be seen as revolutionary and will mop the floor with the competition until they catch up. Such a car will significantly outperform any gasoline-powered option from the competition...
[22:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:11] <exec> 08└─I just don't understand why Final Fantasy VII keeps getting so much attention over IV or VI.
[22:21:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:13] <exec> 08└─Because it's a bigger number. Duh. Bigger means better.
[22:21:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:15] <exec> 08└─I don't get why it gets so much attention over V. In many ways, I consider that the pinnacle of Final Fantasy RPGs. Huge world, a lot of flavor, actually finished, tons of secrets, no over-engineered level or stat system and everyone has a story arc.
[22:21:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score:2) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 1567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:17] <exec> 08└─A major factor is just the PS1 being significantly more popular than the SNES - about twice as popular by console sales. So a lot more people played VII, VIII and IX than IV and VI (and especially V, which never saw a release on the original console outside Japan). Of those three PS1 titles, VII is...
[22:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The outrage! - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:19] <exec> 08└─You mean two guys with a dozen sockpuppets each.
[22:21:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:The outrage! - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:21] <exec> 08└─Already a sight to learn from, since I'm limited to 5 simultaneous sockpuppets.
[22:21:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The outrage! - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:22] <exec> 08└─Fingerpuppets, dude!
[22:21:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The outrage! - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:24] <exec> 08└─Five? The first four would be on your hands and feet, but where would you put the fif-- Oh.
[22:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gender Policing - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:21:37] <exec> 08└─(((((Bornstein)))))
[22:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 1018 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:03] <exec> 08└─Let's say that I'm an entrepreneur, and I go into the oil business. I can't tell you what a rig looks like, I can't tell you what grade of oil comes out of my well, I can't tell you anything about refining the oil, I can't tell you how I get my oil to market, I can't tell you the price of my oil at...
[22:22:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:04] <exec> 08└─> Let's say that I'm an entrepreneur, Except you aren't. You don't have half a clue as to what's actually needed in real life versus your own contrived fantasies.
[22:22:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score:2) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:05] <exec> 08└─Basically, yeah. I certainly could be wrong - a short presentation (and my tendency to skip around because corporate pitches don't interest me) is nothing much to go on. But to lay my implication bare: A short look at the video was enough to make suspicious that Google chose these groups because a w...
[22:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Good job at vetting, Google - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 1303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:08] <exec> 08└─> So I skimmed through the video... and watched one of the advertised women founders > hand the mic off to a male co-founder as soon as questions were to be answered Oh you did now, did you? Well, I just skimmed the video and here's what I saw: Presentation #1 Q&A @49:30 - woman answers all...
[22:22:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:13] <exec> 08└─If you personally can't see the forces at work, then they don't exist.
[22:22:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:15] <exec> 08└─Er no. That's a very reductivist definition of what science really is. Actual science is about making hypotheses and testing them through observation. The number of science experiments, in any field, that are perfectly reproducible is quite small because the real world is analog and eliminating all...
[22:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:17] <exec> 08└─Genetic traits? Sex isn't genetic, shitlord! Educate yourself.
[22:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03BrockDockdale [5983] (Score:1) 02yaaaawn - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:19] <exec> 08└─SJWs: boring anti-SJWs: boring Same old arguments, like the gun-control "debate." Wake me up when America figures out how to settle an issue, solve a problem and then move on to the next problem.
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02What if... - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─Neal Stephenson's "Seveneves": moon break up, remnants kill and are used to make a home... https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Missing something? - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:59] <exec> 08└─If everyone works for the state there's very little difference between a civilian and military personnel. Thanks a lot, dude. My wife's a teacher (state, public-funded school) and I used to work in the Public Sector myself, generating CO2-free electricity FTW. Bloody American propaganda...
[22:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ding! Ding! - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:12] <exec> 08└─We have a winner.
[22:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:12] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the US army playing an involuntary pun on it with "Americas Army", where when two teams play against each other, each team will see itself in righteous American uniform, while each party sees the enemy depicted as evil terrorists? Can't find a link to back this up at the moment.
[22:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:15] <exec> 08└─To play Devil's Advocate, the Western interference in the Middle East could be compared to the Empire. I'm sure many kids over there have been radicalized after having people they knew killed in various ways.
[22:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:19] <exec> 08└─Replace missing droids with IEDs. The US military has done the same. Canvas an area door to door looking for weapons. When someone is suspected of owning them but gives resistance they kick down the door and throw a couple grenades inside during the raid. SOP
[22:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03archshade [3664] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─And yet every time we later see actual Stormtroopers in combat, they can barely hit a star destroyer while standing inside it.
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah if you ignore... - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─Watch it again like it's a propaganda film series. Envision the Jedi temple symbol on a digital flag waving in the corner. Its both hilarious and fits perfectly.
[22:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Score -1, Troll - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:29] <exec> 08└─Is that your attempt to turn it back into a comforting black/white story again? If so you seem to be missing my point: International conflicts are not black and white. (besides, I am sure a piece of Star Wars folklore can be found telling the story of a bunch of brave rebels attacking some empirial...
[22:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Score -1, Troll - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:31] <exec> 08└─> As far as I can tell ... They didn't engage in acts of terror on Imperial civilians, only on the military. All that means is you are ignorant of history. Loyalists were attacked all the time - taring and feathering was a particular favorite, as was destruction of their property like burning down t...
[22:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Score -1, Troll - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:33] <exec> 08└─Luke terrorized then murdered Jabba and his entourage. I'm taking Captain Solo and his friends. You can either profit by this... or be destroyed! It's your choice. But I warn you not to underestimate my powers.
[22:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:jumping to conclusions - 06Luke Skywalker, Terrorist: A Jedi's Path to Jihad - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:34] <exec> 08└─You just don't know how to have fun. It's tongue-in-cheek amusement. Relax, have a brew, and open your mind to being entertained.
[22:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:sounds promising... - 06"Suicide Gene Therapy" Targets Prostate Cancer - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:57] <exec> 08└─Also, where did all the patients go by the end? They only had contact with ~15% at the last timepoint (figure 4).
[22:24:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Undeserved Nobel Prizes - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 1211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:11] <exec> 08└─The Nobel Foundation Taken to Court on the Peace Prize [dissidentvoice.org] At the time when Alfred Nobel wrote his will, there was a clear division between those believing in the military way and those insisting on other ways to solve conflict through cooperation, international law, international...
[22:24:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''not selecting someone for recognition'' - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:12] <exec> 08└─I can understand an editorial board not selecting someone for recognition [of] their achievements and impact based on their current popularity Bernie has been a public servant since 1981. Representing the people of an area that has a heavy Republican presence, this guy fights against the overt greed...
[22:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Like voting - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 1348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:13] <exec> 08└─One of the issues is the first past the post system. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] As an extreme example lets say you have twenty candidates. Lets say 10 percent of voters vote for candidate one. 85 percent of vote...
[22:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Online poll? - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:29] <exec> 08└─All the intelligent, fully-literate people did have a meeting on that. Did snick not get an invite? Shame.
[22:24:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Methods of online polling - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:30] <exec> 08└─In the comments to the previous story, it was noted that identities of voters were authenticated, [soylentnews.org] so, spamming the survey was limited--if that's what you were thinking. -- gewg_
[22:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yup. Joe Average is only useful for pagehits - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:37] <exec> 08└─My suggested dept. was from the in-case-you-think-your-opinion-matters-to-corporate-media dept. -- gewg_
[22:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Uh... no - 06US Government Database Hopes to Tell 'Whole Story' of Police Killings After Year of Guardian Count - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:01] <exec> 08└─It's *possible* that they've cleaned up.
[22:29:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03AlphaMan [5223] (Score:1) 02Re:Hoax. Conspiracy. - 06The Governator's Republican-Proof Argument to Climate Change Deniers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:29:09] <exec> 08└─The other "motivations" I've heard are "they want to wreck the world's economy" and "they want to control our lives". So, it looks like a dead heat for stupidest reason.
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[23:21:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:The next milestone - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:03] <exec> 08└─If the idiots living in my area are anything to go by, those EVs need a second battery just to power some kind of "look at me, dammit" speaker system to replace the engine roar. Whether it's on Harleys or with V8/10/12s, too many Americans, right in the target demographic you speak of, believe they...
[23:21:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The next milestone - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:04] <exec> 08└─The problem is that the high-end pony cars are so over priced. The margins must be freaking enormous. Top end 2016 mustang is $37,000 [truecar.com] (shelby mustangs are much higher) Top end 2016 camaro is $43,000 [truecar.com] (z models not priced yet, but 2015s were $60K-$75K) Any (successful) elec...
[23:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03buswolley [848] (Score:2) 02Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:06] <exec> 08└─Finally after years 7 years I am become Ph.D. WOOOHH YEAH!!! MOD ME DOWN! Hell yeah I did it!!!!!!!!!!
[23:21:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:1) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:08] <exec> 08└─You am become? You might want to see if you can get a refund for that Ph.D.
[23:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03buswolley [848] (Score:2) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:10] <exec> 08└─It's archaic but not ungrammatical. It's an example of an old style of present-perfect sense: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In any case, I am a neuroscientist. but you could have pointed out I wrote years twice.
[23:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:12] <exec> 08└─present-perfect sense damn present-perfect tense I hope your dissertation was not so sloppy :P
[23:21:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Off topic: But... - 06 Ford Investing $4.5 Billion to Bring Electrification to 40% of Its Vehicles by 2020 - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:14] <exec> 08└─Here's your new sig: ------------------------------ That's DOCTOR moron to you.
[23:21:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Final Fantasy X-2 - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:24] <exec> 08└─No. Remakes are a bad idea. There are three possibilities and all of them are negative. First is that they change something you liked (2D to 3D, character, genre, etc.), and that clouds the rest of your judgment. Second is it ruins your nostalgia for the original item because you are reminded of all...
[23:21:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Not angry at episodic per se, but what it impli - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:26] <exec> 08└─They're angry because we know how Square does episodic gaming: poorly, and ridiculously overpriced.
[23:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not angry at episodic per se, but what it impli - 06Square Enix Angers Fans With Episodic Final Fantasy VII Remake - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:28] <exec> 08└─I refuse to pay for any episodic game. Doubly so for a remake of something that is based on an original that was delivered complete, and for less money.
[23:21:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gender Policing - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:48] <exec> 08└─What?
[23:21:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2) 02Re:Gender Policing - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 2915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:49] <exec> 08└─Eh, I'd say it pretty much meshes with my experience, at least the part that was quoted. Not bragging, but I do pass well as my actual gender (not the one on my papers, but whatever) to the point where many people gender me female even when I'm clearly dressed as male. On the other hand, other trans...
[23:21:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:21:58] <exec> 08└─All other groups are to be promoted above white hetero Christian males,
[23:22:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:09] <exec> 08└─If only 3 percent of the applications for funding were submitted by women entrepreneurs, then getting 3 percent overall would be fantastic because that means 100% of them were approved. Probably not the case, though.
[23:22:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:When is demo day for males? - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:11] <exec> 08└─"Yes, I'd like to be king of all Londinium and wear a shiny hat."
[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:29] <exec> 08└─If your scientific study is not repeatable, then we may want to be cautious of the study. We certainly should be cautious of the conclusions of the study until there is overwhelming scientific consensus concerning it.
[23:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:30] <exec> 08└─Which is exactly the case with respect to structural sources of gender inequality. Glad we could agree.
[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is sexual discrimination - 06Google Hosts Special Demo Day for Female Entrepreneurs - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:32] <exec> 08└─Insane Clown Affirmative Posse! I knew things were bad, but has it come to this?
[23:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Re:Old idea - 06Want to Build a Death Star? Use an Asteroid. - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:43] <exec> 08└─We could also use an asteroid to go to another star, hollowed out, rotated up so that there's gravity. Live on the inside under one G. It might take a while to get there, but there's no rush.
[23:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's a solution - 06Update: TIME Magazine Editors Snub Bernie Sanders After He Hands-Down Wins Readers Poll - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:01] <exec> 08└─Explain to me how Bernie Sanders, a man who has been in congress for 24 years, can even remotely be considered a "D.C. outsider"?
[23:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:No problem... - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:37] <exec> 08└─Fine with me. Just as long as it's not powered by my eyeballs we will be fine. I expect that "augmented reality blockers" will be a huge hit. Combine noise suppressing headphones, Google glasses, and a hoodie, and I'm apparently equipped with the real life adblockers that I unfortunately need. If it...
[23:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Buy up classic cars - 06Adverts in Vehicle-to-Vehicle/-Infrastructure Communications (V2X) - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:00] <exec> 08└─wasn't a law just passed to allow limited numbers of kits to be sold to actually be able to get the parts and assemble a 25 or 30 year old car with all new parts, except for that drive train? I wanted to think the only legal drive train (or readily available one) was a v8 model from Ford or somethin...
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