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[00:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:19] <exec> 08└─But I would caution against anyone signing up to be what amounts to a human guinea pig for this research, by buying products online or at stores like GNC that purported to enable this diet. Usually, what works best is something close to the diet humans were accustomed to in the millenia before the i...
[00:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02yah mann - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:27] <exec> 08└─I come here for the comments.
[00:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02cum on feel my men - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:29] <exec> 08└─I cum here for mah niggas.
[00:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cum on suck yer nuts - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:31] <exec> 08└─I suck the sacks of albino niggers and let them jizz on my face.
[00:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:33] <exec> 08└─in Vanguard index funds is undeniably boring.
[00:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:35] <exec> 08└─What assets? The subminimum wage you get from greeting at walmart because mcd automated your job? The pittance you get from gigging for uber? Sure everyone can get lucrative jobs at google and facebook right? Because a tech degree is so very valuable when there are more workers than jobs to fill. I...
[00:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:37] <exec> 08└─Google and Facebook are not the only employers of techies in the USA. If I was unemployed with no good leads, I might consider applying for a software engineer job at Amazon. Yes, it's a sweatshop and most people get worked to death. So what, you don't have to work there forever. Spend two years and...
[00:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:39] <exec> 08└─Fuck me, I just knew I should have written "google and facebook and amazon" because some stupid dick would mention amazon. They're all tech giants, moron. Why should the "employers of techies in the USA" be the giant corporations or nothing, idiot? Half the country works for Brawndo!!! It's coming t...
[00:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just $1 billion? - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:42] <exec> 08└─Bernie Madoff ran an even bigger scam just eight years ago that makes that look like small potatoes.
[00:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Why do Ponzi schemes still exist 100 years on??? - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:44] <exec> 08└─Seriously, finance experts know early on the scammers' returns seem too good to be true - and as the saying goes, that's because it is. How hard can it be to investigate them before the everybody lose their shirts?
[00:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duh - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:37:56] <exec> 08└─Don't think we are using the same definition of runaway? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] A runaway greenhouse effect is a process in which a net positive feedback between surface temperature and atmospheric opacity increases the strength of the green...
[00:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:DIE!!! - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:20] <exec> 08└─All sorts of electronic crap can die quickly for a variety of reasons. Was it covered under a warranty? Do you have more than one anecdote (failing OLED display) to share?
[00:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:44] <exec> 08└─I don't get Vocaloid. Music aside, it just sounds like you're listening to Alvin and the Chipmunks, like those god-awful "Alvin and the Chipmunks sing the latest pop songs" from the late 80's.
[00:38:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:38:46] <exec> 08└─It's more that this perpetuates some really counterproductive ideas about, oh, half the human race.
[00:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Re:So ... - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:05] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the extra links. I might just get one of these :) The cost is about what I would spend anyway on parts, and this one already has the software and animation programming done.
[00:39:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Helpful definitions - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:39:10] <exec> 08└─It's the person. Here's the rest: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.urbandictionary.com [urbandictionary.com]
[00:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:You reap what you sow - 06Professor Watchlist - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:06] <exec> 08└─Yay, babies first misapplication of a logical fallacy. You win the prize. The prize is smug condescension. An ad hominenem, you dimwitted vagrant, is to deduce, from the qualitative or quantitative nature of the person making an argument, the factual validity of that argument. You utterly childish b...
[00:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:You reap what you sow - 06Professor Watchlist - 1550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:09] <exec> 08└─You're right, inasmuch as I was putting you into a box that I should have known didn't really describe you based on what you said. On the other hand, you're sneering disdain for non-STEM teachers was... pretty much out of left field and I still feel like everything I said about you came from a fair...
[00:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:You reap what you sow - 06Professor Watchlist - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:40:11] <exec> 08└─The problem is, the left is claiming that xx% of scientists are left wing, democrat, blah blah blah - and then they want to rewrite the definitions of science. Of course those scientists who are getting grants from the US/UN/UK/other sources are going to speak out in favor of global warming theories...
[00:41:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02It doesn't matter - 06Ask Soylent: Which Iconograpy Represents 'Save' in the Modern World? - 426 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:41:30] <exec> 08└─The icon is a "save" icon, and even though I'm old enough to not only know floppies, but even to know 5.25" floppies, when I see the icon, I don't think "floppy", I think "save". That's the meaning of the icon, and there's no more problem than there is with an icon showing a man and a woman telling...
[00:45:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Same old show. - 06Bitcoin Is Being Monitored by an Increasingly Wary U.S. Government - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:45:27] <exec> 08└─Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest - circa 1800 Men will never be safe until the last terrorist is killed with the drone bought using his own bitcoins - now Newsflash, we will also have peace if we let one totalitarianism prevail worldwide. N...
[00:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:slow - 06Elon Musk Wants to be Boring - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:47:32] <exec> 08└─A large part of it comes from the soil monitoring that goes on. You have to constantly measure the soil going out with the progress of the machine so that sinkholes don't develop. There's also huge amounts of pressure to begin with and over the course of the route, you can't deviate by more than a f...
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[01:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:32] <exec> 08└─You sure this research is ok? They talk like a commercial: "The lipid droplets aren't skinny-dipping in the cells, though. They are coated by proteins." I would take a closer look before declaring it ok.
[01:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:34] <exec> 08└─Usually, what works best is something close to the diet humans were accustomed to in the millenia before the industrial revolution, sedentary lifestyles, climate-controlled homes, etc.
[01:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:36] <exec> 08└─Even during the industrial revolution people got a lot more physical activity because most labor was manual. It's only been in the last century that we've shifted towards thought-labor. In general we'd all benefit from feeling full and eating less, but anything that would help today is good.
[01:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:38] <exec> 08└─The doctor said I flunked both a blood sugar and a cholesterol test. I had a "prediabetic condition". Were I to continue to drink regular Coca-Cola, I'd have to inject insulin along with it. The Mayo Clinic Diabetic Diet says that the key to avoiding adult diabetes is weight loss; to do this I cut m...
[01:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02albino niggers - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:50] <exec> 08└─I heard albino niggers shoot out black jizz when they cum is it true.
[01:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:37:56] <exec> 08└─Half the country works for Brawndo!!! It's coming true!!!!!
[01:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Why do Ponzi schemes still exist 100 years on?? - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:00] <exec> 08└─> How hard can it be to investigate them before the everybody lose their shirts? It takes cash to do investigations. And the SEC has been deliberately starved of funding by wallstreet's lackeys in congress.
[01:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Why do Ponzi schemes still exist 100 years on?? - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:02] <exec> 08└─Not always, somebody conned my uncle out of quite a bit of money and the returns he was promising were completely reasonable. It's just that he was embezzling the money. Cases like this start with at least some belief that they can do it, but over time they have to choose between coming clean and ad...
[01:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02HOWTO Earn Bucks With A Hedge Fund - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 1533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:04] <exec> 08└─the guy I used to work for used to own a computer store in Vienna until he hired some guy to write the following program. When we met ten years later he has $200,000,000.00. You need decades of stock or commodity prices. At first he only had opening, closing, high and low. My work for him enables hi...
[01:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HOWTO Earn Bucks With A Hedge Fund - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:06] <exec> 08└─Gee, as a minimum, why not tell this story on video, post to YouTube with a few ads and make some pocket change (from the ads).
[01:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is how skepticism works - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:16] <exec> 08└─""Skepticism" as practiced by climate change "skeptics" would ask you to throw away every piece of an established theory because one element of it should be refined." I must say that's a bit of a strawman. On the alternative the believers have been changing theories of 'how' constantly for centuries...
[01:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02why methane is a far worse greenhouse gas than CO2 - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 1425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:24] <exec> 08└─every gas is a greenhouse gas, but some are more effective than others. Even water vapor is a greenhouse gas but when it gets to be too abundant, it rains. It is therefor self-limiting. Even the abundant argon in our atmosphere is a greenhouse gas, but a very poor one. Oxygen and nitrogen store more...
[01:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03dbe [1422] (Score:2) 02Re:All OLED are AMOLED - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:38:44] <exec> 08└─Yes old laptop may have non-active LCD, they do suffer from content bleeding usually (a line content will affect a column of the screen or the reverse). This is because there is no gate mechanism to turn on/off the switch to update the capacitor that changes the liquid crystal orientation. I'm sure...
[01:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:39:13] <exec> 08└─Our brains can distinguish between a simulation and a real person.
[01:39:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Creepy? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:39:29] <exec> 08└─How far from "strong AI"? Probably about 15 years. But that's won't be available on anything an end-user could afford (except, possibly, over the internet). If you mean how long until local strong AI, that depends on hardware advances. I think we can be pretty sure that super-computers will be able...
[01:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Too many overwrite, remember the last fsync drama - 06Ask Soylent: Which Iconograpy Represents 'Save' in the Modern World? - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:42:10] <exec> 08└─The "write new data stream, drop old data and swap names" is not what seems to be done by many coders. How do I know? Any fucked program that tries to save, fails for whatever reason (disk quota, process crash, hw powerdown)... and now you have no valid data at all, new or old. The filesystem may no...
[01:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:A third source - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:14] <exec> 08└─Probably. After Obama went and said this: http://www.usatoday.com they might be a bit more prone to conspiracy theories than before however.
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[02:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02I bet there are several that will "work" - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:54] <exec> 08└─The human metabolic pathways are complex, interwoven, and actually not too hard to tweak. Genetically disabling a pathway or two by switching off certain proteins' production would seem to be a relatively quick and easy way to diminish the efficiency of metabolism. The odds of doing this without unw...
[02:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:11] <exec> 08└─Until the day that Vanguard pulls this. What? A recognized name like Vanguard, or Wells Fargo committing large scale fraud? Yup.
[02:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:Why do Ponzi schemes still exist 100 years on?? - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:17] <exec> 08└─How hard can it be to investigate them before the everybody lose their shirts?
[02:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is how skepticism works - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:38:28] <exec> 08└─It's a long way to go to say that No One in call caps, is really holding the position I'm accusing them of. To talk of strawmen, "Your scientifically informed position about the relative costs of externalities of fossil fuels and the moral implications thereof is identical to a doomsday cult" is pro...
[02:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I once gave myself a Staph infection - 06Researchers Combat Antimicrobial Resistance Using Smartphones - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:46] <exec> 08└─the medicine I used to take - Depakote - made me itch like a motherfucker. I'd create scabs by scratching so much. Eventually these became infected. I thought I had skin cancer all over both my legs, as a sore that never seems to heal is often skin cancer. The sores were incredibly painful. I showed...
[02:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:DIE!!! - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:39:03] <exec> 08└─My AMOLED Samsung is 3 years old and has zero "burn-in" and "wearout". Your phone must be crap.
[02:39:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02crazy things for crazy people - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:54] <exec> 08└─where's mine?
[02:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02the perfect opportunity for this morning's inventi - 06Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies on Him for Documentary Video - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:40:13] <exec> 08└─-on. You can melt some kinds of high explosives in a saucepan on the kitchen stove. Using a real narrow funnel, fill the hollow spaces of your phone with TNT or the like. Modern phones don't have much hollow space, likely you'd only blow the theif's hand off.
[02:41:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:You reap what you sow - 06Professor Watchlist - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:01] <exec> 08└─Come on man, I linked my Pew study way back at the beginning. There's no definition fiddlyness at all. Research scientists are left leaning. In every field.
[02:41:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Next time tell them: - 06Stingray Use Could be Unconstitutional, House Report Finds - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:34] <exec> 08└─'Because I don't let thugs inside, whether they are flying a flag, or wearing a badge.'
[02:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02private parties and isolated incidents - 06Stingray Use Could be Unconstitutional, House Report Finds - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:37] <exec> 08└─here's the killer smartphone app: Every cop carries a cell phone these days. Combine that with the Maps application - there are APIs for that - and you know what parts of your community permit you to exceed the speed limit or knock over liquor stores.
[02:41:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I was going to suggest... - 06Cuba Announces Home Internet Trial Scheme in Havana - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:41:48] <exec> 08└─Warning them of the perils of non-private society... then I thought 'they are communists, they probably already know what it is like, and privacy be damned.' So we will see.
[02:44:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Tor + BitTorrent + WiFi Spots - 06South Carolina to Debate Pre-Installed Porn Filter on New Computers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:03] <exec> 08└─$ du -s Videos/ 101782504 Videos/
[02:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:A third source - 06Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot Dead - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:47] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that was just dumb. Hopefully Putin will remain patient and will just wait for the nonsense to leave office.
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[03:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Drones - 06Government Gives Green Light to French Drone Delivery Service - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:47] <exec> 08└─Watch out for Chinese Pirates.
[03:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:37:58] <exec> 08└─I need to get an HTC Vive.
[03:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:01] <exec> 08└─Fat doesn't spike your blood sugar. You would have done better to keep the meat and cut the bread.
[03:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:03] <exec> 08└─Which would do no favours for his cholesterol.
[03:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:HOWTO Earn Bucks With A Hedge Fund - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:28] <exec> 08└─Parent is a good example of the appeal of hedge funds and other out-of-the-mainstream investment vehicles. You have people like Bernie Madoff, or these Platinum people who can tell a good story - almost everyone is investing their money by the books, but I've discovered something really interesting...
[03:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And this is how skepticism works - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:39] <exec> 08└─Your scientifically informed position about the relative costs of externalities of fossil fuels and the moral implications thereof is identical to a doomsday cult.
[03:38:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02why methane is a far worse greenhouse gas than CO2 - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 1425 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:46] <exec> 08└─every gas is a greenhouse gas, but some are more effective than others. Even water vapor is a greenhouse gas but when it gets to be too abundant, it rains. It is therefor self-limiting. Even the abundant argon in our atmosphere is a greenhouse gas, but a very poor one. Oxygen and nitrogen store more...
[03:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02contrary observation in Russia - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:48] <exec> 08└─In the past few years, craters have been appearing in Siberia. Air sampled from the bottom of one in 2014 contained "up to 9.6%" methane (http://www.nature.com/news/mysterious-siberian-crater-attributed-to-methane-1.15649 [nature.com]).
[03:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02God shitting on the planet? - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:38:50] <exec> 08└─Because after all if his creations are doing it, so should He? :)
[03:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Speaking as a man: - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:39] <exec> 08└─There are a *LOT* of fucked up women out there. And not all of them *DON'T LIKE* being fucked up. I was a virgin well into my 20s in part waiting for the right girl (hint: didn't find her). A few of the girls back then were kink sceners (who stopped talking to me when I made jokes about 'it's not li...
[03:39:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The sad part... - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:39:58] <exec> 08└─Is that it is far easier to buy yourself a friend than it is to acquire one through social interaction for many people. (I did not use the term 'make a friend', because in this context, that would be building your own robot to house your Waifu's personality.) Society in many parts of the world is no...
[03:40:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wherever you post... - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:40:12] <exec> 08└─The MDC crowdfunding initiative to ensure MDC dies childless, but not alone? :)
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[04:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Marvels of quackery - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:29] <exec> 08└─One wonders at the sheer levels of experimentation that the Chinese must have undertaken and the untold lives that must have been lost to find all of the cures and treatments attributed to ancient Chinese herbal medicines. I suspect most are little better than placebo, allowing people to get better...
[04:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:48] <exec> 08└─The AC seems to have skipped huge swathes of human history. Before the industrial revolution most people were still agrarian. You have to go back considerably farther to get to a point where any significant portion of the human population was hunter-gatherers - essentially to the very beginning of c...
[04:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:49] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I know how to create a diet to control gene expression. If I did, I would stop being a sexually worthless loser behind a computer screen and begin a career as a supermodel.
[04:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:52] <exec> 08└─But I would caution against anyone signing up to be what amounts to a human guinea pig
[04:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 1757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:37:54] <exec> 08└─Well, good news. There's a process to limit the ethical risks for treatments of exactly this sort. Clinical trials are run in stages. First is proof of concept in vitro tests, wherein the underlying mechanisms are developed and understood and the most basic risks are assessed: what can this do to hu...
[04:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:why methane is a far worse greenhouse gas than - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 1595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:38:40] <exec> 08└─Umm, not quite. Heat capacity (specific heat) is an independent concept from greenhouse gases - in fact, (all else being equal) increasing the specific heat of the atmosphere would actually cool down the atmosphere, since the same amount of heat would be stored at a lower temperature. What makes som...
[04:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:DIE!!! - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:10] <exec> 08└─"Just as bad as CRT" is hardly as damning as you seem to think. A good CRT has *vastly* superior contrast and color fidelity compared to a LCD display. Yes, burn in is a problem, but that what screen savers are for. LCD screens have exactly three advantages over CRTs: larger sizes(at low depth/weigh...
[04:39:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Speaking as a man: - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 920 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:33] <exec> 08└─And so the untapped market swells. It is tempting to argue that millennials are uniquely fucked up and becoming more so (the "post-millennials"). More screen time from an early age, deep integration with "social" media, easy enablement of subcultures and radicalization (depending on how you define t...
[04:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 1256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:38] <exec> 08└─The actual Vocaloid software has improved over time. Some of the remaining weirdness is probably related to the electronic style or use of auto-tuning. Or in the case of Japanese, more higher pitched squeakiness. I just looked on YouTube for a Vocaloid song and found this English one [youtube.com]....
[04:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Creepy? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:39:57] <exec> 08└─A hybrot [wikipedia.org] has got to be the best shortcut to local strong AI [soylentnews.org]. Of course, any such advance will be bitterly opposed by the U.S. government. If they treated encryption like a munition, they'll treat local strong AI like an atomic bomb.
[04:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wouldn't need this if men could marry girls - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:10] <exec> 08└─Deuteornomy 22, 28-29 hebrew. Man+ girl (child) is fine. Ofcourse we live in a woman's world and have for the last century+
[04:40:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:You reap what you sow - 06Professor Watchlist - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:40:49] <exec> 08└─I said this before here only and I will say it again - we need to divorce the words "liberal" and "left", and marry the words "conservative" and "power". Whoever is in power is conservative and gets the right to question other people's character, intention and to pass judgement without needing to pr...
[04:41:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score:2) 02Re:You reap what you sow - 06Professor Watchlist - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:41:15] <exec> 08└─I have two things to add here :- science begets multiculturalism and anti-establishment, and republicans are puritanical pro-christian anti-immigrant. And this has been so for so long that scientists have become democrat leaning. The use of word 'left' to describe liberal is an age old tactic of pol...
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[04:41:24] <exec> 08└─Uh huh sure buddy. You really are in some little universe to yourself. I don't doubt that it does happen, just like you shouldn't doubt that the same thing happens with private industry scientists. Except that the private industry scientists are under an even bigger "bread and butter" conflict of in...
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[05:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Structured vs. unstructured - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:39] <exec> 08└─I usually think of early risers as being better at structured work, and late risers being better at unstructured work. Early risers know what they want to do and they want to get going right away. Late risers don't want to repeat what has gone on before, but they need to do more thinking before they...
[05:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score:2) 02Re:Marvels of quackery - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 1282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:37:47] <exec> 08└─One wonders at the sheer levels of experimentation that Western physicians must have undertaken and the untold lives that must have been lost to find all the cures and treatments attributed to ancient Western herbal medicines. There is a lot of occidental pre-scientific medicine too, you know, and s...
[05:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score:1) 02What happens to the "diagnostics" videos - 06Government Gives Green Light to French Drone Delivery Service - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:56] <exec> 08└─I have little doubt the drones' video inputs are recorded. Who will get to see these, besides the tlas and nosy operators?
[05:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:12] <exec> 08└─And at no stage do they make a prediction more precise than A is positively correlated with B- How strange.
[05:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:17] <exec> 08└─All very well MDC, but then we learn 1) diet soda is worse for you than sugar soda and probably causes obesity [time.com] 2) Fat in the diet does not lead to fat in the blood stream [osu.edu] 3) Vegetable fats are no better for you than animal fats [redorbit.com] Had we followed all the proscription...
[05:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:19] <exec> 08└─A couple books I've been reading: Diet: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] Exercise and diet: https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[05:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:36] <exec> 08└─If I was unemployed with no good leads, I might consider applying for a software engineer job at Amazon Tried it. Went nowhere.
[05:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is how skepticism works - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:38:56] <exec> 08└─My worldview prior to today included permafrost-methane acceleration as part of climate models,
[05:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DIE!!! - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:39:39] <exec> 08└─Me too, the AMOLED display on my Samsung Moment (SPH M900) from circa late 2009/early 2010 looks fine.
[05:40:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:18] <exec> 08└─"Pedo-bait"? Filthy normie spotted. The kinds of people who are solely attracted to anime characters are not interested in real people--children included--at all. Everyone different from you is "creepy". That's why filthy normies are regarded with contempt; it's certainly not unearned.
[05:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:19] <exec> 08└─"Filthy normie?" I guarantee you I shower more often than you do, just on the strength of those two words.
[05:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surprise - 06Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies on Him for Documentary Video - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:40:52] <exec> 08└─You might be the derp for blindly believing that. Stolen when the camera was off? Well maybe I guess. *You* will never know for sure. Go put on your derp hat.
[05:42:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Could be my ass - 06Stingray Use Could be Unconstitutional, House Report Finds - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:42:16] <exec> 08└─Everything our gov does these days is unconstitutional. And I'm fairly certain our new Orange haired freak show will be doing all sorts of unconstitutional shit in the months ahead.
[05:44:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Unconstitutional nonsense - 06South Carolina to Debate Pre-Installed Porn Filter on New Computers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:44:15] <exec> 08└─That would make him a hypocrite. No one has ever heard of a republican being a hypocrite before. This can't be right.
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[06:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Structured vs. unstructured - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:37:24] <exec> 08└─Early risers know what they want to do and they want to get going right away.
[06:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score:2) 02Why? - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:26] <exec> 08└─Because morning people are intensely annoying to the rest of us! "I jog four miles each morning before work!"
[06:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And this is how skepticism works - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:38:42] <exec> 08└─One swallow does not a summer make. I'd wait for confirmation.
[06:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But - 06Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies on Him for Documentary Video - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:40:39] <exec> 08└─Monolingual, I am acquainted with, however pathetic it may be. But "monoligual"? Just one "ligual"? What the hell is a ligual? Now typically we would give the benefit of the doubt, a typo, a mistake. But this is the anti-baby bastard Runaway1944! He does not make mistakes! I truly believe that he o...
[06:45:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Mosque? - 069 Killed by Truck in Berlin and 3 Wounded in Zurich Shooting - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:45:17] <exec> 08└─Negation is a harsh mistress.
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[07:37:23] <exec> 08└─Sell their identities to dating apps!
[07:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:38:10] <exec> 08└─I've gone from 252 to 236 in three months, this with the occasional binging of ice cream.
[07:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:40:07] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't be so sure about that: [wikipedia.org] "After day 600, the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction. During this period females ceased to reproduce. Their male counterparts withdrew completely, never engaging in courtship or fighting. They ate, drank, slept...
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[07:43:59] <exec> 08└─How long a cable do you have on that DVD drive?
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[08:37:25] <exec> 08└─Can we all agree this is Kardashian-level drivel?
[08:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jive Brother - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:26] <exec> 08└─Jarvis to be voiced by Morgan Freeman [usatoday.com]
[08:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02cue trolls - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:28] <exec> 08└─Jew hires Black butler
[08:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Structured vs. unstructured - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:37:43] <exec> 08└─Somewhere lost in the sands of time having morning people and evening people was a benefit to the cave-tribe. Now us later-day folks are shoehorned into modern daytime life. It is outright discrimination against us, no doubt. Why must every pre-college school, every government office, every court, a...
[08:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score:2) 02Re:What happens to the "diagnostics" videos - 06Government Gives Green Light to French Drone Delivery Service - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:02] <exec> 08└─Why can't they be openly available?
[08:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:43] <exec> 08└─I already pack away more than half of what I earn. Sounds like you need to adjust your lifestyle so that you are actually saving money instead of complaining on SN.
[08:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:38:44] <exec> 08└─Would that work for someone making $10.10/hr? They can go eat cake, I guess.
[08:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:And this is how skepticism works - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:39:05] <exec> 08└─"Your scientifically informed position about the relative costs of externalities of fossil fuels and the moral implications thereof is identical to a doomsday cult"
[08:41:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02Re:English? - 06Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies on Him for Documentary Video - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:41:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpN9NzO4Mo8 [youtube.com] English subtitles for those of us who are monoligual.
[08:41:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 022nd movie - 06Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies on Him for Documentary Video - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:41:08] <exec> 08└─too bad the thief didn't install cerberus and then returned it to the police "lost-and-found".
[08:42:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02big *sigh* - 06Stingray Use Could be Unconstitutional, House Report Finds - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:42:30] <exec> 08└─finally some good news. afterall the robots running the mobile phone networks obey the 3 robotic laws and couldn't complain. but they sure feel better having been confirmed as the sole trustworthy caretakers of all all the data, like present phone location, last phone-2-network connection negotiatio...
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[09:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Make it go away - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:24] <exec> 08└─Alas, if he gets anything like Jarvis, most on here will be jealous (while still hating/loving/envying/whatever the man) "Geek drivel"?
[09:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Make it go away - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:25] <exec> 08└─It looks like drivel, but it also disgusts us that the vermin are taking our money without creating value, without working, without even looking busy. Jews cover each other and actually printed the money they have. None of us are allowed to print money and get rich as a result. We can use tree leave...
[09:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Make it go away - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:28] <exec> 08└─No, it's a planetary-scale threat. For now, Zuck gets Morganslavebot to control useless IoT devices and T-shit cannons in his home. In time, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Samsung upgrade their AI assistant services to better track smartphone users, gathering in real-time the data needed t...
[09:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cue the JIDF - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:32] <exec> 08└─You can bet JIDF agents are reading this and adding messages, voting as real users. There are many entrenched zionists on this forum and they often make me feel ill.
[09:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wweeeeeeeh - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:34] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwhlV2o5tlI [youtube.com]
[09:37:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wweeeeeeeh - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:36] <exec> 08└─Funny Cats Compilation, 10 HOURS Epic Funny Cats ! BIGGEST Cats Fails Compilation in the World 2017
[09:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wweeeeeeeh - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:38] <exec> 08└─No, you meant to say "Fuck JewTube". I agree with the sentiment. Jewtube removes content, and actively stops search results from showing things they don't want you to see. Facefuck goes further by actively providing no value whatsoever. Completely content-free. They are all part of the same network,...
[09:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Zuckerberg is indeed a visionary - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:40] <exec> 08└─and his visions are dystopian.
[09:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02I dislike Jews - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:42] <exec> 08└─(((Mark Zuckerberg))) is a visionary.
[09:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Re:I dislike Jews - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:37:44] <exec> 08└─He is out to destroy us. Not even that dramatic: he's just here to make money.
[09:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02The world's fifth richest man - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:47] <exec> 08└─Did anyone else read that as "the world's filthy richest man"?
[09:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02stop zuck - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:49] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=17077&cid=443954#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] Kill Morganslavebot before it attains sapience, using your own personal AI.
[09:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Outside of cubicle world... - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 1042 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:38:05] <exec> 08└─It is STILL useful to have both morning and evening people. Much of the retail jobs in america rely heavily on 'evening people' for handling the restocking, backend functions and other details of the store when the customers are away. Similiarly for convenience stores and gas stations and other all-...
[09:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02And yet we ignore the chronotype - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:07] <exec> 08└─The chronotype is a factor not only for work structure and performance, but also for learning. The typical adolescent is a nightowl and yet we force them to attend school early in the morning. For all you teachers out there who have to try educate 15...19 year old at 08:30, I feel your pain.
[09:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The French logic - 06Government Gives Green Light to French Drone Delivery Service - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:38:25] <exec> 08└─They are busy outlawing cars from roads (where they were meant to be driven), where pedestrians could navigate safely around cars and not get hit. With drones, the pedestrians will not navigate or dodge anything. The drone will find them and chop off their head. Strange French logic.
[09:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:08] <exec> 08└─Would that work for someone making $10.10/hr?
[09:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Why do Ponzi schemes still exist 100 years on?? - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:15] <exec> 08└─Why do Ponzi schemes still exist 100 years on???
[09:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:contrary observation in Russia - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:39:42] <exec> 08└─In the past few years, craters have been appearing in Siberia.
[09:40:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:All OLED are AMOLED - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:40:06] <exec> 08└─Yes, to be fair, the laptops I am talking about are over 20 years old.
[09:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score:2) 02Re:DIE!!! - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:40:14] <exec> 08└─Yes, burn in is a problem, but that what screen savers are for.
[09:42:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:You reap what you sow - 06Professor Watchlist - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:42:32] <exec> 08└─Really, what is the point of your post? But seeing your general post history I'd wager your pro-industry and against government funded research. The problem is industry has a financial motive for research to have favorable outcomes for their products / activities.
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[10:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jarvis, launch drones - 06New Technology Coordinates Drones in Team Missions - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:29] <exec> 08└─Kill Zuck.
[10:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Structured vs. unstructured - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:08] <exec> 08└─Why must every pre-college school, every government office, every court, and every decent job all require waking up in the damn dark?
[10:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Structured vs. unstructured - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:10] <exec> 08└─"sending them to Gbay" What is Gbay? An online site where you sell off your excess early risers? Or, did you mean Gay Bay? Or, Gitmo - shorthand for Guantanamo Bay?
[10:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:38:47] <exec> 08└─The lifestyle of most people in such pre-industrial agrarian societies was however very far from sedentary, especially when compared to people of today.
[10:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score:2) 02business... - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:39:00] <exec> 08└─Think the beauty of it: - eat as much as you like - don't get fat - basically, shit out 95% or what you eat! Can you see the boatload of PROFIT for food companies? But, wait, less profit for the gym/sports business, if you cut the eat-exercise paradigm...
[10:39:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02Re:why methane is a far worse greenhouse gas than - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 1595 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:39:51] <exec> 08└─Umm, not quite. Heat capacity (specific heat) is an independent concept from greenhouse gases - in fact, (all else being equal) increasing the specific heat of the atmosphere would actually cool down the atmosphere, since the same amount of heat would be stored at a lower temperature. What makes som...
[10:40:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02Re:DIE!!! - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 616 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:40:25] <exec> 08└─"Just as bad as CRT" is hardly as damning as you seem to think. A good CRT has *vastly* superior contrast and color fidelity compared to a LCD display. Yes, burn in is a problem, but that what screen savers are for. LCD screens have exactly three advantages over CRTs: larger sizes(at low depth/weigh...
[10:40:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:40:57] <exec> 08└─Even then, that would apply to the VR world only.
[10:40:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:40:58] <exec> 08└─I think Miku and Luka are what, 16 and 17 respectively?
[10:41:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:11] <exec> 08└─You shower more than once every day? That seems quite excessive, if so. Maybe you sweat a lot, or work somewhere where you frequently get dirty?
[10:41:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:But - 06Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies on Him for Documentary Video - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:41:51] <exec> 08└─You truly have nothing better to do with your time, Aristarchus?
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[11:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score:2) 02Re:contrary observation in Russia - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:40:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx1Jxk6kjbQ [youtube.com] And she's not some nobody who doesn't know what she's talking about. She actually did research on the topic for a living.
[11:41:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Speaking as a man: - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:00] <exec> 08└─The Berniebros thing was just fake news in the media.
[11:41:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Helpful definitions - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:41:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe they're anime-obsessed and many are young, but who is to say they are necessarily lonely? Not everyone enjoys much social contact. Many people are introverted, and some are extremely introverted. Introverts are not necessarily lonely; they just have different interests than extroverts.
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[12:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02another IT Guy jailed - 06Bank IT Exec Jailed After Pleading Guilty to Taking Bribes from Vendor - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:38] <exec> 08└─Society hates IT for good reason. Those elitist bastards thought they were all high and mighty back when computers cost $10,000 each. Now we know the truth! The truth is computers are worth $40 each. Toss those lying charlatans in jail where they all belong.
[12:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02MACHINES OF HATE, EXIST TO INFILTRATE!11 - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 1369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:01] <exec> 08└─First, how will you regulate the strong AI? It's like making credit card fraud or terrorism illegal. Never stopped anyone serious about it. Second, you assume that the entities you describe are competent. They are not. 30 minutes after an "Adam Kadmon/Godhead" level AI has emerged, the fuckers in co...
[12:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02How to know if he succeeded - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:14] <exec> 08└─We will know that Zuckerberg succeeded to build an artificial intelligence when Jarvis stops taking commands from him and starts to attack Facebook.
[12:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How to know if he succeeded - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:38:15] <exec> 08└─Jarvis accepts a handful of voice commands and stores a few preferences. Weak. (Zucker hates Nickelback. Burn the heretic!!)
[12:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Geez, what a crappy article - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:17] <exec> 08└─Geez, what kind of article is this? I'm not much of a fan of Zuckerberg either, but this is just silly. He's not personally curing polio, but he's given enough money to charity to satisfy most people. Meanwhile, he's a nerd, he likes to do nerdy things. News at 11:00. The criticisms are just nutty....
[12:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Why do Ponzi schemes still exist 100 years on?? - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:39:51] <exec> 08└─Also, the SEC is thoroughly corrupt. If an SEC officer gets close to having enough to bring criminal charges against any of the big players, then the company in question will offer them a really cushy do-nothing job as a means of stopping the investigation. They routinely rub elbows with the very pe...
[12:41:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:$2700 - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:14] <exec> 08└─> I suspect a lot of "Cloud AI" bullshit in the next decade or two will be uncovered to just be mechanical turk equivalents. This will work just fine until the wage slave driving some rich person's 'robotic' concubine / chef / gardener uses their access to the rich person's physical home environment...
[12:41:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Speaking as a man: - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:41:23] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that if half the population is doing it then by definition it's not fucked up, about it's normal. Now I'm really interested to know what you define as "Kinky", "pervy" and "fucked up".
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[13:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Field application for the TSP - 06New Technology Coordinates Drones in Team Missions - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:03] <exec> 08└─Sort of a travelling salesman problem, but with fixed wing aircraft in a small space. Sooner or later the UAVs won't need a ground crew to launch, recover and service them... that will make for a much more interesting algorithm to cover a given target space.
[13:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Zuckerberg is indeed a visionary - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:23] <exec> 08└─Sorry, tongue-in-cheek doesn't always come through well on the Internet. I actually think he's the opposite. Everything he does is weak and derivative. The one who built Facebook, whose name escapes me at the moment, did the heavy lifting and gifted it to Zuckerberg. It's like he was intentionally t...
[13:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Geez, what a crappy article - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:32] <exec> 08└─Zoidberg is a fictional character in the television series Futurama. He is a Decapodian, a lobster-esque alien who works as the staff doctor for Planet Express, despite his poor understanding of human physiology and allusions to his questionable credentials
[13:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:And yet we ignore the chronotype - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 2899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:38:54] <exec> 08└─LOL my son is well into his second class of the day by 8:30. Probably this drops my latitude doxs, that around this time of year the sun is only up from 8 till 4, and the little elementary kids are at school from 8:30 to 3:30 which gives some time for the buses before and after. Why do little kids t...
[13:39:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:39:30] <exec> 08└─there is no way in hell I would be a human guinea pig.
[13:40:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:contrary observation in Russia - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:40:38] <exec> 08└─yeah. this is the sort of thing where I can't do anything about it (except for things that I'm already doing), so it's just frightening.
[13:41:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:$2700 - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:41:30] <exec> 08└─There's a classic solution to that where life is cheap, you apply a large odd number of slaves to the job, and like the space shuttle computers do, you play games with averaging outputs and silly XOR games. One dude can drive one semi truck thru a holiday plaza, happens all the time in euro-land and...
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[14:38:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jonathan [3950] (Score:1) 02That's his goal. Not yours. - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:32] <exec> 08└─I don't see what the problem is here. If I had a huge corporation and the freedom to pursue anything I wanted I'd do what I want to do. Clearly, he decided to do something inspired by the Iron Man movies believing he's able to do it. How many here have seen some sort of tech done in the movies and w...
[14:38:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02I cannot find a better example. - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:34] <exec> 08└─An act PRO DOMO SUA. Data collecting billionaire wires his home to feed data to an AI, so that wired homes become acceptable.
[14:40:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02HOWTO Earn Bucks With A Hedge Fund - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 1533 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:08] <exec> 08└─the guy I used to work for used to own a computer store in Vienna until he hired some guy to write the following program. When we met ten years later he has $200,000,000.00. You need decades of stock or commodity prices. At first he only had opening, closing, high and low. My work for him enables hi...
[14:43:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:You reap what you sow - 06Professor Watchlist - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:43:15] <exec> 08└─Obviously neo nazis still exist and I don't think anyone would contest that. The problem most people have is when people are labelled as nazi when they obviously aren't, or when the evidence is not enough to clearly determine it. Calling someone a nazi is a heavy allegation, it should not be thrown...
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[15:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:another IT Guy jailed - 06Bank IT Exec Jailed After Pleading Guilty to Taking Bribes from Vendor - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:21] <exec> 08└─Trump will fix this.
[15:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So it's a felony to receive a bribe - 06Bank IT Exec Jailed After Pleading Guilty to Taking Bribes from Vendor - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:23] <exec> 08└─But not to pay the bribe?
[15:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Big Minds, Small Ideas - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:47:44] <exec> 08└─Guess what task the goal-driven nerd billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, the world's fifth richest man, set himself this year. Solving the Kashmir crisis? Eradicating polio? Choosing and solving one of the problems in the Millennium Prize?
[15:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The apologias are just nutty - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:01] <exec> 08└─The criticisms are just nutty. Zuckerberg installed security cameras at his door - guess what, so do lots of people.
[15:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jonathan [3950] (Score:1) 02That's his goal. Not yours. - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:03] <exec> 08└─I don't see what the problem is here. If I had a huge corporation and the freedom to pursue anything I wanted I'd do what I want to do. Clearly, he decided to do something inspired by the Iron Man movies believing he's able to do it. How many here have seen some sort of tech done in the movies and w...
[15:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:That's his goal. Not yours. - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:05] <exec> 08└─> Because it's Zuckerberg, it's a waste of time better spent on polio? Because its one of the largest concentrations of wealth in the world, its a waste of resources better spent on polio. > If this was done by some unknown guy in his basement, we'd be all amazed by his ability to do that. Yes, beca...
[15:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02I cannot find a better example. - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:07] <exec> 08└─An act PRO DOMO SUA. Data collecting billionaire wires his home to feed data to an AI, so that wired homes become acceptable.
[15:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Outside of cubicle world... - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:48:24] <exec> 08└─I thought those jobs were just for teenagers living out of their mom's basement you piece of shit. Everybody knows that teenagers sleep in because they're lazy shits who need a good beating. I can't stand this made up politically correct crap about circuitwhatsa rhythms. Bunch of leftist hogwash.
[15:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stay awake for 18 hours - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:31] <exec> 08└─Participants were required to stay awake for 18 hours, from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., and adhere to their normal routine.
[15:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ancient Chinese Secret, huh? - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:41] <exec> 08└─n/t
[15:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:49:10] <exec> 08└─Other than, no, that's total bullshit due to the first stage of research that establish mechanisms, you're still full of shit because interventionary experiments establish causation in a way purely observational experiments don't.
[15:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:God shitting on the planet? - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:50:22] <exec> 08└─When the bible says God made the humans out of mud, then "mud" might just be an euphemism. ;-)
[15:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:51:47] <exec> 08└─The Fermi "paradox" has lots of answers (here's one of mine) [soylentnews.org], but no one seems to realize that the Drake equation is missing its most important variable--we don't know what it takes for life to start to begin with. Since we can still not create it, its happening by accident is like...
[15:52:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Passed between "refugees" and gypsies - 06Student Lets Thief Steal His Phone, Spies on Him for Documentary Video - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:27] <exec> 08└─At least they can could deport the Egyptian. And what was he doing in France, that's far enough not to be a casual trip.
[15:53:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:You reap what you sow - 06Professor Watchlist - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:53:02] <exec> 08└─Obviously neo nazis still exist and I don't think anyone would contest that. The problem most people have is when people are labelled as nazi when they obviously aren't, or when the evidence is not enough to clearly determine it. Calling someone a nazi is a heavy allegation, it should not be thrown...
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[16:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:06] <exec> 08└─A time machine. Whenever there is something to be done with a deadline, just take as much time as you need, and then use the time machine to have the finished work available when you need it. Hey, nowhere did you say it has to be realistic tech!
[16:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:47:08] <exec> 08└─As long as the PHB didn't know about the time machine. Otherwise, the PHB would make even crazier demands and would still expect you make it by a certain deadline even if it takes years of work.
[16:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02handless input - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:10] <exec> 08└─The gloves sound good. But I'd like more. What about a skullcap that can read brainwaves to figure out what key you want to press, or where you want to touch the screen? Doesn't have to be a skullcap, maybe such a thing could be built into smart glasses or a headset. Any place on the body where sign...
[16:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score:2) 02Note: Transform does not equal improve: - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:12] <exec> 08└─Transformative change is sometimes good, but not always. It would be hard for me to think up a workable and economical piece of tech to improve my work life. I can easily think of simple and cheap pieces of tech that would transform it into a living hell.
[16:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Clippy - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:14] <exec> 08└─Too bad it was discontinued by MS.
[16:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Programming language used? - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:16] <exec> 08└─So, which programming language did he use? PHP and JS?
[16:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:2) 02Editing fail? - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:18] <exec> 08└─Millennium problem link is invalid. Proper url: http://www.claymath.org [claymath.org] Please crusade responsibly.
[16:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:41] <exec> 08└─Now, that? That's an advantage to being a morning person. I respect people who exercise regularly, it's good for their bodies and their brains. I resent people who resent people who exercise.
[16:48:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score:2) 02Re:Marvels of quackery - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 1490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:48:53] <exec> 08└─Absinthe works pretty well, too. It has been inappropriately maligned. The alcohol can make a problem worse, but so does much of anything not taken in moderation. The focus on thujone has lead to ignoring other benefits the wormwood plant has had to offer, but the thujone fascination is only a more...
[16:49:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:29] <exec> 08└─1) diet soda is worse for you than sugar soda and probably causes obesity
[16:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:31] <exec> 08└─Aspertame has been the subject of quite a few health studies that show mixed results of it causing obesity, cancer, and even possibly still diabetes. Some of those studies actually come from places somewhat more trustworthy than Mercola's website. I'm not saying they're true or not; I wouldn't know....
[16:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:49:35] <exec> 08└─I'd recommend learning to love iced tea. It's available practically everywhere, and I gotta imagine even the crappy stuff they call tea that comes out of the soda machine is probably still better than the alternative so long as it's unsweetened. I still drink a Coke maybe once/twice a month, but I c...
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[17:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 1263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:46:59] <exec> 08└─There has to be an awesome sci fi story in this. Boss wants flunky to deliver a crucial one month peek in the future for an upcoming big contract negotiation. The negotiation flops because boss didn't take into account that his aggressive tactics would cause the negotiation to fail. Obviously, the p...
[17:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:00] <exec> 08└─Man, I hope you enjoy aging at 2-10x the rate of your spouse.
[17:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:handless input - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:03] <exec> 08└─That is AWESOME, or EVEN BETTER: A machine that can be taught exactly what you would have done had you been there and that can carry out that job without you! Genius! PS: The solution to automation is not to turn people into mindless robots...
[17:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clippy - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:07] <exec> 08└─I want Links back. She was my only friend. :(
[17:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Clippy - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:10] <exec> 08└─Clippy: It looks like you're trying to get useful work done. Would you like me to help you install Windows 10 ? To install Windows 10 do any of the following: 1. Click Yes 2. Click No 3. Click Cancel 4. Click the X in the window title bar 5. Pull the computer's power cord from the electrical outlet...
[17:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Clue Bat - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:12] <exec> 08└─The baton which imbues your "therapy patient" with at least temporary good sense. Use on boss. Repeat if his boss balks at the sudden outbreak of common sense. Underlings also good candidates. Apply to self before all major life decisions. Profit!
[17:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Clue Bat - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:14] <exec> 08└─But would it "reduce financial stress and improve emotional wellbeing" ? I say, Yes, it would.
[17:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Shopping list on my watch - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:16] <exec> 08└─I actually had a similar idea to the story. Having my shopping list on a smart watch (Pebble in my case) is a big improvement because you can push the cart and pick up items without having to hold your list. Scrolling through the list and checking off items is convenient enough with a relatively sho...
[17:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Iron Man suit - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:18] <exec> 08└─One of the better Iron Man suits with the Jarvis AI. The later models got crappier (some of the earlier models could survive shots by tanks and not get quickly destroyed by Thor but other models had problems getting hit by a truck or merely Captain America)
[17:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Naive - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:20] <exec> 08└─From the article: It is an example of how tech-enhanced humans are fighting back against the seemingly unstoppable rise of the robots.
[17:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Real bread and virtual circuses - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah. There is also a limit to increasing productivity/output that's linked to our natural resources. From the supply end, our earth is finite, there's just so much "real" stuff you can make from its resources. Our population also can't keep growing if we stay on Earth. So on the demand side there w...
[17:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Naive - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:25] <exec> 08└─Its exceedingly rare that a human is completely replaced by a robot doing the exact same work.
[17:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02weight/density sensor - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 811 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:27] <exec> 08└─The monitor that tells you that your posture isn't good for lifting? Screw that. How about a monitor that says, "Hey stupid, that thing is simply to heavy for one (or two) people to lift alone! Get a forklift!" In the course of a lifetime, I've attempted to lift or move a number of things that were...
[17:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Duct tape and a BFH... - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:29] <exec> 08└─What the duct tape can't fix, the Big F*@%ing Hammer will.
[17:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Duct tape and a BFH... - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:47:31] <exec> 08└─How can you forget WD-40?
[17:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Teleportation - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:33] <exec> 08└─I'm tired of traffic, tired of car repairs, and otherwise just plan tired of all things related to transportation. No more getting sat in the aisle seat beside the restroom on the plane. No need for an entire STS program to let me go visit the moon. And practically roll out of bed and be at work. Gi...
[17:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Web GUI's - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 1748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:35] <exec> 08└─Need a better HTTP-friendly GUI standard. The GUI idioms that we settled on around the early 1990's are perfectly fine, familiar, and road tested. Yet the HTML/CSS/JS stacks are a big friggen mess. It turned what SHOULD be simple into rocket science, in large part because they don't work consistentl...
[17:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not real time savings - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:37] <exec> 08└─reckons it adds up to 4,000 work minutes, or 66 hours, a day.
[17:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Programming language used? - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:48:42] <exec> 08└─Neither of those are programming languages.
[17:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Structured vs. unstructured - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:49:04] <exec> 08└─The early bird finds the worm!
[17:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02I used to be a morning person - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:11] <exec> 08└─Then I worked 2nd and 3rd shift for 5 years. Now I usually go to sleep at 6AM and rise around 3PM.
[17:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:DIE!!! - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:51:35] <exec> 08└─You missed at least one obvious advantage of LCDs over CRTs. CRTs produce X-rays and are built with thick lead glass to block it: a significant environmental hazard which is simply not present in any other display technology.
[17:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:private parties and isolated incidents - 06Stingray Use Could be Unconstitutional, House Report Finds - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:54:29] <exec> 08└─Yep. All you need to do is be able to isolate which phones belong to the cops. You've got that data, do you? And yeah, it is likely possible using a Stringray to correlate the data - there's the cop car, there's the signal from that bearing/it is reporting these GPS coords, so we have the phone numb...
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[18:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Sigh. - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:57] <exec> 08└─Possibly the worst proof-read summary I've ever seen, even if it is a quote.
[18:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sigh. - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:46:58] <exec> 08└─The warlords also stole the sense-checker.
[18:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:00] <exec> 08└─I am working on a more in-depth UN story which I will write myself -- using the same sources -- rather than copy/pasting. I do appreciate this summary is not the easiest to read and has not been proof-read to a reasonable standard but the information contained within is more important than that. The...
[18:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Boolean Conversion Error on Planet Earth - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:02] <exec> 08└─Separating the world into "good guys" and "bad guys" has proven to be mostly futile. We should stop being shocked when they switch or change stances.
[18:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boolean Conversion Error on Planet Earth - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:04] <exec> 08└─This wouldn't be problem if people weren't forced under the threat of violence to hand over their resources to sociopathic thugs with guns.
[18:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:17] <exec> 08└─You assume that not knowing how his lackey accomplished the impossible would make the PHB less likely to demand even greater impossibilities... Besides, if the boss knew about the time machine then he'd have to pay labor-time instead of calendar-time, and can you imagine how overtime would stack up...
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:19] <exec> 08└─My laptop [soylentnews.org] comes with a time machine accessory.
[18:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Shopping list on my watch - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:29] <exec> 08└─This is one of the best uses that I've found since I bought this watch.
[18:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Real bread and virtual circuses - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:34] <exec> 08└─There is also a limit to increasing productivity/output that's linked to our natural resources.
[18:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:Teleportation - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:41] <exec> 08└─I'll even settle for community hubs for teleportation, until we get it right and it is just another app on your phone.
[18:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Teleportation - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:43] <exec> 08└─Fullscale Teleportation from anywhere to anywhere? Great. Now how do you stop thieves from just teleporting into your home? Or nutjobs from teleporting bombs into malls, nightclubs, government buildings, schools, hospitals, etc..
[18:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:Web GUI's - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:46] <exec> 08└─Maybe something like RIPTerm [wikipedia.org]. I guess it was technically called RIPscrip. RIPTerm must have been the DOS program that rendered it.
[18:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not real time savings - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:49] <exec> 08└─reckons it adds up to 4,000 work minutes, or 66 hours, [b]a day[/b]. a day, not a week
[18:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Electric LART - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:52] <exec> 08└─...and the license to use it. Oddly, I find myself wanting this on my SECOND job, which is retail, FAR more often than my first, which actually does deal with computers. When they ask you on the contract "are you willing to work with the general public," remember the sermons of Guru Carlin on the su...
[18:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Electric LART - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:47:54] <exec> 08└─For retail, i want electric LARP! "Yes, me lassy! Ye olde poop suppositories be over here... does ye need instructions for how to shove it up in there? I could do it for you..... with my trusty sword!" "No, i don't mind waiting behind you, sir, for you to search and search for that last freeeeeaaaak...
[18:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02Cybernetics. - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 1681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:56] <exec> 08└─Ubiquitous cybernetics. I'm totally blind & would love to be able to go to a doctor, lay down on the table, & wake up with a new set of functioning CyberEyes. Or CyberEars, or a CyberHand, CyberArm, CyberLeg, CyberFoot, or any other body part that fails. Every person on the planet suffering from vis...
[18:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Common, I bet - 06Bank IT Exec Jailed After Pleading Guilty to Taking Bribes from Vendor - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:18] <exec> 08└─This probably happens far more often than we know, and a small fraction are actually caught. I was even ordered to lie about the co's IT infrastructure once. It took a while, but I got out of that company, only to end up in ANOTHER that stole catalog descriptions from a competitor. Wink wink is comm...
[18:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Common, I bet - 06Bank IT Exec Jailed After Pleading Guilty to Taking Bribes from Vendor - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:48:19] <exec> 08└─Who cares. A man is being stuffed into a cage for nothing of interest.
[18:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Countdown to Butlerian Jihad - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:05] <exec> 08└─Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man['s mind].
[18:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Yup, socking away most of your liquid assets - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:50:42] <exec> 08└─Google and Facebook and Amazon are not the only employers of techies in the USA. If I was unemployed with no good leads, I might consider applying for a software engineer job at Microsoft. Yes, it's a sweatshop and most people get worked to death. So what, you don't have to work there forever. Spe...
[18:51:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:contrary observation in Russia - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:51:25] <exec> 08└─The article to which I linked is about the first crater that was discovered. News reports about it appeared in 2014. Since then, a few others have been discovered. /article.pl?sid=15/02/28/165224 [soylentnews.org] Five are directly on the Yamal peninsula, one in Yamal Autonomous district, and one i...
[18:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:DIE!!! - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:00] <exec> 08└─They were quite handy on CRTs though. Especially after a few years of use, a CRT might well take 5-20 minutes to "fully warm up" during which time color calibration and other properties would be different than in steady state. But yeah, they were mostly an amusing distraction and a way to avoid havi...
[18:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:2) 02Re:DIE!!! - 06Deep Blacks, Bright Future—Where OLED Screens Go From Here - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:02] <exec> 08└─True. They're also difficult to make large screens with, especially reasonably flat ones, at least without including obvious black lines due to internal supports. A 40" screen is experiencing over 10,000lbs of force on it's face from atmospheric pressure. Not really a problem for LCDs since they're...
[18:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Answer to the Fermi Paradox? - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:52:52] <exec> 08└─You'd be amazed how filthy retail can get you if you do more back-end than front-end. Once every day in the morning, and very often another one at night, especially in spring and summer.
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[19:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:59] <exec> 08└─1. Professional violinists cannot identify Stradis by sound beyond chance 2. Professional violinists cannot identify Stradis by how they are to play beyond chance 3. Professional violinists often prefer the sound of non-Stradis. 4. (not in that study, but an obvious caveat)Amateurs have never been a...
[19:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:01] <exec> 08└─It's like buying a celebrity's sweat pants because you know they've got to be more comfortable.
[19:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Scale? - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 3976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:14] <exec> 08└─I'm confused as to the scale. Thats about the right amount of loot for a medium to large sized street gang in Detroit. The problem this corner of Africa seems to have is entire armies of lunatics killing each other, not "some gang broke in to the armory and looted an insignificant amount of stuff"....
[19:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Clue Bat - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:38] <exec> 08└─I merely wish that the idiots of the world had but one thick skull between the lot of them, that I might whack it with one blow.
[19:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Real bread and virtual circuses - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:45] <exec> 08└─Well they could help with the living longer bit if you give them basic income and sufficient education ;). Say a billion people figure out a million ways to do things, and only a hundred of those ways were implemented, without a basic income who and how do you pay and how much? I can figure out many...
[19:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Naive - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:47:48] <exec> 08└─Khallow, is that you?
[19:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cybernetics. - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:02] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna say this is a neat idea, but a better solution would be stem cell regeneration of body parts. Sure the cybernetic gizmos could give you a wider range and sensitivity, but I'd prefer to be all human meat and put on goggles if I want to see other spectra.
[19:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02Re:Cybernetics. - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:03] <exec> 08└─STEM cells won't work if you can't see at all. They might repair mild vision impairment but not replace total vision loss. Unless you mean regrowing new eyes from my own cells, but that takes time that might not be feasable. If your choice is to be blind for the next six months while they grow you a...
[19:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score:2) 02Great! - 06Reprogrammable Skin Stem Cells in a Test Tube Could Reduce Number of Animal Experiments - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:22] <exec> 08└─Anything we can do to help reduce animal testing is most welcome. One would think that this might also help speed development of testing against skin. It seems it would be much easier, more efficient, and more reproducible to work on skin cells in the lab, rather than dealing with animals.
[19:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:Field application for the TSP - 06New Technology Coordinates Drones in Team Missions - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:48:43] <exec> 08└─That right there is why this research shouldn't be allowed to make its way onto the battlefield. Enough mistakes are made when humans are controlling the drones, at least humans can refuse to fire the missile if they think that doing so would be a war crime. I wouldn't trust an AI to know or care ab...
[19:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gaming - 06New Technology Coordinates Drones in Team Missions - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:44] <exec> 08└─I for one can't wait until all the drone-related AI makes it into video games and the video game AIs make it into drones. Real life RTS gaming through fleets of mini drones and RC ground vehicles? Well, we have the tech for that now and no one is doing it. We'll probably end up with augmented realit...
[19:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Countdown to Butlerian Jihad - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:49:22] <exec> 08└─That is not a troll, that is a valid point quoted from a famous SciFi series. AI could totally bite us in the ass, we know the military is researching this so all it takes is one AI to be shutdown. If others find out that humans will "kill" them if they misbehave (likely to occur) then the stage is...
[19:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Drone Delivery of Blood Plasma - 06Aerial Test Track to Boost Drone Use in Africa - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:31] <exec> 08└─Saw this story [recode.net] the other day about using drones to deliver blood plasma and other time-critical medical supplies to the boonies in Rwanda.
[19:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Marvels of quackery - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:02] <exec> 08└─Marijuana works too: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] In fact many medicines have come from plants etc that people have used[1]. Aspirin is a common example. There are others: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The biguanide class of antidiabeti...
[19:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:50:41] <exec> 08└─Aspertame has been the subject of quite a few health studies that show mixed results of it causing obesity, cancer, and even possibly still diabetes.
[19:51:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Ocean cathlates - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 1327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:49] <exec> 08└─The info on the ocean cathlates is a bit ambiguous. It appears that SOME of them HAVE been releasing, but slowly. And when a deep ocean cathlate releases slowly then the bubbles get eaten by microbes on the way to the surface. So it shows up as carbon dioxide instead of methane. OTOH, unstable (i.e....
[19:53:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:You reap what you sow - 06Professor Watchlist - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:53:59] <exec> 08└─So I trust you won't complain when the inevitable anti-anti-left backlash commences?
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[20:46:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 619 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:57] <exec> 08└─1. Professional violinists cannot identify Stradis by sound beyond chance 2. Professional violinists cannot identify Stradis by how they are to play beyond chance 3. Professional violinists often prefer the sound of non-Stradis. 4. (not in that study, but an obvious caveat)Amateurs have never been a...
[20:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:46:59] <exec> 08└─Downside: they're Rosanne Barre's.
[20:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:01] <exec> 08└─So one size fits all?
[20:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:03] <exec> 08└─But would it sound warmer if I got a Monster Stradivarius with gold tuners?
[20:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:05] <exec> 08└─It would sound warmer if you got Stradivarius sweat pants....
[20:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 906 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:08] <exec> 08└─Coke v Pepsi. In taste tests Pepsi usually beats Coke for taste. Yet coke outsells Pepsi by a wide margin. Why? Coke is a brand. Branding sells. Branding alone is not the whole thing though. As 'new coke' showed. It is a particular branding with a particular item. The same is probably true of the st...
[20:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:10] <exec> 08└─Sure, there's a lot of things that can attract people to them, and it is more multifaceted than the simplification I gave. But the purpose of my post wasn't to accurately identify why people like them, but to suggest that studying the details of why it sounds different is kinda irrelevant if you can...
[20:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:12] <exec> 08└─Coke is a brand.
[20:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:14] <exec> 08└─It is worth noting that Stradis are superior to most other instruments from the same time period, as well as many of the intervening years between them and now. There still exists the question of how such high quality instruments meeting current quality standards were created without the benefit of...
[20:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 2827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:16] <exec> 08└─Agree completely. Just because the study you reference may be paywalled, here's a link [nationalgeographic.com] to a detailed account of the study that pretty much definitively debunked the Stradivarius myth. It took into account all sorts of criticisms of previous studies (non professionals, too li...
[20:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:18] <exec> 08└─shhhhh, you are ruining my profits. If you keep it up, I'll expose Mongo.node.js.etc++ as the fad-ware it is.
[20:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Always - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:20] <exec> 08└─Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special
[20:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:22] <exec> 08└─Pretty much every goddamn episode of NOVA is on YouTube. They don't seem interested in having them taken down. NOVA is produced by WGBH Boston, not PBS. Take it up with them, dumbass.
[20:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02First determine IF they are "special" - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:25] <exec> 08└─Stradivarius violins are renowned for their supposedly superior sound when compared to other instruments.
[20:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Remember everyone - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:27] <exec> 08└─But is there really a secret to be found in the Stradivarius?
[20:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You should buy monster HDMI cables - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:29] <exec> 08└─You can hear the difference! (not). Same story, different century. Strad's had a great marketing success, just like our favorite overpriced cables. Rubes fall for it, drive up price. Anyone who does (or believes) A/B testing results goes for cheaper but equally good (for non-"fashion"/"status" defin...
[20:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Sigh. - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:39] <exec> 08└─The ICP is essentially one person doing the only critical reporting of the UN
[20:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Scale? - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 1516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:44] <exec> 08└─Just because it's not the largest weapons theft in history doesn't mean it's not relevant or important. I'm not OK with saying it's acceptable or should be seen as inevitable that the UN of all organizations to have lower standards of security and inventory control than a small business does with it...
[20:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Scale? - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:47:46] <exec> 08└─Unless of course we're acknowledging coalition forces routinely 'lose' and 'mis-allocate'
[20:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:00] <exec> 08└─Thats just normal marriage. That and the secret stuff they put into wedding cake to eliminate sex drive. Or maybe its kids that cause that, I can't remember. Speaking of something that would improve my working life, something to dramatically increase females desire levels, beyond my studly physique...
[20:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:02] <exec> 08└─A lot of commenters are assuming it would only slow time so you could do more stuff for "the man" for free of course. Personally I'd like one that speeds time up at meetings. So the presenter who's reading a powerpoint to me about something I don't care about sounds like Alvin and the Chipmunks, unl...
[20:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:04] <exec> 08└─Well, if sci-fi works, then I know what I want. Similar to that gun from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I want one that I can shoot scum sucking executives with. It makes their small black hearts grow "three sizes that day" and consider just what it is they have done to the rest of us. Perhaps if...
[20:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shopping list on my watch - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:16] <exec> 08└─I'm being serious. I expected the watch to be a toy for the most part. There are a few nice things like having easy-to-set set vibrating alarms that don't annoy people around me, the shopping list, and a couple other things, but I very much expected it to be something to experiment with. Look, I'm n...
[20:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:weight/density sensor - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:26] <exec> 08└─I'd skip all the lifting and be happy enough with a self propelled engine hoist smart enough to follow me around while staying out of my way. The Army has been working on this tech for awhile as robot pack mules. Energy density is a problem but someday just like everyone carries around phones, every...
[20:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:Teleportation - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:32] <exec> 08└─I like it. I'm tired of being concerned about where my phone, keys, and wallet are located. Borg me up!
[20:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02[OT] Re:Teleportation - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:34] <exec> 08└─I wonder where comment #444444 is.
[20:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:[OT] Re:Teleportation - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:36] <exec> 08└─Interesting... it seems to have teleported someplace else. ;-) How in the world did you even notice? Assuming journal posts increment the same comment value, and that you can delete your journal entries... that could be the answer.
[20:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:[OT] Re:Teleportation - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:38] <exec> 08└─I'm wrong, journal posts have a different counter.
[20:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score:2) 02Re:Teleportation - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:41] <exec> 08└─Sort of like Air Traffic Control, but for Teleportation. Likely something AI controlled with a set of rules. You need to have your Teleportation Plans on record and approved by the TTC, and they stay good for X number of days before needing to be re approved. It would have to be controlled by some c...
[20:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Web GUI's - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 942 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:46] <exec> 08└─A lot of people make a lot of money off the existing obfuscation. Then there's the (shudder) people who think they're valuable "creatives" because they drop a deuce of a page that impresses no one other than other web designers. Thats about 75% of the modern design market right there, people doing n...
[20:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not real time savings - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:48:50] <exec> 08└─You are thinking of 1 person. Remember they build things on an assembly line. So say 5 mins across 1 car per day adds up if you are making say 200 cars a day. You may be able to make 2-5 more cars in the same time? THAT is the sort of savings they are looking for. Not monetary cost per person.
[20:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Part of a complete breakfast! - 06Means by Which Cells 'Eat' Silicon Nanowire Revealed - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:01] <exec> 08└─Introducing new Shredded Shiny-O's, the cereal of superheroes! Moms love them because they've got silicon for healthy bones, blood vessels, cartilage, and tendons. Kids love them because they're shiny!
[20:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Countdown to Butlerian Jihad - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 2692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:10] <exec> 08└─I played a lot of Rockman (Mega Man) X games as a kid. What struck me was that the Irregular uprisings were a complete fait accompli: Repliroid--androids/gynoids based on Rockman X and Zero's designs, distinct from nonsentient "mechaniloids"--were basically human even if they tended to look like two...
[20:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Structured vs. unstructured - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:33] <exec> 08└─Actually "Green Bay" where everyone loves a good packer...
[20:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:38] <exec> 08└─I can jog four miles each afternoon before work! Except morning people won't let me come in later. People aren't resenting those who exercise, we're resenting those who force us to exercise in the morning. Not everyone can wake up that early. You're forcing us to work during our least productive hou...
[20:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:40] <exec> 08└─All I can really say is that I acknowledge the validity of your point.
[20:50:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02Re:Marvels of quackery - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 1282 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:52] <exec> 08└─One wonders at the sheer levels of experimentation that Western physicians must have undertaken and the untold lives that must have been lost to find all the cures and treatments attributed to ancient Western herbal medicines. There is a lot of occidental pre-scientific medicine too, you know, and s...
[20:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Marvels of quackery - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:50:55] <exec> 08└─All I can offer is an anecdote with an antidote. I was in China and got extremely sick from something. Delirious and shitting myself kind of sick. A doctor came in with some herbal medicine wrapped in wax balls. Very different kind of pills to say the least. BUT THEY WORKED. I'm still alive, and no...
[20:51:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:This research is fine - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 1527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:23] <exec> 08└─IIUC, you've got the hunter-gatherer lifestyle wrong. Most of the calories in a hunter-gatherer lifestyle come from plants. And the exception are those who gather things like oysters. OTOH, the nomadic lifestyle *was* heavy in meat. And the Eskimo lifestyle was so heavy in meat that they needed to e...
[20:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:33] <exec> 08└─When I tried a Atkin's-ish diet I lost a lot of weight, but my triglycerides spiked. Shortly afterwards I was diagnosed as diabetic. I don't recommend that approach. Weight is a key, but it's not the sole key.
[20:51:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:38] <exec> 08└─I can't disagree with pretty much any of that. I was just spouting about what I'd read. Gives me enough pause to avoid the stuff though, particularly since I don't really get much benefit from the type of foods it's in anyway. Related to the sensitivities, I'm guessing a lot of it is psychological....
[20:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:the key to my weight loss - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:41] <exec> 08└─There have been several different studies of different diet sodas over the years that have come to the conclusion that it's certainly no better for you than regular soda, and possibly worse. They vary all over the place on their details. Some have been about saccharine, some about cyclamates, etc. I...
[20:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:I bet there are several that will "work" - 06Switching Off a Protein Could Be Key to Reduced Body Fat - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:51:47] <exec> 08└─It's not quite zero, but I'd say pretty low. But it might be without deleterious effects in an environment where there are plenty of calories around. Even that's not the way to bet, of course.
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[20:54:25] <exec> 08└─Could a Gatebox save Zucky's marriage?
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[21:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Insightful) 02I'll miss stories like this one next year - 06Morgan Stanley Fined $7.5 Million For Commingling Customer Cash In "Delta One" Desk Trades - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:56] <exec> 08└─N/T
[21:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02How much did Morgan Stanley save? - 06Morgan Stanley Fined $7.5 Million For Commingling Customer Cash In "Delta One" Desk Trades - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:58] <exec> 08└─First, good on the SEC for identifying and punishing this behavior. Second, how much money did Morgan Stanley save by undertaking this scheme. The key point is that the $7.5 Million needs to be substantially above the amount they saved, or else it is just the cost of doing business and they (and eve...
[21:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:16] <exec> 08└─My point was the pepsi brand is not as strong as coke. Sorry if that was not clear. Pepsi has had a long history of not sticking the brand persuasion. They have a 'young hip' sort-o-ish kinda marketing going. It works to a point. Coke on the other hand has a better branding. With stronger colors. It...
[21:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:18] <exec> 08└─It is worth noting that Stradis are superior to most other instruments from the same time period, as well as many of the intervening years between them and now.
[21:47:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 2827 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:20] <exec> 08└─Agree completely. Just because the study you reference may be paywalled, here's a link [nationalgeographic.com] to a detailed account of the study that pretty much definitively debunked the Stradivarius myth. It took into account all sorts of criticisms of previous studies (non professionals, too li...
[21:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1, Troll) 02Re:Always - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:25] <exec> 08└─Why would they upload them to archive.org or youtube? http://www.pbs.org [pbs.org] Considering the length of the episodes on there, they're mostly full episodes. Granted, they're not all there, but there's a huge number of episodes available for free. What annoys you about them,...
[21:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:27] <exec> 08└─Troll? Haha more like telling it like it is. http://www.christianpost.com [christianpost.com] Yes, creationism, flat earth, unnecessary environmental protection cause God will fix it... such great "theories" deserving of public funding! And the conservative...
[21:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Always - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:29] <exec> 08└─> [...] PBS is they are all about public support and the virtues of the leftie commons [...] The PBS certainly are a beneficiary of the commons that is the publicly owned airwaves. I'm not aware that, beyond wanting to continue broadcasting, they advocate for the idea of a commons. Can you provide a...
[21:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Always - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:32] <exec> 08└─Here we see a native right-winged human attempting to engage in social discourse. These primates tend to operate from a fear based perspective which makes most of their social conversation combative. Lets see how this one fares when his views are open to public review. It looks like his claims of "l...
[21:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:First determine IF they are "special" - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:35] <exec> 08└─As pointed out above, the Stradivarius WERE BETTER then their contemporaries, but since they have served as the gold standard for a a few centuries, modern makers try to EMULATE their sound. Does it surprise anyone that after a few hundred years of trying modern makers have succeeded at this task?
[21:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:First determine IF they are "special" - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:37] <exec> 08└─And what superior mean, anyway?
[21:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:You should buy monster HDMI cables - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:41] <exec> 08└─It gets worse when you consider that the audience isn't going to know if the violins are Stradivarius or some other maker. Especially when mixed in with the rest of the orchestra. Perhaps, if you're talking about chamber music where there's only a small number of musicians and you're listening to it...
[21:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You should buy monster HDMI cables - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:43] <exec> 08└─It gets worse when you consider that the audience isn't going to know . . .
[21:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02[OT] best iPods - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:45] <exec> 08└─"Which iPod has the best quality audio?" http://macintoshhowto.com [macintoshhowto.com]
[21:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Boolean Conversion Error on Planet Earth - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:47:58] <exec> 08└─USA?
[21:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Codesmith [5811] (Score:1) 02Re:Scale? - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:03] <exec> 08└─The G36 is interesting. First of all its a real assault rifle. Usually assault weapon means stupid gun grabber BS, but it actually a pretty decent close quarters short range high rate of fire heavy and controllable as hell rifle. The kind of thing you'd clear a building with, not so much deer huntin...
[21:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Ban Ki-Moon - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:05] <exec> 08└─You expected something better from the UN under that weasel?
[21:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:23] <exec> 08└─A heart growing three times its size would probably result in heart failure (which helps contribute to your 75*10^6 number). https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:48:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03etherscythe [937] 02Clue Bat - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 247 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:30] <exec> 08└─The baton which imbues your "therapy patient" with at least temporary good sense. Use on boss. Repeat if his boss balks at the sudden outbreak of common sense. Underlings also good candidates. Apply to self before all major life decisions. Profit!
[21:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:weight/density sensor - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:46] <exec> 08└─Why is this a problem? I'd imagine that you would realize your mistake as soon as you tried to lift it, as the weight of the object doesn't just kick in after you've finished lifting it and settled into a carrying position.
[21:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:weight/density sensor - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:47] <exec> 08└─Discovering how heavy something is can be a real problem. Say it's sitting on the edge of a table. You walk up and snatch it, only to learn to late that it is much heavier than you expected. If you're thinking that should never happen to a man - what about smaller men, women, children, or the aging?...
[21:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:[OT] Re:Teleportation - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:48:57] <exec> 08└─I noticed when I made comment #444449. /comments.pl?sid=17091&cid=444449#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] Comments to journal entries share the same counter as those to stories; the journal entries themselves have a separate counter. I searched a few of the recent topics but didn't find #444444.
[21:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Web GUI's - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:49:04] <exec> 08└─Faddism and eye-candy gimmicks are indeed difficult to fight against. Managers don't stop to consider and/or don't understand the waste caused by falling for eye-candy. And big companies don't sell new products unless the old versions look unfashionable. we're piling enough BS on the backend that we...
[21:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Countdown to Butlerian Jihad - 06Zuckerberg Turns His Home Into Creepy Robot Buddy - 651 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:50:22] <exec> 08└─Human society is still evolving, once we solve the energy/resources problems we may have a chance at finally rooting out the warlord tendencies. Systems beget similar systems, so children stuck in abusive homes tend to have serious problems of their own, children conscripted as child soldiers defini...
[21:52:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgw [2836] (Score:2) 02Re:HOWTO Earn Bucks With A Hedge Fund - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:52:25] <exec> 08└─The first guys to figure this stuff out really did make a fortune. There's a great Numberphile interview [youtube.com] with James Simons, the first quant to make a business out of it. But like anything in the stock market, it was gamed quickly - there are systems that beat the market, but there are...
[21:52:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:2) 02Re:And this is how skepticism works - 06Data Show No Sign of Methane Boost From Thawing Permafrost - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:52:38] <exec> 08└─It's not a strawman. It's Standard Operating Procedure for climate change deniers to present gaps in the theories or puzzling observations as refutation. Where have you been for the last decade?
[21:54:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Pass the buck and get Zucked - 06Gatebox: Your New Holographic AI Assistant "Waifu" - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:54:31] <exec> 08└─Zuck giving up 99% of his wealth to charity could prolong his marriage.
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[22:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:I'll miss stories like this one next year - 06Morgan Stanley Fined $7.5 Million For Commingling Customer Cash In "Delta One" Desk Trades - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:00] <exec> 08└─Why? They're going to get worse, or better? These are light slaps on the wrist that don't impress me one iota. I'll believe there is justice when the executives themselves pay the fines out of their own bank accounts. I'll feel even better when there are NO FINES. We make the executives clean up tra...
[22:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:How much did Morgan Stanley save? - 06Morgan Stanley Fined $7.5 Million For Commingling Customer Cash In "Delta One" Desk Trades - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:03] <exec> 08└─In towns near me, people where parking illegally and paying $5-10 fines because it was (much) cheaper than the cost of all-day parking in lots and garages. Govt. finally got smart about that. I agree- the fines need to be MORE than Morgan Stanley made on the deals.
[22:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score:1) 02Re:How much did Morgan Stanley save? - 06Morgan Stanley Fined $7.5 Million For Commingling Customer Cash In "Delta One" Desk Trades - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:05] <exec> 08└─First, good on the SEC for identifying and punishing this behavior.
[22:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02trivia - 06Morgan Stanley Fined $7.5 Million For Commingling Customer Cash In "Delta One" Desk Trades - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:07] <exec> 08└─Next they'll be auditing the "take a million, leave a million" tray [wikimedia.org] in the lobby.
[22:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:25] <exec> 08└─They have a product some people feel is worse, not a worse product. I can't stand the taste of pepsi, but coke is acceptable.
[22:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:47:29] <exec> 08└─Despite the fact that people claim red wines and white wines taste very different, most experts are unable to tell red wines from white wines with red coloring.
[22:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score:2) 02Re:Boolean Conversion Error on Planet Earth - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:00] <exec> 08└─This wouldn't be problem if people weren't forced under the threat of violence to hand over their resources to sociopathic thugs with guns.
[22:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"10,000s of thousands of rounds of ammunition" - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:06] <exec> 08└─Unrelatedly, plutonium amounting to "more than 600 pounds, and possibly several times that" went missing from U.S. inventories between 1996 and 2004 (http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/LOS-ALAMOS-Plutonium-could-be-missing-from-lab-2591846.php [sfgate.com]) and there have been other instances of...
[22:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Simple - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:48:23] <exec> 08└─So you also need some sort of sound-proof privacy pod (built for two, I assume) or all that attention will just cause frustration and distraction..
[22:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Teleportation - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:49:02] <exec> 08└─Actual teleportation will probably consist of sending plans for building objects from raw materials--reminiscent of 3-D printing, but with atom-by-atom control. Boring! /comments.pl?sid=15241 [soylentnews.org] If we could somehow teleport matter itself, sci-fi fashion, that could become a plentiful...
[22:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Outside of cubicle world... - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 847 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:50:42] <exec> 08└─You're cute! Such a cute angry little troll. 1) The "circuitswhatsa" rhythms are science and have nothing to do with political anything. NASA has studied them, and it is a matter of science, not your opinion. 2) The teenager jobs are a thing of the past. Working parents with hungry mouths now compet...
[22:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02"Sub-Millisecond Precision High Speed Trading" - 06Platinum Partners Hedge Fund Accused of $1 Billion Fraud - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:52:28] <exec> 08└─That's what quantitative finance is called now. You purchase 53 shares of AAPL, then 17 milliseconds later you sell 17 of them. That's why we really did need to Occupy Wall Street.
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[23:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not really surprising - 06Culture Not a Factor in Management Styles Globally - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:55] <exec> 08└─capitalism dehumanize human work, it requires the same everywhere
[23:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Rather: - 06Culture Not a Factor in Management Styles Globally - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:46:57] <exec> 08└─Slavemasters are the same across the globe :)
[23:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02All Managers Are The Same? - 06Culture Not a Factor in Management Styles Globally - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:59] <exec> 08└─...more often than not, managers from different countries responded to the scenarios in the same way. ..."Newer research is discovering that the differences we see in these types of managers are more determined by the circumstances at hand than individual or cultural differences. Leaders, it seems,...
[23:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Crap - 06Culture Not a Factor in Management Styles Globally - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:01] <exec> 08└─Researcher needs to get a real job and find out of himself, vs. the lies on questioners. Military manages are more hard nose and "just do it". The same goods for most Asian based managers, this includes multiple members working on the same job, so it looks good to client znc higher ups. "Saving Face...
[23:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score:2) 02Re:How much did Morgan Stanley save? - 06Morgan Stanley Fined $7.5 Million For Commingling Customer Cash In "Delta One" Desk Trades - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:13] <exec> 08└─My favorite part of the story? The employee who bypassed the porn filter by using a flash drive. I assume this means he used some live-usb type deal, which means the filters were always on the desktop OS, meaning they were really always meant to be broken and bypassed. Maybe he used Tails, and was r...
[23:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Violin Investment Considered Harmful - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:36] <exec> 08└─I imagine this will be the new refuge of the Stradivarius investment groups (and yes, some of the instruments have been purchased by groups of investors)
[23:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:The middle study is the only one that matters - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:39] <exec> 08└─My take on them is that they're effectively the same as guitars like the '57 Les Paul. It's an excellent sounding guitar and a serious collector's item ... but sound-wise you'd be just as well off with a brand new one. People want them because of the history, the status, and the 'mojo'.
[23:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They also - 06Scientists Are Studying What Makes Stradivarius Violins Special - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:47:42] <exec> 08└─By and large were made by underlings at Stradivarius' company. Every one of them has been repaired by dozens of other Luthiers over the years. And very few of them internally resemble what a stock Stradi must have looked like. Had a whole discussion with my dad on this who is a luthier (not of violi...
[23:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"10,000s of thousands of rounds of ammunition" - 06UN Armed Warlord in Sudan and Loses Sniper Rifles in Iraq - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:17] <exec> 08└─*up to 10,000s of thousands
[23:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Iron Man suit - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:48:50] <exec> 08└─One of the better Iron Man suits with the Jarvis AI. The later models got crappier (some of the earlier models could survive shots by tanks and not get quickly destroyed by Thor but other models had problems getting hit by a truck or merely Captain America)
[23:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Web GUI's - 06What One Piece of Tech Would Transform Your Working Life? - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:18] <exec> 08└─> giant GIF imagemaps Your idea will never catch on, because some browsers let the user turn off GIF animation.
[23:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Field application for the TSP - 06New Technology Coordinates Drones in Team Missions - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:49:53] <exec> 08└─These UAVs aren't killing people (except when they accidentally crash into them), Ravens are for surveillance - Big Brother watching the bad guys. It's o.k. you can trust them, they're with the government.
[23:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I prefer to work at night, but choose not to. - 06Researchers Uncover Why Morning People Should Not Work at Night - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:15] <exec> 08└─I'm most efficient after midnight, preferring to go to bed shortly after sunrise. However the last year I've been experiencing depression. It helps quite a lot to be around other people, even if I don't talk to them. For example right now I'm sitting alone in a starbucks, but find the voices of othe...
[23:51:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02Quinine is an herbal malaria medicine - 06Ancient Chinese Malaria Remedy Fights TB - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:28] <exec> 08└─It comes from the bark of a south american tree. Unfortunately malaria has evolved to be resistant to quinine. Aspirin originally came from willow bark. I read in wikipedia that - quite tragically - it was preferred to quinine because it reduced the fever too but was far cheaper than quinine. Aspiri...
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