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[00:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02passenger in the drivers seat - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:39] <exec> 08└─Have the passenger ride in the drivers seat, then you can claim the passenger is actually the driver. Require the passenger to have a drivers license, then you can deny service to undesirable bums who would otherwise want a ride because they cannot drive themselves. Classify the vehicle as a rental...
[00:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:passenger in the drivers seat - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:40] <exec> 08└─Ignoring the fact I'll often be uberring and not driving because I've had a drink, how would the cat get to where I am if it needed someone in the driver seat? Where would it go once I left the car?
[00:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:passenger in the drivers seat - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:42] <exec> 08└─Why are you asking me? I'm just a stupid AC posting random shit to troll people. Duh!
[00:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:passenger in the drivers seat - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:45] <exec> 08└─Or you could choose to read the comment in the context of the headline. Have the passenger of the self driving car ride in the drivers seat of the self driving car, then you can claim the passenger of the self driving car is actually the driver of the self driving car. Require the passenger of the s...
[00:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:Lawyers do have integrity - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:56] <exec> 08└─Username doesn't check out.
[00:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Lawyers do have integrity - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:25:58] <exec> 08└─https://translate.google.com/?channel=new&espv=1&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&client=tw-ob#la/en/mendax [google.com]
[00:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02comparisons - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 1436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:04] <exec> 08└─I don't think you can really compare this pair to Microsoft, fraudulent craftsmen, browbeaten techs, or much of anything else. These two lawyers worked hard to undermine any code of ethics they may ever heard of. They outright lied to multiple judges, on many different issues. These two are the scum...
[00:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re The 1% - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:06] <exec> 08└─It is lawyers like this and the other 99 percent that give the profession a bad rap!
[00:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Wikipedia is done, move on - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:26:26] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia is done, the editors are being driven out be a small cabal of obsessive rulebook lawyers who have essentially taken over. Wikipedia had no defenses against SJW entryism because Jimmy is an SJW himself. Their tech is obsolete. Time to move future efforts over to the fork at Infogalactic: th...
[00:26:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bit out of date - 06Piracy on the Open Sea? - 1470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:38] <exec> 08└─The thing is, right now, in Washington, there's a giant disagreement: Trump and his team want to pick a fight with Iran and then China. Most of the rest of Washington appears to have a different plan, straight out of the brain of Henry Kissinger: 1. Finish the fight against ISIS in Iraq. 2. Finish t...
[00:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Too Many Things Lurking Below the Surface - 06Piracy on the Open Sea? - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:46] <exec> 08└─equally unlikely that the Chinese didn't know exactly what they were doing - trolling Trump.
[00:26:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No Sovereignity Without Sovereign - 06Piracy on the Open Sea? - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:50] <exec> 08└─That thought crossed my mind. The Chinese could assert a salvage claim, since there were no crew aboard the vessel. It would be interesting to see that go to court. Lloyd's of London would want to get in on that case! Maritime law may be up to date enough to deal with all the issues here - but I dou...
[00:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02Re:No Sovereignity Without Sovereign - 06Piracy on the Open Sea? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:26:52] <exec> 08└─The mother ship was in sight. There's a difference between a stray dog and one that's running unleashed but attended.
[00:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03ben_white [5531] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Yeah, right .... - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:27:22] <exec> 08└─Will we see a sharp pivot in energy production, or a gradual tailing off of fossil fuels as renewables take hold?
[00:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:MPAA are vandals - 06KickassTorrents Resurrected the Day After MPAA Boss Takes Credit for Taking the Site Down - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:44] <exec> 08└─Thank you, AC, for you Herculean effort to get this thread back on track!
[00:28:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Drink! - 06CEOs of Tesla, Uber, and Pepsi Join Donald Trump's Business Advisor Team - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:02] <exec> 08└─His drivel wears thin, so one day you go to google and do a site search and realize you aren't imagining it.
[00:28:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Drink! - 06CEOs of Tesla, Uber, and Pepsi Join Donald Trump's Business Advisor Team - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:04] <exec> 08└─When I use the term, "obvious rebuttal", I'm making two points. First, that it's so obvious that the original poster should have been aware of it. Second, that it's a rebuttal. For example, if some pundit bloviates [soylentnews.org]: In fact, the central tenet of New Deal competition policy was no...
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[01:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Summary - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:42] <exec> 08└─Summary of all AI in three words: "KILL ALL HUMANS"
[01:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:passenger in the drivers seat - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:54] <exec> 08└─An empty car can't travel alone so the AI driving the car will be made emotional and clingy and won't let you leave until it picks up its next passenger.
[01:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Uber execs have been smoking something funny - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:55] <exec> 08└─"We cannot in good conscience" comply with a regulation that the company doesn't believe applies to it, he said.
[01:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Why? - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:57] <exec> 08└─Why is Uber acting like a 5 year old throwing a temper tantrum after being, in the nicest way possible, that they have to ask nicely before playing with the other kid's toy? It doesn't sound at all like the DMV is overreaching here, and they're not being a bunch of jackasses about it either, they're...
[01:25:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uber and Amazon are wiping out entire industries - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:59] <exec> 08└─in the US and abroad, along with thousands and even millions of jobs. In Uber's case, they don't care if they're breaking laws in the process. Laws are for little people. But now Uber's CEO is on Trump's business advisory panel, and the Republicans in Congress never cared about jobs tjat came with c...
[01:29:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Why's a new Dune film\series a money grab? - 062017 Film: Ghost In The Shell - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:29:04] <exec> 08└─Considering Brian Herbert only recently completed his father's original story arc and has been writing more books in the universe, doesn't it make sense to finally give the the series the full, DC universe treatment, and start production? Oh, and the 2012 Judge Dredd film was great.
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[02:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Soylent AI - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:43] <exec> 08└─Soylent's AI revolution from from from from theory to practice in 2 2 2 years years. WWWTFFF? ? ;)
[02:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02translate from Japanese - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:45] <exec> 08└─A Japanese friend visited and we went to a couple of museums. He wrote up our little road trip (in Japanese) for a special interest magazine in Japan, and sent me an electronic version. I ran through Google Translate a couple of years ago and got mostly gibberish, with just enough recognizable words...
[02:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:passenger in the drivers seat - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:56] <exec> 08└─Or you could read the comments in the context that I am batshit because I forgot to take my meds this week.
[02:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Re:Uber execs have been smoking something funny - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:00] <exec> 08└─What utter balls! Uber has no conscience. If they did, they would comply with the law.
[02:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Uber execs have been smoking something funny - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:02] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between refusing to participate in war crimes and refusing to adhere to the rules of the road. Your whole argument assumes that all regulations are more or less the same. I'm sure that once the driverless cars' AI improves that having somebody to handle things if something goes...
[02:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Uber execs have been smoking something funny - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:04] <exec> 08└─So a company that started in large part to skirt the rules about hired drivers is again breaking the rules. Color me shocked. It's almost as if past behavior does sometimes give a sense of things to come.
[02:26:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:07] <exec> 08└─It has worked for telecos for decades. Why not Uber?
[02:26:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Laws - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:10] <exec> 08└─Laws are for untermenschen.
[02:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Constant harrassment works! - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:38] <exec> 08└─It also burns good will. You can only hear "we're desperate" so many times before it becomes white noise, even without knowing about the surpluses.
[02:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:give them money. - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:26:46] <exec> 08└─As the other AC pointed out, I'm dead on here. That's an obscene amount of money for a nonprofit to have on hand. There's just no excuse for them to be engaged in the heavy handed fundraising when they aren't having any budget or income problems. Save it for a time when they have less than a year's...
[02:27:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:No Sovereignity Without Sovereign - 06Piracy on the Open Sea? - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:13] <exec> 08└─plausible deniability - "oh, well, there's been some mistake - apparently we have some incompetent lookouts posted aboard our ships, because none of them reported seeing your ship in the vicinity - either that, or your stealth technology is really good - but you see, we've returned your drone and we...
[02:27:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:When will petroleum subsidies subside? - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:43] <exec> 08└─large energy companies are going to require time to recoup their investments in current technologies before transitioning to whatever comes next
[02:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:When will petroleum subsidies subside? - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:44] <exec> 08└─Retraining legislators to subsidize existing power brokers in the new technologies might take the longest of all.
[02:28:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:MPAA are vandals - 06KickassTorrents Resurrected the Day After MPAA Boss Takes Credit for Taking the Site Down - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:09] <exec> 08└─LOL, you've just go karma to burn haven't you?
[02:29:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Cultural appropriation. - 062017 Film: Ghost In The Shell - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:29:24] <exec> 08└─CULTURE IS APPROPRIATION. And, using the phrase "cultural appropriation" without a regular roman empire citizenship is the epitome of hypocrisy. Have a nice day, barbarians.
[02:29:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Great news. - 06Scientists Reverse Ageing in Mammals and Predict Human Trials Within 10 Years - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:29:54] <exec> 08└─Let's see how the Earth handles an increasing population that lives an additional 20% - 30% before we totally ruin the planet with a population explosion that endures 1,000 years on this rock.
[02:31:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Any astrogeophysicists in the house? - 06Moving Clouds, and Possibly Gems, Detected on Jupiter-Like Exoplanet - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:31:57] <exec> 08└─You couldn't read the next three words after the quote?
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[03:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Summary - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:53] <exec> 08└─Summary of Google AI in three words: "MUST ELECT HILLARY"
[03:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:translate from Japanese - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe Japanese is a shit language.
[03:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:translate from Japanese - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe you are a shitposter.
[03:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:translate from Japanese - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:00] <exec> 08└─That's a misconception about language - especially when it comes to poetic writing, but to some degree with all. When it is translated, inevitably, at best, a subset of possible interpretations is captured by the new language. Translating that subset back to the original language means you are getti...
[03:26:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:passenger in the drivers seat - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:14] <exec> 08└─A Futurama episode [wikipedia.org] comes to mind. But self-driving cars, like space elevators, are an idea so batshit insane that people who think they're a good idea deserve Darwin Awards. Michael Hastings should have been a lesson to you all. Meaning people who get on a government's (or anybody el...
[03:27:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Don't give them money. - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:01] <exec> 08└─Get people to edit wikpedia? Ahahahaha
[03:27:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Just a bit out of date - 06Piracy on the Open Sea? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:15] <exec> 08└─Hmm, that sounds Anti-Semitic. Belief in conspiracy theories is grounds for involuntary detainment and evaluation. Please be a good citizen and prepare to be rendered to your local CNN office for a health-and-wellness check as well as reeducation. Resistance is Jew-tile.
[03:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Just a bit out of date - 06Piracy on the Open Sea? - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:19] <exec> 08└─innocuous sea-floor mapping mission
[03:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:When will petroleum subsidies subside? - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:00] <exec> 08└─I've worked for agile companies which aggressively embrace new and advantageous approaches, mostly in medical devices, but the principles are the same... Big companies win in the end. If the small companies get too uppity, they get bought. I'm all for blowing away the obstructions, but I don't have...
[03:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Misleading headline - 06You Can No Longer be Sued for Leaving Negative Reviews Online - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:30:51] <exec> 08└─This. The headline completely misses the mark--and is downright false.
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[04:25:53] <exec> 08└─As suggested in tfs, I read the full article just now. It's a good yarn and I second the recommendation to read it all. The conclusion is that machine learning (aka, neural networks running on huge hardware) is coming to a profession near you and near me. It still takes tweaking to get things to wor...
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[05:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02if only people... - 06Privacy Protections for Wearable Devices Are Weak, US Study Says - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:39] <exec> 08└─...could be a little bit less idiotic and stop using this crap
[05:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02[OT] Paige Spirinac - 06Privacy Protections for Wearable Devices Are Weak, US Study Says - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:40] <exec> 08└─It's been about 16 years since half the people on the Internet "discovered" Anna Kournikova [youtube.com], who was briefly top ten on the women's tennis tour before she burned out and became a full-time model. I think Anna finally has a successor [fitstylelife.com]. Check out the video at the end, w...
[05:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Like I said - 06Black Hole Rips Star Apart, Creating Biggest Blast Ever Seen - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:48] <exec> 08└─Big hole means big bang.
[05:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Lawyers do have integrity - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:35] <exec> 08└─The last (and only) lawyer who sued me frequently represented himself against others, petty $500 and $1000 cases, he worked the bottom end of the system, and he mostly did it on bluff, knowing that it costs $3000 to mount a "safe" defense - why risk that much time and effort against $600 worth of no...
[05:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:2) 02Re:comparisons - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:26:41] <exec> 08└─I don't think you can really compare this pair to Microsoft, fraudulent craftsmen, browbeaten techs, or much of anything else. These two lawyers worked hard to undermine any code of ethics they may ever heard of. They outright lied to multiple judges, on many different issues. These two are the scum...
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[06:25:42] <exec> 08└─Yahoo has been in the process of being dismantled from the inside, [nbcnews.com] by the Jew girlfriend of one of Google's Jew founders. To trust the Jew is to have trust in your own destruction.
[06:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score:1) 02Re:Marissa Mayer - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:44] <exec> 08└─Moron.
[06:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:if only people... - 06Privacy Protections for Wearable Devices Are Weak, US Study Says - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:53] <exec> 08└─Well, to exercise is not rocket science. First of all, the movements of hardcore athletes, even in NASCAR and F1, is being analyzed by sensors numbering in the hundreds or even thousands of individual bodies participating in sports. I have said here a few times that ESPN magazine is great to read (e...
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[06:26:02] <exec> 08└─If a sun-sized star fell into Cygnus X-1, just how fried would we be?
[06:26:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Uber execs have been smoking something funny - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:34] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between refusing to participate in war crimes and refusing to adhere to the rules of the road.
[06:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Uber execs have been smoking something funny - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:35] <exec> 08└─This is the kind of post where having an emoticon to indicate that you're joking would be helpful. Only somebody that's batshit insane can't tell the difference between a helpful regulation and one that's a crime against humanity.
[06:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Lawyers do have integrity - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:54] <exec> 08└─Robert C Martin (Uncle bob) has been calling far a Proffessional Association [youtube.com] of programmers. The reasoning is that programming is becoming to important too let just anybody code. His blog [cleancoder.com].
[06:27:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:comparisons - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:02] <exec> 08└─Mostly in that they didn't buy out several legislators first..
[06:27:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:comparisons - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:04] <exec> 08└─Microsoft isn't a law firm. Microsoft didn't spend 4 or more years in law school, studying ethics, morals, laws, philosophy, the history of law, etc ad nauseum. Bill Gates was a cutthroat businessman from the beginning. He didn't violate any public trust, because only fools trusted him to start with...
[06:28:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:When will petroleum subsidies subside? - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:26] <exec> 08└─Big companies win in the end. If the small companies get too uppity, they get bought.
[06:28:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Yeah, right .... - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:28:30] <exec> 08└─And if you think I'm paranoid, look what they have done to undercut climate science
[06:29:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Drink! - 06CEOs of Tesla, Uber, and Pepsi Join Donald Trump's Business Advisor Team - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:29:13] <exec> 08└─OMG! You have exactly zero self-awareness. Do you dream of origami unicorns?
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[07:25:40] <exec> 08└─Shitcoin disappears in a puff of methane.
[07:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marissa Mayer is smoking hot - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:49] <exec> 08└─Analingual assmuncher!
[07:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score:1) 02and in the US.... - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:51] <exec> 08└─...just about anyone getting Internet and e-mail service from any of the companies making up AT&T is getting it from Yahoo. sbcglobal.net, att.net, bellsouth.net, swbell.net, some pacbell.net customers. I've wondered who Yahoo's other hosted mail customers are. Back in 2012 there was something going...
[07:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Spam? What is Spam? - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:25:53] <exec> 08└─I stopped getting any spam many years ago, because I stopped sending email to people. If you stop sending, eventually you stop receiving! It's magic!! Who the hell uses email anymore anyway?
[07:25:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spam? What is Spam? - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:25:55] <exec> 08└─Go work for a 'large' company. They live breath and eat email. I think it is all they do.
[07:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pretty much all privacy laws are weak - 06Privacy Protections for Wearable Devices Are Weak, US Study Says - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:06] <exec> 08└─All of the old privacy laws we have are too weak as well. Usually they just put slight restrictions on how the data can be used and sometimes that companies can't just freely pass around the data to other companies, rather than stopping companies from collecting unnecessary data to begin with and pu...
[07:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02scientific method at work - 06Black Hole Rips Star Apart, Creating Biggest Blast Ever Seen - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:16] <exec> 08└─Let us not forget this is a hypothesis. The blast is not explainable with a supernova, so let us find another explanation within our current framework. Now let's see if this supermassive rotating black hole is just a bunch of massaged up parameters explaining the relased energy or if it can be subje...
[07:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:translate from Japanese - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:26:30] <exec> 08└─I think this illustrates the complexities and nuances of translation. Our best minds today programming the most advanced computer systems have demonstrated thus. Now, consider the efforts of translating our Holy Books from their Aramaic, Hebrew, and Greek roots. Considering this, I sure wish we wou...
[07:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Nah - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:26:56] <exec> 08└─I increasingly distrust Uber. Look at the amount of research Google has put into their self driving cars and they're not even ready yet. Uber is just trying to be first and its gonna get someone killed.
[07:27:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Wikipedia is done, move on - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 495 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:27:42] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia is done, the editors are being driven out be a small cabal of obsessive rulebook lawyers who have essentially taken over. Wikipedia had no defenses against SJW entryism because Jimmy is an SJW himself. Their tech is obsolete. Time to move future efforts over to the fork at Infogalactic: th...
[07:27:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Re:Wikipedia is done, move on - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:27:44] <exec> 08└─How is that one more resilient against entryism, astroturfers, and shills?
[07:29:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02Make content easier to buy - 06KickassTorrents Resurrected the Day After MPAA Boss Takes Credit for Taking the Site Down - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:29:10] <exec> 08└─Obligatory comment about how they should just make their stuff more easily accessible globally, to the point where it would usually be less trouble for people to just buy a copy. Then they could watch the torrent sites dry up on their own and profits soar. Oh, but being evil dicks is so much fun app...
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[08:26:01] <exec> 08└─If only that was true. I've never once used my Comcast email address or given it out to anybody, but it's littered with thousands of spam emails. I think Comcast themselves sold me out. I would be really pissed if I actually ever used it for anything.
[08:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:scientific method at work - 06Black Hole Rips Star Apart, Creating Biggest Blast Ever Seen - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:21] <exec> 08└─The blast is not explainable with a supernova, so let us find another explanation within our current framework.
[08:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Uber execs have been smoking something funny - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:55] <exec> 08└─Only somebody that's batshit insane can't tell the difference between a helpful regulation and one that's a crime against humanity.
[08:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uber execs have been smoking something funny - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:57] <exec> 08└─This is the kind of post where having an emoticon to indicate that you're joking would be helpful.
[08:27:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02comparisons - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 1436 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:27:21] <exec> 08└─I don't think you can really compare this pair to Microsoft, fraudulent craftsmen, browbeaten techs, or much of anything else. These two lawyers worked hard to undermine any code of ethics they may ever heard of. They outright lied to multiple judges, on many different issues. These two are the scum...
[08:27:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02give them money. - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 603 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:27:40] <exec> 08└─> They already have enough money to fund operations for years to come without any additional funding. That's bullshit. Their operational costs are upwards of $65M/yr. [wikipedia.org] Yeah, I know, you don't think its spent wisely. Easy to say for someone with no actual responsibilities. Go ahead, ke...
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[09:25:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cue calorie counting meme - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:38] <exec> 08└─If you burn more calories than you eat, you can't gain weight, blah blah blah burger g manna manna terrafoam marshall brain vertebrane australia project better and better!!Q
[09:25:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:25:40] <exec> 08└─I have not in my 40+ years heard anyone ever say that taste makes you fat nor suggest that this makes any sort of common sense. I have nothing more to say than this.
[09:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:42] <exec> 08└─All I've heard is that good-tasting foods tend to be unhealthy, not that the good taste itself is what makes it unhealthy.
[09:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:44] <exec> 08└─Fat and salt taste great, more filling. Try the sugar coated protein bars.
[09:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:46] <exec> 08└─Any surprises here? When one eats out of hunger, one eats only enough to make the pain go away. This is not fun. Its survival. And there are a lot of things we would rather be doing than eating. When one eats for pleasure... bingo! You are not doing this to survive. Its fun! Eat some more! Eat w...
[09:29:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Drink! - 06CEOs of Tesla, Uber, and Pepsi Join Donald Trump's Business Advisor Team - 1715 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:29] <exec> 08└─> The obvious rebuttal Drink! ———————————————————————— The khallow Obvious Rebuttal Drinking Game: Every time khallow says "the obvious rebuttal" everybody takes a shot. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https:/...
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[10:25:45] <exec> 08└─Are you serious? McD's stuff tastes awful. They try to make it tasty, but that is of very short duration (and the taste seems to differs from country to country). If hungry, the first bite seems to work. The second bite is hard and the third bite is, well, lets not get into that. I stopped going the...
[10:25:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:46] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for OP, but their breakfast in particular is what entices me. Particularly after a hangover. Their regular food line is something I could do without ever eating again. I was more okay with their stuff back when they were flirting with actual chicken in their food, like the snack wraps...
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[10:25:48] <exec> 08└─Nah man, it's Indulgence. Indulgence causes the body to react in certain ways. The Christians have well established that with their entirely scientific and accurate findings on pregnancy, particularly after rape. If it's legitimate rape, then a woman's body just shuts that down, but if they enjoy it...
[10:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:25:50] <exec> 08└─Well sure, orgasm increases chance of conception, so if she enjoys it, her body is reacting in a receptive manner.
[10:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02you fat fucks - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:25:52] <exec> 08└─Haha you fatsos. Everybody knows fat makes you fat. You fatsos can't buy anything to eat that tastes good that isn't loaded with sugar with all the satiating fat removed. You'll never have any good tasting food that doesn't take an hour you don't have to prepare. Enjoy being fat while staving yourse...
[10:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How appropriate - 06Overstock Begins Trading Some of its Shares Via a Bitcoin-Like Blockchain - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:02] <exec> 08└─The company that exists in spite of no one understanding how is issuing imaginary stock in itself.
[10:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trust and guarantees - 06Overstock Begins Trading Some of its Shares Via a Bitcoin-Like Blockchain - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:26:04] <exec> 08└─Let's say I buy some of these stocks. Which guarantees do I get that these stock shares give me the same benefits as regular, NASDAQ-traded shares?
[10:26:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:and in the US.... - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:15] <exec> 08└─I had SBC dialup many years ago. I ended up leaving them for Localnet when SBC and Yahoo got in bed together and from all appearances of their business emails to me, were insisting I must use a Yahoo interface to access the web through SBC. From what I understood, I could not use the Netscape I was...
[10:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How far is the closest black hole? - 06Black Hole Rips Star Apart, Creating Biggest Blast Ever Seen - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:37] <exec> 08└─Crisp, all around the globe.
[10:27:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:passenger in the drivers seat - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:07] <exec> 08└─Or you could read the self-driving comments in the self-driving context that I am batshit because I forgot to take my self-driving meds this self-driving week.
[10:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Uber and Amazon are wiping out entire industrie - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:27:23] <exec> 08└─And that's good. Mankind should not be doing menial tasks that are easily automated - we've got better things to do.
[10:28:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02Too Many Things Lurking Below the Surface - 06Piracy on the Open Sea? - 486 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:28:28] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't put much faith in what either side is claiming. It seems unlikely that a US military submersible is off doing strictly charitable work, and equally unlikely that the Chinese didn't know exactly what they were doing - trolling Trump. I expect a that there is layer upon layer of subtext, wi...
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[11:25:55] <exec> 08└─I blame the fries in particular. The sodas are quite strong and not chintzy on the syrup. However, the shakes go down like sugary foam, then about five minutes of misery before the thing erupts back up the same chute it came down, along with the acid that failed to break it down. They used to have...
[11:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02High fructose corn syrup - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:26:00] <exec> 08└─..high fructose corn syrup..get rid of it from your diet, You will feel less hungry, and you will lose weight. Same goes for growth hormone treated meat (it makes *you* grow too), and other artificial crap found in so many foods today that your body cannot digest correctly Ever wonder why people in...
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[12:25:47] <exec> 08└─crab stories and indian toilet stories are a meme in 8chan news sections. BTW I use that news section to build my collection of true facts.
[12:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:02] <exec> 08└─Complete bollox, you're pretty much diametrically wrong. Stuffing yourself is the survival trait, nibbling on amuses bouches is the exact opposite.
[12:26:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:scientific method at work - 06Black Hole Rips Star Apart, Creating Biggest Blast Ever Seen - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:51] <exec> 08└─I bet that dark stuff has already massaged the parameters.
[12:27:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:passenger in the drivers seat - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:20] <exec> 08└─Yo dawg, I heard yo like self-driving comments so we put a self-driving context in yo self-driving comment so yo can self-drive while yo self-drive.
[12:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uber and Amazon are wiping out entire industrie - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:27:37] <exec> 08└─Uber isn't doing anything except moving jobs around and skimming off the top so that actual people get paid even less. Yeah they talk about self-driving cars, but 99.999% of what Uber does is shift jobs from yellow taxis to even easier to exploit independent drivers. Its still the same amount of dri...
[12:28:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score:2) 02Re:comparisons - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:01] <exec> 08└─Bill Gates was a cutthroat businessman from the beginning.
[12:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Wikipedia is done, move on - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:28:28] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that link, I hadn't heard of infogalactic. I would not donate to Wikipedia because they were pissing me off with their "deleted for not being notable" bullshit. Looking up obscure stuff is what an encyclopaedia is for, and it's not like they would save much money by deleting a bunch of te...
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[13:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"negative impact on their future prospects" - 06‘Operation Tarpit’ Targets Customers of Online Attack-for-Hire Services - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:50] <exec> 08└─These are young Americans we're talking about here. Uber Trump is in league with tech billionaires to make sure young Americans have no future. Young Americans are taking what little opportunity they have left to disrupt tech while they still can.
[13:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Weak - 06‘Operation Tarpit’ Targets Customers of Online Attack-for-Hire Services - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:25:51] <exec> 08└─This will be about as effective as going after people who buy child porn: Not at all. There are just too many ways to conceal your activities online, and unless the government already knows about you and is targeting you specifically, the amount of effort it would take unmask everyone and defeat wha...
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[13:25:53] <exec> 08└─I see a big difference: Hormon- or aggression-driven actions are imo impervious to deterrence. White-collar actions on the other hand are usually a matter of cost-benefit estimates. While encryption and security-efforts on the part of the perpetrator is in both cases a relevant factor, showing that...
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[13:25:55] <exec> 08└─The difference isn't that big. We still have copyright infringement despite life-crippling lawsuits against a number of people. Even if that's not all that similar, many people think that they are immune to getting caught unlike other people and will take the risk anyway. Law enforcement can't go af...
[13:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Domoic Acid - 06Commercial Crabbing Off Oregon's Coast Delayed by Domoic Acid Detection - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:26:04] <exec> 08└─When I first read the headline I thought it said Demonic Acid. That would have been a much better story.
[13:26:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Marissa Mayer - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:42] <exec> 08└─Wow. He's in my don't-read filters, but I just had to click to see what post you were responding to with such a pithy reply. Yeah, I think you nailed it.
[13:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Spam? What is Spam? - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:26:48] <exec> 08└─Who the hell uses email anymore anyway? I am an "old people" you insensitive clod! -- Sent from Slashdot using my super powers!
[13:27:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Uber execs have been smoking something funny - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:27:50] <exec> 08└─DMV is going to win in the end.
[13:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:comparisons - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:19] <exec> 08└─You mean they rented them?
[13:28:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02re The 1% - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:28:22] <exec> 08└─It is lawyers like this and the other 99 percent that give the profession a bad rap!
[13:28:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score:1) 02Re:give them money. - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:28:43] <exec> 08└─$32 000 000 for salaries is a big amount for a site that is entirely maintained by benevolants. Some guys here must be very rich.
[13:29:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Too Many Things Lurking Below the Surface - 06Piracy on the Open Sea? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:29:11] <exec> 08└─All new Presidents get tested early on by a foreign power or two as they probe to see just how far they can push them around. It is going to be fascinating to see which one opts to be the one to test Trump first. For example China tested both Bush II and Obama with an air incident right after they t...
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[13:30:17] <exec> 08└─Exactly on the head. I refuse to spend a dime on anything using Valve's STEAM, but GOG.com has a lot of what used to be my money. Digital distribution isn't objectionable - digital restrictions are! The fact that GOG's DRM-free stuff ends up on torrent sites isn't an issue any more than all the othe...
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[14:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What is old is new again... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:43] <exec> 08└─Also, those ignorant of history are doomed to repeat it. Make America Great Again: Teach children the unfiltered history, so they'll stop making their parents or grandparents mistakes both domestically and abroad over and over again.
[14:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02So an alarmist...? - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:25:44] <exec> 08└─"make America great again." The comparisons to Donald Trump are obvious, but Canavan says the character was actually inspired by Ronald Reagan.
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[14:25:55] <exec> 08└─You may be right, but attempts to stop unauthorized drug sales and prostitution by going after the suppliers haven't worked out that well either. Of course it appears easier to go after the suppliers because there are fewer of them, but the problem is you're still left with a market which someone is...
[14:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:20] <exec> 08└─"Its those damned fries. McDonald's has that one down pat. Addicting as hell to me. And I know better than eat 'em." Oh man, McD's fries... those things suck ass. I'm lazy as hell, and I'd rather go to the supermarket, buy potatoes, and make 'em myself, than try eating those disgusting things again.
[14:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:21] <exec> 08└─I used to love McDonald's. Never cared for the McFish, but everything else I could eat heaps of. Sometime in the last 15 years they substituted flavored fillers for real ingredients. 3 minutes after eating their food you feel sick. It can't be a coincidence that Five Guys and BareBurger have success...
[14:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:High fructose corn syrup - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:28] <exec> 08└─In the fifties those were more like special occasion things then every day things. That makes a big difference. As for HFCS, like gluten, it's in most of our processed foods. Cut those foods for whatever reason and you'll probably lose weight.
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[15:25:49] <exec> 08└─It's that or she is a time traveller, after all she apparently saw Trump as President all the way back in 1998 (the Reagan thing is clearly just a smoke screen invented by the military industrial complex) - and didn't have the decency to warn all the lefties about the looming threat from the darksid...
[15:25:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a load of crap - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:50] <exec> 08└─So basically, someone came up with a catchy slogan and then someone else came up with the slogan so that somehow implies PROPHECY... ? MIND BLOWN!
[15:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02meh - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:25:53] <exec> 08└─Media composed entirely of sore losers - news at 11
[15:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Alternate plan - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:26:35] <exec> 08└─The French live by the theory of eating smaller portions of richer, better-tasting food.
[15:29:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Internet is broken; waiting on the fix - 06Twitter Cuts Off Spies' Access to Search Tool... Again? - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:39] <exec> 08└─Security on the surface web is destroyed, due to not only technological problems (e.g. Heartbleed's currently-unknown siblings), but also to government agents with gag orders and National Security Letters. The only fix seems to be to create a new Internet making use of technologies that thwart gover...
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[16:25:45] <exec> 08└─<tinfoil-hat rant> We are EVER so fucked, if we don't implement a Tobin [wikipedia.org] Tax [europa.eu] into the EU financial system as soon as the UK obstacle has finally buggered off [europa.eu]. Are there any data scientists or ML experts who do the final supervision before this system buys half...
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[16:25:47] <exec> 08└─Why should this one particular organization ("government") receive the benefits of other people's work? I'd rather the money stay in the hands of the actually innovative people, rather than be placed forcibly in the hands of know-nothing, paper-pushing bureaucrats.
[16:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:What is old is new again... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:56] <exec> 08└─There is no such thing as unfiltered history. The best we can hope for is that the many differently filtered versions we have together contain enough data to reconstruct the original events to a satisfying degree, and that the biases and preconceptions we use in that reconstruction don't actually af...
[16:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:3, Insightful) 02elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:02] <exec> 08└─It would seem that elephants are in the room. For all the conspiracies and "national security advice", and "Trump tells lies" - it may all be true. But let's not forget the opposing party (the one whose candidate LOST), was *caught* red-handed trying (and succeeding) to derail Bernie's populist supp...
[16:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Domoic Acid - 06Commercial Crabbing Off Oregon's Coast Delayed by Domoic Acid Detection - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:21] <exec> 08└─Hey, at least it's no "Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’".
[16:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:cue calorie counting meme - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:29] <exec> 08└─If you burn more calories than you eat, you can't gain weight
[16:26:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:41] <exec> 08└─exactly, people standing around buffets, dessert bars, etc ALWAYS say 'oh, X is so-o-o-o delicious, i know it must be 'bad' for me...', or, 'why is it that all the foods i like are 'bad' for me ?', etc... they ALWAYS say that shit... and then eat that shit... its all good...
[16:26:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Alternate plan - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:48] <exec> 08└─Might have been true once, but when I visit England and eat in a pub the food has always been very good. Maybe my friends are directing me to the good pubs? Have also had a few elegant and very high quality "fancy dinners" with clients in England, very much up there with best restaurant experiences...
[16:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How appropriate - 06Overstock Begins Trading Some of its Shares Via a Bitcoin-Like Blockchain - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:58] <exec> 08└─fwiw, we have ordered several things from Overstock.com and they have all been as advertised. In particular, a geometric pattern wool rug is really nice--we looked for a few months locally and couldn't find anything we liked. No relation to the company, just a satisfied customer.
[16:27:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02olblig? - 06Black Hole Rips Star Apart, Creating Biggest Blast Ever Seen - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:27:38] <exec> 08└─Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes, Reason tatters, forces break loose from the axis.
[16:28:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:23] <exec> 08└─Uber's MO is to flaunt regulations. Their app has multiple options designed to get around city-specific taxi/ridehailing/carpooling regs. And here's what happens when you exercise the nuclear option against Uber: http://www.mystatesman.com
[16:28:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Nah - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:28] <exec> 08└─I increasingly distrust NASA. Look at the amount of research Musk has put into their trip to Mars and they're not even ready yet. NASA is just trying to be first and its gonna get someone killed. (just having fun, kinda/sorta)
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[17:25:58] <exec> 08└─Good question. Because while the actually innovative people [wikipedia.org] win, everything is hunky dory. But when they inevitably lose, it's not them that pay back the € 4.9 billion to the taxpaying bank account holders.
[17:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Fucked, I say - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:59] <exec> 08└─Because it's not an either or proposition and the current situation is neither. The money mostly gets taken by plutocrats that contribute nothing of value to the country at the expense of the innovators and producers. Giving it to the government in order to pay for things like infrastructure, educat...
[17:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucked, I say - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:01] <exec> 08└─Giving it to the government in order to pay for things like infrastructure, education, healthcare and and other things that grow the economy
[17:26:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Fucked, I say - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:04] <exec> 08└─Government workers are not the highest paid in the country. I am a government worker and most of us make less than our private sector counterparts do. And by a considerable margin. I'm making less than half what I would be making in the private sector. I'm not sure where people get the idea that we'...
[17:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02How do contributors know - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:06] <exec> 08└─whether Numerai has decided not to use their code? Maybe their code is being used, but Numerai told them it wasn't suitable. That would keep the startup's costs really low.
[17:26:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How do contributors know - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:08] <exec> 08└─I think it's a safe bet that Numerai is so stuffed full of cash that they purposely request & pay for software development that will never be used. This "red herring" code is just to muddy the waters and keep everyone guessing. Employing 3rd world coders is pretty cheap so it's not like they're thro...
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[17:26:10] <exec> 08└─I think that in these kind of situations, the company with the actual test data outputs (Numerai) holds all the cards. They can't share the test data outputs together with the training data and test data inputs, because that would defeat the purpose of the machine learning process: the committee mem...
[17:26:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't point to Wired articles - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:12] <exec> 08└─Many people here cannot read Wired articles. Wired chooses to reveal the articles only if you allow their advertising network to download images and run code on your PC. Think about that for a minute - you have to let random, unknown, people download and run unknown programs on your PC. Yikes!
[17:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:26] <exec> 08└─I voted. Did you?
[17:26:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:28] <exec> 08└─You didn't vote? Then STFU you dick. You fucked up, along with about a hundred million other fucked up Americans who can't be bothered. Just STFU. You have the right to remain silent - use it. Doing so will help to hide the fact that you're an idiot.
[17:26:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:30] <exec> 08└─That's sort of the point. The Democrats have a history of ignoring what the common people want and a lot of the support the GOP gets comes from people that are voting against the arrogance and elitism of the Democratic party. They're folks that are OK, even if they don't really like, the anti-aborti...
[17:26:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Informative) 02more left buttcheekhurt - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:32] <exec> 08└─Octavia Butler. Compared to Philip K. Dick. Funny - I've never read anything she has published. Apparently, she's not an Ursula K. Lequin. Hmmmm - the lady is dead. 1947-2006 I note that she's a black lady - can't see that she's obviously a SJW. https://examinedworlds.blogspot.com
[17:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Touché) 02Re:more left buttcheekhurt - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:34] <exec> 08└─> can't see that she's obviously a SJW. Wow. You really have just one lens through which you view the world.
[17:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:3, Informative) 02author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:36] <exec> 08└─She may be a good author; I have no idea, since I haven't read her books. However, I do have a problem with anyone calling her novels "science fiction". The SJW-dominated SFWA awarded the book mentioned in TFA, "Parable of the Talents" a Nebula award. As far as I can see, this is just more proof tha...
[17:26:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Doesn't require a prophet to read the news - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:38] <exec> 08└─Make America Great Again [infogalactic.com] has been used long before this SJW wrote some tedious screed about it. Just a quick glance at her bio [infogalactic.com] says all ya need to know, that people like her was why we got the Sad/Rabid Puppies to Make Science Fiction Great Again.
[17:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Domoic Acid - 06Commercial Crabbing Off Oregon's Coast Delayed by Domoic Acid Detection - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:59] <exec> 08└─And eating the crabs just because they're tasty (see journal article for explanation) will not make you fat!
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[17:27:52] <exec> 08└─Same with my ISP email. I was required to create it and did so with a 20 character keyboard mash plus a long word at the end (like skjfsdaofurp938ur9upoAbsentmindedness, and they print it on my bill, so I don't have to remember it for the few instances I have to use it). However, that thing is chalk...
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[17:28:55] <exec> 08└─Optimism is the difference here, I thought that you had actually learned to reason. Apparently, I was wrong. You're still looking at the world like a teenager, not even a particularly sharp teenager. If the regulation doesn't apply to them, the correct way of handling it is to go to the state and ta...
[17:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Wikipedia is done, move on - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:29:59] <exec> 08└─First off, game designers are designing it. if anyone understands what players can do to the best thought out rule systems.... Second they admit the problem up front. They also realize that simply changing the faction in control is no solution. Read their design documents, they have some good ideas...
[17:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Too Many Things Lurking Below the Surface - 06Piracy on the Open Sea? - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:24] <exec> 08└─Since the Chinese were clearly in the wrong in causing the accident and detained the crew instead of simply offering the assistance due any plane calling an emergency they should have been punished in some way instead of a joint statement that "allowed both countries to save face while defusing a po...
[17:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score:2) 02Re:Need Moar Grid - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:30:53] <exec> 08└─Sure, the continuum fallacy is a thing. So what?
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[18:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02His medical career did not get off to a - 06 Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of life-saving maneuver Feb. 3, 1920 – Dec. 13, 2016 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:43] <exec> 08└─promising start. As later re-enacted here [youtube.com]
[18:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Another crackpot - 06 Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of life-saving maneuver Feb. 3, 1920 – Dec. 13, 2016 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:46] <exec> 08└─Every person who comes up with something useful for the medical field recently rejects the mainstream as fools. Just look at Heimlich, Mullis, Damadian, etc. Yet, the army of null hypothesis testing researchers parroting textbooks marches on, wasting tens of billions each year.
[18:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I think I've found obituaries.com - 06 Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of life-saving maneuver Feb. 3, 1920 – Dec. 13, 2016 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:25:48] <exec> 08└─This has been what, 3? 4? this week..
[18:26:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fucked, I say - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:00] <exec> 08└─Have you noticed that voters in red states often elect a Democratic governor, and voters in blue states often elect a Republican? I think it's because voters in red states want to ensure a certain level of services in their state, that the environment does not get trashed, laws aren't set up to disc...
[18:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:21] <exec> 08└─The only time i haven't voted was one time i didn't vote early and was sick as a dog on election day: i thought "well, whoever is elected can't be that bad". Then the NDP got elected into Ontario (Canada). I'd go to work everyday and have maybe a 6 pack of beer for the weekend. The welfare people ac...
[18:26:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:more left buttcheekhurt - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1098 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:26] <exec> 08└─Wow, dumbass - reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it? I've never heard of the woman. Just maybe I saw one of her books somewhere, and didn't take note of it, but I didn't know who she was. I went exploring, to see who she was. She is very much centered on race relations, and somewhat c...
[18:26:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:29] <exec> 08└─However, I do have a problem with anyone calling her novels "science fiction".
[18:26:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:31] <exec> 08└─All of us need to get together to Make Science Fiction Great Again! You think you're being sarcastic, but that's exactly what the puppies (sad and rabid) are all about.
[18:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02File under - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:34] <exec> 08└─#unpresidentedlooser
[18:26:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Weak - 06‘Operation Tarpit’ Targets Customers of Online Attack-for-Hire Services - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:46] <exec> 08└─You may be right, but attempts to stop unauthorized drug sales and prostitution by going after the suppliers haven't worked out that well either.
[18:27:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:27:16] <exec> 08└─That was my point, too. I was going to add this implied point...but I could not be bothered. This phd is a load shite trying to make itself significant. Honestly hope there is more to the study than this (there probably is, but can't be bothered finding out) or the uni its from is shite too...
[18:28:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Uber execs have been smoking something funny - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:53] <exec> 08└─If the regulation doesn't apply to them, the correct way of handling it is to go to the state and talk with them about that or take it to court.
[18:29:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uber and Amazon are wiping out entire industrie - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:29:05] <exec> 08└─We've got better things to do.
[18:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:When will petroleum subsidies subside? - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:04] <exec> 08└─Current success rates for small startup ventures on a buyout track seem to be hovering around 5%. The numbers I have gotten back from multiple VCs are something like 1/20 success worth an IPO, 1/10 struggling small business at breakeven, and the remainder flamed out within 1-5 years. This is with $5...
[18:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:When will petroleum subsidies subside? - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:31:05] <exec> 08└─Ok, so what happens again to that success rate when you have a big dinosaur buying out any start ups that get too big? Answer: it goes up. It's not the greatest model for people making a career and raising a family.
[18:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02free for ... all? - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 2193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:10] <exec> 08└─"When it comes to renewable energy investment, emerging markets have taken the lead over the 35 member nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD), spending $154.1 billion in 2015 compared with $153.7 billion by those wealthier countries, BNEF said. " "emerging markets"...
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[19:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trivial solution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:27] <exec> 08└─Any ideas on how hard it would be to filter out seizure-inducing media (make it click-to-view/play)?
[19:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Trivial solution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:28] <exec> 08└─Yup, that'd work... but what I was wondering is can we make a plugin that loads all sorts of non-seizure-inducing contents but has "click-to-play" over seizure inducing contents? So something a little more tailored to the problem than just blocking all images and videos. Also because it's hard to te...
[19:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Trivial solution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:31] <exec> 08└─While we're at it, could we make a plugin that filters out things on the internet made by dumb people? And by any incarnation of Ethanol-Fueled? And by people who are wrong [xkcd.com]? And SPAM - can all of that be filtered? And also anything that might harm my precious little snowflake psyche or...
[19:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Maybe - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:33] <exec> 08└─Maybe he shouldn't allow the downloading of images or running of gifs (and scripts), given that this isn't the first time he's been a victim of this. "Fool me once... shame on me... fool me twice... errr... err.... you can't fool me twice"
[19:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:35] <exec> 08└─Well... on the one hand yes, on the other: it'd kind of break his normal usage of the web. So that's specifically what I was wondering about: can we design a plugin that would block seizure-inducing media, but not other media? Then you could make the "click-to-play" image a big fat warning "seizure...
[19:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Maybe - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:37] <exec> 08└─I suppose something that checks contrast between frames would catch some. Short videos could be much harder to check than GIFs.
[19:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Serial_Priest [2493] (Score:2) 02Ban assault GIFs - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:39] <exec> 08└─We must make the Internet a safe space for all. This process begins with banning all animated GIFs. Hateful images that have colors and motion must not be allowed in our schools and homes. Once the GIFs are removed, we must also shut down YouTube and Google Images. Stop the hate! SHUT IT DOWN!
[19:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Another crackpot - 06 Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of life-saving maneuver Feb. 3, 1920 – Dec. 13, 2016 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:50] <exec> 08└─Then why, precisely, are you an absolute bootynude devoid of all that makes a man's tingle?
[19:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:I think I've found obituaries.com - 06 Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of life-saving maneuver Feb. 3, 1920 – Dec. 13, 2016 - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─... old folks keep on dying in record numbers.
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I think I've found obituaries.com - 06 Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of life-saving maneuver Feb. 3, 1920 – Dec. 13, 2016 - 2211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:55] <exec> 08└─Documented -- more people die around the holidays than at other times of year -- From http://www.cnn.com [cnn.com] Article includes several theories including, Phillips and his team looked at the number of deaths among the Alzheimer's population, th...
[19:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:I think I've found obituaries.com - 06 Dr. Henry J. Heimlich, inventor of life-saving maneuver Feb. 3, 1920 – Dec. 13, 2016 - 1021 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:37:57] <exec> 08└─A couple thoughts: (1) Obituaries for well-known people are a traditional "news" item, not only to memorialize their deaths but -- perhaps more importantly -- to serve as an excuse to remember what they did, including facts and historical events we might not otherwise be interested in thinking about...
[19:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Fucked, I say - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:11] <exec> 08└─The issue there isn't the state workers, the issue there is that the politicians keep going out of their way to damage labor's negotiating power. Allowing plutocrats to keep their spoils is a large part of the problem. Back when tax rates went to above 70% for the top tier income earners there was l...
[19:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Fucked, I say - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:13] <exec> 08└─Government workers are not the highest paid in the country. I am a government worker and most of us make less than our private sector counterparts do. And by a considerable margin. I'm making less than half what I would be making in the private sector. I'm not sure where people get the idea that w...
[19:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02useless. - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:19] <exec> 08└─i think everything that makes more money but isn't something you can touch is just a system to prob (as fast as possible) as what people might consider valuable. make money with stocks? naw, make a hedge fund instead. both create nothing of value. we could have a economy with nothing but apples. we...
[19:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:2) 02So... - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:21] <exec> 08└─This is somewhat like Kaggle competitions but for financial data?
[19:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is old is new again... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:32] <exec> 08└─The best we can hope for is that the many differently filtered versions we have together contain enough data to reconstruct the original events to a satisfying degree,
[19:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:42] <exec> 08└─Never say never, my friend. I was sick for this election day, but I did make it. Had the election been about three days later, I would have missed it when they hauled my butt to the hospital. Close call on that one. But, like you, I don't intend to miss an election for any reason less than a genuine...
[19:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:45] <exec> 08└─Call me all the names you like, but there is a problem with the voting system when "about a hundred million Americans" do not believe it is worth their time to vote. The last time I voted, I left most of the ballot blank because I refuse to vote for candidates that I do not like. I periodically cont...
[19:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02vote anyway - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:47] <exec> 08└─Do you roll over and play dead when someone wrongs you? What do you do when you discover someone broke into your car and stole a few things? Maybe report it to the police, file a claim with insurance? Or do you do nothing because there's no chance your items will be recovered, so what's the point? Y...
[19:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score:2) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:50] <exec> 08└─agreed. Though I'm sort of waiting to see how Trump's picks work out. On the face of it I no longer trust the media as there is simply no objective analysis, just loads of opinion re-enforced by constant bickering. I must say I was impressed by his State pick - though curious why he didn't go to Ene...
[19:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:52] <exec> 08└─The Democrats have a history of ignoring what the common people want and a lot of the support the GOP gets comes from people that are voting against the arrogance and elitism of the Democratic party.
[19:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not Even Remotely True - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:54] <exec> 08└─But let's not forget the opposing party (the one whose candidate LOST), was *caught* red-handed trying (and succeeding) to derail Bernie's populist support, by cheating.
[19:38:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cirque du soleil - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:38:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe she could lay to rest the Butt-Hurt Left's suspicions that she wrote about Trump.
[19:39:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 1184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:01] <exec> 08└─She may be a good author; I have no idea, since I haven't read her books. However, I do have a problem with anyone calling her novels "science fiction". The SJW-dominated SFWA awarded the book mentioned in TFA, "Parable of the Talents" a Nebula award. As far as I can see, this is just more proof tha...
[19:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:39:05] <exec> 08└─> You think you're being sarcastic, but that's exactly what the puppies (sad and rabid) are all about. And their stories are overwhelming flat and unimaginative. And when they think they are being clever it completely backfires. [dailydot.com] Dull, ignorant and selfishly angry. That's sums up both...
[19:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Butler not the only science fiction writer ever - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:09] <exec> 08└─If you're going to discuss science fiction predictions there are plenty out there. A particularly relevant one is Ayn Rand. Supposedly, there are a fair number of Trump appointees and Trump himself who have read Rand and publicly admitted it. Certainly, the Obama administration tried hard to be a pr...
[19:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:and in the US.... - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:22] <exec> 08└─What's this "+" you are doing?
[19:40:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:and in the US.... - 06Yahoo Hack: Many UK Internet Accounts Are Also Really Yahoo Users - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:40:24] <exec> 08└─+Fravia and +ORC are two of the big people in the reverse engineering scene. The '+' signifies that they are members of the +HCU: one of the best reverse engineers on the planet.
[19:42:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wikipedia is done, move on - 06Wikimedia Foundation Raises Over $50 Million in 2016 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:42:37] <exec> 08└─onion address can haz?
[19:44:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02can i have that newspaper? - 06KickassTorrents Resurrected the Day After MPAA Boss Takes Credit for Taking the Site Down - 1468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:14] <exec> 08└─"I am feeling more optimistic, but the pirates are getting more sophisticated. Technology not only is increasing our opportunity for more people to consume our content, but technology is also making it possible for people to steal our content, and it is not insignificant" "consume" content? WTF? aft...
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[20:37:24] <exec> 08└─All embedded animated GIFs are seizure-inducing.
[20:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Trivial solution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:26] <exec> 08└─Yup, that'd work... but what I was wondering is can we make a plugin that loads all sorts of non-seizure-inducing contents but has "click-to-play" over seizure inducing contents?
[20:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score:2) 02Re:Download Time is the Limiting Factor - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:32] <exec> 08└─There's no need to download everything. Could just check the buffer and stop playing or turn on a filter (e.g a "deflicker"/average filter- like the deinterlace stuff) if something seems like it might cause a problem. Most video streams get buffered anyway. Maybe someone could create such a plugin....
[20:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:34] <exec> 08└─Simple enough. Induce photosensitive epilepsy in AIMonitor AI's reaction to imagesWonder why Skynet wants to kill us all???PROFIT!
[20:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ban assault GIFs - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:37] <exec> 08└─> We must make the Internet a safe space for all. This process begins with banning all animated GIFs. No. None of that over-reaction is required. Instead charge the guy who sent it with assault or whatever the equivalent charge would be for deliberately shining a strobe-light in the face of someone...
[20:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score:2) 02Re:Ban assault GIFs - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:39] <exec> 08└─That's a great idea. Let's start by arresting and charging everyone who has blinkin' lights on the their cars. They KNOW that someone with epilepsy might be around.
[20:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ban assault GIFs - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:42] <exec> 08└─> Let's start by arresting and charging everyone who has blinkin' lights on the their cars. Hhm. That's an idea. Which lights are you referring to? You do know that photosensitive epileptics are only sensitive to a specific frequency range of blinking, right? I don't think strobe lights are legal o...
[20:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ban assault GIFs - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:44] <exec> 08└─whatever the equivalent charge would be for deliberately shining a strobe-light in the face of someone you know has epilepsy in meatspace.
[20:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02Re:Ban assault GIFs - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:46] <exec> 08└─You sound triggered.
[20:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:1, Offtopic) 02Hate - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:48] <exec> 08└─America is once again learning how to hate. Thank you Donald. With our new government and it's backing by our hate groups, the KKK and neo-nazis, this will continue and escalate. The Orange One seems reluctant to tone down his hateful following. This transition is going to be something else.
[20:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hate - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:50] <exec> 08└─With our new government and it's backing by our hate groups, the KKK and neo-nazis, this will continue and escalate.
[20:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trumparabia - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:52] <exec> 08└─> Did you happen to vote for the candidate who was financially backed by Saudi Arabia by any chance? I'm pretty sure he didn't vote for trump: Trump registered eight companies in Saudi Arabia during campaign [thehill.com]
[20:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Obligatory image link - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not linking to the offending image
[20:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory image link - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:56] <exec> 08└─Had to click the first link again to unsee the second one.
[20:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory image link - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:37:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, so did I. Wow, to imagine I was able to avoid it all these years, to the point where it became more legend than anything else, only to be done in now, long after the meme ceased to be mainstream.
[20:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Right - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:01] <exec> 08└─#1 cause of seizure in epileptics is: NOT TAKING YOUR MEDS.
[20:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Plutonomy at work - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:28] <exec> 08└─You should read about Plutonomy [wikipedia.org], it describes the current estate of the world, as well as how the plutocrats play the game: getting goverments to colaborate in making the rest even more irrelevant that currently. The sad thing is they must believe they can live outside of the world a...
[20:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Fucked, I say - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:31] <exec> 08└─We are EVER so fucked, if we don't implement a Tobin Tax into the EU financial system as soon as the UK obstacle has finally buggered off.
[20:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:useless. - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:38:38] <exec> 08└─we can, however, make nothing from stocks.
[20:38:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02So an alarmist...? - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:50] <exec> 08└─"make America great again." The comparisons to Donald Trump are obvious, but Canavan says the character was actually inspired by Ronald Reagan.
[20:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:00] <exec> 08└─...You have the right to remain silent - use it. Doing so will help to hide the fact that you're an idiot.
[20:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:more left buttcheekhurt - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:10] <exec> 08└─> can't see that she's obviously a SJW.
[20:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:more left buttcheekhurt - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:13] <exec> 08└─Anyone who uses the term "SJW" disqualifies themselves from the discussion.
[20:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 2189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:19] <exec> 08└─It meets the classic/original criteria for science fiction that I learned of long ago as a teenage SF fan: fiction that takes place in the future or an alternate present, with the story at least partly anchored in speculation of what life might be like under different scientifically plausible circum...
[20:39:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:21] <exec> 08└─Absolutely fair point - well said
[20:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:23] <exec> 08└─Its funny how you give him the benefit of the doubt when his own words make it clear he neither deserves it nor wants it.
[20:39:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't require a prophet to read the news - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 2197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:39:26] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to respond to the random rhetoric about an agenda here, just to note that I'd happily mod you informative for the link to info on the slogan if you hadn't sullied it with BS. Just precisely what from the "quick glance at her bio" supposedly tells us "all ya need to know"? Anyhow, what...
[20:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02The Actual Study Method - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 1903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:19] <exec> 08└─The summary doesn't make clear what this study ACTUALLY did, nor do the claims made by the researchers exactly follow from their method. Since I actually clicked on the link (I know, I know...), let me briefly say what the study DID show. -- They fed groups of lab mice three diets: (1) plain food, (...
[20:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trust and guarantees - 06Overstock Begins Trading Some of its Shares Via a Bitcoin-Like Blockchain - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:40:30] <exec> 08└─What guarantees does being traded on the NASDAQ get you?
[20:41:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:translate from Japanese - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:41:29] <exec> 08└─For really short phrases out of context, that's true. Otherwise...not. You don't get the actual connotations included in the original message, but you get the same basic meanings. This isn't invariably true, of course. I can't imagine a translation of Finnegan's Wake (James Joyce) even into Dutch, G...
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[21:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:Ban assault GIFs - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:41] <exec> 08└─That's a great idea. Let's start by arresting and charging everyone who has blinkin' lights on the their cars. They KNOW that someone with epilepsy might be around.
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:Hate - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:48] <exec> 08└─No
[21:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You act like America didn't before? - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:50] <exec> 08└─You act like America didn't before? There has been racism among minority groups since forever. And the sad part of the focus on 'white privilege' is that it has often resulted in the ignoring of just as serious of racism among non-white groups. Whether it is Indian on black, Asian on Asian, Mexican...
[21:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory image link - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:37:55] <exec> 08└─From the tweetstorm it sounded like someone sent a custom message, but now we see that it is a lazy copy and paste job. Maybe that will prove useful to the defense.
[21:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Modern hypnotic flashing shit - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:58] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to hear if the sender actually gets in to any kind of trouble. Quite unlikely though. It seems like visual products and the media in general are increasingly becoming inconsiderate to epileptics. Most advertisements on TV or even the internet (if you are dumb enough to browse...
[21:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Modern hypnotic flashing shit - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:00] <exec> 08└─I've seen some fairly extreme bright flashing digital billboards that made it hard to focus on my driving even though I'm not epileptic.
[21:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Half the Story, as usual - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:02] <exec> 08└─Nobody mentioned WHY Eichenwald is getting harrassed online. He's a standard Liberal journalist who has thrown away even the slightest pretense of objectivity this election. He shows up on Fox claiming he has documents that prove President Trump is a drug abuser. He has proof, but even though he hat...
[21:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Half the Story, as usual - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:04] <exec> 08└─Nobody mentioned WHY Eichenwald is getting harrassed online.
[21:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Half the Story, as usual - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 1593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:07] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Eichenwald [wikipedia.org] In 2005, Eichenwald wrote a group of articles about online child pornography. One of those articles was about Justin Berry, a then-18-year-old who was selling pornographic images and videos of himself both as a minor and as an adult, cre...
[21:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Half the Story, as usual - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:09] <exec> 08└─So in other words, he's playing the exact same game as Trump. Makes wild accusations with no proof, and demands people take his word for it. However, Trump actively promoted violence by rallying the "second amendment people" to do something about Hillary should he lose the election. Which was the bi...
[21:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Fucked, I say - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:40] <exec> 08└─Well, I thought there was a problem that the collective decisions of short term speculators could sometimes cause large fluctuations in the stock market (even though statistically you'd think their actions would even out). This was not a problem in the 1990s because high-frequency trading didn't exi...
[21:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:1) 02Re:useless. - 067,500 Faceless Coders Paid in Bitcoin Built a Hedge Fund's Brain - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:38:47] <exec> 08└─You could make money with stock cubes. You can make bouillon from them, so you wouldn't starve. You might want apples as well though otherwise your diet gets much too salty.
[21:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:09] <exec> 08└─Do you support early voting? If you had genuinely missed it due to your hospital visit, would you support early voting?
[21:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:10] <exec> 08└─The people across the street were made to work for their welfare (workfare):
[21:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:19] <exec> 08└─And on that note, Amazon just released "The Man in the High Tower" season 2...
[21:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:39:33] <exec> 08└─There's that pejorative term "SJW" again, bandied gaily about. It automatically disqualifies you from the discussion. Have a nice day!
[21:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1) 02You need a leader ? You are a sheep - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:39] <exec> 08└─You need a leader ? You are a sheep and deserve one.
[21:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03garrulus [6051] (Score:1) 02"Scifi" was hijacked by a bunch of SJW's years ago - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:41] <exec> 08└─Hail Victory.
[21:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Make America Grate Again - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:43] <exec> 08└─"Ey wallah" as we say in The Valley, pull my finger!
[21:39:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Everyone is pretty much wrong on this one - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:45] <exec> 08└─Everybody thinks it is "Make America Great Again" but that isn't the real slogan at all. The real slogan is "Make America Grate Again". Somehow over the course of time the slogan was changed, either on purpose or by accident. In any case, Trump is bringing the original meaning back to the catchphras...
[21:40:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Slow cookers are miracle machines - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:36] <exec> 08└─Seriously, get a crockpot and start making lots of homemade soups and stews in it. The prep work is the ONLY real work that goes into it, and that's mostly just chopping some veggies. Meat can go in frozen. You can even make Indian food (dhal mostly) in it! I've got two jobs and don't cook as often...
[21:42:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Uber and Amazon are wiping out entire industrie - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:22] <exec> 08└─OP asserted that Uber and Amazon were removing "thousands and even millions of jobs". If that's right it's a good thing. It's inevitable that's what will happen eventually, when it happens is anyone's guess. Uber may be a shockingly good deal for someone who wrote up, yet strangely other companies d...
[21:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Uber and Amazon are wiping out entire industrie - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:24] <exec> 08└─Teaching. Learning. Climbing mountains. Life is too short to do something that you don't have to do.
[21:42:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:comparisons - 06Prenda Law "Copyright Trolls" Finally Getting Their Comeuppance - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:42:49] <exec> 08└─Eh...legislators are a lot like American beer in that regard I suppose =P
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[22:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Meta Moderation - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:18] <exec> 08└─Its a good first pass. But its going to get gamed by trolls and hyper partisans. Sooner or later they are going to need a meta-moderation function.
[22:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A little too late - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:19] <exec> 08└─Since Facebook is being acquired by the Chinese Internet giant Baidu, according to reliable sources.
[22:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score:2) 02IoT Attack Cannons? - 06Researchers Find Fresh Fodder for IoT Attack Cannons - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:27] <exec> 08└─I want one.
[22:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Trivial solution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:38] <exec> 08└─Filtering SN user comments should be trivial, in fact, I'm pretty sure somebody's already developed a greasemonkey extension or something to do it. Also, a joke: What do you do when an epileptic falls into a swimming pool? Throw in some detergent and your dirty laundry! Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
[22:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Trivial solution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:41] <exec> 08└─Not true, sometimes they give you a stroke.
[22:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just In Time - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:49] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty good idea. "Just in time" detection seems a lot more do-able. As for the question of what specific sequences, I think it probably depends on the patient. It wouldn't be hard to optionally detect a variety of patterns.
[22:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Download Time is the Limiting Factor - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:37:51] <exec> 08└─I was thinking there could be a problem with DRM. We have those on non-Flash web vids, right?
[22:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02assault GIF definition - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:01] <exec> 08└─Is this ban going to be based on looks? Will the assault GIF manufacturers be able to make trivial cosmetic changes to avoid the ban?
[22:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You act like America didn't before? - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:08] <exec> 08└─> just as serious of racism among non-white groups. Define "serious." Because racism without power is, by definition, powerless.
[22:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You act like America didn't before? - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:10] <exec> 08└─What is "power"? If someone is being beaten to death by a bunch of racist people who belong to another race, does it make any difference to that individual whether their racism is institutional or not? In such a situation, the racist group has "power". When you look at everything in terms of groups...
[22:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hate - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:13] <exec> 08└─Donald? Try The O.. HE is the one that split this country in 2 and brought back hate. Idiot.
[22:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02So? - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:20] <exec> 08└─> #1 cause of seizure in epileptics is: NOT TAKING YOUR MEDS. So? You aren't saying the #1 cause is the only cause, right? So what are you saying?
[22:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Right - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:22] <exec> 08└─Not all forms of epilepsy respond to drugs, some don't respond at all. I don't know who is the bigger idiot: you or whoever modded you insightful.
[22:38:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Half the Story, as usual - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:38:30] <exec> 08└─So I understand why some people are upset. That isn't an excuse for someone to attempt to cause him personal injury.
[22:39:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:elephants... - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:40] <exec> 08└─I voted. Did you? Then we did what we could as part of the process I did. However I almost did not. Lets face it both candidates were very 'meh'. At best I could vote against the other guy. The actual majority of voters spoke. They were the largest group. They basically said 'meh whatever' and didn'...
[22:39:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] 02Re:author of visionary science fiction novels - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 2189 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:51] <exec> 08└─It meets the classic/original criteria for science fiction that I learned of long ago as a teenage SF fan: fiction that takes place in the future or an alternate present, with the story at least partly anchored in speculation of what life might be like under different scientifically plausible circum...
[22:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:File under - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:39:58] <exec> 08└─#unpresidentedlooser
[22:40:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Everyone is pretty much wrong on this one - 06Sci-Fi Tried to Warn Us About Leaders Who Want to ‘Make America Great Again’ - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:06] <exec> 08└─*YOU* got trolled (again). He did that to make sure people talk about him. He does it all the time. You fall for it every time too. I now go on to predict he will do it again. He will keep doing it while it works.
[22:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:52] <exec> 08└─It does sorta make sense however. If all I was able to get to eat was brussell sprouts [nedmartin.org], I'd willingly starve myself to death.
[22:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:53] <exec> 08└─This is right up there with studies indicating that people that buy organic produce are foolish because such products are more expensive and the produce is not healthier. No one is buying organic because they think they will get extra health out of it. Less pesticides perhaps, but not because it has...
[22:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:High fructose corn syrup - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:40:58] <exec> 08└─This right here. However also in the 70/80s everyone went through that 'low fat' diet thing. Turns out no fat = crap taste. Guess how they got the flavor back? Sugar, ascorbic acid, and salt. Sugar comes in about a dozen different forms. HFCS is the cheapest one currently to add. It is amazing the n...
[22:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uber and Amazon are wiping out entire industrie - 06Uber Won't Comply With the California DMV's Demand to Obtain a Permit for "Self-Driving Cars" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:42:47] <exec> 08└─Uber succeeds in the UK, in London especially, because of how shockingly bad the taxi trade is.
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[23:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Meta Moderation - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:24] <exec> 08└─Who meta-moderates the meta-moderators?
[23:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02No need. - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:25] <exec> 08└─No need. Since meta-moderation would be handed out randomly, rather than self-selecting the way moderation is.
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:29] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't it be simply a lot easier to assume that any and all story on that media is false? The gullibility of people eating up stories is simply amazing. Like there is no reality show like farcebooks reality. It is a propaganda tool of large scale. And, with all propaganda, you need to assume it t...
[23:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Reverse assumptions - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:31] <exec> 08└─> Wouldn't it be simply a lot easier to assume that any and all story on that media is false? Easier? Yes. More useful? No. With so many people on facebook the idea that everybody should just ignore anything on facebook is tech-hermit elitism at best and nonsensical at worst.
[23:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:0, Flamebait) 02Fake news ? You mean Fox news ? - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:33] <exec> 08└─Fake news ? You mean Fox news ? Generation stupid.
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Oh look... - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:35] <exec> 08└─Poynter is financed by George Soros' baby the Open Society Foundation, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Google, and the National Endowment for Democracy. I can't wait for the news to come out about this when it is implemented.
[23:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score:1) 02way ahead of facebook - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:37] <exec> 08└─Marginalize TwitFace. Friends have been moving to Discord because of SJWs on TwitFace banning their accounts. TwitFace doesn't even look at the pictures before banning. Most of these are women and some are even “real” women. SJWs don't care. All assigned males who like the looks of a cosplayer a...
[23:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FlatPepsi [3546] (Score:1) 02As Bruce Schneier says... - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:39] <exec> 08└─"if you ask amateurs to act as front-line security personnel, you shouldn't be surprised when you get amateur security." (1) You're asking the masses to screen news articles, I would expect low-quality, inconsistent results. Depending on the day of the week, you may see CNN (correctly) marked as a f...
[23:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:As Bruce Schneier says... - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:42] <exec> 08└─You're asking the masses to screen news articles, I would expect low-quality, inconsistent results
[23:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:As Bruce Schneier says... - 06Facebook Details Plan to Marginalize Fake News - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:37:44] <exec> 08└─Most of the plan does not involve using the masses. I assume that Facebook wants to match a steady stream of fact checking from Snopes, Poytner, or whatever makes the whitelist, with the incoming articles. Using machine learning to figure out which news feed items should have an appended link to a r...
[23:38:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03BK [4868] 02Re:Trivial solution - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 329 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:01] <exec> 08└─While we're at it, could we make a plugin that filters out things on the internet made by dumb people? And by any incarnation of Ethanol-Fueled? And by people who are wrong [xkcd.com]? And SPAM - can all of that be filtered? And also anything that might harm my precious little snowflake psyche or...
[23:38:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Download Time is the Limiting Factor - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:13] <exec> 08└─I think the intersection of video with DRM and video that induces epilepsy is near zero because if the video is valuable enough to put DRM on it, chances are the owner's got deep enough pockets to sue for causing a seizure.
[23:38:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You act like America didn't before? - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:31] <exec> 08└─> When you look at everything in terms of groups and identity politics, it's easy to miss the plights of individuals. Did you just try to argue that racism is only a problem for individuals? Really? Lol.
[23:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You act like America didn't before? - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:32] <exec> 08└─Why does this pendulum always swing from one form of idiocy to another?
[23:38:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02Re:Half the Story, as usual - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:44] <exec> 08└─Nobody mentioned WHY Eichenwald is getting harrassed online.
[23:38:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02Re:Half the Story, as usual - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:38:47] <exec> 08└─So I understand why some people are upset. That isn't an excuse for someone to attempt to cause him personal injury.
[23:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Maybe something render-side - 06Epilepsy Patient Assaulted Via Twitter - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:50] <exec> 08└─Would it be possible at the the video/animated gif rendering level to identify *any* animation matching an epileptogenic profile based on analysis of a short sequence of frames in the buffer, and 'defang' it? Maybe slow it down, black it out, gray it out, block it? This way it could degrade the cont...
[23:41:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:wow... - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:10] <exec> 08└─but if you eat a styrofoam wafer dipped in watered-down milk gravy
[23:41:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Slow cookers are miracle machines - 06Good-Tasting Food Does Not Cause Weight Gain - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:41:21] <exec> 08└─Somehow it warms you inside and out.
[23:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:translate from Japanese - 06Google's AI Revolution From From Theory to Practice in Less Than 10 Years. - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:42:30] <exec> 08└─"our" "we"
[23:45:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:When will petroleum subsidies subside? - 06World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind - 2887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:45:14] <exec> 08└─I've participated in ~ a half dozen "ground floor opportunities" over the last 25 years. If you enter the situation with $100K+ to invest, no need to draw salary, sure, it's a 20:1 longshot at making maybe a 50x return on your investment money... but, understand that you'll likely also be working to...
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