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[00:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Amber Alerts - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:13] <exec> 08└─are probably a lot less annoying in Russia.
[00:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02My "Take" - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:24] <exec> 08└─Well, frankly, there's only CAM releases as of yet, so your question was posted too early, IMHO :) (SCNR)
[00:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Here is my shocked face - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:25] <exec> 08└─Most of the story got left out in translating a book to film. And they cut all the stuff that would be all exposition and explanation. Yea, that is what always happens. Which is why the current trend to superhero movies, a typical comic book storyline is pretty close to what can be put into a normal...
[00:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:41] <exec> 08└─Another election in 1916 Oregon was pay-per-vote: Portland Rose Festival officials instituted an official vote-buying system -- one cent for 10 votes. They also sought to drive up the value of each vote as the competition heated up. Special offers doled out "extra" votes for bulk purchases of $50,...
[00:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:48] <exec> 08└─This is true in only 9 states. In most states a felon may vote after serving their sentence. In Maine and Vermont even incarcerated felons may vote. http://www.ncsl.org [ncsl.org]
[00:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:50] <exec> 08└─Actually, as the standard was only landowners could vote; there were women landowners. And that was as far back as 1776.
[00:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That word - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:58] <exec> 08└─But maybe we misuse a word long enough we can literally change the definition of it.
[00:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02omg - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:01] <exec> 08└─How do we stop them?
[00:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02the story - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:05] <exec> 08└─Okay, maybe I am slow, but don't see much story.... My takeaway was: "A majority of voters voted for some candidates and they won" Additional features: "A lot of the candidates were write-ins" which I think is terrific. If most/all of them were women, I think that's perhaps interesting from a statis...
[00:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the story - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:07] <exec> 08└─The rub being when women accomplish most anything, they get super special participation trophies! I mean they are women. Barely capable of such intricacies like organization and political thought, silly. If it were a story about how white nationalist dominated an election through guile, there'd be a...
[00:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02additional coverage - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:09] <exec> 08└─http://time.com/4583710/umatilla-100-years/ [time.com] https://www.1859oregonmagazine.com [1859oregonmagazine.com]
[00:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Metric prefixes and zettabytes - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:02] <exec> 08└─Well, before terabytes or the national debt in the past couple decades in the U.S., there would be pretty few opportunities for the average person (and thus the news media) to make frequent references of trillions (or billions in long scale) of anything. I imagine hyperinflation episodes would be th...
[00:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Parsimony definition - 06Machine-Learning System Spontaneously Reproduces Aspects of Human Neurology - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:14] <exec> 08└─Mathematicians and linguists seem to use it often to mean fewest words or symbols. In this case, it means less memory or less combinations. Or Parsimony: what a Parson pays in alimony ;-)
[00:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:14:56] <exec> 08└─GPS IS actually that accurate. But you won't get that kind of accuracy with the extremely minimal hardware actually built into the typical cellphone, at least not without staying in the same place for a long period of time and averaging. A dedicated GPS unit will have a MUCH better antenna and will...
[00:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Who Gives a Shit? - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:09] <exec> 08└─Why don't you just turn off the app, location services and use a friggin' firewall on your phone? Location fakers help as well... There's so many apps that exhibit improper behavior that I've given up whining a long time ago. There's not much you can do for the regular joe anyway, they've all been p...
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[01:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Advanced counter-spying tech... - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:23] <exec> 08└─When are the narrow-minded people in the West going to realize that middle-East women are well ahead of us in countering all this cyber-stalking BS with their high-tech burka? Go ahead, show your tattoos, moles and scars to Big Brother! Those "stoopid" Muslim ladies are facebook-safe and Russian-saf...
[01:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Touché) 02Completely different from the US - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 1458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:25] <exec> 08└─The United States a is one of only a handful of countries to have developed its own internet, including its own search engines, e-mail systems, and social networks. To get to the roots of this sovereign internet, I spend a day hanging out with Sergei Brin, co-founder and chairman of US Internet gian...
[01:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Completely different from the US - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:27] <exec> 08└─We're getting to a point where the distinguishing features between Russia, China and the US is getting much shorter than our propaganda would acknowledge.
[01:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03lonehighway [956] (Score:1) 02And now... - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:29] <exec> 08└─And if they didn't find your picture this time, they will have it from now on!
[01:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score:2) 02Obligatory - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:31] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia internet develops you. Wait...
[01:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Here is my shocked face - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:43] <exec> 08└─Long exposition and dialog kills a comic as dead as it does a movie.
[01:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Here is my shocked face - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:45] <exec> 08└─12 Angry Men was a play converted into a film. They did that for a while as the transition happened from stage to soundstage, from live to edited. Not so much now; Now even Broadway is flash. If it doesn't have lots of stuff going FOOM! it generally doesn't get into wide release in the [current yea...
[01:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Almost not sci-fi - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:47] <exec> 08└─It's hard to talk about it without adding spoilers, but I thought the movie was fairly well done. The science I felt was very spot on and did quite a bit to explain the field of logistics. I was very impressed with that, and the linked article shows that there was quite a bit of consultation for the...
[01:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:03] <exec> 08└─Let's get a neurologist in here! Your brain is mapping your opinions and delusions top of reality. You're comparing apples and oranges, all I did was point that out. I never commented on the value of the women winning. There were no two ways, there is money influencing politics, and then there is ac...
[01:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:13] <exec> 08└─(went to google/wikipedia to fihure out which state, but wasnt mentioned in the first 3-4 screens about womens suffrage, AND my tablet gets weird where websites get these shifting blackout rectangles all over the page, so couldnt get info easily)
[01:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:The regressive left doesn't get it. - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:18] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure anyone understands what the fuck you are saying. It's that stupid :) 'ybp'? What? Women ruled over men in the past? When? Are you conflating your repressed fantasies about Amazon women with actual events in reality? For the record, if you read the article, the women fixed up the town, r...
[01:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The regressive left doesn't get it. - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:20] <exec> 08└─years before present
[01:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Comment bait garbage - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:27] <exec> 08└─It's a slow news day. The submission had been sitting in the queue for a while and at least one user thought it was worth going through the time to put together. Feel free to submit some stories that are better quality and editors won't need to go with stories like this.
[01:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Comment bait garbage - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:29] <exec> 08└─It's not a slow news day post, it's the 100 year anniversary of the event described. December 5th, 1916.
[01:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:omg - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:33] <exec> 08└─Grab them by the pussy. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[01:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:the story - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:37] <exec> 08└─Were they all affiliated with some club, political group, etc?
[01:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:the story - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:39] <exec> 08└─#3 is particularly humorous to me, along with reading the article. These women didn't just engage in a write-in campaign to elect themselves to office, but then proceeded to do decidedly Republican things like small, efficient, and limited government :) They slashed unnecessary expenses and salaries...
[01:13:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02XXL clip for better odds - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 310 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:13:48] <exec> 08└─After the Five Eyes, after Brexit, here comes "You really can't trust our products' security, we mean it". Competitors to UK companies would like applaud, but they need to rush out to buy a rake for the windfall money. In the meantime, The Bad Guys will keep using freely and widely available encrypt...
[01:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02toss of a coin - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:07] <exec> 08└─it will probably not be used for this but theres a flip side to the coin: being able to force a service provider to install more secure gear. just saying ...
[01:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:AI on its way to world dominance - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:14:31] <exec> 08└─sorry. the a.i. doesnt run on binary silicon chips. only on wetware. and now you know who is using the other 90% of a regular human brain. also "commas" are for text. mtheres no comma in math and numbers. either use ' or . thank you.
[01:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jumped the gun - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:39] <exec> 08└─Learning what "zettabyte" meant was on my new year's list for 2017.
[01:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Ditch the smart-phone? - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:46] <exec> 08└─In New York City, ride sharing is not only for young people. [In January 2016], Lyft announced a partnership with the National MedTrans Network that will provide seniors in NYC a simpler way to get rides to non-emergency medical appointments. To do this, the Lyft at Work team has introduced a slick...
[01:16:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:WaPo throws in a tidbit - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:16:45] <exec> 08└─> [...] his most recent disclosure statement in May [...] Here's a link to a PDF of it. Phillips 66 is listed on page 49, as are Shell International Finance B.V., Exxon Mobil, Halliburton and Trans-Canada Pipelines. Occidental and Valero are listed on page 45, with Schlumberger on page 42. https://m...
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[02:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Amazon Attention Helmets - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:21] <exec> 08└─Right, so what we do is, we fit torture helmets to warehouse workers to make sure their attention never wanders from their work, and hey guess what, tortured human workers are slightly cheaper than robots. Thank you, soulless researchers, for making billionaire Bezos even more billions.
[02:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Apt - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:22] <exec> 08└─Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.
[02:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apt - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:24] <exec> 08└─Well of course they should. This research will make xkcd 1720 [soylentnews.org] come true, with a twist. The self driving car will have living horse brains in the computer. Enjoy feeding oats to your cyborg car.
[02:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02power conserving - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:26] <exec> 08└─The obvious computer analogy is processors designed for mobile usage, which turn on various sections only when needed. Evolution converged on power saving. Also, this might explain the feeling that some people report in an emergency situation, when it seems like the clock slows down? If all your bra...
[02:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Web sites != Internet - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:39] <exec> 08└─This is an article about a couple of Russian websites and applications. These all use the same internet we use everywhere else. This is not at all about creating a new or innovative internet. I was expecting an article about some new decentralized network (aka internet) tech, like maybe some neat us...
[02:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Almost not sci-fi - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:12:55] <exec> 08└─If science and technology aren't part of world building that directly shapes social structures, it's not sci-fi regardless of how realistic the science is.
[02:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02MPAA - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:56] <exec> 08└─My take on it is I don't give money to support the MPAA.
[02:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:14] <exec> 08└─Can't have it both ways.
[02:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:25] <exec> 08└─well, thankee very much, stranger, not only hit the nail on the head, but i guess i will fish around for better alternative to firefox on tablet... kind of ditched chrome because i got tired of googs being eee-vil... (after they pwomised they wouldn't ! ! !) it seems to happen to some sites MUCH mor...
[02:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 1286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:26] <exec> 08└─You probably won't find a better alternative; despite that annoyance I still preferred using mobile FF to the alternatives. Mobile Chrome's inability to use addons makes it borderline worthless, in my opinion; Opera has been garbage since they decided to become Chrome in an Opera skin suit; and the...
[02:13:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:the story - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:46] <exec> 08└─"LOL, most of the men here acting like misogynistic apes would be applauding these people for what they did, if only they had penises too." um, the misogynistic apes or the chicks ? ? ?
[02:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:the story - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:47] <exec> 08└─Whatever your preference is. I don't judge :)
[02:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reading comprehension fail. - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:35] <exec> 08└─There is no crying wolf here, trump has chosen a lot of his cabinet. No guessing, no wondering, no maybes. It is terrible, and you should feel betrayed.
[02:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Reading comprehension fail. - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:16:39] <exec> 08└─According to Mr. Trump's disclosure form [wix.com], he had an investment in Goldman Sachs.
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[03:12:15] <exec> 08└─Why do we do this? Because we know what's good for you. Now go back to watching ads and buying stuff you don't really need.
[03:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Apt - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:25] <exec> 08└─To correct link or not to correct link, don't really care, really don't care, do it anyway. xkcd 1720 [xkcd.com]
[03:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:power conserving - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:28] <exec> 08└─Some cars shut down some cylinders when the additional power isn't needed. Hybrids can often use the engine (gas) and motor (electric) together for maximum power or separately for efficiency. Your car stereo doesn't draw much power when it's not playing anything, nor do the headlights when they're t...
[03:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:power conserving - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:31] <exec> 08└─The computer analogy is C and P-states. Maybe even core-cycling with Intel's Turbo-Boost or ARM's big.LITTLE thermal throttling. The car analogy is propellant throttling and gears.
[03:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That explains Timothy's editing - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:12:33] <exec> 08└─OK. A cheap shot, sorry
[03:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Interesting - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:13:03] <exec> 08└─I saw the movie with one of my daughters (the brainy one) and her boyfriend. I don’t mind slow movies, but this one starts veeery slow and then gets slow; some place it picks up and gets better and the end is very good. I haven't read the book and as a matter of fact, I didn't know there was a boo...
[03:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:re Interesting - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:13:05] <exec> 08└─Slow isn't usually a problem, the problem is when movies have scenes that don't advance the plot in any obvious way. You can get away with some of that, but when movies do it the audience tends to get bored. It's one of the reasons that you can have a movie that's got ton of action, but is still a s...
[03:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:AI on its way to world dominance - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:14:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, but you can! One of the main reasons the US is always at war is because war is so profitable. Halliburton made $8 per MRE alone in the Gulf War. War consumes more of everything, which means more money changes hands, and some of that money lubricates the system to make more war. If you invest in...
[03:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'm self taught - 06How to Grow Into Your Best Developer Self - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:20:09] <exec> 08└─Have some XML Web Services with that.
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[04:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How does this tracking protection work? - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:16] <exec> 08└─Is it something that is downloaded locally and checked against or is it something that gets pinged for every domain a request is made for? If the former: I'm ok with it; if the latter, then that's an issue because now you're telling a third party about every single domain(/site/page?) you go to... C...
[04:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oscillating pansexual - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:18] <exec> 08└─That's why you use a Firefox fork like SeaMonkey or Pale Moon. Sticking with ordinary Firefox at this point is just asking to be screwed over.
[04:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score:2) 02It's good for you. - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:20] <exec> 08└─Stop screwing with the settings! We know what's best for you.
[04:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Completely different from the US - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:45] <exec> 08└─The United States [...] developed its own internet, including its own search engines, [...] Brin is a technology legend in the US.
[04:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Web sites != Internet - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:12:49] <exec> 08└─There was a story about efforts toward a national computer network in the Soviet Union. /article.pl?sid=16/10/17/1647206 [soylentnews.org]
[04:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:The regressive left doesn't get it. - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 2253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:42] <exec> 08└─(Not GP. Haven't commented as AC in this discussion.) Well, to be fair, the suffragettes were referred to as Amazons by some newspapers in that time period. I'm also reminded of the article we had a little while back about the town in Mexico that was taken over by women for the better. Perhaps throu...
[04:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bullshit - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:15:54] <exec> 08└─Android can actually use wifi signals only - I've used this a couple times when weather made GPS impossible.
[04:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Eh - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:01] <exec> 08└─You pay more than I pay in rent and utilities just to go back and forth to work.
[04:16:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Reading comprehension fail. - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:16:46] <exec> 08└─Yea, who knew that Trump, like every president before him would give cabinet positions to political allies? Who knew? Glancing through the recent past, Obama has had two people (the last two people in fact) in that very position for which you could make the same claim. And if Clinton had been electe...
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[05:12:14] <exec> 08└─Is this why I can no longer select whether to allow or disallow, or allow for session, cookies on my Firefox browser? I have to install an add-on, and still I end up with a bunch of cookies. Do the think that I am going to trust a "do not track" request to the very people who want to track me? And I...
[05:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That explains Timothy's editing - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:29] <exec> 08└─Um, are you on the right site? We generally refer to the rocket surgery of the Mighty Buzzard when these topics come up. Timothy is dead to us. Slashdot is dead! Long live SoylentNews!
[05:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Write-ins. - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:55] <exec> 08└─anyone know how many people would have to write-in the same candidate to get them elected, these days? Do all elections in the US allow write-in candidates? The only place it happens in Australia or the UK are incorporated bodies and associations (nominations for committee positions accepted from th...
[05:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:XXL clip for better odds - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:06] <exec> 08└─Hell, under government supervision, we may just as well ROT13 it.... because under the rules as mandated by government, if backdoors are mandated, anyone interested in snooping will have the ability to do so anyway.
[05:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Eh, nice buzzword - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:35] <exec> 08└─A lot of that data will probably be video snoopings....think of millions of surveillance cameras streaming into the cloud.
[05:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Metric prefixes and zettabytes - 06Artificial Intelligence and the Evolution of the Fractal Economy - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:14:55] <exec> 08└─I don’t think that was the original intent. People will use unit systems that make whatever measurements they are dealing with convenient, and the prefixes are meant to help make these sorts of units. For example, astronomy generally doesn’t use metres when dealing with distances because they ar...
[05:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If they were honest - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:15:31] <exec> 08└─You certainly won't wanna involve Uber in cheating on your spouse. Your spouse's PI will dig this up, and it will be grounds for divorce, with full alimony payments and forfeiture of all of your assets, up to and including your ass.
[05:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Reason for leaks: - 06British PM May Cracks Down on Brexit Leaks - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:18:02] <exec> 08└─Yes, this all just cracks me up, instead of cracking down. Who knew Brit conservatives could be so funny? Other than Farange, of course. (Hey, isn't Farange a French name? Possibly Norman?)
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[06:12:25] <exec> 08└─Seriously, FireFox, you're going out of your way to alienate your long-term users. You've already gotten me to the point where I don't bother installing you on systems I do little browsing on. FFS I use IE on Win10 without missing you very much! On my frequent-browsing systems I still use and like y...
[06:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:The regressive left doesn't get it. - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:49] <exec> 08└─You'd never tell a woman that she's just a weak little shit because she wakes up screaming at least once per week, often more frequently.
[06:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:It was inevitable. - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:14:22] <exec> 08└─You are right. EMP generators would be good. More Wikileaks-style revelations would be good, too. Every kind of system or approach we can think of that takes levers of control out of the hands of People Who Are Up To No Good should be pursued. Home-brew additive manufacturing, distributed energy gen...
[06:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:If they were honest - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:15:41] <exec> 08└─If you are one of those people, you ought to know better by now because your life depends on it. All you have to do is leave the cellphone in your office/home. See? I was working in the office/home with my family the whole time.
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[07:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02JavaScript required - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:14] <exec> 08└─Both links leads to sites that don't load the actual text without JavaScript. They might be interesting reads, but I'm not going to find out.
[07:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Demena [5637] (Score:1) 02Why? - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:15] <exec> 08└─The last link is site that requires whitelisting it ads. We all know that it would permit all sorts of malware. Yet without that last link the article is almost without value. I will grant you Hanlon's Razor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor) in this case but it is not something to be...
[07:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:17] <exec> 08└─String theory: It's an unproven theory that just seems to work out OK, but doesn't really make any useful predictions. In other words, it doesn't change everything. In fact, it doesn't change anything. It's a lot like the marketing department where you work. Speaking of which, get back to work.
[07:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:You're trying to lose me as a user... - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:12:36] <exec> 08└─going out of your way to alienate your long-term users.
[07:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Crash and burn - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:37] <exec> 08└─These days I’m waiting for it to crash and burn so it can be reborn again.
[07:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:53] <exec> 08└─Yes, but in most states laws still specified white male landowners.
[07:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:57] <exec> 08└─I've been using Palemoon, seems to work well and can use most Firefox extensions
[07:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:14:48] <exec> 08└─Or better yet, it’s UK, “give us your keys or wait in this nice prison we have here.”
[07:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If they were honest - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:16:04] <exec> 08└─> I'm surprised smartphones even allow for this. Well, I've heard this QUIT button is so old-school and unnecessary so it was removed from Android apps.
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[08:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Why? - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:15] <exec> 08└─I note that last link is to Forbes. IIRC, Forbes is a magazine catering to people obsessed with the acquisition of money. My take is that a database full of people whose lives center around money and who are not yet privy to privacy concerns will be quite a valuable item.
[08:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:18] <exec> 08└─uhm, no. string theory works perfectly. its only problem is that it's so general, it's (for the moment) practically impossible to get anything useful out of it. using string theory to describe the universe is like using quantum mechanics to describe a lion stalking and then attacking a zebra.
[08:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02Re:You're trying to lose me as a user... - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:38] <exec> 08└─> Long term. There's the problem right there. Well, no. It still does what I need it to do, better than the alternatives. Barely. But there isn't anything available out there that makes me actively go out of my way to switch. Last I checked the Vivaldi people financed themselves by selling user hist...
[08:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:You're trying to lose me as a user... - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:40] <exec> 08└─Chromium is opensource. All of it. Vivaldi financed themselves by selling Opera. Vivaldi privacy [vivaldi.com] statement reads surprisingly similar to Firefox's.
[08:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:2) 02Re:You're trying to lose me as a user... - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:42] <exec> 08└─Try SRWare Iron [srware.net]. It's Chrome with all the tracking stuff removed. One Iron thing I don't like is they redirect you to a competitor to the chrome store, which makes installing plugins a bit of a nuisance. The chrome store still works perfectly for the browser, if you access it via URL.
[08:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Here is my shocked face - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:27] <exec> 08└─There was a ton of dialog in last year's /Ex Machina/, it's just that it was interesting, engaging, and not out of place, so you happily listened to the interactions where the characters discovered their roles. There was a fair bit of dialog in /Room/ too, at least compared to the number of gunfight...
[08:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Reading comprehension fail. - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:21] <exec> 08└─There are thousands of people that could do it better and be less compromised.
[08:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Reading comprehension fail. - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:17:31] <exec> 08└─Once again, he's going to throw this conflict for how much money again? It's hard to say whether it's more insulting or humiliating to claim that Trump will corrupt major decisions for scraps.
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[09:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:JavaScript required - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:16] <exec> 08└─The first link has a PDF with the text. That one works ven if JavaScript is disabled.
[09:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:19] <exec> 08└─I note that last link is to Forbes. IIRC, Forbes is a magazine catering to people obsessed with the acquisition of money.
[09:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:24] <exec> 08└─If you cannot use string theory to describe the universe, it does not work as a physical theory. It is no more useful than the theory that the universe behaves how it does because god told the universe to behave as it does.
[09:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:26] <exec> 08└─there is a difference. the fact that right now we cannot make effective use of string theory does not mean that it will forever be useless (unlike the god theory). I'm not advocating for piling on the funding for string theorists. but I certainly think it should receive some funding, certainly more...
[09:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:28] <exec> 08└─If you cannot use string theory to describe the universe, it does not work as a physical theory. It is no more useful than the theory that the universe behaves how it does because god told the universe to behave as it does.
[09:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score:2) 02String Theory -- Not Even Wrong - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:30] <exec> 08└─There's a book on string theory called "Not Even Wrong", written by Professor Peter Woit of Columbia University's mathematics department: http://www.math.columbia.edu [columbia.edu] His argument is that string theory is so vacuous that it can explain anything (and there...
[09:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Absolutely nothing. - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:32] <exec> 08└─It's non-empirical math. And seeing how there's infinite theoretical solutions to the problem with our current math base on current observations, it holds no relevance to the layperson. That's to say, you know how you can run infinite straight lines through a single point but only one through two po...
[09:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What Every Layperson Should Know... - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:34] <exec> 08└─On the list of What Every Layperson Should Know, the String Theory item is probably not in the Top 10. I'd put it maybe between rethreading your violin and manually editing your iptables.
[09:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02well-worn quote - 06Maths Zeroes in On Perfect Cup of Coffee - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:42] <exec> 08└─"A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems." - attributed to Paul Erdös or Alfred Rényi
[09:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You're trying to lose me as a user... - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:58] <exec> 08└─But it's proprietary software with open source components; that makes it a no-go for me.
[09:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:You're trying to lose me as a user... - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:59] <exec> 08└─Why would you be loyal to a browser?
[09:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You're trying to lose me as a user... - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:02] <exec> 08└─> On my frequent-browsing systems I still use and like you, but largely because of your add-ons.... Oh you like add-ons, we HEAR you. That's why we're changing the API again for the 3rd time and requiring registration of authors and the signing of a pledge to support the Mozilla Foundation. This wil...
[09:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WORSE than deleting your profile - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:06] <exec> 08└─As that would be instantly obvious for the victim...
[09:13:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Completely different from the US - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 1458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:29] <exec> 08└─The United States a is one of only a handful of countries to have developed its own internet, including its own search engines, e-mail systems, and social networks. To get to the roots of this sovereign internet, I spend a day hanging out with Sergei Brin, co-founder and chairman of US Internet gian...
[09:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Web sites != Internet - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:37] <exec> 08└─Thank you. Was about to post the same but noticed you already had. Words have meaning and selecting right ones does matter...
[09:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Adblock unfriendly? - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:13:48] <exec> 08└─Google gets round whatever they're doing: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com
[09:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the story - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:14:53] <exec> 08└─We've got art guerrilla channeling wonkey monkey on the topic of apes.
[09:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:How significant is this? - 06Machine-Learning System Spontaneously Reproduces Aspects of Human Neurology - 1577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:16:14] <exec> 08└─More importantly, what happens when you feed it an image that ISN'T a face? This seems, to me, to be the part where any form of "AI" falls down. Unexpected data basically throws up random results, whereas "intelligent" systems tend not to. And the AI is rarely given the option "I don't know, I can't...
[09:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Reading comprehension fail. - 06Army Corps of Engineers Blocks the Dakota Access Pipeline - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:17:53] <exec> 08└─trump has chosen a lot of his cabinet. No guessing, no wondering, no maybes.
[09:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Good for them - 06Virgin Galactic Spaceship Makes First Glide Flight - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:18:20] <exec> 08└─The Space Station can't even keep their experiment bays filled with any kind of decent microgravity experiment, and they give those rides away.
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[10:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Statistics and physics - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:13] <exec> 08└─What I loved about physics were its laws. They were timeless. They were eternal.
[10:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Big Data - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:14] <exec> 08└─I stand by an axiom which has been true since the dawn of computing. Garbage in, garbage out.
[10:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Love Statistics? - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:16] <exec> 08└─Everyone knows that 90% of people hate statistics and the other half know that they're totally made up.
[10:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02why not in time? - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:24] <exec> 08└─Because time has an opposite-signed contribution to the minkowski space-time distance. These are different types of dimensions. Space ones are indistinguishable, but time is special.
[10:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:12:37] <exec> 08└─Which raises the question: How does string theory help with the acquisition of money?
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[11:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Reliability? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:09] <exec> 08└─So how reliably does it bill items to the correct person, especially when (as will undoubtedly happen) people try to trick the system? Not to mention the situation where one person would legitimately ask another one to fetch something from the shelf (for example a small person asking a larger one to...
[11:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score:2) 02A wise man once said - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:19] <exec> 08└─"Don trust any statistics you haven forged yourself"
[11:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:A wise man once said - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:21] <exec> 08└─Don Corleone? Which haven? [Don't trust any apostrophes you haven't typed yourself]
[11:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:A wise man once said - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:23] <exec> 08└─Were they stainless statistics they wouldn't rust no matter who had forged them.
[11:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"travel" does not apply to time - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:32] <exec> 08└─it's like a movie. you can rewind it, play it at different speeds all you like, the different frames will always be the same. if you want to call it "traveling" call it that, but it makes no sense. closed time loops? they are possible, they don't break causality (so stop talking about the stupid gra...
[11:12:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Watch it - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:12:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to comment on the physics of the new Dr Strange film because IANAP (other than to say that if less people got their scientific "education" from Marvel stories[1] then the internet would be a better place) I just wanted to say that if you haven't watched the film yet, it's a great watch...
[11:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Absolutely nothing. - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:54] <exec> 08└─I disagree with your title, because there is something every layperson should know about string theory. Namely: It's non-empirical math.
[11:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What Every Layperson Should Know... - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:12:56] <exec> 08└─I disagree. As layman, both rethreading your violin and manually editing your iptables are still higher in the list than string theory. And I say that as a physicist who could neither rethread a violin nor manually edit his iptables, and who certainly considers knowing something minimal about string...
[11:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crash and burn - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:25] <exec> 08└─Mosaic>Netscape>Firefox>???
[11:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crash and burn - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:13:26] <exec> 08└─You omitted Mozilla (the suite), which was a complete rewrite of Netscape. So it's Mosaic → Netscape → Mozilla → Firefox → ??? Although the first succession isn't exactly like the others because Netscape was not based on Mosaic, but was an independent development. Indeed, the direct descenda...
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[12:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:Reliability? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:22] <exec> 08└─I always wear a Nixon mask while shopping.
[12:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:24] <exec> 08└─>> It'll feel like shoplifting, except you're actually being watched by more cameras than you can imagine. So it will feel like a prison? That is what prisons are like. You are watched everywhere you go like a hawk, be it by cameras or guards, and you better not overstep the rules. Sure the punishme...
[12:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:26] <exec> 08└─I would hate to eventually live in such a society... Whichever planet you live on, I wish I were there.
[12:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:28] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the future. Soon everyone will have a mandatory RFID tag implanted in their forehead or right hand, which is used to bill everything you buy or use automatically. It will no longer be possible to buy anything without that tag. The system will be known as Billing Electronically and Automat...
[12:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:30] <exec> 08└─Don't forget one important aspect: Rectium, Intel inside...
[12:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Love Statistics? - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if I should mod this as funny, insightful or informative. I'm sure it would average out to something significant eventually.
[12:12:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:A wise man once said - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:47] <exec> 08└─Other peoples statistics or data are the best and the worst at the same time. They are usually free to use but they never really show exactly what you want them to ...
[12:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Watch it - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:58] <exec> 08└─Small addition: See it in 3D. It's one of the few films where 3D is worth it.
[12:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Watch it - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:00] <exec> 08└─don't have anything against cucumber, but was not liking him as khan in into the darkness star trek movie... too restrained, too tight, not loose and free-wheeling like ricardo was... not sure what the community consensus was on that, but obviously ricardo montelban was absolutely pitch perfect for...
[12:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02there are no laws - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:13:02] <exec> 08└─laws in physics are post facto rationalizations. does an equation let you travel back in time? means nothing until you discover how. Dark matter is a factor to fix equations, until it is detected. The em drive works? laws must be reinterpreted to allow it.
[12:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Absolutely nothing. - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:13:24] <exec> 08└─But then you would have to teach the layperson what non-emperical math is or mean. It's better if they just don't know nothing about this whole string theory thingy ... It's not like it going to change their life or anything.
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[12:14:22] <exec> 08└─The difference is that in a US web page, the terms of use are in English, while in the FindPage web page, which is also in English, the terms of use are in a lengthy Russian document, to which you have to agree, even if you can't read it, before being you are given the opportunity to sign up. The US...
[12:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score:1) 02Re:So what? - 06Uber Now Tracking Users After the Ride is Over - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:18:01] <exec> 08└─I meant no price to pay forma uber
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[13:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:11] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the "real" news has US Marines about to invade Russia. It has Travon Martins murderer as a white guy who shot a 7 year old because "he looks black." It has Ahmed the clock boy as the victim of racism instead of the balloon boy son of an Islamic activist. It has Hillary winning the electio...
[13:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:12] <exec> 08└─If you believe that what you wrote is how those things were reported, then you are part of the problem. And the idiots who voted you up as insightful, god damn. The blame is squarely on the "right" who, time and time and again, prove that they couldn't be more wrong. Here's the quote from Karl Rove...
[13:12:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:14] <exec> 08└─It's all made up. The whole "fake news" topic is the mainstream medias last denial to come to terms with the fact that they have been making up the news for years and in November 2016, Americans called them out on it.
[13:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:16] <exec> 08└─> Then they gambled everything on their annointed one and lost. As if genuine human imperfection is the equivalent of deliberate lie telling. You've always struck me as a right-winger in sheeps clothes. I guess it should be no surprise you are so quick to apply a facile explanation that is in itself...
[13:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02What is the fake news, exactly? - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:19] <exec> 08└─There are interesting questions around this event... Gunman walks into restaurant, fires one shot into the ground, and is peacefully arrested. Hmmm... One article points out that the guy is actually a second-tier actor [imdb.com]. I am waiting for the prosecution. If, after a week or two, he is quie...
[13:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:21] <exec> 08└─On a site where the community likes to think of itself as grounded in science, conspiracy theories sure seem to dominate despite being completely anti-scienitific. Conspiracy theories are the opposite of scientific theory - both attempt to explain the world, but the former are unfalsifiable and can...
[13:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:23] <exec> 08└─https://dcpizzagate.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com] Its at the stage of something really weird being covered up. What exactly, well, thats unclear. Sure is an enormous pile of coincidences and the response from "the usual suspects" to censor it has been way over the top compared to other "weird event...
[13:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks very much for that link, which I found totally useful and informative and not at all wacko tinfoil-pants-on-head the-reptilons-are-feeding-on-my-dreams internet conspiracy theory loon crazy.
[13:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Serial_Priest [2493] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:27] <exec> 08└─Another summary of the suspicious circumstances that draws parallels to past child abuse and trafficking cases may be found here: http://www.counter-currents.com [counter-currents.com] There is a fair bit of confirmation bias in the evaluation of the Podesta emails, but there is a...
[13:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:39] <exec> 08└─Outer Limits did episodes about the head chip ("Stream of Consciousness") and the hand chip ("Zig Zag"). Too bad millennials interpret dystopian fiction as instruction manuals.
[13:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03PizzaRollPlinkett [4512] (Score:2) 02How this works.. ? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 2209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:42] <exec> 08└─I am curious about how this works, since it seems to combine the two biggest retail fails of all time, security systems and self checkouts. I can't get out of a store with a product I legitimately bought because it sets off the security system (I actually order electronics stuff online for that reas...
[13:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How this works.. ? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:44] <exec> 08└─They probably make shoppers pass through the entrances and exits in single file. I imagine there might be gate coming in where, if they can't recognize you based on face req, you have to have your ID scanned by a guard. Going out it's RFID combined with face/body req.
[13:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obligatory Manna - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:46] <exec> 08└─Where's that crap story about everyone's favorite surveillance society? Whether you live in the prison with the robot guards or the free range zoo with the spinal implants, one thing is constant. Surveillance everywhere. Somebody post a link because I'm sure as shit not going to post that fucking tr...
[13:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02So you can wander around the store for an hour - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:48] <exec> 08└─w/o seeing a single employee. Kinda like shopping at Dick's sporting goods.
[13:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:So you can wander around the store for an hour - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 1014 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:12:50] <exec> 08└─Walk around the panel saw area at home depot with a sheet of plywood, that's like garlic to vampires. The saw code is four digits and pretty easy to shoulder surf and if you type it in suddenly like 10 employees appear in a puff of smoke. Ironically I'm one of the better behaved saw customers becaus...
[13:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cash money - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:52] <exec> 08└─If I can't pay for my groceries in cash, I'm not interested.
[13:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Blind leading the blind - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:08] <exec> 08└─The link to the coursera class this is an advert for contains a description of hypothesis testing that it calls significance testing. Also I couldn't find the name Bayes, or really any hint of historical content at all. I would not recommend such a class.
[13:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Except the US election - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:13:09] <exec> 08└─was correctly predicted by Michael Moore instead of Nate Silver and all the other experts. Similar with Brexit, although I don't know if 538 had a dog in that race. So what, that's just an election? That's supposed to be an easy problem for forecasters. They have tons of data and many motivated peop...
[13:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:You're trying to lose me as a user... - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 2765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:14:13] <exec> 08└─You know -- they have done this repeatedly over the years. It's like new people find firefox as an alternative and experience what used to be new people to firefox complained about a few years previously. Ever since the bloat of netscape navigator 4.x or whatever it was that included just about ever...
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[14:12:21] <exec> 08└─Jill Stein wants a recount.
[14:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:32] <exec> 08└─"Fake News" article [thebarentsobserver.com] Original CNN Article [cnn.com] Editor's note:The headline and first paragraph of this article were updated on December 1, 2016 to reflect that the exercises took place some distance from Norway's border with Russia, outside the town of Bardufoss. So it l...
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[14:12:34] <exec> 08└─Let me get this straight. You are complaining that an obscure story was published with a minor error that was not only corrected, but the correction was noted at the top of the story? Really? Really? That's what you consider a persuasive damning of the lügenpresse? When the standard is 100% perfect...
[14:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:36] <exec> 08└─since there work isn't valued.
[14:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:40] <exec> 08└─Hope you got a big pile of stones in that glass house, cuz it sure is fun watching you throw them from out here... Enjoy your petty one-liners from AC land.
[14:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:42] <exec> 08└─>> As if genuine human imperfection is the equivalent of deliberate lie telling. > > Enjoy your petty one-liners from AC land. Yeah? If that's what you consider too petty to respond to, then the problem is you. I don't live in a glass house, I know I harbor no illusions about my perfection.
[14:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:44] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the "real" news has US Marines about to invade Russia. It has Travon Martins murderer as a white guy who shot a 7 year old because "he looks black." It has Ahmed the clock boy as the victim of racism instead of the balloon boy son of an Islamic activist. It has Hillary winning the electio...
[14:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:What is the fake news, exactly? - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:49] <exec> 08└─When I'm planning my own false flag operations, I usually try to find people with IMDB credits so the public can quickly debunk them.
[14:12:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:What is the fake news, exactly? - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:51] <exec> 08└─By that logic writing "If I Did It: Confessions of the Killer" completely cleared OJ Simpson of any possible suspicion of guilt. In the real world the stereotypical most obvious suspect is the guilt party. Their is not a series of bluffs and double bluffs, their are no triple agents, and the guilty...
[14:12:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 197 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:54] <exec> 08└─Thanks very much for that link, which I found totally useful and informative and not at all wacko tinfoil-pants-on-head the-reptilons-are-feeding-on-my-dreams internet conspiracy theory loon crazy.
[14:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02deinstitutionalization - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:56] <exec> 08└─When he posts such simple and glaringly obvious bullshit like that as if it were legitimate it gives me great comfort. That's because it confirms just how untethered the guy is from reality. How all his long racist and reactionary posts, despite being well-formed with good syntax, really are the pro...
[14:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:58] <exec> 08└─You didn't even try to verify one fact, did you? Just jumped right to assuming it was wrong because it sounded crazy, didn't you? You'd think you'd know better after Snowden.
[14:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02satanic ritual abuse - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:00] <exec> 08└─Citing snowden is the biggest cop-out ever. For every snowden there are literally a million conspiracies that are not true. I am especially reminded of the completely made-up satanic ritual abuse [wikipedia.org] hysteria that ruined a lot of lives. Pizzagate is just more bitch-hunt logic. Hillary's...
[14:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:02] <exec> 08└─Just for fun, soak in the ambiance and look at the anecdotes while totally ignoring the narrative. That alone is kinda interesting and entertaining. Wait, WTF, look at that weird "art" and who owns it, holy crap. Don't pay attention to the narrative that its a trophy or re-enactment of what so and s...
[14:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:05] <exec> 08└─most involved have a taste for sexually suggestive artwork and music involving children and simulated child abuse.
[14:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fake news two stories earlier - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:07] <exec> 08└─If you click on this [npr.org] you will find npr publishing a thinly veiled advertisement for a Coursera course on stats, taught by people who do not know the difference between significance and hypothesis testing. The potential damage due to that fake news is far worse than what one gunman can acco...
[14:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news two stories earlier - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:09] <exec> 08└─If you click on this you will find npr publishing a thinly veiled advertisement for a Coursera course on stats, taught by people who do not know the difference between significance and hypothesis testing.
[14:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news two stories earlier - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:12] <exec> 08└─Seems like you have an axe to grind with coursera or maybe the particular instructors on that course.
[14:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Welcome to the newest form of cyber warfare - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:14] <exec> 08└─I am of the opinion that stories like pizzagate are new forms of electronic warfare. The trolls are taking it to the next level. I'm betting who ever is behind this is ecstatic that they got the crazies riled up to the point where a mentally disturbed person went into a family pizzeria and fired a g...
[14:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to the newest form of cyber warfare - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:16] <exec> 08└─Then you haven't bothered to do your own investigation and fact-check anything. You just assumed that because it sounds outrageous that it must be fake. Remember "the NSA is spying on everyone"? Yeah, not so fake even though you were a tinfoil-hat-wearer if you mentioned it pre-Snowden. Yes, there i...
[14:13:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fake ISIS Attack on Louisiana Chemical Plant - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:18] <exec> 08└─> I am of the opinion that stories like pizzagate are new forms of electronic warfare. Well over a year ago I submitted a story about "fake news" to this site: Fake ISIS Attack on Louisiana Chemical Plant [soylentnews.org] Looks like they were just learning the ropes and have now significantly upped...
[14:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Welcome to the newest form of cyber warfare - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:20] <exec> 08└─Essay test -- how is this "Pizzagate" different from swatting? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] > This article is about the act of fraudulently calling emergency services to another person's address. For the killing of houseflies, see Flyswatter.
[14:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to the newest form of cyber warfare - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:22] <exec> 08└─Probably those damn Danes.
[14:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to the newest form of cyber warfare - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:24] <exec> 08└─God dammit. I posted instead of previewing. Anyways, the reason I say electronic warfare is simply because you can rile up people to the point of inciting violence using so-called "fake news". Don't like someone or something? Spread false rumors until someone passionately insane enough gets angry an...
[14:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:3, Informative) 02Conspiracy Theory - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:27] <exec> 08└─A conspiracy theory is not fake news. Most notably because a conspiracy theory is a made up of bucket loads do verifiable facts, and controversial opinion they draw from these facts is clearly marked as an opinion.
[14:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fox controversial opinion - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:29] <exec> 08└─Most notably because a conspiracy theory is a made up of bucket loads do verifiable facts, and controversial opinion they draw from these facts is clearly marked as an opinion.
[14:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Seriously? - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:31] <exec> 08└─This is the same Guardian that recently published this: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] You really want to start preaching about fake news? That giving Sam Harris's arguments consid...
[14:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Non sequitur - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:13:33] <exec> 08└─Crazy people are crazy. Dog bites man is NOT news.
[14:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:47] <exec> 08└─What the actual fuck?! What millennial do you know who has the power to implement this dystopian crap? Jesus Christ you freakin AC's are blind, deaf, dumb, and stupid today. Please, completely ignore that our current surveillance and police state was implemented by 70 year old white men for the last...
[14:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:48] <exec> 08└─Fuckerberg
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:50] <exec> 08└─Jesus Christ you freakin AC's are blind, deaf, dumb, and stupid today.
[14:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:54] <exec> 08└─On the other hand if they don't have pictures everywhere, anyone on the planet can pown my phone or steal my amazon credentials, walk into the market, and buy whatever they want on my account. On the other hand I don't want them doing facial recognition or it'll be really weird shopping with my wife...
[14:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:56] <exec> 08└─I expect the facial req stuff will spread to all big stores whether or not they eliminate the checkout lines, just so they can collect targeted data on each customer's shopping/browsing patterns. What items did they pick up and not buy, etc.
[14:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How this works.. ? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:00] <exec> 08└─> if they can't recognize you based on face req, you have to have your ID scanned by a guard. They make you check in by smart-phone when you enter the store. You have to have their app on your phone and you walk through a lane where you tap your phone on a scanner pad. If that info isn't in TFA then...
[14:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How this works.. ? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:02] <exec> 08└─Here's how it works (meta level) -- Amazon knows that you are buying way too many energy drinks, (or cigarettes, booze, etc) and they sell this info to your health insurance company.
[14:14:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory Manna - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:05] <exec> 08└─Here you go: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[14:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Scalability - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:10] <exec> 08└─1,800-square-foot
[14:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Scalability - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:12] <exec> 08└─Cost may not be an issue. The camera and processing power are relatively cheap, and employees are expensive.
[14:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02What could possibly go wrong - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:14] <exec> 08└─1) Steal someone's identity 2) Walk out with the entire store 3) Sell everything on e-bay.
[14:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except the US election - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:32] <exec> 08└─No. The error was sampling methods. When you sample 3,000 people nationwide... You are getting Popular Vote, and that was not wrong. But that is not how US Elections work. When you sample at least 100 in each Electoral College District, so 53,800, then you are modeling the right information. Remembe...
[14:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except the US election - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:33] <exec> 08└─Except that many of the forecasters were taking the electoral college into account when they were calling the race.
[14:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Except the US election - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:14:35] <exec> 08└─2) 83.5% of statistics are made up on the spot.
[14:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Watson - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:37] <exec> 08└─The computer diagnosed a woman with a rare disorder that no one else guessed. That nailed it for me.
[14:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:03] <exec> 08└─Forbes is an Apple fan site from what I've seen lately.
[14:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:15:09] <exec> 08└─the fact that right now we cannot make effective use of string theory does not mean that it will forever be useless (unlike the god theory).
[14:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02Real Mathematicians... - 06Maths Zeroes in On Perfect Cup of Coffee - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:24] <exec> 08└─...drink tea. (As do I. Though there's very little connection between those two statements.) (I keep trying coffee from time to time, but I've never enjoyed it. Yes, to forestall the obvious replies, I've tried various types, not just cheap instant, in various places — but to my tongue, they'r...
[14:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:re Interesting - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:16:45] <exec> 08└─Which is one reason I hated the new Star Wars... no scene in that movie advanced the series plot, except maybe Solo, Han Solo dying. Really. Did any part of that movie MEAN anything but "BIGGER.... SPLOSIONS.... SHINY!!!!" Snoozefest with a capital SNOOZE.
[14:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:The regressive left doesn't get it. - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:17:25] <exec> 08└─I knew a truck driver who delivered cases of cigarettes to stores. He got robbed once, beaten with a tire iron, locked in the back of his truck and left to die. He used to wake up screaming n his bedroom closet. Went from a tough Newfie to a scared, freaked-out newfie, just like that. Funny how the...
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[15:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02They were trying to generate random numbers... - 06More Than 100,000 Create Random Number Sequences for a Worldwide Quantum Physics Experiment - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:16] <exec> 08└─...by humans [wikipedia.org]??? I'm sure von Neumann would have had something to say [brainyquote.com] about that...
[15:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cats - 06More Than 100,000 Create Random Number Sequences for a Worldwide Quantum Physics Experiment - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:17] <exec> 08└─The presence of quantum phenomena is both disproved, and failed to be disproved, until you read TFA.
[15:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Missed something - 06More Than 100,000 Create Random Number Sequences for a Worldwide Quantum Physics Experiment - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:19] <exec> 08└─If the universe is predictable and without quantum entanglement, then S cannot be greater than two. That is, S should always be less than two.
[15:12:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:29] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, the "real" news has US Marines about to invade Russia. It has Travon Martins murderer as a white guy who shot a 7 year old because "he looks black." It has Ahmed the clock boy as the victim of racism instead of the balloon boy son of an Islamic activist. It has Hillary winning the electio...
[15:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:35] <exec> 08└─How is that a "right wing" thing when it is the same behavior in left wing areas like college campus LARPing? Obviously when the right was in charge you'll get more people paying attention to a right guy saying how everyone in power acts. Or when the left is in momentary charge they get the same att...
[15:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 2069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:41] <exec> 08└─It's pretty easy to come off as “right wing” when you can see the lizard people for what they are. Maybe not actual reptilians from between the 3rd and 4th dimensions here from Thuban to… psychically drain emotional energy, or something—Icke's theory. But close enough. The MSM was a fucking...
[15:12:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:45] <exec> 08└─[no citation for obvious needed]
[15:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:49] <exec> 08└─but the former are unfalsifiable
[15:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:59] <exec> 08└─This. Some of the people drawing conclusions and parallels are either alien conspiracy stupid or paid to cloud the issue. But their are serious questions that should be answered. Did Obama actually pay a hundred thousand dollars to get hot-dogs shipped in from Chicago? I had heard at one point that...
[15:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:2) 02The truth is... - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:01] <exec> 08└─...that everything can look weird, if you dig down far enough, produce enough material out of context, and let people fill in the gaps themselves. Hence the quote [brainyquote.com] commonly (but perhaps wrongly) attributed to Cardinal Richelieu. Similarly, it seems Freud may never have said "Sometim...
[15:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:The truth is... - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:03] <exec> 08└─The value of that link is the article isn't even true. which falsely claims Clinton and her campaign chief John Podesta were running a child sex ring from the restaurant's backrooms
[15:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:05] <exec> 08└─I was on /pol/ when the whole pizzaagate thing came up. Really never got interested in it but some of those Podesta emails were really creepy. I do not know when a bunch of neckbeards crossed over into generating fake news, but it seems to me that we have this whole freedom of speach thing. Although...
[15:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Six Degrees of Hillary Clinton - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:12] <exec> 08└─Ever heard of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon [wikipedia.org]? I bet someone as high profile as Clinton will connect to everything well under six degrees. Especially if you're going through online social networks where every tweet, post, like and event makes thousands of connections.
[15:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Troll Army - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:18] <exec> 08└─Russia's "troll army" [soylentnews.org] has been well documented. They pay those guys scraps. It would be easy for them to throw a couple of people into sites like 4chan just to stir up shit.
[15:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Welcome to the newest form of cyber warfare - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:21] <exec> 08└─they got the crazies riled up
[15:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:26] <exec> 08└─+1 Underrated Post I am a huge fan of Milo, there is no way any of the loonies on the left can win an argument with him based on facts and logic, so they result to hyperbole attacks claiming that even listening to his arguments is WRONG. I watched video after video of a femi-nazi ambush of Milo, and...
[15:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:28] <exec> 08└─I don't even like Milo. I find him to be a blowhard. Same with Harris. But occasionally, they do make good points. But that is a pretty long way away from thinking they are some Svengali-like characters, able to corrupt the minds of all that hear them. This is the level of absurdity we are dealing w...
[15:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Seriously? - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:30] <exec> 08└─> Stories such as these: What is it with the crazies citing articles that contradict their thesis as proof of their thesis? You linked to articles describing how the "pedo ring" in the UK parliament was hysterical over-reaction that was not supported by the evidence. And that's supposed to prove tha...
[15:13:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sequitur - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:33] <exec> 08└─But voting in a conspiracy-theorist in chief is news. The guy built his political "credibility" on the birther conspiracy. And its not like he's the only one in there, what with general flynn pushing pedo-conspiracies [cnn.com] and flynn's chief of staff (who is also his son) getting on twitter to d...
[15:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Reliability? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:44] <exec> 08└─The articles are all vague on the details, but the tech behind the billing seems to be based on the "sensors" rather than the cameras, so my guess is they are basically using RFID. You'll be billed based on what you walk out of the door with, because that's where the RFID scanner will be, and the ca...
[15:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:13:53] <exec> 08└─Just one, but he is a complete piece of trash.
[15:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Scalability - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:08] <exec> 08└─Possibly you overestimate the pay of your average stock clerk or cashier. Surely they need more than one HD webcam per 10 sq ft. Probably one cam per sq foot is about right if they want to literally watch every shelf space and create 3-d models of the shoppers. Also the margins are extremely low in...
[15:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Scalability - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:09] <exec> 08└─I imagine that these are designed to be a quick stop for urban dwellers. People who shop day-to-day instead of in big grocery runs. I don't see this scaling up to the level of a full on suburban grocery store.
[15:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Love Statistics? - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:23] <exec> 08└─That's some deviant thinking right there
[15:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re: A wise man once said - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:27] <exec> 08└─Were they stainless statistics
[15:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Except the US election - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:34] <exec> 08└─The problem was the sampling method and weighting strategy. They don't ask 1000 people something and then publish the raw percentages. The massage they numbers... if they have too many or too few black transsexuals or hispanic women or skinheads or coal miners or unemployed asian computer program...
[15:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Watch it - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:48] <exec> 08└─Everything that made Cumberbatch a brilliant Sherlock Holmes or Dr. Strange is what's working against him as Khan. Khan is exceedingly charismatic and passionate, which makes him all the better megalomanic. Also the plot of JJTrek into Fail is just weird. So the Federation goes out and grabs the Bot...
[15:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Doctor - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:51] <exec> 08└─When it comes to time loops, I prefer the lesson of another Doctor: People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect. But actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint it’s more like a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey … stuff.
[15:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Consensus? - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:53] <exec> 08└─In 1949, the brilliant Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel found a solution of Albert Einstein's equations of general relativity where it is possible, at least theoretically, to travel in a circle in time as we can in space
[15:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:07] <exec> 08└─It's untestable yet sells books.
[15:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Max Hyre [3427] (Score:2) 02Coffee's real shortcoming - 06Maths Zeroes in On Perfect Cup of Coffee - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:29] <exec> 08└─[Claimer: I'm a tea drinker.] If they ever find a way to make coffee taste the way it smells when brewing, I'm converted. Until then, I'll limit it to an accompaniment for chocolate foods.
[15:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Coffee's real shortcoming - 06Maths Zeroes in On Perfect Cup of Coffee - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:30] <exec> 08└─How many times do I need to say this every time someone says coffee tastes bitter? It's bitter because the water was too hot, do not let it get to boiling temperature during brewing. Use a french press if you can't find a coffee maker that doesn't boil the water. Costco's Jose's Vanilla Bean is my f...
[15:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score:2) 02Hope for mankind! - 06Maths Zeroes in On Perfect Cup of Coffee - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:33] <exec> 08└─Ziltoid the omniscient will be pleased: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[15:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:You're trying to lose me as a user... - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:54] <exec> 08└─And of course.. Lynx, the tradtionalist's text based browser.
[15:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Crash and burn - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:15:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it should rise like a thunderbird or phoenix out of the ashes...
[15:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02What the hell are they up to anyway? - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:02] <exec> 08└─I literally can't recall the last time anything about FF actually improved for me. Yet just a few years ago I could compile it under Gentoo on a very old x86 system, and now it somehow requires 8 GB of RAM [mozilla.org] to compile. Bloat seems to be the goal as far as I can see. It's like they're tr...
[15:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:power conserving - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:16] <exec> 08└─> Also, this might explain the feeling that some people report in an emergency situation, when it seems like the clock slows down? If all your brain was actually on at once, a whole lot more processing could be done in the same amount of clock time. I thought this was common knowledge? Likewise time...
[15:16:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Web sites != Internet - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 778 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:33] <exec> 08└─This is an article about a couple of Russian websites and applications. These all use the same internet we use everywhere else. This is not at all about creating a new or innovative internet. I was expecting an article about some new decentralized network (aka internet) tech, like maybe some neat us...
[15:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That sounds like a tool for creepy stalkers - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:37] <exec> 08└─Imagine someone with stalker mentality finding a girl in the street he finds attractive. With such app he will quickly learn all he wants about the girl, in order to abuse that information. That sounds scary.
[15:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:2) 02Re:Adblock unfriendly? - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:16:49] <exec> 08└─I would rather that sites respect my wish not to be inundated with unwanted ads or, worse still, infected by malware than have to take part in a escalating war of software add-ons each trying to defeat the counters to the previous one. My solution is simply not to use that site, but as this was a su...
[15:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Interesting - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:17:01] <exec> 08└─Solo dying didn't have anything to do with advancing the plot. That was so they could reduce the likelihood of needing the writers to work into the script something about Solo falling and breaking a hip.
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[16:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:21] <exec> 08└─"We sponsor the Vegan Fair and announced on Wednesday we would not be accepting the £5 notes because they are dubious ethically. We have been providing food for vegans for 30 years and have tried to be as ethical as we possibly can...This is not just a restaurant, it's a restaurant where tiny detai...
[16:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:22] <exec> 08└─Well, if they aren't going to be taking that bill, then they'll just have to deal with the people who can't pay their entire bill without it getting a free ride. This sort of thing is why nobody takes vegans seriously.
[16:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:24] <exec> 08└─Living with a vegan, I find that the following becomes truer every day: That moment your emotions caused a decision that inconveniences the people you rely on to survive is when you stopped being an impassioned idealist trying to make the world a better place, and just became an asshole.
[16:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:26] <exec> 08└─roomie or SO?
[16:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:29] <exec> 08└─SO. I wouldn't care about the vegan shit if it weren't for the fact that she expects me to buy it for her, and it's twice as expensive as real food (and I'm convinced far less healthy--EVERYTHING is unfermented soy, MSG, and vegetable oil). Then I usually wind up cooking it, because she works a nigh...
[16:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:31] <exec> 08└─we would not be accepting the £5 notes because they are dubious ethically
[16:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:33] <exec> 08└─"it's a restaurant where tiny details like this are really important."
[16:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score:3, Insightful) 02No Problem - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:35] <exec> 08└─I'm quite happy with their decision, they won't accept my money and I will not give them my trade.
[16:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:37] <exec> 08└─> I'm quite happy with their decision, they won't accept my money and I will not give them my trade. Not like you were going to anyway. How many people here refuse to use credit cards because of the tracking infrastructure behind them? If they were refusing to take credit cards people here would be...
[16:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 766 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:39] <exec> 08└─That's not even remotely the same thing. There are all sorts of reasons why people don't use credit cards ranging from not being able to get one to overspending when using them. But, it's a personal decision not to use them, if somebody fails to offer credit as a form of payment, then some people wo...
[16:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:No Problem - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:41] <exec> 08└─I have a problem with it. First, it's insane. Someone calculated that the total amount of tallow used in all of the £5 notes in circulation is about half of the amount that you get from one cow. No cows are being killed to make the notes, they're simply using an animal byproduct because it's cheap....
[16:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Neither interesting nor important - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:43] <exec> 08└─See subject.
[16:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neither interesting nor important - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, your comment is neither interesting nor important.
[16:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Gold? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:48] <exec> 08└─How about gold coins where the gold is mined by slave labor children? Also those plants they're eating probably were not pasture raised and the slaughtering process for plants is violent, torn apart while the plants are still alive in some cases. Absolutely brutal and unacceptable. I've seen the far...
[16:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gold? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:50] <exec> 08└─> How about gold coins where the gold is mined by slave labor children? I'm pretty sure they don't take gold coins as payment either. Must you virtue signal every time there is a story about people you don't like?
[16:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Coins - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:52] <exec> 08└─They could do all their business with coins. Of course, that's a lot of coins. I wonder if they would feel the same way if the new fivers were greased with tallow made from the fat of human corpses, people who died of heart attacks or were killed in accidents? Personally, I think these people are hy...
[16:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Coins - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:54] <exec> 08└─It also pains me to point out that even vegan food involves animal death. How many field mice were crushed by the combine harvester that collected the wheat in your bread? How many birds and bugs are killed in the orchards either deliberately for pest control, or accidentally during harvesting? I re...
[16:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Flashback - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:56] <exec> 08└─England should really take care of this fast [wikipedia.org]:The final spark was provided by the ammunition for the new Enfield P-53 rifle.[27] These rifles, which fired Minié balls, had a tighter fit than the earlier muskets, and used paper cartridges that came pre-greased. To load the rifle, sepo...
[16:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Ever saw Seven Years in Tibet? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:58] <exec> 08└─There was this scene [youtube.com] where it was necessary to manually sift through the soil and clear out the earth worms before pouring foundations...
[16:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Illegal? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:01] <exec> 08└─Not sure about GB, but in the USA you can't refuse any denomination of cash unless you don't accept cash at all.
[16:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score:2) 02Re:Illegal? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:03] <exec> 08└─That's not true.
[16:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Illegal? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:05] <exec> 08└─But you can refuse to do business at all at seller's will. Where i live you can refuse to take bigger bills (i think the limit is 50€, you can refuse to take that and bigger bills) and 1 and 2 cent coins.
[16:13:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02A vegetarian cafe, eh? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:07] <exec> 08└─Somebody needs to tell them that their Carrot Juice is Murder [youtube.com]. (Fun fact: new research suggests that the Arrogant Worms were actually right about the "Don't think that they don't have feelings, just 'cause a radish can't scream" line.)
[16:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They were trying to generate random numbers... - 06More Than 100,000 Create Random Number Sequences for a Worldwide Quantum Physics Experiment - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:17] <exec> 08└─well, I did not read the article, but the summary posted here seems to suggest, that the random numbers were generated as a result of decisions/ actions of the human video-game-players. This would be the source of "non deterministic" random numbers if one accepts the existence of free will; anyhoo,...
[16:13:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cats - 06More Than 100,000 Create Random Number Sequences for a Worldwide Quantum Physics Experiment - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:20] <exec> 08└─No, it's about testing bells. ;-)
[16:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:36] <exec> 08└─Obscure story? WTF? WW3 isn't an obscure possibility, or an obscure story. WTF? CNN apparently wrote the story to imply that Russia was moving on Norway, as a consequence of Trump's election. Did you bother to READ? "The story was published at 10.11 GMT on November 30. When the Barents Observer chec...
[16:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:38] <exec> 08└─> CNN apparently wrote the story to imply that Russia was moving on Norway, as a consequence of Trump's election. Did you bother to READ? Did you? Because what the article actually says is that Norway is afraid that Trump is going to back out of NATO. Calm your hysteria dude. > Misleading stories ar...
[16:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02my opinion on the media - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:46] <exec> 08└─" I surveyed "left" sites the past several days, reading the comments. They believe Trump won because the media gave him too much attention." I also believe that. I've mentioned that I listen to a radio talk show out of Houston - Walton and Johnson. All through the election, they observed that the m...
[16:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:48] <exec> 08└─They believe Trump won because the media gave him too much attention.
[16:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:50] <exec> 08└─That's a large part of the problem. Trump was given billions of dollars in free air time and he probably wouldn't have been the nominee without that free airtime. But, he won the GE because the Democrats rigged their primaries in favor of the less popular candidate who offered the people absolutely...
[16:13:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:54] <exec> 08└─Five star post.
[16:13:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:59] <exec> 08└─"conspiracy theories sure seem to dominate despite being completely anti-scienitific." Is anthropology a science? You know - the study of man. Do you know people? I mean, real people, living near you, who have wants, desires, dreams, etc ad nauseum. Have you ever unearthed any conspiracies among the...
[16:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:01] <exec> 08└─You fail vocab. Conspiracy theories and people cooperating for their benefit are not even remotely the same thing. Also, the word you are looking for sociology which is the study of human behaviour in groups. But I'm pretty sure you don't consider sociology a science since the field has produced so...
[16:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Double-, Triple- and Quadruple-think - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:05] <exec> 08└─Sure, you can double-think it. And triple-think it. I'm not even sure which side of #pizzagate it would benefit. But I find the story very strange. As far as conspiracy theories go, do recall the saying: "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that they're not out to get you." Sometimes there rea...
[16:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:What is the fake news, exactly? - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:08] <exec> 08└─Wasn't the fake news about a faked assault by a truth warrior, conceived to discredit alternative news sites and pushing the idea that pizzagate is fake? I am confused nao.
[16:14:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 375 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:10] <exec> 08└─https://dcpizzagate.wordpress.com/ [wordpress.com] Its at the stage of something really weird being covered up. What exactly, well, thats unclear. Sure is an enormous pile of coincidences and the response from "the usual suspects" to censor it has been way over the top compared to other "weird event...
[16:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 894 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:16] <exec> 08└─Not a lot to verify, to be honest, there's just a bunch of circumstantial and often tenuous connections pulled in from all sorts of different directions. Even if we were to assume that all the individual pieces of information are true, there's not enough holding it all together to give it any credit...
[16:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:18] <exec> 08└─You didn't even try to verify one fact, did you?
[16:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:24] <exec> 08└─Did Obama actually pay a hundred thousand dollars to get hot-dogs shipped in from Chicago? I had heard at one point that the White House does not allow outside catering, which makes sense from a security perspective (is this true)? Their are a series of other similar questions, like does John Podest...
[16:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What would it take to convince you? - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:28] <exec> 08└─> The value of that link is the article isn't even true. You sure put in a lot of work to avoid addressing contradicting evidence that might pop your bubble. You must have a lot of yourself invested in the idea of pizzagate. What would it take to convince you that pizzagate is completely false?
[16:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Welcome to the newest form of cyber warfare - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:37] <exec> 08└─Then you haven't bothered to do your own investigation and fact-check anything. You just assumed that because it sounds outrageous that it must be fake.
[16:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Welcome to the newest form of cyber warfare - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:44] <exec> 08└─The Yellow Press gave us war with Spain 120 years ago.
[16:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Welcome to the newest form of cyber warfare - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:47] <exec> 08└─Anyways, the reason I say electronic warfare is simply because you can rile up people to the point of inciting violence using so-called "fake news". Yeah, like the fake Planned Parenthood videos from about a year ago. 3 people are dead over that one.
[16:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02ISIS Propaganda is Fake News too - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:50] <exec> 08└─Speaking of riled up crazies, a week or two ago the memes of "open borders are the best" and "religion of peace" got nine people in Ohio run over by car and slashed up by knife and the dude doing it gunned down.
[16:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Welcome to the newest form of cyber warfare - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:14:52] <exec> 08└─"This week we got a riled up crazy with the memes of "pizzagate" shot a hole in the floor, probably ruining one expensive floor tile and scaring the hell out of a bunch of people, but nobody got hurt not even the shooter." The only thing I can conclude from that fact, is that the shooter was white....
[16:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score:2) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:05] <exec> 08└─>Whichever planet you live on, I wish I were there. Eastern Europe, too disorganised and corrupt to implement such a system. Also too poor to push so much money into such a system, and quite frankly they don't care enough about what you do to bother. Africa is pretty good too, too chaotic to impleme...
[16:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What could possibly go wrong - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:15:29] <exec> 08└─4) Amazon sells the data from the illicit purchase before there is any chance to correct it. All that beef jerky and Monster drink is going to look bad for "someone"...when it hits their health insurance company.
[16:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Big Data - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 1386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:54] <exec> 08└─Coming from the traditional viewpoint of biostatistics, the so called "big data" analysis is seen with quite some concern. I share come of these concerns although I see some positive aspects of "big data" as well. The main criticism goes as follows: The underlying distribution of the data is often u...
[16:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Consensus? - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:11] <exec> 08└─No, Gödel's solution is purely GR. However you need a rotating universe.
[16:16:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:26] <exec> 08└─You should write a book about it.
[16:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:34] <exec> 08└─His theories were always testable, it's just that in many cases the technology to actually test them had to come along after the fact. But, much of the really important stuff was tested during his lifetime and quickly enough that people knew there was merit to it in reality. It's been how many decad...
[16:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:36] <exec> 08└─The fact that we can't use it now doesn't make it useless. What makes it useless is that we're decades into this and there is still a distinct lack of testable hypotheses. I can't think of any other area of study that's been less productive in recent times. Sure, we've got some fancy math out of it,...
[16:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score:1) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 1464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:16:39] <exec> 08└─Well... String theory, M theory, and p-brane theory (yeah, they actually named it that. lol) are all frameworks for possible realities. No one has yet discovered which derivation of the theory actually fits our universe best, so it can't make proper predictions about unknowns. Quantum mechanics make...
[16:18:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02MPAA - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:19] <exec> 08└─My take on it is I don't give money to support the MPAA.
[16:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Home-made Encryption? - 06UK's New Snoopers' Charter Just Passed an Encryption Backdoor Law by the Backdoor - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:19:48] <exec> 08└─To be fair the problems with TrueCrypt aren't with the encryption but with all the other stuff attached to it. That said creating a good encryption algorithm is hard even for experts. For example looking the AES finalists, 256 bit versions only, Serpent, Twofish, and Mars were thought to have the hi...
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[17:12:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 335 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:30] <exec> 08└─"We sponsor the Vegan Fair and announced on Wednesday we would not be accepting the £5 notes because they are dubious ethically. We have been providing food for vegans for 30 years and have tried to be as ethical as we possibly can...This is not just a restaurant, it's a restaurant where tiny detai...
[17:12:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03dyingtolive [952] 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 288 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:32] <exec> 08└─Living with a vegan, I find that the following becomes truer every day: That moment your emotions caused a decision that inconveniences the people you rely on to survive is when you stopped being an impassioned idealist trying to make the world a better place, and just became an asshole.
[17:12:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:36] <exec> 08└─Your wife sucks at being vegan if all she wants is meat and dairy substitutes. My friend's vegan wife learned to, you know, cook healthy dishes out of fruits, vegetables, and grains. The vegan lifestyle works a lot better if you actually understand nutrition. I tried going vegan for a month, found m...
[17:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:38] <exec> 08└─Is she noticeably healthier than anyone else you know?
[17:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 2989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:41] <exec> 08└─Here's one of my favourite recipes that happens to be vegan (or not, depending...) It's cheap, versatile, tasty, filling, hearty, nutritious, easy. No soy, MSG or vegetable oil anywhere, except a bit of oil to fry in. Surprise your other half with it tomorrow. Dump a cup of dried lentils in hot wate...
[17:12:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tonyPick [1237] 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 70 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:43] <exec> 08└─"it's a restaurant where tiny details like this are really important."
[17:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:46] <exec> 08└─So presumably they also don't allow Soap, Deliveries via car, people travelling on Bicycles, any music played with an instrument and also don't own computers or mobile phones? It's even better than that! FTA: One puzzling inconsistency is the fact that the Rainbow Café is vegetarian, not str...
[17:12:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:48] <exec> 08└─No, that just unmasks the charade for what it is: a shitty publicity stunt meant to get them more business from retards with more money than brains... I mean vegans.
[17:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:53] <exec> 08└─Ok, why isn't it remotely the same thing? I disagree, for example, that cash is more universal than credit card. Can't buy from Amazon with cash.
[17:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:55] <exec> 08└─How many people here refuse to use credit cards because of the tracking infrastructure behind them? If they were refusing to take credit cards people here would be lauding them. This is really no different.
[17:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:57] <exec> 08└─No, it's completely different. Accepting credit cards requires you to be set up to do so, which necessitates paying a credit processing fee. Accepting money is virtually zero effort.
[17:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:59] <exec> 08└─If they rejected credit cards out of principle
[17:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:01] <exec> 08└─> Well, this is a clause I never agreed was part of the argument. Well, if you ignore the entire point of my post, you can dispute anything! See the subject line "ideologically consistent" - you shouldn't have continued to use the same subject line if you were talking about some wholly unrelated con...
[17:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:04] <exec> 08└─Because changing the subject line in a reply definitely isn't ambushing us :P Next time argue in good faith or don't argue at all.
[17:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:06] <exec> 08└─> Because changing the subject line in a reply definitely isn't ambushing us I changed it because the new subject line was descriptive of the point being made. In fact, its a direct-cut-and-paste from the text that I wrote in the post too. There was no ambush. Unless you are admitting to being a pup...
[17:13:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02Re:No Problem - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:09] <exec> 08└─*Standing ovation* THANK YOU! I was waiting for someone to point out that tiny little fact. Thank you for doing so.
[17:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re:Gold? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:15] <exec> 08└─I've seen the farm where my beef is raised and the butcher at least had the decency to kill the thing before chopping it up.
[17:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gold? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:17] <exec> 08└─No the McDonald's is down the road, but I don't call them cattle, sheeple suffices.
[17:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flashback - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:22] <exec> 08└─I understood it was a false rumour, potentially spread by Russian infiltrators. So maybe we should be looking to Putin as the source of this unrest?
[17:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flashback - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:24] <exec> 08└─The grease used on these cartridges was rumoured to include tallow derived from beef, which would be offensive to Hindus,[29] and pork, which would be offensive to Muslims
[17:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Flashback - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:26] <exec> 08└─How is it bigotry? I would assume that the Muslim objection to the cartridges would be biting them to open them, which can be argued to be the same as consuming pork (though I'm not sure why supposedly these things had to be bitten, and couldn't just be ripped open by hand).
[17:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score:1) 02Re:Flashback - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:29] <exec> 08└─The issue is that for transport purposes, they would use a really thick, tough paper that's really hard to rip open by hand, thus the usual method is to use your teeth.
[17:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Flashback - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:31] <exec> 08└─> which can be argued to be the same as consuming pork Only to someone without an understanding of what is to be muslim. Note how the reference to hindu reverence for cows is footnoted and the reference to muslim beliefs is not. The quotation itself only refers to hindus - in case you didn't catch i...
[17:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Illegal? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:37] <exec> 08└─Not quite right. You can't refuse cash for a debt, but in cases where payment comes before product or service you can refuse any cash you wish. You can also notify that cash is not accepted before the debt is incurred (a sign, verbal, etc).
[17:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Illegal? - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:39] <exec> 08└─But as always, IANAL
[17:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02FALSE - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 955 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:41] <exec> 08└─> in the USA you can't refuse any denomination of cash unless you don't accept cash at all. https://www.federalreserve.gov [federalreserve.gov] Is it legal for a business in the United States to refuse cash as a form of payment? Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender...
[17:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03zugedneb [4556] (Score:1) 02late to the party... - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:44] <exec> 08└─...but wtf is all the hatered towards vegans? it's jut people who decidede they do not want to have animals killed. they do understand that agriculture itslef comes with "problems", but at least they should make them minimal... compared to the world in large, it's not the worst type of people to com...
[17:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:late to the party... - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:13:46] <exec> 08└─It's like when people want to complain about Christians. They want to impose their morality on everyone else.
[17:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:16] <exec> 08└─Everybody makes mistakes.
[17:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:18] <exec> 08└─> But some repeatedly make mistakes that benefit themselves or favor some side. That's the story of your entire posting history.
[17:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:28] <exec> 08└─Reporters aren't the worst. Leslie Moonves, CEO of CBS, on Donald Trump: "It May Not Be Good for America, but It's Damn Good for CBS." Doesn't sound like a guy dedicated to uncovering the truth and reporting the facts. Does he even care about facts, or is he only interested in drama, only interested...
[17:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:31] <exec> 08└─You know what hasn't been really discussed? The ground troop leftist themselves. One of the things consistently cited in why the polling numbers were so off is people constantly being badgered by leftist for even entertaining different points of views (imagine my shock at this revelation) that they...
[17:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know you - you don't know me - you're just some anon fool on the internet - nothing you say counts.
[17:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Double-, Triple- and Quadruple-think - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:14:46] <exec> 08└─Like Milo mysteriously canceling his talk on Pizzagate, saying he was told: "Not Yet" Was that all a stunt to make PG seem more real? Or is more going on?
[17:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─After skimming through that, I don't see how anybody can take this theory seriously. Well, unless I presume that the moon is hollow and transmitting some kind of matrix from the Sol-Thuban primary relay station near Saturn…. Why is the media giving this any airtime? I mean, it's fun shit, for sure...
[17:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Reliability? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 857 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:17] <exec> 08└─I suspect the store will have a "foyer" where you can collect your shopping cart and bag your groceries. In the store you need to put the article in the cart which would be equipped with an RFID reader. This would also allow a display to be integrated into these smart carts to display the items sele...
[17:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:Reliability? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 1143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:19] <exec> 08└─I have never worked out why shopping isn't RFID like this. It doesn't need to have UNIQUE RFID tags, just the RFID equivalent of the barcode that's scanned. Push trolley through scanner arch. Several hundred beeps in the space of a second. Your bill. You can argue about "Did you actually buy a toy c...
[17:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:29] <exec> 08└─Haha, I'll bet that millennials burned the Library at Alexandria because it didn't have a safe space! (I'd also bet that it's a millennial who's posting about how this or that is all the fault of millennials.)
[17:15:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:So you can wander around the store for an hour - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:42] <exec> 08└─As my high school history teacher said: "I always use the self checkout. I try to avoid people without high school diplomas as much as possible"
[17:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score:1) 02And best of all - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:50] <exec> 08└─...we get to eliminate the cashier jobs! Now if we can automate stock of shelves we won't have to deal with any of those pesky working people.
[17:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Uncle_Al [1108] (Score:2) 02Charge me later? no fucking way - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:52] <exec> 08└─And what, exactly will the item price be, Mr. (fuck with the prices contstantly) Bezos?
[17:16:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02538 - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:16] <exec> 08└─> was correctly predicted by Michael Moore instead of Nate Silver and all the other experts. You weren't paying attention. Nate Silver consistently said there was a ~30% chance of Trump winning. I read Silver's site multiple times per day and he got a lot of shit by actual partisans for saying that....
[17:16:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:16:59] <exec> 08└─String Theory is also testable...just like Einstein's theories were, but the "...technology to actually test them had to come along after the fact". Unlike previous theories, unfortunately, String Theory involves energies beyond our ability to produce and control. Probably for some time to come. An...
[17:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:1) 02Strikes close to home - 06Maths Zeroes in On Perfect Cup of Coffee - 1566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:21] <exec> 08└─I'm actually really interested in the outcome of their study. My wife and I have a 4-cup pour over coffee maker [amazon.com] at home and despite using the same amount of coffee grounds and water, the differences in the way we prepare the coffee makes my wife's coffee always taste weak. I've attribut...
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[18:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Devil's in the details - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:20] <exec> 08└─$1 Billion to "fight" the opioid epidemic could be money into a memory hole, or worse: counterproductive and make things worse, depending on exactly what it's going towards. More law enforcement would just make things worse. A billion towards researching it might actually be excessive. A billion tow...
[18:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Devil's in the details - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:22] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what NIH plans to do about it, but you can find some of our past coverage here: https://www.google.com [google.com] I also read recently about some non-addictive opioid. It's not related to suboxone/buprenorphine, but a safer painkiller. I'll lo...
[18:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Legalizing the evil weed is the best way - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:24] <exec> 08└─states that have legalized marijuana have seen a dramatic decrease in opioid deaths.
[18:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Legalizing the evil weed is the best way - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:26] <exec> 08└─This would not surprise me to learn, but I'd also be wary of deriving strong conclusions from it because, in general, marijuana has been legalized in more liberal places with better GDP per capita, and the opioid epidemic has hit hardest in places with lower average incomes, worse medical care, and...
[18:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Legalizing the evil weed is the best way - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:28] <exec> 08└─Yes, demographics are a consideration. Demographic and Substance Use Trends Among Heroin Users — United States, 2002–2013 [cdc.gov]: There was a significant increase in the rate of past-year heroin use in the United States between 2002–2004 and 2011–2013. Rates remained highest among males,...
[18:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:Legalizing the evil weed is the best way - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:30] <exec> 08└─so what you're saying is that the opioid epidemic is a symptom of bigger problems. but nobody wants to address those, because then we'd have to admit that our society is broken. the opioids themselves are a problem too, but things like increasing access to naloxone [huffingtonpost.com], putting a fo...
[18:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Legalizing the evil weed is the best way - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:32] <exec> 08└─You bring up a good point. However, it is a tad more subtle. Source, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Pubic Health, State Medical Marijuana Laws Linked to Lower Prescription Overdose Deaths [jhsph.edu]: In states where it is legal to use medical marijuana to manage chronic pain and other conditions...
[18:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Waste - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 1085 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:35] <exec> 08└─Second, NIH and FDA do not need additional funding. Instead, they need to spend the money they already have on critical research instead of wasteful projects. In fact, discretionary funding for NIH has tripled over the last twenty years, from $11 billion in 1994 to over $33 billion in 2016. Conserva...
[18:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waste - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:37] <exec> 08└─Reproducibility is a problem and it would be great if there was funding for such studies, but people want their money going towards researching cures and they are too short-sighted to value reproducibility.
[18:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waste - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:39] <exec> 08└─True, when it comes to medical research there sadly is not much interest in doing a good job these days.
[18:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Waste - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:41] <exec> 08└─but people want their money going towards researching cures and they are too short-sighted to value reproducibility.
[18:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Dr. Lowe's perspective - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:43] <exec> 08└─Blog post from Dr. Lowe on the topic: http://blogs.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org]
[18:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:58] <exec> 08└─Ironically, I think I'm better at getting over meat than she is. Before moving in, I basically lived off of stir fry and curry that was effectively vegan most of the time anyway. Every few days I'd toss chicken in for some protein. It's what I was used to eating growing up, but with more meat back t...
[18:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:59] <exec> 08└─That's close to my situation. My SO is vegetarian. In addition, she's allergic to nuts, sensitive to dairy (straight dairy is out, has to be well cooked and blended), and she does not like eggs, onions (but she likes onion powder), bell peppers, corn, mushrooms, pineapple, apple, iceberg lettuce, am...
[18:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:4, Funny) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:02] <exec> 08└─With those tastes, your SO is apparently 8 years old. I've alerted the FBI.
[18:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:05] <exec> 08└─Not really. A little overweight (so am I), but she doesn't have any muscle mass. She either can't lift 40 lbs, out she's putting me on. I can handedly outrun her, and I smoke.
[18:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:08] <exec> 08└─Even easier, cook a pound of red lentils in 4 cups of water in a large saucepan. Cook some onions in spices (garlic powder, cumin, black pepper, paprika, etc.). Add some salt or MSG. Combine all the ingredients into the saucepan and add 14 oz of generic tomato sauce. Instant curry.
[18:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:10] <exec> 08└─Don't bother washing the lentils (pick out weird bits if they float to the top). Serve on rice.
[18:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:12] <exec> 08└─That's more or less my go-to "lazy girl curry" recipe :) Really helps if you have an Indian or Pakistani grocery nearby!
[18:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:14] <exec> 08└─Both that and what takyon posted look fantastic. She's got the day off today, so I think she's making fake neat Shepard's pie, but I'm going to try those later this week.
[18:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:16] <exec> 08└─Sounds good. But note that ghee is not vegan.
[18:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:18] <exec> 08└─The other advantage to doing the cooking myself is that while I'm already in the kitchen, I can cook up a steak or some chicken or something and a pile of veggies
[18:13:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:21] <exec> 08└─That moment your emotions caused a decision that inconveniences the people you rely on to survive is when you stopped being an impassioned idealist trying to make the world a better place, and just became an asshole.
[18:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:23] <exec> 08└─The key wasn't just the emotions making the decision, but the qualifier about the people you depend on. That being said, your book sounds intriguing.
[18:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02reductive and transactional - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:25] <exec> 08└─> but the qualifier about the people you depend on. And that's just as specious. No, really. If they inconvenienced people they didn't depend on, then they would be accused of being bad citizens, uncaring about the public welfare. We see it every time there is a public protest. Support from the peop...
[18:13:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:27] <exec> 08└─Living with a vegan, I find that the following becomes truer every day: That moment your emotions caused a decision that inconveniences the people you rely on to survive is when you stopped being an impassioned idealist trying to make the world a better place, and just became an asshole.
[18:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:37] <exec> 08└─Only people with bank accounts & credit can get credit cards. People that can't get or don't have bank accounts or have bad credit can't use credit cards, but everyone can use cash. You can buy Amazon gift cards with cash and buy from Amazon with those too.
[18:13:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:39] <exec> 08└─But I see that Amazon still doesn't accept cash. You have to do a clumsy workaround.
[18:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:41] <exec> 08└─You also can't walk into an Amazon and buy something, you have to order off a website. Physical stores take physical money, electronic money, IOUs both physical and electronic (although the physical are less and less common), electronic stores take electronic money because they don't have the capabi...
[18:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:43] <exec> 08└─You also can't walk into an Amazon and buy something
[18:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:46] <exec> 08└─Many do accept Western Union though.
[18:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They were trying to generate random numbers... - 06More Than 100,000 Create Random Number Sequences for a Worldwide Quantum Physics Experiment - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:11] <exec> 08└─It sounds like a silly outreach stunt. I didnt RTFA.
[18:14:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:They were trying to generate random numbers... - 06More Than 100,000 Create Random Number Sequences for a Worldwide Quantum Physics Experiment - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:13] <exec> 08└─If anyone has more information about how the game pursued randomness I would be interested. Unfortunately Kaitos Games [kaitosgames.com] doesn't have anything in English (anyone fluent in Spanish?). And following a few links isn't leading to anything informative.
[18:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:35] <exec> 08└─WW3 isn't an obscure possibility, or an obscure story.
[18:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:37] <exec> 08└─CNN apparently wrote the story to imply that Russia was moving on Norway, as a consequence of Trump's election. Did you bother to READ?
[18:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─I read the links you posted. Did you? Because it appears that you have misunderstood what these articles are telling you. Nick Paton Walsh wrote a story about (yearly?) military exercises in Norway that US soldiers participate in. The story also includes a discussion about patrols on the Russian bor...
[18:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:47] <exec> 08└─So is it just gay dudes? Because aside from the annoying crowd who are also vegan/vegetarian/what-have-you, I don't see gay women doing things like that beyond the occasional separatist nuts like the TERFs.
[18:14:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 674 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:58] <exec> 08└─On a site where the community likes to think of itself as grounded in science, conspiracy theories sure seem to dominate despite being completely anti-scienitific. Conspiracy theories are the opposite of scientific theory - both attempt to explain the world, but the former are unfalsifiable and can...
[18:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:04] <exec> 08└─That's the best online interpretation of puting your fingers in your ears and going "na-na-na-na I can't hear you!" that I've ever read. You are a fuckin riot!
[18:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:06] <exec> 08└─Are you going to pretend that rich bastards never conspire?
[18:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:08] <exec> 08└─I find that some of the right wing conspiracy theories are no different than blind faith in something. Asking questions is hard, but believing something because it's not what the other side believes and everyone you surround yourself with approves -- then that's great! Facts be damned, I feel good...
[18:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:deinstitutionalization - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:18] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, what makes me fear for the future is that it seems like mental defectives like himself are on the rise. Looks like Reagan's legacy of deinstitutionalization is really beginning to wreck havoc on our society. Its enough to erode my belief in democracy. I still think the alternative is...
[18:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:28] <exec> 08└─In the end, your 'best case scenario' is probably closest to the truth. My problem with the whole hog satanic pedo ring theory is logistics. Where do they get all the kids and where do they dispose of the bodies? No way you have recognizable world leaders buggering kids and letting them live to test...
[18:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:32] <exec> 08└─How are these serious questions? Have you tried getting some fresh air lately?
[18:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Reliability? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:15:50] <exec> 08└─You would need some way to make sure that you are not being billed or items you had previously purchased in your bag or for the items in the cart of the person ahead of or behind you. It is trivial to jam RFID as well. The system works by walking a binary tree of bits in the IDs. First developed for...
[18:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:How this works.. ? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 1104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:08] <exec> 08└─Wal-Mart's self-checkouts just plain suck. I don't think I've ever used one at a K-Mart, but the one down the road from me closed up a few years ago. The regional grocery chain I go to has pretty good self-checkouts, but buying alcohol is a pain since a worker still has to check ID. For a while they...
[18:16:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Big Data - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:16:50] <exec> 08└─The problem is that many "big data" analysts are simply unaware of these problems.
[18:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Consensus? - 06Lessons On Time Loops And Power Loops From 'Doctor Strange' - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:17:08] <exec> 08└─That was my point? How is this a "no" statement? Some of these "solutions" involving GR solve a problem that only exists in GR; if you look at it in a quantum mechanical context the "problem" vanishes. IANAPhysicist
[18:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Completely different from the US - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:49] <exec> 08└─The difference is that in a US web page, the terms of use are in English, [citation needed]
[18:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That sounds like a tool for creepy stalkers - 06Inside Russia’s Creepy, Innovative Internet - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:18:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe he'll learn all he needs to know and be on his merry way...
[18:19:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02Re:Benevolent sexism - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:19:34] <exec> 08└─When the rich overwhelm the elections, it's a travesty of democracy. Yeah, because the rich don't overwhelm elections by actually voting.
[18:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03tathra [3367] (Score:2) 02Re:The regressive left doesn't get it. - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:20:03] <exec> 08└─thankfully there is a cure for PTSD [theguardian.com] but its one of many wonder drugs for treating psychiatric conditions [maps.org] that have been banned thanks to the war on drugs, and we all suffer for it. we're at least 5 years away from being able to get PTSD cured at your psychiatrist's offic...
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[19:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Legalizing the evil weed is the best way - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:52] <exec> 08└─Except opiods cause chronic pain. It may be that MJ is a good drug to ween off the dependence, which stops the pain in the long run. I hate medical-marijuana crusaders and their foot-in-the-door nonsense a lot, but this could be useful.
[19:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:15] <exec> 08└─Perhaps she has cravings because she has nutritional deficiencies.
[19:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:45] <exec> 08└─A debt, and a bill are very different. A debt is incurred with out service having to be rendered, e.g. taxes both income and property, which is what the statement legal tender for debts public an private was intended for. It was designed to keep the government from taking land/property to pay taxes....
[19:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:52] <exec> 08└─Next time argue in good faith or don't argue at all.
[19:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No Problem - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:58] <exec> 08└─BTW - This came up on the ukcrypto mailing list a few years ago, have a look at these two messages, and follow the link to the CPR: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk [greenend.org.uk] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk
[19:13:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:No Problem - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:00] <exec> 08└─Does 'animal cruelty' have a half-life? I imagine that, over time, all the cruelty that went into a five pound note will be amortized over thousands of transactions, leaving behind a well-worn, but guilt-free, note. What is vegan canon for archaeological sites? Are whale bone tools tainted by the fa...
[19:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:41] <exec> 08└─How is that a "right wing" thing when it is the same behavior in left wing areas like college campus LARPing?
[19:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:48] <exec> 08└─ Some mentally unstable bozo takes a gun there, nobody is injured, and as the Joker noted, everybody loses their minds! Yea, I don't know what all the hype is about either. So what a deranged lunatic discharges a gun in a pizzeria because he believed Hillary was raping kids there. Liberal pussies...
[19:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:55] <exec> 08└─One of the things consistently cited in why the polling numbers were so off is people constantly being badgered by leftist for even entertaining different points of views (imagine my shock at this revelation) that they simply shut down, nodded their heads, and proceeded to vote, even tepidly, for Tr...
[19:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:06] <exec> 08└─I don't know you - you don't know me - you're just some anon fool on the internet - nothing you say counts.
[19:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Speak for yourself son. - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:08] <exec> 08└─> Take a note son: We're all nobodies. Speak for yourself son. I'm Henry Kissinger. I read soylent for the informative geopolitical commentary. Runaway1956, VLM, Khallow, TheMighytBuzzard, Jmorris and Bradley13 are some of the most educated and insightful writers I have ever encountered. It is an ho...
[19:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:11] <exec> 08└─What strains credibility is when major PUBLIC figures are claimed to be involved in conspiracies that would require hundreds or even thousands of people "in the know." Nobody can keep that kind of stuff quiet... even the Mob can't maintain that sort of loyalty over years or decades that these "consp...
[19:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:What is the fake news, exactly? - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:19] <exec> 08└─Which article? This one?:https://www.buzzfeed.com/tasneemnashrulla/heres-what-we-know-about-the-pizzagate-gunman?utm_term=.jsmm1XjWQa#.eyd3bv4XP6 [buzzfeed.com] Few quotes from said article: According to a Facebook page that appeared to belong to him, According to an IMDb page that appeared to belon...
[19:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:satanic ritual abuse - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:27] <exec> 08└─Pizzagate is just more bitch-hunt logic.
[19:15:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:30] <exec> 08└─S'what I'm saying. Don't assume. Check into it yourself. Right at this moment, there's not a serious case by my digging but I was anything but thorough. I'm neither giving them the benefit of the doubt nor withholding it, which is where any intellectually honest person should be at this point.
[19:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Something weird - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 858 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:15:38] <exec> 08└─Not disagreeing with any of that, but the logistics are a lot simpler if its one kid per lifetime "initiation" or whatever rather than one kid every friday night with a large pepperoni with extra sausage. Might explain the weird art. Looking at art rather than doing. One kid every new years celebrat...
[19:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory Manna - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:22] <exec> 08└─Thanks for pointing that out I think that part is lost on most readers.
[19:16:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Re:Statistics and physics - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:16:44] <exec> 08└─The only 'pure' law is uncertainty. The only constant is change.
[19:17:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Re:Watson - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:02] <exec> 08└─I must have missed that story the first time around; is it also about the US presidential election?
[19:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02String Hypothesis - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:17:51] <exec> 08└─"Theory" is the highest attainment in Science. It means that lots of knowledgeable folks have examined your idea and nobody has yet found a way to shoot giant holes through it; that it's the most reliable explanation for a phenomenon. This does not apply to String "Theory". The correct word for this...
[19:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Quantum field theory - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:57] <exec> 08└─Insofar as the layperson should have knowledge of physics, he should get acquainted with quantum field theory instead. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Matching results versus matching mechanism - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─Many suggest that ST is so complicated (lots of layers) it's almost like a Turing Machine that can emulate/model just about any observation. Another analogy is polynomial regression (PR): you can fit just about any curve (observation) with it, YET polynomial regression is not intended to mirror the...
[19:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02How about for Android? - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:35] <exec> 08└─So what would you recommend for Android, if anything?? I like Pale Moon for Android for the left-hand tab sidebar (I don't know what it's called, so I can't duplicate it in other Firefox variants), but PM4A is no longer developed; Icecat for Android crashes constantly (seems to have something to do...
[19:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Amazon Attention Helmets - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:18:50] <exec> 08└─What about the office chair? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
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[20:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02pr0n - 06‘Dynamic Skin’ Translates the Human Metabolism Into Wearable Tech - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:25] <exec> 08└─If you read the press release with the idea the fabric will be used in pr0n and inflatable women and whatnot, its much funnier. Making it feel organic and alive... responds to the user... connect with the user... respond to the needs... warmth... its all about bare skin tones... I'm not necessarily...
[20:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Refugee from beyond [2699] (Score:2) 02Heat control - 06‘Dynamic Skin’ Translates the Human Metabolism Into Wearable Tech - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:26] <exec> 08└─Wake me up when it’s going to control the amount of heat it allows to escape.
[20:12:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Dumb gimmick - 06‘Dynamic Skin’ Translates the Human Metabolism Into Wearable Tech - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:29] <exec> 08└─The summary dares to ask how long until normal clothes go away. But this? This isn't an improvement. The ideas raised as hypotheticals are improvements, but glowing to show bloodflow is a non-useful gimmicky useless application and it's the only one they can actually demonstrate, and the input is co...
[20:12:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02kill la kill - 06‘Dynamic Skin’ Translates the Human Metabolism Into Wearable Tech - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:31] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if we want to make the circumstances that lead to the plot of Kill la Kill a real thing. Link here if you care: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Long story short: clothes think you are delicious, only thing to stop them is teenagers armed with scissors.
[20:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waste - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:51] <exec> 08└─If the voting public do not hold their elected officials accountable, then that is not a failing of the NIH.
[20:12:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Waste - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:53] <exec> 08└─If the voting public do not hold their elected officials accountable, then that is not a failing of the NIH.
[20:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:12] <exec> 08└─I've thought about that. She takes a pile of vitamins daily. She ran out of B12 and attributed that to the cause of feeling really bad one time, and I enjoyed the hell out of asking her how her "healthy" diet was working out for her. I'm not sure which deficiencies she would not be counteracting wit...
[20:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:16] <exec> 08└─I hope she really enjoys trouser sausage and protein slurpees or I'd kick her to the curb. Too-many-rules is a symptom that never improves over time. Vegetarians (or vegans) and born-agains all eventually like to proselytize.
[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:27] <exec> 08└─Unless your kitchen resembles a bioweapons cleanroom, you cook wearing a bunny suit and adhere to hygiene rituals that Leviticus himself would have found "a bit fussy"
[20:13:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:reductive and transactional - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 2200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:32] <exec> 08└─The alternative would be to NOT inconvenience people, or rather more realistically, minimize the amount of inconvenience you do to those people. If you really loved them, I'd think you'd want to avoid being a burden on them as much as possible. You're right about the zero-cost thing. I was not consi...
[20:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reductive and transactional - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:34] <exec> 08└─Poor bastard. You forgot the cardinal rule. If it flies, floats, or fucks it's cheaper to rent. You've taken on ownership responsibilities.
[20:13:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reductive and transactional - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:36] <exec> 08└─> The alternative would be to NOT inconvenience people, or rather more realistically, minimize the amount of inconvenience you do to those people. Anything that challenges the status quo will cause inconvenience. If it did not cause inconvenience, then it would be the status quo. You seem to at leas...
[20:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:13:40] <exec> 08└─Money is power in the form of currency. Money was invented by men because men realized easy transition of power creates stable system.
[20:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:01] <exec> 08└─You can't ad hominem someone who refuses to name themself. The entire meaning of ad hominem relies on you already knowing who they are.
[20:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02ad hominem does not mean what you think - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:02] <exec> 08└─> You can't ad hominem someone who refuses to name themself. Apparently you don't know what word means. "You are wrong because you suck" is an ad hominem. It doesn't matter who you are, just as long the unrelated "you suck" is the basis for judging the validity of the argument. You said he's not arg...
[20:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 882 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:51] <exec> 08└─I think so. This “gay [man] lifestyle” (interesting how the man bit there is completely implied in right-wing fears of the “gay lifestyle”) seems to revolve around the idea that developing GRID/AIDS is a totally normal part of the lifecycle of a gay man to the point we're being asked to acce...
[20:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:52] <exec> 08└─Gods, that's a scary thought. I'm too young to remember (and halfway across the country from...) the Castro district, but I know the history. Including, incidentally, all the lesbians who helped the men and never get much credit for it but that's a side story. So it sounds like the problem here is p...
[20:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:56] <exec> 08└─Deranged lunatics do all kinds of things. I'm sure it was a terrible situation for the people who were there, and it's probably been hard on the workers. The part where everybody loses their minds is this scare about “fake news” and online radicalization. The level of bullshit and hysteria is st...
[20:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:58] <exec> 08└─As if genuine human imperfection is the equivalent of deliberate lie telling.
[20:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:16] <exec> 08└─Conspiracy theories and people cooperating for their benefit are not even remotely the same thing.
[20:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The obvious khallow drinking game - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:18] <exec> 08└─> The obvious rebuttal I think I'm gonna start the khallow drinking game. Every time you say "the obvious rebuttal" everybody takes a shot. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://so...
[20:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02You go do that - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:20] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is that they won't be able to prove it was murder. Make sure you have your next of kin post the obituary so that I can paint another hash mark on the side of my journal page.
[20:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Drink! - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:22] <exec> 08└─> The obvious rebuttal Drink!
[20:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:24] <exec> 08└─I have a minor degree in sociology and sociology is not a science. People who do sociology are barely literate in maths. Most studies are created by what the (current) government wants to fund and consequently studies contradict each other all the time.
[20:15:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:26] <exec> 08└─> People who do sociology are barely literate in maths. People who do science are barely literate in maths. Most know the bare minimum to get by in their field. Math is not a requirement for science. It is a requirement for a certain range of sciences, but is not for all forms of science. A falsifia...
[20:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:15:30] <exec> 08└─Convenient how you ignore the rest of the paragraph of that quotation from my post. If you don't see the difference between a bunch of loyal NSA operatives with secret clearances doing stuff behind closed doors vs. keeping secret a freakin' pizza parlor where the public comes in and out in broad day...
[20:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Amazon app was retired on July 25 - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:16:08] <exec> 08└─They make you check in by smart-phone when you enter the store. You have to have their app on your phone
[20:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score:1) 02Wasn't it falsified? - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:49] <exec> 08└─I could have sworn I read somewhere that, after long last, String Theory had finally come up with some kind of testable prediction, and it ended up failing.
[20:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kymation [1047] (Score:1) 02Not quite. - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:17:51] <exec> 08└─There was a prepub paper that claimed that string theory was falsifiable. The current version of that paper no longer makes that claim, so we're back to an untestable theory. Discussion here [columbia.edu].
[20:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:You're trying to lose me as a user... - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:21] <exec> 08└─Assuming that "proprietary software" is the reason why it's "a no-go": Is the microcode in your computer's CPU free software? If so, which make and model of computer do you use?
[20:18:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02why even use that tracking blocklist - 06Beware! Firefox Updates May Reset Preferences - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:35] <exec> 08└─when you could just install umatrix, it blocks all those trackers by default since it acts like a host file but way better
[20:18:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Some cars shut down some cylinders'' - 06Portions of the Brain Fall Asleep and Wake Back Up All the Time - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:18:50] <exec> 08└─Some of us have memories of the disastrous first attempt at that, decades ago. Among TIME Magazine's "The 50 Worst Cars of All Time", you will find the 1981 Cadillac V-8-6-4. [time.com] It was way ahead of the microprocessor development needed to get it right. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[21:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:3, Funny) 02Cuh, make up your mind, scientists - 06Physicists Twist Light, Send 'Hello World' Message Between Islands - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:18] <exec> 08└─First you say you're using waves, then you say you're using photons! Sheesh. Make up your mind, it's not like it can be both.
[21:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Fiber? - 06Physicists Twist Light, Send 'Hello World' Message Between Islands - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:19] <exec> 08└─"When we do an additional degree of freedom, you can use the same channel [in this case, a wavelength of light], and increase the amount of information by a factor of n" That's a significant claim if if works on fiber and especially with EDFA's. They showed it in free space. Will it work on fiber?
[21:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fiber? - 06Physicists Twist Light, Send 'Hello World' Message Between Islands - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:22] <exec> 08└─Nope. Photon orbital angular momentum a.k.a "twisted light" is a form of spatial modulation, and is a subset of MIMO. There is no added degree of freedom in the photons themselves. The added degree of freedom is in the spatial pattern over which the light is transmitted and received. This is a near-...
[21:12:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Waste - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:54] <exec> 08└─The NIH didn't vote on how much money they get for their budget or pass bills such as the "21st Century Cures Act".
[21:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Waste - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:55] <exec> 08└─"People" don't decide to throw money at irreproducible research. Unaccountable bureaucrats in control of the purse strings do that.
[21:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:26] <exec> 08└─Don't bother washing the lentils
[21:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:33] <exec> 08└─True, though Leviticus is the only one of those books named indirectly after a person, since Leviticus is derived from the Levites, who were a tribe descended from Levi, a son of Jacob.
[21:13:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:35] <exec> 08└─Jacob thought that kid was a dick. Just sayin'
[21:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:reductive and transactional - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:43] <exec> 08└─Why does anyone's definition of "minimize" need to be consistently defined across any set of people? For any given person, if you have principles, and your principles inconveniences that person sufficiently, that person will not like you and go elsewhere.
[21:13:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:reductive and transactional - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:46] <exec> 08└─> Why does anyone's definition of "minimize" need to be consistently defined across any set of people? Because you've offered it up as a general principle for when to judge if someone is in the wrong. If it can't be consistently defined, then its not a general principle. Its situational.
[21:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score:1) 02Re:reductive and transactional - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:48] <exec> 08└─She may not need much money to be happy but she appears to be quite happy being a leech.
[21:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:reductive and transactional - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:50] <exec> 08└─You might consider getting a new girlfriend. Money breaks up most marriages, and it sounds like you're not doing well on that front already. If she's behaving this way now, how do you think she'll behave when she thinks she owns you? Cut your losses and move on.
[21:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:13:55] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. Insightful? Nay. Idiotic. By the same reasoning, you must admit into your world view the notion that teaching a child how to read and write and speak is of dubious "ethicality", because that child might one day use those skills to transform himself into a tyrannical despot. It is not the e...
[21:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:No Problem - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:23] <exec> 08└─> Does 'animal cruelty' have a half-life? It must have, but it is conveniently left unstated, because the five pound notes are _plastic_ - which is made from fossil fuel which is made from dead plants and dead animals.
[21:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:No Problem - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:14:24] <exec> 08└─Second, the £5 is legal tender. If I buy something from them and they refuse to accept legal tender in return, then what happens? It's a bit murky (lots of common law rulings), but there's quite a bit of precedent to say that the goods are free.
[21:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just use shot noise - 06More Than 100,000 Create Random Number Sequences for a Worldwide Quantum Physics Experiment - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:39] <exec> 08└─Physics says shot noise is truly random. Physics has nothing to say about the randomness of human decisions. The accepted level of BS in scientific PR is definitely experiencing inflation. Hopefully the scientists are planning more interesting experiments than this one to entangle human decisions w...
[21:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:01] <exec> 08└─That the last "cold war" didn't end human civilization, and possibly humanity, is down to shear luck, and some brave Russian soldiers who defied launch orders. And we were at one point 30 seconds from a US initiated WWIII. That we still exist is one of the reasons I believe in the multiverse, as by...
[21:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:02] <exec> 08└─is down to shear luck,
[21:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:16] <exec> 08└─You're missing a lot of factors. In some countries AIDs was spread more my sharing needles among addicts. In much of Africa it was spread more by widespread prostitution. I AIDs spreads is a social factor, and wealth seems to act as a reasonable prophylactic, though it's certainly not perfect. There...
[21:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:19] <exec> 08└─If “fake news” is such of a huge problem, I feel that the institutional failures that have lead to a populace with so many easily misled people are the real problem to be concerned about.
[21:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:22] <exec> 08└─I attribute the decline in the care for truth to the monopolization of the mainstream media, and the retreat of control over the news to organizational levels where they don't actually deal with it, they only deal with money. I noticed this happening strongly when a local newspaper chain (already it...
[21:15:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:25] <exec> 08└─They believe Trump won because the media gave him too much attention.
[21:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:28] <exec> 08└─While it's clear that Trump got more coverage than Hillary did, it's not clear that that's why he won. My take is that there were lots of people who liked Trump (though even more hated him), but nobody really liked Hillary. So Hillary lost because a lot of people couldn't stomach voting for her. Man...
[21:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:33] <exec> 08└─You know, that's funny. Right about the time the left were screaming racism (correction- when has the left not been screaming about racism) about voter ID laws, that would have been the PERFECT time to turn the tables and demand more secure elections. Except you guise (not you personally, but more o...
[21:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:15:36] <exec> 08└─While I'm sure election fraud happened, by both sides, I don't think it was the decisive factor. You can't judge national sentiment by the sentiment in the area in which you live. But if we don't consider that they election was decided by personalities, then there's also the matter of sound-byte new...
[21:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:So like a prison? - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:16:22] <exec> 08└─Quite a few European countries spend time teaching their children about that time when someone decided to unite the place under him. Databases and permanent tracking are not as popular, but they're correcting that issue courtesy of a few convenient terrorist plots, and of course the app-of-the-day....
[21:16:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Obligatory - 06Amazon Go: It's Like Shoplifting - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:54] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eob532iEpqk&app=desktop [youtube.com]
[21:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:18:09] <exec> 08└─No. String theory work fine at describing the universe. It just has so many places where it requires empirically derived values that it isn't useful as a general theory. It can describe a number of universes so large as to make the EWG multiverse look small. I don't know if it could match the theory...
[21:19:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Google's cache of the page - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:19:55] <exec> 08└─You can make the URL shorter by removing the search string from that. &hl=en&gbv=1&ct=clnk is also noise. (Everything from the 1st plus sign onward is unnecessary--unless you want to purposely highlight something.) Note: The first plus sign, as displayed, is %2B. The http://www. from the target URL...
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[22:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Windows 10 Mobile - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:14] <exec> 08└─There's always Windows 10 Mobile. I feel so secure using it. I never have to worry about someone stealing my phone, as no one else wants it.
[22:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Recommendations - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:16] <exec> 08└─Those recommendations have always applied. I'm baffled at so many people buying Samsung phones with their crappy history of patches. Great custom ROM availability though. Part of the problem as well I think is people don't mind having these phones that are never updated (OS version-wise) as there's...
[22:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's the Hardware, Stupid! - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:18] <exec> 08└─The only way to fix this problem is to have an actual general computing platform that can be programmed by the collective efforts of disparate intelligence; as long as there are proprietary binary blobs that centralize the control of software development, we'll end up with the corporate drivel we ha...
[22:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:It's the Hardware, Stupid! - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:20] <exec> 08└─People must be able to disable and uninstall apps they don't want. Why should I have to have the insecurities of the FB app on my phone when I never use FB? Same goes for the many other vendor installed apps that have nothing to do with the basic functionality of the phone. Google has gotten smarter...
[22:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's the Hardware, Stupid! - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:22] <exec> 08└─All of that would be a natural outcome were mobile devices freed from the arbitrary and capricious limitations set by proprietous corporate overlords.
[22:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02wifi resellers - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:24] <exec> 08└─stick to Google phones
[22:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not my data... - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:26] <exec> 08└─I don't use banking apps. About all they'll get out of my Android phone is my contacts list.
[22:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Deja vu - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:28] <exec> 08└─This whole issue seems strangely familiar [soylentnews.org], as if we'd just discussed it last week or something.
[22:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Dumb gimmick - 06‘Dynamic Skin’ Translates the Human Metabolism Into Wearable Tech - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:48] <exec> 08└─You really don't want that Glow [youtube.com]?
[22:13:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 76 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:35] <exec> 08└─With those tastes, your SO is apparently 8 years old. I've alerted the FBI.
[22:13:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:47] <exec> 08└─So use olive oil instead. Or some other oil if you want, but olive oil is good. Not great for frying things, but reasonable even for that. It's just about the only fat I ever use anymore. (Admittely, I usually use it with "italian herbs", but not by any means all the time.)
[22:13:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:52] <exec> 08└─I'm a little surprised her vegan diet is costing more, unless she's demanding Boca Burgers or something like that. Tofu, soy milk, pasta, and the kind of stuff a vegan can eat are usually less expensive than meat and dairy. My wife and I spent six months eating vegan once and we saved a lot of money...
[22:13:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's stuff like Boca and gardein's fake chicken and beef. Costs about as much for half the volume of food. 10.8 oz of gardein chicken is about $6 and some change. Meanwhile chicken breast fillets are $1.99/lb here ATM. Yeah, telling her that she's gotta get her own processed crap if she wants...
[22:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:08] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. Money was invented because people couldn't trust the purity of the gold they were being asked to accept, so this family associated with government (I'm not sure if it was originally government, and it could well have been the king) started issuing small bars of gold embossed with their sea...
[22:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:11] <exec> 08└─Even if those bananas were grown by slash-and-burn agriculture?
[22:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:24] <exec> 08└─You can buy anything from a store for cash and if you really need something online and don't have a credit card, you can buy a gift card or prepay a credit card. Not good options, but they are possible. Credit cards require credit checks as well as having a bank and these are also decisions being ma...
[22:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:36] <exec> 08└─Accepting credit cards requires you to be set up to do so, which necessitates paying a credit processing fee. Accepting money is virtually zero effort.
[22:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re: they are being ideologically consistent - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:37] <exec> 08└─I'll be there in 7 weeks, I'll not spend money for both of us! I'll have a little picnic outside their cafe, where I'll tuck into yummy yummy german speck and italian lardo. The total of tallow used in all the 5 quid notes is *one freaking cow*. Get over it.
[22:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:They were trying to generate random numbers... - 06More Than 100,000 Create Random Number Sequences for a Worldwide Quantum Physics Experiment - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:56] <exec> 08└─The project page linked form there seems multi-lingual, or it includes english at a minimum: http://thebigbelltest.org [thebigbelltest.org] according to the intro on that page users choose 0 or 1 and that determines which of two measurements are taken of each paired particle.
[22:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:31] <exec> 08└─Its crazy, right? What could possibly lead someone to make that kind of equivalency? All I can come up with is debilitating mental illness.
[22:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0218.5% Infection Rate - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:41] <exec> 08└─Consider that the AIDS infection rate among adults in South Africa in 2007 was 18.5%. That's way, way beyond the scope of just gay people.
[22:15:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:48] <exec> 08└─You've always struck me as a right-winger in sheeps clothes.
[22:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:my opinion on the media - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:51] <exec> 08└─That's why I thought a year ago that Trump would win, because he understood the media and the zeitgeist much better than the Clintons did. In fact I think I did say that his time in RealityTV taught him all he needed to know about spectacle in today's America. (I doubted toward the end after the com...
[22:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:15:56] <exec> 08└─You were far from alone in this [gallup.com]. Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were both in the same league of being hated as Barry Goldwater and George McGovern. Doing some more digging, since Gallup started tracking this in 1956, this was the very first time that both party nominees had a net nega...
[22:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:03] <exec> 08└─No issue was ever covered in any depth by either candidate, so it was basically impossible to vote on their explicit plans.
[22:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:06] <exec> 08└─I generally agree with that. The MSM has been ignoring the fact that the progressives and liberals either didn't vote for anybody or crossed over to vote for Trump. She did horribly with independents and conservatives, but the loss of the progressive and liberal votes pretty much doomed her candidac...
[22:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:The Anti-Science of Conspiracy - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:16:28] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but denial of conspiracy theories is just as anti-scientific as acceptance of them. I know we aren't supposed to believe this, but enough actual conspiracies have come to light that just assuming that no conspiracy is pushing things is unreasonable. One needs to ask, if there were a conspirac...
[22:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:TL;DR answer for regular folks - 06What Every Layperson Should Know About String Theory - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:18:39] <exec> 08└─using string theory to describe the universe is like using quantum mechanics to describe a lion stalking and then attacking a zebra.
[22:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:re Interesting - 06Here's The Physics That Got Left Out Of 'Arrival' - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:20:37] <exec> 08└─I hadn't specifically noticed that. But, that's probably because I was noticing that the pieces weren't really fitting together the way that they should. I hope that has more to do with the fanservice involved and the fact that this is part one of presumably 3 and as such things will make more sense...
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[23:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Recommendations - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:14] <exec> 08└─The vast majority of Android phone owners don't think about or care about system updates. The vast majority of iPhone users are nagged mercilessly until they install updates.
[23:12:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:wifi resellers - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:20] <exec> 08└─I have a Blackberry DTEK50 which runs android. Blackberry has provided monthly security updates. The OS also isn't bastardized with touchwiz. I would recommend it, plus it's pretty cheap ($429 CDN, no contract)
[23:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02Re:Not my data... - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:23] <exec> 08└─I'll do you one better, the only thing I use mine for is taking dirty pics of Aristarchus' mother. Any thief stealing my phone gets punished thusly.
[23:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02My phone is six years old - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:26] <exec> 08└─What am I supposed to do, buy a new one? I mean, 'custom ROMs'? Whoops! Another brick in the wall [virginia.edu].
[23:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02HTC? - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:28] <exec> 08└─My 2 year old HTC still gets updates. Maybe they're the exception?
[23:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Collision Course - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:30] <exec> 08└─The lackadaisical approach to phone security updates has got to be on a collision course with the increased use of phones as credit/debit cards. Instead of the bad guys having to sneak a still-somewhat-bulky skimmer into a store, and then retrieve it later with the info needed to drain your bank acc...
[23:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Oh My! - 06Android Security in 2016 is a Mess - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:32] <exec> 08└─hacked wide open from afar
[23:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Fiber? - 06Physicists Twist Light, Send 'Hello World' Message Between Islands - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:44] <exec> 08└─I only had a vague sense of disagreement, I didn't see why the orbital angular momentum couldn't go through a fiber optic cable though it was likely to have a lot of issues. A few mins of searching found: https://www.extremetech.com
[23:12:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Gibberish - 06Physicists Twist Light, Send 'Hello World' Message Between Islands - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:46] <exec> 08└─Radio is a form of light, Uh, no, it isn't. [nasa.gov]
[23:13:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bipartisan thieves - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:23] <exec> 08└─i thought republicans were for smaller government? BS, they just have different lobbies to cater to.
[23:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Context - 06Major Biomedical Research Funding Bill Sails Through US House - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:25] <exec> 08└─2015 R&D Budgets: Amgen $4.1 bln Pfizer $7.7 bln Merck $6.5 bln Biogen $2.0 bln Celgene $3.7 bln Lilly $4.8 bln
[23:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Congratulations - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:05] <exec> 08└─Also on the topic, vegan butter is 5.58 / lb*. Real butter is $2.99 / lb. A gallon of almond milk is about 20 bucks (!). It's about 2.50 for a gallon of milk here. If you're trying to make the same type of food you did before, you're paying a crazy amount of money to do it. * I am genuinely not sure...
[23:14:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02Re:No Problem - 06Vegetarian Café Refuses to Accept British 'Corpse Cash' - 804 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:14:47] <exec> 08└─I have a problem with it. First, it's insane. Someone calculated that the total amount of tallow used in all of the £5 notes in circulation is about half of the amount that you get from one cow. No cows are being killed to make the notes, they're simply using an animal byproduct because it's cheap....
[23:15:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:37] <exec> 08└─VLM, buddy, their are some crazy hardcore right-wingers out LARPing as well. And by some, I mean, the divide looks a lot like how this country ends up voting. Then again, you are responding to an AC who's modded Troll... and the more I re-read your's, I'm getting a lot of Troll out of it too. Indeed...
[23:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Problem, Right There - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:39] <exec> 08└─Read his other posts. Either he's dedicated to trolling at a near-superhuman level. Or he's telling you exactly what he believes.
[23:15:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 217 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:15:41] <exec> 08└─It's all made up. The whole "fake news" topic is the mainstream medias last denial to come to terms with the fact that they have been making up the news for years and in November 2016, Americans called them out on it.
[23:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fake news - 06Fake News Has Real Consequences - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:16:01] <exec> 08└─what kind of bs reality do you live in where the msm wasn't already completely owned by the NWO and it's minion the US federal gov?
[23:17:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Love Statistics? - 06How I Learned To Love Statistics — And Why You Should, Too - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:17:16] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if I should mod this as funny, insightful or informative.
[23:20:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:interesting factoid... - 06The Petticoat Rebellion: Women 'Hack' an Election - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:20:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks, but the desktop version of Firefox is still working fine for me for now, and it still has official support for Linux, unlike Palemoon. (I'm aware of the unofficial PM Linux builds.) I might have to switch later but for now I'm sticking with Debian's ESR builds of FF. I believe you missed tha...
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