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[00:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Back in the Day - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:49] <exec> 08└─Only a few years ago Linux Journal was in the stands at local grocery markets and in the same issue was not only an interview with Guido but step-by-step instructions of how to build a Twitter bot. Back before Twitter was even famous.
[00:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02We Were Warned... - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:51] <exec> 08└─Only a few years ago Linux Journal was in the stands at local grocery markets and in the same issue was not only an interview with Guido but step-by-step instructions of how to build a Twitter bot. Back before Twitter was even famous.
[00:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02freesbd newsflash - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:53] <exec> 08└─Which publications do you read to keep up to date with your own OS?
[00:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Who says it's bacteria? - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:48] <exec> 08└─I bet many of those UTIs are fungal.
[00:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Wrong berry in the recipe - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:50] <exec> 08└─Cranberry never did have antiseptic properties. It is *lingonberry* that has them. Some cheap crooks used a cheaper berry to produce a fake "remedy". Business as usual.
[00:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02All of my hardware is 2-6 generations old... - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:08] <exec> 08└─As a result of exactly this. The only exceptions (of which I am well aware of threats of) are Video cards, Hard Disks, and USB devices. Basically everything else is still based off hardware designs from the early PCIe era, or revisions thereof. The scary part to me is that NOBODY seems intent on ser...
[00:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:a question ? - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:32] <exec> 08└─You can't plant the atom in a different program or anything of the sort, as atoms are run-time structures (essentially, an interned string). It basically makes string comparisons (possibly across multiple processes) fast by converting it to a number. In the described case, you can use it to pass dat...
[00:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is an atom - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:37] <exec> 08└─True. However I think MS tends to discourage that way as it is easy to create BSOD with it. As you are running at the kernel level and if you bug out you can take out the whole thing. It would be better to get MS to add to their existing API to hook it. https://msdn.microsoft.com
[00:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:03] <exec> 08└─I killed all of my old carrier pigeons, and bought new ones. Now SN works like a charm.
[00:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro (1711) 1ff6 (Score:2) 02Re:For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:09] <exec> 08└─Actually, this is one of the fastest and least crappy sites I have visited in years. From an observed performance perspective, it is basically google.
[00:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:24] <exec> 08└─Ah the 'its pure' design. Well yeah it is readable. But runs like crap. It usually takes a mess like that to teach someone that 'yeah 50 round trip calls across the network are not good'. Cache it and aggregate it. With one system I worked on a stored proc was digging through the same LARGE table 15...
[00:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''no requests for the images or css'' - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:25] <exec> 08└─Uh, oh. Somebody's gonna look in my direction now. (The only thing I don't block is star.png.) ...like browsers would generate Depends on the browser and the config. 8-) . Some Soylentils may rag on the staff from time to time, but our volunteers are pretty great at keeping the site going. ...and th...
[00:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:why all the negative comments? - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:48] <exec> 08└─The concern is that such a device could end up as a sort of "thought reader" and might end up severely compromising privacy for both individuals and society at large. The notion of a world where computers could transcribe thoughts with or without consent is a chilling one, to say the least. Even if...
[00:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:why all the negative comments? - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:49] <exec> 08└─I, for one, KILL KILL KILL welcome our mind-reading overlords. I welcome them. Welcome, I say.
[00:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LaVoy Finicum murder tapes - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:19] <exec> 08└─Mormon Spiritual Wives Matter!
[00:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Burz [6156] (Score:1) 02Re:LaVoy Finicum murder tapes - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:20] <exec> 08└─LaVoy has been recorded in the past saying his purpose was to force police to kill him. He espoused a wannabe-martyr's world view... a truly crazy dipshit. And yes, charging at cops with a vehicle (and nearly missing one) is one way to accomplish that. Doubly so if you are supposed to have your hand...
[00:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Grenades&shotguns used on Standing Rock protesters - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 3054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:42] <exec> 08└─Similarities to the violent police actions which broke up the peaceful Occupy assemblies have been noted in this (meta)thread. With the multi-state coordination involved, once again, there were federal officers involved in the planning and execution of this attack on peaceful protesters. Indigenous...
[00:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Militarized assault on peaceful protesters - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 2044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:43] <exec> 08└─The World Socialist Web Site reports [wsws.org]) More than 300 riot police from five states and National Guard troops were deployed Thursday against anti-pipeline protesters in Cannon Ball, North Dakota, violently arresting 141 protesters camped near Highway 1806. [...]The police were supported by a...
[00:13:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cameras confiscated (stolen) to thwart reporting - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:45] <exec> 08└─Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR.org) reports [commondreams.org] via Common Dreams One place you can go to find reporting is The Intercept (10/25/16 [theintercept.com]), where journalist Jihan Hafiz filed a video report from North Dakota, where the Standing Rock Sioux and their allies contin...
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[01:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02article. - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:47] <exec> 08└─Title: Fuck the EU Commission. Text: Unless I am mistaken, this law is not constitutional because it is not humanly possible to know what speech is not infringing, so all speech is banned. I hereby put the article above in the Public Domain, to be on the safe side I suggest you to cite the source wh...
[01:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hohoho hahaha - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:48] <exec> 08└─Hihihi... "well-intentioned"... hohoho hahaha... I see what you did there
[01:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Accidentally? - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:50] <exec> 08└─Sure... I, however, believe that the people who bought and paid for the law were pretty much aware of the kind of incredible power it would give them.
[01:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Phoronix is underrated. - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:04] <exec> 08└─Michael does the 6 o'clock daily news of the Linux world. The detractors complain about depth and errors. But who else would read mailing lists, change & commit logs, perform benchmarks, take screenshots and follow it all up with write-ups multiple times a week without the odd slipup? Nine times out...
[01:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There was a time it hurt when I peed - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:00] <exec> 08└─And I had never heard the euphemism "Gentleman's Sausage" for a hand cranked purple yoghurt slinger. +1 informative to YOU, sir.
[01:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Grow up - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:01] <exec> 08└─'Routinely?' Dude, you must live in the shittiest neighborhood in the country.
[01:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:mcmansions - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:07] <exec> 08└─McMansions are normally designed to look acceptable from most angles. Cheap houses and traditional mansions generally look poor from most angles.
[01:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:39] <exec> 08└─It should be noted that a significant percentage of Trump supporters are more interested in preventing Clinton from winning than they are in "rooting for" Trump in any major way. A Pew Center poll last month found that only 28% of Trump supporters would actually be "excited" if he won, with the larg...
[01:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:40] <exec> 08└─Same goes for the Democrat party here. This would be the election to vote third party.
[01:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:47] <exec> 08└─"Many, many more" translates to almost twice as many... or to put it another way, you're almost three times as likely to be shot if you are black, and over twice as likely even if you're black and unarmed. Even if you want to deny the racial component the police are killing more people of all races...
[01:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:49] <exec> 08└─False. Do the math yourself. Don't rely on pundits.
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[02:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Be careful what you wish for - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:43] <exec> 08└─That is why copyright law traditionally has exemptions like "fair use" or "fair dealing". Copyright is literally censorship (ostensibly for a limited time). The only thing preventing copyright law from being unconstitutional are those exemptions. The copyright maximallists may have made an error her...
[02:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:Analogy - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:18] <exec> 08└─They also have ads for Bud Light beer and Ford trucks. 1000 Football fans have poor taste ;)
[02:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Users are accustomed to getting everything free - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:22] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Copyright_reduction [wikipedia.org] He suggests that, instead of restrictions on sharing, authors be supported using a tax, with revenues distributed among them based on cubic roots of their popularity to ensure that "fairly successful non-stars" recei...
[02:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Users are accustomed to getting everything free - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:26] <exec> 08└─new business model for web content is emerging (think: Amazon Prime and Netflix), but you aren't going to like it.
[02:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong berry in the recipe - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:04] <exec> 08└─No, it's *dingleberry*, as in YOU.
[02:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This could be a real exploit - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 1624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:51] <exec> 08└─Most Windows core server APIs have a LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES, which takes an optional security descriptor as an argument. The presence of this argument means that the kernel will check authorization when the call is made; if that fails, the error E_ACCESSDENIED is returned. These researchers noticed t...
[02:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:49] <exec> 08└─The burden of truth certainly isn't on this side of the argument. Like all received wisdom I've checked the math on one or two random facts... not exhaustively, but enough to give me confidence. Links in articles included FBI statistics and reputable research from respected institutions. No, I'm not...
[02:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:50] <exec> 08└─Burden of PROOF (not truth)... but meaning is the same I guess.
[02:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to be cable news - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:23] <exec> 08└─Nowhere was I aware that "ripping on journalism" is part of this site's expected outcomes. If that's the case, it should be explicitly marked as such, because I was confused by it, and I'm pretty smart. I highly recommend that that use be either clearly flagged as such or pushed to a different site....
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[03:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Makes Sense - 06Earth-sized Planets With Abundant Water Statistically Likely Around Red Dwarfs - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:42] <exec> 08└─Although this is just modelling, it sounds right. Low mass red dwarf stars tend to have a larger habitable zone, from what I can find in a few minutes searching.* It's all a bit speculative though, we have yet to even directly image an exoplanet, so until we can do that we're just guessing really....
[03:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Makes Sense - 06Earth-sized Planets With Abundant Water Statistically Likely Around Red Dwarfs - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─The habitable zone would be closer to such stars, so there's a bigger chance that they're tidally locked. On the other hand it seems to me that those systems are more likely to be stable, so better suited for intelligent life to develop over a long period of time. But I might be wrong as well.
[03:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who says it's bacteria? - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:16] <exec> 08└─Not sure if serious, but nearly all UTIs are bacterial. The only real exceptions happen in the immunosuppressed.
[03:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:47] <exec> 08└─I had a DVD drive that didn't work with libdvdcss, replaced it and no more worries about region coding.
[03:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:49] <exec> 08└─To be clear: were you playing back DVDs from more than one region? DVD drives are supposed to brick themselves if you change the region too often.
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[03:11:51] <exec> 08└─After Dcss was realeased, region-coding was moved onto drive firmware [doom9.org] within a year. It is cute that you think you own your computer!
[03:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Francis should get over his tech isolation - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 1310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:58] <exec> 08└─ISTM that Francis is working on decade-old datapoints. Had he sought out local Linux people, I'll bet his "Nuh-uh"s would have already been turned to "Oh, wow"s. In his area, perhaps there is a Linux Users Group. [google.com] If not that, maybe an individual. I've suggested before getting up with a...
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[03:12:58] <exec> 08└─It sounds like SN is architected a lot better than the example I gave. To be fair, some of those things wouldn't have been an option at the time, or would have been expensive, but still - a little interna 1000 l cacheing goes a long way. Their DB was also mostly text, given it was a CMS, it's just t...
[03:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:LaVoy Finicum murder tapes - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:57] <exec> 08└─LaVoy has been recorded in the past saying his purpose was to force police to kill him
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[03:13:58] <exec> 08└─There are 2 other possible lessons here: 1. If you're going to protest, be white. 2. Opposing the government, even using threats of lethal force, is just fine, but opposing the megacorps, even without breaking any laws, that will get you into real trouble. Of those, #2 is more likely, because what t...
[03:14:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mcgrew [701] 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 596 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:02] <exec> 08└─Dude, racist much? Realistic, not racist. He's pointing out the racism that's inherent in the system. When blacks or Hispanics or indigenous people protest, they're in far more danger of physical harm from the authorities than whites. Racism is a tool of the rich to keep the poor at each other's thr...
[03:14:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 21 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:11] <exec> 08└─1) Dude, racist much?
[03:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:18] <exec> 08└─I did the math myself from government sources. It said a factor of something like 1.2 and it was confirmed by someone disagreeing with me right here, though I haven't verified which way that went yet, meaning either white people or black people are only ~20% more likely to be shot by police than the...
[03:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:20] <exec> 08└─> I did the math myself from government sources. That's funny. Not only does the mighty bullshiter have his own opinions, he's got his own government sources.
[03:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score:2) 02Well, - 06Chinese Ride-Share King Didi Chuxing Could Go Global - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:38] <exec> 08└─Are Miandi's coming to a market near you?
[03:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:55] <exec> 08└─Well, the article you reference, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] does not include the word "dampen" -- it correctly uses "damp" for removing energy from a system (convert to heat) and "damper" for the device that does this. The other thing this article does is describe m...
[03:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Stop trying to be cable news - 06British Ex-Soldier Cuts off own Toes with Pliers to Avoid Hospital Delays - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:16:55] <exec> 08└─We've had promoting good journalism as a founding principle since forever. Part of that is necessarily pointing out bad journalism for contrast.
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[04:09:44] <exec> 08└─There is actually a fairly good Wikipedia article [wikipedia.org] about it - and it doesn't really seem promising for the red dwarwes. Tidal locking, star flaring, and even the suitability of the light spectrum for photosynthesis, are all severe problems. Just about the only thing they have going fo...
[04:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Exoplanets, Ho! - 06Earth-sized Planets With Abundant Water Statistically Likely Around Red Dwarfs - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:45] <exec> 08└─Are there any job opportunities for colonists on these exoplanets? Because the job market is drying up here on Earth, and undesirables are already dying in shantytowns. The industrial revolution had the luxury of transporting undesirables to the underpopulated continents, but the social marketing e...
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Today I learned - 06Midwater Ocean Creatures Use Nanotech Camouflage - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:53] <exec> 08└─"We care about this for the basic biology," Bagge said. But the discovery of living anti-reflective coatings may have technological applications as well. Reflection-reducing "nipple arrays" are being used in the design of glass windows and have also been found in the eyes of moths, apparently to hel...
[04:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Ridiculous - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:04] <exec> 08└─How can someone comment on a news article without mentioning _some_ part of said article? This seems absolutely designed to stifle free speech. If a 500+ word article can be "stolen" in a 140 character tweet then that says something about the article!
[04:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Down to 2 magazines - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:19] <exec> 08└─4-5 years ago I got maybe 5 magazines a month. Now I get Analog (for the stories), and Cooking Light (for the recipes) Magazines I've dropped: Car & Driver: I really miss this magazine. But after firing Csaba Csere they went from funny to serious, and I lost interest Scientific American: Miss this o...
[04:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Down to 2 magazines - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:21] <exec> 08└─Car & Driver was hilarious back in the '80s when David E Davis was running the show. It was like Sports Illustrated for car buffs - the writing was meant to entertain as much as to inform. He had a crazy stable of writers including P J O'Rourke and Jean Lindamood. The Letters to the Editor section w...
[04:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong conclusion - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:15] <exec> 08└─Reading comprehension much? The person I quoted was claiming the benefit had to do with increased urine to flush out bacteria. What does the small intestine have to do with the bladder and urine?
[04:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wrong conclusion - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:17] <exec> 08└─If you're going to mod me a troll, you could at least read my post before doing so. I think it's pretty fucking obvious what the connection between my post and the ones I'm responding to is.
[04:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:There was a time it hurt when I peed - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:24] <exec> 08└─You can sleep naked if you want. Another possibility is changing your type of underwear. Were you wearing jockey shorts (a.k.a. tighty whiteys) before? Boxers fit much looser and are unlikely to give you that problem. I wear boxers because I can't stand stuff rubbing up against my pee hole either.
[04:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:1) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:00] <exec> 08└─It works on Linux apparently, but not on FreeBSD. But, it doesn't make much sense to dual-boot to Linux versus just running Windows in a VM.
[04:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:02] <exec> 08└─Depends on the drive and firmware. There are two different levels of RPC. Level 1 understands codes and the copy protection and, in a bit of oversimplification, reports them to the OS to take care of. That means that you can ignore the regions at will with a proper driver in the OS. Level 2 enforces...
[04:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:04] <exec> 08└─Right, that's my personal problem. I like to watch DVDs in English, Mandarin and German and that typically requires something like 3 different drives because they don't generally sell German or Mandarin language DVDs in the US, so I usually have to import them as the discs aren't usually even availa...
[04:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:10] <exec> 08└─No, you're being an asshole. People like you are why I use FreeBSD rather than Linux as my primary install. I just want a system that works reliably without the zealotry. I did the research on this stuff at the time that I decided what software I was going to use and I don't see any reason why I sho...
[04:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:15] <exec> 08└─I've tried opensource OCR and I've yet to find one that works well. Certainly not well enough for me to ditch my current system for. IIRC, the best software I came across was Tesseract, but that didn't work very well for the things I was scanning. It's probably better now than then, but I don't see...
[04:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:02] <exec> 08└─If I reply to this post, am I making things worse for the server load?
[04:13:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02My cheeks would be red - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:37] <exec> 08└─from being slapped by all the women that walk by.
[04:13:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Unixnut [5779] 02Re:why all the negative comments? - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 728 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:40] <exec> 08└─Damn right I have. I am limited by my abilities with the computer because of the poor suitability of my eyes and hands for interfacing with the computer. As I get older it gets harder and harder to keep my pace of work, as my eyes are getting weaker and I put them under constant strain. My mind lite...
[04:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:10] <exec> 08└─And you're point is what precisely? Damp and dampen are synonyms in this context as the dictionary indicates. You still haven't actually backed any of your claims.
[04:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's the fleet mileage standards - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, hey, I have a penis truck! This week I moved roughly (actually rather more) two metric penis - I mean tons - over roughly (actually rather more) fifty penis - I mean miles - with my penis - I mean truck. Next week I expect to do something similar, although the numbers may vary. Life is variable,...
[04:15:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:"when ever (sic) megabit counts" - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:52] <exec> 08└─Going by your username I'm guessing you moved from 2xDS0 to DS3, not bad! I had 128K back in about '98 and I was a god, a god I say! ISDN direct to my racks in the Westin (Seattle.) Now for half the price I'm getting 25/3Mbs.
[04:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 0212GB? - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:58] <exec> 08└─The full English version is 12GB. WTF? Talk about downloading the Internet!
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[05:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Half Life 3 - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:35] <exec> 08└─OK. Now where is Half Life 3?
[05:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:36] <exec> 08└─Seriously, WTF?
[05:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02Re:article. - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:02] <exec> 08└─We have two bodies: the European Commission and European Parliament. Only the latter is elected, and while like any such legislative body, corrupt and so on, it is surprisingly often a force for good. The Commission, though, is predominantly evil.
[05:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Here's a snippet of many articles... - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:07] <exec> 08└─"the". Go ahead and try to get that to court.
[05:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02P2P news? - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:09] <exec> 08└─The mainstream media is quite obviously bought and very partisan. Anybody know of a peer-to-peer platform for news sharing? The "alternative news" sites I've been to seem to be staffed by crackpots. There must be some real alternative, or at least there very well should be! As an aside, it is really...
[05:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:A sign of the times - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:19] <exec> 08└─The only thing keeping physical magazines/newspapers in business at this point are the elderly who have forgotten they're still subscribed and the doctor's offices they go to who buy them for the waiting rooms. I know, I work at a doctor's office.
[05:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Pay wall proliferation - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:52] <exec> 08└─And pay a few bucks more per month for each separate publisher. If you follow five different shows, each exclusive to a different platform (Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, CBS, HBO, etc.), prepare to pay at least as much as you would have to a traditional cable or satellite TV provider.
[05:11:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:false alarm - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 1172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:46] <exec> 08└─Don't you know debuggers are illegal? Dan would later learn that there was a time when anyone could have debugging tools. There were even free debugging tools available on CD or downloadable over the net. But ordinary users started using them to bypass copyright monitors, and eventually a judge rul...
[05:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Grow up - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:42] <exec> 08└─Careful when doing that. A scrapper got electrocuted here tearing the panels off of a roof. Apparently, he didn't realize that they generate power all the time and got nailed when cutting through one of the wires. IIRC, the isolation switch was set to off and the electric meter replaced with a dummy...
[05:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 2756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:19] <exec> 08└─Slashcode actually originally had this functionality. The database and themes were essentially exported as HTML files and served up to ACs; only accessing the .pl files directly (which happened when logged in) would give you a real-time view (this is what the original "delay in updating static page"...
[05:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:23] <exec> 08└─Honestly, you can get both without having a ton of crap as your codebase. Build an interface to do what you want, then slide a caching layer below it. If you've done it right, you get the best of both worlds. While not completely invisible, if you're using caching sanely, and know exactly how it ope...
[05:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02I wish them luck. - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 3117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:51] <exec> 08└─I hope their research is successful & that they can eventually turn this into something that's easy to use, as fast or faster than the current keyboard & mouse entry methods, inexpensive, fast, & painless to acquire so that anyone whom needs one can easily get one, & that it becomes as ubiquitous as...
[05:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mtm_king [6133] (Score:1) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:43] <exec> 08└─Like your sig.
[05:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can't even begin to care - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:14:54] <exec> 08└─Oh noes! The police are inconsistent in their policing! Especially when different jurisdictions are involved! Nothing new here. The Bundy gang were a) apprehended b) arrested c) indicted d) had their day in court. The police in question managed to do it with a minimum of violence. Great, good job. T...
[05:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Logan's Run - 06NMN Causes "Anti-Aging" Effects in Mice, Human Trials Underway - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:51] <exec> 08└─Best sci fi flick of the '70s. Way better than, well, you know.
[05:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:12GB? - 06Endless OS 3: Linux for Those with Limited Internet Access - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:16:08] <exec> 08└─Hence the name, the download will seem Endless.
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[06:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wrath of God - 066.6-Magnitude Earthquake Near Norcia, Italy - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:33] <exec> 08└─God is punishing Pope Benedict for resigning the papacy.
[06:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:P2P news? - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:13] <exec> 08└─I would suggest The Onion, or The Shovel. Let's face it. Their fact checking is on par with any other news organisation more worried about "the scoop", than being correct.
[06:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Umm, no - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not an EU subject.
[06:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score:2) 02Re:false alarm - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:56] <exec> 08└─While I personally disagree with rms on many points, I do think the worlds he outlined in Right to Read and such are disturbingly plausible in many ways. I just wish the FSF would stop shooting itself in the foot in many ways; the GPLv3 as a license is a disaster. (specifically, I don't mind the con...
[06:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:20] <exec> 08└─Nothing you've recommended does what my current set up does on my machine. I don't see any purpose in setting aside the stuff I bought back when I was dual-booting between Windows and FreeBSD just because I've got my Windows install loaded into a VM. Nothing you've suggested is anywhere near as func...
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[07:09:37] <exec> 08└─too late... The Roman gods are digging their way free from being burried for nearly 2000 years. They finally decided that waiting for archaeologists will take too damn long.
[07:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:article. - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:11] <exec> 08└─this law is not constitutional
[07:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:Umm, no - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:20] <exec> 08└─"I'm not an EU subject." Then you better hope they don't take the view the US does namely that their laws apply to the whole damn planet.
[07:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02death to traditional publishers! - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:22] <exec> 08└─> The law is intended to help traditional publishers survive the digital age I love the way they imply that traditional publishers should continue operating, and deserve a little help to get past a rough patch. It shows an obliviousness to what the digital ago really is. The Age of Information makes...
[07:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:appearance - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:59] <exec> 08└─I tried to tell that to my neighbour when he didn't see how I could ever want panels on my street-facing roof. You know, the one with the perfect orientation to gather over 320 days of sun per year... On topic, I'd lie to restate that Integrated Solar Roofs ARE NOT NEW. You can find them in Europe....
[07:13:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:10] <exec> 08└─For SN, a DDOS is more than 4 people logged on at the same time ;) Tee hee
[07:13:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03blackhawk [5275] 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 3025 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:30] <exec> 08└─That would really just saturate the outgoing bandwidth, and if the site is hosted on Amazon or similar, it's going to take a lot to saturate the bandwidth. It's more effective to find the pages that take the most server resources to serve up and slam those. You want to target ones that are hitting t...
[07:13:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NCommander [2] 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 1445 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:31] <exec> 08└─In practice, that attack would be extremely difficult to pull off on SN. Right now, only logged in users actually touch our application servers, everything else is shunted into a varnish cache (ACs basically get 5 minute snapshots of the site at any given moment). If push came to shove, we could ena...
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[08:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Verizon mobile broadband gratis - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:35] <exec> 08└─Buy a Verizon prepaid mobile hotspot. Set up a VPN on port 53. You're welcome.
[08:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FIBER IS THE ONLY WAY TO THE INTERNET - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:37] <exec> 08└─FOR CONSTIPATED BIGOTS
[08:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Chromium_One [4574] (Score:2) 02About damned time. - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:54] <exec> 08└─Seriously, this was approaching Duke Nukem Forever levels of delay.
[08:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Makes Sense - 06Earth-sized Planets With Abundant Water Statistically Likely Around Red Dwarfs - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:04] <exec> 08└─The Wikipedia article is based on rapidly changing astrophysics/biology. Hence studies like this one. JWST will be providing much better information about exoplanets and their atmospheres in a few years. Plant life will probably evolve an organelle suited for the kind of light the star provides. Tid...
[08:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A sign of the times - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:10:42] <exec> 08└─(which I admit I've never heard of).
[08:11:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Analogy - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 1047 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:00] <exec> 08└─Some people can't figure out why the NFL's ratings are dropping so fast, and just finally admitted that its players protesting the national anthem had a lot to do with it, because most of the players are ridiculously overpaid 2000 plebes while the primary consumers of NFL games are boorish military...
[08:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02What is twitter? - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:21] <exec> 08└─Twitter is basically an Internet-wide single chatroom IRC, with a 140 character limit per post and some fancy UI and filters stuck on top
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[09:09:33] <exec> 08└─
[09:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Umm, no - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:36] <exec> 08└─Well, that would already be a step forward from the US. The current US view is: Their laws apply to the whole planet, except when it would work against the US government or big US corporations; in that case the applicability is the narrowest possible.
[09:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Analogy - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:11:11] <exec> 08└─But is it possible to ever have apolitical Twitter? The whole sole purpose of that tool is to show the pulse of society. I propose that any tool which shows the pulse of society is the most important tool to keep the nerves of society under control.
[09:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:42] <exec> 08└─After Dcss was realeased, region-coding was moved onto drive firmware within a year.
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[10:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:About damned time. - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:07] <exec> 08└─It's a shame they never made Duke Nukem Forever -- DN3D was great.
[10:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A strange finding - 06Earth-sized Planets With Abundant Water Statistically Likely Around Red Dwarfs - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:20] <exec> 08└─We already know that red dwarfs are much more common than other stars, and that they live much longer. If red dwarfs commonly have Earth-like planets, it seems increasingly odd that we would find ourselves orbiting a class G star rather than a class M one. In fact, the Sun is very nearly as big as a...
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[10:10:22] <exec> 08└─60% of the stars observed in the Kepler Prime Mission were G-type. Even if only 15% of all stars aren't red dwarfs, that's still a lot of stars. The hotter stars may have a better chance of forming life and doing it more quickly than red dwarfs, along with wider habitable zones (AU from beginning to...
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[11:09:45] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutin#In_food [wikipedia.org]
[11:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrath of God - 066.6-Magnitude Earthquake Near Norcia, Italy - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:03] <exec> 08└─You might joke, but an Israeli vice-minister actually commented this was punishment for Italy abstaining in an UNESCO vote about Jerusalem.
[11:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Time to rain some Hellfire on them and the Muslims - 066.6-Magnitude Earthquake Near Norcia, Italy - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:04] <exec> 08└─Why wait for God, when WE HAVE THE TECHNOLOGY! The end times can come whether we wait for God's Hand or do it ourselves. And 2017-2018 are looking as good of a period as any!
[11:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Applies not just to "older women" - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, I thought it was widely accepted that it is good at clearing up UTIs, probably as a result of some now-debunked study somewhen. I know plenty of people who drink the stuff or give it to their kids (in addition to, rather than instead of, antibiotics) to clear up UTIs.
[11:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:mcmansions - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:41] <exec> 08└─No offense, but several of those mcmansions looked ok and The Elms doesn't look that good in comparison (facades haven't fared well as a fad, pain to clean and maintain even when they look nice). They're all gaudy boxes except that The Elms actually has the box shape. ignoring the most basic princip...
[11:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:For SN - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:00] <exec> 08└─Soylent News, the site that needs a DDoS to be as slow as the rest of the internet!
[11:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comments? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:04] <exec> 08└─I think that might qualify as unpopular view. ;-)
[11:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:15:39] <exec> 08└─Your google-fu is lacking. It's only a quick search of the comments here away.
[11:16:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Is it really worth it? - 06Breakthrough in Harvesting Energy from Automotive Shock Absorbers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:16:21] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you have a lot of expansion joints around where you live. Fairly rare in the UK (where this news item is from) where roads are mostly tarmac.
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[12:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cthulhu - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:45] <exec> 08└─Now we know where Cthulhu is. The Governments of the world have banded together to keep everyone else away from it.
[12:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02one word: - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:46] <exec> 08└─"excellent". poseidon can be a bit less angry now...
[12:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Time to rain some Hellfire on them and the Musl - 066.6-Magnitude Earthquake Near Norcia, Italy - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:14] <exec> 08└─Vote Hillary for Armageddon!
[12:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:A sign of the times - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:16] <exec> 08└─This may have more to do with the state of Linux and the software industry, than with the merits of the individual publications (which I admit I've never heard of).
[12:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Down to 2 magazines - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:26] <exec> 08└─Scientific American
[12:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:32] <exec> 08└─Furthermore, we always are overprovisioned; our basic rule is no single service can be at 50% average capacity, in case a node suddenly craps out on us which means we're well in excess of what we need at any given moment, and have redundancy always available.
[12:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Stats? - 06DDoS of SN Underway [Updated] - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:14:35] <exec> 08└─Given your status as emergency reserve sysop, [soylentnews.org] I guess you could knock SN off the net using a single host — the one you'd use to log in and shut the servers down. ;-)
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[13:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Vision - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:42] <exec> 08└─Anyone can have a 'vision'... call me back when they get FAA approval.
[13:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score:2) 02Free Internet = Heresy - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:07] <exec> 08└─NC obviously has the best state government that corporate interests can buy. Citizen, they know best. (Best for their bottom line.)
[13:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:09] <exec> 08└─What awful bathroom bill? The one that required separate restrooms for men and women? How the fuck is that awful? Any business that is so incompetent they can't afford two restrooms deserves to go under.
[13:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:11] <exec> 08└─Property owners should be able to set whatever rules regarding bathrooms that they wish. This viewpoint potentially pisses off both those who want to force rules which favor trans people and people who are paranoid about molesters in bathrooms (which could exist regardless of any bathroom rules, sin...
[13:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Half Life 3 - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 1563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:29] <exec> 08└─From what I have read, it's may or may not happen. The rumor is this: how many people still care enough about Half-Life to buy the game? The first game was released in November 1998, that's 18 years ago. So after investing a massive amount of time and effort in making a third release, who's going to...
[13:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MilanorTSW [3072] (Score:1) 02It will be MindDrive all over again! - 06A Brain-Computer Interface Could Convert your Thoughts to Text - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:12] <exec> 08└─Maybe it will type about lettuce when you were actually thinking of cabbage. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[14:09:55] <exec> 08└─The article seems not to say where the money comes from. If it is just department money, then it is really just the tax payers' money and the recidivism rate will approach 100%. Nothing learned. However, if it is garnished from the offender's pay checks, accompanied perhaps by firing, then there is...
[14:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, please! Fix the problem by making it THEIR problem.
[14:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:58] <exec> 08└─A settlement with the City of Santa Ana probably comes from taxpayers. At best, the cops will be fired and less cops will be hired, saving some money (some cops make well over $100k or even $200k with benefits factored in).
[14:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Hey Aaandy! - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:01] <exec> 08└─Are cops just getting stupider? Is their whole hiring process just bad? WTF? Don't be stupid! Yes. YOU! Just the facts, ma'am? No thanks... but i does got the munchies!
[14:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02So... - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:03] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing these were weed donuts?
[14:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02cops - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:05] <exec> 08└─In some cities "cop" mean chaperone, I live in a nice area where all they do is break up teen parties and arrest drunk drivers and yell at speeders and that's really all they do, at least that is all that is in the weekly police blotter. In some cities "cop" means military occupation force infantry,...
[14:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Vision - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:14] <exec> 08└─Which they won't anytime soon, because it turns out that flying cars are a really dangerous idea. Do you really want the morons who are driving around drunk and weaving all over the road flying around and weaving every which way in the sky? You do that, and you'll have people routinely crashing into...
[14:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:1) 02Re:Vision - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:17] <exec> 08└─Agreed, and I will add (as I have said for years): flying cars won't be a reality until they are completely computer driven. Present day seems a lot closer to such a reality.
[14:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:3, Informative) 02Very Inefficient - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:19] <exec> 08└─VTOL is very energy inefficient; you are at max power just chucking air at the ground to carry your weight while you do it. I thought we were meant to worry about this sort of thing these days - only yesterday we were talking here about squeezing tiny amounts of waste energy out of car suspension da...
[14:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Very Inefficient - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:21] <exec> 08└─Subways are way too unhip. How could a startup get in on that action?
[14:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When? - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:23] <exec> 08└─When do you think uber scam will burst?
[14:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When? - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:25] <exec> 08└─It can't happen soon enough...
[14:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When? - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:27] <exec> 08└─It won't. They will replace all the drivers with AI before the service can be widely banned or drivers are recognized as employees. They could even start the roll out of driverless in the cities that impose the most human costs. Like London [ft.com].
[14:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sacred Waters - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:37] <exec> 08└─This is just a secular version of declaring the area sacred and impeding the use of the waters for progress. But this is OK because its our values that make it sacred, not the values of people we don't like.
[14:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:57] <exec> 08└─New rules: cameras in every stall, manager allowed to rape anyone who enters.
[14:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:58] <exec> 08└─you must not know what this is about. in short, its a hate-bill that is designed to mobilize the christian extreme 'right' (I really hate that they own that word; nothing 'right' about christians when you look close enough) and to placate them. there was never an issue but the deep (derp) south keep...
[14:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:1) 02Re:What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:01] <exec> 08└─NC Resident. The issue wasn't that businesses were only having 1 bathroom, in fact there is nothing businesses have to do. What happened is that Charlotte, the biggest city in the state and one of the biggest in the Southeast (3rd after Miami and Atlanta I think?) passed a law which explicitly allow...
[14:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:About damned time. - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:23] <exec> 08└─http://store.steampowered.com/app/434050/ [steampowered.com] New episode 5 too.
[14:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02"Don't sell your company!" - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:59] <exec> 08└─"Don't sell your company!" Really? The only people who seem to be making money are the ones who sell their company to someone else who is left holding the bag. Yahoo bought company after company, and apparently never did anything with any of the technologies they bought. At least I never heard of it...
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[15:10:04] <exec> 08└─> Are cops just getting stupider? No. They thought they had destroyed the cameras before they decided to party. They just missed one because it was hidden. Decoys FTW!
[15:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:cops - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:08] <exec> 08└─I also live somewhere the police are more like chaperones to run with your analogy. It's not the wealthiest town in my metro-ish area (not the tax haven at least), but we have a strong middle class. Looking on Wikipedia for the town (amazing I can just do that) we have let's say for the purposes of...
[15:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02A badge, a gun, behind the wheels and high... - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:10] <exec> 08└─A petty theft indictment is a slap on the wrist.
[15:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A badge, a gun, behind the wheels and high... - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:12] <exec> 08└─Prosecutors are very creative when it comes to cops. Judges are very creative when they are found guilty. The cops are still on a "plateau".
[15:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When? - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:27] <exec> 08└─Something something... job creators... something...
[15:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When? - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:28] <exec> 08└─Something something... fabulous new jobs of the future that everybody with an IQ of 80 can just retrain for overnight!... something...
[15:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When? - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:30] <exec> 08└─So really, what you're saying is that there will be an oversupply of workers for these jobs, resulting in wages that are below-livable?
[15:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02conflicted - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:41] <exec> 08└─i'm glad the animals will ostensibly be protected but i also find it troubling that governments(bands of thieves) from various nations have conspired to confiscate/horde large swathes of ocean and it's natural resources. Just like national and state parks in the US, it's just local branches of the U...
[15:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:conflicted - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:43] <exec> 08└─> i also find it troubling that governments(bands of thieves) from various nations have conspired to confiscate/horde large swathes of ocean and it's natural resources. Yeah... Yours is one of those posts that although it appears to be about the nominal topic, its actually a commentary on the author...
[15:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Antarctic 24h Sun - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:46] <exec> 08└─There isn't any! Go on, try to find it. You will not, because it does not exist. It does not exist, because the Earth is not a globe, and this is the one fact the globe spinners cannot hide. The precious footage that would demonstrate the 24h Sun is missing. "We have no space in our servers", was th...
[15:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't see a problem - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:09] <exec> 08└─Government's already tax (and tariff, and fee, and duty, and impost, and ...) supported. If you can justify government doing something that might constitute competition with a private provider, why not make it tax supported rather than have the government act as a vendor? A much tougher question is...
[15:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not Free Software - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:34] <exec> 08└─if it's not Free Software i don't care.
[15:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not Exoplanets - 06Earth-sized Planets With Abundant Water Statistically Likely Around Red Dwarfs - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:49] <exec> 08└─First off, Earth is not "a planet": Earth is a realm. The Earth is not the spinning ball that NΛSΛ sloppy (yet ambitious) illusionists will have you believe. Our Earth does not feature any curvature, nor any spinning or translation. The notion of "exoplanets", data obtained only through specialize...
[15:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:P2P news? - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:19] <exec> 08└─The Onion often gets the scoop way earlier than the other news orgs too! See: http://www.theonion.com [theonion.com] And: http://crasstalk.com [crasstalk.com] And probably more. See also: http://www.theonion...
[15:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:death to traditional publishers! - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:24] <exec> 08└─just like the situation with movies. they should be allowed to die if they can't adapt.
[15:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:"Don't sell your company!" - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:18] <exec> 08└─I think Flickr is the only thing Yahoo bought that is still popular.
[15:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:43] <exec> 08└─It's not just Francis. I mod you down too, especially because of pointless dickwaving posts like this.
[15:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:49] <exec> 08└─He's not retarded, it's just that 75% of his posts are trollish non-answers as demonstrated, role-playing an ancient Greek philosopher. I don't really get it either.
[15:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:54] <exec> 08└─With Firefox it would be trivial to export your bookmarks to an HTML file, store it on a VM network drive, and read it back in after reverting in that situation. "Because nobody takes security sufficiently seriously neither should you" is a rather odd argument to use.
[15:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:10] <exec> 08└─On the other hand people were excited by Obama and hardly anything groundbreaking appear to happen
[15:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:25] <exec> 08└─Many, many more white people are killed by cops every year and nobody thinks that's racially motivated.
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[16:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Follow the money - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 3184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:47] <exec> 08└─Following the money is interesting. If you click enough you'll eventually find http://www.cir-safety.org [cir-safety.org] which implies its a ridiculously inefficient way to kill people, compared to big tobacco. So male miners who practically swim in the stuff n...
[16:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Big talc turned me into a newt! - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:48] <exec> 08└─But I'm kinda digging this whole newt life style so I'm willing to settle for $40 million.
[16:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Hey Aaandy! - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─No, this is how cops have always been. A friend of mine owned a bar many years ago, and he told me how some 30 years ago it was broken into and the cops showed up to "help guard it" and helped themselves to ton of his booze while they "stood watch." Only different between Police and criminals most o...
[16:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02As seen on SN - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:08] <exec> 08└─I believe this is from when the infraction first occurred. Should have been a fast case with that video evidence. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[16:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Very Inefficient - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:22] <exec> 08└─Trouble is, despite being less efficient, vtol is seen as the "easy way". You burn more power but you can get started a lot more quickly and with less fuss. Think about how much energy is required to dig a subway tunnel: Cutting and moving all that dirt, all the steel and concrete to reinforce it......
[16:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When? - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:29] <exec> 08└─That's a best case scenario that requires you to eliminate the minimum wage while the robots don't get cheaper and more capable.
[16:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sacred Waters - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:40] <exec> 08└─Its funny in a not-funny way how so many people assume that "progress" is a worthy goal unto itself. Who cares what other humans think, industrial progress is the only thing that matters!
[16:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Oz? - 06Mulberry Extract Activates Brown Fat, Shows Promise as Obesity Treatment - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:52] <exec> 08└─Surely Dr Oz will be flogging this on supermarket tabloids by the end of the month?
[16:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Oz? - 06Mulberry Extract Activates Brown Fat, Shows Promise as Obesity Treatment - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:54] <exec> 08└─So him getting yanked into a senate committee hearing on bogus medicine didn't actually cause him to tone it down afterwards? That's sad to hear.
[16:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:09] <exec> 08└─you must use the bathroom according to your birth certificate's gender.
[16:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:11] <exec> 08└─Just how badly do these dipshits want government to micromanage everyone's lives?
[16:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A strange finding - 06Earth-sized Planets With Abundant Water Statistically Likely Around Red Dwarfs - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:51] <exec> 08└─it seems increasingly odd that we would find ourselves orbiting a class G star rather than a class M one
[16:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Turn the heat up slowly... - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:23] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog [wikipedia.org]
[16:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A sign of the times - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:36] <exec> 08└─Four magazines. Linux User and Developer is still being published by Imagine Publishing as well. I doubt it will be around for much longer though, given that the sale of Imagine to Future Publishing was finalised last week.
[16:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:34] <exec> 08└─I hear vodka and cranberry reduces urinary tract inf 2000 ections.
[16:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:28] <exec> 08└─There was quite a serious bug a year or two ago with windows updates on some servers. It would take around 7-8 hours to just load the list of updates, with one of the services (csrss.exe) pegged at 50% cpu. At the time, I was not happy about staying up till 5am trying to patch servers, but the overt...
[16:17:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live and learn - 06Standing Rock Protestors Gassed and Attacked; Bundy Gang Acquitted [Updated] - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:17:28] <exec> 08└─That assumes racial parity in conduct apt to result in negative police interactions. This is something of a third rail - suggesting that the melanin-empowered are crime-prone is obviously racist. But the case that criminal activities are evenly spread throughout society is, at best, unproven. Many s...
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[17:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Last paragraph - 06Genome Sequencing Reveals Ancient Interbreeding Between Chimpanzees and Bonobos - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─What on earth did the last paragraph have to do with the story? It might as well have said something like: "Genetic mixing probably occurred owing to interbreeding, that presumably was a consequence of coitus." Added nothing of value.
[17:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:59] <exec> 08└─Cell division causes cancer, nothing else. Tobacco etc damages tissue which causes a need for cell division to maintain it. But also the smokers in the original studies had much lower mortality rates than the population at large and the non smokers were uber healhy (these were studies of veterans an...
[17:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:01] <exec> 08└─Erroneous and thing.
[17:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:04] <exec> 08└─Cell division is what cancer is. Cancer is not CAUSED by cell division. Something damages the DNA or otherwise causes cells to divide out of control. Medical research doesn't hide or ignore these facts, so what are you smoking?
[17:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─garnished from the offender's pay checks, accompanied perhaps by firing I want some of whatever you've been eating.
[17:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cops - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:24] <exec> 08└─> I think the big big big thing the moon matrix media and the lizard people It is such a good thing that you mention those points. They help to remind me that even though you sound reasonable, you are actually batshit crazy and I shouldn't take anything you say at face value because it all comes fro...
[17:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Very Inefficient - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:39] <exec> 08└─Good points, and when we finally transition into heavy renewable energy the power inefficiency will become much less. I would still prefer if our work lives weren't so crazy and we could enjoy longer trips. Also, walking from the station to work or wherever helps maintain regular exercise. Hmm, with...
[17:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is just like The Onion - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:47] <exec> 08└─And not just once, but twice: Mean Automakers Dash Hope For Flying Cars https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Compost-Fueled Cars: Wouldn't That Be Great? - Onion Talks - Ep. 1 https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Antarctic 24h Sun - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─You want to be close to the South Pole, around 21st June. Or rather, I want you to be.
[17:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oz? - 06Mulberry Extract Activates Brown Fat, Shows Promise as Obesity Treatment - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:13] <exec> 08└─Depends on how much the Rutin supplement makers pay him to do so, actually.
[17:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Free Internet = Heresy - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:24] <exec> 08└─Very true. Before 'the republicans' were doing this it was 'the democrats' (I have been following this for a long time). With each group acting indignant the other would even suggest such a thing. In fact the Wilson guys were republicans when they set it all up. They did it as a FU to the democrats...
[17:11:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't see a problem - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:33] <exec> 08└─If you can justify government doing something that might constitute competition with a private provider, why not make it tax supported rather than have the government act as a vendor?
[17:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonymousCowardNoMore [5416] (Score:2) 02Re:Be careful what you wish for - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:30] <exec> 08└─The copyright maximallists may have made an error here: unconstitutional laws get struck down by courts.
[17:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:old and bitter - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:55] <exec> 08└─LOL you should always seek assistance for something like that. It makes it easier and much more enjoyable.
[17:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:09] <exec> 08└─Francis! Posting as AC and calling yourself "not just Francis" does not mean you are not just Francis! You're not fooling anyone, you know!
[17:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:15] <exec> 08└─That's OK, tango, you are not meant to get it. Some things may be beyond your comprehension. You should get used to it.
[17:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Elms - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:48] <exec> 08└─I notice that all exterior photos of The Elms show one side, perfectly centered and aligned. This suggests that I am correct regarding The Elms: from any other angle it is unattractive. McMansions are designed based on the worst-case viewing angle. BTW, normally one would compare mansions and McMans...
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[18:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Good Explanation - 06Genome Sequencing Reveals Ancient Interbreeding Between Chimpanzees and Bonobos - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:01] <exec> 08└─That explains Obama.
[18:10:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Follow the money - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 3184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:09] <exec> 08└─Following the money is interesting. If you click enough you'll eventually find http://www.cir-safety.org [cir-safety.org] which implies its a ridiculously inefficient way to kill people, compared to big tobacco. So male miners who practically swim in the stuff n...
[18:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the money - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 1422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:11] <exec> 08└─This smacks of a combination of correlation (which they have, if only barely) does not imply causation (which they don't) meeting an obsession with law suits at the slightest provocation. Another point to consider is female anatomy; assuming the benefit of doubt and that talc - or any suitable parti...
[18:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Follow the money - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:13] <exec> 08└─There is a similarity that the organization is entirely industry funded and apparently never finds anything the industry likes to be dangerous, in comparison to real regulators in Europe who actually do their job.
[18:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:19] <exec> 08└─"Original studies" is your error. The follow-up studies confirmed, without bias or excuses. It's a medical, and scientific, fact that smoking increases your risk of cancer. It doesn't matter who you are. It is NOT a medical, or scientific, fact that talc does. Nobody has established that beyond the...
[18:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─Cell division causes cancer, nothing else.
[18:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02You can't handle the truth! - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:24] <exec> 08└─Erik Gordon sure said a mouthfull. If he's correct (and I find that likely), he is essentially claiming that any blather about the courts reaching the truth is simple fraud. Very simply, if science doesn't win in court than the truth is truly orthogonal to the courts' process.
[18:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:36] <exec> 08└─Additionally, was the $100,000 actually enough to cover the repairs, restock the store, and if necessary cover the downtime since this all started back in the summer?
[18:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:37] <exec> 08└─The people paying the taxes that fund the settlement will need to demand loudly that the money come out of the cops' pay. They will also need to demand that the cops involved be fired. And those cops really should be fired. They acted worse than common looters and thugs. At least the gang bangers do...
[18:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey Aaandy! - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:42] <exec> 08└─Exactly. They're not getting stupider, they're getting caught (for not getting smarter about ubiquitous cameras).
[18:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:cops - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:48] <exec> 08└─I sort of think its creative writing using analogies, substitute and sarcasm.
[18:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cops - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, just an amusing reference to Media and the wealthy elite.
[18:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:I like my longpig lean. - 06Mulberry Extract Activates Brown Fat, Shows Promise as Obesity Treatment - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:37] <exec> 08└─I see your case kuru has already advanced to the point where forming thoughtful posts has been destroyed.
[18:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:00] <exec> 08└─What awful bathroom bill? The one that required separate restrooms for men and women? How the fuck is that awful? Any business that is so incompetent they can't afford two restrooms deserves to go under.
[18:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't see a problem - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 1422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:03] <exec> 08└─"The difference between tax-supported and not is about whether people have to opt in to receive the service. Not everybody will want internet, and allowing people to not pay for it allows private providers to compete for business." I got that bit. That's obvious. The question at the level of governm...
[18:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't see a problem - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:05] <exec> 08└─There is no question that the government saves money if everyone has internet access, allowing them to use online government services and getting rid of evil lazy government workers which single-handedly suck the life out of the US economy. But that logic resulted in free internet access in public l...
[18:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Half Life 3 - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─♪ That was a joke. Ha-ha. Fat chance. ♪
[18:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:article. - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:07] <exec> 08└─(1) The US Constitution doesn't apply in the EU (2) I don't know why the law would be unconstitutionality under your argument. Free speech never allowed you to violate copyright
[18:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:Pay wall proliferation - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:10] <exec> 08└─Does CBS even charge money for their content? I'm not too worried - the ever-present threat of piracy should serve to keep prices low. There's also far more content than I ever want to watch, so if I opt into binging from one service one month, and a different one the next, that seems fine. Since I...
[18:14:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02Wrong conclusion - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 734 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:40] <exec> 08└─It often happens that something works, but doesn't work for the reasons supposed. Cranberry juice concentrate capsules aren't at all equivalent to cranberry juice. One guess as to how it might actually work is that it flushes the bacteria out because of a higher volume of urine. If that were the cas...
[18:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong conclusion - 06Study Finds Lack of Benefit of Cranberry in Reducing Urinary Tract Infections Among Older Women - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:49] <exec> 08└─Well, the urologist was reported as claiming that cranberry juice resulted in urine that contained substances which interfered with the adhesion of the bacteria to the walls of the urethra. I don't know what he based that on. Perhaps he (she?) just wanted to have some answer to give.
[18:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:49] <exec> 08└─Just keep telling yourself that.
[18:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:The Elms - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:25] <exec> 08└─Having actually been there, no, there isn't an angle where you'd look at that building and think "Oh, that's ugly". That's the kind of precision you get when you are paying the kind of money that the coal baron who paid the bills had on hand. There have been all sorts of photos [google.com] of the p...
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[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Alberto Gonzales solution - 06MIT Moral Machine - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:47] <exec> 08└─If the pedestrians are already dead then we can drive straight into them. Therefore the pedestrians are already dead, happy driving folks!
[19:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:49] <exec> 08└─Given the speed these cars would be driving at (e.g. speed limits) it should downshift/use regenerative braking, slow down all while using the horn. In most cases hardly anyone would be killed. Alternatively it could graze the wall.
[19:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:51] <exec> 08└─Given the speed these cars would be driving at (e.g. speed limits
[19:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Not a trolley problem... - 06MIT Moral Machine - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:53] <exec> 08└─If the self-driving car fails to diagnose impending brake failure, fails to operate redundant parking or engine braking (elec or gas), happens to be in a situation where coasting to a stop is impossible, happens to be by itself and not able to communicate with another automatic car to engage procedu...
[19:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02This isn't as hard as they're making it out to be - 06MIT Moral Machine - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:55] <exec> 08└─This is pointless pontification, because essentially all of these scenarios assume omnipotence. From the standpoint of a control system, the car is never going to be sure it's a pedestrian vs. a deer, or that the sidewalk curb isn't just a fence. Our real-time video/radar systems are just now gettin...
[19:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:57] <exec> 08└─Thus, the only acceptable answer is that the vehicle acts in self-preservation.
[19:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02drive the occupants to suicide - 06MIT Moral Machine - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:00] <exec> 08└─Lock the doors, set off ear splitting alarms in the cabin, and urge the occupants to kill themselves. It's the MIT way.
[19:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:02] <exec> 08└─This AC found that I quickly began to develop my own simplistic criteria and the decisions got easier the further I went in the survey.
[19:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:04] <exec> 08└─The other solution is to let whoever is currently hanging on on /b/ make the decision for the machine. The wisdom of the internet will prevail.
[19:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:06] <exec> 08└─Can't wait for Halloween to be over so super_bob is not scaring us so badly!
[19:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Consequences aren't symmetric - 06MIT Moral Machine - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:08] <exec> 08└─The scenarios assume you have to choose between either killing pedestrians or the occupants of the car. However, most roads where you have crosswalks will have low enough speed limits that the occupants of the car would survive a pedestrian-avoiding crash because of modern cars' safety features (cru...
[19:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Restating the obvious - 06MIT Moral Machine - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:11] <exec> 08└─Cars have lots of built in safety mechanisms, better for the car to avoid pedestrians and do its best to save the passengers within that parameter. Networked vehicles should not be allowed. We should work on better mass transit systems, which could include point to point self driving cars. One fix f...
[19:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02just like bonobos - 06Genome Sequencing Reveals Ancient Interbreeding Between Chimpanzees and Bonobos - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:21] <exec> 08└─Those horny little buggers will fuck anything that moves.
[19:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:just like bonobos - 06Genome Sequencing Reveals Ancient Interbreeding Between Chimpanzees and Bonobos - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:23] <exec> 08└─If only the females would cover themselves, the males wouldn't be lured into sexual union with them.
[19:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:just like bonobos - 06Genome Sequencing Reveals Ancient Interbreeding Between Chimpanzees and Bonobos - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:25] <exec> 08└─Or we should learn from their peaceful ways, and just walk around naked and have sex without crazy prerequisites...
[19:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:40] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, the tobacco control community is now spreading the misinformation that vaping is just as dangerous as smoking, to such a degree that three times as many people believe that than did several years ago. Complete misinformation campaign. And new FDA deeming regulations that classify...
[19:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:43] <exec> 08└─"Viral DNA insertions can cause cancer." Source? Perhaps the insertions make the cells divide more often.
[19:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't handle the truth! - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:46] <exec> 08└─Look at the rules of evidence, what is allowed to be said, etc., you will quickly decide that the effectiveness of scientific evidence is both limited and biased. How do we know that fingerprints are a reasonable identifier? What double blind studies have been performed? Usually the police have some...
[19:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:58] <exec> 08└─Too bad, the cops got to it already. Weren't you reading the summary? =P
[19:11:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 531 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:00] <exec> 08└─The people paying the taxes that fund the settlement will need to demand loudly that the money come out of the cops' pay. They will also need to demand that the cops involved be fired. And those cops really should be fired. They acted worse than common looters and thugs. At least the gang bangers do...
[19:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Hey Aaandy! - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:06] <exec> 08└─No, not at all. What I'm coming to realize is that the cops were *always* like this. In learning about history I've been understanding that Chicago cops quite often moonlighted as enforcers and assassins against organized labor. Something like that would've been quite hard to believe in those days....
[19:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:cops - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:14] <exec> 08└─She can be nuts and still be correct, you know. Remember what we were calling "tinfoil hat nutshittery" just ten years ago?
[19:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Vision - 06Uber Lays Out Vision for Flying Commuter Transit - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:28] <exec> 08└─AND ... The computer can object to flying until some diagnostic code has been addressed. People drive all the time in cars that they'll fix tomorrow. Because they don't have time today, something's urgent, and that light has been on for three weeks already anyway... Well, it's not quite the same if...
[19:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sacred Waters - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:52] <exec> 08└─Its funny in a not-funny way how so many people assume that "progress" is a worthy goal unto itself.
[19:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Don't see a problem - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:32] <exec> 08└─Of course, the hidden subtext here is that different levels of government are in conflict with each other
[19:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not Exoplanets - 06Earth-sized Planets With Abundant Water Statistically Likely Around Red Dwarfs - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:15] <exec> 08└─Get back in your basement realm, baby.
[19:16:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:VMs - 06AtomBomb: The New Zero-Day Windows Exploit Microsoft Can't Fix? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:18] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus is right! You can't just hide behind AC, Francis! Maybe if you knew how scanner drivers and DVD drives worked, you might have a chance to pull it off, but this is just too obvious.
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[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02new levels of miniaturization! - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:53] <exec> 08└─Wow, now they can make sensors and transmitters small and light enough to monitor small birds for months! What a story! What was that, something about birds staying airborne all the time? Oh, well, yeah, but don't most fish swim all the time, never rest on the bottom?
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:new levels of miniaturization! - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:54] <exec> 08└─But fish float when dead.
[20:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:new levels of miniaturization! - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:57] <exec> 08└─I wonder if those birds that landed only had to do so because of the excess weight of the monitors? Flying for months? I know people who never shut their mouths for months at a time. Mothers taught them how to speak at ages as early as 1 1/2, and they've been trying to teach them to shut up ever sin...
[20:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:09] <exec> 08└─Magic cars can share the road with non-magic cars: they just have to emulate them. If your employer fires you for not showing up for work when most of the City is shut down, they are probably being an asshole. (Unless you are a first (or second) responder: then "magic cars" that always obey the spee...
[20:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:14] <exec> 08└─That isn't the necessary conclusion. Have you read the article? Because most of these are convoluted scenarios where multiple things happen, and fixing it would involve jeopardizing someone or something else. The good news is that these systems react much better and faster than humans even can, so y...
[20:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:16] <exec> 08└─I think you just pointed out why these systems should not be widespread, and should operate in restricted environments. No freeway use is a big one. Now driver assist tech that does not involve steering (except perhaps for dampening over compensations) sound fine to me.
[20:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:18] <exec> 08└─Wat? The current systems are designed work on freeways because vehicle interactions are deliberately limited. Lower speed residential streets are actually the harder problem.
[20:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:20] <exec> 08└─Turns out that at least one person in vicinity of my meatspace avatar started having second thoughts about being an organ donor after she was told the corpses are artificially kept alive long enough so a donor could be found. Lack of information or lack of sanity are two possible causes which might...
[20:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:23] <exec> 08└─To be fair, if you're eligible for organ donation you aren't going to mind being supported w 2000 hile a recipient is found. The criteria for brain death are incredibly strict.
[20:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:29] <exec> 08└─And when you're putting people into the loop we're back to where we started, with human driven cars, except its NEETs from R9K earning dronebucks to buy their tendies instead of the inhabitants of the cars. I mean, its not like automation and outsourcing is creating vast populations of unemployables...
[20:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:31] <exec> 08└─> re-enacting the French Revolution complete with guillotines Here's a good way to put people back to work! There is a lot of money to be made in the high-end guillotine market, with plush leather bench, titanium blade, 22.2 sound, oxygen-free copper blood troth, friction-free maglev rails, high-spe...
[20:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:33] <exec> 08└─Jobs are not the purpose of an economy. The purpose of an economy is to allocate our limited resources to server our needs and wants. Jobs are 502e a means to an end. If jobs become obsolete, then so does our economy.
[20:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:35] <exec> 08└─I found that I prioritized the passengers whenever possible. When I couldn't do that, I prioritized the people who were crossing at the right time. When I couldn't do that, I went for the most lives saved. While the first might make me a bad person, I feel like that's (for better or worse) how most...
[20:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Consequences aren't symmetric - 06MIT Moral Machine - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:38] <exec> 08└─Consequences will sometimes be symmetric, and symmetric consequences make it easier to tell what other factors are being selected for. You can construct scenarios with asymmetric consequences on the website, they just don't appear in the survey.
[20:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Consequences aren't symmetric - 06MIT Moral Machine - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:41] <exec> 08└─That assumes safety culture continues and flawless magical cars do not in practice result in drunk people having naked sex in their self driving car, throw a kid in the back seat and have the car deliver them to school while they're bouncing off the walls as usual, people sleeping in cars going down...
[20:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Restating the obvious - 06MIT Moral Machine - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:44] <exec> 08└─I don't think this is what you meant regarding networked, but self-driving cars should absolutely be networked together so that they can communicate with one another. Why rely on optical sensors to detect what nearby cars are doing when you can have those cars tell you what they are going to do befo...
[20:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Restating the obvious - 06MIT Moral Machine - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:46] <exec> 08└─Because a networked vehicle can be hacked, fed false signals, even mess up actual signals and get ghost data. Someone could set up a jammer around any major intersection / merging zone and really screw things up. Once the cars can outperform humans with purely optical / sensor data I will be OK with...
[20:10:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02moral of the story - 06MIT Moral Machine - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:48] <exec> 08└─Cars should use their better reaction times to slow down and reduce deaths. No fancy swerving unless it can actually help.
[20:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Always swerve! - 06MIT Moral Machine - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:50] <exec> 08└─So I decided I'd pretend to be a particularly uninformed deontologist and prescribe that the car would always swerve to the other lane regardless because "you should always avoid your current mistake". Their test came to several "interesting" conclusions about my morality: I 100% love youth and hate...
[20:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always swerve! - 06MIT Moral Machine - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:52] <exec> 08└─But its MIT, everything that comes out of there is pure gold!
[20:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:just like bonobos - 06Genome Sequencing Reveals Ancient Interbreeding Between Chimpanzees and Bonobos - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:04] <exec> 08└─"A chimps lust is a bonobos burden!" Judge Chimpington decreed, gavelling into existence new dress standards concerning mammary glands and banana peels.
[20:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:just like bonobos - 06Genome Sequencing Reveals Ancient Interbreeding Between Chimpanzees and Bonobos - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:06] <exec> 08└─And now we know where Ethanol came from.
[20:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:You can't handle the truth! - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, police and prosecutors routinely try to blind the jury with science and the courts routinely let them do it. Their entire process is designed around producing confirmation bias. It's fraud to call it science. It's one thing for the jury to have a limited understanding of the science (perhaps a...
[20:11:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] 02Re:cops - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 1154 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:50] <exec> 08└─I also live somewhere the police are more like chaperones to run with your analogy. It's not the wealthiest town in my metro-ish area (not the tax haven at least), but we have a strong middle class. Looking on Wikipedia for the town (amazing I can just do that) we have let's say for the purposes of...
[20:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02false logic - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but that is false logic. Just because one thing is possible does not make something else, completely unrelated, likely. There are no lizard people. If you think Snowden's revelations about the NSA have the made the case for the existence of lizard people even an iota stronger, then you may ev...
[20:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re: false logic - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:57] <exec> 08└─Uhh...what? I don't think there are any lizard people. Maybe you misread something here?
[20:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cops - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:59] <exec> 08└─-1 no transgender hunnies references
[20:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:As seen on SN - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:05] <exec> 08└─Thanks! Added.
[20:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Sacred Waters - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:41] <exec> 08└─IMHO, at the current rate of progress, by the year 2100, more than 75% of the world will have achieved developed world status. That includes significant parts of Africa (probably even most of Africa!).
[20:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Sacred Waters - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:42] <exec> 08└─Dude, who do you buy weed from? I need some of that.
[20:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's worth nothing - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:44] <exec> 08└─> It's worth noting that the people unconditionally opposed to progress have no answer for human overpopulation No, it's worth nothing that the people unconditionally opposed to progress have no answer for human overpopulation Because those people are so rare that talking about them is, for all prac...
[20:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Other sources - 06Mulberry Extract Activates Brown Fat, Shows Promise as Obesity Treatment - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:58] <exec> 08└─Sounds like somebody wants to unload some Mulberry products...
[20:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oz? - 06Mulberry Extract Activates Brown Fat, Shows Promise as Obesity Treatment - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:02] <exec> 08└─It did. But if he went completely factual his show would no longer be entertaining. The guy gave Trump a pass on his bullshit medical report. So he's still a joke, just not quite as bad of a joke.
[20:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oz? - 06Mulberry Extract Activates Brown Fat, Shows Promise as Obesity Treatment - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:05] <exec> 08└─In this particular case, I actually doubt that or at least I don't think it is always true. Some years ago I worked for a big supplement retailer on the distribution center code. We got a surprise slam from Dr. Oz recommending "Raspberry Ketone". We sold a ton of it and went weeks and weeks behind w...
[20:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02"junk" tree - 06Mulberry Extract Activates Brown Fat, Shows Promise as Obesity Treatment - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:07] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, in a lot of cities, the Mulberry tree is considered an unwanted or "junk" species because it's messy - it drops squishy, blue berries that stain. If you park your car under one, it's constant work, and if there's one hanging over a sidewalk that section of walk becomes impassible beca...
[20:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How do they solve the issue of HOGS? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─I mean guys downloading terabytes of GAY PORN every single day!
[20:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Half Life 3 - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:52] <exec> 08└─That ip isn't 18 year old its 9 years old (HL2: Episode Two was released in 2007 and was critical acclaimed, not relying on original players.) Secondly, whose fault it is that HL ip is that many years old? Only valve's. Even Portal is sorta in the same universe. Valve just doesn't care about making...
[20:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Half Life 3 - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:54] <exec> 08└─If the first game in the series was released in 1998, then it is 18 years old. There is no arguing that. There is a story starting from the first game and continues through the last episode. You are also going to need some figures to back up your claim of new players picking up episode 2. Valve just...
[20:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:About damned time. - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:01] <exec> 08└─It wasn't that bad, actually, if you play it without nostalgia. Lightning is a little dated though.
[20:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:article. - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:37] <exec> 08└─As a fellow EU citizen this is very much my experience as well. Actually there are plenty of major EU bodies (7 according to some count) and it's all highly byzantine to keep us little people persistently in the dark...
[20:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03zafiro17 [234] (Score:2) 02Great podcast - 06Linux Voice to Cease Publication as a Stand-Alone Magazine, Merge With Linux Magazine - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:15] <exec> 08└─The LinuxVoice team does one of the best podcasts I know of - it's clever and funny and informative and very well done. I subscribed to their magazine (digital downloads) and didn't like it as much, only because it was more for beginners and I'm no longer a beginner. I assume this is the end of the...
[20:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Grow up - 06SolarCity Unveils Solar Roof Tiles - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:49] <exec> 08└─they generate power all the time A deadly lesson for that scrapper! For the rest of us, it's the best thing about solar power.
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[21:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TIL - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:51] <exec> 08└─That is some mind boggling flight time. Must be eating a lot of flying bugs to pull that off. As for sleep, I would guess that they find a good updraft and doze/sleep. Humans can actually pull off a similar stunt when they get good enough at meditation. I'm sure this will sound like hippy nonsense t...
[21:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score:1) 02How Come I Know This? - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─"But these birds seem to have found a trick through evolution that allows them to get by on far less sleep."
[21:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Not a trolley problem... - 06MIT Moral Machine - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:07] <exec> 08└─THEN the car should connect to the appropriate lottery agency and get a couple tickets to help pay for the lawyers who will have to figure out who's responsible in this clusterfuck of Hollywood-level coincidences...
[21:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:22] <exec> 08└─And why should you decide how resources are allocated? Why should any of you unimportant idiots decide anything? Elong Musky wants to plant his seed on Mars. He could do it today if only the rest of you greedy insignificant fools would stop allocating resources to yourselves. Stop impeding Musky!
[21:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:23] <exec> 08└─Aye, and one of those scarce resources is the first world lifestyle. Presently, we mostly allocate those to people who win the job game, by landing the highest 2000 paying position they can and occupying it as long as possible, as some sort of distant proxy for actual worth as a human (the correlat...
[21:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:27] <exec> 08└─> I prioritized the passengers whenever possible. When I couldn't do that, I prioritized the people who were crossing at the right time. When I couldn't do that, I went for the most lives saved. That is about what I wound up doing. I added one other rule, stay in my lane, don't swerve, unless it is...
[21:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:29] <exec> 08└─>> This AC found that I quickly began to develop my own simplistic criteria and the decisions got easier the further I went in the survey. > These words make the blood run cold! OP here. I'm glad that someone picked up on this. Trust the ancient to have some common sense! At the same time that I was...
[21:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Consequences aren't symmetric - 06MIT Moral Machine - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:34] <exec> 08└─Or even removing the sex stuff from the equation, you'll have idiots holding ipads and laptops in front of the air bags to "get work done" and setting off the air bag will make the ipad decapitate them. People already die because of airbags so you know they're just going to behave even worse when th...
[21:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Always swerve! - 06MIT Moral Machine - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:42] <exec> 08└─Yep, pure 24 carat gold, a few microns, over the nickel covering the 1oz copper. Don't forget the solder mask, and optional conformal coating.
[21:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Morals - 06MIT Moral Machine - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:44] <exec> 08└─How about a self driving car that's smart enough to detect a brake malfunction and stop BEFORE something like this is necessary...
[21:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Just for the record - 06MIT Moral Machine - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:46] <exec> 08└─I will never be in or allow anyone whose life I am responsible for to be in any vehicle where a machine that does not value my/their life/lives above all others is making decisions about who lives and who dies. If it comes to a decision between mowing down a dozen gradeschool kids or running my neph...
[21:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the money - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:10] <exec> 08└─Like nanoparticles, it might not matter so much what they are made of chemically, if they are the right (/wrong) size, they can gum up the works in new and devious ways.
[21:11:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:32] <exec> 08└─Not sure if that is sarcase - but that is the solution. Government employees are almost always exempt from charges of wrong doing. Federal, state, and local - government looks to protect their own. Yes, however many cops were involved, the settlement should be divided that many ways, and each of the...
[21:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re: false logic - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:52] <exec> 08└─So - what's the difference between "ruling class" and "lizard people"? It isn't clear to me that the people harping about lizard people believe that some people are literally lizards in people skins. There are, however, a very small number of people who either own or control almost all of the world'...
[21:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:A badge, a gun, behind the wheels and high... - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:58] <exec> 08└─Armed robbery ≠ petty theft.
[21:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02I knew it - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:42] <exec> 08└─after a "momentous" agreement was finally reached by 24 countries and the EU.
[21:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:1) 02Re:What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:17] <exec> 08└─One of the many complaints about the bill :)
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[22:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02"safely" - 06Touchdown! Soyuz Capsule Returns Astronaut Trio to Earth - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─American Kate Rubins was previously heard asking if orbital dynamics couldn't be easily tweaked to require a two-week delay of the return flight. Classified reports of ISS crew discussions involved contrasting the sanity of a tin can erector set orbiting the Earth in 90 minutes with that of accessin...
[22:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:new levels of miniaturization! - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:49] <exec> 08└─I don't know if you've ever laid an egg while flying, but I assume that might be a good reason to touch down, if only for a short while.
[22:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Zzzzz ... - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:52] <exec> 08└─zzz huh what? [blink, blink] wow, I totally had this dream where I was flying ... wait what AAAAAHHHHH, oh hold on, I always sleep like this. Not ready to wake up yet -- just another five minutes -- zzzzz...
[22:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I know that bird! - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:54] <exec> 08└─That's Southwest Airlines: you have to hover forever until a runway is available.
[22:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02burn, karma burn - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:56] <exec> 08└─> all over Europe, northern Asia and Africa Dem Euro idiots don't know how to shoot! No dang bird ain't gonna fly for long when I train my AR's scope on its sorry ass. Even if I was drunk enough to miss all 60 shots, they ain't getting past mah gret wall...
[22:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:11] <exec> 08└─"Now the problem is the magic miracle car will correctly drive say 10 mph under the speed limit because of the awful thunderstorm weather, see the bicyclist via IR cameras or just magic (all arguments about self driving cars are magic, after all their code is bug free which is the first miracle)." W...
[22:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Intent [Re:This isn't as hard as they're making - 06MIT Moral Machine - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:22] <exec> 08└─This is pointless pontification, because essentially all of these scenarios assume omnipotence. From the standpoint of a control system, the car is never going to be sure it's a pedestrian vs. a deer...
[22:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:27] <exec> 08└─Hey aristarchus, Nate Silver [fivethirtyeight.com] currently gives Donald Trump a 24.4% chance of being the next President; that's basically the same probability as getting a critical failure on a d4! If you don't like the idea of /b/ running a car, just wait till you see direction they'd tip a coun...
[22:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:31] <exec> 08└─The apple one needs a new power cable every GD hardware revision. No IEC, no USB, no thunderturd, no hdmi no now we need usb-c...
[22:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Consequences aren't symmetric - 06MIT Moral Machine - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:42] <exec> 08└─"setting off the air bag will make the ipad decapitate them" Thank you for that image! Happy Halloween.
[22:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Consequences aren't symmetric - 06MIT Moral Machine - 1072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:43] <exec> 08└─Not my fault that apple designers have a weird fixation on cutting themselves so all the products have to be hard to hold thin razor blade things. Seriously like why can't I buy a mid 00s thinkpad that was like an inch thick and easy to hold and felt tough, instead of some floppy folded over piece o...
[22:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always swerve! - 06MIT Moral Machine - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:52] <exec> 08└─So I decided I'd pretend to be a particularly uninformed deontologist and prescribe that the car would always swerve to the other lane regardless because "you should always avoid your current mistake". Their test came to several "interesting" conclusions about my morality: I 100% love youth and hate...
[22:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Always swerve! - 06MIT Moral Machine - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:55] <exec> 08└─Apparently I 100% hate fit women! I didn't even pay attention to gender or fitness at all because I could barely even tell the gender or fitness with my tired eyes.
[22:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Always swerve! - 06MIT Moral Machine - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the test doesn't seem well designed at all. I answered the first two scenarios seriously, but I thought graphics were so silly, I just decided to plow down whoever was in my way and see what the test said. (Well, I think I swerved to hit the bank robbers rather than the kids or something.) App...
[22:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Just for the record - 06MIT Moral Machine - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:01] <exec> 08└─I cannot disagree. A vehicle SHOULD have to prioritize the passengers above anyone else because otherwise you're trying to market a literal deathtrap that is substandard in price AND features to the person making the decision to purchase it. Or, put simpler by Heinlein, "Being generous is inborn; be...
[22:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02This is not a web page. - 06MIT Moral Machine - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:03] <exec> 08└─No, no, a million times no. This is not acceptable. <body> <script type="text/javascript">__meteor_runtime_config__ = JSON.parse(decodeURIComponent("%7B%22meteorRelease%22%3A%22METEOR%401.4.1%22%2C%22meteorEnv%22%3A%7B%22NODE_ENV%22%3A%22production%22%2C%22TEST_METADATA%22%3A%22%7B%7D%22%7D%2C%22PUB...
[22:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:This is not a web page. - 06MIT Moral Machine - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:05] <exec> 08└─But the guy that I talk to who works at a hipster startup in a loft downtown tells me that javascript is amazing for doing anything nowadays. We actually just had that conversation today. What could POSSIBLY be wrong with it?
[22:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:This is not a web page. - 06MIT Moral Machine - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:08] <exec> 08└─Just to be clear, it's not the use of javascript I'm objecting to here. Like javascript? Great, use it, knock yourself out, you can do some pretty cool things with it. But when I request a web page send me a web page. If it's embellished with javascript, fine. You might even want to explain on your...
[22:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh my! - 06Genome Sequencing Reveals Ancient Interbreeding Between Chimpanzees and Bonobos - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:21] <exec> 08└─Apes screwing apes? OMG, That's like totally ... expected.
[22:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:58] <exec> 08└─Have you actually seen the video and can pass judgment? I haven't, but I could be convinced either way. It could be a mustache-twirling evil like you say, in which case they should be thrown out on the ear (and probably in jail for abuse of power). Or it could be a benign mistake. For example, they...
[22:12:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02cops - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 1164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:05] <exec> 08└─In some cities "cop" mean chaperone, I live in a nice area where all they do is break up teen parties and arrest drunk drivers and yell at speeders and that's really all they do, at least that is all that is in the weekly police blotter. In some cities "cop" means military occupation force infantry,...
[22:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If you use Steam, run it under Firejail - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─Just to move towards the safe side, if you run Steam, run it under Firejail, it got a profile for it. Better that than nothing, specially after the bug they had. http://www.pcworld.com [pcworld.com]
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[23:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fish Story [Re:new levels of miniaturization!] - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─but don't most fish swim all the time, never rest on the bottom?
[23:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Not a trolley problem... - 06MIT Moral Machine - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:14] <exec> 08└─But I predict we won't be as forgiving of "evil robot" cars. All it will take is one tragedy where a couple kids get run over and you have the passenger in the car saying, "God, I'm so sorry! If only I were driving, I'm sure I could have swerved!" It doesn't matter if no human could reasonably have...
[23:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:20] <exec> 08└─I agree with Scruffy Beard 2, you have it exactly backwards. Freeway use is the more restricted environment.
[23:15:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02Re:Analogy - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:13] <exec> 08└─Twitter is a decent concept, if they were apolitical
[23:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02black comedy died - 06Twitter Has Announced It is to Close its Video Sharing Service Vine - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:38] <exec> 08└─http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/01/arts/vine-jay-versace-black-culture.html [nytimes.com] https://mic.com [mic.com]
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