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[00:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:44:42] <exec> 08└─If it appears on "social media", credibility is automatically suspect. What we need is a browser plugin that does what this site does: http://realorsatire.com [realorsatire.com]
[00:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The usual questions - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:10] <exec> 08└─The air force was paying like $30/gal for biofuel some years back. Now you can't guarantee that the delta between $5 and $30 is entirely and solely energy
[00:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:The usual questions - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:11] <exec> 08└─At some point, when the oil runs out, or at least grows scarce (whenever that is), the better we are at cost-effectively producing sustainable fuels, the better off we will be economically.
[00:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 2348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:20] <exec> 08└─"The biofuel is arguably carbon-neutral though. The forest residuals it was made from will grow back and sequester the same amount of carbon as was released by burning the fuel made from them." And what about all the energy used to transform them into this form? Where do you think that came from? On...
[00:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nag nag nag - 06Apple May be Considering its Own Augmented Reality Glasses - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:45:45] <exec> 08└─I want something that will record my day, so that i can play it back when my wife says "I didn't say that", so i can show her "Yes.... yes you did!"
[00:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Please.... - 06The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:05] <exec> 08└─Don't knock Google. They may be the only place you can search for meatspace lawyers rather than their more charming AI brethren.
[00:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:Please.... - 06The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:20] <exec> 08└─This is a dumb story. AI is and has forever been the most overhyped computer science subfield bar quantum computing. Watson won't replace any professions that Google hasn't already.
[00:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re No fear here - 06The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:30] <exec> 08└─Robo-prostitute: Congratulations, you have successfully completed a Level II orgasm. Your next visit is scheduled in 48 hours. Now please exit the copulation chamber. Another guest is scheduled in 48 seconds and I must wipe up the salty fluid you have deposited. Robo-oncologist: Congratulations, you...
[00:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So say we all... right? - 06The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:46:40] <exec> 08└─You've made MrPlow very sad.
[00:47:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Bringing down a psychopath? - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:21] <exec> 08└─A .308 works well. The popular 30:06 likewise. The .270 is preferred by other people. More timid folk might decide just to use the family sedan. A word in favor of the sedan - it is MUCH esier to convince a jury that it was an accident with the sedan, than it is to convince that same jury that your...
[00:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused goals - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:44] <exec> 08└─[What makes you think he's] a witch?
[00:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused goals - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:46] <exec> 08└─Scarface doesn't even predate The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Evil Dead, let's not pretend it's the first use of a chainsaw as a weapon. Also, it came out in '83. Dear old people: Millenials often remember the pop-culture media of your middle-age better than you do, in part because we were expos...
[00:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:DNC’s New Email Host - 06Encrypted Email Sign-Ups Instantly Double in Wake of Trump Victory - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:49:55] <exec> 08└─bragged about how his wealth lets him get away with sexual assault
[00:52:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Gonna Wish it Was Clinton - 06Swedish Prosecutor Finally Treks to London to Question Julian Assange - 520 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:52:25] <exec> 08└─You're talking about Mrs. Hillary "Can't we just drone this guy" Clinton? Seriously, read: https://www.newsmax.com [newsmax.com] This is the same woman who has been implicated in a couple dozen murders. And, you think she's into "soft pow...
[00:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score:2) 02Re:unmoored - 06A Psychologist Analyzes Donald Trump’s Personality - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:53:55] <exec> 08└─When you say Whatever happens is not the end of the world"
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[01:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:49] <exec> 08└─> What we need is a browser plugin that does what this site does It wouldn't make a bit of difference. The people must gullibly attracted to fake news, and there are plenty of soybeans in this group, don't care about facts. They've decided that all sources of news are equally untrustworthy which as...
[01:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but how bad are US politics when you actually have to ask if things like http://denverguardian.com [denverguardian.com] are real or satire?
[01:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's a significant escalation of the story - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:53] <exec> 08└─If FB employees are going rogue on company management with regards to the "fake news" issue. Wait, who broke this story. Buzzfeed? Um... wait a minute...
[01:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fake - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:55] <exec> 08└─Fake things on the internet? We cant have that now can we.
[01:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fake - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:44:57] <exec> 08└─We can have fake things on the internet. We just don't have to support it. Most of these fake news stories are about conning partisans for clicks because the most cynical are the most gullible. And just like nobody forces you to advertise in your local newspaper, facebook isn't required to lend the...
[01:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:59] <exec> 08└─If enough people repeat it, it gains credibility in the public perception, regardless of how baseless the speakers claims are.
[01:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:01] <exec> 08└─Conversely, show people video proof of their candidate's outright lies/flip-flop and they will deny it or get out of their way to justify it (or plain counter-attack). The level of delusion during this campaign had all but a few of the foreigners I know absolutely aghast. I'm sure many Middle-East w...
[01:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Distracted - 06New Solar-Powered Fabric is Straight Out of Back to the Future - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:45:12] <exec> 08└─Just give us flying cars! They invent everything ELSE from that damned flick. I don't care about Google Glass, 3D sharks, and self-lacing sneakers; just give us the flying cars! Well, okay, or Mr. Fusion.
[01:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Passengers as Fuel - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:25] <exec> 08└─Hell, the Russians have been fiddling with something like this for quite a while. Ilyushin, the aircraft manufacturer, was working with an engine manufacturer to burn something other than jet kerosene. Their approach was to use natural gas, but as you know, methane can be a biofuel. I suspect they w...
[01:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:you think it's bad now with phones - 06Apple May be Considering its Own Augmented Reality Glasses - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:45:58] <exec> 08└─Don't look at fat people and you won't be offended.
[01:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not augmented reality - 06Apple May be Considering its Own Augmented Reality Glasses - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:46:03] <exec> 08└─Mine are Pink.
[01:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:What's "convince"? - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:47:43] <exec> 08└─I am not sure of the specific case, but I can attest that somebody HAS indeed accidentally a similar question.
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[02:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02The only ones? - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:43] <exec> 08└─It was most likely sent by the Syrian government as the regime is the only party believed capable of sending a text en masse
[02:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Text Messages don't scare me - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:45] <exec> 08└─Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, anonymous comment posting has temporarily been disabled. You can still login to post. However, if bad posting continues from your IP or Subnet that privilege could be revoked as well. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corne...
[02:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:44:55] <exec> 08└─Ok, realorsatire might be possible to keep reliable. But if you need it you probably won't be the one using it. Fact checkers on the other hand are mostly useless because they either start out as frauds pushing an agenda or quickly realize that if they don't push the Narrative they will be punished....
[02:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 838 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:01] <exec> 08└─The graft, corruption, and two-faceness has always been there, back to the days of the founding fathers - it's how business was/is done at those levels. What's different today is that there's enough transparency and reporting that it's starting to show through... we need to find a way to transition...
[02:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:45:04] <exec> 08└─No. I see what you are trying to do there and ain't buyin' it. Is it an axiom that any politician is probably a bit crooked when elected and will grow more so over time in office? Yes. But don't you even dare try the 'they all do it so let he who is without sin cast the first stone' bullshit after t...
[02:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02I thought Mark Zuckerberg was dead - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:06] <exec> 08└─Because it's on teh Interwebs! http://www.theregister.co.uk [theregister.co.uk]
[02:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02How many is that? - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:08] <exec> 08└─more than dozens
[02:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:3, Informative) 02The Purge is on - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:10] <exec> 08└─Apparently twitter has gone nuts with the banhammer as well today. I'm hearing of accounts that haven't even posted in months being nuked. Of course I'm hearing about it over on gab.ai where they only ban you if what you post is so illegal they would be liable if they didn't. They also have explicit...
[02:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nag nag nag - 06Apple May be Considering its Own Augmented Reality Glasses - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:46:15] <exec> 08└─When she says "I didn't say that" you need to hear "I wish I hadn't said that, let's forget it and move on". Learn to understand the emotional meaning, not the literal meaning, and your relationship will be a lot better. (it's the same in reverse too, she will hear what she thinks you mean (based on...
[02:47:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02My own review - 06Kids Review the Top Virtual Reality Headsets - 4072 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:33] <exec> 08└─I have access to the HTC Vive, Occulus Rift and the Hololens. Microsoft Hololens: An interesting idea but the execution is flat out bad. Want a visual of the hololens? Grab a 27 inch monitor and hold it out at arms length. That's the view port size almost exactly. I went up to a 27" imac and did thi...
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[03:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:41] <exec> 08└─One SJW reports you and you're branded a bike lane blocker for the rest of your life. Too bad your work involves delivery driving because now you're fired. After one week of unemployment it sure looks like you'll never find work again because nobody will hire unemployed losers. BUT WAIT. TRUMP WON....
[03:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02TRUMP WON - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:50] <exec> 08└─TrumpWon_FeministsBTFO_KeyboardJamSession2016.ogg https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Fuck all you pro-women's rights faggots. TRUMP WON. He sexually assaults women. Doesn't respect women. And had the hots for his young daughter. That's why I VOTED FOR TRUMP AND DEFEATED YOU PR...
[03:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Meh - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:52] <exec> 08└─In past wars you dropped leaflets with similar warnings. Now we can use text messages to do the same job. Not seeing the story here. It is about to suck ass to live in Aleppo? Oh yea, even more than it already does. But then war has always been like that and always will be. That is why we should be...
[03:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:03] <exec> 08└─> Yeah, but how bad are US politics when you actually have to ask The only reason you have to ask is if you've already decided that all the fake news about the "clinton bodycount" is something you want to believe in.
[03:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:14] <exec> 08└─That' is because we are wired that way. Credibility by consensus, it works quite a lot, but its failures are quite spectacular.
[03:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:16] <exec> 08└─Credibility by evidence works even better.
[03:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:The Purge is on - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:21] <exec> 08└─Replying to myself to add a link to a near MSM news outlet with confirmation from Twitter that they have intentionally launched a purge. Daily Caller: Twitter Initiates a mass purge of alt-right accounts following Trump victory [dailycaller.com]
[03:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Purge is on - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:23] <exec> 08└─Apparently twitter has gone nuts with the banhammer as well today. I'm hearing of accounts that haven't even posted in months being nuked.
[03:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02TRUMP WON. - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:26] <exec> 08└─TrumpWon_FeministsBTFO_KeyboardJamSession2016.ogg https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Fuck all you pro-women's rights faggots. TRUMP WON. He sexually assaults women. Doesn't respect women. And had the hots for his young daughter. That's why I VOTED FOR TRUMP AND DEFEATED YOU PR...
[03:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:4, Insightful) 02media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 1559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:28] <exec> 08└─The thing that struck me about the story, and which led me to submit it, is the sheer, pure hubris of the assertion that "fake news" on Facebook cost Hillary the election. It's a primal scream from a media that is fucking pissed that there were people out there who refused to swallow their narrative...
[03:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:45:30] <exec> 08└─> But she did not lose because some fake news articles were circulated on Facebook. Its funny how you just provided a litany of reasons for clinton losing, every single one of which was amped up from their actual levels by fake news. That's how fake news works, it reinforces what you already believe...
[03:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:re No fear here - 06The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers - 2045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:47:26] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your thoughtful comments. The guy is an engineer and great at math, actually most of his income comes from structural calculations for large buildings but he just digs IT and thinks he’s great at it and as you can guess, we are both older men but he is quite older. So no, I won’t s...
[03:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Re:Bigger Threat: Alarm Clocks - 06Smartphones, Sleep, and Demographics - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:49:09] <exec> 08└─I wake up [...] before the alarm would have gone off, so I shut it off so as not to annoy other sleeping people.
[03:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:DNC’s New Email Host - 06Encrypted Email Sign-Ups Instantly Double in Wake of Trump Victory - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:50:51] <exec> 08└─The idea that the Democrat party is left wing is hilarious. Economically, Clinton is actually to the right of Trump, though they're close. By definition, right wing is the party of the elites and left wing is the party of the people. Of course at right angles to the economics is the authoritarianism...
[03:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:obama - 06Encrypted Email Sign-Ups Instantly Double in Wake of Trump Victory - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:51:02] <exec> 08└─Hitler did not magically disappear/deport all jews/homosexuals/gypsies/etc, he had the help of the people.
[03:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:FFS, I ran across this 25 years ago - 06Firewalls Snuffed by 'BlackNurse' Ping of Death Attack - 1552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:52:41] <exec> 08└─My bad, it was more like 15 years ago. The key should have been "before 802.11g', my startup's entire being was based on our protocol being established first. To be clear, I did not think of this myself. Probably heard about it on /., given the era and the websites I read at the time. But once I hea...
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[04:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:46] <exec> 08└─Too bad your work involves delivery driving because now you're fired.
[04:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:47] <exec> 08└─No. Wrong. The city needs to fix the problem by implementing places that couriers can park for a short period of time. Logistics is the lifeblood of a city.
[04:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 768 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:49] <exec> 08└─After posting, I actually googled; I guess that they do get ticketed, and that is just part of their operating cost. [nypost.com] It seems bizarre to me, then, that I've seen at least two cops drive straight past illegally parked UPS trucks without writing tickets. Weak game, piggies. It does nullif...
[04:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:44:51] <exec> 08└─Having driven delivery trucks in NYC - yes, it's illegal, and you can be ticketed if you choose the wrong illegal parking spot. But it does seem to be an accepted practice. The cops expect to see trucks blocking streets and alley, despite the law. Trucker mostly expect to be left alone. And, the pub...
[04:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02stating the obvious once again - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:54] <exec> 08└─"alleged lane violations occurring mostly in Manhattan and Brooklyn" That much of the report shouldn't be news to anyone. How many of us have driven in the city? In Manhattan, you can't buy a freaking parking spot. Brooklyn is better than Manhattan by an order of magnitude, you can actually find a p...
[04:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Insightful) 02How about parking in car lane? - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 1345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:56] <exec> 08└─I'm curious if there are similar stats on reports for vehicles blocking car lanes. I have no doubt that there are many drivers who leave vehicles parked in bad places all over the city with no reasonable justification. But there's also the reality of loading/unloading which needs to take place for b...
[04:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:58] <exec> 08└─My city is just rolling out this new traffic flow tactic. Instead of parallel parking against the curb, drivers park three feet away from the curb, providing an inside bike lane. As a non-bicyclist, at first I was annoyed at how much narrower the roads were, but I quickly realized that this solved a...
[04:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:I find this amazing... - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:11] <exec> 08└─Considering the size of stingrays, it's not that amazing as long as there's electricity, and from what I've read, in most areas it's intermittent, but not completely gone.
[04:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:I find this amazing... - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:12] <exec> 08└─Probably because all parties to the fighting find the cell towers to be useful. At some point in time, one party or another may calculate that the cell towers gives his enemy to much advantage and/or places him at a disadvantage. At that time, the cell towers will probably be destroyed, or at least...
[04:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Precision? - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:14] <exec> 08└─If they are using high precision weapons, why are all the population of the city at risk of being killed? One of two things - the weapons aren't as precise as the government would have you believe. OR - government intends to slaughter the population. To be fair, a lot of actors in the mideast like t...
[04:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Psychological War - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:16] <exec> 08└─Who benefits from this? Assad? Putin? Or is this ISIS?
[04:45:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 670 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:35] <exec> 08└─No. I see what you are trying to do there and ain't buyin' it. Is it an axiom that any politician is probably a bit crooked when elected and will grow more so over time in office? Yes. But don't you even dare try the 'they all do it so let he who is without sin cast the first stone' bullshit after t...
[04:45:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02The Purge is on - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 802 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:40] <exec> 08└─Apparently twitter has gone nuts with the banhammer as well today. I'm hearing of accounts that haven't even posted in months being nuked. Of course I'm hearing about it over on gab.ai where they only ban you if what you post is so illegal they would be liable if they didn't. They also have explicit...
[04:45:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:The Purge is on - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 2342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:43] <exec> 08└─I read all your posts in the voice of Colonel Q [wikia.com]. It has the odd effect-a legitimizin' what you're postin' about. Well, except for the fact that you give a shit about MyTwitFace… or that anybody does. But I can tell when a man's just slingin' mud instead-a tryin' to make an actual intel...
[04:45:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 1559 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:47] <exec> 08└─The thing that struck me about the story, and which led me to submit it, is the sheer, pure hubris of the assertion that "fake news" on Facebook cost Hillary the election. It's a primal scream from a media that is fucking pissed that there were people out there who refused to swallow their narrative...
[04:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:51] <exec> 08└─Wrong. You could confirm those stories on any MSM site you wanted to search or directly from their own emails in WikiLeaks. Their bias was in reporting them once in the least noticeable way possible and then refusing to discuss "old news" again. The stuff on the alt media was far worse. Check Reddit...
[04:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:53] <exec> 08└─So by the tenets of jmorris logic the way to prove that the MSM is corrupt is by citing something he suspects of being fake news. No wonder fake news is so popular. You can use it to prove anything you already believe. What's not to love?
[04:45:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:45:56] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree with you -- there are a lot of causes for the way the election went, and fake news is probably overemphasized. (Biased news, on the other hand, is probably higher on the list... but that's never going to be solved.) However... I have been getting those kinds of things from my crazy r...
[04:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score:1) 02Inspired by??? - 06New Solar-Powered Fabric is Straight Out of Back to the Future - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:09] <exec> 08└─That a similar thing was in a movie does not make it "inspired by". The man is a nano-materials scientist, this is what he does.
[04:48:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Okay. - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:31] <exec> 08└─I get it! I'll seriously read the the volunteers thread and see if there is some way I can help out in a consistent manner. No need to cudgel me with bad pop-psych.
[04:51:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score:1) 02Re:Oh my! - 06Call for Volunteers: Editors [Updated] - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:57] <exec> 08└─So is he as mighty as his name would imply:)
[04:53:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Re:Progress? Not really. - 06Swedish Prosecutor Finally Treks to London to Question Julian Assange - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:29] <exec> 08└─That is the point. Even the alleged victims think this is crazy. The only explanation for the Swedish crazy is malice, personal or political. Which is why Assange has reason to be scared. This not 'law' it is 'colour of the law'.
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[05:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:44:37] <exec> 08└─How long before unicode collapses under the weight of its scope-creep and we have to start all over again?
[05:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:39] <exec> 08└─Too late. Wouldn't it be simpler to just have a standard for applying colors to pixels in a grid of specified size? I'm sure someone could even come up with a compression algorithm for it.
[05:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:51] <exec> 08└─Short of rebuilding the cities I don't see how this can be avoided. The rage here is that it is a corporation doing it. When it was Joe's Dray and Delivery, and it was horse drawn, they parked in the lane and loaded and unloaded for the same amount of time. This has been the practice since before th...
[05:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:52] <exec> 08└─Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Mauer. Hispanics Raus!
[05:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:How about parking in car lane? - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:56] <exec> 08└─You can't get police there fast enough to ticket them. You can't get a tow truck through traffic to tow them. You can't deny ALL delivery without shutting down every resturant and grocery store. You better hope Drones can be made to work without killing too many people, and every building opens up a...
[05:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Truthiness - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 964 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:23] <exec> 08└─Except Snopes has long cajoled people not to trust them but do their own research (and in fact, people often trot out unconfirmed stories as proof when they are simply unconfirmed), and politifact is biased in approach- Trump was the most fact-checked of all the 2016 candidates. Of the 650 fact che...
[05:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:35] <exec> 08└─> if the Spirit Cooking and "pizza" rumors on Reddit are even 1% true we are dealing with Elemental Evil on a level that needs purging with fire. I forget, are you the christian freak or the libertarian freak? I get you and jdavidb mixed up all the time. I guess its the j. And the crazy. It all blen...
[05:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Purge is on - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:45:43] <exec> 08└─No one on the face of the earth wants to be affiliated with Peter Thiel. He's like Hitler in art school. Just because he hasn't committed any crimes against humanity yet doesn't mean he isn't already a monster.
[05:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where's my hoverboard? - 06New Solar-Powered Fabric is Straight Out of Back to the Future - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:46:05] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOH15_pqWZ4 [youtube.com]
[05:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:at trial? - 06The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:34] <exec> 08└─Most law work is research.
[05:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Please.... - 06The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:38] <exec> 08└─That's true until it isn't.
[05:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:re No fear here - 06The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:47:50] <exec> 08└─I leave with my friends.
[05:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused goals - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:49:02] <exec> 08└─But, as for the topic, you're not likely to get one up on a psychopath unless you yourself are one.
[05:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Naked claims - 06Swedish Prosecutor Finally Treks to London to Question Julian Assange - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:53:30] <exec> 08└─Sweden has a history of kidnapping people and putting them on CIA rendition (i.e. torture) flights.
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[06:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMP_file_format? [wikipedia.org] :)
[06:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score:2) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:36] <exec> 08└─We need resolution independent graphics now so we're talking about vectors
[06:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:39] <exec> 08└─Never? It’s not like every font will implement all of these emoji. Or more like only specifically made fonts will care about this. Everyone else will continue as before. ZWJ abuse should stop, though.
[06:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Damn kids and their eggplants - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:41] <exec> 08└─Kids these days with their emojis... In my day, we had to make do with spare colons and parentheses and they worked just fine. Sure we had to tilt our head 90 degrees to read them, but was just the way things were back then, and that's how we liked it.
[06:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Let The Censoring Begin - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:44:43] <exec> 08└─So now individual characters may be censored.
[06:44:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:44:56] <exec> 08└─Hey JNCF, how does your food get to a store near you?
[06:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:2) 02Re:How about parking in car lane? - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:02] <exec> 08└─Seems like part of the answer is to ban private automobiles from the congested area. There are buses and subways, right? You can't do without the delivery trucks, but there are ample ways for individuals to get around without using a personal automobile. There's room for an unloading lane, one power...
[06:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The only ones? - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:13] <exec> 08└─the only party believed capable of sending a text en masse
[06:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:Psychological War - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:23] <exec> 08└─1) maybe the Syrian gov sent this message and they are really going to bomb the place 2) maybe the Syrian gov sent this message hoping that the rebels would flee 3) maybe the rebels sent this message to test for deserters 4) maybe a third party sent this message in preparation for a false flag attac...
[06:45:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deimtee [3272] 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but how bad are US politics when you actually have to ask if things like http://denverguardian.com [denverguardian.com] are real or satire?
[06:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:36] <exec> 08└─And it's gone. I swear print media will have a resurgence just because it is lest affected by the memory hole.
[06:45:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:38] <exec> 08└─(a) its still there (b) the site is obviously a fake news site, come on already
[06:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:50] <exec> 08└─Shh! . Very quiet! We don't want this to get out. . . . Donald has a vestigial tail. True! Twenty seven Miss Universes have seen it! And it wiggles when . . . some things we don't want to know.
[06:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:52] <exec> 08└─If enough people repeat it, it gains credibility in the public perception, regardless of how baseless the speakers claims are..
[06:46:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 494 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:06] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree with you -- there are a lot of causes for the way the election went, and fake news is probably overemphasized. (Biased news, on the other hand, is probably higher on the list... but that's never going to be solved.) However... I have been getting those kinds of things from my crazy r...
[06:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 1015 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:07] <exec> 08└─While what you say sounds reasonable, like all the other rationalizations for Trump's win that have been popping up, I think it is somewhat overstated. A large percentage of people who were eligible to vote didn't even bother. Of those who voted D, most probably would have voted D no matter what. Of...
[06:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02Facebook's Fake News... - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:09] <exec> 08└─the long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Lying?
[06:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:52] <exec> 08└─My experience is that 10% ethanol in gasoline reduces fuel economy by around 10% under normal conditions, but by as much as ~40% when towing a heavy load (probably because the truck's power is reduced, especially on hills, by some sort of square of the mass factor).
[06:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:46:53] <exec> 08└─Fixed link: http://www.sciencedirect.com [sciencedirect.com]
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[07:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Enabling Acts - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:38] <exec> 08└─And the putsch against Erdogan was real, too.
[07:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Goodbye France - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:40] <exec> 08└─It’s too late for them. They’re capitulated on their way of life to Islam in the name of tolerance and multi-culturalism too many times. It’s now down to giving in to Islam, or surrendering the last mainstay of their cultural identity for security.
[07:44:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Hmmm .... - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:44:42] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall something like this happening before .... Gimme a second .... where was it, Brittan, no ..., Sweden, no, ... USSR? No. AH!, Germany. Somewhere in the around the mid 1930's I think it was. I don't recall it ending well though ...
[07:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:16] <exec> 08└─The primary drawback is bikers having to watch for idiot drivers who will now walk into the bike lane without looking. Bikers also need to be on the lookout for suddenly opening passenger doors. The best location for bike lanes is the far left lane (near the middle of the street). There you don't ne...
[07:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:17] <exec> 08└─drivers park three feet away from the curb, providing an inside bike lane.
[07:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Truthiness - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:46] <exec> 08└─So, yes, Trump has been fact-checked 38 more times than Clinton. And, yes, PolitiFact was the one deciding what statements to fact check.
[07:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Truthiness - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:45:47] <exec> 08└─Yours is the false equivalency of journalistic objectivity at work. The two candidates did not say equal numbers of check-worthy things.
[07:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:20] <exec> 08└─Compare it to an ad campaign. If an ad campaign has a response rate of just 5% it would be considered incredibly successful. As facebook is first and foremost about advertising, it would be reasonable to say that months of highly viral fake news would motivate just 1% of the recipients to vote who...
[07:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02read the summary - 06New Solar-Powered Fabric is Straight Out of Back to the Future - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:46:37] <exec> 08└─"That movie was the motivation," Thomas said. "If you can develop self-charging clothes or textiles, you can realize those cinematic fantasies – that's the cool thing."
[07:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Limbs and branches ... - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:09] <exec> 08└─So the fuel is likely made from cellulose. I'll be impressed when they make the bio fuel out of cellulose derived from plants that do not take 10+ years to mature. even if its "forest residuals" it still means a forest has been cut down. There are many annuals that would be even better sources and i...
[07:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's "convince"? - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:49:07] <exec> 08└─Silly joke? I just had the best laughs I've had at nonsense sentences as I've had in a long time. Thanks guys, I needed that. Don't know anything about the meme.
[07:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Vocal Minority [2765] (Score:1) 02Re:How do you tell a blasphemer from a heretic? - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:49:54] <exec> 08└─Seems certain topics on SN really brings out the stupid. Your post isn't the only one but easiest to pull apart without writing a wall of text. 1. Maths and Stats is used in Psychology, much to the chagrin of many a fuzzy headed psych student. By your definition Psychology is a "hard" science. 2. Hu...
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[08:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Betteridge's Law of Headlines - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:45] <exec> 08└─Is Alexa AI In Your Future?
[08:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Betteridge's Law of Headlines - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:47] <exec> 08└─"Alexa, wake me up at, um..." "Sorry, I didn't understand the question you were asking." "That's because I wasn't asking a question, you dumb bitch."
[08:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:49] <exec> 08└─Alas, that's the way the cookie crumbles. You can't have your cake and eat it too. Want to take advantage of machine learning? You're going to need a shit ton of data to feed it. What, you say? You aren't willing to give your data to someone else, but you want lots of other people to contribute thei...
[08:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dltaylor [4693] (Score:2) 02Not so for a purely personal assistant - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:51] <exec> 08└─I would not mind a purely personal assistant, which needs only public data, such as traffic info, and whatever personal data I need it to manage. Should I choose, I could allow it to access my physicians' web interfaces to handle prescription refills, appointments and test results. A parent could us...
[08:44:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so for a purely personal assistant - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:44:53] <exec> 08└─The only way to make that personal assistant with our current technology is machine learning. I'll ask again, where do you plan on getting the petabytes of personal information that will be used to train the personal assistant to know what to do with *your* personal data? Or you could settle for a d...
[08:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Nanny AI - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:55] <exec> 08└─I would love to have a house/AI to keep me organized: to tell me when an important date is coming/arrived; remind me of things i have to do (like the laundry) or of really important things like "you have a family.... go pay attention to them".
[08:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I want a sex bot - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:44:58] <exec> 08└─I want a sex bot who likes it rough. With a body that can be built to take a lot of punishment and not feel pain.
[08:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm .... - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:09] <exec> 08└─Then it happened again in 2001 for the USA, with no end in sight, and it's not going well for the dozens of prisoners in Guantanamo concentration camp, nor for any of the thousands of American citizens accused of terrorism. But let's just forget that America continues to be pure evil.
[08:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmmm .... - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:10] <exec> 08└─That goes without saying. We don't constantly harp on about water being wet either, it's obvious.
[08:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm .... - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:12] <exec> 08└─Godwin is not compulsory either.
[08:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:24] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe that would be a good idea. It would also be a chance to undo the very few errors done by the early Unicode versions. Basically I think there are two: One is the UTF16 encoding, due to the fact that originally they thought 16 bits should be enough, and then having to extend it to more bit...
[08:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn kids and their eggplants - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:27] <exec> 08└─Spare?! We had to craft those colons out of raw 1s and 0s, reusing the bits from incoming spams.
[08:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:2, Funny) 02Image problem - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:30] <exec> 08└─It is difficult for Unicode to be taken seriously by some people when Emojis are included, but well-known synthetic alphabets are not, such as Tolkein's Tengwar ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ) and Cirth ( https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] ); and Star Trek'...
[08:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Image problem - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:32] <exec> 08└─The problem is that only sweaty nerds want Tengwar, Cirth, and Klingon, while Apple, Google, Microsoft et al. want emoji, and are getting them in there annually (check the revision history).
[08:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Hentaigana - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:45:34] <exec> 08└─>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia >Not to be confused with Hentai. Thank you Wikipedia, wouldn't want to confuse those two; that would be embarrassing for the Consortium.
[08:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:45:58] <exec> 08└─It also discards another important benefit of having the bicycle lane next to the driving lane: Visibility. Parking cars block the line of sight (and of attention) between cyclists and drivers, which means, essentially, that cyclists will have to slow down to near pedestrian speed at every intersect...
[08:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Precision? - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:15] <exec> 08└─Anything more accurate than the rebel Hell Cannon [youtube.com] can be considered a high precision weapon.
[08:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:46:48] <exec> 08└─To really get credibility you have to paint your lie on the side of a bus and get everyone constantly talking about what a big lie it is. You can admit it's a lie and people will still believe it.
[08:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where's my hoverboard? - 06New Solar-Powered Fabric is Straight Out of Back to the Future - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:47:20] <exec> 08└─Fairly close: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[08:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's "convince"? - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:49:53] <exec> 08└─They usually mean "conveyance". The writer is probably a Sub-continent-inian.
[08:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Free-will it is! - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:50:41] <exec> 08└─A cunning way to get "determinism" into the discussion. "They are not responsible for what they do". Yes they are! A person is responsible for ALL of their actions. A person can decide to behave a certain way. Your try to brainwash us into considering "determinism" instead of "free-will" has been fo...
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[09:44:46] <exec> 08└─I want a human trafficking victim who doesn't like it at all, and cries a lot.
[09:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:11] <exec> 08└─The 80's are calling... they want their PostScript back :-)
[09:45:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:44] <exec> 08└─Putting the parking lane between the traffic and the bicycle lane is how it's done here in northern Europe, where we have a lot more bicycles, and it works fine. However, we also have a rule that you are not allowed to park close to an intersection (as far as I know, that rule is a lot older than bi...
[09:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score:2) 02Re:Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:45:45] <exec> 08└─We have the same rule, here, and I'd have to look it up, but it's only for some 5 to 10 meters/yards around an intersection. Not enough to be terribly helpful in this situation. Besides, you'll still have the problem of drivers coming from the crossing road (or even from a private drive way; in my e...
[09:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:United Airlines Flight 708 - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:48:05] <exec> 08└─KLM has begun flights from the same airport, using the same fuel "made from used cooking oil by AltAir Fuels." Apparently a lot of frying goes on in Los Angeles. http://biodieselmagazine.com [biodieselmagazine.com]
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[10:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Hyperloop - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:38] <exec> 08└─Hyperloop! hyperloop! hyyyyyperloop! I'm loopy for hyperloops! Too bad Murica is a fucking backward shithole where not even super charismatic super genius Musky can get a hyperloop built.
[10:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wodan [517] (Score:1) 02profit - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:39] <exec> 08└─concorde made money for BA from http://www.concordesst.com [concordesst.com] How much profit did Concorde make for British Airways? On average Concorde made and operating profit of £30-50 Million a year for British Airways in the boom years where many passengers were travelling fi...
[10:44:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score:2) 02Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 769 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:41] <exec> 08└─Even if you could cross the Atlantic instantly, you would still spend 3 hours getting to the airport and two hours at the checkin, then an hour waiting to board. On arrival, you spend two hours clearing customs and immigration, and then two hours trying to find your car in the long stay carpark. Ret...
[10:44:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02look no wings ma1 - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:43] <exec> 08└─there is significant lose of athmosphere beyond 80 km from the ground. also airresistance is velocity cubed. thus the economics wouldd suggest to quickly accelerate out of the athmosphere and then "fall " to destination 20'000 km away.
[10:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:look no wings ma1 - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:46] <exec> 08└─Yup... I'm sure people will line up for that experience... Getting crushed by 2-3 G on the first half of the trip and then being sick from the free fall during the (almost complete, we do have to brake after all in the end) second half of the trip...
[10:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Niche market - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 1778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:44:48] <exec> 08└─It takes me one to two hours to get to the closest airport that runs transatlantic flights. At the far end, it takes me another hour or two to get to my final destination. I have to allow a couple of hours slack, because bad traffic and queues for security can easily add up to that on a bad day. It...
[10:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Niche market - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:44:50] <exec> 08└─one additional comment. for transatlantic flights, having 8 hours actually means being able to sleep properly, inbetween the 4-5 hours of travel by other means on each end. I would count that as an advantage.
[10:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want a sex bot - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:05] <exec> 08└─I want a sex bot that can answer the phone to PPI lawyers, and scream so loud their heads explode while cooking dinner and using bluetooth to manage the Rumba. And then resume her normal activities when I get home. I do not want Alexa.
[10:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Hmm - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:06] <exec> 08└─> but neither people nor software will be much use without the other. About a hundred thousand years of human history says otherwise.
[10:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm .... - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:45:20] <exec> 08└─where muslims threatened a country and started killing people that disagreed with them?
[10:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Hollande - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:45:22] <exec> 08└─It seems that Hollande is enjoying his TEMPORARY emergency powers. I guess Trump's victory in the US has him worried that he will be succeeded by LePen. Better despotism than the left lose power!
[10:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:47:13] <exec> 08└─This is like a tug-of-war with 60,000,000 people on each side.
[10:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:48:02] <exec> 08└─This isn't ethanol; in fact it's not any kind of alcohol, but a hydrocarbon. The press release speaks of "renewable isobutanol, which was then converted into Gevo’s Alcohol-to-Jet (ATJ) fuel." Note the word "converted." From another source (emphasis mine): Fuel standards body ASTM International h...
[10:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score:1) 02Re:walmart-ification - 06The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:49:21] <exec> 08└─Except that a top oncologist (due to his years of heavy lifting) might get an inspirational brain fart that actually gives some new insights in the field of oncology. Fat chance getting THAT from an 'AI by itself' or a 'not-so-top oncologist supported by the heavy lifting AI in the background'.
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[11:44:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Not just automotive... - 06Samsung Buys Connected Car Firm Harman for $8bn in Cash - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:44:48] <exec> 08└─but Harmon owns a fair bit of studio and audiophile brands. Not certain how I feel about this, as it could mean an increase in quality like when Korean companies bought aging nameplates like Sherwood and really turned them around in their markets. or is this the further decline in audio as more and...
[11:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:profit - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:44:57] <exec> 08└─They got the planes for free.
[11:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:2) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:00] <exec> 08└─It will soon be just as quick to row across the Atlantic.
[11:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 1661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:03] <exec> 08└─> Returning from Spain to the UK last month (90 minute flight) took 12 hours door to door. When I read things like this, I think that it might be better to just take a car to Spain, You will get there faster than 12 hours, you will have the comforts and luxuries and personal space of your car, and a...
[11:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:05] <exec> 08└─Even if you could cross the Atlantic instantly, you would still spend 3 hours getting to the airport and two hours at the checkin My last transatlantic flight was 7 minutes in a taxi - checked in en-route, 4 minutes through security, 20 minutes in the lounge, 5 minutes to the plane, 20 minutes from...
[11:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Concorde is for important people. - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:11] <exec> 08└─Concorde is for important people: It is *so important* that I am transported swiftly from continent A to B (and I get a rash from being forced to use the telephone or Skype), that it warrants the extra expensive flight, and large amount of fuel, of a supersonic Concorde flight, instead of travelling...
[11:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Very niche market - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:13] <exec> 08└─The poor people aren't going to be willing to pay for this. 2-3 hours of TSA + commute to airports = not much difference. The rich people who are in a rush use private jets and helis and that cuts off about 2-4 hours already (no TSA bullshit, no traffic jams - heli to the city). Not sure if these ri...
[11:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Way of the dinosaur - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:45:15] <exec> 08└─Air travel is going the way of the dinosaur. Moving a person around is becoming less and less necessary for reasons other than the experience of the traveler. In a decade, telepresence thanks to VR with the latest tech and accompanying sensors on the other side could be at a level (or "close enough"...
[11:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Way of the dinosaur - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:17] <exec> 08└─Air travel is going the way of the dinosaur. Moving a person around is becoming less and less necessary for reasons other than the experience of the traveler. Yet actual stats show constant year on year growth of 4-5% over the last decade-plus. Same applies for trains (at least in the UK).
[11:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:Nanny AI - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:45:31] <exec> 08└─Or a PDA,
[11:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Damn kids and their eggplants - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:06] <exec> 08└─You had spams to reuse? Luxury! In my time we had to create our 0s and 1s ourself from nothing but stone!
[11:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let The Censoring Begin - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:09] <exec> 08└─Eh? Look on the bright side. Now we have an emoji for a terrorist --> 1F9D5
[11:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Image problem - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:13] <exec> 08└─The emoticons \ emojis go back to the 70s and the Wang word-processing machines [wikipedia.org] via CP437 [wikipedia.org].
[11:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:Hentaigana - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:46:16] <exec> 08└─It very helpfully provided you with the link to the Hentai entry though.
[11:47:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 533 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:47:43] <exec> 08└─Wrong. You could confirm those stories on any MSM site you wanted to search or directly from their own emails in WikiLeaks. Their bias was in reporting them once in the least noticeable way possible and then refusing to discuss "old news" again. The stuff on the alt media was far worse. Check Reddit...
[11:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score:2) 02better than quite good - 06Kids Review the Top Virtual Reality Headsets - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:50:20] <exec> 08└─The Vive allows you to walk around and interact with both hands(controllers) with the VR environment. The level of VR fidelity is very good. The Vive controllers have holes in them, you can place one inside the other in VR and it lines up perfectly in real life.
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[12:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03epl [1801] (Score:1) 02Re:Not just automotive... - 06Samsung Buys Connected Car Firm Harman for $8bn in Cash - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:44:49] <exec> 08└─Good audio never was important for the mass market. Harman/Kardon, arguably their best known consumer audio brand, has been focussing on design and cute little speakers for a while now and the audio quality has very sharply declined as a result. There is very little there resembling the company that...
[12:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:profit - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:00] <exec> 08└─They also made the same money by charging the same fare for first class on a 747 that they charged for concorde, knowing they had a pretty much captive audience (as long as BA still offered the best schedule, which with its access to Heathrow slots was a given), thus made more money by not having th...
[12:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03taylormc [5751] (Score:1) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:04] <exec> 08└─Faster than 12 hours?? Checking Google Maps for a holiday we took a few years ago in Andalucia, it would have taken ~24 hours of solid driving to get there. Most people would take at least 2 days about it, maybe 3.
[12:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:look no wings ma1 - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:10] <exec> 08└─Hey, roller coasters are really popular, I could see this appealing to the richer end of that crowd! ;)
[12:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Way of the dinosaur - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:18] <exec> 08└─It does make some logical sense that a company would rather use telepresence which is basically free rather than send a person via a costly airline trip. Also, I wonder if the numbers for population growth can explain the increased air travel.
[12:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02I would go the other way - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:20] <exec> 08└─I would prefer to travel by zeppelin. Being able to see what you're flying over, having a cabin, and being able to get up and walk around sounds like civilized travel to me. How you get there is part of the journey.
[12:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not so for a purely personal assistant - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:32] <exec> 08└─You don't need anywhere near that amount of data to make a useful personal assistant. Are you smoking crack? You don't even need an AI for it.
[12:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score:2) 02Almost open source? - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:45:40] <exec> 08└─almost open source
[12:45:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmmm .... - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:45:54] <exec> 08└─one presumes you are referring to the factoid that WE have been under a 'state of emergency' since nine one one... it has been quietly renewed every 6mos/year, they are *supposed* to give an updated reason for doing so, but nobody pays attention because, well, because Empire does whatever the fuck i...
[12:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03boltronics [580] (Score:2) 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:47:23] <exec> 08└─Nope. 404.
[12:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Please.... - 06The Sharks of AI Will Attack Expensive and Scarce Workers Faster Than They Eat Drivers - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:49:26] <exec> 08└─funny, and yet my point remains... (again, i can write rings around most if i choose to go conventional... i do not so choose, writing correctly for ONLINE BULLSHIT (NOT a term paper for school, or an op/ed for a publication, is it ?) is boring, my writing is not... akin to saying that hanging out a...
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[13:44:47] <exec> 08└─The real news in this to me is that Mazda actually sold 70,000 RX8s. I was under the impression that the car was a sales disappointment. If I remember right reviewers loved how it handled, and it had plenty of power, but the price was on the high side for the segment and even the improved RX8 rotary...
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[13:44:49] <exec> 08└─They also made it into a "hardcore enthusiast only" car by severely crippling the performance on the automatic version. Meanwhile plenty other brands had manuals and automatics with practically the same performance numbers. Manuals are fun on the track but I didn't want one for a daily driver in tra...
[13:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:15] <exec> 08└─Even if you could cross the Atlantic instantly, you would still spend 3 hours getting to the airport and two hours at the checkin, then an hour waiting to board. On arrival, you spend two hours clearing customs and immigration, and then two hours trying to find your car in the long stay carpark.
[13:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:17] <exec> 08└─Went Berlin->Budapest last month. Travel agency advised us to be at the airport 2h before gate closes. But this is mainly a safety margin: We spent ~20-30 minutes before we could even enqueue for the security check, ~20min in the security check, and another 40min until the gate opened. After gate cl...
[13:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:19] <exec> 08└─the "keep the immigrants out" hocus is another huge waste of time. Not to mention traffic on the M4/M40/M25.
[13:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:look no wings ma1 - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:24] <exec> 08└─hey just pointing out that the atmosphere isn't very thick. also that going faster and faster doesn't just double the resistance encountered but alot more. in a sense it's completely crazy to "fight the atmosphere" to go someplace quicker. either really go for outer atmosphere travel where you can g...
[13:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:look no wings ma1 - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:45:26] <exec> 08└─So why is Branson taking so long to get his spaceships ready?
[13:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Whiteboard - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:45:54] <exec> 08└─I would love to have a house/AI to keep me organized: to tell me when an important date is coming/arrived; remind me of things i have to do (like the laundry) or of really important things like "you have a family.... go pay attention to them".
[13:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:3, Funny) 02Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 3266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[13:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:50] <exec> 08└─Short of rebuilding the cities I don't see how this can be avoided.
[13:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:46:53] <exec> 08└─Eine Mauer.
[13:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:05] <exec> 08└─No, they do what he's describing in Montreal. It works really well. You don't get doored because there is a buffer zone between the parked cars and the bike lane.
[13:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:47:38] <exec> 08└─Another variation of this phenomenon, when it came to political news: As anyone familiar with my posts here knows, I'm towards the raging left end of the political spectrum, and I'm fairly active on Facebook due to work for some organizations that require it. That means I encountered throughout the...
[13:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 1283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:16] <exec> 08└─The sad part is that the overwhelming majority of those "protesting" the outcome across the country didn't go out and vote. More than two-thirds of those 30 and under can't even be bothered to vote. A lot of them, like many who post here, are just too cool to vote. You can't be the nihilistic "insig...
[13:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Could it be... - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:19] <exec> 08└─that after umpteen years of listening to the patronizing and snideness on the left (and the right as well), that a sizable chunk of the country decided they've had enough? Has anyone factored that into their calculations as to why Hilary lost? That maybe a few months of questionable stores have a le...
[13:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:The usual questions - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:48:57] <exec> 08└─continual debate over whether oil is truly bad
[13:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:49:09] <exec> 08└─OK so second guess was the one then. Synthetic hydrocarbons. The Germans were producing it in the 40s, it's not really new, it's just expensive/inefficient.
[13:51:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:What's "convince"? - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:51:12] <exec> 08└─Well that raises an important question: Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
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[14:44:48] <exec> 08└─"Well, duh."
[14:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Probably to sell to the NSA - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:49] <exec> 08└─I bought an advance 4.0 to have as a backup phone($89 all in) I have difficulty believing they intended to monitor anyone important at that price point so for there own citizens and to sell the data to the US government on there own undesirables
[14:44:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Best Part - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:51] <exec> 08└─The best part is that after BLU owned up to it, they said something to the effect of, "Oops, our bad. We just patched the spyware out. Your phones are now totally safe. Trust us!" Uh... huh. What little reputation they had is hopefully ruined and there will be some sort of government sanction agains...
[14:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02in Cash - 06Samsung Buys Connected Car Firm Harman for $8bn in Cash - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:09] <exec> 08└─Like pennies?
[14:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:27] <exec> 08└─Did you play the lottery that day? Because it sounds to me like you were extra lucky ;-). The circumstances of air travel also matter I think. If you're alone, travelling for business with a cabin luggage only, it can be a lot faster (if you have other ways to cut through security and other lines, e...
[14:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:29] <exec> 08└─Quite normal. My best time was 3 minutes from taxi to gate. But yes, that's hand luggage only, I know what I'm doing, where I'm going, and have access to fast track security etc. At a large airport like Heathrow they have a 35 minute cut-off at the entrance to security, and a doors-close at 20 minut...
[14:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Way of the dinosaur - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:45] <exec> 08└─It does make some logical sense that a company would rather use telepresence which is basically free rather than send a person via a costly airline trip. Also, I wonder if the numbers for population growth can explain the increased air travel. But that isn't what happens in the real world, people tr...
[14:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Air travel - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 2202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:48] <exec> 08└─Expensive - you pay for that speed in fuel and design More dangerous - more speed, more to go wrong, more catastrophic when it does, meaning higher design values. Not that much quicker - you'll still be circling the airport waiting for your landing spot, and most of the time I've spent in airports i...
[14:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Air travel - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 1534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:45:50] <exec> 08└─I don't think "more speed = more to go wrong". On the ground where you have to dodge obstacles, sure. But in the air more speed = supersonic aerodynamics and more powerful engines. I don't think anything is significantly more mechanically complicated (i.e. it's no more likely to fail), nor that a fa...
[14:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Noise regulations - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:45:52] <exec> 08└─I always thought that was why the concord was never mass produced because of the flight paths it was allowed to take and the relatively short leg of the trip it was allowed to go super sonic, that's not going to change unless you can get rid of the sonic boom
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[14:46:06] <exec> 08└─I'm in no hurry. Get it trained on those early adopters willing to let world+dog snoop into every corner of their lives, and let me know when you can deliver a stand-alone AI that only goes online to get information I request. Until then, don't waste your time trying to market it to me.
[14:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Nanny AI - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 2718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:46:09] <exec> 08└─He wants a speech interface to emacs org mode, I think. Not being illiterate and being able to read and type faster than I can speak, I prefer org mode. I mostly use it for GTD type workflow, whens the next electric bill due, oh, Dec 5, thank you org mode. When is the next time to replace the furnac...
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[14:46:47] <exec> 08└─Be careful what you wish for: https://m.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[14:47:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 808 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:10] <exec> 08└─Having driven delivery trucks in NYC - yes, it's illegal, and you can be ticketed if you choose the wrong illegal parking spot. But it does seem to be an accepted practice. The cops expect to see trucks blocking streets and alley, despite the law. Trucker mostly expect to be left alone. And, the pub...
[14:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02What does the city want? - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:47:14] <exec> 08└─The question is: what does the city actually want? If they (or their citizens) want prompt deliveries for inexpensive prices, then trucks needs to park close to the delivery address. If the city doesn't want to create zillions of parking places - which will then encourage commuting by car, increase...
[14:49:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:you think it's bad now with phones - 06Apple May be Considering its Own Augmented Reality Glasses - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:49:50] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't Apple Glasses make fat people look skinny?
[14:51:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:Bringing down a psychopath? - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:51:47] <exec> 08└─No fair! You have police academy training!! I'd have thought of that if I had gone to an academy.
[14:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Confused goals - 06How Do You Bring Down a Psychopath Psychologically? - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:52:17] <exec> 08└─If someone does not hesitate in flipping the switch it could be simply that they have already considered this situation previously and already know what course of action they would take.
[14:52:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:content not photons - 06Smartphones, Sleep, and Demographics - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:52:56] <exec> 08└─I don't think that's controversial at all among experts
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[15:45:00] <exec> 08└─> I have difficulty believing they intended to monitor anyone important at that price point Gov people need burner phones too. In fact, anything a gov employee uses a burner phone for would be of the highest interest to an intelligence service because either its good for blackmail or its strategic i...
[15:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02How dare they steal our clients' metadata?! - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:45:02] <exec> 08└─That's ours to sell! Verizon
[15:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:They sold that many? - 06Mazda Recalls 70,000 RX-8 Sports Cars in the U.S. - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:13] <exec> 08└─I drove a manual RX-8 for 5 years in DC traffic and later in the Midwest. I would estimate every day driving to be 18 miles/gallon and pure highway driving down the side of a mountain to be around 22 miles/gallon. I ended up trading it in to buy a family car. Despite vast exposure to dozens of diffe...
[15:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They sold that many? - 06Mazda Recalls 70,000 RX-8 Sports Cars in the U.S. - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:15] <exec> 08└─Samsung makes fuel pumps?
[15:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:profit - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:38] <exec> 08└─Ever since British Airways retired its money-losing supersonic Concorde in 2003
[15:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:47] <exec> 08└─The problem is not the latency, it's the jitter. I've manage to go from plane hitting tarmac to being outside the airport in under 10 minutes a couple of times at Heathrow, but I've also had it take well over an hour. Arriving in the US, I've managed to clear immigration in 5 minutes, have my bag be...
[15:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Niche market - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:45:58] <exec> 08└─Yup. A lot of the time, it's cheaper to fly via Chicago than via New York and it's much more pleasant because you can get a rough approximation of a good night's sleep. If it's 2-3 hours in the air, then that's not a problem, but 4-6 is just long enough that you can't get a useful amount of sleep.
[15:46:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Concorde is for important people. - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 928 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:00] <exec> 08└─But here's the problem: I'm so important, I don't want to spend 4 hours in a vaguely comfortable seat when I could spend 8 hours in a very comfortable fully-reclining chair. Oh, and I'm so important that people can wait another 4 hours for me to arrive rested and refreshed. If you're going to pay...
[15:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Way of the dinosaur - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 1611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:08] <exec> 08└─Your numbers are interesting, although 5% increased travel vs 1% population increase for a single country hardly mean anything over a one-year span. You could probably explain that away with increased need to move Big Egos around for the U.S. presidential election. Until very recently, there was no...
[15:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I would go the other way - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:11] <exec> 08└─Make sure it's not a Samsung Zepplin.
[15:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02come on now... - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying we don't need to improve, but this article stinks. "He envisions a day when anyone could cross the Pacific or Atlantic in just a few short hours." - 5 or 6 hours IS a few short hours. And 600mph IS fast.
[15:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:come on now... - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:18] <exec> 08└─In passenger aircraft "boring" is good.
[15:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score:2) 02Fix Security Instead - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:20] <exec> 08└─Until some common sense eliminates the security theater, a huge investment in supersonic flights does not seem smart. When you have to arrive two hours early for a flight because of potential security delays, it pretty much defeats the purpose of supersonic flight.
[15:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sub orbital launch - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:23] <exec> 08└─If you can get something with scram jets/ram jets/whatever that could get you sub orbital at mach 7+ for less fuel than a rocket engine that would be useful as an orbital and trans orbital launch platform but NA to EU in 1/2 an hour is an 80's fantasy, expensive maybe dangerous and ground factors ou...
[15:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Nanny AI - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:46:40] <exec> 08└─Probably blows the minds of some privacy advocates but I have an Alexa and don't give a F that its listening.
[15:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Obligatory Andromeda joke - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:49] <exec> 08└─Only if they get Lexa Doig to do the voice. "Rommie, deploy defense drones on my mark."
[15:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Really? - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:51] <exec> 08└─You have to be reminded to do your laundry?
[15:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:17] <exec> 08└─whooshed
[15:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:20] <exec> 08└─DVI, baby! It was perfect in the 80's, and it is just as perfect now. Come out of the Microsoft Dark Ages and return to sanity.
[15:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:26] <exec> 08└─Indeed nothing advocates coping with squares and little numbers in them more than getting "breastfeeding mom" and "gender inclusive kid" in your forum replies.
[15:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:28] <exec> 08└─I'm partial to: FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH VOMITING
[15:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This is what happens - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:39] <exec> 08└─When a committee has out-lived its useful lifespan. [wikipedia.org]
[15:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:56] <exec> 08└─the local donut shop
[15:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:How about parking in car lane? - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:06] <exec> 08└─Something that would definitely help is congestion pricing [wikipedia.org], which is being used in several other cities including London and Stockholm. The idea is to use economic incentives to push people from using their cars in Manhattan to instead take a train or bus into the city. Anyhow, it le...
[15:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:14] <exec> 08└─which means, essentially, that cyclists will have to slow down to near pedestrian speed at every intersection, in order to be safe. Makes cycling really unattractive to anybody who actually wants to get somewhere.
[15:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02hm. - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:17] <exec> 08└─The idea of reporting fellow citizens to authorities for small scale violations is not really really OK with me. Oh well. In my place I should report the cyclists who actually behave well, because lack of lights, proceeding in pairs, not dismounting when crossing the street at the stripes for walker...
[15:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Truthiness - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:50] <exec> 08└─Strangely none of Trumps' lies included lying to congress, if we are talking false equivalency.
[15:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:07] <exec> 08└─We've gone from shady real-estate dealing lawyers, to the son of a former president who's clearly in bed with his home district's top money spinners, so much so as to embroil the country in a years long war, to a Chicago machine politician, now to choosing an Atlantic City casino owner who bankrupts...
[15:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:10] <exec> 08└─How credible is a source labeled "Anonymous Coward"?
[15:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In other news - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:35] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the internet where anything is possible and everything is true. I saw a Yeti a few minutes ago. I think they're invading NYC. It'll be on the 6pm news. You saw it on the interwebs first!
[15:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02#@%^ you slavebook - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:36] <exec> 08└─so now if propaganda doesn't come from big government/NWO controlled sources it's fake news? the "real news" is the fake news and everyone knows it. now they have whores like slavebook acting as gatekeepers and eradicators of fake news. Every slave in the book should be raising hell about their inte...
[15:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:27] <exec> 08└─The Germans and South Africans (Sasol) made liquid fuel from coal with the Fischer-Tropsch process; this company makes it from biomass with fermentation. This company has a special yeast and they separate the isobutanol during fermentation. Some of it is used directly as a fuel or a chemical feedsto...
[15:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Delwin [4554] (Score:1) 02Re:Limbs and branches ... - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:31] <exec> 08└─If you don't take care of the forest it will burn down on you - taking out cities on the way. Worse if you don't clean up after the fire then the next fire that comes through will take all those dead trees and turn them into thousand hour logs... and kill the ground. After that you can't replant bec...
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[16:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:2, Funny) 02They can use my old trick.... - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:01] <exec> 08└─Baseball cards clothespinned to the vehicle to clack in the spokes of the wheel.
[16:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:02] <exec> 08└─I want mine to sound like a pony!
[16:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:04] <exec> 08└─I want a Jake brake sound.
[16:45:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:06] <exec> 08└─Ok, pony sounds when moving at a constant speed or accelerating, jake brake when the regenerative braking kicks in!
[16:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:08] <exec> 08└─Where are my mod points? (Yes!)
[16:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0219 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:11] <exec> 08└─The noise from regular motors is bad enough when you live near a busy road that gets regular traffic jams. This would bring a whole new joy to living in affordable housing. And think of the children no longer able to sneak home late at night without waking Dad! Won't somebody please think of the chi...
[16:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and forward as well as backward. In may cities, you rarely ever go above 19 mph so the vehicle will be doing this constantly. Same for traffic jams. Queue people moving further away from roads, erecting/demanding more embankments between their homes and roads, etc. Ironically housing might act...
[16:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:15] <exec> 08└─I positively hate that two tone sound. Delivery trucks and forklifts both use the same electronic noise makers. Imagine that ugly noise coming from every car that passes by. People, if you get one of these things, PLEASE modify that noisebox. Make it sound like a Jacob's brake, as suggested above. O...
[16:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TapeApe [2146] (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:17] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the theme music from Jaws - something everyone recognizes means "careful - something's coming!"
[16:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Here's India's chance - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:19] <exec> 08└─If you want an electric car that goes "Ohmmmmm" and has the pedigree to back it up, you gotta go with one of theirs.
[16:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:22] <exec> 08└─There has got to be a better way. One of the great promises of electrics is reducing the noise pollution, especially in cities. Tire and engine noise are, by far, the largest contributors in that respect. We need to find a way to accommodate blind citizens while still working toward "social goods" s...
[16:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:24] <exec> 08└─"I don't like the only valid solution that anyone can think of! Waaaah!"
[16:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:26] <exec> 08└─You want a poster child for the overreaching regulatory State? Here you go. Was there a problem? Yes. Especially for a generation, until everyone is accustomed to the idea that a car can be quiet. Did they allow the industry to adopt a sensible solution like fake engine sound? Something they ALREADY...
[16:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:28] <exec> 08└─That flashing bus light is even more annoying than the newer brake lights these days that blink 3-5 times every time they apply the brakes. Which are lot of fun in stop-and-go traffic. We don't need *more* distractions while driving. I can already see you're braking without you constantly shouting "...
[16:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:30] <exec> 08└─Cars: The silent killer. Trump: The LOUD, PROUD MOIDERER.
[16:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Think of traffic... - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:33] <exec> 08└─So every street corner in every city is going to start sounding like a symphony of garbage trucks backing up? Every time the light changes to red, the sound of 50 cars going "beep, beep, beep"; every time the light turns green "beep, beep, beep"; slow traffic on busy streets "beep, beep, beep"; craw...
[16:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably to sell to the NSA - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:44] <exec> 08└─Not a burner just unlocked..account sold separately as a side note looking at the one I bought the named services don't seem to be on it but there is a ton of other suspect sounding stuff can't decide if it's worth it to walk through and purge or just get a new backup phone
[16:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Part - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:45:47] <exec> 08└─I'm sure I have mentioned BLU around here and I have considered getting one myself. Too bad. However, if you make a habit of wiping phones clean when you get them, then there's only the hardware left to mistrust, and that's all made in China anyway.
[16:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Who else? - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:50] <exec> 08└─What does Google learn about you, when you use Google apps and Chrome, and the Google Play? Who else is mining American citizens for data? BLU did it, so I would imagine that any major distributor of telephones knows how to do it. I have no more faith in American corporations than I do in Chinese co...
[16:45:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What about the e-cigs? - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:52] <exec> 08└─Are those also bugged?
[16:46:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It is obviously time for you... - 06Mazda Recalls 70,000 RX-8 Sports Cars in the U.S. - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:04] <exec> 08└─To buy larger UPSes, and get a remote operation breaker switch installed :)
[16:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"bn"? - 06Samsung Buys Connected Car Firm Harman for $8bn in Cash - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:14] <exec> 08└─Is this some kind of Eurotard abbreviation or something?
[16:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:profit - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:46:29] <exec> 08└─The page says "for a period after the re-launch [after the 2000 Air France disaster], services were profitable." In other words, the flights had been profitable, but eventually ceased to be. The page mentions "the tragic September 11 terrorist attacks, which also had a major negative impact on busin...
[16:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Sonic booms - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:07] <exec> 08└─One of the reasons why the SST (supersonic transport as faster than sound airliners were called when I was a kid) never gained traction was that it was not practical for transcontinental travel because of sonic booms. There were only a few places in North American where the planes would be allowed t...
[16:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Not so for a purely personal assistant - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:22] <exec> 08└─... for some values of "useful personal assistant," sure, but you're talking about different things now. Topic: AI.
[16:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:You can't have your cake and eat it too. - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 1581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:24] <exec> 08└─I want an AI that can help, too. I don't want it it storing my data in some "cloud" operated by entities that share it for free to some parties, and sell it repeatedly to others. Maybe that is a cost of having the AI provided by commercial interests/private enterprise. It used to be that I could pro...
[16:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:39] <exec> 08└─That's for when his Mom is on vacation.
[16:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Really? - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:40] <exec> 08└─Well, we know that people who have been asked to make small decisions experience a sort of fatigue when faced with other future decisions. So if we could outsource our petty decision making tasks, that would be ideal since it would allow us to focus on decisions we care about -- not whether to take...
[16:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Offline - yip. Online - nope. - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 1612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:42] <exec> 08└─I'm definitely interested in such a project with offline functionality. As for online? Think about the fact that individuals from the FBI to Facebook are already taping over their laptop's cameras. Yes, they obviously have far more people interested in attacking them than I do, yet they also have va...
[16:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodbye France - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:53] <exec> 08└─I suddenly feel the presence of millions of French tears as they realize they cannot look down there nose on the US and make "imperialist" comments. They will still do, of course, because it is in their DNA to look down their noses on anyone, but they now realize they are actively being hypocrites.
[16:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:45] <exec> 08└─Funny - our local grocer occupies the north end of the block in town. He also owns the building adjacent, to the south. His groceries are deliverd by tractor trailer. When a shorter rig delivers, it backs in to the rear of the building, from the east. When the truck is straightened out, it blocks on...
[16:50:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:20] <exec> 08└─With as crappy as both MSPP candidates were, this The sad part is that the overwhelming majority of those "protesting" the outcome across the country didn't go out and vote. More than two-thirds of those 30 and under can't even be bothered to vote. A lot of them, like many who post here, are just t...
[16:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:22] <exec> 08└─A large percentage of people who were eligible to vote didn't even bother.
[16:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Could it be... - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:50:26] <exec> 08└─US got the president it deserves. Too bad the rest of the world has to deal with that asshole as well.
[16:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 2053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:15] <exec> 08└─My experience says otherwise and I do keep track of fuel economy closely using the on board computer and pumped gallons with miles driven. Having access to both non-oxy and the standard E-10 fuel, both 91 octane, as well as having vehicle I tow with frequently. So in my car without towing on the hig...
[16:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:17] <exec> 08└─With the '78 F100 (302V8) when it was new I kept good track, and the drop was indeed about 10%, and it ran hot. Less difference after the engine was rebuilt, but it also got less fussy about its fuel. With the '91 F350 (460 V8) it was rebuilt shortly before I bought it. Best case it gets about 14mpg...
[16:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:19] <exec> 08└─My experience is that your experience is exceptionally poor. When I've kept records and done the math myself, it's ranged from ~4-8%. It's certainly not impossible that some engines cope with it more poorly than the ones I have tried though.
[16:51:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:21] <exec> 08└─I kept good track with the F100 (302 V8). And it was indeed about 10%. It was fairly fussy about its fuel, tho -- I could tell immediately if there was water in the gas. Less so after it was rebuilt.
[16:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:51:26] <exec> 08└─http://www.chemicalprocessing.com/articles/2016/bio-based-isobutanol-beckons/ Thanks, much more informative link.
[16:53:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Not sure what you mean by "first" - 06Kids Review the Top Virtual Reality Headsets - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:53:16] <exec> 08└─Umm... neither closed circuit cameras nor HMDs make for a VR headset, though the latter is a precursor. To do VR you need a virtual environment to interact with (closed circuit camera delivers only telepresence) Obviously though we have had real VR for a long time, the line should read "First consum...
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[17:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Tokin' Heart Syndrome - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:57] <exec> 08└─Also, night vision. [theguardian.com]
[17:45:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03deadstick [5110] 02Re:omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 26 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:10] <exec> 08└─I want a Jake brake sound.
[17:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Jake brake (TM) - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:13] <exec> 08└─Has Jacobs Vehicle Systems [jacobsvehiclesystems.com] trademarked the sound of the Jake brake the way Harley-Davidson tried to trademark its motorcycles' "potato potato" sound [latimes.com]?
[17:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:16] <exec> 08└─Or how about the sound that the flying "cars" made in The Jetsons?
[17:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:20] <exec> 08└─And how many of those 2400 injuries would have happened anyhow even if the car sounded like a freight train? People are dumb. I sneak up on people at intersections all the time in my 6 cylinder suv. Its a Honda, so its quieter most other cars in it class, but seriously how can you miss this thing? I...
[17:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:22] <exec> 08└─I can't wait for all those cars to be lined up outside of schools ... it's going to be like a symphony. And every parking lot in America is going to be a choir ... especially in apartment complexes.
[17:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:26] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of Ride of the Valkyries myself.
[17:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:28] <exec> 08└─Imagine a road with a bunch of cars going less than 19 mph, and they are all making that sound. This is creating a huge amount of noise pollution to benefit a very small number of people. I'm all for finding ways to keep those impaired people safer. But this does not seem like the way to do it.
[17:45:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:30] <exec> 08└─When I was young I was allowed to visit Rome. Chock full of stinking cars standing still or driving in slow traffic. Every single one of them honking, to prove that they hadn't fallen asleep, or that their claxon still worked, or that they were proud Italians, or something.
[17:45:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:33] <exec> 08└─Imagine a road with a bunch of cars going less than 19 mph, and they are all making that sound.
[17:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:35] <exec> 08└─If the idea is to alert blind people of your vehicle, a Tesla that makes pterodactyl sounds might be... confusing. This sounds like a situation where we shouldn't all set our own shitty sound effects; opting to use one of a few standard noises seems more useful. I'm not saying I want the government...
[17:45:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:37] <exec> 08└─favorite song
[17:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:42] <exec> 08└─How about "Prove to me that there's a problem"? or "Prove to me that every car on the street making noise is going to make it easier to detect the noise that's coming at me?" For the gp's post about obnoxious street crossing beeping for the visually impaired - how about requiring the people who NEED...
[17:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:44] <exec> 08└─I wonder what the brainstorming sessions sounded like to come up with this? This meeting is to come up with some kind of anti-EV regulations. It's got to be something that will encourage people to stick with fossil fueled cars. As a bonus it should make owners of EVs feel ashamed. Even better is if...
[17:45:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:46] <exec> 08└─Noise pollution isn't just a "social good" it has measurable health impacts see for example: http://ec.europa.eu [europa.eu] If it has measurable health and economic impact then it should be possible to calculate life-years-lost for compar...
[17:45:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:50] <exec> 08└─"the newer brake lights these days that blink 3-5 times every time they apply the brakes." Is that what that is? I've noticed that and just assumed the tail light was faulty.
[17:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:53] <exec> 08└─I think it's different than the super-fast turn signal blink that means your turn signal is faulty. After a quick search it looks like people sell aftermarket kits for installing the flashing brake light.
[17:45:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02you have no business being on this website - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:55] <exec> 08└─If you can't deal with a few blinky lights, you have no business being on this website.
[17:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:45:57] <exec> 08└─I have missed a car slowing ahead of me at highway speeds (due to large follow distance and lack of depth perception). My passenger pointed it out in plenty of time though. Blinking lights may help in that edge-case. I wonder if there is more than one blink pattern. The local firetrucks have lights...
[17:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:00] <exec> 08└─> This is why we got Trump Lol. Strobe lights on schools buses? No, juhmorris, your pet peeves did not get trump elected.
[17:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 1172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:03] <exec> 08└─Wow. Missing the point so hard must surely be on purpose. But what the hell, I'll bite: It's not about pet peeves. It's about intrusive, inefficient, time-wasting, energy-sucking bureaucracy. Don't believe me? Ask a veteran about proving to the VA that some condition was service-related. Gulf War Sy...
[17:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:05] <exec> 08└─Nobody will want to be caught dead in a car that screeches BEEP BEEP like a garbage truck, continuously, as it goes down quiet residential streets.
[17:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Solution is too obvious to see - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:08] <exec> 08└─The "backing up" noise from heavy machinery? Ew. Hey Einsteins: How about you, oh I don't know, record normal gasoline engines and play that instead?
[17:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:10] <exec> 08└─Why put this stipulation on it "The regulation covers vehicles with four wheels that weigh less than 10,000 pounds" So they have to revisit in the future to make another law?!?!
[17:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:3, Insightful) 02pedestrian crossing music - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:12] <exec> 08└─Why don't we just get those pedestrian crossing signals they have in Japan that play music when it's time to cross? I always thought that was neat. It doesn't just help blind people cross, it helps people that aren't paying as much attention as they should.
[17:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02I scream - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:14] <exec> 08└─I want the ice cream truck jingle: have all the kids come running out just to see me drive away laughing. Except for the blind kids, who will end up chasing me for a block because they can't see that, damn it, I'M NOT THE ICE CREAM MAN!!! :)
[17:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Only one I will accept - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:17] <exec> 08└─Mouth car sounds. "vroom, vroom, VROOM!" Breaks can be a high pitched: "ERRRRRRT!" Since electric cars get such a good jump off the line it would make for an epic drag race.
[17:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02As seen on another forum - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:19] <exec> 08└─As someone mentioned at another forum a few years ago (similar issue in EU): Just record the sound/humm at an electrical substation and play that; it is non-intrusive, soothing, easy to pinpoint, and best of all the doppler-effect in it is obvious (so you can instantly tell is some car is moving in...
[17:46:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03RamiK [1813] 02How dare they steal our clients' metadata?! - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:31] <exec> 08└─That's ours to sell! Verizon
[17:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Who else? - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:34] <exec> 08└─> Who else is mining [snip] citizens for data? These days? Anyone making any kind of connected app or device, anywhere in the world. Exceptions probably exist, but they'll come to their senses soon.
[17:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02And this is why... - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:37] <exec> 08└─...you have your Pyro do a Spy check ("bur. Now BLU has the intelligence!
[17:47:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] 02Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 769 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:14] <exec> 08└─Even if you could cross the Atlantic instantly, you would still spend 3 hours getting to the airport and two hours at the checkin, then an hour waiting to board. On arrival, you spend two hours clearing customs and immigration, and then two hours trying to find your car in the long stay carpark. Ret...
[17:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Sonic booms - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:52] <exec> 08└─Traveling at higher altitudes should help to alleviate that.
[17:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sonic booms - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:53] <exec> 08└─As a kid, I've lived in a rural area near a fighter jet training areal. Several times a day, I'd get to see Tornados (the fighter jet, not the storm) accelerating to supersonic. Sometimes they were low enough to catch a glimpse into the jet nozzle as they were passing by. Depending on how far away t...
[17:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fixing it another way - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:55] <exec> 08└─We've largely learned to tolerate our slow, boring aircraft. But there's a compelling case that we shouldn't — that air travel should actually be much, much quicker.
[17:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Really? - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:28] <exec> 08└─That's it. I've had enough. Society has now degraded to where we need a very expensive machine to do our laundry for us, because we're too fat and lazy to do it, plus a "digital assistant" to talk to and remind us to do these mundane tasks. I don't like this new world. I quit the internet, and life.
[17:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what i want in personal AI, a wishlist. - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:30] <exec> 08└─I want a God with the voice of Shodan, confidence levels of YHVH (judeo-christian god), with determination of Inanna (sumerian goddess) and the diplomacy skills of Henry Kissinger; that is smart enough to find zerodays from hearing a SCREENSHOT of an executable's UI being described!1 A diplomatic ye...
[17:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Battle for Mosul still ongoing - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:48] <exec> 08└─I can imagine that the French see the need to extend the state of emergency: Most of the so-called "Syria-goers" from Europe were from France, AFAIK. Confirmed here: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] So they're...
[17:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Do people actually use these - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:19] <exec> 08└─I'll fully admit I'm not in the target market, but do people actually use all these emoji? The basic smiley faces on text messages and IMs are fairly common, and I'll go so far as to grant that they "should" exist. Besides them, though, I'll see 0-1 emojis on a daily basis... and certainly not to th...
[17:49:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:55] <exec> 08└─How is the cyclist supposed to avoid the 'door zone" in that set-up?
[17:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:47] <exec> 08└─> I'm not choosing sides (...) 5 more decades and I'm out, it's my kids' problem then. Giving up when the clock is against you is wise. Who's ever accomplished anything in less than 50 years?
[17:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:50:49] <exec> 08└─You understand the realistic perspective and analysis of the GP? There wasn't even anything to really argue with!! Hmmm, jmo you are a special kind of special. The kind I especially don't want to be around.
[17:52:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:52:09] <exec> 08└─I suspect that's (a|the) factor producing variance from the manufacturers tests. Alcohol tends to suck up humidity. Pure alcohol that's never left the lab might give you what their tests show, but then in reality by the time you burn it there's some water in it.
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[18:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score:2) 02Illegal drug... - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:08] <exec> 08└─Or, perhaps, Marijuana users forced to go to illegal drug dealers received laced products which had unforeseen side effects that turned out generally to be temporary. Sorry government, you won't be scaring us into reefer madness again.
[18:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Illegal drug... - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:09] <exec> 08└─That's right, hold on real tight to that "it is absolutely and certainly 100% safe" mantra. Lose that, and all you can fall back on is all that wonderful rope and shirts you can make argument.
[18:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Illegal drug... - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:11] <exec> 08└─Like every drug marijuana can be bad, but it is one of the few that has real medical uses and its negative effects can be mitigated by not directly burning it. Of all the drugs I'd choose for a society to have a problem with, marijuana would probably be the one.
[18:45:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Illegal drug... - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 1525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:14] <exec> 08└─I'm not totally sure of your angle here, but 100% safe is hardly a reasonable target for legalization. The controlled substances act requires three things for listing on schedule I: A. The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse. B. The drug or other substance has no currently accepte...
[18:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Illegal drug... - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:16] <exec> 08└─There are many possible factors, but don't write off some science out of fear. If there is a real connection then it would be best for people who use marijuana to know about it, then if they have weird chest symptoms they may be more likely to seek help before its too late. I think we're well past r...
[18:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score:1) 02hmmm - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:18] <exec> 08└─I know someone who has occasionally suffered from something like this. She's actually ended up in the ER with heart attack like symptoms a couple of times. The Docs wrote it off as panic attacks, subscribed some xanax, klonipin or something like that and sent her on her way, but this would fit too.
[18:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02wait, what? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:45:20] <exec> 08└─something doesn't add up here. I'm still on my first cup of Tea so I'll be the first to say I'm probably not firing on all cylinders so bear with me adn don't expect too much cognitive thinking. So they looked 33,000 people who already had issues, then looked at 210 who said they smoked Cannabis jus...
[18:45:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:41] <exec> 08└─> Its a matter of eye contact. If a pedestrian does not look directly at you, assume you are invisible. > For pedestrians and cyclists, assume you are invisible even if a driver DOES look directly at you. How can they look directly at the driver, through his giant cell phone?
[18:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:45:57] <exec> 08└─how about requiring the people who NEED the crossing to beep carry a transponder that tells the infernal beeper "OK, you're needed now"
[18:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:05] <exec> 08└─Blinking lights might make sense for when a person takes their foot off the accelerator but before applying brake, or after applying brake but before stepping on the accelerator. But even that is only useful in huge vehicles that will tend to slow down rather fast when not accelerating.
[18:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:10] <exec> 08└─> Wow. Missing the point so hard must surely be on purpose. Ditto. If you buy the neglected working man narrative, none of that, except possibly the VA, applies.
[18:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:14] <exec> 08└─My ID requires me to vote for the song Motörhead
[18:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:pedestrian crossing music - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:20] <exec> 08└─I've seen one of those in America, but only one. It doesn't really have music so much as a horrible beeping sound, but hey, this is America. It also repeatedly says "WAIT... WAIT... WAIT..." if you've pressed the button but the signal isn't on yet, and "WALK SIGN IS ON ACROSS [street name]" when it'...
[18:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:pedestrian crossing music - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:22] <exec> 08└─Here in sweden almost all pedestrian traffic lights emits an audible slow "tick, tick, tick" when red and a fast "tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick" when green, and a pulsed "tick-tick-tick-silence" when about to turn red.
[18:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I scream - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:25] <exec> 08└─Respect to the man in the ice cream van!
[18:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Probably to sell to the NSA - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:39] <exec> 08└─Your personal experience is not relevant to the question of whether or not this would be valuable for espionage. TL;DR cool story bro
[18:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score:1) 02CarrierIQ - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:47] <exec> 08└─Great its CarrierIQ 2.0. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] And ADUPS sounds even more invasive except for the keylogging http://www1-lw.xda-cdn.com [xda-cdn.com] Sounds like some ZTE and Huawei products may be affected too.
[18:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:They sold that many? - 06Mazda Recalls 70,000 RX-8 Sports Cars in the U.S. - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:58] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone want an automatic RX8?
[18:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:They sold that many? - 06Mazda Recalls 70,000 RX-8 Sports Cars in the U.S. - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:03] <exec> 08└─They are very common in the UK. If I had a bit more money I'd have one as a cool toy. Many years ago I had a very old RX 7 with a 12A engine. It was the best fun car I've ever had.
[18:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Way of the dinosaur - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:56] <exec> 08└─Your numbers are interesting, although 5% increased travel vs 1% population increase for a single country hardly mean anything over a one-year span. You could probably explain that away with increased need to move Big Egos around for the U.S. presidential election. It's fairly constant over the last...
[18:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Air travel - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:02] <exec> 08└─The concord did have a higher take-off speed than other plane designs. That was how a piece of debris with able to destroy a tire and wing.
[18:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Noise regulations - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:05] <exec> 08└─Of course these regulations had nothing to do with a noise, they were all about stifling competition and good ole US protectionism.
[18:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm .... - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:02] <exec> 08└─Godwin is not compulsory either.
[18:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:49:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the cops were busy looking for violations of laws that actually matter, not ticketing every single violation they happen to see.
[18:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:15] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand. To use segregated bike lanes (and side-roads) safely, you need to stop at every intersection to check for turning cars. If I travel on the main road with everybody else, most intersections are protected by stop signs. I generally only get off the road when I am too tired to mainta...
[18:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:The only ones? - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:29] <exec> 08└─No, this must be fake. I've been repeatedly assured that Syrians are fleeing for free money in Germany. Not due to threat to life and limb.
[18:50:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 733 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:51] <exec> 08└─> What we need is a browser plugin that does what this site does It wouldn't make a bit of difference. The people must gullibly attracted to fake news, and there are plenty of soybeans in this group, don't care about facts. They've decided that all sources of news are equally untrustworthy which as...
[18:50:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Truthiness - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:53] <exec> 08└─So, yes, Trump has been fact-checked 38 more times than Clinton. And, yes, PolitiFact was the one deciding what statements to fact check.
[18:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Truthiness - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:56] <exec> 08└─Google: "wikileaks clinton" Result: 46 million hits. I think it was covered a bit...
[18:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Truthiness - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:58] <exec> 08└─OOh, let's get even more specific, using The Donald's favorite whipping boy the New York Times: Google: "site:nytimes.com wikileaks clinton" Result: 42,200 results. The New York Times covered the story over fourty thousand times!
[18:51:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Purge is on - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:51:30] <exec> 08└─What is "/b"?
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[19:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Bullshit - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:01] <exec> 08└─Overpriced nostalgia, and when did Apple ever do something for the good of humanity? Overpriced yet high quality hardware powering substandard software. At least the software has improved in the last 5 years, but without Jobs they've lost their way a bit. Apple: the snake oil salesmen of computing....
[19:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Flyingmoose [4369] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:02] <exec> 08└─If Apple's software is substandard, what's Microsoft's?
[19:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:05] <exec> 08└─THE standard! At least if you believe M$ and their efforts to cram it down our throats. I will give M$ a nod for allowing users to do just about whatever they want with their system, well in the past anyway. Win10 is the North Korea of the software world.
[19:45:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Kickstarter, anyone? - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:07] <exec> 08└─I want to see this book on the Hydraulic Press Channel [youtube.com] on YouTube.
[19:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Only "special" paper? - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:09] <exec> 08└─Not "magic" paper? I'm disappointed. But after reading today's articles about the soldered down SSD of the new Macbook "Pro"s and the iFixit report testifying complete irrepairability, they're probably off better with any kind of good spin. As for the their latest stuff, I wonder what they were thin...
[19:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Haggling - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:11] <exec> 08└─For that price, I imagine you're supposed to a haggle for the Apple Store to throw in a coffee table along with the book.
[19:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02And when the next edition comes out - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:13] <exec> 08└─This edition's pages will inexplicably start sticking together.
[19:45:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:And when the next edition comes out - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:16] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with the pages you are turning them wrong.
[19:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Yeah, but, . . . - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:18] <exec> 08└─Is this special paper carbon-neutral and gluten-free?
[19:45:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Backwards compatibility - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:20] <exec> 08└─I bet it doesn't even have a headphone jack
[19:45:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:2) 02Nice - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:22] <exec> 08└─For $300 it better have rounded corners.
[19:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Illegal drug... - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:35] <exec> 08└─The controlled substances act
[19:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:hmmm - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:38] <exec> 08└─Well, it wouldn't fit with the fact that the doctors diagnosed a panic attack, and did not diagnose a heart condition, no. But the fact that this post says "Score:2, Informative" says a lot.
[19:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:wait, what? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:41] <exec> 08└─Yeah, two things: First, no text. Obviously, the authors are afraid of the real peer review, and would rather sit comfortably behind the paywall, preventing the public and the world-wide scientific community from looking at the research. The supporting data set is also unavailable, it seems. For my...
[19:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Hmm, where are the calls for warning labels? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:45:43] <exec> 08└─So when will all these 'dispensaries' going to be required to put horrible warning labels on their products? When will we treat dope tokers like smokers, reviling them, shunning them, forcing them farther and farther away from buildings, forbid them to even light up in public PARKS, etc? When do we...
[19:45:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, where are the calls for warning labels? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:46] <exec> 08└─Sorry, jmorris, this is a non-smoking area! You must move at least twenty yards further away from SoylentNews. What's that? You will not be able to get a wifi signal to post? Well, that is certainly too bad, but better than forcing your carcinogens down the throats of your fellow Soylentils, don't...
[19:45:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, where are the calls for warning labels? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:48] <exec> 08└─I'd be suprised if jmorris himself can tell when he's being sarcastic. As often (but not always) is the case, if he is not, then what he is saying is upside-down: marijuana in almost all of its forms is still illegal under the US federal law, and there are still what like a million people in prison/...
[19:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmm, where are the calls for warning labels? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:50] <exec> 08└─There are already restrictions on where you can toke up in those legal recreational states.
[19:45:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmm, where are the calls for warning labels? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:45:52] <exec> 08└─Jmo the slow-mo
[19:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:11] <exec> 08└─I hear they sell coconuts, just hire an intern to hold them out the window and knock them together :)
[19:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:17] <exec> 08└─For pedestrians and cyclists, assume you are invisible even if a driver DOES look directly at you.
[19:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:19] <exec> 08└─I was thinking along similar lines. This will encourage drivers to go faster than the noise threshold resulting likely in more serious accidents in those places they really ought to be rolling along at 15 mph for example.
[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:1) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:22] <exec> 08└─It seems like an awful lot of effort to save 2400 "injuries" when the total number of injuries per year in the USA is in the millions. I wish they would take into account how many of those 30000+ deaths that occur per year would be saved by simply requiring forward looking warning systems instead to...
[19:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score:2) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:24] <exec> 08└─Great point - electric cars will be among the first to incorporate systems to automatically brake in these scenarios, making the entire argument moot. This is entirely unnecessary and wasteful red tape.
[19:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:26] <exec> 08└─In a quiet environment, this isn't needed. We lived in a quiet neighborhood with a couple of Prius owners, you'd hear them coming from far away due to the tire noise, even under 20mph. Prius also has some inverter whine when producing/recovering power - but that may be mostly out of some people's fr...
[19:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:29] <exec> 08└─Can the cars wirelessly coordinate the timing of their noise? I suppose it could be used to make music like a symphony, but it would be more interesting if they could all stay in phase, so multiple cars got louder linearly, rather than the usual logarithmic increase. Imagine how annoying that could...
[19:46:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TapeApe [2146] 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 103 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the theme music from Jaws - something everyone recognizes means "careful - something's coming!"
[19:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02White noise alerts instead of beep beeps - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:40] <exec> 08└─Years ago a company was promoting a noise generator as alarm. Like white noise, or pink noise or one of those. It was a lot calmer yet same effectiveness. Found it! http://brigade-electronics.com [brigade-electronics.com] with video https://www.youtube.c...
[19:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's India's chance - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:43] <exec> 08└─I want one that goes Mhooooo.
[19:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 1934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:50] <exec> 08└─I think there is an issue for a subset of the population: namely, the elderly and those with eyesight issues. For the elderly, they are used to cars making noise and changing 50 years of habits with regards to walking around parking lots and crossing streets does not happen overnight. There will be...
[19:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:46:57] <exec> 08└─They're very popular on motorcycles, as it's easy for a car to not see the one brake-light on a motorcycle and run over them while the motorcycle is slowing...
[19:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 1888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:09] <exec> 08└─I think you have a great point with regards to blinking lights; we are reaching a point of information saturation. I recall in article talking about how the US has significantly more road signage per mile than Europe. There is an upper limit to how much information a person can process in a timely a...
[19:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fubari [4551] (Score:2) 02no... Re:Does not make much difference to journey - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:18] <exec> 08└─Looking at it the wrong way. The target market for supersonic anything will have their personal helicopter dropping off / picking up from the airports. Or possibly Uber Chopper [uber.com]. Follow up question: do people flying first class go through regular security lines?
[19:49:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 3266 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
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[19:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodbye France - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:36] <exec> 08└─That is an unfair characterization, but anecdotally I must admit it fits pretty damn well. Such a weird cultural thing. Racism and xenophobia are kinda understandable due to ignorance and fear, but a general cultural arrogance? SO WEIRD!! Oh wait, we totally have that in the US with our freedom frie...
[19:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Goodbye France - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:38] <exec> 08└─It’s now down to giving in to Islam, or surrendering the last mainstay of their cultural identity for security.
[19:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmmm .... - 06French Government Seeks Second Extension to Emergency Powers - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:47] <exec> 08└─And where the government took massive amounts of power and irreparably damaged the nation by predictably abusing it. Muslims are just an excuse for governments to take away our liberties; we don't actually have to do it.
[19:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:41] <exec> 08└─Man, I regularly see police officers illegally parked sideways across multiple handicap spaces...while they run in for a pack of cigarettes. And *these* are the people you expect to start writing tickets for parking violations?
[19:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bike lanes between parked cars and curb - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:58] <exec> 08└─You misunderstand. To use segregated bike lanes (and side-roads) safely, you need to stop at every intersection to check for turning cars. If I travel on the main road with everybody else, most intersections are protected by stop signs.
[19:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:51:57] <exec> 08└─Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, Courage to change the things I can, And wisdom to know the difference.
[19:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:52:05] <exec> 08└─£350M/week.
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[20:44:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Kickstarter, anyone? - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:44:59] <exec> 08└─And I need to know if it will blend. [wikipedia.org]
[20:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:And when the next edition comes out - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:04] <exec> 08└─He's trying to use standard fingers. Apple has decided that their new proprietary interface was better, but they'll sell you adapter gloves for a measly $70 per hand.
[20:45:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, but, . . . - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:08] <exec> 08└─The Applenomicon! A book of pure evil.
[20:45:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, but, . . . - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:11] <exec> 08└─Slightly OT: 300$ for human-skin bound book is a great deal.
[20:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah, but, . . . - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:13] <exec> 08└─It's cruelty-free.
[20:45:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:3, Funny) 02A beautiful dedication - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:17] <exec> 08└─Tomorrow I will take a shit and dedicate it to the memory Steve Jobs. Look for the toilet paper on E-bay. $800.
[20:45:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Eh? Starting with Volume II are they? - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:19] <exec> 08└─Why are they discarding the most interesting half of Apple's history? Is this Vol II and a Vol I exists that we didn't get told about, is it just delayed? This doesn't make a lot of sense otherwise.
[20:45:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02the most interesting half of Apple's history - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:21] <exec> 08└─simple... Jony wasn't the Chosen One then
[20:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Eh? Starting with Volume II are they? - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:23] <exec> 08└─For all the well deserved hate, Apple marketing and product design is something of a paragon in their respective communities. This book has an appropriate niche market at $300... but, being Apple, it's going to get this kind of press and sell many more copies than the price-appropriate niche would n...
[20:45:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eh? Starting with Volume II are they? - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it does solidify their niche "I'm a more sophisticated user" market. I don't think anyone argues Apple's marketing genius when Jobs was around, but now? I think they're doing a good job of shooting themselves in the foot. Take away headphone jack? Lack of good product development? Now this? Th...
[20:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Silver - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:28] <exec> 08└─gilded matte silver edges
[20:45:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0220 Year Apple Employees - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:30] <exec> 08└─I guess we know what they're going to get as an anniversary gift.
[20:45:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fishscene [4361] (Score:2) 02Cue the lawsuit - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:45:32] <exec> 08└─Cue the lawsuit from the folks who own the sharp corner patent/copyright.
[20:45:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score:1) 02Re:hmmm - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:49] <exec> 08└─They diagnosed a panic attack because it was someone young who seemingly had no heart problems. I was given the impression they didn't do enough diagnostics to rule out an actual heart condition; they did essentially nothing but observe and check vitals. However, this person also has no history of p...
[20:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Hmm, where are the calls for warning labels? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:45:57] <exec> 08└─Wat? Um, we do forbid people from smoking cannabis in public parks. Or at least that's how it is in Colorado. I routinely smoke cigarettes in public all over the place, but I do feel guilty about exposing others to the smoke so I try to take care. I'm certain I'd be arrested on the spot (or fined in...
[20:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:17] <exec> 08└─If the sound can be customizable, then how about a computer voice warning: Caution! The NTSB wants to discourage the use of electric vehicles. Caution! The NTSB wants to discourage the use of electric vehicles. Caution! The NTSB wants to discourage the use of electric vehicles. Repeated at intervals...
[20:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:19] <exec> 08└─Ugh! Meant to say: NHTSA
[20:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:omg ponies - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:21] <exec> 08└─I vote for the clip-clop sound of two coconut halves, Monty Python-fashion.
[20:46:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 872 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and forward as well as backward. In may cities, you rarely ever go above 19 mph so the vehicle will be doing this constantly. Same for traffic jams. Queue people moving further away from roads, erecting/demanding more embankments between their homes and roads, etc. Ironically housing might act...
[20:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:39] <exec> 08└─Honking. That reminds me. What is the shortest interval of time? If you guessed the planck time you would be wrong. (Planck time == time at speed of light to traverse the planck length.) The shortest interval of time is that which occurs between the light turning green and a Boston cab driver honkin...
[20:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:40] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes, the glories of Roman traffic. Vespas everywhere scurrying between stopped cars like ants, clogging up the roads so ambulances can't even get through. (Piece of advice: don't become ill while in Rome and require an ambulance -- it will take you forever to get to a hospital, since no one gets...
[20:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:55] <exec> 08└─My guess is that, in the long-term, this will be a bit like cell phones: 15 years ago, there is was a lot of effort expended on managing cell phones ringing in places they should not such as churches and movie theaters; it took a good 10 years for the expectations that cell phones ringers are silent...
[20:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I do not agree but I understand - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:57] <exec> 08└─I don't think a little car noise is that bad, I have zero problem with regular passenger car noises, the majority happens to be the tires on the road anyway! Noise pollution occurs with loud engines, not the quiet ones. Find a better way for emergency vehicles to travel without blaring sirens, helic...
[20:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:"bn"? - 06Samsung Buys Connected Car Firm Harman for $8bn in Cash - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:56] <exec> 08└─Here it abbreviates "billion." https://www.acronymfinder.com [acronymfinder.com]
[20:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Does not make much difference to journey times - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:18] <exec> 08└─Sounds like one of those Top Gear episodes/races... Car vs plane. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Concorde is for important people. - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:37] <exec> 08└─I'm so important that I can get up at the normal time, leave Paris at 11AM, be at NY at 8:30 AM, sign the multi-million-dollar contract before 10AM, and that's still 4PM where I started, allowing people there to act on it. I'm paid a million a year, so a wasted day travelling is a wash compared to t...
[20:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03SlimmPickens [1056] (Score:2) 02open source AI - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCog [wikipedia.org] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[20:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:12] <exec> 08└─It's only "whoosh" when it's actually funny. You can't type something inane and then claim "whoosh."
[20:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:life cycle - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:13] <exec> 08└─Is there already an Emoji for "whoosh"?
[20:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Image problem - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:31] <exec> 08└─Emoticons and emojis are not the same thing.
[20:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Image problem - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:32] <exec> 08└─So what, the backslash is "setminus", so it's "emoticons without emojis". ;-) (I wonder why in the latest time so many people use a backslash where a slash would belong.)
[20:52:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score:2) 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:52:03] <exec> 08└─FB Purity [facebook.com] has a text filter that can filter out URLs.
[20:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:media hubris - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:52:37] <exec> 08└─reporting them once in the least noticeable way possible and then refusing to discuss "old news" again
[20:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 2428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:38] <exec> 08└─The '91 probably does have a knock sensor that will richen the mix if it detects knocks. The fact that you mention that using midgrade vs. regular makes about the same difference as that between non-oxy vs E-10 would also indicate that you may have some pre-ignition problems that are "solved" by hav...
[20:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:53:43] <exec> 08└─Could be. In desert life nighttime condensation can be a problem, and I expect the EtOH sucks it right up.
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[21:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:57] <exec> 08└─No see obviously Hillary should get the credit for running the government behind the scenes by sending email to Russian hackers who then fix everything Trump does.
[21:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:44:58] <exec> 08└─There aren't really any regulations on C02 right now so there isn't much to get rid of. Large emitters have to report emissions to the EPA, but that's about it. Also, keep in mind this is emissions GROWTH. So, the rate of change is dropping, not the total emissions. We still emit something like 35 b...
[21:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:01] <exec> 08└─One thing to note is that unexpected coal slumps are usually a sign of a faltering global production economy. You know how we aren't quite out of the great recession yet because most of the growth there went to the upper class, well, welcome to 21st century recession version 2.0 (3.0 if you count do...
[21:45:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:13] <exec> 08└─Win10 is the North Korea of the software world.
[21:45:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Eh? Starting with Volume II are they? - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:33] <exec> 08└─I guess volume I would deal mostly with how they stole everything (Stanford, Xerox, Kramer ...) and funded the company by selling blue box devices. So nothing design related or something the i-design-hipsters would want to pay $300 to find out.
[21:45:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Silver - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:36] <exec> 08└─For that price I'd want gold
[21:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:wait, what? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:45:58] <exec> 08└─One final point: As the ever-popular mantra goes, "correlation does not equal causation". Specifically, just because pot use and mental health problems are linked doesn't mean that the pot leads to the mental health problems. There are 2 other very reasonable possibilities: 1. People with mental hea...
[21:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, where are the calls for warning labels? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:05] <exec> 08└─Don't worry about a thing, 'Cause every little thing gonna be alright.
[21:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmm, where are the calls for warning labels? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:46:08] <exec> 08└─I can't believe this got modded to 2 already for insinuating a Schedule 1 drug isn't being held to as high a standard as a legal drug. What the hell are the moderators smoking?
[21:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:This is why we got Trump - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 1244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:11] <exec> 08└─That flashing bus light is even more annoying than the newer brake lights these days that blink 3-5 times every time they apply the brakes. I'm quite sure there are no newer vehicles with brake lights like this, and in fact, they do not conform to Federal motor vehicle code and are therefore illegal...
[21:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:How dare they steal our clients' metadata?! - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:34] <exec> 08└─How dare the Chinese and Verizon steal our data! It should go only to the FBI and NSA!
[21:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:They sold that many? - 06Mazda Recalls 70,000 RX-8 Sports Cars in the U.S. - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:49] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile plenty other brands had manuals and automatics with practically the same performance numbers. Wrong. No other brand had a rotary engine. Rotary engines don't have the low-end torque that most other cars' piston engines have, and automatics are pretty notorious for not working terribly well...
[21:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:They sold that many? - 06Mazda Recalls 70,000 RX-8 Sports Cars in the U.S. - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:53] <exec> 08└─When I read comments like this, it makes me happy that I'm not married any more.
[21:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Way of the dinosaur - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:54] <exec> 08└─So just like the ubiquitous supersonic passenger airliner that's been just around the corner for around 50 years now? Excellent :)
[21:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Betteridge's Law of Headlines - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:20] <exec> 08└─Direct quote from Mr. Robot modded down -1 Flamebait FUCK YOU MODERATORS. FUCK. YOU. STUPID. MOTHER. FUCKING. IGNORANT. SHIT. FUCK. YOU.
[21:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:open source AI - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:47] <exec> 08└─There's also Mycroft: https://mycroft.ai [mycroft.ai]
[21:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Do people actually use these - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:46] <exec> 08└─I actually tried to use one just last night. I usually don't, but was talking with my girlfriend and wanted to send a hug emoji. They didn't have one. Nice to see they're getting *socks* though! (That was Facebook Messenger's collection, not Unicode though...not sure if there's any relation other th...
[21:51:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:51:10] <exec> 08└─Are you a real grammar Nazi?
[21:52:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02Re:assume - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:52:13] <exec> 08└─Thank god for archive services then [archive.is]. Preserving what's published no matter how real, fake, embarrassing, or inspirational it was.
[21:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:20% biofuel != 20% reduction in fuel used - 06Alaska Airlines Makes History With Bio-Fuel Flight - 1760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:53:50] <exec> 08└─I got the '78 brand new. First encountered ethanol mix (at least that's how it was labeled) I believe in 1979, and was immediately unhappy with it (ran hot, reduced economy, sharply reduced power). Truck would have had maybe 6,000 miles on it, mostly highway use. Unlikely to be carbon buildup at tha...
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[22:44:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Texas-style ? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:44] <exec> 08└─Applying about 10kV would guarantee the quick loss of all fat.
[22:44:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Texas-style ? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:45] <exec> 08└─Or '64 tons' dropped from overhead.
[22:44:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Texas-style ? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:47] <exec> 08└─Sounds messy. Who will clean up after the head bursts?
[22:44:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Texas-style ? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:50] <exec> 08└─Illegal immigrants?
[22:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:44:52] <exec> 08└─
[22:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:54] <exec> 08└─Ethanol Fueled, why you no login?
[22:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:56] <exec> 08└─Every troll is ethanol fuuuuueld.
[22:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:44:58] <exec> 08└─I've often noticed I'm hungry immediately after taking a dump. If only there were some way of simulating the effect of carrying around a huge load of shit. Could it be used for hunger suppression.
[22:45:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:01] <exec> 08└─Then get a job with Fox News ;-)
[22:45:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Ideology warning! - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:03] <exec> 08└─I'm going to talk about one of the internet's single most hated subjects: that being fat or thin isn't entirely down to personal discipline. +0 Disagree(x400) -1 Troll. It's absolutely 100% true that you cannot help but lose weight if your calories in are less than your BMR+exercise calories. So no...
[22:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What could possibly go wrong? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:45:05] <exec> 08└─"Possible side effects include migraine headaches, bleeding ears, up to 90% loss in IQ points, and being mistaken for an extra in a zombie flick."
[22:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:26] <exec> 08└─You may think its cute to get pics of your pupper "working" on your laptop, but please please PLEASE don't do it! Ever seen an animal protoneuralized? Yeah, ugly stuff.
[22:45:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:And when the next edition comes out - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:35] <exec> 08└─In the case of true Apple fans, that's probably normal with Apple advertising copy.
[22:45:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Nice - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:45:44] <exec> 08└─Someone quick patent the rectangular book and sue Apple for patent infringement.
[22:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Illegal drug... - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:06] <exec> 08└─Marijuana smells like dead skunk. Give me the tears of the poppy instead.
[22:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Illegal drug... - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:07] <exec> 08└─Good only for killing pain. Phoenix I know you took the election hard, but c'mon poppy-products are not the answer!
[22:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02medical uses for alcohol and tobacco - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:11] <exec> 08└─Alcohol (ethanol) is the antidote for ethylene glycol poisoning. You must stay drunk until the ethylene glycol is eliminated from your body. Cigarettes can be eaten to eliminate parasitic worms. This is probably not the ideal treatment, but it counts. It's one of several options listed in the old US...
[22:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:hmmm - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:17] <exec> 08└─Was it related to smoking weed or just a random thing? 'Cuz I've seen weed induce panic attacks in people, the paranoia and sensory effects can be pretty strong.
[22:46:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02Re:wait, what? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 1338 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, two things: First, no text. Obviously, the authors are afraid of the real peer review, and would rather sit comfortably behind the paywall, preventing the public and the world-wide scientific community from looking at the research. The supporting data set is also unavailable, it seems. For my...
[22:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:wait, what? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 2184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:46:23] <exec> 08└─I wanna see who is writing the checks myself, as this reminds me of the "ZOMG vaping products create formaldehyde!" articles. When people asked what SHOULD have been simple questions any researcher should answer, like 1.- What products were used? 2.- What voltages? 3.- what was the mixture of PG and...
[22:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02The good shit - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:34] <exec> 08└─Say, does anyone know which strain of weed is so strong it makes your heart stop? Asking for a friend.
[22:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:02] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it would be too much to ask for the standard to require x-dB above current background noise instead of a simple x-dB minimum that's adequate for safety in midtown Manhattan.
[22:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:06] <exec> 08└─That would be fun. Hack them so that they produce a building atmospheric sound to induce terror, like in horror movies before Jason strikes.
[22:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Delwin [4554] (Score:1) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:19] <exec> 08└─There's an iPhone app that has a connector to the car's computer port and can play sound based on RPMs. Works for combustion and electric. You can make your car sound like a hot rod... or a Tie fighter...
[22:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02skywalks - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:28] <exec> 08└─I prefer separating pedestrians from cars entirely. Place all sidewalks at the 2nd or 3rd story level. No more crosswalks, have it all be bridges. Can use tunnels too. But I know that won't happen soon, if ever. We can't even be bothered to change all railroad crossings into underpasses or overpasse...
[22:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:skywalks - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:30] <exec> 08└─Would be better to place the cars in tunnels - it would deal with the noise from traffic, allow sub-city loading docks, and keep the nice outdoors available for the cyclists and pedestrians (would also cut back on effects of weather on traffic), and get rid of all those parking lots. But yeah, I agr...
[22:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Part - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 1239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:48] <exec> 08└─I have one and they are great phones, really built like tanks. If anybody bothered to RTFL it clearly says its a third party app included in some models...well who in the hell doesn't uninstall that bloatware shit? that is the first thing I do with a new phone from ANY company, get rid of all the th...
[22:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:They sold that many? - 06Mazda Recalls 70,000 RX-8 Sports Cars in the U.S. - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:06] <exec> 08└─I wonder if a CVT would be a good match for a Wankel.
[22:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Four door sports car? - 06Mazda Recalls 70,000 RX-8 Sports Cars in the U.S. - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:13] <exec> 08└─In my day a four door car would have been called a sedan, not a sports car... the English language is changing too fast for me. Mumble grumble.. off my lawn... grumble grump
[22:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:profit - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:39] <exec> 08└─So they weren't operating at a loss; they just weren't making *enough* profit.
[22:48:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:look no wings ma1 - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:58] <exec> 08└─14 hours travel time reduced to 2 hours travel time? They just might. The problem as usual is not finding people who want to do that, but finding them to do that at the present cost.
[22:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:it only takes one - 06New York City Using 311 and Open Data to Track Bike Lane Blockers - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:51:25] <exec> 08└─"Ein Maurer" would work, too.
[22:52:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:Truthiness - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:21] <exec> 08└─Strangely none of Trumps' lies included lying to congress, if we are talking false equivalency.
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[23:44:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:51] <exec> 08└─More like alcohol fueled! I've seen EF make reasonable well thought out points, so maybe one day the trolling bit will get old and we can have a productive member of the SN community.
[23:44:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:53] <exec> 08└─-1 learn basic science
[23:44:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:55] <exec> 08└─Dude should be methanol fueled.
[23:44:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apply directly to the rectum - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:44:59] <exec> 08└─That is because your body has gotten accustomed to the "full" feeling. When I overeat I get the opposite, I'm too full and the thought of food makes me slightly nauseous. Yet I still managed to put on an extra bit of weight... There is no easy solution for that feeling except discipline. Try to not...
[23:45:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ideology warning! - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:02] <exec> 08└─It is the human condition. We apply what we know about ourselves to the world at large. Personally I'm a fan of at least attempting to live and let live. Someone is fat? So what, live your own life. Now if they complain a lot about being overweight then they're opening the door to advice and critici...
[23:45:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Ideology warning! - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:05] <exec> 08└─being fat or thin isn't entirely down to personal discipline.
[23:45:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What could possibly go wrong? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:08] <exec> 08└─You're sure it's non-lethal? Sign me up!
[23:45:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Nice theory for the mechanism of action... - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:10] <exec> 08└─However, so many possible things can come into play... Moderate electrostim can also alleviate depression, which leads to: bingo! fat loss. Being enrolled in a study that has people who call around and check up on you can also have similar effects - as small and preliminary as this study is, did the...
[23:45:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02What about the real thing? - 06Zap to the Head Leads to Fat Loss - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:12] <exec> 08└─Because it activates the vestibular system, the stimulation evoked the sensation of gently rocking on a boat or floating in a pool,
[23:45:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:23] <exec> 08└─I have been telling everyone I know pretty much what you just said. The material markets and shipping markets usually show what is up first. They are not looking good. Also tech jobs in my area pretty much dried up. Another good sign companies are scaling back. Stocks are pretty much last to go. As...
[23:45:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:25] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, I've been so wary of that. If the government had been doing a strong Keynesian approach to fiscal policy, we'd be ready with modest interest rates right now. Instead the policy was "cut domestic spending and let the fed sort it out" and here we are. It's going to be "fun".
[23:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lets start it off early - 06Global Carbon Growth Stalls as US Coal Continues to Slump - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:27] <exec> 08└─Care to expand on any recommendations?
[23:45:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:40] <exec> 08└─High quality hardware? You have got to be kidding. I know many people that have issues with their Apple hardware, their thin laptops that throttle back due to high heat etc. Trust me I work at a Uni and see lots of bad Apple hardware.
[23:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And when the next edition comes out - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:49] <exec> 08└─You have crossed my line of gross.
[23:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Backwards compatibility - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:57] <exec> 08└─And of course no replaceable battery.
[23:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Silver - 06Apple Releases Coffee Table Book.... for $300 - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:08] <exec> 08└─Thank you for taking the time to leave your thoughts with us, Mr. President-elect.
[23:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tokin' Heart Syndrome - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:20] <exec> 08└─Sucks in cities though - the increased sensitivity to light makes it hard to see with all the super-bright LED lights nowadays. Definitely helps on country back roads though.
[23:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmm, where are the calls for warning labels? - 06Marijuana Use Linked to Broken Heart Syndrome - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:46] <exec> 08└─Moderation -1 Troll=1, Total=1 Karma-Bonus Modifier +1 Total Score: 1 What are you smoking?
[23:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:19 mph? - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:18] <exec> 08└─Might not pass sensitivity committee... but, I'd propose a continuous Bronx cheer.....
[23:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:Despise that sound - 06US Demands Electric Cars Make Noise at Low Speed - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:35] <exec> 08└─Amend the law so blue cars have to sound like the TARDIS.
[23:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Best Part - 06BLU Phones Secretly Sent Personal Data to China - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:04] <exec> 08└─It now looks like it wasn't anything nearly as nefarious as TFA makes it seem. I quote "In a statement responding to Kryptowire’s report, Adups suggested the firmware discovered on the Android phones from Blu was included by mistake and was meant for use only by some specific, unnamed clients. The...
[23:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03aliks [357] (Score:1) 02Re:profit - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:57] <exec> 08└─It only made profit because they skimped on maintenance.
[23:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:I would go the other way - 06The Audacious Plan to Bring Back Supersonic Flight — and Change Air Travel Forever - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:33] <exec> 08└─Totally agree, that's why I've been designing a solar powered airship. Flight speeds aren't too bad for large airships (300km/hr). As fossil fuels become more expensive and scarce, I think people will happily sacrifice a bit of time to travel in a sustainable fashion.
[23:50:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Almost open source? - 06Is Alexa AI In Your Future? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:50:08] <exec> 08└─Plus there's the thing where I fail entirely to see the point in using that kind of software: most of us were born with the ability to remember things and again most of us have later added the skills to read and write stuff, eg. notes. Try using those skills once in a while; the more you do, the bet...
[23:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score:1) 02Re:Image problem - 06Unicode 10.0's New Emojis - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:51:13] <exec> 08└─And who are the users that wanted the deseret and shavian symbols mentioned if not sweaty language nerds?
[23:52:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Precision? - 06Syrians in Aleppo Asked to Leave by Text Message - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:52:20] <exec> 08└─If they are using high precision weapons, why are all the population of the city at risk of being killed? One of two things - the weapons aren't as precise as the government would have you believe. OR - government intends to slaughter the population.
[23:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Truthiness - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:52:39] <exec> 08└─Which is good and all, but can you do a comparison against some Trump keywords? How about sentiment analysis next? Nah, lets just look at keywords which to try to prove your point.
[23:53:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People believe their echo chamber - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:07] <exec> 08└─Dunno. Maybe that's why it's a good idea to do your own fact checking? Just an idea.
[23:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Purge is on - 06Facebook's Fake News Crisis Deepens - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:21] <exec> 08└─Of course I'm hearing about it over on gab.ai where they only ban you if what you post is so illegal they would be liable if they didn't.
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