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[00:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02software is free - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:00] <exec> 08└─You can't "acquire" software assets, software is not property, all software is free software, and all free software is on the github, because linux. Blessed be the torvalds.
[00:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:02] <exec> 08└─"Pebble previously rejected offers of $740 million and later $70 million for the company. Fitbit is paying around $40 million " D'oh!
[00:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:04] <exec> 08└─Dick Tracy wrist watches are a dumb idea after all, pocket watches are everywhere again, and we call them phones.
[00:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:06] <exec> 08└─Smartwatches need to become wearable tricorders to regain relevancy. That's why Fitbit is in the lead and their smartwatches sold 10 years from now will come with a cancer-curing feature.
[00:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:08] <exec> 08└─Instead of a golden parachute, somebody's getting a tweed parachute.
[00:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedGreen [888] (Score:2) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:10] <exec> 08└─But they were going to be gilzillionaires once the IPO hit, as Steve Miller sung Oh, Oh, Take the money and run...
[00:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid Ice - 06Antarctic Larsen C Ice Shelf to Calve; Halley VI Research Station Plans Move - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:21] <exec> 08└─He does have a point, you need more energy to run enough air conditioning units to cool down the earth. That's what happens when you open the window during summer, you let the cool air out. But those idiots opened a hole in the ozone layer anyway and now look at the mess, global warming. Hopefully t...
[00:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stupid Ice - 06Antarctic Larsen C Ice Shelf to Calve; Halley VI Research Station Plans Move - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:22] <exec> 08└─So instead of a space elevator we're going to have a space heatsink for all the A/C units? What a gyp.
[00:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:If you think being under "one roof" matters... - 06Cyanogen Parts Ways With its Founder - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:54:37] <exec> 08└─I'm just wondering who's mom's basement they all moved into!
[00:55:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:And whaddya know... - 06Wikileaks Release Implicates Turkish Energy Minister in ISIS Oil Trade - 1450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's why I included the caveat "just about everyone"; obviously *someone* is buying the oil, artifacts, and everything else they are using to fund their campaign in addition to whatever more direct funding and equipment sources they have. The relationship between Turkey and ISIS is complicat...
[00:55:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shoulda been a thiel - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:38] <exec> 08└─> Oh really. Amazon, as of the end of 2015, has a net worth of $9,625,000,000. Contrast to a market valuation at close of trade today of about $366B. Amazon has a price to book value of about 20.50. [yahoo.com] That's high, but not outrageous. Boeing's is 45.6 [yahoo.com] Netflix's is 21.28 [yahoo.c...
[00:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Shoulda been a thiel - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:39] <exec> 08└─The numbers cited are from finance.yahoo.com and, unless they can't even deliver official records anymore, be the actual audited financial records. They can blow smoke about investing in infrastructure but net assets, that is assets minus liabilities, are only about $10B. $365B of market cap buys yo...
[00:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not a racket - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:55:49] <exec> 08└─> do you see people from 3rd world countries investing in usa? Yes. The USA is the #1 investment location for people in the 3rd world. It wasn't supposed to work out that way. The 3rd world was supposed to invest in itself as local production increased. But for some reason, a lot more money came bac...
[00:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out! - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:57:24] <exec> 08└─No, not at all. Teaching social and emotional skills is something that's sorely lacking in modern education. Sure, the parents should be teaching these skills to their children, but what better place is there to learn than in school? Kids see teachers and other students for more hours per day than t...
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[01:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:03] <exec> 08└─Not futuristic enough. Need to combine tricorder, communicator, and phaser into one taserphone.
[01:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:04] <exec> 08└─And market exclusively to women because men will be irrelevant in the future economy. http://www.womenonguard.com [womenonguard.com]
[01:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:07] <exec> 08└─I really do wonder what it's like, up there, in your head. I've seen fucked up people, but you... are summink else...
[01:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:09] <exec> 08└─Love that, lol. I can just see it: woman forgets what she's doing, goes to make a phone call and tazers herself. Man, that would be an EPIC FAIL!!
[01:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:11] <exec> 08└─Just had a thought: that would be like a man carrying a joke impotence causing condom to give as a joke gift to a friend and then forgetting and putting it on just before having sex with a gorgeous woman. EPIC FAIL 2.O!!
[01:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:13] <exec> 08└─Smart watches have two killer features: - Old people who don't want to wear an emergency call button around their neck (also need a speaker to tell the time, or giant numbers). - Young people who get so plastered they need a button to call an Uber/Lyft home automatically, while remaining unabl...
[01:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid Ice - 06Antarctic Larsen C Ice Shelf to Calve; Halley VI Research Station Plans Move - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:27] <exec> 08└─The Americans did just that on Ross Island. https://commons.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org] The other American station is at the pole; there's little chance it will drift off into the sea. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia....
[01:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone still care? - 06Cyanogen Parts Ways With its Founder - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:38] <exec> 08└─…and you get an ecosystem which became toxic to itself and its users…
[01:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you think being under "one roof" matters... - 06Cyanogen Parts Ways With its Founder - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:44] <exec> 08└─Your mom's basement, obviously.
[01:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If you think being under "one roof" matters... - 06Cyanogen Parts Ways With its Founder - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:54:46] <exec> 08└─Awww, does somebody work at Cyanogen?
[01:54:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02hexagon-shaped storm - 06Photos From Cassini Probe's Ring-Grazing Saturn Orbit - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:54:57] <exec> 08└─A hexagon-shaped storm - really cool. But with rounded corners? Some planet is risking being sued by Apple.
[01:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:maybe the guards were hacked? - 06The Audio Expert Who Deciphered the Order to Shoot at Kent State Has Died - 937 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:56:15] <exec> 08└─I highly doubt that a college student could fool a squad or platoon of soldiers into following his commands. Have you ever used, or been exposed to what I'll call "command voice"? It's something you'll hear if you watch some of the boot camp videos on Youtube. It takes time to train that voice. Prec...
[01:57:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score:2) 02Re:No, No and NO - 06Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City to Ban Diesel Cars and Vans by 2025 - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:57:12] <exec> 08└─The main problem was that in order to clean the DPF, the system inject raw fuel into it, creating that white smoke you see now a days, that is defiantly not cleaner then pre-DPF systems. Due to trucks burning down in CA and excessive emissions from the problems, I don't think it really reduced total...
[01:58:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:the question is... - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:05] <exec> 08└─That's funny, that is.
[01:58:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Where IS the 'self' in 'self-discipline'? - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:09] <exec> 08└─Repeated from above: Regular discipline does the teaching, self-discipline is what you learn.
[01:58:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:No Surprise - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:15] <exec> 08└─Corporal punishment done correctly is not abuse, it is punctuation to the lesson being taught.
[01:58:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:the question is... - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:58:19] <exec> 08└─Regular discipline is what teaches you. Self-discipline is what you learn.
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[02:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Insightful) 02People who pay attention - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:53:58] <exec> 08└─know Google == Alphabet. People who don't pay attention have no clue. I kinda hate to say clueless idiots get taken advantage of, but seriously, clueless idiots get taken advantage of.
[02:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:People who pay attention - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:53:59] <exec> 08└─Well over 95% of he population would be incapable to name which of the last few mega-conglomerates owns each of the products in their shopping cart. The fact that their Google-branded stuff is produced by the subsidiary of a company named Alphabet is essentially irrelevant. They're not being taken a...
[02:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:People who pay attention - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:02] <exec> 08└─oooh, this is gonna be fun. Got modded disagree, with no explanation. Go ego go!!!
[02:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:People who pay attention - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:04] <exec> 08└─Oh my Allah Snotnose, think of the safe spaces!!! Isn't it your JOB as a self-motivated and self-informing person to make apathetic and uninterested people knowledgeable of topics which affect them? DOWNVOTE! DOWNVOTE!
[02:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02bad press - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:06] <exec> 08└─I would expect that bad press for Alphabet, if any, will often explain--as this story does--that Alphabet is the holding company for Google. I speculate that the choice of the Alphabet name may have been made to allow flexibility in licencing the Google trademark for tax purposes.
[02:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Well that sucks - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:26] <exec> 08└─As someone who has both the original pebble and now a pebble time; I am a little disappointed. The pebble had the some features that no other smartwatch had/has; battery life. I used to get 7 - 8 days out of my old pebble and now 6 - 8 days out of my pebble time. The display is sunlight readable as...
[02:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:54:27] <exec> 08└─Pebble devices will continue to work as normal. No immediate changes to the Pebble user experience will happen at this time.Pebble functionality or service quality may be reduced in the future. Fitbit will maintain services so that Pebble devices continue to work as normal. Pebble functionality and...
[02:55:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Here is my shocked face - 06Wikileaks Release Implicates Turkish Energy Minister in ISIS Oil Trade - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:30] <exec> 08└─(9) Full civil war in Syria erupts between all kinds of factions including Al Qaida (goodies now?) and Daesh (baddies) (9) ???
[02:55:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Saudi is the lead investor - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:55:53] <exec> 08└─Your false assumption is that we are going to continue to police the globe for free, as we have been doing, for the same of countries that we do not even share a continent with. With strong borders, a strong military, and less corruption in our government, I believe we will be relatively secure. Sec...
[02:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not a racket - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:14] <exec> 08└─Yes. And the stated reason is that the USA is the safe haven for investors, most stable place going... So after someone makes some money in a poor third-world country, then they invest it in USA real estate or stock market. Back to the Reagan years, that was when I drove cross country with a friend...
[02:56:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:problems - 06The Audio Expert Who Deciphered the Order to Shoot at Kent State Has Died - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:56:25] <exec> 08└─Except, a contemporary officer in another unit performing the same duties at the same time in the same place has said the he has never heard orders passed in such a manner. See, I'm allowing for the fact that over time, doctrine and methodology change. If this other officer were a fresh-faced boot o...
[02:56:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Contemporary reaction - 06The Audio Expert Who Deciphered the Order to Shoot at Kent State Has Died - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:56:42] <exec> 08└─CSNY (Stephen Stills): https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] CSNY (Neil Young): https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[02:58:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:the question is... - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:15] <exec> 08└─It still works wonderfully as punctuation for the lesson of the day right up until they're out of the house. The shame of being treated like a child alone should help cement what you were trying to teach.
[02:58:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:the question is... - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:58:24] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, throwing them onto the streets isn't a solution either.
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[03:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:51] <exec> 08└─It looks like it could be a good thing. If the end result is that the techniques and data are out in the open, then researchers and hobbyists could do more stuff than they could in a climate of secrecy and lawsuits. If you aren't trying to sell something, you are even more in the clear. Convince me...
[03:54:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:People who pay attention - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:00] <exec> 08└─I have serious issues with that as well as the rate at which new products that are essentially the same as the older version are released. It gets very hard to figure out if something I'm looking to buy is worth buying. Sometimes, the warts in a product only become obvious months or even years later...
[03:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People who pay attention - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:04] <exec> 08└─People who claim to pay attention are clueless idiots who loudly declare, "I've never heard of it, therefore it's irrelevant."
[03:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score:2) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:27] <exec> 08└─Yea I did read that; the part that sucks is there will be no new pebbles in the future. I assume that the services wont be kept running for that long either; a year maybe two but beyond that I don't hold out much hope. No new apps or further dev on the watch OS. I was kind of looking forward to a pe...
[03:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:54:29] <exec> 08└─That right there probably has something to do with why they haven't really taken off. Theres a few things I can think of doing with them, but the price isn't worth it. It would be nice to see who's calling me, what my next appointment is and some things like that on a watch, but the cost associated...
[03:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02Pebbles is dead? - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:54:31] <exec> 08└─Bam-Bam is going to be devastated. Ba-dum-tish!
[03:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Dear know-it-alls - 06Star-Starved Galaxies Fill the Cosmos - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:59:44] <exec> 08└─welcome to science
[04:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:simple, or simple minded? - 06Children's Early Math Knowledge Related to Later Achievement - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:00:08] <exec> 08└─Gee, that doesn't happen to me -- Western NY State. Move to a smarter part of the country. Maybe that's what it will take to improve your attitude(grin>). I'm always handing the "cents" part to cashiers (kids, adults, whoever) and they always get it right.
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[04:53:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:49] <exec> 08└─I've got no problem with the parties who developed the process making money, and to do that via patent licenses. If I were looking to license the technology though, I'd just wait until litigation ended to license the patent. Years and years will go by before this is put to rest, and it is likely the...
[04:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:51] <exec> 08└─Here's what's wrong with it: you've got to be big to play in this game. It's like walking into a poker room and your only choice is no limit Texas Hold 'em, $50,000 buy in. https://www.vcodex.com [vcodex.com]
[04:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:53:53] <exec> 08└─Smaller players can freely license MPEG video patents. For example, if you sell less than 100,000 HEVC products per year, you pay nothing [mpegla.com]. Smaller players in the CRISPR scenario don't care about licensing, but benefit from having more information available and more science out in the op...
[04:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Military arm - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:08] <exec> 08└─The change to Alphabet also coincided with military acquisitions (Boston dynamics). A big part of this was probably so they didn't have to be tied to silly little principles like "don't be evil".
[04:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02That's not how it Works - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:54:09] <exec> 08└─No one is tricked by the head company technically being called Alphabet. Just look at the history of soylent articles, look at any article on any site. It's all Google's self driving car, Google this, Google that. All journalists convert "Google's holding company's other company just released this"...
[04:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid Ice - 06Antarctic Larsen C Ice Shelf to Calve; Halley VI Research Station Plans Move - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:54:43] <exec> 08└─Hawaii used to have glaciers. [wattsupwiththat.com] Recently it had heavy snowfall. [cleveland.com] Perhaps the glaciers will regrow.
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[05:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Are they stoned? - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:56] <exec> 08└─Eventually they'll start filling the holes with excess hemp, and the media will go nuts with STREETS OF LEMON KUSH GOLD!
[05:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score:2) 02nothing new here, keep moving please - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:58] <exec> 08└─Budget-conscious cities have been doing this for years to cover the tar sealant. The 2002 Minnesota "Asphalt Pavement Maintenance and Field Guide"http://www.mnltap.umn.edu/publications/handbooks/documents/asphaltfield.pdf [umn.edu] specifies either fine sand or toilet paper, while Michigan (1999) sp...
[05:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02The joke gets old - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:00] <exec> 08└─Some journalist had way too much fun writing this article. The summary is bad enough: "toilet paper... cracked roads," "bottoms-up tactic," etc. But then I went to TFA and experienced more of this... "Littleton is not the first to take this approach to wiping out cracks" -- are you serious? Then "a...
[05:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:02] <exec> 08└─Out of all the pending stories, including one of mine, that the editors could have picked, Colorado toilet paper road repairs makes the cut. Seriously, I am loosing faith! Their may be some raisons for this profundicatory prodiscanation, but I do not see it. Maybe if I were to hit a flaw in a Colora...
[05:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:04] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I am loosing faith!
[05:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:06] <exec> 08└─It has become common practice to insert (pun intended) typos and egregious misspellings in order to cater to the less educated Soylentils. This is especially the case when correcting someone's spelling and/or grammar. Point taken, however. A loose faith, a belief in things, more or less? Or perhaps,...
[05:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:08] <exec> 08└─Because another Trump story is exactly what we need.
[05:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:19] <exec> 08└─My bet is they are realizing they will quickly be irrelevant. As their key patents are expiring. So they need a fresh group to mine.
[05:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:21] <exec> 08└─That doesn't matter. How about leaving the MPEG name out of it and evaluating the idea to start a bundle/pool of CRISPR patents?
[05:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:23] <exec> 08└─The purpose of patents is to disclose inventions. Do you have evidence that patents encourage secrecy? I guess there are the disclosure rules where you are not allowed to publish before filing. You are essentially telling me that patents are worse than useless.
[05:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How long until the homeopathy - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:54:25] <exec> 08└─The situation reminds me of this so much: http://www.dallasvoice.com [dallasvoice.com] I love the arrows pointing at nothing on an underexposed western in the original paper too: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov [nih.gov]
[05:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:People who pay attention - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:54:36] <exec> 08└─Caveat emptor? It has been interesting to watch the rise of a behemoth like Google (err, Alphabet) within my lifetime. From scrappy startup that people lauded (especially since they were the underdog for a while) to being a model of responsible corporatehood with their "do no evil" branding to idiot...
[05:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Stupid Ice - 06Antarctic Larsen C Ice Shelf to Calve; Halley VI Research Station Plans Move - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:55:21] <exec> 08└─So if I take hair spray and if I spray it in my apartment which is all sealed and-- you're telling me that affects the ozone layer?
[05:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Saudi is the lead investor - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:36] <exec> 08└─Haha! I see you've been chugging the orange koolaid. And by koolaid I mean the donald's oxycontin tainted piss. Look at that jackass now -- he's picking a twitter fight [washingtonpost.com] with the local union foreman at carrier who called him out for claiming he "saved" 1100 jobs when carrier them...
[05:56:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe a funding source for SN? - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:38] <exec> 08└─While you're joking, that's how the trouble started with the old site.
[05:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Youngest soybean here. - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:56:49] <exec> 08└─> The numbers cited are from finance.yahoo.com and, unless they can't even deliver official records anymore, be the actual audited financial records. Your lead criticisim is the source of the numbers? When you didn't even provide a citation for your numbers? What are you, twelve years old? > And you...
[05:57:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Unarmed" - 06The Audio Expert Who Deciphered the Order to Shoot at Kent State Has Died - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:57:15] <exec> 08└─Just how "unarmed" are you when rocks, blocks, and glass bottles are thrown at you? If even one person runs up at me with glaring eyes, clenched teeth, and half a cinder block, I'm going to give that person multiple hot lead injections. I can't see much difference between a 1-vs-1 and squad-vs-crowd...
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[06:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02skip the porn - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:55] <exec> 08└─just wire the brain for orgasms on demand
[06:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That deaf dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:56] <exec> 08└─Tommy? The Rock opera? Of course, it is UW. Excessive rain, and especially deprivation of sunlight, does things to your brain.
[06:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NOT Real Gamers - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:53:58] <exec> 08└─Real Gamers know gaming is about Graphics, only Graphics, and nothing but Graphics. Gameplay is a waste of dev time, netcode is an afterthought, and Graphics is the important thing. Gaming is about being obsessed with Graphics.
[06:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:13] <exec> 08└─It is not a Trump story, it is a "Republicans are stupid" story. You got a problem with that? No, it is about the respect for science, something I have an extremely long relation with. You may think it is partisan, but science is the discovery of objective truth, to the extent this is possible for...
[06:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:15] <exec> 08└─As someone who was more happy with Trump than Hillary, I am very happy with all of the negative press he is getting. A lot of the stuff he is being slammed for is common practice that was very mildly covered during previous administrations. The absolute best thing Trump can do for our system is brin...
[06:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Different software simultaneuously - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:41] <exec> 08└─it is worse than that: I have two youtube accounts: and they behave very differently. It is like they are deliberately making it hard to set up an account bot or something. However, It has the effect that I can not customize the behaviour the way I like it. I have heard A-B testing is common as well...
[06:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:People who pay attention - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:54:42] <exec> 08└─it's very hard to know
[06:55:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Alphatool [1145] (Score:2) 02Re:Does anyone still care? - 06Cyanogen Parts Ways With its Founder - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:55:39] <exec> 08└─I don't think that it was the commercialization that killed Cyanogen, rather it was management stuff ups. There have been plenty of examples of open source projects successfully commercializing, and I think that Cyanogen had a good chance of success if they had focused on pushing their openness, fle...
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[07:53:55] <exec> 08└─I don't need to see my balls to play with my balls.
[07:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:That deaf dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:57] <exec> 08└─I don't need to see my balls to play with my balls.
[07:53:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That deaf dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:53:59] <exec> 08└─This one time I was gaming, and I reached for my balls, but my hand slipped, and I found I was grabbing a pussy instead, and I was all like, holy crap! a female gamer! Marry me now!! Turns out she was my sister, so the marriage was off, but we fucked all night.
[07:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:14] <exec> 08└─I had actually noticed your tendency for deliberate error, so I wasn't actually correcting. :) I was just taking the opportunity to make a few bad puns, at least following on the spirit of the article... Not out of inspiration by the article, mind you, more like a kind of traumatic bonding with it a...
[07:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:16] <exec> 08└─Beee the TP! That is what I always say. But on the other hand, I might appreciate some asphaltum in my wheel well, since the manufactuer's anti-corrosion stuff does not always seem to do the job. Deliverate Error? What are you talcing about?
[07:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Oh, shit, more movement is in order - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:54:21] <exec> 08└─Oh, crap, my submission actually was accepted. Great! Not about toilet paper, though. But this doe mean I need to find some other really interesting news item to submit, as do all we Solylentils, in order to keep our site up to date and interesting to peruse, unlike some of those "other" news aggreg...
[07:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:54:33] <exec> 08└─> Smaller players can freely license MPEG video patents. For example, if you sell less than 100,000 HEVC products per year, you pay nothing. That's only hevc, mpeg2 was not like that. They did it because they are afraid of competition from the likes of vp9. Don't count on them being so generous if t...
[07:55:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:If you think being under "one roof" matters... - 06Cyanogen Parts Ways With its Founder - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:55:53] <exec> 08└─Not anymore :D
[07:57:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:crazy how? Re:A good start, expect more #winnin - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:57:07] <exec> 08└─Several people have already said basically what I was going to. Basically, Reagan is the reason we've had 35+ years of this trickle down bullshit. Just about every economic disaster we've had can be laid squarely at the feet of him and his policies continued on by others. Trickle-down does not work....
[07:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the question is... - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:59:35] <exec> 08└─Indeed. You need to know how to defend yourself from an early age. Shooting, stabbing, or simply fighting back against someone who is trying to assault you is a good way to learn how to do that.
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[08:54:13] <exec> 08└─How presidential of you.
[08:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The joke gets old - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:27] <exec> 08└─You need to smoke a joint. That's legal in Littleton, btdubs.
[08:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Re:Oh, shit, more movement is in order - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:37] <exec> 08└─Ha! This was downmodded as offtopic? After all the other totally off topic stuff that was posted in this thread? Ha? I can only assume you are Francis, or as stupid as Francis, and have nothing to do during this quadrant of the UTC. We will be back for you, AC, when you least expect it. . . At leas...
[08:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02I did not flush your submission - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:39] <exec> 08└─After reading your reference here, I took another look at and accepted your submission. As I'm sure you know, our volunteered time is limited. Sometimes in order to keep the queue full, we editors choose subs that are "easy" to edit. Your submissions and comments have a distinctive style, which some...
[08:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Bad! - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 1214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:54:54] <exec> 08└─> You are essentially telling me that patents are worse than useless. That's right, they are worse than useless. They are unnatural monopolies on ideas. Costly to enforce. The barriers to invention they raise is very costly to us all. > The purpose of patents is to disclose inventions. In exchange f...
[08:55:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't forget... - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:55:17] <exec> 08└─That 'Alphabet Corp' sounds like the perfect company to start privatizing TLAs to as part of responsible corporate ownership of the globalized economy :) Dystopian science fiction futures should be selling like hotcakes right now, as we short human rights, privacy, truth, justice, and the (un)americ...
[08:55:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:55:36] <exec> 08└─I use my smartwatch as a silent ring indicator. My phone neither rings nor vibrates. My watch vibrates instead. I'm never out of bluetooth range of my phone (or at least not out of bluetooth and still close enough to hear it ring). Its also a theft/loss alert because if my phone does go out of range...
[08:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the question is... - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:46] <exec> 08└─If schools are really about critical thinking and education (they're not), then they shouldn't teach mindless adherence to behavioral norms. In fact, I'd argue that they already do so, just not explicitly.
[08:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the question is... - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:59:50] <exec> 08└─In my experience, the "smart kids" are mostly just kids who can memorize more information more quickly and spew it all back on homework assignments and tests. I was in advanced classes, and truly intelligent people were rare even in that environment due to the extremely low standards that schools ha...
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[09:54:01] <exec> 08└─nigger nigger nigger nigger
[09:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NOT Real Gamers - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:16] <exec> 08└─Your eyes are all that's in the way of terrific graphics! Say hello to BrainVision.
[09:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Application - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:54:17] <exec> 08└─I foresee an application in military: Use this for drone pilots, so they don't need to see their targets, and thus can kill efficiently without getting PTSD. Bonus points for them not even knowing whom they kill, so they can be used to aim at targets they wouldn't agree to kill if they knew. Heck, t...
[09:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:39] <exec> 08└─While interesting, I do worry about outrage fatigue and that the press is distracted with trivialities ("Ohmigod, Trump's twitter") while serious concerns ("Ohmigod madam President") gets ignored. I mean they haven't been batting a thousand lately now have they? I'm also a bit concerned that the lef...
[09:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:54:41] <exec> 08└─Gotta say I'm not too pleased with the new editors either.
[09:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So … - 06Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City to Ban Diesel Cars and Vans by 2025 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:03] <exec> 08└─So Vin will no longer be allowed to drive in those cities?
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[10:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Original research article is here: - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:57] <exec> 08└─http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03525 [acs.org] Looks like a solid bit of research that has nothing to do with night vision.
[10:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02I don't need night vision - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:53:59] <exec> 08└─I wear glasses and I don't need night vision for anything. What I do need is glasses that work at night while driving, the reflections and glare from headlights and so on make driving really difficult. I hate driving at night, but I don't have a choice. It is winter and the sun sets at just before 4...
[10:54:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Application - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:54:22] <exec> 08└─You've been watching Black Mirror, season 3, episode 5, /Men Against Fire/, it seems. I will admit that on reading the summary, episode 2, /Playtest/, came to mind first. You're right in the long-run, but they've got to get past the glitches firts.
[10:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Bathroom humor aside... - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:54:49] <exec> 08└─Bathroom humor aside, judging from the photo in TFA, they didn't do a very good job of patching the road. There is a long, unpatched crack in the road, right between the two main patched cracks.
[10:55:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:55:05] <exec> 08└─Gene patents are evil.
[10:57:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it interesting - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:57:24] <exec> 08└─What I find even MORE interesting is that you seem to hold in contempt the idea that a government funded by citizens should not exist to serve its citizens.
[10:58:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:UK wages - 06Brexit: UK Tech Leaders Write Open Letter to PM May - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:58:29] <exec> 08└─The sad thing is that a lot of the leave voters had legitimate complaints, in particular with regard to the amount of infrastructure investment in different parts of the country and the undue influence by certain interest groups. Unfortunately, the 'solution' that they've picked is to give more powe...
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[10:58:41] <exec> 08└─It did next to nothing to help the steel industry or save jobs
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[11:54:04] <exec> 08└─didnt know a predator spaceship crashed in australia??
[11:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:54:50] <exec> 08└─"Standing Rock Protester May Lose Her Arm Because of Police Grenades" Well no, it was under investigation. None of the sources were remotely non-biased, and 5 seconds of googling came up with a different story altogether. (admittedly that wasn't under your watch). "Trump, Cabinet Could Avoid Million...
[11:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Military arm - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:33] <exec> 08└─Google bought Boston Dynamics in December 2013. Google became Alphabet in October 2015.
[11:55:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score:2) 02Re:Well that sucks - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:55:59] <exec> 08└─That's what I can here to say, but I will add that I also I love the fact it (pebble time) is water proof. Hopefully there will be enough techie users that a complete alternative app and services get built. Like you say, love it first as a watch and second as a phone notification device. I remain ho...
[11:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Why only diesel? - 06Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City to Ban Diesel Cars and Vans by 2025 - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:22] <exec> 08└─By 2025, most of these cities ought to be able to ban anything other than zero-emission vehicles. This isn't about global warming, it's about moving the pollution away from the dense population centres (though having it at a single location does also make it easier to filter and reduce the total amo...
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[12:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't need night vision - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:09] <exec> 08└─wear polarizing sun glasses. They cut down reflections to almost nothing. or get a specialist to stick a sheet of polarizing thingie on your windshield. something like this: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[12:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02OR . . . - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:11] <exec> 08└─. . . it may not.
[12:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Application - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:36] <exec> 08└─you didn't even read the summary. the fucking magnet makes a light appear in the subject's field of vision. LIGHT. that's the way it works, it's not a sixth sense, it just triggers the sight sense other than through the eyes. so your hypothetical soldiers will see their targets. why the hell would i...
[12:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02uh huh, everyone else said tinfoil... - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:54:38] <exec> 08└─...but i said, 'no, i'm going with a beanie made of magnets' ! turns out i was right ! ! ! (i have a lot of paper clips handy, anyway)
[12:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:The joke gets old - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:52] <exec> 08└─But what if those shitty roads are a joke?
[12:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:54:59] <exec> 08└─Butt what if you can't think of a pun?
[12:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:07] <exec> 08└─I don't have time to fully engage here, since I am at work, but I have a few responses I would make on your points. "Standing Rock Protester May Lose Her Arm Because of Police Grenades" Well no, it was under investigation. None of the sources were remotely non-biased, and 5 seconds of googling came...
[12:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:09] <exec> 08└─While interesting, I do worry about outrage fatigue and that the press is distracted with trivialities ("Ohmigod, Trump's twitter") while serious concerns ("Ohmigod madam President") gets ignored. I mean they haven't been batting a thousand lately now have they? I'm also a bit concerned that the lef...
[12:55:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02Bad! - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 1214 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:55:28] <exec> 08└─> You are essentially telling me that patents are worse than useless. That's right, they are worse than useless. They are unnatural monopolies on ideas. Costly to enforce. The barriers to invention they raise is very costly to us all. > The purpose of patents is to disclose inventions. In exchange f...
[12:59:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02Re:More of the same - 06Brexit: UK Tech Leaders Write Open Letter to PM May - 2690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:59:01] <exec> 08└─While it is not the politics that I subscribe to, I can certainly understand the anger and resentment that it has caused. We are slowly seeing, I believe, a backlash in Europe against both EU policies and globalism in general. Similarly in the US. Many of those who were made unemployed by the loss o...
[12:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Realities of regulation - 06Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City to Ban Diesel Cars and Vans by 2025 - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:59:28] <exec> 08└─> you'll just get the diesel trucks converted to gasoline engines. Yeah, I think that's the whole point. Gasoline or electric.
[12:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Realities of regulation - 06Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City to Ban Diesel Cars and Vans by 2025 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:59:29] <exec> 08└─And you appear to be quite ignorant of reading. Look again. I wrote "could be PART OF the solution."
[12:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Realities of regulation - 06Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City to Ban Diesel Cars and Vans by 2025 - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:59:31] <exec> 08└─True. I did somewhat overlook that part. But lets be honest, the drones! drones! drones! hand waiving certainly makes it sound as if the GP was only focused on last mile for small package delivery, a fraction of all van and truck traffic in major cities. It's a small part of the solution which also...
[13:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:the question is... - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:01:06] <exec> 08└─This is a good thing, because we can identify them, and arrest them and deport them back to Nazi Germany where they came from. This is the thing about white supremecists: they are not too bright. bart.
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[13:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Resettlement was the problem - 06Giraffe Populations Decline More Than 30% - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:50] <exec> 08└─They put them in custom made horseboxes, drive them to other parts of the country, but didn't pay attention to the low bridges.
[13:53:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02like to smell their vaginas - 06Giraffe Populations Decline More Than 30% - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:53:52] <exec> 08└─yes
[13:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dvader [1936] (Score:1) 02Re:Original research article is here: - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:06] <exec> 08└─I haven't read the article but the linked abstract says "transform the frequency" which could mean turning invisible light into visible. The image suggests it is up-conversion, from low frequency to higher (from w to 2w), that is from IR to visible (or at least less IR). Since higher frequency photo...
[13:54:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Original research article is here: - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:07] <exec> 08└─Well, while speculating, it could also be that the first photon is simply absorbed (with no information but its energy remaining, minus the energy cost of the recoil, of course) and the second photon then gets the energy of the first added, without changing its direction (again, with an energy corre...
[13:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:skip the porn - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:26] <exec> 08└─I'd hook it up to something like Emacs Deldo. But I'd use vim instead. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[13:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are they stoned? - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:48] <exec> 08└─I think "Super Glue" might work better.
[13:54:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Re: nothing new here, keep moving please - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:54:51] <exec> 08└─Came here to say just that. Last summer my kids asked me why there was toilet paper on the road and I explained it to them. Later in the summer they saw a road crew sealing some cracks and saw a guy with the roll applying it over a freshly patched crack.
[13:55:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:02] <exec> 08└─It doesn't have to be a good one, any kind of cheeky humour will crack people up. I'm sure there will be piles of groaners that brown people off.
[13:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:10] <exec> 08└─Editors are not supposed to introduce their own political bias into the stories, and in all these examples, they haven't, they have merely slapped the submission into a readable shape. You're permitted, even encouraged, to disagree with the articles themselves. Complain about the submitters if you m...
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[13:55:12] <exec> 08└─What a strange world where attempting to maintain objectivity is considered bias, and keeping any editorializing for the discussion instead of the presentation of the story itself. Might as well scratch the "News" and change it to Soylent Opinion, where if I bother to find even the most half-assed "...
[13:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:35] <exec> 08└─A CRISPR patent isn't necessarily a gene patent.
[13:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lemming [1053] (Score:2) 02Re:Military arm - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:55:57] <exec> 08└─When they bought Boston Dynamics, they said they would finish existing projects / contracts, but wouldn't start new projects for the military in the future.
[13:56:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:If you think being under "one roof" matters... - 06Cyanogen Parts Ways With its Founder - 1957 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:56:54] <exec> 08└─LOL, yeah, there just Luddites right? There are many advantages to being all in the same place, at the same time, providing the environment is NOT corporate slave cubic hovels with toxic executives running around looking important and making the hard short term decisions. It does distract you having...
[13:57:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score:1) 02So now what? - 06Cyanogen Parts Ways With its Founder - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:57:02] <exec> 08└─I remember when I first started following Cyanogen. The excitement as my trembling hands bricked my old Android 2.x phone. The self-blaming, re-researching, finding out where I went wrong. The elation when I got things right. Now that they're basically dead - what's the next 'best' thing for those t...
[13:57:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Here is my shocked face - 06Wikileaks Release Implicates Turkish Energy Minister in ISIS Oil Trade - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:57:32] <exec> 08└─This is why Trump is in trouble. He may want to do the right thing by the USA, but he is filling his cabinet with the same dangerous war hawks and robber barons. Same thing with a republican congress who happily voted yea on the Iraq Resolution. They would be more than happy to convince him that inv...
[13:58:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:Saudi is the lead investor - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:58:01] <exec> 08└─Do you dispute anything Linkdude said, or are you just changing the subject because he is right? I don't support The Donald, but I do support discourse that furthers Soylent and the knowledge of Soylentils. Your post does not further that goal, while Linkdude's (if it is true) did.
[14:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:the question is... - 06Federal Report Recommends Teaching Self-Regulation in Schools - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:01:08] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that. I don't know anyone whose dad couldn't beat the complete hell out of them while they were still living at home if it became necessary.
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[14:54:23] <exec> 08└─Remind me again why I should celebrate the return of creatures that think I'm food.
[14:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prey - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:25] <exec> 08└─I've never heard of a college basketball team with the "AC's" nick.
[14:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:Original research article is here: - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:36] <exec> 08└─The linked-to "Nano Letters" aritcle said the AlGaAs nanoantennas created an "... efficient second harmonic generation ... of nonlinear [photon] emission." Googling that , I landed on Wikipedea for a succinct explanation of what's going on: Second harmonic generation (also called frequency doubling...
[14:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't need night vision - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:39] <exec> 08└─Well, sunglasses at night is a no go unless I'm in some bad Canadian band. And unfortunately you can't have anything on your front windscreen except a sunstrip at the top in the UK, putting a sheet across the whole would be against the law.
[14:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I don't need night vision - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:41] <exec> 08└─you could check if this is legal in the UK: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] I don't drive, so I've never used one, but for this price I guess it wouldn't be a big dea...
[14:54:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That'd be awesome - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:45] <exec> 08└─But unfortunately won't be happening in 20 years atleast. They haven't stopped charging extra for the regular features yet.
[14:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02If it sounds too good to be true - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:54:48] <exec> 08└─a new type of nanocrystal could grant night vision powers to a standard pair of specs, without adding any weight.
[14:54:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:If it sounds too good to be true - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:54:50] <exec> 08└─...none needed. They're brilliantly using the energy of the photons themselves to power the change in frequency.
[14:55:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Are they stoned? - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:55:29] <exec> 08└─No, of course not. They're obviously doing it to honor Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo, brainchild of one of Littleton's most famous sons Matt Stone. Well, that and to give the kids at Columbine High School something to make fun of other than nerds who wear trenchcoats.
[14:55:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03number11 [1170] 02nothing new here, keep moving please - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 531 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:30] <exec> 08└─Budget-conscious cities have been doing this for years to cover the tar sealant. The 2002 Minnesota "Asphalt Pavement Maintenance and Field Guide"http://www.mnltap.umn.edu/publications/handbooks/documents/asphaltfield.pdf [umn.edu] specifies either fine sand or toilet paper, while Michigan (1999) sp...
[14:55:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Atatsu [4251] (Score:1) 02It's always been this way - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:58] <exec> 08└─Huh. I'm from the midwest (SD... yay?) and have grown up seeing cracks in the asphalt treated in this way for the entirety of my life. I never stopped to consider that it wasn't the status quo.
[14:56:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score:2) 02Some points I am concerned about - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 2066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:18] <exec> 08└─First thing first, a patent on CRISPR is not a patent on a gene. Fortunately genes cant be patented (reference somewhere in google). I posted the story because this is a field where two powerful academic institutes are butting heads. In the middle the field is witnessing subtle ways in which these i...
[14:56:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Not evil - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:56:42] <exec> 08└─drones, self-driving cars, genetic engineering, machine intelligence, or its project to extend the human life span
[14:57:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Lies - 06Photos From Cassini Probe's Ring-Grazing Saturn Orbit - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:57:56] <exec> 08└─I'm hoping we get some new angles soon. I realize a lot of the images were stock photos, so I should have rethought the headline.
[14:58:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:We Got PLAYED - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:58:34] <exec> 08└─I didn't get played - you only count as getting played if you actually believed anything Trump said about fighting the establishment, draining the swamp, etc. And for the record, I was part of the approximately 25-30% of Americans who had an unfavorable view of both major party candidates. Trump rea...
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[14:58:48] <exec> 08└─> Do you dispute anything Linkdude said, or are you just changing the subject because he is right? I dispute everything he said because its barely more than rambling incoherent nonsense. When one person in the debate goes full crazytown, the debate is already over, there's nothing left but to point...
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[14:58:51] <exec> 08└─Its standard trump-worship deflection. Turn criticism of trump into being unpatriotic. As Twain said, "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
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[15:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Some secretary is fired - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:10] <exec> 08└─They left the facts un-edited.
[15:54:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Informative) 02It doesn't matter - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:11] <exec> 08└─The decision has already been made, behind the scenes, to let this go through. The hearings are nothing more than window dressing. And there's a simple reason why [opensecrets.org].
[15:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It doesn't matter - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:13] <exec> 08└─Then how do you account for the blocking of the 2011 ATT and T-mobile merger? Campaign contributions matter, but they aren't the only thing that matters.
[15:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02Re:It doesn't matter - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:54:16] <exec> 08└─I especially don't get how one can argue that bribing^Wdonating to both sides can be anything but corruption. The whole stated reason is that the company would benefit if party X over Y wins because its policies are a gain for the company. Yet here they donate both to X and Y.
[15:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Giraffes are faggots - 06Giraffe Populations Decline More Than 30% - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:54:26] <exec> 08└─Really. Male giraffes have been observed to engage in remarkably high frequencies of homosexual behavior. After aggressive "necking", it is common for two male giraffes to caress and court each other, leading up to mounting and climax. Such interactions between males have been found to be more freq...
[15:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score:2) 02Re:That deaf dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:14] <exec> 08└─That deaf dumb and blind kid, sure plays a mean Lode Runner
[15:55:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Application - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:21] <exec> 08└─You saw the movie [wikipedia.org] too, eh?
[15:55:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02submission herders - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:55:57] <exec> 08└─You get what you pay for. That's not a joke. You can't expect the editors here to behave like editors at a real newspaper. I mean, it would be great. But they've got lives and have to make a living. I think the best we can expect is they do a simple google to verify the story isn't obviously fake. M...
[15:56:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:23] <exec> 08└─techniques and data are out in the open
[15:56:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:56:25] <exec> 08└─CRISPR development is far from being finished. It can be improved in various ways. A different DNA endonuclease could be used. Photoactivatable versions [the-scientist.com] can be used. Some of these improvements could make the technique worthwhile for applications like editing human cells, by lower...
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[15:57:29] <exec> 08└─Hawaiian Glacier is my favorite strain of weed, man.
[15:59:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it interesting - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:59:02] <exec> 08└─Twain also said "Loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it." USA! USA!
[15:59:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isn't it interesting - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:59:03] <exec> 08└─You seem to think that's endorsement of your argument. Its an indictment.
[15:59:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Isn't it interesting - 06Softbank to Invest $50 Billion in the US - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:59:05] <exec> 08└─Whoops - used a double negative. IIRC your comment implied that it is hypocritical for Trump to bring jobs back to the US from other countries, which makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.
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[16:54:12] <exec> 08└─Because freedom of speech! Yeah, something like that.
[16:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02That's not how corruption in DC works. - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:14] <exec> 08└─That's not how corruption in DC works. They don't donate for quid pro quo because not only is that explicitly illegal, it's relatively easy to prosecute. They donate for access. Members of congress only have a limited amount of time, donations pay for some of that time. The donors gets to talk to th...
[16:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Who couldn't appreciate those long necks? - 06Giraffe Populations Decline More Than 30% - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:25] <exec> 08└─Nothing you saw was illegal - In the countries it was filmed
[16:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02All wild animals are going extinct - 06Giraffe Populations Decline More Than 30% - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:27] <exec> 08└─I should be a journalist with that subject line. I just like posting this XKCD link to remind how wild animals are very much a minority on the planet now: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[16:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Prey - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:37] <exec> 08└─Wolves tend to be good at culling the game populations of the sick and old, leaving more resources for superior deer to florish, which as long as wolf populations are not allowed to explode should make for better hunting.
[16:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prey - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:39] <exec> 08└─what kind of chicken shit is scared of animals? If you can't outsmart a pack of wolves or even a bear, you deserve to be eaten.
[16:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score:2) 02Can I ship them in - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:41] <exec> 08└─Seriously can I ship them in I would pay for shipping. I would like to get rid of the wolf pack near where I hunt in northern Minnesota and some genetic diversity sounds like it is needed there in CA with only 2 original breeding pairs mentioned in the summary. We have our save the wolves people her...
[16:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Capt. Obvious [6089] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't need night vision - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:54:56] <exec> 08└─Polarizing glasses work. They shouldn't be sunglasses (it's night), and that will naturally cut about 1/2 the light you see. But it should cut like 90+% of the glare. You make the call for if that is a good tradeoff. But, I tend to think even at 50%, what with headlights and all, you'll still be saf...
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[16:55:02] <exec> 08└─They're brilliantly using the energy of the photons themselves to power the change in frequency.
[16:56:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How long until the homeopathy - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:56:33] <exec> 08└─The 33 year old paper on the discovery of HIV is behind a paywall. IIRC the Gallo paper is also behind a paywall too. These papers will be in the public domain in, what, 100 years?
[16:56:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sbgen [1302] 02Some points I am concerned about - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 2066 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:56:34] <exec> 08└─First thing first, a patent on CRISPR is not a patent on a gene. Fortunately genes cant be patented (reference somewhere in google). I posted the story because this is a field where two powerful academic institutes are butting heads. In the middle the field is witnessing subtle ways in which these i...
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[16:57:24] <exec> 08└─> Maybe if they jumped on the health tracker bandwagon earlier things would have been different. But even that bandwagon is a temporary fad, IMHO. That would only have prolonged their life a few more years.
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[17:54:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score:2) 02Well shit. - 06SpaceX Delays Launches to January - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:13] <exec> 08└─That sucks. I really like watching their launches live through their livestreams. I was also looking forward to the Falcon Heavy demontration flght, but I guess we'll have to wait a little longer for that. I hope this doesn't cause delays with Red Dragon (The Mars lander demonstration).
[17:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:That's not how corruption in DC works. - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:27] <exec> 08└─That story is only part of it, although I agree that's certainly true as far as it goes. But there are other forms of corruption, too, that are both legal and common right now: - "Congressman, we've taken notice of the fact that you own 1500 shares of our company. It just so happens that the measure...
[17:54:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:All wild animals are going extinct - 06Giraffe Populations Decline More Than 30% - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:40] <exec> 08└─Sure, if you only count us mammals. We're still very much an unproven design compared with say, arthropods.
[17:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Prey - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:52] <exec> 08└─But think of the children. Really! I should be able to send my children outside to play without worrying about whether they can fend off a pack of wolves. Shoot 'em all says I.
[17:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can I ship them in - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:54] <exec> 08└─when i'm looking at gun stuff on youtube i keep seeing people talking about killing coyotes and what not. i think that the next time i get a chance to go on a real hunting trip i might hunt coyote hunters. you stupid fucks deserve it more than the coyotes and wolves. killing for food is one thing. k...
[17:54:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can I ship them in - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:56] <exec> 08└─Talk is cheap. Let's see you on the nightly news. Give us a shout out.
[17:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:If it sounds too good to be true - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:55:20] <exec> 08└─You could use a gene therapy on yourself to make your eyes more sensitive to low light conditions. kek
[17:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03quintessence [6227] (Score:2) 02Re:Are they stoned? - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:03] <exec> 08└─I would have figured it had more to do with Stone's libertarian bent, and the natural conclusion of libertarianism and roads.
[17:56:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:28] <exec> 08└─Colorado (it is the one state with a Spanish name!)
[17:56:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:56:48] <exec> 08└─As I've already explained, many people can use CRISPR without licensing any of the patents.
[17:56:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03j-beda [6342] (Score:1) 02best CRISPR-Cas9 song - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:56:59] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99bMtg4zRk [youtube.com] CRISPR-Cas9 ("Mr. Sandman" Parody) | A Capella Science
[17:57:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Those who don't learn from history.... - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:57:52] <exec> 08└─Pebble: Fossil Wrist PDA Mk.2 [wikipedia.org] iWatch: Fossil Mk. 3.
[18:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:More of the same - 06Brexit: UK Tech Leaders Write Open Letter to PM May - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:00:51] <exec> 08└─Indeed. The sad thing is that the areas that will suffer from brexit the most are those that voted for brexit. Apart from OAPs with their triple-locked pensions of course.
[18:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:More of the same - 06Brexit: UK Tech Leaders Write Open Letter to PM May - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:00:59] <exec> 08└─They need higher profit margins every quarter or else they are failing Indeed. http://www.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk] The retailer, which has been criticised over working conditions, said reported pre-tax profits fell 25% to £140.2m.
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[18:01:02] <exec> 08└─One of the main reasons for the brexit vote was the vast inequalty of government subsidies for projects in London as opposed to other parts of the UK. You know that the UK government puts lots of money into infrastructure projects in London, and little elsewhere You know that the EU government puts...
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[18:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah right... Next thing they will be telling me that Churchill was an anti-Semitic drunk who advocated war crimes in colonial countries! I stand insulted at the very insinuation that our proud and just governments could do anything of the sort. To suggest otherwise is TREASON and should be punishab...
[18:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:14] <exec> 08└─Well it's public knowledge that Churchill swapped political parties several times during his political career, and that as Home Secretary in 1910 he sent tge army in to break up strikes at South Wales collieries.
[18:54:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 1837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:16] <exec> 08└─Can't have the public grind industrial progress to a halt now... Seriously, modern slavery is sold as the new lifestyle that we should all want! We all have freedom, sure. Freedom to starve if we don't play the game. It becomes exceptionally clear with military/law enforcement using violence to prev...
[18:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:18] <exec> 08└─Wars are always started by lies. Always. Always! There are no exceptions. Stop believing your government. Richard Maybury's books WWI and WWII The Rest of the Story, along with his book The Thousand Year War in the Middle East, contain a lot more information and insight about this.
[18:54:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:20] <exec> 08└─And why is this news for nerds? Because nerds are some of the people smart enough to actually question the government and received government wisdom.
[18:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:22] <exec> 08└─You don't need to be smart to question the government - or any form of authority for that matter. You just need to have the reflex of wondering who has what to win when they you something, and be a bit of a cynic.
[18:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:24] <exec> 08└─Nerd is also more than just a subset of tech culture, it's a mentality. There are history nerds, political nerds, music nerds, computer nerds, literature nerds, car nerds, space nerds, and a million others. The defining feature is curiosity and near-obsession levels of information intake and thought...
[18:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:27] <exec> 08└─Then you'll really want to read how jet fuel can't melt steel beams...
[18:54:28] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 867 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:29] <exec> 08└─Roberta Wohlstetter wrote a book about it in 1962, 'Pearl Harbor: Warning and decision", that is light years ahead in credibility and explanation in regards to Pearl Harbor compared to this big ball of conspiracy theory. I understand Swanson runs some global peace website / anti-war and anti-militar...
[18:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:31] <exec> 08└─The concentration of the fleet in Pearl Harbor is the clearest "proof" for any conspiracy theory that the US knew the attack was coming. If we were protecting our sailors and our ships, they wouldn't have been docked, in a vulnerable cluster, in clear view of known Japanese spies; anyone who thought...
[18:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:33] <exec> 08└─As opposed to what? Having them constantly on patrol without docking? I'm sure that would use up a trivial amount of fuel. /s than a deployed position
[18:54:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:54:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, I still wish we could have a second opinion from General Butler... War, including the "Big One", has turned out to be a pretty good business, for some... The same "mistakes" are repeated far too often to really consider them mistakes anymore. The intentions become a little bit obvious af...
[18:54:36] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03mendax [2840] 02Old news.... move along - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 1253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:37] <exec> 08└─Nothing here is exactly secret. The attack on Pearl Harbor was a "surprise" because it was unexpected. No one, including the Japanese, thought the Japanese could get a fleet of aircraft carriers that far out into the Pacific undetected, though they tried and succeeded. An attack by the Japanese was...
[18:54:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pear Harbor was clear aggression from Japan - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:39] <exec> 08└─In an act of clear aggression, Japan started the war by attacking Pearl Harbor. Nobody disputes this. Everything else was political chess. Japan chose to use violence and should blame itself for later having its cities bombed to oblivion.
[18:54:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Good reading - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:42] <exec> 08└─I don't agree with the author entirely. But, he makes a lot of good points. The fact is, the power brokers in Washington and New York really did want that war to happen. War with Japan could have been prevented right up until the last months before the war. And, Pearl Harbor could have been prevente...
[18:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Ugh - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:44] <exec> 08└─And SoiledNews goes further down the tabloid toilet.
[18:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Shocked. I'm shocked... - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:54:46] <exec> 08└─What?! History is not what we were taught in grade school? You mean it wasn't shining white knights against darkest evil? It was money and politics, more like light gray vs. dark gray? Say it's not true!
[18:55:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02the fix - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:07] <exec> 08└─Sure, there are a ton of other ways to push congress around. But you cited campaign donations as proof that the fix was in.
[18:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:It doesn't matter - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:09] <exec> 08└─I especially don't get how one can argue that bribing^Wdonating to both sides can be anything but corruption.
[18:55:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Funny) 02Well, take some action to stop that decline! - 06Giraffe Populations Decline More Than 30% - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:23] <exec> 08└─Stephen Colbert all taught us the way to raise populations of African megafauna -- edit Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]! Back in the days before the current "post-truth" era, when there was only stuff like truthiness [wikipedia.org] and "wikiality," Mr. Colbert showed us that we can all make a difference...
[18:55:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sharpness - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:55:50] <exec> 08└─> To get a sharp image, A sharp image may not be necessary. Consider modern digital image compression. It works by breaking out chroma (color) and luma (brightness) and the chroma is half the resolution of the luma. For example a typical 1920x1080 hdtv frame will have 1920x1080 pixels of brightness...
[18:56:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:If it sounds too good to be true - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, the photon intensity would be less because of using photons to convert photons. As stated in the news article, "...currently, the nanoparticle requires intense light to make the conversion..." So maybe batteries are in the future for any practical application of the technology. However as the...
[18:56:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Application - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:32] <exec> 08└─It was going so well, then you went batshit crazy. why the hell would it matter if the soldiers see the target anyway?
[18:56:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Application - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:56:35] <exec> 08└─The AC who replied to you is clearly a moron, but does have a point: no, this can't be used to do anything useful without 'seeing'. All it means is that the user perceives vision through a source other than their eyes. It has no impact at all on something like PTSD.
[18:58:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcklspckl [830] (Score:1) 02Keep Your Eye on the Birdie - 06Antarctic Larsen C Ice Shelf to Calve; Halley VI Research Station Plans Move - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:58:55] <exec> 08└─Fun times ahead. When the western sheets collapse. Human cities are going to be like an origami bee situated around a bathtub full of toddlers.
[19:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''nobody within 30 feet of [the Guard]'' - 06The Audio Expert Who Deciphered the Order to Shoot at Kent State Has Died - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:01:16] <exec> 08└─Good. Next riot, we'll give you a badge you MUST WEAR, a gun, and plonk you down in the middle of the riot zone. Alone and without any more backup than you have right there and then. We'll see how you de-escalate that one, mmmkay?
[19:01:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AssCork [6255] 02Look to the West - 06Brexit: UK Tech Leaders Write Open Letter to PM May - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:50] <exec> 08└─Nine leading UK-based technology entrepreneurs and investors, [...] pressed the government to act to ensure a continued flow of skilled migrants after Britain leaves the European Union
[19:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:Realities of regulation - 06Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico City to Ban Diesel Cars and Vans by 2025 - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:02:14] <exec> 08└─It's a small part of the solution which also overlooks the logistics problems of higher density areas such as how does a drone deliver a package to frank smith on the fifteenth floor of a high rise? Drones are great for suburban areas where it can safely land on a person front porch or lawn or even...
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[19:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score:2) 02If you paid attention - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:03] <exec> 08└─The answer to the question posed in the "dept." section of the headline is "No". from the wasn't-bluetooth-a-pirate? dept.
[19:54:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02No thanks. - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:05] <exec> 08└─...and maintain the same security.
[19:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02Is longer range a good thing? - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:54:07] <exec> 08└─Bluetooth imo is for "room range " comms. Longer range doesn't add value and only increases congestion and potential eavesdropping
[19:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:20] <exec> 08└─In life we take a lot of things for granted, and often we fail to question the basic assumptions we operate on every day. There is one simple explanation for our modern wage slavery, and an equally simple solution.
[19:54:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:25] <exec> 08└─Wars are always started by lies. Always. Always! There are no exceptions.
[19:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:28] <exec> 08└─...or about how what hit the Pentagon was small, white, and about the length of a pickup truck. Can't wait for Wikileaks to get the real story on that one.
[19:54:33] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 1784 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:33] <exec> 08└─Well, for somebody with absolutely no knowledge of naval logistics, you sure knocked that one out of the park, as in, you are willingly ignorant and seemingly proud of it. While the US did make motions to provoke the Japanese into action, they did NOT anticipate the attack on Pearl Harbor. There wer...
[19:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:36] <exec> 08└─Somebody, at some higher level of command, could clearly have divided the Pacific Fleet so that it wasn't pretty much entirely docked in a single harbor at one time - the Pacific is a big place. Not doing so is a simple invitation to something like a "surprise attack." The only tactical reason to co...
[19:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:38] <exec> 08└─Pearl Harbor was surprised, FDR was not. Japanese military channels had not yet been broken, but their diplomats had been, and their cables were being intercepted and decrypted in near real time. He knew that they had finally given up on diplomacy, he knew to expect attack that morning. He didn't ha...
[19:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:40] <exec> 08└─The concentration of the fleet in Pearl Harbor is the clearest "proof" for any conspiracy theory that the US knew the attack was coming.
[19:54:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:43] <exec> 08└─That 5 point list is like a description of every company I have ever worked at.
[19:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Old news.... move along - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:46] <exec> 08└─Exactly. War in the Pacific was inevitable as soon as the United States stopped trading oil to Japan. There is no big conspiracy here, just selective history lessons. What is the author of the article getting at, anyhow? What was the alternative? Only go to war with Japan and ignore the war in Europ...
[19:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Ugh - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:51] <exec> 08└─More than 90% of the stories that are submitted to SN are about science & technology proper. Those are not the discrete fields anymore, and they shade into a great many other areas of life, such that it's not too hard to find articles about technology & fashion, for example. If you count those, the...
[19:54:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ugh - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:53] <exec> 08└─Not to mention that lively discussion rarely occurs on the cut and dry tech articles.
[19:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Ugh - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:54:55] <exec> 08└─Which part of the summary or article do you dispute?
[19:55:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can I ship them in - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:47] <exec> 08└─Hi there, I'm Clippy! I see you're attempting to have an impassioned rant. Let me help! You start out with an indication of considering felonies. Good call - this isn't an actual specific proposal that could get you indicted, although you might be on a watchlist. Livin' on the edge! You create a fal...
[19:55:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Can I ship them in - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:55:49] <exec> 08└─Coyote hunting is pretty simple. First, get your varmint rifle. I recommend a .22WMR, or (depending on ranges and preference for centrefire) something like a .223 or maybe even .250. Load with something that expands fast, like a Hornady V-Max. Make sure it's needlepunching accurate. Don't skimp on q...
[19:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:If it sounds too good to be true - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 1306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:15] <exec> 08└─Fewer photons, but probably roughly the same power, which is likely the more important consideration (not knowing the exact physics powering the human eye). Still, you're right, while they might brighten a borderline starlit scene a bit (assuming they don't attenuate visible light) they're probably...
[19:56:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Application - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:56:44] <exec> 08└─you're right, I did not read the comment carefully. about PTSD: if I have been brought up to believe that "the enemy" is actually subhuman and soulless, why would I develop PTSD from killing them? Is it simply a response to carnage, independent of how we feel about the human being slaughtered?
[19:57:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Good or bad? - 06MPEG LA (Yes, THAT One) Proposes to Bundle Patents of Genome Editing Technology CRISPR-Cas9 - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:57:40] <exec> 08└─People are already profiting from CRISPR - it's the tool of choice for controlled genetic modification, whether you're making a new strains of crops, more productive farm animals, or "Trojan horse" mosquitoes. And that's just the really obvious stuff.
[19:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02NSFW - 06Photos From Cassini Probe's Ring-Grazing Saturn Orbit - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:41] <exec> 08└─Italian Ring-Grazing Probe One Uranas shy of Naughty Astromonmy Bingo
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[20:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks. - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:09] <exec> 08└─You're posting on the Web, so you're already compromised.
[20:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks. - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:10] <exec> 08└─"BT5 will connect IoT devices" Spying and bad security are guaranteed, regardless of the wireless protocol.
[20:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Is longer range a good thing? - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:13] <exec> 08└─The last time I tried to use wireless headphones that operated on the same frequencies as Wi-Fi, it jammed the damn Wi-Fi, making it practically useless. My Bluetooth headphones don't have that problem, and it would be swell if it could work 2-3 rooms away or a floor away. If we can believe the inte...
[20:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is longer range a good thing? - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:15] <exec> 08└─Never had a good experience with bluetooth, from jit-tt-tery audio to paus...ing mouses to battery drain... mobile usage.
[20:54:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Is longer range a good thing? - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:17] <exec> 08└─It'd be nice if configurable radio output levels were a standard option, but I know BT device makers are exactly a fan of standards. Sitting here, I can think of situations where I would rather my BT devices have "house range" though, particularly in the case of BT cameras and the like. Opens up int...
[20:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:33] <exec> 08└─1. Pyramid schemes. Private ownership and the corporate structure is a pyramid, you have the owner at the top getting all the benefits (and to be fair taking the risks) and the workers getting as little in return as the owners can pay. The power goes to the top, and there are dire consequences if th...
[20:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:39] <exec> 08└─> Because nerds are some of the people smart enough to actually question the government and received government wisdom. Drunks too. Does that tell you anything?
[20:54:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:44] <exec> 08└─You mean it was big enough to clip the light poles on the 14th St bridge, and it happened during the heart of rush hour with all the people who saw it? WTF are you talking about? The size of a pickup truck? That pickup truck made a hell of a sound as it flew feet above the cars sitting in traffic on...
[20:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:46] <exec> 08└─I wasn't aware they built those buildings out of jet fuel. So all these years you were figuring it was lighter fluid that cooked your steaks? Those black briquette-shaped things were there just to hold the lighter fuel, right? For all the self-congratulatory statements made around here about how "sm...
[20:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, the big ships dock at big ports, but what good reason is/was there for having them ALL in port ALL at the same time? Send them out in smaller groups, or send them out as a big fleet, but, hell yes, having them on the move on the open ocean, location unknown to the enemy, even if the uncertainty...
[20:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:53] <exec> 08└─Well, the carriers *were* out on patrol. And Hawaii is a decent uniform distance from Guam, Wake Island, and Midway. Keeping them where they can deploy to any keeps you flexible. And finally, as mentioned elsewhere, nobody really thought the Japanese could mount an attack at that distance using carr...
[20:54:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 747 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:54:55] <exec> 08└─Underestimation of the Japanese carriers' capabilities certainly weighs in on the "doh!" side of the argument. I've had some "bad things" happen in my life, and doing the post-game analysis, I can usually line up three or four (or more) things I did wrong simultaneously that enabled the "bad thing"...
[20:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:1) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 2058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:00] <exec> 08└─You are ignoring one important point: As far as the US was concerned, both militarily and politically, Pearl Harbor was NOT a practical target of attack. The US military underestimated the ability of the Japanese (and their willingness to gamble) to commit to such a long range, ambitious attack. On...
[20:55:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:02] <exec> 08└─It was a bold move, and it may be an indication of the Japanese military's tactical brilliance far outshining their strategic/political competence. I know there was plenty of second guessing, dissent at the time about the best deployment of the fleet. The question of: "was this particular option tak...
[20:55:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 1049 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:05] <exec> 08└─one of the things I've heard brought up frequently as proof, or at least a strong indication, supporting that the US knew there was going to be some kind of attack ,and that Pearl Harbor was a prime target, was that the majority of the ships in the harbor were old and no longer state of the art, and...
[20:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:1) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:07] <exec> 08└─Everybody loves a conspiracy theory. There is certainly truth that the US was egging on the Japanese, but they expected Midway to be a more likely target than Hawaii. It's a simple matter of logic and practicality. Battleships weren't obsolete, either... and naval command would NEVER sacrifice them....
[20:55:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 1565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:10] <exec> 08└─If you follow the logic portrayed in "The Imitation Game" movie, putting "all our stuff together to make it easy for the Japanese to blow it all up" and doing so in clear sight of Japanese intelligence could have been a calculated move in the larger game. Even with the loss of the aging Pacific flee...
[20:55:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:12] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying that it's impossible to think that we just got caught with our pants down
[20:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:14] <exec> 08└─The U.S. wants to begin an aggressive war by destroying or disabling almost all of its fleet in the region? The idea that any senior military commander would think that plan was a good one is pretty outlandish.
[20:55:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score:1) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:17] <exec> 08└─The concentration of the fleet in Pearl Harbor is the clearest "proof" for any conspiracy theory that the US knew the attack was coming. If we were protecting our sailors and our ships, they wouldn't have been docked, in a vulnerable cluster, in clear view of known Japanese spies;
[20:55:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:19] <exec> 08└─Do you know what I do in many strategy games? I put most of my monstrous near-unsinkable assets together right by my strategic logistic waypoint, to protect it and incite anyone with bad intentions to attack less valuable assets and incur devastating counter-attacks. It's usually called "turtling".....
[20:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:21] <exec> 08└─Turtling with a broken radar and leaving the defensive aircraft on the ground - no patrols? That would be reckless negligence. Maybe that's exactly what it was. Somebody, somewhere gamed the scenario and knew (or strongly believed) that Yamamoto would take the bait, and that we would recover stronge...
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[20:55:23] <exec> 08└─It is possible that our best tacticians at the time didn't have a handle on the power of aircraft carriers and/or the highest levels of Naval command ignored the wonks that knew what Japanese aircraft carriers _could_ do. The US certainly does value and exercise the political influence of Aircraft C...
[20:55:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:27] <exec> 08└─Well, now you know, they were all fronts for the CIA :-)
[20:55:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:29] <exec> 08└─"Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by malice,"
[20:55:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Old news.... move along - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:33] <exec> 08└─How could war be inevitable? Oil is bad and everyone knows this. The Japanese should have switched to renewable wind power for their empire. They were only goaded to war due to their nearly criminal irresponsibility!
[20:55:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Re:Old news.... move along - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:36] <exec> 08└─But that doesn't explain how the steel of those battleships melted at such low temperatures.
[20:55:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pear Harbor was clear aggression from Japan - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:39] <exec> 08└─usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa! usa!
[20:55:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Pear Harbor was clear aggression from Japan - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:41] <exec> 08└─They did strike first, no one can dispute that. But equally indisputably, they tried diplomacy first. They tried it second. They tried it intensively and for a long time. FDR wanted war but he just couldn't admit that to an American public that overwhelmingly did not. So he maneuvered the other side...
[20:55:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ugh - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:47] <exec> 08└─Fine. http://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com] http://www.livescience.com [livescience.com] https://www.sciencenews.org
[20:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ugh - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:55:50] <exec> 08└─The topic of baiting the public into war is actually quite relevant, especially in this new age of tech where misinformation and propaganda can spread like wildfire.
[20:56:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02Re:That's not how corruption in DC works. - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 1066 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:11] <exec> 08└─That story is only part of it, although I agree that's certainly true as far as it goes. But there are other forms of corruption, too, that are both legal and common right now: - "Congressman, we've taken notice of the fact that you own 1500 shares of our company. It just so happens that the measure...
[20:56:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's bullshit. - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:56:14] <exec> 08└─> And at least now, most of this is above board and public record. Make it illegal and they simply won't tell you about it. That's bullshit. Make it illegal and they will try to conceal it. But at the very least making it illegal makes it more expensive, conspiracies are hard to enforce.
[20:57:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Beanlover [6411] (Score:1) 02News for nerds... - 06NASA to Use Robotic Spacecraft to Refuel a Satellite by 2020 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:57:18] <exec> 08└─...the underwhelming number of *actual* comments on this post is why there are more posts about political stories on this site currently...for anyone wondering.
[20:58:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I am so glad! - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:58:11] <exec> 08└─stop talking to yourself ari
[20:58:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:Oh, shit, more movement is in order - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:58:27] <exec> 08└─What, now you're doubling down on the Offopic?
[20:59:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:People who pay attention - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:11] <exec> 08└─And with this kind of witty repartee, you wonder why everybody is modding you down. I'll have to let your mother know next time I fuck her.
[20:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Not evil - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:59:24] <exec> 08└─Not until we achieve dramatic negative population growth it's not. Until then any increase in the average human lifespan translates directly to faster population growth, and we're already well beyond the sustainable carrying capacity of the planet. Or alternately, any significantly expensive/inacces...
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[21:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Diversity is good - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:06] <exec> 08└─I for one hope they do not partner in any way shape or form. We've gone from an ecosystem of graphics card manufacturers down to two. I'm sure there are still niche producers, but for general use we have AMD and Intel. On a sidenote, I'd love to see open standards and dev tools for people to build t...
[21:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Diversity is good - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:09] <exec> 08└─As soon as the new administration is in office, Intel can buy AMD to kill the competitor and get the patents they need, with no risk of being stopped. If anyone asks, they'll point to ARM as "the real threat to our business".
[21:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02For DISCRETE cards: - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:11] <exec> 08└─AMD and Nvidia. For integrated GPUs, you are right, and it is Intel and AMD (Nvidia threw in the towel with 7xxx model IGPs, which might have actually been 6150 derived, like their previous IGP options.) As far as I know there are no discrete GPU manufacturers left outside of AMD and Nvidia. The fin...
[21:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Diversity is good - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:13] <exec> 08└─It's the application of patent law that screwed this up, and the continuing application effectively guarantees things can only get worse.
[21:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Is longer range a good thing? - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:27] <exec> 08└─It depends on what ones you buy, where you're using them and a few other factors. Most of the bluetooth devices I've used worked just fine. The main issues being that they generally wouldn't work properly outside the Win/OSX/phone world. Just last week I tried hooking a pair up to Linux and the soun...
[21:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Is longer range a good thing? - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:30] <exec> 08└─It's mission creep. Bluetooth is slow over a short distance because that's what the situation called for. The current spec already allows way more distance than is really needed, so all this does is make the security problems of it that much worse. Bluetooth headsets, keyboards and file transfer don...
[21:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny) 02Also - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:32] <exec> 08└─They'll be rebranding it "WiFi".
[21:54:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:47] <exec> 08└─"wage slavery" such a bullshit term. It is not even remotely like slavery.
[21:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:54] <exec> 08└─We should all drink more beer?
[21:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:06] <exec> 08└─Usually, large groups of people don't make so many simultaneous oversights all at once.
[21:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:08] <exec> 08└─any military base should be ready to be attacked at any given time
[21:55:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''their diplomats [channels] had been [broken]'' - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:15] <exec> 08└─Yup. By Pearl Harbor Day, USA's boffins had unraveled the secret of Japan's diplomatic code machine. [google.com] The claim [google.com] by Henry Stimson is simply bullshit. USA.gov had a pretty good idea what its adversary was up to. The Original Submission was edited down quite a bit for TFS (with...
[21:55:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:0, Troll) 02Re:Old news.... move along - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:55:33] <exec> 08└─The alternative was what the President had promised his voters - a peaceful foreign policy. The US could have set out WWII entirely and saved ridiculous amounts of money, and ridiculous numbers of lives.
[21:56:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score:2) 02Re:Original research article is here: - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:40] <exec> 08└─That still doesn't really help much for moving infrared light to the visible spectrum, though. The upper edge of infrared is just below 400 THz. Doubling that to 800 THz puts it into the low ultraviolet range, which is still non-visible to human eyes.
[21:56:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:That'd be awesome - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:56:51] <exec> 08└─Depends where you are. In the US, Luxottica is one of the few sellers of the various components necessary to make glasses. There are other companies, but you have to look for them, because Luxottica has purchased basically all the old companies and offers products under a huge number of different la...
[21:59:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Not evil - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:59:09] <exec> 08└─Wow, we should just kill doctors. They are truly evil. Maybe we should cull the herd; some thinning is surely necessary to prevent starvation.
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[22:53:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Human Nature - 06Losing the War on Science - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:54] <exec> 08└─Over time, human nature is fairly constant. Societies rise and fall for various reasons. Our society has yet to come to terms with "social media." Over the next few years there will be some very painful lessons learned as society adjusts. Bloody Brexit... Bloody Trump... That nice Mr Putin....
[22:53:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Idiocracy - 06Losing the War on Science - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:53:56] <exec> 08└─Rita: You think Einstein walked around thinking everyone was a bunch of dumb-shits? Joe: Yeah. Hadn't thought of that. Rita: Now you know why he built that bomb.
[22:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:Diversity is good - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:07] <exec> 08└─Talking of ARM, Fujitsu is dumping SPARC64 and moving to 64-bit ARM [top500.org] for its "Post-K Supercomputer." Of course, AMD has hedged its bets on ARM too. I also heard a rumour that Oracle is canning Solaris development...
[22:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Diversity is good - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:11] <exec> 08└─There were always two, for as long as I can remember. ATI, or Nvidia. And before that, Voodoo/3dfx and S3.
[22:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Damn you Brexit! - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:13] <exec> 08└─What with the collapse in the value of Sterling (which is going to get worse on the run-up to the triggering of Article 50) I won't be able to afford a Zen machine when they come out. Still, my Phenom II X6 1045T (2.7GHz) is still plenty fast, I just want a new toy.
[22:54:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02CPU Makers - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:15] <exec> 08└─What I hope is that AMD, with its Zen designs, makes some CPUs that are competitive with Intel's chips, in both the server and desktop space. This would be great for AMD (and their so-called "fanboys")--finally, back in competition. But this would be great for everybody, including Intel's customers-...
[22:54:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Zen's 8 core flagships - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:17] <exec> 08└─AMD Zen 8 Core SR7 Flagship To Sell For $499, Boost To 3.5Ghz & Outperform Intel’s $999 i7 5960X [wccftech.com] The $349 version has the same 8 cores, but with 3.0/3.2 GHz clock/turbo instead of 3.2/3.5.
[22:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks. - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:54:28] <exec> 08└─IoT is a buzzword device. Don't buy an IoT device if you don't want to connect to one.
[22:54:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02How about power? - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:37] <exec> 08└─Is this double the speed, quadruple the range and perhaps triple the power consumption? Mobile device batteries already have too short a life as it is. I read nothing in any of the articles touching on power usage, except for a brief mention about how the new standard has no updates to Bluetooth LE....
[22:54:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Newsflash: powers-that-be lie to the populace - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:55:00] <exec> 08└─And why is this news for nerds? Because nerds are some of the people smart enough to actually question
[22:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:It doesn't matter - 06AT&T and Time Warner Accidentally Argue Against Their Own Merger - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:02] <exec> 08└─From your opensecrets link: Top Recipients Chamber Member Amount President Clinton, Hillary (D) $289,992
[22:56:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02HIV/AIDS Cure - 06Giraffe Populations Decline More Than 30% - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:17] <exec> 08└─I read an article earlier today (which I can't find now) which said that giraffes are being hunted now in Africa for their bone marrow because it is said to be a "cure" for HIV/AIDS. Why? I really do fear for the future of the Human Race.
[22:56:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02and if you are sick and old? - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:28] <exec> 08└─There are people who can't run like a greyhound and fight like a cape buffalo. Are they just supposed to die? Wolves and coyotes know not to eat the walker, oxygen tank, adult diapers, and glasses.
[22:56:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02just to the city, SF especially - 06California Gray Wolves to Retain Endangered Species Protections - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:56:36] <exec> 08└─It's the city people who romanticize about bloodthirsty killer beasts. The city people vote for this shit, but it never happens in their neighborhood. Let's fence off the peninsula with San Francisco, guard the bridges, and release a few thousand of these "harmless" and "adorable" predators. We can...
[22:57:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:Application - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:57:35] <exec> 08└─The Nazis ran into exactly that situation--the soldiers taxed with killing 'defectives,' political prisoners and Jews developed psychological problems, ranging from severe depression to [what we now recognize as] PTSD to suicide, which prompted them to start using gas vans and later to develop more...
[22:58:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02At least they are repairing them... - 06Colorado City Uses Toilet Paper to Help Repair Cracked Roads - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:58:24] <exec> 08└─In my town, they are UNpaving town streets--two this year and more to come. When finished, the town will only have four paved streets: Main Street (also a state highway), the main cross-street, and the streets that serve the schools and the hospital. There's also a paved county road, but the Town is...
[22:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not evil - 06Google's Parent Company Alphabet is Relatively Unknown - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:59:18] <exec> 08└─Give it a few months and Trump is going to press the Big Red Button.
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[23:53:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Idiocracy - 06Losing the War on Science - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:50] <exec> 08└─A terrible quote that mischaracterizes Einstein. Usually its the mid-high intelligence types who fall back on cliches like "kill the dumbshits". They are smart enough to see the problems, but too dumb to see the bigger picture so they blame "those people" for their problems. I like this one m...
[23:53:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Alt-right nonsense - 06Losing the War on Science - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:52] <exec> 08└─At the very time we need them most, scientists and the idea of objective knowledge are being bombarded by a vast, well-funded, three-part war on science: the identity politics war on science, the ideological war on science, and the industrial war on science.
[23:53:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alt-right nonsense - 06Losing the War on Science - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:53:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure where to begin with your points... the identity politics war on science, the ideological war on science, and the industrial war on science
[23:53:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02War, course of, preferred - 06Losing the War on Science - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:56] <exec> 08└─I am glad that someone is "Losing the war on science." I would love for the war on science to be lost. Science should win. The war on science should be lost. That is all.
[23:53:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:58] <exec> 08└─The alt-Right Trumpers are anti-science idiots who ignore any results that don't suit them. The Left politicizes science, killing objectivity and elevating mediocrities who toe the party-line. Somehow science needs to play the sides against each other.
[23:53:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Science is getting hit from all sides - 06Losing the War on Science - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:00] <exec> 08└─Or maybe, just maybe, science should recognize that it is a sub-domain of philosophy, and while it's accomplishments are vast, it is still limited like most philosophical thought. Climate Change being the favored whipping boy at the moment- nothing in the conception of climate change denotes what is...
[23:54:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New Save - 06Losing the War on Science - 1703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:02] <exec> 08└─Every person is a new save, they start with no knowledge, just a brain that is good at learning. This is why misinformation campaigns are so dangerous, kids can grow up believing in nonsense, or worse disregarding every authoritative source as part of "the system". The anti-intellectual campaign is...
[23:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Something I've wondered for a while - 06Losing the War on Science - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe we need all STEM types to get some basic marketing communications training on how to make their work and perspective more accessible for the masses and provide some basic offense/defense against misrepresentation . Something along the lines of having the skills/resource access to both report t...
[23:54:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Red salvation ... - 06Losing the War on Science - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:07] <exec> 08└─I've noticed more publicity for discoveries made in Chinese universities in the last year or so. Indian universities are graduating lots of decent engineers, Europeans have a vested interest in energy-saving research, and the smaller Asian countries want a piece of the ego pie. The question is wheth...
[23:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Trust the Government - 06Losing the War on Science - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:09] <exec> 08└─It would be no wonder the U.S. did fall behind the rest of the world in science. When the U.S. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology feeds us blatant lies about global warming, there is something seriously wrong; a disconnect with reality. Congress can lie about science, but science does not c...
[23:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02More partisan bullshit - 06Losing the War on Science - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:11] <exec> 08└─TFS purports to be some sort of treatise about science being more important than opinion - but there's not a dingleberry of science in TFS or TFA. FFS Aristarchus, you hate Trump. We get that. But, WTF do you think SCIENCE has to do with your emotions and opinions? You know, this isn't the USSA. Uni...
[23:54:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02NHST isnt science - 06Losing the War on Science - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:54:13] <exec> 08└─Until people start fighting back against NHST being passed off as science, your arguments will fall on deaf ears. Government shouldn't be funding that any more than it funds astrology: NHST is an incompatible amalgamation of the theories of Fisher and of Neyman and Pearson (Gigerenzer, 2004). Curiou...
[23:54:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Diversity is good - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:26] <exec> 08└─AMD (nee ATi), NVidia and Voodoo's 3Dfx marks your age, youngster. Back in the day, before 3D became all the rage, there were the likes of ATi, Matrox, S3, Number 9, Cirrus, Trident, SiS, Tseng, and Ned-knows how many other small video chipset & card makers. Why I still remember shelling out over $...
[23:54:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Damn you Brexit! - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:29] <exec> 08└─If you want to match it in core count, the SR5 is $249, vs. $349-$499 for the 8-core flagships. http://wccftech.com [wccftech.com] The SR5 has 12 threads while your Phenom has 6. http://www.cpu-world.com
[23:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:CPU Makers - 06AMD Stock Jumps Ahead of Zen Preview and Licensing Rumors - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:32] <exec> 08└─http://wccftech.com/amd-zen-8-core-35ghz-cpu-spotted/ [wccftech.com] Well, the 8 core is coming in January and can apparently match one of Intel's $999 cards at half the price. As for servers, things are a bit more uncertain. You might remember that AMD delayed its K12 ARM server chips [wikipedia.or...
[23:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:No thanks. - 06Bluetooth 5 to Double Speed, Quadruple Range - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:54:45] <exec> 08└─True. But as long as the privacy-invasion bubble continues, manufacturers keep looking for way to make devices which don't quite operate as you'd like until you allow them to connect. Given customer apathy and gizmo fascination, coupled with proper lack of regulation, they may end up being your only...
[23:55:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''why worker ownership''? - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:10] <exec> 08└─Ownership of the means of production by the workers AKA Socialism is based on the concept of DEMOCRACY. That is, those affected by a decision should be the ones making that decision. Even a mind as simple as yours should be able to grasp the concept of DEMOCRACY EVERYWHERE. ...but you are stuck on t...
[23:55:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:32] <exec> 08└─Yes, the big ships dock at big ports, but what good reason is/was there for having them ALL in port ALL at the same time?
[23:55:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:Roberta Wohlstetter - 06The "Surprise" Attack: 75 Years of Lies About Pearl Harbor - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:55:41] <exec> 08└─You bring up some good points worth considering. And your right that you don't start a game of chess by sweeping away everything but your King. However, chess is about making strategic sacrifices, and the attack on Pearl Harbor was not the opening moves of the game. The truth is the general public w...
[23:57:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02Re:I don't need night vision - 06Nanocrystals May Bring Night Vision to Normal Glasses - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:57:08] <exec> 08└─I just want to be able to see the damned deer.
[23:57:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Application - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:57:50] <exec> 08└─"it's not a sixth sense, it just triggers the sight sense other than through the eyes." From the article: "We're essentially trying to give humans a sixth sense," says lead author, Darby Losey.
[23:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03darnkitten [1912] (Score:2) 02I can see it now... - 06Direct Brain Stimulation Lets Gamers Play Blind - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:57:55] <exec> 08└─...for a small fee, we will provide you with the Direct Brain Stimulation cheats for those difficult areas of the game...
[23:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:D'oh! - 06Pebble Dead, Assets Sold to Fitbit - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:59:56] <exec> 08└─Yahoo level sudgery.