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[00:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why do you think we all have Blue LEDs on our... - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:15] <exec> 08└─Gaudily lit up systems? It's because we knew all along that bluelight is important to our uberhealth. It is also why you see blue LEDs taking over the status lighting in datacenters...
[00:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02It's "separate from"... - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:17] <exec> 08└─... not "separate than".
[00:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Oh Gods, not again - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:30] <exec> 08└─You know this has nothing to do with actually helping victims and everything to do with making a name for themselves when they use hot button phrases like "preyed on vulnerable victims, including children," Bitch. There are already separate laws to protect children and others from slave traff...
[00:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:2) 02Same old, same old - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:32] <exec> 08└─She's just beating a dead horse. It's just a little more dead this time around. Hopefully she doesn't find herself wearing it in January when she goes to Washington next month.
[00:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Another Case - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:34] <exec> 08└─There is a similar, unrelated case [latimes.com], of a man wrongly convicted; quoting from the LA TIMES, the guy was indicted in 1998 and released until 2013 thanks to Kamala Harris, AG for California, who appealed his motions to keep him in jail: "[...] A federal magistrate reviewed those facts and...
[00:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bittersweet rememberances - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:04] <exec> 08└─Never played it myself. I only remember it from jokes like these. Why, Yes. My New Job Title Is Just an Excuse to Play Asheron’s Call All Day. [soylentnews.org] Careful Career Maneuvering Will Allow Me to Continue Playing Asheron’s Call All Day While the Paychecks Never Cease [soylentnews.org] Y...
[00:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Building your castles on sand - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:08] <exec> 08└─Building sandcastles is a waste of effort UNLESS you get paid to build sandcastles, then it becomes a completely valid business. For you see, according to assholes, only money matters.
[00:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Building your castles on sand - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:10] <exec> 08└─Because money isn't ephemeral.
[00:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Most won't need it. - 065 Reasons to Teach Mathematical Modeling - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:27:22] <exec> 08└─You just keep thinking about it, Einstein.
[00:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Futurama - 06Sex Robots: Experts Debate the Rise of the Love Droids - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:28:38] <exec> 08└─Unethical, but potentially very sexy.
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[01:22:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:It's "separate from"... - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:18] <exec> 08└─Let's play, "Spot the programmer autist who tries to be pedantic and forgets to tuck their period inside their quotes." Syntax error: Line 1
[01:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Very bad news for Strigoi - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:19] <exec> 08└─Sunlight destroys The Strain.
[01:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good news for billionaires - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:22] <exec> 08└─They can afford to travel to where the sunlight is. And you know billionaires deserve to be healthy. Because they're rich and therefore better people.
[01:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02But, - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:24] <exec> 08└─I'm a night person. It hurts to walk outside when that huge ball of fire is in the sky!
[01:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:But, - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:26] <exec> 08└─I'm a night person too but still love sunlight. There's just so little of it most of the year here though, and it's mostly low-angle to the point I doubt I can actually make much vitamin D with it. Take a D3 supplement, with magnesium and B complex, if you're spending most of your time indoors.
[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:re Another Case - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─Although it doesn't reflect well on her character, that seems to be the norm for AGs. And if they are shuffling into higher political offices, it's no surprise that they want to be seen as tough on crime.
[01:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bittersweet rememberances - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:13] <exec> 08└─Use the Preview Button! Check those URLs!
[01:23:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bittersweet rememberances - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:15] <exec> 08└─Never played it myself. I only remember it from jokes like these. Why, Yes. My New Job Title Is Just an Excuse to Play Asheron’s Call All Day. [sytes.net] Careful Career Maneuvering Will Allow Me to Continue Playing Asheron’s Call All Day While the Paychecks Never Cease [sytes.net] Your Stupid A...
[01:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Building your castles on sand - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:21] <exec> 08└─Whether money is ephemeral is of no consequence. Money is how the score is counted, and if you're not a high-scoring winner, then you're a loser.
[01:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Farewell - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:25] <exec> 08└─My plan to crash my favorite MMORPG server required a little help from an unexpected place [sytes.net]
[01:27:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:STEM is self-selecting - 065 Reasons to Teach Mathematical Modeling - 1036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:27:24] <exec> 08└─And average solar radiative heat transfer is, as Tom Murphy’s article says, 960 W/m2, and the fraction the planet radiates out back into space is something like 390 W/m2. 0.09 W/m2 is several orders of magnitude smaller than the radiative heat transfer component, so for the very rough model that h...
[01:28:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Futurama - 06Sex Robots: Experts Debate the Rise of the Love Droids - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:28:52] <exec> 08└─You've never worked with abuse or human-trafficking cases, have you? There is NOTHING even remotely "sexy" about this. Stop thinking with your idiot cock and start using the big head.
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[02:22:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lawful Interference - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:15] <exec> 08└─Go Fuck Yourself Citizen!
[02:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Another Case - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:46] <exec> 08└─How can you be “tough on crime” when YOU’RE TRYING TO KEEP IMPRISONED SOMEONE THE JUDGE AND JURY CONCLUDED WAS INNOCENT⁈ Defying the authority of the courts to rule that someone is innocent looks rather more like criminal behaviour instead, and shows contempt for the rule of law.
[02:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:re Another Case - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:47] <exec> 08└─"Tough on crime" also means incarcerating drug users, putting everyone on the sex offender list, and 3 strikes laws. It doesn't have to make sense. It just has to be tough. There can be no sign of weakness, compromise, or remorse.
[02:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Feminists should be shot - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:50] <exec> 08└─As for exploiting children: Men who rape female children are to keep them and pay the father Filter error: Please troll elsewhere. Filter error: You having fun yet?
[02:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02riiiiight - 06Entrepreneurial Experiences 'No Better Than Textbooks,' Says Study - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:13] <exec> 08└─b-school "academics" found real experiences no better than their own classroom bullshit. Yeah.
[02:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Crowdfunding/sourcing the server - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:35] <exec> 08└─Rather than pushing for it to remain payware by handing it over to another company to profit from, it'd be a lot better if either A) Technically adept fans reverse–engineer & host the server software (as fans of some other games have done), or B) Fans crowdfund the purchase or lease of the server...
[02:25:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what SoylentNews won't tell you - 06Space Race 2.0: China May Already be Testing an EmDrive in Orbit - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:28] <exec> 08└─Don't let them know the secret of the IBM-5100!
[02:27:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:STEM is self-selecting - 065 Reasons to Teach Mathematical Modeling - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:27:37] <exec> 08└─The model is useless for demonstrating anything. It gets the greenhouse effect wrong by ~60 K, how can it tell you anything useful about changes on the order of 1-2 K?
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[03:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Jamming - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:26] <exec> 08└─If they sign a non-disclosure agreement not to reveal use, how can they complain if someone jams it?
[03:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02non-disclosure covers court testimony? - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:27] <exec> 08└─wouldn't that be grounds for appeal?
[03:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02dropped calls but how - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:29] <exec> 08└─Which is more likely? Police are jamming your phone? Your neighborhood cell tower is oversold? Your neighbors' entire extended families are home for the holidays?
[03:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Where's the EFFing EFF on this EFFing issue? - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:31] <exec> 08└─ACLU WTF? Aren't cell phones, which work by spooky electronic signaling, part of the Electronic Frontier? Get the Foundation involved, like it's 1982, Hoff.
[03:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Confusion - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─I'm confused, but the article only adds more. These aren't "cell site simulators, they ARE cell sites" but that is just a quibble over terminology. I can see how having one in your area might get a few more dropped calls but the whole point of the thing is to BE a cell tower so it has to complete ca...
[03:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's "separate from"... - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:45] <exec> 08└─Lets play spot the troll who doesn't even understand how quoting works. The period isn't being quoted silly, why put it inside?
[03:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Well that's great - 06Las Vegas Now "Completely" Powered by Renewable Energy - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:07] <exec> 08└─Most of the casinos on the strip want to use solar. The ROI is probably *very* quick for them. They have been fighting it in court for years. At this point they are arguing only about cost. http://www.inquisitr.com [inquisitr.com]...
[03:24:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Still OK - 06Las Vegas Now "Completely" Powered by Renewable Energy - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:14] <exec> 08└─Ah the illusion of being smart when they really have not bothered to find out what those 'alt-right' guys are pissed off about with a touch of not knowing what a fascist is. If you look at most fascist societies the world currently has you will find 'benevolent communists' at the center of them.
[03:24:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score:2) 02Re:cornucopia of gene editing tools - 06Compact CRISPR Systems Found in Some of World's Smallest Microbes - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:24] <exec> 08└─I have not yet read the actual research paper but your question has one answer in the link below, besides others. First the link: http://phys.org [phys.org]. The error rate from using CRISPR-Cas9 system is very low but it is not yet below the background mutati...
[03:27:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:ban mathematics - 065 Reasons to Teach Mathematical Modeling - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:40] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-fueled actually managed to get banned at /. Only one as far as I know
[03:28:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Most won't need it. - 065 Reasons to Teach Mathematical Modeling - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:28:17] <exec> 08└─Interesting, were they even allowed to do that? Here you have to teach whatever the gummint tells you to, using approved textbooks, typically whatever was trendy a few years ago when the last reshuffle in the education department was carried out. And that's another issue, the way the stuff is (requi...
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[04:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02truly an ingenious Design - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:24] <exec> 08└─The Intelligent Designer must be proud to hide such a kinky secret exactly halfway between solid and gas, and only in water, the miracle liquid which makes life possible.
[04:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02the new craze - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:25] <exec> 08└─Foods simmered at 55℃ to take advantage of quantum effects.
[04:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:non-disclosure covers court testimony? - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:36] <exec> 08└─You are out of order, sir. Straight to jail for you!
[04:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Where's the EFFing EFF on this EFFing issue? - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:40] <exec> 08└─Its a 4th amendment issue, of course the ACLU is involved.
[04:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Criminalize this device. - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:43] <exec> 08└─If you are operating a Stingray and you don't have a court order, your ass goes to jail. If you are operating a Stingray with a court order, and 911 calls don't go through, you go to jail. If you are operating a Stingray and my call to Aunt May doesn't go through because of it, you go to jail. Jeebu...
[04:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminalize this device. - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:45] <exec> 08└─Oh no but what if I want my own stinkray device to monitor my own children's phone use! Think of the parents!
[04:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03baldrick [352] (Score:1) 02Move to Madagascar - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:23:00] <exec> 08└─Sunlight , beaches , cute women , cheap rum - what is not to like
[04:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:feh - 06Entrepreneurial Experiences 'No Better Than Textbooks,' Says Study - 839 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:43] <exec> 08└─Entrepreneurship, like stock picking and many of the Casino games, is a game of partial skill. You can be an idiot and screw it up every single time. Winning means that you both did not screw it up, and got lucky, generally luckier than the ROI (as compared to similar investment in index funds.) The...
[04:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02GOG Won't Help - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:24:08] <exec> 08└─GOG won't help with Asheron's Call. Asheron's Call, like any MMOG, requires a server to run. Almost everything is done backend, on the server. The client just puts up the pretty graphics (well, for 1999), and relays your inputs. And from what I understand, the servers for Asheron's Call are the prob...
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[04:24:25] <exec> 08└─Thanks for these links, the Bloomberg article was a good read. Looks like NV hasn't done much to drain the swamp of lobbyists? Like MGM and Wynn, casino operator Las Vegas Sands secured regulatory approval last year to leave NV Energy, but says it intends to stay—for now. Regulators determined Sa...
[04:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why I am giving up on PGP - 06Op-Ed: Why I'm Not Giving Up on PGP - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:53] <exec> 08└─You can make your 8192-bit keys if you really want them, it’s just not offered as one of the standard key sizes. It’s also fairly pointless.
[04:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I am giving up on PGP - 06Op-Ed: Why I'm Not Giving Up on PGP - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:55] <exec> 08└─It’s also fairly pointless.
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[05:22:36] <exec> 08└─What a shame. Bob Bitch-Tits just began a promising new career. Oh well. Bubba Long-Cock will enjoy titty fucking his funbags.
[05:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusion - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:41] <exec> 08└─I suspect that these devices are *limited* cell towers: they work *only* as repeaters, so can intecept calls that get bounced to *other* towers. *Normal* cell towers also often have connections to the "wired" phone network, to calls calls other networks, old-fashioned trunk lines and international c...
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[05:22:55] <exec> 08└─Because Strunk and White said so, faggot.
[05:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sue the little buggers! - 06Compact CRISPR Systems Found in Some of World's Smallest Microbes - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:24:41] <exec> 08└─Big pharma gonna sue bacteria now for alleged patent infringement.
[05:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:NSA's fault - 06FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked to China's Military - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:38] <exec> 08└─The military can't decide what constitutes an act of war in the "cyber realm": http://thehill.com [thehill.com] http://www.npr.org
[05:28:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02defies the norm - 06Scientists Develop New Metasurfaces for Deep UV-Imaging - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:28:49] <exec> 08└─Typically one can only go from high energy (short wavelength, high frequency) to low energy (long wavelength, low frequency) photons. This is doing the opposite, which is really weird. How...?
[05:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Non-sentient - 06Sex Robots: Experts Debate the Rise of the Love Droids - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:29:07] <exec> 08└─Its not a small penis, it is a giant vagina!
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[06:23:13] <exec> 08└─Ah, you're just saying that because the pervs she is prosecuting are Republican disruptive entrepreneurs of Web2.0! Prostitution, on a computer!
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[07:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02because you can pay desperate workers less - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:27] <exec> 08└─Disabled engineers are cheap hires because they don't take time off, they don't start families, and they focus on their work because they live in their mothers' basements out of necessity but they want to spend as much time as they can at work to get away from their overbearing mothers. I've seen it...
[07:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score:1) 02Re:re Another Case - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:31] <exec> 08└─DAs don't care about guilt or innocence, just convictions. Any body will do.
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[08:22:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02their own fault - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:21] <exec> 08└─Its their own dumb fault for not making sure this kind of thing was documented. What if he got hit by a bus?
[08:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:their own fault - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:22] <exec> 08└─His control of that information was likely the only thing between him and unemployment.
[08:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Florida Man... - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:24] <exec> 08└─...or, formally, Homo sapiens floridensis
[08:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Former Porn Sites are Hot properties - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:27] <exec> 08└─I had the opposite happen to me. A site I run for my own amusement has zero users, and I don't mind if anyone visits but no one ever does. A while back I moved the site to a new host, and by some coincidence I started receiving requests from crawlers looking for a former porn site. Since the porn si...
[08:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Domed to Fail - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:29] <exec> 08└─How can a business hope to succeed with only twenty-nine customers.
[08:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Over 100 failed interviews? - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:37] <exec> 08└─But my disability is suicidal depression after failing a job interview, and I need at least a year to recover after each failed interview. Cut me a disability check, Mr Trump!
[08:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Over 100 failed interviews? - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:40] <exec> 08└─(Score:-1, Flamebait)
[08:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02be SOCIAL don't be antiSOCIAL - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:42] <exec> 08└─in 1992, information technology work was mostly solitary. “You went and coded it all in your cube,” says the applied computer science major, who is hearing impaired and reads sign language. “It made communication easier.”
[08:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03timbim [907] (Score:2) 02Re:What new evidence? - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:36] <exec> 08└─sounds exactly like what facebook does to me!
[08:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:re Another Case - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:47] <exec> 08└─Remind me again why you guys think it's a good idea having elected attorneys general?
[08:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I am giving up on PGP - 06Op-Ed: Why I'm Not Giving Up on PGP - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:27] <exec> 08└─Both your argument and the original article's argument is "PGP support sucks" which is 1. not a problem with PGP itself and 2. a chicken-and-egg problem of adoption.
[08:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score:1) 02Re:Both sides have points, bottom line security su - 06Op-Ed: Why I'm Not Giving Up on PGP - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:25:41] <exec> 08└─Too bad you can't get a keyboard that doesn't send every key you press to the cloud! For spell checking, Swype analysis, and predictive words. Do these apps have their own secure keyboard?
[08:26:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Cyberwarfare - 06FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked to China's Military - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:16] <exec> 08└─I'll tell ya what.... get the Congress to re-negotiate the DMCA. Tell them about copyright. A book is readable by anyone who cares to. And it can be copyrighted. When one fails to release source code, then the stuff that is unreadable as it stands has no protection whatsoever with one exception -...
[08:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:EM drive like inertial propulsion? - 06Space Race 2.0: China May Already be Testing an EmDrive in Orbit - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:26:39] <exec> 08└─This is the same logic conundrum I run into trying to prove or disprove Rossi's E-Cat. Personally, I think he's running a very profitable theater for men of the suit and tie to throw money into. The stuff I have seen so far ( The videos he sent to Steven Krivet of New Energy Times ) to me demonstrat...
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[09:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Domed to Fail - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:35] <exec> 08└─That depends on how much money they spend now doesnt it.
[09:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Domed to Fail - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:37] <exec> 08└─That's the kind of business that will offer excellent customer service. Its these businesses whose customer stream is derived from advertising that one has to be leery of. They run on statistics, not service.
[09:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Domed to Fail - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:39] <exec> 08└─You forgot the abusive codependent relationship that inevitably develops wherever there is monopoly and customer service is meaningless: cable companies, marriages, families, militaries.
[09:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score:2) 02Why always porn sites? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:41] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty easy one. They can charge an exorbitant price to sell the domain back to the original owner, who, in this case, seems to need it badly if they ever hope to recover. Assuming recovery is possible which in this case, in my opinion, is not likely given the number of their customers. Sti...
[09:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Serious answer? It depends... - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 2129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:52] <exec> 08└─Serious answer? I'm not in a hiring position, but it seems to me that it depends a lot on the disability. Just as I would say in case of gender, hair color, race or fingernail length: Any personal attributes not relevant to the job should not figure into the hiring process. However, when we talk abo...
[09:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:re Another Case - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:58] <exec> 08└─We get bang up Senators and maybe even US Presidents out of them! Harris-Chafee 2020!
[09:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:EM drive like inertial propulsion? - 06Space Race 2.0: China May Already be Testing an EmDrive in Orbit - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:50] <exec> 08└─That it will ( uncoil ). Noted especially in something like a fire hose. Now imagine you are in a boat, along with, say, 25 feet of hose, a water pump, and a power source. The pump is connected to pump water through the hose back to the pump inlet. You cannot cut the hose, but you are allowed to...
[09:29:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:STEM is self-selecting - 065 Reasons to Teach Mathematical Modeling - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:29:06] <exec> 08└─0.09 W/m2 is several orders of magnitude smaller than the radiative heat transfer component
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[10:22:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Half the country worked for Brawndo - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:19] <exec> 08└─The computer did that auto-layoff thing and now we're all unemployed.
[10:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02What a hive - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:21] <exec> 08└─It would be nice if one of the first attempts at using AI to create an enduring legacy system or culture weren't such a wasted effort. But everything has to start somewhere. My view is that the huge problem with this isn't the danger of AI optimizing for crazy shit, or the attempt to create a perm...
[10:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score:2) 02PriOS? - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:23] <exec> 08└─PriOS? I think you typed that wrong. It's GLaDOS.
[10:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Twilight Zone, 50 years ago - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 807 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:25] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brain_Center_at_Whipple%27s [wikipedia.org] In 1967, Wallace V. Whipple, owner of a vast manufacturing corporation, decides to upgrade his plant to increase output by installing a machine named the "X109B14 modified transistorized totally automated machine," which...
[10:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Call Me Luddite - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:27] <exec> 08└─I'm as lazy as can be, but I still don't want a machine to think for me. I won't even listen to Pandora Radio because I don't like the way the Music Genome Project tells me what I should want to hear. I like my recommendations depersonalized, I like my playlists randomized, and I enjoy manually skip...
[10:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Florida Man... - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:38] <exec> 08└─Nothing sapient about floridans...
[10:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Deeo Kain [5848] (Score:1) 02Follow the money... - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:47] <exec> 08└─Why is it always porn sites?
[10:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:be SOCIAL don't be antiSOCIAL - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 2235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:57] <exec> 08└─Solitary jobs are long gone, and anyone who doesn't enjoy socializing on conference calls will never find work. Introversion is worse than a disability. Introversion is an inability. As a pretty serious introvert, I disagree. The trick is a bit of self-discipline, a bit of acting, and choosing your...
[10:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Under represented? - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:00] <exec> 08└─Well then, have you tried breaking some legs?
[10:24:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Payment processors passing judgement - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:24:08] <exec> 08└─It's only peripheral to this case, but I have now heard of numerous situations where the big credit cards cut some organization off. For better or for worse, they have become fundamental to online commerce. I'm slowly of the opinion that they should be required to process any payments that are not p...
[10:24:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Payment processors passing judgement - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:09] <exec> 08└─this is why I have a JCB card (available in some US states)... no monthly fee, no late fee, no overlimit fee, and is accepted by some merchants which have been cut off by Visa/MC
[10:29:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Most won't need it. - 065 Reasons to Teach Mathematical Modeling - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:25] <exec> 08└─I am thinking about it. And right now that assertion looks to me to be not even wrong.
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[11:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:Half the country worked for Brawndo - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:35] <exec> 08└─but its got electrolytes... Its what managers crave! Hm, missed the firing part. But its got electrolytes!
[11:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Twilight Zone, 50 years ago - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:39] <exec> 08└─That's my take on it. What comes around, goes around. to automate the day-to-day management of the firm, including hiring, firing and other strategic decision-making.
[11:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Call me Yime Nsokyi - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:43] <exec> 08└─[T]he screen was already blank. She said, “Close screen,” anyway, telling the relatively dumb house computer to kill any link at her end. Yime was entirely untroubled by intelligent house systems, but did not wish to be subject to one. She was happy to admit to feeling a degree of satisfaction t...
[11:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03migz [1807] (Score:2) 02Built in failure - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:45] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately this will end in tears. Like every "management system" this one will fail, for the same reason all the others fail. We don't know what is important to measure, and what we measure is not necessarily important. These schemes fail spectacularly when exposed to software developers, most o...
[11:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Former Porn Sites are Hot properties - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:22:56] <exec> 08└─I know one guy who got the phone number of a defunct gay BBS. He tells me he got calls all hours of the night... on modem.
[11:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the money... - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:04] <exec> 08└─Sounds like too much work if you were looking for pussy on the Internet. All those packets flowing around on the Internet? Statistically, you have like at least a one in five chance of getting pussy just by grabbing a few packets. You capture enough packets, you can drip it out like a bucket with a...
[11:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Good guy, douche company? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 1079 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:06] <exec> 08└─Without reading the fine article it sounds like the company shattered after the single guy who knew rats ass about anything left. Customers were like "WUT? Bobs gone? But... But it was his software... He was the developer, he was the only technical person, he was... THE company. You guys can only gi...
[11:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Moral of the story - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:08] <exec> 08└─Pay your fucking bills on time and shit like this won't happen. snapped up its web address when he allowed it to expire.
[11:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:the new craze - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:31] <exec> 08└─Sous Quantum?
[11:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GOG Won't Help - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:25:24] <exec> 08└─Many virtual machine solutions support Windows Server 2003. So I'd agree it's not worth rewriting. However that's a different thing from keeping the game going or shutting it down.
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[12:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02show them porn - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:23] <exec> 08└─See the body parts you will never touch, should you choose a career in STEM. Just like the stars and planets you will never visit.
[12:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02hit and miss - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:25] <exec> 08└─Some anecdotal evidence, the class was taught by an acquaintance of mine and he shared his experience. The university I attended for my masters did something similar, not so much astrophotography but more stargazing and astronomy. Turns out the course got filled almost exclusively with senior citize...
[12:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Are STEM careers relevant today? - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 1388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:22:27] <exec> 08└─Many engineering careers are not going anywhere. [electronicproducts.com] Just a personal anecdote here, but it sure seems to me there is presently a severe glut of highly trained electrical engineers out there right now. I know several of them where I am working right now. I am doing so just to st...
[12:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:What a hive - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:38] <exec> 08└─Bridgewater is a company for assholes, by assholes. I've never met Dalio, but from what I've seen (and heard from others) from the outside working with employees of the company, I wouldn't shed a tear to see it crash and burn, hard. People regularly enough have described the company as a cult that...
[12:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:What a hive - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:39] <exec> 08└─I don't want it to completely fail though, lest the rats scurry to other companies.
[12:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good guy, douche company? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:07] <exec> 08└─The above is the more likely scenario. There are some people who, if given detailed step-by-step instructions will not be able to follow them. Even if given all passwords and everything, I doubt the Company will be able to make any use of them. People need to work for things themselves before they c...
[12:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Auto-renew? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 886 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:10] <exec> 08└─Auto-renew? I have it on all my domains. I have been with my hosting provider for a long time so I have not really bothered to check but I would assume that is something they all feature. When it's about a month left I start getting emails reminding me that if I don't want them to renew I have to co...
[12:23:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Auto-renew? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:12] <exec> 08└─Auto-renew? I have it on all my domains.
[12:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:be SOCIAL don't be antiSOCIAL - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:24] <exec> 08└─"Oh, you have teenaged daughter - what are her hobbies?". "She does martial arts? What kind? What belt does she have? Are there many girls in her dojo?". Asking these questions beyond the surface level makes it appear that you are
[12:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Under represented? - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:27] <exec> 08└─Well then, have you tried breaking some legs?
[12:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:the new craze - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:38] <exec> 08└─Food cooked at that temperature may or may not taste nice.
[12:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dropped calls but how - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:52] <exec> 08└─It all depends on who you are. Remember when we thought all those conspiracy theorists where paranoid and crazy? It turned out that the government and law enforcement were just operating under NDAs.
[12:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Move to Madagascar - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:24:16] <exec> 08└─Sunlight , beaches , cute women , cheap rum - what is not to like
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[13:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aim [6322] (Score:1) 02unconvinced - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:43] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I have taken up astrophotography as a hobby about 4 1/2 years ago, and I'm still learning the ropes. One may learn one's way around the sky, to operate a telescope, guiding etc., how to properly take pictures, how to process them and so on... and at the end, if you did everything right,...
[13:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03datapharmer [2702] (Score:2) 02Re:Built in failure - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:03] <exec> 08└─Oh oh I've seen this one: Black Mirror's "Nosedive". But don't worry, it all works out great! Cheers! Now rate me a 5 cause I'm smiling. Aren't you smiling?
[13:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Wrong managers... - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:04] <exec> 08└─The sad thing is: they're replacing the wrong managers. "Hedge Fund Managers" can have two very different meanings: - The managers of a company that handles one or more hedge funds. This is what they're trying to automate. But a good manager (of which there are sadly very few) has a lot of interpers...
[13:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Florida Man... - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:17] <exec> 08└─I'm from Florida you insensitive clod.
[13:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Serious answer? It depends... - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:46] <exec> 08└─Blind. Limited ability to participate in normal meetings, cannot read documents or diagrams, requires special software on the computer in order to work at a fraction of the pace of anyone else.
[13:24:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02Criminalize this device. - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 654 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:17] <exec> 08└─If you are operating a Stingray and you don't have a court order, your ass goes to jail. If you are operating a Stingray with a court order, and 911 calls don't go through, you go to jail. If you are operating a Stingray and my call to Aunt May doesn't go through because of it, you go to jail. Jeebu...
[13:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score:2) 02Re:But, - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:35] <exec> 08└─Check out (e.g. google: vit d without vit k) the fairly wide range of research on Vit K (and specifically K2) being necessary along with Vit D and maybe don't supplement D alone (leading to arterial calcification and various other nasty stuff). I am stuffed either way - with multiple auto-immune con...
[13:25:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Payment processors passing judgement - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:06] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JCB_Co.,_Ltd. [wikipedia.org] Neat, thanks.
[13:25:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03romlok [1241] (Score:2) 02Re:Crowdfunding/sourcing the server - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:55] <exec> 08└─Rather than pushing for it to remain payware by handing it over to another company to profit from,
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[14:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:hit and miss - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:39] <exec> 08└─Which turned into a loss for the university and they had to drop the course after a semester. Guess it was the drawback of a free education system, universities gets paid by the government for actually passing students and not just enrolling them.
[14:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Are STEM careers relevant today? - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:41] <exec> 08└─I'm in the niche of working at an EE related utility but not as an EE more as programmer/sysadmin. Early training was weird because they can't process an "untrained outsider" knowing all kinds of electronic tech stuff. They were spooked, like at the start of "Dune" when Paul somehow knew all about b...
[14:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why? - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:44] <exec> 08└─best way to attract people to STEM
[14:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:Good guy, douche company? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:28] <exec> 08└─I read the article (I know) and given that the press always waters down and muffs the story, it is hard to be sure... but it sounds like this CTO, one of the founders of the company, thought the "intellectual property" (knowledge) was his, while the company thought it was theirs. Sounds to me like i...
[14:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Moral of the story - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:31] <exec> 08└─Don't use an evil provider. mcgrewbooks.com expired last year. I'd renewed hosting and thought I'd also renewed the domain when it didn't. Saw the site was dark, logged in to my non-evil provider, renewed it, and it was back up immediately. I let my old Quake site expire on purpose, and a month late...
[14:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Serious answer? It depends... - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:49] <exec> 08└─I thought the article was lame in that all the disabilities were outside the skull. Not surprisingly some fraction of disabilities are inside the skull and brain-grindy STEM jobs are not going to be a good match to someone with some severe brain trauma symptoms. On the other hand (oh the pun) missin...
[14:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score:2) 02Re:truly an ingenious Design - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─It (the Intelligent Designer; seems odd to say "he" because why would a creator need a penis?) can't be that smart if it tried to hide this secret but we found it!
[14:24:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02re Another Case - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 1064 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:24:59] <exec> 08└─There is a similar, unrelated case [latimes.com], of a man wrongly convicted; quoting from the LA TIMES, the guy was indicted in 1998 and released until 2013 thanks to Kamala Harris, AG for California, who appealed his motions to keep him in jail: "[...] A federal magistrate reviewed those facts and...
[14:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Fallout: New Vegas - 06Las Vegas Now "Completely" Powered by Renewable Energy - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:26:20] <exec> 08└─Well there's already that beam that comes out of the peak of the Luxor.
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[15:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02US Only - 06Sling's “AirTV Player” Combines IPTV With Local Channels - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:32] <exec> 08└─Only available in the US. Very annoying. I use something called an HDHomerun device that's similar. It's about the size of a paperback. Plug an external antenna into it and it uses its two HD tuners to stream channels over your local network. It's supported by my TV directly, and by MythTV, which I...
[15:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Are STEM careers relevant today? - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:45] <exec> 08└─He shall know your ways as if born to them.
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 0299% failure is stilll good enough? - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:48] <exec> 08└─I believe that Amateur Radio ... Do you people think that this could be the best way to attract people to STEM disciplines
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Astronomy of all things? - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 2337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─Astronomy is a cool hobby. However, if you want to see something simply awful rub these two web pages together Here's a list of title of nobility degrees granted in the USA that turn untitled peasants into titled astronomers worthy of a job in the astronomy field by holding a piece of paper: https:/...
[15:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good guy, douche company? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:34] <exec> 08└─"There are some people who, if given detailed step-by-step instructions will not be able to follow them." They get advanced degrees called MBA to be LEADERS! Masters of the universe, rulers of the business world!
[15:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Moral of the story - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:38] <exec> 08└─GoDaddy
[15:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02florida man strikes again - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:42] <exec> 08└─♫ Florida Man ♪ That is all.
[15:24:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02I used to work with a blind guy - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:24:00] <exec> 08└─He was legally blind. This was mid-90s, we ran Linux. He had his font so large I could read it from across the room, and he used a magnifying glass to read it. Know what? He wrote some damned fine code. Not only that, you could ask him something and he had the entire code base memorized. He also had...
[15:24:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:It's "separate from"... - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:24:43] <exec> 08└─Why not listen to the people who invented English instead. Or just use some common sense, if you had any to spare..
[15:26:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Farewell - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:26:05] <exec> 08└─Oh man I don't know them all as I was never into the game. But we had a shared computer room with two computers and a phone. So I would be on one machine and my brother on the other playing whatever and on the phone with his friend. One wasn't so much epic as it was seriously fucked up and kinda hil...
[15:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03cpghost [4591] (Score:1) 02Re:Why I am giving up on PGP - 06Op-Ed: Why I'm Not Giving Up on PGP - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:06] <exec> 08└─Well, since Google needs to scan your mails to target advertisers, PGP integration into GMail won't happen, at least not on the free GMail accounts. But maybe they'll be willing to integrate that on their Gmail-for-Work paid services. And even if they integrated PGP into GMail, there's still the iss...
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[16:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Twilight Zone, 50 years ago - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:16] <exec> 08└─menial MBA type tasks your company needs
[16:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Built in failure - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:21] <exec> 08└─You're smiling - but do you have 9 pieces of flair?
[16:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Built in failure - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:24] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately this will end in tears. Like every "management system" this one will fail, for the same reason all the others fail.
[16:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Wrong managers... - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:27] <exec> 08└─The latter is happening as well.
[16:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02Re:Domed to Fail - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:46] <exec> 08└─How can a single customer hope to sustain 29 businesses? Or perhaps substantially more than 29000? The govt for example.
[16:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02need to be quicker - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:57] <exec> 08└─It says they leveled legal threats ... but they let it expire without acting on them I guess...? If they really thought legal action was necessary or warranted, they should have been quicker to do it, before the thing expired. They should have had everything tied to a company email (the old IT manag...
[16:24:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02protein effects. - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:24:31] <exec> 08└─That's also the temperature that a lot of proteins denature, I wonder if it's related.
[16:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:protein effects. - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:33] <exec> 08└─That's also the temperature that a lot of proteins denature, I wonder if it's related.
[16:24:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Jamming - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:43] <exec> 08└─Because jamming phones/tower would be a crime. They don't have to complain, they just arrest you. On paper it'll say an officer was walking by your home and smelled a strange wifi signal then called SWAT for backup.
[16:25:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:But, - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:12] <exec> 08└─it's probably trying to kill you for a good reason. doctors always want to blame the immune system instead of themselves for not knowing why. there's probably something wrong with what it is attacking. attacking synapses(ms)? probably something in the synapse coating that isn't supposed to be there,...
[16:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Another Case - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:25:37] <exec> 08└─guy pulls away his down comforter looks around and realizes prosecuters and politicians are scum bags. welcome to reality!
[16:26:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score:1) 02Re:feh - 06Entrepreneurial Experiences 'No Better Than Textbooks,' Says Study - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:26:08] <exec> 08└─This post actually runs in python.
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[17:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Survival Rate - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─So 2/5837 gives us a .03% mortality rate from the vaccine (assuming those two died) compared with Ebola's survival rate of up to 70%. Seems like the bar was pretty low in trying to find something that would work, glad they hit it out of the park with something showing such a resounding success. Did...
[17:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:their own fault - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:38] <exec> 08└─This is classic victim blaming. There is no reason a CEO, or really any other C-level executive, necessarily needs to be knowledgably about technology. That is the job of the Chief Technology Officer (CTO). How would you feel if somebody said, "it's your fault your limbs fell off, you used Cetratera...
[17:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Former Porn Sites are Hot properties - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:45] <exec> 08└─How do you NOT do anything with that? Just hook up a software system to it. I wonder who these people are, man...
[17:23:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Good guy, douche company? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 1079 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:55] <exec> 08└─Without reading the fine article it sounds like the company shattered after the single guy who knew rats ass about anything left. Customers were like "WUT? Bobs gone? But... But it was his software... He was the developer, he was the only technical person, he was... THE company. You guys can only gi...
[17:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03McGruber [3038] (Score:2) 02Re:Good guy, douche company? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:00] <exec> 08└─The former CTO named in the lawsuit has a profile posted on linkedin. According to that profile, he previously worked at epayspot dot com..... while the lawsuit quoted in the article refers to "Epay". Epay dot com loads a payment site that appears to be based in China, while epayspot dot com is cu...
[17:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I used to work with a blind guy - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, I DO wonder what ever happened to him... Why don't you fill us in?
[17:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02IDGAF - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:28] <exec> 08└─Are they competent or not? I don't care about other people's hypocritical moralizing. Do that on your own dime. Should I start hiring white people because they are statistically less likely to engage in criminal activity? Men because they tend to be willing to work harder, longer hours, and in harsh...
[17:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:But, - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:23] <exec> 08└─the TSA is groping you for a good reason. bleeding heart liberals always want to blame the authority system instead of themselves for not knowing why. there's probably something wrong with what it is groping. groping crotches (och?) probably something in the crotch coating that isn't supposed to be...
[17:25:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:But, - 06Sunlight Offers Surprise Benefit: It Energizes Infection Fighting T Cells - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:24] <exec> 08└─I can't take K, or likely shouldn't, due to a bizarre and unprovoked clot a couple of years ago. The B-complex and Mg citrate are there to shepherd the calcium the D3 will start throwing around the system and prevent it from depositing on the vessel walls, I was told. Is menaquinone (vitamin K2, M4/...
[17:25:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02Re:What new evidence? - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 1653 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:38] <exec> 08└─The previous charges were dismissed because the Communications Decency Act specifically exempted website owners from legal responsibility of the actions of their third-party users. For example, Craigslist isn't guilty of a crime just because someone tries to sell stolen goods via a Craigslist Ad. To...
[17:25:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Payment processors passing judgement - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:57] <exec> 08└─yes and this extends to paypal, stripe, etc. those socialist whores won't let you use their services if you're selling ammo, much less guns. they should be brought up on charges of sedition.
[17:26:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A couple of possible points - 06Entrepreneurial Experiences 'No Better Than Textbooks,' Says Study - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:19] <exec> 08└─Real hands-on entrepreneurship, any level position in a small startup company, is BETTER than any MBA. Not surprising that the for-profit education system is trying to run them down.
[17:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Farewell - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:47] <exec> 08└─Nerds flip out when you eat their rares [youtube.com] (obligatory 30-second Simpsons clip). Personally, I feel like this kind of trickery is one of the most interesting aspects of multiplayer games. I've never actually played Rust, but I've enjoyed the few trap base [youtube.com] videos I've seen (d...
[17:26:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GOG Won't Help - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:54] <exec> 08└─You really want to run Windows Server 2003 on a computer, even a VM, connected to the Internet? The time it takes to get pwned will be measured in milliseconds.
[17:26:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score:1) 02Re:GOG Won't Help - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:56] <exec> 08└─Presumably the servers are still running right now, and will continue to run for another month or so. I don't know anything about the technical side of the game, but I would assume there's no reason that the servers would have to expose IIS or ASP anything like that to the internet, so lock it down...
[17:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:GOG Won't Help - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:58] <exec> 08└─Many virtual machine solutions support Windows Server 2003. So I'd agree it's not worth rewriting.
[17:28:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:NSA's fault - 06FBI Probes FDIC Hack Linked to China's Military - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:28:38] <exec> 08└─yes, and government agencies shouldn't be allowed to spend public funds on slaveware like windows. They deserve to be hacked if they do.
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[18:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Security, security, security - 06Google to Launch Two of its Own Android Wear 2.0 Smartwatches - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:35] <exec> 08└─Does it infringe on my personal security/privacy? Then no thanks.
[18:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02list of upgrades - 06Google to Launch Two of its Own Android Wear 2.0 Smartwatches - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:37] <exec> 08└─Somewhat more interesting in the article is the list of upgraded models Android Wear watches that will be upgraded to Wear 2.0 next year:
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:Survival Rate - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:46] <exec> 08└─All recovered without complications. It's even in summary
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:1) 02specific - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not an expert on this, but the summary implies in the last line that it is specific to the Guinea strain. The articles say it specifically targets (or rather uses?) "a surface glycoprotein of Zaire Ebolavirus" which makes it sound highly specific to that strain. I don't know how different the st...
[18:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 1976 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:51] <exec> 08└─"Not one of the 6,000 people in Guinea who were given the test vaccine last year contracted the disease within 10 days, WHO said on Friday announcing the final results, without elaborating on what happens after 10 days as Ebola has an incubation period of up to three weeks." TFS gives us a number of...
[18:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Ring Vaccination - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 827 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:53] <exec> 08└─One of the things that was most innovative about the study was the approach taken in their vaccine trial. The group used a ring vaccination strategy that was blinded and had randomized immediate-vaccination and a delayed-vaccination group. Both the ring strategy and the delayed group helped the stud...
[18:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are STEM careers relevant today? - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe tell them that someone smarter than you or them them invented the tools they are using and told them how to use them. Maybe that will just blow their mind. Also, sounds like your "EE related utility" is a telco or cable company.
[18:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are STEM careers relevant today? - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:17] <exec> 08└─Just a personal anecdote here, but it sure seems to me there is presently a severe glut of highly trained electrical engineers out there right now.
[18:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Built in failure - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:44] <exec> 08└─Nope, the question is will the cost of the system's failures + the cost of the system exceed the cost of the average human manager + the cost of the average human manager's failures. If the failure is worse than human but less than the money saved by eliminating the human, it's still a net win.
[18:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Follow the money... - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:12] <exec> 08└─Why is it always porn sites?
[18:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Over 100 failed interviews? - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:35] <exec> 08└─OWWW GAWWD. The rejection! I need ice cream and gay porn to cope with the rejection!!
[18:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03claywar [3069] (Score:1) 02Re:Confusion - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:20] <exec> 08└─I'm totally guessing here (as I don't have/never will have access to one of these devices), however, I'm going to wager that these devices are acting as a portable BS/NodeB/eNodeB in order to get/convince phones in a certain radius to attach to them instead of local towers due to signal strength. At...
[18:25:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Criminalize this device. - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:24] <exec> 08└─if If you are operating a Stingray and you don't have a court order, your ass goes to jail. If you are operating a Stingray with a court order, and 911 calls don't go through, you go to jail. If you are operating a Stingray and my call to Aunt May doesn't go through because of it, you go to jail.
[18:26:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Re:Statistical significance - 06Entrepreneurial Experiences 'No Better Than Textbooks,' Says Study - 110 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:34] <exec> 08└─One explanation could be that neither experience nor book learning has much effect on entrepreneurial success.
[18:28:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Why I am giving up on PGP - 06Op-Ed: Why I'm Not Giving Up on PGP - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:28:08] <exec> 08└─S/MIME works well when supported by corporate IT. I have had less luck getting S/MIME to work in a personal context than I've had with PGP. If companies used PGP internally, it'd work just as well as S/MIME.
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[19:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:51] <exec> 08└─Yeah, CPR buys you a few minutes, not 15. 60 is pretty young these days. Supposedly she had a history of drug abuse but still.... Anyway, RIP. Say what you will but she definitely had an effect on this nerd.
[19:22:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I would say that kicking ass in that bikini had a rather large effect on nerds everywhere :)
[19:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:55] <exec> 08└─Yep - especially for CPR performed outside an advanced life support setting. Turns out 100% oxygen and all those drugs we give you are pretty important - who'da thought. Survival starts at 70% and goes rapidly downhill from there - and that's IN HOSPITAL.
[19:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Help me, Obi-Wan. - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:57] <exec> 08└─Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope! ... to soon?
[19:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score:2) 02Re:US Only - 06Sling's “AirTV Player” Combines IPTV With Local Channels - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:23] <exec> 08└─+1000 on the HDHomerun. Simple and elegant...one Ethernet port and one coax (apparently it has an internal splitter for the antenna). My MythTV backend is very old and I had three pcHDTV HD-5500 cards in it (yes, old old PCI 2.2 cards). One recently died and I bought a new HDHomerun connect. Totally...
[19:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Call Me Luddite - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:01] <exec> 08└─You're a Luddite!! And I salute you.
[19:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:truly an ingenious Design - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:18] <exec> 08└─“This is rather as if you imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in — an interesting hole I find myself in — fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a...
[19:25:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Confusion - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:44] <exec> 08└─Well yea, once you have the suspect's phone connecting to your "tower" you get everything. But the fact the "wire protocol" makes no distinction between voice and data isn't important. What is important are the legal details of CALEA and how the telcos, law enforcement and the courts have sorted thi...
[19:26:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:What new evidence? - 06California Attorney General Pursues New Charges Against Backpage CEO - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:26:24] <exec> 08└─No mention of them being charged with anything related to "money funneling." Harris, an incoming US senator, said she had charged Backpage executives Carl Ferrer, Michael Lacey and James Larkin with 13 counts of pimping and conspiracy to commit pimping. They also are charged with 26 counts of mo...
[19:28:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score:2) 02Finally, a natural case for gene editing! - 06Compact CRISPR Systems Found in Some of World's Smallest Microbes - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:28:19] <exec> 08└─Now that gene editing has been shown to be a natural process, can we all agree that genetically modified organisms aren't crimes against nature? Maybe naturopaths will start offering gene therapy techniques "derived from the healing waters of Crystal Geyser, California."
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[20:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02deal with the problem - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:31] <exec> 08└─A few governments should just pitch in to buy parts of Elsevier (a subsidiary of RELX Group) and hand it over to an independent entity. Or strike a deal that maintains the company's £2 billion revenue but requires all papers to be open access. Or better yet, invalidate copyright on scientific knowl...
[20:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Funding - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:22:32] <exec> 08└─Most research, worldwide, is carried out by government grants and thus I oppose your solution to buy/pay the publisher when any decent University or Research Center has enough manpower and technology to publish an online and open journal on practically any subject. Peer reviewers aren’t paid eithe...
[20:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Do not publish in Elsevier journals - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:35] <exec> 08└─If you are a scientist, show some dignity and backbone and publish in an open-access journal. The library fees will sort themselves out for older work.
[20:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02They all shot themselves in the foot. - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:37] <exec> 08└─I have zero sympathy for the big publishers at large but I don't hold much sympathy for the instutions either. Back in the late 90's and early 00's they all sold their formerly directly published inhouse journals to these big conglomerates in order to make them "internet ready" allowing these parasi...
[20:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─I wonder how long until AEDs become standard on planes. Hopefully her death will shine a spotlight on the lack of equipment on many flights. It's not like the devices are that expensive either. The school I work for has one in the next room just in case and we're in town minutes from a hospital. If...
[20:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Help me, Obi-Wan. - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:50] <exec> 08└─There is no "too soon", only "not funny enough".
[20:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02"Do not suffer a witch to live" - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:52] <exec> 08└─She dissed Trump, now is dead. Also, like every woman today: is a feminist. Thank's Putin. Don't know how he pulled it off but he does not suffer a bitch to live.
[20:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score:2) 02Down time - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:55] <exec> 08└─I'm going to have some downtime the rest of the week, think Empire, Jedi and The Blues Brothers just shot to the top of my queue...Time to dust off the Laserdiscs. This nerd has quite a few sads over this.
[20:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score:2) 02Listen, 2016 - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:57] <exec> 08└─Listen, 2016, sit down for a minute. We need to talk. This is an intervention. We all love you, but you need to stop being greedy, you've taken enough already.
[20:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:1) 02Re:Listen, 2016 - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:59] <exec> 08└─No, FUCK 2016. Bad year.
[20:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:01] <exec> 08└─While it is sad that Carrie Fisher has passed away and in no way demeaning her success, I find it troubling that not one pip about Vera Rubin’s [theverge.com] death appeared in this site, supposedly peopled by folks who would know who she was. It is no wonder Trump won when otherwise intelligent p...
[20:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:list of upgrades - 06Google to Launch Two of its Own Android Wear 2.0 Smartwatches - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:11] <exec> 08└─I have a first release Moto360 that I got a while after they first came out. It's definitely primarily used for very quick access to notifications, including reading emails, but I also use it a lot for controlling my music, seeing what song is playing, quick access to Google Authenticator, appointme...
[20:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:22] <exec> 08└─Stick to the Lancet article since it is the primary research article and there may be things lost in popular press translation. The prespecified primary outcome was a laboratory confirmed case of Ebola virus disease with onset 10 days or more from [vaccination] [...] The evidence from randomised an...
[20:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:23] <exec> 08└─They also say: To assess safety, vaccinees were observed for 30 min post-vaccination and at home visits on days 3, 14, 21, 42, 63, and 84. The possible causal relationship of any adverse event to vaccination was judged by the study physicians and reported to the DSMB. Vaccinees were provided with ac...
[20:23:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:US Only - 06Sling's “AirTV Player” Combines IPTV With Local Channels - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:33] <exec> 08└─There's actually a nice little Android app that makes it easy if you're up in the attic moving an antenna around as well.
[20:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:US Only - 06Sling's “AirTV Player” Combines IPTV With Local Channels - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodi_(software) [wikipedia.org] That will let you finish cutting the cords, forever.
[20:24:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02no metric for choosing metrics? - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:19] <exec> 08└─See also: http://www.pdfernhout.net [pdfernhout.net]
[20:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And nothing of value was lost. - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:24:22] <exec> 08└─N/T
[20:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:their own fault - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:34] <exec> 08└─It would be better, because then they could search his body and then his home for the info.
[20:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Farewell - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:46] <exec> 08└─Yea, That kid made a few people rage quit the game completely. The funny thing about UO was it was worse than the real world in many ways. You could get killed, robbed and completely fucked over with little to no repercussions for the griefing player. So it was pretty hardcore. Asherons call was sim...
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[21:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:re Funding - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:34] <exec> 08└─Decisive action needs to be taken. They own the copyright on lots of articles, they make billions in revenue with a large profit margin, and the papers are still not open access. Post your solution to the problem.
[21:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:2) 02Ignore all publisher demands - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:37] <exec> 08└─All scientistic journal publisher are parasites. Do you negotiate with a parasite ? Look here https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignore all publisher demands - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:40] <exec> 08└─Not all, check out: http://journal.hsforum.com [hsforum.com] I helped the founder setup the site back in the mid-90s when he ran it from home on an ISDN line.
[21:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:2) 02Re:Ignore all publisher demands - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:42] <exec> 08└─OK, you are right. All scientistic journal publisher are parasites, except The Heart Surgery Forum http://journal.hsforum.com [hsforum.com] Do you negotiate with a parasite ? Look here https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Ignore all publisher demands - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:44] <exec> 08└─Journals that are published by scientific societies are not parasites. But they should still be open access. Why fund society activities through library fees?
[21:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:54] <exec> 08└─A larger effect for some of us than others...
[21:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:57] <exec> 08└─Also cabin pressure is usually not sea level, so if she got 100% o2 in the cabin thats like ... I donno maybe 8Kft pressure is about 2/3 air pressure so we'll say sixty or seventy percent O2 on the ground? If she had 100% O2 on the plane during CPR (they bagged her instead of breathing into her)
[21:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:00] <exec> 08└─I wonder how long until AEDs become standard on planes.
[21:23:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:Help me, Obi-Wan. - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:03] <exec> 08└─There is no "too soon", only "not funny enough".
[21:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Listen, 2016 - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:09] <exec> 08└─Mick Jagger is still alive, isn't he?
[21:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Listen, 2016 - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:11] <exec> 08└─and Keith Richards too, somehow... I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.
[21:23:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 350 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:13] <exec> 08└─While it is sad that Carrie Fisher has passed away and in no way demeaning her success, I find it troubling that not one pip about Vera Rubin’s [theverge.com] death appeared in this site, supposedly peopled by folks who would know who she was. It is no wonder Trump won when otherwise intelligent p...
[21:23:14] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 805 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:15] <exec> 08└─Blow it out your butt :) What I find troubling is that you went through all that trouble to post a link, but couldn't submit a story. How were we supposed to know? We rely on users submitting stories of interest here. You could take that story, talk about her accomplishments, and then wish her well....
[21:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:17] <exec> 08└─It was the top fucking story on more relevant sites like Voat and Drudge
[21:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:19] <exec> 08└─It is no wonder Trump won when otherwise intelligent people care more about an actress than a scientist.
[21:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 3195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:22] <exec> 08└─Rubin was a medium size player, Fischer was a top billing actress, so she's gonna win. Rubin pretty much is famous for two things. First is around the turn of the last century there is no ether confuses many people who aren't paying attention into thinking "we" have no net velocity, but she did a lo...
[21:23:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:44] <exec> 08└─Besides just masking symptoms, supposedly ibuprofin binds to and destabilizes the virus coating: In what is being hailed as a significant breakthrough in the battle against the deadly Ebola virus, researchers have found an unlikely treatment source - an everyday ibuprofen painkiller.
[21:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:45] <exec> 08└─vaccinated cases of Ebola virus disease with an onset of more than 31 days after random assignment were censored to account for vaccination in the delayed clusters on day 21
[21:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:47] <exec> 08└─Yes I understand the reasoning behind the 10 days rule, but nevertheless that data is rendered unusable, and I want to know how many people got Ebola more than 31 days after vaccination. There is no reason to truncate that. Also, see my additional posts about Ibuprofen. This is way worse than I firs...
[21:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:50] <exec> 08└─More on the ibuprofin approach: Detailed analysis of these drugs revealed the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug ibuprofen as an inexpensive, widely accessible and minimally toxic candidate for prevention and treatment of EVD. Furthermore, the molecular mechanism underlying this possible protectiv...
[21:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:52] <exec> 08└─Wow, it is even in Washington State health guidelines that ibuprofen and acetaminophen should be avoiding when monitoring for diagnosis: Recommend the person not use antipyretic analgesics (e.g., aspirin, ibuprofen, acetaminophen) while under monitoring to avoid suppressing a diagnostic fever.
[21:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ayn Anonymous [5012] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Is this progress ? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:23:55] <exec> 08└─So the destructive force that blindly and stupid destroy the biosphere and habitat of its million of fellow beings get not controlled in numbers ? This is good news ?
[21:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Good guy, douche company? - 06Florida Man Holds Website Hostage - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:25:22] <exec> 08└─"They should be better off without him. Right?" They went from 29 customers to 0, so maybe not?
[21:25:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Ageism - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 1446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:25:53] <exec> 08└─Great article. Another area that IT tends to fall down on is with age. There is an assumption that only younger workers can handle new technology. This year, my company started developing some mobile apps. They began with one young guy doing almost all the work. He decided to leave the company just...
[21:26:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02Autopatch - 06Police's Secret Cellphone-Surveillance Tool Can Also Block Calls by the Innocent - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:26:33] <exec> 08└─2m ham autopatch for the win. One reason I still pay my dues to the repeater club.
[21:27:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Statistical significance - 06Entrepreneurial Experiences 'No Better Than Textbooks,' Says Study - 2005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:46] <exec> 08└─16 groups vs 600 students: That means you have to 'cluster' your standard errors by professor, reducing the statistical power of the sample, depending on the intensity of your intra-cluster correlation. For example if all students of a professor were 100% identical, it would be like having only 16 o...
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[22:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Wierd Plots - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:22:27] <exec> 08└─I don't know exactly how this data is being generated, but you can see back in Sep the surface and air temp were tracking each other pretty much exactly, then this stopped, and since then the surface temp has acted as an upper bound for the air temp. http://iabp.apl.washington.edu
[22:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03dingus [5224] (Score:2) 02Re:Wierd Plots - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:28] <exec> 08└─I didn't read it fully, but it looks like the source of most of this data: https://wwa.climatecentral.org [climatecentral.org] 1) I assume they're talking air temp, since surface temp doesn't change very rapidly. 2) That's why they sample a large amount of buoys ove...
[22:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Funding - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─My proposal is for universities and government bureaus that provide funding grants to prohibit their professors/researchers from publishing with any company that demands more than three years of exclusivity. This may require creating an alternative non-profit publishing service to fill in for Elsevi...
[22:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Funding - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:40] <exec> 08└─That doesn't liberate all the vast amount of knowledge they're already holding hostage however.
[22:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score:2) 02Re:CPR is bad news - Too much TV - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:04] <exec> 08└─It makes me chuckle when I see how overboard Americans have gone with them.
[22:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:16] <exec> 08└─Annnnnnnnnnnndddddddddd? Did somebody submit the stories there, or did they have paid staff that does it all? The way it works around here is that users submit stories, and it's not just staff. They're around for other things, and we have editors to help with what you submit. So now we have two peop...
[22:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Touché) 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:20] <exec> 08└─At least link to WaPo [washingtonpost.com] who give more attention to the important details alongside the gender politics. Unlike The Verge, we are more interested in her contributions to science, rather than the fact she had a vagina.
[22:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:re Relevance - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:22] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that during the holiday week, we are trying to schedule out multiple days in advance to afford the editors time off and the ability to enjoy their families. As of this comment, we are currently scheduling stories for December 30th (UTC). A story on Vera Rubin is slated to go out on Dece...
[22:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yet another stupid "Breaking News" - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:24] <exec> 08└─No, it is not "Breaking News". She and Generalissimo Francisco Franco are still dead. And they'll still be dead tomorrow regardless of whether you tune in for further developments.
[22:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet another stupid "Breaking News" - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:26] <exec> 08└─I agree... When the story was being edited I made my point -- on SoylentNews IRC -- that this is timely but does not deserve the 'Breaking News' tag... However, others disagreed due to the relevance of Star Wars to the community we have on this site. I still don't agree and think it's a waste of Bre...
[22:23:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:Yet another stupid "Breaking News" - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:28] <exec> 08└─I was personally glad to see that SN scooped /. on this one, and I think "breaking news" is appropriate for something that has just happened or just been revealed that many of us are going to feel is relevant.
[22:23:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yet another stupid "Breaking News" - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:31] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between getting the story out quickly, and calling it "Breaking News". Breaking News is news that is just breaking. It is where it is not clear where things are headed or how they are developing. Active shooters are breaking news during the active shooting. For at least 24 hours...
[22:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02So sad - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:23:33] <exec> 08└─Rest in peace, Princess Leia Organa, May the force be with you.
[22:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe [2583] (Score:2) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:58] <exec> 08└─how many people got Ebola more than 31 days after vaccination
[22:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:59] <exec> 08└─How do you interpret this line from the paper: vaccinated cases of Ebola virus disease with an onset of more than 31 days after random assignment were censored
[22:25:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02''antiSOCIAL'' (Wrong word) - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:56] <exec> 08└─Definitions: Social: You are invited and you go to the party Asocial (like asynchronous or asymmetrical): You are invited to the party but you don't go Anti-social: You are NOT invited to the party but you go anyway Really Anti-social: You go to the party and try to kill everyone there -- OriginalOw...
[22:26:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Careful when freezing - 06New Phase of Water Discovered - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:26:21] <exec> 08└─It might solidify into Ice-Nine.
[22:28:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Building your castles on sand - 06Turbine to Shut Down Asheron's Call in January 2017 - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:28:27] <exec> 08└─If money is how you keep score in life then you've already lost.
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[23:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:Wierd Plots - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:29] <exec> 08└─lolz who cares? You LOST libtard. Trump gonna Make America Great Again, jump on board or be a loser like all the sukkas that pay tax.
[23:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Big Climate wins again ! ! ! - 06North Pole at Melting Point - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:31] <exec> 08└─climate heats up, Big Climate wins, climate cools down, Big Climate wins, some racket, huh ? ? ? actually, would be interesting to contrast and compare the total amount spent on all the climate research in the world vs that spent on finding/extracting/processing Big Energy... why am i imagining it i...
[23:22:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02re Funding - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 604 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─Most research, worldwide, is carried out by government grants and thus I oppose your solution to buy/pay the publisher when any decent University or Research Center has enough manpower and technology to publish an online and open journal on practically any subject. Peer reviewers aren’t paid eithe...
[23:22:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Do not publish in Elsevier journals - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:45] <exec> 08└─If you are a scientist, show some dignity and backbone and publish in an open-access journal. The library fees will sort themselves out for older work.
[23:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do not publish in Elsevier journals - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:47] <exec> 08└─An issue here is that as a scientist you can earn as little as $1500 a month. The publishing fees are at least this much. So while I appreciate the layman's desire to see all scientists fight like Rambo/Rocky clones against the broken system, this is a pretty ridiculous proposition. Yes sure, if you...
[23:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Do not publish in Elsevier journals - 06Research Libraries Announce Boycott of Elsevier Journals Over Open Access - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:49] <exec> 08└─There are diamond open access journals that charge no publication fee either.
[23:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:1) 02Re:CPR is bad news - Too much TV - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:12] <exec> 08└─The success rate for CPR in situations like this is pretty low. Adding an AED to CPR increases the survival rate from 14% to 23%. Considering how poor the survival rate is for out of hospital heartattacks, that's a huge improvement. But, unless you know where the person is going to be, you have to h...
[23:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Francis [5544] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:CPR is bad news - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:14] <exec> 08└─CPR is almost never effective and yet we train people on it. By your argument we shouldn't be wasting money on that either. A plane is precisely the place for this sort of invention. Even on a short flight it can take a half hour or more just to land during which time you can't be performing CPR. Tr...
[23:23:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nethead [4970] 02Re:Listen, 2016 - 06Carrie Fisher Dies at 60 - 24 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:23:20] <exec> 08└─No, FUCK 2016. Bad year.
[23:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Something fishy? - 06Experimental Ebola Vaccine Shows 100% Protection - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:57] <exec> 08└─The vaccine seems to have been in development since at least 2002 (and the pseudotyping strategy much before that), but the ebolavirus outbreak seemed to put a lot of pressure on governments to allow fast-tracking of treatments (such as this and ZMapp).
[23:24:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Astronomy of all things? - 06Astrophotography as a Gateway to Science - 2337 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:24:35] <exec> 08└─Astronomy is a cool hobby. However, if you want to see something simply awful rub these two web pages together Here's a list of title of nobility degrees granted in the USA that turn untitled peasants into titled astronomers worthy of a job in the astronomy field by holding a piece of paper: https:/...
[23:25:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:And nothing of value was lost. - 06AI to Replace Hedge Fund Managers - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:05] <exec> 08└─A good manager is worth their weight in gold. A bad one can take out a company.
[23:25:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:be SOCIAL don't be antiSOCIAL - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:59] <exec> 08└─It's ok, though -- he's only asking for information regarding how thoroughly he could get his ass kicked.
[23:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:be SOCIAL don't be antiSOCIAL - 06Why Hire Engineers With Disabilities? They're Practised Problem Solvers - 1941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:01] <exec> 08└─modded insightful, and would a dozen times more if i could... many normies might find the idea a little off-putting, but it REALLY is good advice for introverts to deal with the (so-called) normies... i, too, avoid the quasi-social events known as office parties (an oxymoron to start with) for ALL K...
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