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[00:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Will reuse - 06Swarm Reveals Why GPS Satellites Lose Track Over the Equator Between Africa and South America - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:34] <exec> 08└─Raise your hands: How many people will blame their next detour or delay on a GPS disruption by a ionoshperic thunderstorm? I've already used the "cosmic particle" excuse for the occasional bug (can't be disproven around 1E-16 BER), glad to get a new one.
[00:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Will reuse - 06Swarm Reveals Why GPS Satellites Lose Track Over the Equator Between Africa and South America - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:35] <exec> 08└─Nah, I'll blame Russia.
[00:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score:2) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:14] <exec> 08└─I think your point could be summed up thusly: "You've got to plan for the world which actually exists, not the one which you think ought to exist." It's good advice -- though seldom followed -- and applies just as well to damn near everything.
[00:10:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02Not a trolley problem... - 06MIT Moral Machine - 825 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:15] <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...
[00:11:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Timeline (The wheels of justice grind SLOWLY) - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 2392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:48] <exec> 08└─Santa Ana is the county seat and the most populous city in Orange County. After cannabis advocates had done all the legwork, a twisted business-centric, greed-centric Measure BB was put on the ballot for the November 2014 election in Santa Ana. It would allow a very political process to pick and cho...
[00:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''restock the store'' - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:11:51] <exec> 08└─See "Timeline", above. This dispensary was **unlicensed**. By city ordinances and procedures, the place had no right to be doing business. The instigation of the raid was legit. Now, what the -individual- cops did was criminal. Note also that the Sky High Collective hasn't been granted a license sin...
[00:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re: It's worth nothing - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:52] <exec> 08└─No, it's worth nothing that the people unconditionally opposed to progress have no answer for human overpopulation
[00:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not Free Software - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:08] <exec> 08└─store.steampowered.com/genre/Free%20to%20Play/ yw
[00:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:article. - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:45] <exec> 08└─Poland has a constitution.
[00:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Turn the heat up slowly... - 06Copyright Conundrum: Tweeting This May Cost You - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:15:01] <exec> 08└─or the boiling-human story that frogs tell
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[01:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:TIL - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:05] <exec> 08└─There might be an even simpler solution -> Yo byrd I herd you like flying so I put flying into your dreams so you can fly while you fly. Seriously, IMHO dreaming is the brain garbage collection. The simplest way to garbage collect is of course during offline mode, because of the lack of race conditi...
[01:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:30] <exec> 08└─That isn't the necessary conclusion.
[01:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Consequences aren't symmetric - 06MIT Moral Machine - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:58] <exec> 08└─Got an Asus with a 4K screen right next to me. $1000 out the door. 4K HDMI out, pretty light, and decent specs too (Asus K501UX). I was looking for a real keyboard, but the only ones with that and my required 16G of RAM were over-the-top desktop replacement boxes (alienware and competitors), which n...
[01:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:42] <exec> 08└─HTLV is the first virus that comes to mind. IIRC EBV and HPV have also been found to be integrated upstream oncogenes, but they also use viral proteins to force cell proliferation. Perhaps the insertions make the cells divide more often.
[01:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:04] <exec> 08└─The officers in question were fired, so I guess there was some degree of mustache-twirling going on.
[01:12:05] <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 - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:06] <exec> 08└─I have seen the Video [youtube.com]. What they did had nothing to do with their job. They even made fun of people with disabilities ("I wanted to punch her in the nub"). They battered down unlocked doors. Really, just watch the video, there's too much wrong doing to list here.
[01:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re: It's worth nothing - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:06] <exec> 08└─To elaborate on my previous post, look at the quote again. Its funny in a not-funny way how so many people assume that "progress" is a worthy goal unto itself.
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[02:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:TIL - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:04] <exec> 08└─With uptime like that they're obviously running Linux or BSD :D
[02:10:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:Not a trolley problem... - 06MIT Moral Machine - 215 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:24] <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...
[02:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:37] <exec> 08└─A local vape shop had to jack prices recently and reduce their service because of this nonsense. So I bought a pipe and I'm back to burning tobacco for my nicotine fix. :( (Have tried to quit nicotine several times now, but there's too much drama horseshit at the day job to do without it.)
[02:12:19] <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 - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:20] <exec> 08└─Who are you and what have you done with the real Runaway1956? You're...you're being reasonable, and telling the truth, and citing sources, and caring about other human beings. Did you have a religious experience recently or something?
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[03:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Good on ya, gewg_ - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:41] <exec> 08└─I was gonna post something about that myself but people tend to get whiny when I post politics.
[03:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Pirates' other core issue is - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:43] <exec> 08└─The rent is too damn high.
[03:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Will reuse - 06Swarm Reveals Why GPS Satellites Lose Track Over the Equator Between Africa and South America - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:53] <exec> 08└─I know an individual who blames glitches with her Garmin nuvi on the Japanese tsunami (not the actual quake, mind you...) of 2011 because "it messed up the GPS satellites' orbits" somehow. Why, yes - she thinks she's an expert on pretty much everything. How did you know?
[03:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:45] <exec> 08└─Many posting here may pre-qualify.
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[04:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02נושא בעל עניין - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:37] <exec> 08└─✡ אתה רוצה להגיד לי יהודים רוצים לתת לי בירה בחינם? בואו להצטרף האינטרנט של הדברים! 🍺
[04:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Are these related to Marijuana Fermions - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:45] <exec> 08└─Cuz I've sat around with friends and discovered Marijuana Fermions. They're pretty cool. / jeez peeps, it's been hours // I'm the first to make the obvious joke? /// Oh well, slashies
[04:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are these related to Marijuana Fermions - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:47] <exec> 08└─Illegalize them! Because they sound the same! Science eggheads are just trying to confuse and use, dude! Confuse and use!
[04:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Are these related to Marijuana Fermions - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:49] <exec> 08└─Hours since you hit the bong?
[04:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are these related to Marijuana Fermions - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:51] <exec> 08└─Depending on the time zone, it may well look like hours, if one were to interpret the time stamps here as local time. Whatever zone you're in, it sure isn't my local time, you foreign heathens!
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lick my Fermia Majora - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:53] <exec> 08└─I shaved just for you.
[04:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good on ya, gewg_ - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:02] <exec> 08└─I was gonna post something about that myself With "left-leaning" being a descriptor used, that would have been a sacrifice for you. I guess "anti-establishment" made up for it. ...though even their Establishment isn't so awful. Hey, they've put 29 of their banksters behind bars (so far). but people...
[04:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:12] <exec> 08└─Glad somebody else realizes this. I did that search, and it didn't seem very illustrative for me at least (keeping in mind that Google skews search results depending on things). Sort of guessing at what you were expecting, but I thought this “woman” [mirror.co.uk] was pretty hot! My image search...
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[05:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Maybe not so free. - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:39] <exec> 08└─Just wait until that data gets to your health insurance provider and they raise your rates because you scanned all your friends glasses too. Then there's auto insurance, employers etc. Lots of ways for that data to be abused and you know it will be if some company can make a buck. Oh, and don't spil...
[05:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe not so free. - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:41] <exec> 08└─It's ok, you used your phone to pay the tab, so the cops already know how much you had to drink, even without extra help.
[05:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Insulting - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:43] <exec> 08└─Until free blowjobs are on the table, I feel insulted that you think ON MY GOD RIGHT THERE!
[05:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Insulting - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:45] <exec> 08└─I prefer mine under the table.
[05:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Insulting - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:47] <exec> 08└─"On" the table? Are they on their knees, too, or is this performance art?
[05:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02No worse - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:49] <exec> 08└─I belong to the Tied House resident club already. Members have 20 ounce steins on the wall. We get a bigger beer and freebie tastes of new brews on a regular basis. This might even be worth getting a smart phone...NOT
[05:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No worse - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:51] <exec> 08└─No smartphone, you say? Then you're a non-millennial and MUST BE KILLED.
[05:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:No worse - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:54] <exec> 08└─LOL a non millennial, yes that is true. I consider myself a methuselah but actually being born in the 1960's I am not sure what gen I supposedly fall into. I honestly think that I got the best of several gens. Music and Culture from a generation of 'real' people, got to see and experience the comput...
[05:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02known as - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:56] <exec> 08└─Beer googles
[05:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03In hydraulis [386] (Score:1) 02Re:Are these related to Marijuana Fermions - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:06] <exec> 08└─If the joke's obvious, it doesn't need to be made. Perhaps silence would have made a better impression
[05:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Please offer historical context - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:09] <exec> 08└─Why would someone suppose these particles, what is the difference between a particle and an anti particle, etc?
[05:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good on ya, gewg_ - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:19] <exec> 08└─2116: "What's Spain?" [theguardian.com]
[05:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Good on ya, gewg_ - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:21] <exec> 08└─Spain will be the place where Europe puts solar panels, because this way East and Central countries still get green power when they get home in the evening.
[05:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spain got president this weekend - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 1795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:10:23] <exec> 08└─Second party by seats (PSOE), after lot of turmoil, decided to kick the loser they had as leader (worst two results in all the recent decades, and trending down) . This lets the first party rule with help of the fourth (or third... I forgot), which means the 3 will have to do lots of deals as 1st+4t...
[05:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score:2) 02F Layer Reflectivity - 06Swarm Reveals Why GPS Satellites Lose Track Over the Equator Between Africa and South America - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:33] <exec> 08└─Just ask any ham, I bet during those times they made some amazing trans-Atlantic contacts on 160m.
[05:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Alberto Gonzales solution - 06MIT Moral Machine - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:09] <exec> 08└─It's still better to go around them if you can. You might damage the front of the car a bit, and then there is all the blood and guts that has to be washed off. And, of course, the bumps you feel going over them might make you spill your drink.
[05:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Always swerve! - 06MIT Moral Machine - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:57] <exec> 08└─I wasn't proclaiming it to be useless and stupid, just that with a relatively simple rule, they derived some completely incorrect conclusions about my thoughts.
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[06:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:נושא בעל עניין - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:46] <exec> 08└─It's all Greek to me.
[06:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:נושא בעל עניין - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:47] <exec> 08└─Jewgle translates it as: ///// Subject: A subject of interest Content: You mean to tell me that Jews want to give me free beer? Come join the Internet of Things! ///// The original post starts with the Jewish yellow six-pointed star of David. 2000 The Jews never give anything for free. The free th...
[06:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Maybe not so free. - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:51] <exec> 08└─My guess is you will never know about the data you provided until something happens, and you suddenly hear the words "not covered" after you have been paying years of premiums for the "peace of mind" thinking you were "covered". There will be some other application you checked somewhere saying you d...
[06:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Grain of salt - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:13] <exec> 08└─Given the amount of Chinese "research" that has been discredited due to falsified data, I'll contain my enthusiasm until it can be replicated by someone else.
[06:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spain was going to be a leader on renewables - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:25] <exec> 08└─Spain was going to be a leader in renewables, then big business threw their weight around (electricity producers and distributors don't want competition), or mismanaged themselves while giving money to the bosses (Abengoa). New reservoirs for pumped hydro are anathema, of course, even if one was cre...
[06:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spain got president this weekend - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:10:27] <exec> 08└─PSOE [...] decided to kick [out] the loser they had as leader Now, this is news to me. the outted leader was going to cause a third round of elections Yeah. Things were about to get totally ridiculous there. I'm recalling what Einstein said about doing the same thing over and over and expecting diff...
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[06:10:56] <exec> 08└─I saw a birdie flying high It dropped a message from the sky As I wiped it from my eye I thought "Thank fuck cows don't fly"
[06:11:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:20] <exec> 08└─Well, you are using two different definitions of "bug-free". Code can be bug-free as in "works exactly as specified." But that is usually not what the end user is concerned about; the end user doesn't care if the code doesn't do what it should because a programmer did not correctly implement the spe...
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[06:11:26] <exec> 08└─Who could be responsible in your scenario?
[06:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:51] <exec> 08└─I may have skewed my results slightly. I assigned negative value to executives when deciding which option, but all the executives in my scenarios were male. (bit of a sexist assumption there, hey)
[06:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:46] <exec> 08└─Which reference do you say includes what you say and vouch for from that summary?
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[07:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02analog or digital? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:40] <exec> 08└─I can't tell from the summary whether the sound processing is analog or digital. their web page doesn't help. And i think most musicians will prefer something analog.
[07:11:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 1271 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:16] <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...
[07:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 2022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:19] <exec> 08└─Honestly "the end user" is so easy for us to define and redefine from our own experience it may not be a useful reference. For me, I am end user of plenty of software, and I also often have to help more typical end users, and what I see as what 'the end user' wants is most often just to accomplish t...
[07:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bacon is good! - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:57] <exec> 08└─what's criminal is making nature illegal.
[07:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Slab City? - 06Mulberry Extract Activates Brown Fat, Shows Promise as Obesity Treatment - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:16] <exec> 08└─I hear they have a killer Cannibal Club.
[07:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:What awful bathroom bill? - 06Wilson, NC: Municipal Broadband Now Gratis to End-Run State Law - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:46] <exec> 08└─My solution would be a row of identical bathrooms (not stalls), each minimally equipped, and a sign that says "Use any one that's vacant".
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[08:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02The usual "mail that needs to be answered" - 06George Hotz' Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:38] <exec> 08└─Obviously, Mr. Hotz never dealt with lawyers. I am not one of them, but I read the letter and the questions, and none strike me as unreasonable. The agency wants to know what is it that Comma.ai is trying to sell, and when it is going to be selling. The letter included a list of several questions a...
[08:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The usual "mail that needs to be answered" - 06George Hotz' Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:40] <exec> 08└─The larger is issue is that all the software must be Free Software, or else the cars abuse users and cannot be even remotely trusted. We have enough DRM, software that violates your privacy, and software that the user can't modify as it is; we don't need vehicles filled with that garbage.
[08:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Slashvert much? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:49] <exec> 08└─I thought I elected to refuse advertisements! Adverts for Open Source is still adverts. And "one-box-does-all" guitar effects have been around for over 20 years - a hell of a long time before USB existed.
[08:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Slashvert much? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 1994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:51] <exec> 08└─I'll try to defend my choice of story here. Firstly. many of the stories that we publish regarding progress or change in technical fields mention a product. Commercial gain is what drives much R&D. In this article there are 2 products; the stomp box and Jack, and the box itself is powered by an Ardu...
[08:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:11:59] <exec> 08└─I found that I prioritized the passengers whenever possible.
[08:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac 2000 [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the money - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:36] <exec> 08└─In that case, ordinary dirt should be more of a problem. Especially if you live in a region of dry clay soils and dust that gets into everything, including your underwear. Not a problem?? Hmmm.
[08:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Half Life 3 - 06Black Mesa Now Available For Linux - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:24] <exec> 08└─Half Life - 9.3 million copies by December 2008 from 1998 HL 2 - 6.5 million copies of Half-Life 2 were sold at retail by December 3, 2008, (not including Steam sales), from 2004 Considering that most games are bought near release time, and fitting the buying trend as exp(sqrt(delta_year_since_relea...
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[09:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02free range surveillance - 06NASA to Focus on Small Satellites - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:41] <exec> 08└─How many spy satellites do you really need to track the free range criminals, which is everyone, because we're all criminals. Pretty sure this post is a hate crime. Suck a ballot, voters. Preemptively fuck you for electing the next evil shitlord.
[09:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:The usual "mail that needs to be answered" - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:52] <exec> 08└─I agree with your views regarding open source - but it will not happen. No federal department will approve a system that can be readily changed by the user which might then turn the car into a potentially lethal threat to other road users. They will want it locked down tight [1] with someone respons...
[09:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:The usual "mail that needs to be answered" - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:53] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, it looked like the regulators were doing what they're paid to do. Quite how Geohot could stand on a stage on September 13th this year in front of a slide that said "shipping by the end of the year" when he hadn't even talked to the regulators yet is astonishing. He is clearly unprepared...
[09:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ugly title - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:55] <exec> 08└─found better on /r/trees
[09:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02They want information on my consumption habits? - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:25] <exec> 08└─The only information I'd want to share is probably "I don't consume the kind of beer companies like you make". So those freebies I'm being offered in return are probably worth nothing to me. "Cheaper = better" is just as much a fallacy as "more expensive = better". Sometimes the latter can be true,...
[09:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02GPS is LORAN rebranded - 06Swarm Reveals Why GPS Satellites Lose Track Over the Equator Between Africa and South America - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:05] <exec> 08└─There are no satellites. GPS does not work as advertised because it is not satellite-based. On aircraft, the comm pack is on the belly of the craft: it looks down, linking with land-based stations and not with any "satellites". This is why planes would rather deviate and fly over land rather than fl...
[09:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02AstroNOTs - 06Touchdown! Soyuz Capsule Returns Astronaut Trio to Earth - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:13] <exec> 08└─I believe this is all fabricated and staged. I have not seen evidence for such a thing as "space", as this is advertised by the different space agencies. I have repeatedly caught them hiding or trying to distort and manipulate footage, and all that secrecy shrouding the "ISS", a civilian installatio...
[09:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:06] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure you mean omniscience rather than omnipotence. With omnipotence, you could just kill those fuckers without needing to dent your car.
[09:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh my! - 06Genome Sequencing Reveals Ancient Interbreeding Between Chimpanzees and Bonobos - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:47] <exec> 08└─You realise we're apes too?
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[10:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Alternatively, choose real science - 06NASA to Focus on Small Satellites - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:48] <exec> 08└─ounce ... pounds ... inches ... quart You're not doing real science, real science is done in SI.
[10:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Linatux [4602] (Score:1) 02NZ trying to corner that market - 06NASA to Focus on Small Satellites - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:49] <exec> 08└─http://www.rocketlabusa.com/ [rocketlabusa.com]
[10:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The usual "mail that needs to be answered" - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:00] <exec> 08└─I agree with your views regarding open source - but it will not happen.
[10:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Slashvert much? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:13] <exec> 08└─I for one found it an interesting topic, I just wish there was more depth to it. I've mostly kept the guitar and the computer far away from each other - in part because I don't want want to get non-free software involved in the process and the stuff I've seen advertised was all of that nature. So th...
[10:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Slashvert much? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:14] <exec> 08└─I have a couple of digital effects processors, and a couple of modelling amps, and from what I've seen the downloading of new effects is new as well. There seems to be a decent amount of interest in open software in general and Linux specifically amongst musicians, as there are Linux versions of the...
[10:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe not so free. - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:10:28] <exec> 08└─What health insurance provider? I pay no insurance premium and I pay no Obamacare tax. Thanks to all you palefaces who continue to donate to our casinos and completely pay for my healthcare.
[10:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Good on ya, gewg_ - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:11:05] <exec> 08└─See, you're missing the extreme difference between a proper classical liberal and a progressive. Both are left of center but they're absolutely nothing alike otherwise. Classical liberals believe in liberty and equality above all else while progressives desire equality (or even superiority) of outco...
[10:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:02] <exec> 08└─And no I am not using two definitions of bug free.
[10:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03 (Score:2) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:04] <exec> 08└─I disagree. It's not impossible.
[10:12:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 135 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:23] <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.
[10:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Didn't you read about... (Score:0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 01, @06:06AM (#421194 - 06Genome Sequencing Reveals Ancient Interbreeding Between Chimpanzees and Bonobos - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:59] <exec> 08└─That Orangautan(sp) in Indonesia or Malaysia that was a being used as a prostitute? We're more than willing to fuck other great apes(figuratively, or literally) if the opportunity presents itself, apparently. For money no less!
[10:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Re:Timeline (The wheels of justice grind SLOWLY) - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:13:41] <exec> 08└─Who's == Who is; Who was Whose == Belongs to whom
[10:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Honestly... - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:14:06] <exec> 08└─All three of you range between extreme and rational views. Personally I take the Lizard People thing as metaphorical. And more than likely intended to convey 'cold bloodedness', which given the current presidential candidates in the US seems very fitting, the top two are definitely 'lizard people' i...
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[11:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Fuck the canaries! - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty Meter Telescope - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:45] <exec> 08└─Literally, rape the canaries, right in the cloaca! Bird sex is the best!
[11:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Oooh, gotta love those shades of grey - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty Meter Telescope - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:46] <exec> 08└─Stem cell research forbidden - that's religion standing in the way of science, and that's bad. No permission to build a telescope - that's religion standing in the way of science, but they're noble savages whose culture must be respected at all costs, so that's good. There were some time-wasting com...
[11:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Native Hawaiians - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty Meter Telescope - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:48] <exec> 08└─Let’s face it, the only reason for the use of the word native is to conjure up feelings of a persecuted class in a leftist mind. Everyone who is born in hawaii is native to hawaii. They just don’t want some shitting building ruining their picturesque mountain. That doesn’t require some persecu...
[11:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Can anyone say whether these objections are real - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty Meter Telescope - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:51] <exec> 08└─I am hardly an expert in the religion of the native Hawaiians. As such, I have no way of telling whether these protesters are: 1) Serious, and based on genuine religious objections, or 2) Just a bunch of attention-seeking shitheads I have yet to see any evidence of any kind that it is not #2, and if...
[11:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternatively, choose real science - 06NASA to Focus on Small Satellites - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:01] <exec> 08└─Units of measure don't matter as long as the results are falsifiable. Metric technobabble doesn't make it sciencey. You're just a bigoted poser, dude.
[11:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lost cause in America. - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:14] <exec> 08└─If you don't want Panopticon, driverless cars, and digital systems, then you don't want to live in America. As much as I would like to see these things quashed so we can leave a modestly free life of liberty, neither freedom nor liberty exist in America without money, connections, or corrupt power.
[11:10:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02Re:Slashvert much? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 1994 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:25] <exec> 08└─I'll try to defend my choice of story here. Firstly. many of the stories that we publish regarding progress or change in technical fields mention a product. Commercial gain is what drives much R&D. In this article there are 2 products; the stomp box and Jack, and the box itself is powered by an Ardu...
[11:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe not so free. - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:42] <exec> 08└─Given the success untappd appears to be having (https://untappd.com/), and particularly with folks tying it to their TwitterFaceSocial accounts then this is obviously not seen as a major problem by most people. (I agree it will be a problem sooner or later due to all of the above, but I wouldn't bet...
[11:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Problem solved already... - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:21] <exec> 08└─NP. The MPs already got a 3K/month (USD) salary raise (which is, BTW, more than the minimum wage in Iceland).
[11:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problem solved already... - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:22] <exec> 08└─Ref: http://www.visir.is [visir.is]
[11:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Fish Story [Re:new levels of miniaturization!] - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:55] <exec> 08└─Yup. Just waiting now for evolution to come up with bouyant hydrogen-filled swifts.
[11:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:new levels of miniaturization! - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:57] <exec> 08└─I can imagine that sensor technology has advanced to the point that all of them can fit on one small smd chip. What hasn’t changed is battery energy density. To record data over two years the interval between sensor polling must be measured in hours. Unless they track down these birds and replace...
[11:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This isn't as hard as they're making it out to - 06MIT Moral Machine - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:39] <exec> 08└─The criteria for brain death are incredibly strict.
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[12:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Done before - 06Spinach Plants Turned into Bomb Detectors - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:42] <exec> 08└─A few years ago I read already some post about a GM plant that could detect explosives by growing flowers in other colors (no need for detector devices), where the explosives would be located. Seeds had just to be sown on the field. With this nano-particle spinach... how are they going to inject the...
[12:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02source? design? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:30] <exec> 08└─Hi, Is there a link to the source and hardware design? There is nothing on that site....
[12:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe not so free. - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:46] <exec> 08└─because you scanned all your friends glasses too
[12:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Insulting - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:10:50] <exec> 08└─Instructions unclear, tried to fuck the table.
[12:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Defining political positions - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:26] <exec> 08└─If we remove the 1-dimensional nature of your explanation, we'll do better. Left and Right are -economic- descriptors. You can't be Left if you're not anti-Capitalist. If we go to the other axis (personal freedom), we have Authoritarianism on one end (dictatorship) and Anarchy ("without rulers") on...
[12:11:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Defining political positions - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:27] <exec> 08└─No, I'm afraid you don't get to ignore the definitions of terms and make up your own. The left-right axis, as flawed as it is, features both economic and social aspects, the left has only become seriously anti-capitalist in the last fifty years, and Libertarianism really is not an economic philosoph...
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[12:12:27] <exec> 08└─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
[12:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:34] <exec> 08└─For example some dumb bicycle rider got hit by a police car on a super busy highway by darting in front of a cop in the dark during a rainstorm while wearing black spandex in my city a couple months ago.
[12:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Consequences aren't symmetric - 06MIT Moral Machine - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:16] <exec> 08└─https://www.asus.com/us/Notebooks/K501UX/specifications/ [asus.com] 15.6" 16:9 HD (1366x768)/Full HD (1920x1080) (On selected models) A kilobuck for 768 or maybe 1080, OK then. $1299 macbook is "2304-by-1440 resolution at 226 pixels per inch" https://wiki.freebsd.org [freebsd.org]
[12:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hey, you smoking Mother Nature, this is a bust - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:59] <exec> 08└─I won't disagree with you. Now, if you've got a plan to rein in the economic power of Big Pharma (which leads to their political power), I'm all ears. I've previously suggested a constitutional amendment that makes all public elections publicly funded. Actually, I got that from Ralph Nader. It's rea...
[12:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Who's money? - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:05] <exec> 08└─Have you actually seen the video and can pass judgment?
[12:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Prosecutors'' - 06Marijuana Dispensary Caught Cops Binging on Marijuana Edibles on Surveillance Cam After Police Raid - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:14:27] <exec> 08└─You got it in 1. To my knowledge, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas has NEVER gotten a conviction against a cop. OC judges seem to be a fairly competent and conscientious bunch. Now, there was a race last time around (in Cali, judges are elected) where the Democrat was the dirtbag and...
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[13:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Done before - 06Spinach Plants Turned into Bomb Detectors - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:55] <exec> 08└─Crop duster to spread completely harmless carbon nanotube water slurry?
[13:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Done before - 06Spinach Plants Turned into Bomb Detectors - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:56] <exec> 08└─"The plants could be use for defence applications, but also to monitor public spaces for terrorism related activities, since we show both water and airborne detection," said Prof Strano. "Such plants could be used to monitor groundwater seepage from buried munitions or waste that contains nitro-arom...
[13:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Done before - 06Spinach Plants Turned into Bomb Detectors - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:58] <exec> 08└─Defense contractors would find a way. They always do :)
[13:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:analog or digital? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:42] <exec> 08└─It's digital. Not sure why you think it could be analog.
[13:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:source? design? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:48] <exec> 08└─Keep looking. There is a github link at the bottom: https://github.com [github.com]
[13:12:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] 02Re:new levels of miniaturization! - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:18] <exec> 08└─I saw a birdie flying high It dropped a message from the sky As I wiped it from my eye I thought "Thank fuck cows don't fly"
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[14:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Space bucket time machine - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceBuckets/comments/5afo3b/finally_finished_my_space_bucket/ [reddit.com]
[14:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can anyone say whether these objections are rea - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:23] <exec> 08└─They argue the latter. They say the mountain top is sacred land.
[14:10:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02Re:The usual "mail that needs to be answered" - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 480 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:47] <exec> 08└─Absolutely, it looked like the regulators were doing what they're paid to do. Quite how Geohot could stand on a stage on September 13th this year in front of a slide that said "shipping by the end of the year" when he hadn't even talked to the regulators yet is astonishing. He is clearly unprepared...
[14:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score:2) 02Re:The usual "mail that needs to be answered" - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:10:49] <exec> 08└─I've joked with many friends about this. GeoHot, the hacker famous for unlocking the iPhone and reverse engineering the Playstation promises to make you an aftermarket self-driving car. Just take this hot-glued system and attach it to your existing car! He raised $3M to work on it, which means that...
[14:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02$3.4m? - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:52] <exec> 08└─I should assume that Andreessen-Horowitz may have contrary opinions on what should be done with their investment? That kind of petulant reaction may be emblematic of a tech bro, but A26Z possibly may be worried that something supposedly ready for sale Real Soon Now® may just be a cloud of hot air.
[14:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Summary Fail - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:54] <exec> 08└─Excuse me? What the fuck is Comma.Ai? I mean damn, the summary doesn't even provide a proper link to find out. After copying and pasting the non-hyperlinked URL: George Hotz is the founder of Comma.ai, an autonomous driving startup that's roughly six months old. On Monday, top VC firm Andreessen Ho...
[14:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:analog or digital? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:05] <exec> 08└─Stomp Box? We just stomp on the banjo player's foot to get acoustic effects.
[14:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mattwrock [3835] (Score:1) 02Line 6? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:13] <exec> 08└─This sounds like an open source version of Line 6. I have been using their equipment for almost 10 years, and it's the bomb! You can get any tone and effect you want, of course for a fee. I don't know if I would switch, as once you get "YOUR" sound, you don't want to mess with it.
[14:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They want information on my consumption habits? - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:38] <exec> 08└─The correlation with beer is pretty solid from the standpoint that alcohol percentage is proportional to the amount of raw material used to make the beer. The 5% BMC beer used at least 50% less malt than that 7.5% craft beer, and even less when you factor in economies of scale. Plus, that craft beer...
[14:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Defining political positions - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:10] <exec> 08└─He's not just making this up. It's actually a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[14:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:The Pirates' other core issue is - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:15] <exec> 08└─Which, in the defense of Jimmy McMillan, it is in a lot of places.
[14:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Call me when they grow up - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:17] <exec> 08└─and issue a passport to Edward Snowden.
[14:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Causes cancer is the erroroneous concept - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if you're disingenuous, so how about a trade? Provide a primary reference for your claim: Cell division causes cancer, nothing else.
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[15:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:58] <exec> 08└─Can we just skip the stage of corporate exploitation and just nationalize the telecom industry? Seriously, the number of telecom mergers and acquisitions lately has been insane, and with Google backing out of providing real competition, the chances of getting any resembling decent pricing or service...
[15:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Space bucket time machine - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:06] <exec> 08└─Offtopic but fascinating nonetheless
[15:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02AI Quality Check - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─If the AI worked perfectly, every image should be less interesting than the one that came before. This is anti-climactic, but makes sense given that the probe may stop functioning at any time. I'm really excited if AI that old was able to make reasonable decisions.
[15:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Oooh, gotta love those shades of grey - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:27] <exec> 08└─I would just let them be and build it on the next best spot. Not because I agree with the na(t)ives, but to make sure that ignorant fanatics don't get an opportunity to destroy valuable equipment.
[15:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Native Hawaiians - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:30] <exec> 08└─> Everyone who is born in hawaii is native to hawaii. Are you 12? Because as someone actually born in Hawaii under the shadow of maunakea, that's the kind of stupid ass shit I used to say when I was 12. > They just don’t want some shitting building ruining their picturesque mountain. No, the obser...
[15:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score:2) 02Re:Can anyone say whether these objections are rea - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:34] <exec> 08└─They argue the latter. They say the mountain top is sacred land.
[15:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snort [5141] (Score:1) 02Just like a lazy developer - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:03] <exec> 08└─Expecting to use customers as QA.
[15:11:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Priced against the Pod HD 500, tough - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 2012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:11:21] <exec> 08└─The 500-bucks price point matches that of the Line 6 Pod HD 500 (X). I own one of those (non-X) and think it's pretty damn amazing and its only drawback is a slight lack of computing power (which the X supposedly delivers) when tinkering with both sides of the split output of a Rickenbacker bass. Th...
[15:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Please offer historical context - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:03] <exec> 08└─Euh.. try this: Pauli exclusion principle [wikipedia.org] for explanation of Fermion. Electrons and Protons are Fermions. Orbiting an atom, you find electrons alone or in pairs (spin up/spin down) but never more than 2 in each orbital wavefunction (consider it as sets of 3D-symmetric standing waves,...
[15:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Call me when they grow up - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:28] <exec> 08└─clearly not ready for grown ups
[15:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Call me when they grow up - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:30] <exec> 08└─One could argue that our own government isn't sufficiently grown up to deal with individual whistleblowers like Snowden either. "Oh yeah we totally have an open door policy about whistleblowing...in completely unrelated news, you're fired and we're going to sit on this and not tell anyone."
[15:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score:2) 02Hey buddy... - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:13:14] <exec> 08└─Hey Buddy hold this monitor for me while I take a break from flying.
[15:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Morals machine - 06MIT Moral Machine - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:10] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah. I didn't even cover that part. Mine said that I had a bias for hitting men. Given the three rules I played by, I'd argue that they had a bias for putting men in the wrong lane.
[15:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the money - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─Allowing for discussion that she has some genetic predisposition to hypersensitivity to what's okay for everyone else, or perhaps abused the product by packing her nethers solid with it, how is that the product's problem?? Cuz if it's the product's problem, then makers of just about everything that...
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[16:10:00] <exec> 08└─I like the idea that monopoly status (from buying out competitors) gets you nationalized, while a duopoly situation results in subsidies for new competitors trying to establish themselves in that field. I mean, it's got problems too, like any system, but at least then I wouldn't need to call up the...
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm not a socialist, but I think socialism is a (potentially) really effective tool for combating the problems that capitalism is particularly bad at dealing with: tragedy of the commons, excessively large wealth gaps, race to the bottom, bubbles, and trusts.
[16:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Re:Space bucket time machine - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:12] <exec> 08└─Is this a mini grow house for dope? How much did that cost? How much dope does it grow? How much time investment? Does your wife approve? / It's it noisy/smelly?
[16:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AI Quality Check - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:15] <exec> 08└─It didn't say anything about AI prioritizing returns. The observations were pre-programmed by people, so they probably ranked them by estimated importance ahead of time and gave a priority attribute to each observation. The probe would return the data in the order of that priority attribute. For exa...
[16:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:36] <exec> 08└─maybe they should have said "we're not even talking to you about a new telescope until the derilict and unused telescopes from previous eras are demolished and the land there is made good".
[16:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Can anyone say whether these objections are rea - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:43] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the activists would argue that they were powerless to stop earlier construction and have been marginalized historically. Opposition is not new [wikipedia.org], but they certainly got more attention this time around due to celebrities showing their solidarity on social media [soylentnews.org...
[16:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:45] <exec> 08└─> Apparently it wasn't all that sacred when the other 13 telescopes were built. It was. They were just far easier to steamroll. Native hawaiians are the poorest ethnic group in their own homeland. [ksbe.edu] The internet is a tool that has enabled oppressed groups to organize and get their message...
[16:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:47] <exec> 08└─Suggesting that blocking the construction of a telescope owing to their mythology will somehow improve their lives is nonsense.
[16:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:49] <exec> 08└─Suggesting that blocking the construction of a telescope owing to their mythology will somehow improve their lives is nonsense.
[16:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:51] <exec> 08└─> Suggesting that blocking the construction of a telescope owing to their mythology will somehow improve their lives is nonsense. So you admit to believing in nonsense. Good on you for being so honest about your own ignorance. This isn't about blocking a telescope "owing to their mythology" its abou...
[16:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternatively, choose real science - 06NASA to Focus on Small Satellites - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:03] <exec> 08└─Metric technobabble
[16:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please offer historical context - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:22] <exec> 08└─wow...
[16:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Defining political positions - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:42] <exec> 08└─Geez, man, you might as well cite "some guy down the pub" because that's exactly who edits wikipedia articles. They're not even an authority on how to run a wiki.
[16:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Defining political positions - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:44] <exec> 08└─Wow, we're being particularly lazy and dismissive today. it is similar to the Nolan Chart and Pournelle Chart
[16:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Consequences aren't symmetric - 06MIT Moral Machine - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:39] <exec> 08└─Mine is 4K, really: http://www.newegg.com [newegg.com] My boss picked up the $1k tab at Fry's (16G of RAM + SSD)
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[17:10:12] <exec> 08└─Now that it's fast enough, we just need the Internet to be declared a basic utility, and therefore provided by a monopolistic non-profit entity, like electricity, water and gas. We only just need peace in the Middle East.
[17:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:13] <exec> 08└─Yes yes your sarcasm is on point. Trouble is, electricity / water / gas all suffer the same sorts of problems to varying degrees. Some are public utilities, most are private, and something like the water company has a monopoly by default. Such infrastructure needs to be moved into the public domain...
[17:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:15] <exec> 08└─I, by contrast, am a democratic socialist, precisely because I think that socialism is a really effective tool for combating the problems that capitalism is particularly bad at dealing with, and is a tool we don't employ enough, at least in the United States. Among the problems that you didn't menti...
[17:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02CenturyLink sucks - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:18] <exec> 08└─They think I owe them money even though I called to cancel my service and mailed them their DSL modem back, but their "customer retention specialist" wouldn't take no for an answer. They've been trying to collect for years...
[17:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:AI Quality Check - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:30] <exec> 08└─The main problem with that is the definition of the word "interesting". We just went from Pluto being a few hundred bright pixels on a dark background to seeing it has sharp mountains. Hard to plan 10 years ahead whether picture n+1 will show the Alien human-clone factory, a steam geyser, or just th...
[17:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:AI Quality Check - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:32] <exec> 08└─We just went from Pluto being a few hundred bright pixels on a dark background to seeing it has sharp mountains. Hard to plan 10 years ahead whether picture n+1 will show the Alien human-clone factory, a steam geyser, or just the same flat featureless plain...
[17:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02NASA to erase the probe's storage - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:34] <exec> 08└─...before NASA sends the command to erase the probe's storage:
[17:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:NASA to erase the probe's storage - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah they're going somewhere so weird it doesn't have a name. I'm hoping for something better than "boaty mcboatface" https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The wikipedia article comparisons are crap. Put in terms people can actually understand, its about a third the diameter of the...
[17:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:NASA to erase the probe's storage - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:38] <exec> 08└─The New Horizons Kuiper Belt Extended Mission (KEM) will involve a flyby of the Kuiper belt object 2014 MU69 on January 1, 2019. The object is estimated to have a diameter of 30-45 km. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] They also want to find ring systems ar...
[17:10:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:1) 02Re:Done before - 06Spinach Plants Turned into Bomb Detectors - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:49] <exec> 08└─There's going to be exciting new zero-hour contract job opportunities(*) to work on the interface between agricult e3f ure and defense. (*) hazard insurance NOT included. Contractor responsible for their own safety. People allergic to veggies need not apply.
[17:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:02] <exec> 08└─Good question. Let me ask the legal experts at the Palestinian Authority.
[17:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:14] <exec> 08└─its about every rightsholder having a seat at the table.
[17:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:15] <exec> 08└─> Every citizen of the State of Hawaii already has a seat at the table. Every citizen of the state does not have the same rights to that land. How do you not get brain cramps from twisting yourself through the logic of such crazy-ass mental contortions?
[17:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 038 by julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:17] <exec> 08└─Native hawaiians are the poorest ethnic group in their own homeland.
[17:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:19] <exec> 08└─> So let's have that conversation then, because blocking this telescope will not lift any of them out of poverty. Save the concern trolling for people who agree the poor deserve to be poor. You don't like the way they are going about clawing back some of their rights? What are you doing to help then...
[17:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternatively, choose real science - 06NASA to Focus on Small Satellites - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:30] <exec> 08└─> measures about 4 inches on each side, has an approximate volume of one quart, and weighs less than three pounds Wikipedia: CubeSats are made up of 10×10×11.35 cm units designed to provide 10×10×10 cm or 1 liter of useful volume while weighing no more than 1.33 kg The definition is SI, but s...
[17:11:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Just like a lazy developer - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:52] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when the internet is full of ads for a "Crash Course on C". "Crash Course on Ruby", and of course "Car AI for Dummies".
[17:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:analog or digital? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:02] <exec> 08└─Easy: Analog device has hundreds of knobs, but you need to be an expert in order to know how to set them. Use a computer to remember the different settings that you like, and let the computer tweak the many knobs at once. Essentially, I was thinking of a digital control of analog effects. You'd have...
[17:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:analog or digital? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:04] <exec> 08└─I think you mistyped "audiophile" there.
[17:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03cellocgw [4190] (Score:2) 02Re:נושא בעל עניין - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:24] <exec> 08└─Depends - can Jews make really smooth Coffee Stout?
[17:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:They want information on my consumption habits? - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:42] <exec> 08└─Not all craft beers have high alcohol content -- alcohol content depends a lot on style, as well as what the brewer is going for in terms of "balance." So that part of the argument doesn't always apply. But it is true that craft beers often cost more to make due to unusual ingredients, sometimes les...
[17:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Grain of salt - 06Scientists Discover Particles Similar to Majorana Fermions - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:00] <exec> 08└─How about we wait on all science till it's replicated? That's sounds like a reasonable thing to do, and replication is one of our greatest issues in science at the moment. It's not like asking for replication is an insult or something.
[17:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Firesign Theater - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:10] <exec> 08└─This might help answer the question "Why does the Porridge Bird lay his eggs in the air?"
[17:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alberto Gonzales solution - 06MIT Moral Machine - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:24] <exec> 08└─That's funny, I can't recall Alberto Gonzales solution.
[17:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:29] <exec> 08└─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
[17:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: It's worth nothing - 06Massive Marine Park Declared in Antarctic Ocean - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:17:38] <exec> 08└─What you are reading into that quote is what is in your head, not what was written. In order to take that quote as meaning unconditional opposition you have to literally believe that anything less than progress for the sake of progress is unconditional opposition to all progress. By now we all know...
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[18:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score:2) 02Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:00] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there's strategic reasons for it, but idk why we're allies with a regime like Turkey.
[18:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:14] <exec> 08└─Now that it's fast enough, we just need the Internet to be declared a basic utility, and therefore provided by a monopolistic non-profit entity, like electricity, water and gas.
[18:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:15] <exec> 08└─The government already controls everything it wants. In the meantime, AT&T generates enough profit off your back for a $85 Billion takeover of another company, which is not even an order of magnitude above what the others are doing courtesy of their own gouging. So you're being milked. And have no c...
[18:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:19] <exec> 08└─The modern corporation came about through England, becoming intertwined with the monarchy. Do you think all the powerful rich folks just sat back and let corporations grab more and more power? No! They used it as a tool, and after our brief stint with "freedom" they are finally clamping down hard en...
[18:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:21] <exec> 08└─Not just that, not just that. CenturyLink is run by people with the motto, "If you ain't gone full retard doing something, it ain't being done good". These people are so incompetent it's almost a comedy hour when they come out to service you.... except there is nothing comical about a business being...
[18:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Space bucket time machine - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:32] <exec> 08└─Yes! Well, almost: you should investigate for hybrids derived from eugenic techniques. Seeds are sold on the net. There is a hybrid of the White Widow variety with something else (sorry can't remember exact variety) that it has occurred by selecting offspring that flower early and are small in size....
[18:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Space bucket time machine - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:34] <exec> 08└─Fucking booooo m8
[18:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2)</s ff6 pan> </h4> </div> <div class="details"> by <a href="//soylentnews.org/~fishybell/">fishybell (3156)</a> <span class="zooicon"><a href="//soylentnews.org/subscribe.pl"><img src="//soylentnews.org/images/star.png" alt="Subscriber Badge" title="Subscriber Badge" width="15" height="15"></a> 02Re:AI Quality Check - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:40] <exec> 08└─You're right. They did a great job hiding the Alien human-clone factory.
[18:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Done before - 06Spinach Plants Turned into Bomb Detectors - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:52] <exec> 08└─Nah, just send the locals out in the fields to plant the Spinach.
[18:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Oooh, gotta love those shades of grey - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:08] <exec> 08└─Exactly, and the Canary islands probably need the employment that construction and operations will bring. Its not even used as a refueling stop to the degree it was in the past. Hawaii hardly needs more money poured into it.
[18:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:12] <exec> 08└─Sure, the Palestinians, the Hawaiians, the Native Americans, the Australian Aborigines, etc. all have extremely good legal cases to various spots of land. The government currently occupying "their" lands also have extremely good legal cases. Their legal case is they are currently sitting on it and t...
[18:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:14] <exec> 08└─The Sioux aren't a significant enough portion of the population — unlike in Hawaii — to require appeasement.
[18:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:NZ trying to corner that market - 06NASA to Focus on Small Satellites - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:41] <exec> 08└─Who knew: NZ is into corporate welfare too? This whole program seems kind of suspect if you ask me. Lets give the little guy access to little satellites that can't do much of anything, won't last long enough to be useful, won't survive reentry and recovery, and which requires at least one tracking s...
[18:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The usual "mail that needs to be answered" - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:57] <exec> 08└─Quite how Geohot could stand on a stage on September 13th this year in front of a slide that said "shipping by the end of the year" when he hadn't even talked to the regulators yet is astonishing.
[18:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Summary Fail - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:01] <exec> 08└─That was exactly what the regulators wanted to know. It's kind of appropriate that the story doesn't include it, since the company didn't feel like telling the government.
[18:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Insulting - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:47] <exec> 08└─Please, have some respect. Free blowjobs are -under- the table. People don't wanna lose their lunch.
[18:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I just say no - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:55] <exec> 08└─Whenever possible to these kinds of promotions, when the value offered is trivial or random (once in awhile, a gift of their choice). I keep getting snail mail spam from an outfit called Capitol One Bank, which apparently has a business model based on harvesting analytics on their customers. They of...
[18:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They're Cheating - 06Some Birds Fly 10 Months Without Landing - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:26] <exec> 08└─When a bird wants to sleep, it just lays onto of another and is carried along.
[18:14:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03schad [2398] 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 243 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:50] <exec> 08└─I think your point could be summed up thusly: "You've got to plan for the world which actually exists, not the one which you think ought to exist." It's good advice -- though seldom followed -- and applies just as well to damn near everything.
[18:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Not a trolley problem... - 06MIT Moral Machine - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:57] <exec> 08└─Seriously, pedestrians are frequently found where they "shouldn't be." That's a factor in many (perhaps most) pedestrian fatalities in accidents. Heck, the NHTSA reports that in roughly 1/3 of pedestrian fatalities, the pedestrian was drunk. And that's just for the 4000-5000 pedestrians who are actu...
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[19:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score:2) 02Fast-spinning, orange pumpkin stars - 06NASA Identifies "Pumpkin Stars" - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:56] <exec> 08└─Apparently NASA just discovered a presidential candidate.
[19:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:05] <exec> 08└─It is spelled I n c i r l i k. Nuff said.
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Wannabe dictator - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:07] <exec> 08└─Turkey was kept secular, despite being a muslim country, by their military. This time, the military waited too long to intervene. Erdogan wants to be a dictator, likely of the Islamic sort. A free press and a free populace interfere with that plan. Meanwhile, he's trying to blackmail the EU: he'll k...
[19:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:21] <exec> 08└─$85 Billion takeover of another company,
[19:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Space bucket time machine - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, interesting but unfortunately off topic. Would you care to do a write up of this subject for an article?
[19:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:15] <exec> 08└─A quarter of the population of hawaii has some native blood. That doesn't mean they are all in favor of sovereignty, far from it. But even though they don't hold the most extreme possible ideological position, there is still a substantial number of people who are not happy about completely ignorin...
[19:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:2) 02Re:Oooh, gotta love those shades of grey - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:17] <exec> 08└─Uh, there was exactly one unused (and arguably derelict) telescope on Maunakea, and it was actually removed several years ago - the site was to be used for a 24-inch "student" telescope for the lucal University branch. All of the other telescopes on the mountan are in use and generating good science...
[19:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:30] <exec> 08└─So you admit to believing in nonsense.
[19:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternatively, choose real science - 06NASA to Focus on Small Satellites - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:44] <exec> 08└─You keep wondering if other posters are teenagers. How old are you?
[19:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternatively, choose real science - 06NASA to Focus on Small Satellites - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:46] <exec> 08└─That someone is probably NASA themselves, they've been spewing out inches and miles and other internationally-meaningless bollocks for as long as I remember. The *replacement* for the space shuttle was designed in imperial units, for pity's sake.
[19:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Summary Fail - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:09] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is Comma.Ai?
[19:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:analog or digital? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:24] <exec> 08└─I'm being serious here. I'm genuinly curious, as someone with absolutely no training in electric guitars and related toys, but with a PhD in physics. There's a difference between solving a nonlinear equation numerically, and actually measuring a physical process described by that equation. My unders...
[19:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Slashvert much? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 1363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:30] <exec> 08└─"Finally, I made sure that the summary did not quote costs" You did them a favour. $500?! Really?! I had a spare raspberry after I upgraded my home theatre to pi 3 so I am currently building a raspberry pi powered USB-midi pedals (expression/volume pedals and switches), knobs and buttons affair whic...
[19:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Line 6? - 06MOD Duo is a Linux-Based Programmable Stomp Box for Musicians - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:36] <exec> 08└─I second this. I bought one of their 75w modeling amps last year, and it's been a lot of fun.
[19:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe not so free. - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 1836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:54] <exec> 08└─They could just have the bartender scan the glass before giving it to you. They scan it from their bartender account, it gets 'unlocked'; you scan it with your phone and it locks and can't be scanned until the bartender unlocks it again. You could still scam it a little, but it's gonna take a ton of...
[19:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 0 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:59] <exec> 08└─
[19:16:36] <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 - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:36] <exec> 08└─Sorry, no sarcasm intended: shite like making taxpayers pay for this malarkey? This is also another reason I am against the TTP, etc. If Canada decides to ban Monsanto's bee/people killing products, they could sue us for lost revenue???????? WTF? No... we need to get decent, common sense people in p...
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[20:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Insightful) 02But just think! - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:02] <exec> 08└─If we have cops violently beat a few more native Americans in the Dakotas, we can have even more explosions!
[20:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cheaper gas - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─Nope cant have that. Always a disaster to keep it high.
[20:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02nine man crew - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:06] <exec> 08└─More details at https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I was gonna suggest nine men means pig operations gone wild, but apparently a track hoe slid into the main line and smashed the main line open and blew it all up. For you...
[20:10:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Megahard [4782] 02Fast-spinning, orange pumpkin stars - 06NASA Identifies "Pumpkin Stars" - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:14] <exec> 08└─Apparently NASA just discovered a presidential candidate.
[20:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Hipster Stars - 06NASA Identifies "Pumpkin Stars" - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:16] <exec> 08└─Did they find a Spice Star, an Ugg-boots Star, and a Basic White Chick star nearby? ...though the last one may be hard to find as it can't even/
[20:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02The timing seems suspicious... - 06NASA Identifies "Pumpkin Stars" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:18] <exec> 08└─Oh great, now even the stars are getting into the whole Halloween spectacle! ...or... This is what happens when intoxicants are involved in astronomer's Halloween parties...
[20:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:29] <exec> 08└─Thanks for specifying the gov, lots of us over here are pissed off about it as well.
[20:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:31] <exec> 08└─Well, then man up and start fixing your own problems. Don't fucking turn your heads to the US every time a genocide breaks out. It wouldn't be so bad if you fuckers didn't have the hubris to criticize the US for not going in and stopping shit like Rwanda. And stop depending upon the US for your prot...
[20:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:34] <exec> 08└─fixing your own problems
[20:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Wannabe dictator - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:37] <exec> 08└─Turkey is considering the death penalty and if it is (re-)instated, then there is no way into the EU. That is effectively the death of EU acceptance and all talks about joining. Turkey is a good example of power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Dissenting voices are to be squashed to...
[20:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Moroccan Fish Vendor and the Tunisian Revolution - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:39] <exec> 08└─In the Moroccan fish vendor case: The police confiscated the fish (which were fished out of season) and had them put into a dump truck. The fish vendor jumped into the dump truck to recover his fish, but was crushed to death. In the Tunisian case: A fruit seller, who had been repeatedly harassed by...
[20:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moroccan Fish Vendor and the Tunisian Revolutio - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:41] <exec> 08└─Its a lovely world we live in. The US is approaching this type of scenario pretty quickly, currently most of these shitty moves are performed by contractors and not the police themselves...
[20:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moroccan Fish Vendor and the Tunisian Revolutio - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:43] <exec> 08└─There have been at least a couple self-immolation protests in the US. You could also argue that the 2016 shootings of police officers are relevant. https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost...
[20:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:59] <exec> 08└─Nevertheless, stock is an asset. It has monetary value.
[20:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:01] <exec> 08└─Well yes, it's not just cash. But how much does that value every single customer? You wouldn't get to that number by selling $30/mo internet or $20/mo 4G/20GB cell service as they do in Europe.
[20:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Once we're down to 3 holders of infrastructure - 06CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 Communications for $25 Billion - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:03] <exec> 08└─How is it not that way already?
[20:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:AI Quality Check - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:22] <exec> 08└─You're correct, I inverted the order of "select" and "send" in the spacecraft was programmed to send select, high-priority datasets home
[20:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02The day of reckoning will be comical... - 06Spinach Plants Turned into Bomb Detectors - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:42] <exec> 08└─And just WHAT, pray tell, will happen when Popeye gets a mouthful of nanotubes? Do carbon nanotubes continue to conduct electricity after being shoved up someone's goatse-hole?
[20:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:01] <exec> 08└─How much "some' does it take? The Department of Hawaiian Homelands used to require a 50 percent blood quotient to qualify to rent land. And I was more interested in the Lakota numbers, and whether we were taking them as a part of the Dakotas, only South Dakota, just on the Standing Rock Reservation...
[20:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:02] <exec> 08└─The people in North Dakota have some actual, valid reasons to oppose the pipeline however: concerns about spills and environmental disasters. There have been multiple big pipeline accidents causing ecological problems. With telescopes, this just isn't the case. The objections are purely religious, w...
[20:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:04] <exec> 08└─> . But if I were a native person, I'd be really proud Did it ever occur to you that if you were a native person your values might not be the same as your current values?
[20:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:06] <exec> 08└─I take offense at your judgement of me and mine being insignificant. Trying to compare the situation at Standing Rock with Hawaii is is mistaken. There are far more issues involved than 'sacred ground' at Standing Rock. Things like treaty violations, water source/supply, and rogue corporations, just...
[20:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:21] <exec> 08└─> Not so sure about your reading comprehension skills. I'm not so sure about your snark comprehension skills. > And if you bother to actually read up on the issue, it is entirely owing to the fact that this is a sacred place. Surprise, know-it-all geek is reductive. Never saw that before! Yes its re...
[20:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:25] <exec> 08└─How exactly is getting rid of the telescopes going to help them? And what exactly is there to negotiate? If the mountaintop is sacred, that means you can't build anything there at all. So it's telescopes, or no telescopes. What do you think they're going to negotiate? That they should move the teles...
[20:12:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02Summary Fail - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 613 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:59] <exec> 08└─Excuse me? What the fuck is Comma.Ai? I mean damn, the summary doesn't even p 1000 rovide a proper link to find out. After copying and pasting the non-hyperlinked URL: George Hotz is the founder of Comma.ai, an autonomous driving startup that's roughly six months old. On Monday, top VC firm Andrees...
[20:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Summary Fail - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:02] <exec> 08└─Thank you.
[20:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03< 5ed2 a href="//soylentnews.org/~VLM/">VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe not so free. - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah you list some valid defenses. The news seems to imply people without the app can scan and get some kind of offer, if that reply indicates valid code or not, well... It smells kinda startup-py and those kids usually don't know anything about security or business. I wrapped someone elses idea in...
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[21:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But just think! - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:48] <exec> 08└─Not insightful, just trolling / flamebaiting. This explosion happened during maintenance, if it was sabotage they would have mentioned. I get that you are commenting based on current events, but it comes off as implicating the protesters in this explosion.
[21:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:But just think! - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:50] <exec> 08└─I guess I get that interpretation, but... no? The joke I was making is that having more pipelines=having more booms. And that the violence the police are committing are therefor precipitating those booms by enabling the pipeline to be built.
[21:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Headline/summary - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:54] <exec> 08└─Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5
[21:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Headline/summary - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:56] <exec> 08└─1st: http://www.reuters.com [reuters.com] 2nd: http://in.reuters.com [reuters.com] Weird, my guess is the 7 injured was an early report and then updated to 1 dead 5 injured, and I guess 3 ok?
[21:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:19] <exec> 08└─So you're saying, if you can't fix all of the world's problems at once, you shouldn't try to fix any of them? Nice. It's called priorities.
[21:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:20] <exec> 08└─I imagine it is because in the recent past (maybe a mere 10 years ago), they were a very progressive, secular, liberal middle-eastern country. (Funny how all of those terms are positive when applied to a country in the Middle-east...) They were relatively compatible with Western ideologies, even if...
[21:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:43] <exec> 08└─Fish wasn't defending the reasoning of the government, he was doing a sarcastically deadpan description of it.
[21:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03weeds [611] (Score:2) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:59] <exec> 08└─You can substitute any reason you want for why they should say no to a telescope, but it's not the reason they gave. You can draw in anything you want, that doesn't change the reason they gave for blocking the project. My apologies for the ad-hominem comments. I try to stay away from those. Indeed s...
[21:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:01] <exec> 08└─> You can substitute any reason you want for why they should say no to a telescope, You are right, they can substitute any damn reason they please because its their right to decide. Its like you have decided to aggressively miss the point.
[21:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They were just easier to steamroll - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:06] <exec> 08└─> How exactly is getting rid of the telescopes going to help them? Wow, so now you think this about getting rid of the telescopes that are already there. Where the fuck did that come from? > If the mountaintop is sacred, that means you can't build anything there at all. Jesus christ, since when is t...
[21:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02And how long before - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:41] <exec> 08└─And how long before lawyers and LEO's also get access to the data? Think about how that data could be used if cross refed. to the drivers license and auto registration database, add in the real-time registration plate scanners and that police car ridding in your blind spot on the way home will know...
[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Defining political positions - 06Iceland's Elections - Pirate Party Makes Gains - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:21] <exec> 08└─While today it has come to that, left and right actually predate the world you are talking about.
[21:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Follow the money - 06The Baby Powder Trials: How Courts Deal with Inconclusive Science - 1788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:43] <exec> 08└─And this is where post-market surveillance comes in. Reported problems should be investigated, recorded and trended. If the problem really does only show up in 0.01% of the population (350,000 women world-wide) and this is a world-wide marketed product, I would think it only basic human decency to a...
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[22:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:But just think! - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:00] <exec> 08└─The joke I was making is that having more pipelines=having more booms.
[22:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:nine man crew - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:03] <exec> 08└─That's why you should always carry a couple feet of fiber in your pocket. If you get stranded in the middle of nowhere just bury the fiber. When the guy comes along to dig it up and break it, you can get a lift home.
[22:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Headline/summary - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:07] <exec> 08└─I guess it took a little too much brainpower for you to figure out that the numbers of dead/injured would change for a story like this. Congrats for spotting the "error".
[22:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Headline/summary - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:09] <exec> 08└─Over counted by one and one of the injured died?
[22:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Hipster Stars - 06NASA Identifies "Pumpkin Stars" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:20] <exec> 08└─They never find any black dwarf stars. What's up with that?
[22:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Hipster Stars - 06NASA Identifies "Pumpkin Stars" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:22] <exec> 08└─Give it a few trillion years...
[22:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:The timing seems suspicious... - 06NASA Identifies "Pumpkin Stars" - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:25] <exec> 08└─I would be interested to know whether the paper's official release (not arxiv) was timed to hit late October, or if the publicity geniuses at NASA just nailed this one.
[22:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02Re:Wannabe dictator - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:42] <exec> 08└─they do not seem to get into the eu, and eu does not want them... actually, people start not wanting eu, since it is a tax-based charity organization, not an economic, cultural and industrial revolution. definitely not an industrial revolution. when the big companies pulled out of east europe to chi...
[22:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Wannabe dictator - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:44] <exec> 08└─Where's a President Trump when you need him to pull the U.S. out of NATO and go cold Turkey.
[22:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moroccan Fish Vendor and the Tunisian Revolutio - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:49] <exec> 08└─Yes but self-immolation protests in the US are always ignored. Just some suicidal loser who didn't have what it takes to succeed in life. Call maintenance to mop up the mess. Those maintenance workers are lucky to have jobs, too, because even the discount stores sell mopping robots[*] these days. Ma...
[22:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Are the Turks stupid? - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:51] <exec> 08└─Perhaps there is something the Turks know I don't, but why in the name of hell would any country want to buy any F-35's? They are a flying boondoggle; designed to fulfill all combat roles but being good at none of them, except perhaps evading radar so the plane's own avionics can crash and burn, a f...
[22:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:AI Quality Check - 06New Horizons Finishes Sending 2015 Flyby Data - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:31] <exec> 08└─I think they're hiding that as an interplanetary invasion pod cannon and soccer field. No one would think of looking for it there.
[22:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:08] <exec> 08└─It's not 200 years ago any more.
[22:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:Property Rights - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:12] <exec> 08└─Why? Should treaties and agreements be discarded/ignored? Good luck with that when your reputation is as worthless as your word, as NO ONE will ever want to do business/deal with you.
[22:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:Summary Fail - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:11] <exec> 08└─I was able to find out what the article was about by mousing over the Ars link. The full url contains the phrase "cancels-self-driving-car-product," which was enough for me to ignore the story. ...then I came back to complain about the summary.
[22:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:1) 02ROFLMAO - 06George Hotz's Comma.Ai Cancels Comma One - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:15] <exec> 08└─This is why software developers cannot be called "Engineers". Engineers are required to have responsibility and accountability, which is something that the average developer is just not capable or willing to accept.
[22:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just say no - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:11] <exec> 08└─That all depends. How long may I loiter in the bank without making a deposit? And speaking of deposits, do these bank branches offer free toilet facilities?
[22:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I just say no - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─"Sometimes you walk into a store and you can't find a restroom. They only have restrooms for their employees, you have to work there to use it, y'see. One time I was in a bank, I had to go so bad I applied for a job." - Rodney Dangerfield
[22:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:06] <exec> 08└─"I was using the plural "you", referring to both [singular] you and the one you responded to." Ahh, ok, now I understand you. Still not sure you are right though. I know exactly what a bug is, the other gent may be squishy on it but I don't think he has any distinct and viable definition. "For it to...
[22:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Graze the wall and slow down? - 06MIT Moral Machine - 2071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:09] <exec> 08└─"I've got to disagree with your point." OK, that's your right. Try to do so in an interesting way, that's all I ask ;) "In any complex environment it's impossible to write bug-free code which will deal with it." Well that's a particularly strong assertion, do you have any proof for it? "There's a co...
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[23:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:3, Funny) 02Qu'elle surprise! - 06Beverage Industry Funded Research Downplays Soft Drink Ties to Obesity and Diabetes - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:41] <exec> 08└─n/t
[23:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:But just think! - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:00] <exec> 08└─No longer: the rabbit hole got filled with tar sands.
[23:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:Headline/summary - 06Pipeline Explosion in Alabama Kills 1, Injures 5 - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:07] <exec> 08└─I don't know why you're being all passive-aggresive about it, or putting things in quotes. It is an error.
[23:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:31] <exec> 08└─I know. I am not one of the idiots who does not realise this. The US has what is known as a "Captured Democracy" which is a form of Regulatory Capture. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] In effect its various government options do not represent the wishes of the people...
[23:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:35] <exec> 08└─If you truly believe that is what is going on after everything that has come out via leaks, PR disasters and the entirety of the Bush presidency....you are a moron too far gone to be saved. One of the cunts in other words...
[23:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:37] <exec> 08└─We do. We don't ask you. In fact when it comes to Iraq etc I distinctly remember the UN telling you to fuck off...then you veto'd all the resolutions. But feel free to wave the flag like a moron.
[23:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:40] <exec> 08└─Rubbish. Turkey has always been a violent regime. In the past it supported US interests in the region (esp. post cold war) while it was waging its war for oil. Then it changed. Nothing more complicated than that...
[23:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Canary Island? US East Coast - 06Canary Islands Chosen as Backup Site for the Thirty-Meter Telescope - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:31] <exec> 08└─I remember a NPR report that one of Canary Islands is posies for a rock slide in the waters west side of the island if more water slips into seam that has formed in the tilted strata of island. Is this the same island? If so, when they flat-top part of it, should I move to higher ground now? Could n...
[23:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Insulting - 06Smart Glass Taps Into Beer Drinker's Data - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:58] <exec> 08└─Watch for splinters.
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