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[00:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02heretic - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:22:21] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus Behind Mysterious Peter Thiel Submission?
[00:22:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:heretic - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:22] <exec> 08└─Possible. I only saw the back of an old guy's head.
[00:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:36] <exec> 08└─In jail for telling their friends that Joey Gallo [wikipedia.org] is a really annoying person
[00:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Bah experts - 06Local High School Students Get Up-Close With Real Scientists in US - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:44] <exec> 08└─CNSI Scientists Targeted By High School Sex Sting
[00:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02You are Right - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:22:57] <exec> 08└─You are right, but not the way you think. Clinton is not saying russia's meddling cost her the election. If anything, she's blaming Comey's last minute bullshit. [google.com] But you know who is blaming russia? Trump! That idiot can not shut the fuck up about it. Sure he's denying it. But damn is he...
[00:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:I guess spear phishing is l33t russian hax - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:16] <exec> 08└─[...] postmortem analysis on Hillary's insane basement private email server indicated it was 0wned by multiple parties; at least five foreign actors had access to it.
[00:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Recounts Were Shitty for Election Integrity - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 1825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:20] <exec> 08└─> Trump's margin of victory was actually wider than initially reported in every single state where recounts were carried out. Where "every single state" is actually just "one single state" - Wisconsin. All the other recounts were halted in the courts before they could be completed. And that increase...
[00:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:Recounts Were Shitty for Election Integrity - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:22] <exec> 08└─Michigan even has a bullshit rule that if the number of paper ballots didn't match the number of votes in the computer, then a recount was forbidden for that county.
[00:23:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we living in a satire of reality? - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:23:28] <exec> 08└─Vade retro, traditionalist! In the Novus Ordo 7x6 chessboard, both bishops rest on the same color. It helps promoting ecumenism since they cannot attack the opponent's bishops. The fact that God likes so much ecumenism that it demolished the "let's all pray together" church in Assisi (while a TV cre...
[00:24:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Utopian nonsense - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:21] <exec> 08└─> this fight between Americans and Progressives needs to go ahead and go hot WTF? That's your means of solving this dilemma?
[00:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utopian nonsense - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:24:22] <exec> 08└─now that the Right has found its balls again,
[00:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Proto-planetary? - 06Concentric Rings Found in the Debris Disk of a Young Nearby Star - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:25:43] <exec> 08└─Certainly we live in interesting times! While some may complain that astrophysics is not an experimental science, the sheer abundance of stellar systems in various stages of evolution promises some interesting observations, such as this. Just think what this star could achieve in another 15 or so m...
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[01:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02care? - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:25] <exec> 08└─I almost cared.
[01:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:2, Interesting) 02Re:care? - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 1146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:27] <exec> 08└─You should care, because the organization's model is to be intellectually honest regardless of the bullshit groupthink going on in American universities. A year or so ago I had to do an internship for service learning and had to read about White Privilege and the struggles of Blacks written by some...
[01:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Alternative medicine - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:29] <exec> 08└─"Do you know what they call alternative medicine that actually works? Medicine."
[01:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative medicine - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:31] <exec> 08└─Standard medicine is evidence-based medicine
[01:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative medicine - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:33] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. And I don't even want to go into the way clinical trials have been progressively hacked by both the companies providing testing services (e.g. sign up junkies who fake symptoms in order to be paid drug money) and big pharma ("There are no facts, there is no truth / Just data to be manipu...
[01:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:3, Funny) 02Thiel and Bob - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:36] <exec> 08└─If the back of the head was bobbing up and down, it was definitely Peter Thiel.
[01:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02If they have Peter Thiel behind them... - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:38] <exec> 08└─...I doubt they're really hetero.
[01:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:40] <exec> 08└─Weird. The only etymology I can find that confirms "heterodox" as a root of "heretic" is a comment posted 5 hours ago on merriam-webster.com. GG trolls.
[01:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is a "heterodox etymology"? After all, we live in a post-etymological world now!
[01:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah and nobody is accusing Ulbricht of extorting store owners either. Its called an analogy. Quit being a dumbfuck. Or at least quit posting.
[01:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:22:58] <exec> 08└─Indeed, we all know that Aristarchus has the market cornered on dumbfuckery.
[01:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Maybe bring the "fun side to science" daily? - 06Local High School Students Get Up-Close With Real Scientists in US - 3260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:23:08] <exec> 08└─I'm happy to commend the grad students and staff that made this possible. But as someone who actually taught high school science for a few years, I wish more teachers would make science "fun" on a daily basis. I had one high school chemistry teacher who did so. He had actually worked as a chemist in...
[01:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:How Wikileaks Lost Credibility - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:39] <exec> 08└─" IIRC you also believe in the spirit cooking fantasy and pizzagate." You don't recall correctly. Spirit cooking? WTF? The bitch published a cook book which uses bodily fluids in the recipes? That's gross, disgusting, and could be occult too. A lot of occult shit attributes special powers to bodily...
[01:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How Wikileaks Lost Credibility - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:40] <exec> 08└─Looks like I recalled just fine.
[01:23:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Recounts Were Shitty for Election Integrity - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:48] <exec> 08└─That might be the original inetnt of the law. In which case this practical effect is an unexpected result. It was still used to deny recounts in the precincts that had the most reason to be recounted. Which was fucked up.
[01:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are we living in a satire of reality? - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:55] <exec> 08└─It's pretty rare, but it's possible. You can be in a situation where promoting to queen or rook results in a stalemate. Usually by that time your opponent is down to few pieces - typically a blocked pawn or two - and if the new queen blocked the king without actually checking it then you have given...
[01:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Are we living in a satire of reality? - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:23:57] <exec> 08└─I never said never! :) Another situation where it could come up is if you were confident that you could move your newly promoted bishop into a position where it would set up a discovered attack using a queen or rook. I actually had that situation come up in a game with a buddy of mine once, and I wa...
[01:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Just one thing... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:22] <exec> 08└─Never say "How could things get any worse?"
[01:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Truth is the answer! - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:34] <exec> 08└─Worse than that, she failed to receive 5 percent of the popular vote, hence her party won't qualify for public funding of its campaigns. http://www.cnbc.com [cnbc.com]
[01:24:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Already been tried - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:41] <exec> 08└─Name one that involves things we could do right now.
[01:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Utopian nonsense - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:24:57] <exec> 08└─The record of progress in the sciences is a gigantic rebuttal to that overly cynical assertion.
[01:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:46] <exec> 08└─How about the Trump, Trump, Trump, Putin, Trump and Trump? That's not got much Putin in it.
[01:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trump Trump Trump Trump Trump - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:25:47] <exec> 08└─I think I'd rather like the lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce garnished with truffle paté, brandy and with a fried egg on top and Trump.
[01:26:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Drink! - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 1629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:02] <exec> 08└─> obvious rebuttal Drink! —————————— https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnew...
[01:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Irony Much? - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:05] <exec> 08└─Indeed, two sides of the same coin.
[01:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Oh ye of little faith - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:26:13] <exec> 08└─Well, the original alt-right (instead of whatever the lamestream media invented) did think democracy was a failed experiment. Perhaps they've proven that conjecture by providing an example. (Never mind that's not actually proof.)
[01:29:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:29:47] <exec> 08└─>> but the goals should be the same Why should they? Business has a goal - make money. Unless your growth makes them money in the reasonably near future, they don't care about it any further than necessary to keep you employed. You have many goals - make yourself happy, provide for your family, keep...
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[02:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02FFS people - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:24] <exec> 08└─If you can figure out the Pauli exclusion principle, wave-particle duality, and non-relativistic time independent Schrodinger equations, you can spare 10% of your massive brain to learn english, like the rest of the civilized world. / google + wikipedia make a wonderful combination // I understand t...
[02:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:FFS people - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:26] <exec> 08└─Over/under is 70% insightful / 30% funny. Betting on my fellow soylenters is my new '17 sport.
[02:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative medicine - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 1724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:40] <exec> 08└─Actually, alternative medicine is often nothing more than traditional treatments that do not generate profits for pharmaceutical companies. Spending $1.5 - $5 million dollars on a double-blind study of the latest patented chemical out of the labs often does little more than generate a nice list of n...
[02:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative medicine - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:42] <exec> 08└─banning treatments that don't work by claiming they are "non-evidence-based" medicine, like they did with red yeast rice (in support of drug companies' most profitable drug ever)
[02:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:If they have Peter Thiel behind them... - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:46] <exec> 08└─There's a saying about Latinos -- It's not gay if you're the one on top.
[02:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:22:50] <exec> 08└─The only etymology I can find that confirms "heterodox" as a root of "heretic" is a comment posted 5 hours ago on merriam-webster.com.
[02:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:0, Redundant) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:07] <exec> 08└─But to pretend that he was convicted of just "operating a web site" is to deny reality. "convicted of creating and running the Silk Road website"
[02:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:09] <exec> 08└─Jesus. Fucking. Christ. Are you seriously claiming that some hyperbolic commentary is the actual charges he was convicted of? Puhlease tell me you aren't that stupid! There has got to be something more intelligent going on in that brain, right? For the record, he was convicted on a total of 7 counts...
[02:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:11] <exec> 08└─bla bla bla... a conviction on trumped up bullshit doesn't make him guilty of any real crime. Otherwise every politician you elect would be in prison also.
[02:23:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:13] <exec> 08└─Except that isn't what he was convicted of. You merely quoted someone providing a very simplistic version of the convinction. Try harder dipshit.
[02:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:15] <exec> 08└─Nothing there that deserves a life sentence. Prison is for people that are actually dangerous. This guy isn't. At worst he's a successful bureaucrat. He's only in jail for insufficient funds. Try harder asshole.
[02:23:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe bring the "fun side to science" daily? - 06Local High School Students Get Up-Close With Real Scientists in US - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:26] <exec> 08└─Mushroom grow kits and hands-on sex ed in biology class.
[02:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Project Veritas == Project Fraud - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:49] <exec> 08└─You guys maintain that Narrative in the hope of making it truthy in the minds of low info voters but it ain't so. And you are such an expert you can't even hate on the right guy for the right thing. Okeefe and his Project Veritas didn't do the Planned Parenthood spare baby parts videos, that was Cen...
[02:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Project Veritas == Project Fraud - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:50] <exec> 08└─Being a motherfucking dipshit SHOULD be an immediately disqualifier, yet for some reason you're still allowed on the internet.
[02:23:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:''echoes from your butt'' - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:23:55] <exec> 08└─Ya, you go on believing that. A Microsoft Exchange Server with no professional administration, no professional hardening, and apparently no secure firewall isolating it from the Internet. Spam and malware filtering was outsourced to the Cloud, at a service provider with no clearance. Zero breaches!...
[02:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:Just one thing... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:24:40] <exec> 08└─The corruption primarily comes from the fund-raising and the ability to work for those firms after leaving office. Term limits don't really do much about that,
[02:25:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Already been tried - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:25:02] <exec> 08└─Extreme weather is easy for a wealthy country to deal with. Wealthy countries have better and more sustainable agricultural systems.
[02:25:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03pen-helm [837] (Score:1) 02Science Court - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:25:20] <exec> 08└─There was once proposed a Science Court http://science.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org] of impartial smart guys to consider opposing arguments and judge the scientific truth. This court would not make policy, leaving that to the government.
[02:27:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02'Dr. Crawford, why do all these kids look like you - 06IVF Error May Have Affected 26 Dutch Women - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:27:35] <exec> 08└─?' It was a procedural error.
[02:28:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02Challenge accepted! - 06HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:28:12] <exec> 08└─Happy New Year Stop Two-thousand seventeen Stop Fifty six letters
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[03:22:30] <exec> 08└─I smell a self-whining prophecy.
[03:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02Quantity != Quality - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:22:32] <exec> 08└─I would assume that most of these papers are from China. If this is the case, the fact that they are not well known might be a blessing as Chinese academic publishing is rife with fake journals and bad papers, together with all of the quality issues inherent in all academic publishing in this "publi...
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[03:22:34] <exec> 08└─"My hovercraft is full of eels."
[03:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:care? - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:46] <exec> 08└─What, pray tell, is the "Christian intellectual tradition?" :) This should be hilarious...
[03:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:care? - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:47] <exec> 08└─That's just a fancy way of saying "science deniers".
[03:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Alternative medicine - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:22:54] <exec> 08└─While it sounds good, evidence based medicine == NHST. It is pseudoscience. They gather evidence, sure. Too bad it is about a default null hypothesis, not their hypothesis.
[03:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:02] <exec> 08└─That's what happens when you let an arrogant loony post instead of the real Aristarchus, who is long dead.
[03:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:05] <exec> 08└─Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated! But more to your point, this FA was submitted by yourself, Anonymous Coward. I would never confuse αἵρεσις with ἑτερός, this looks like the kind of mistake a native English speaker might make.
[03:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Maybe bring the "fun side to science" daily? - 06Local High School Students Get Up-Close With Real Scientists in US - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:23:36] <exec> 08└─Make sure the boys are circumcised nice and tight so they can't pass on any of their diseases to a woman.
[03:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:How Wikileaks Lost Credibility - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:13] <exec> 08└─Obviously, you'll overlook and forgive the most perverse acts, if they are performed by left/progressive/democrats, but condemn anyone who even questions those acts? Got it.
[03:24:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''both bishops rest on the same color'' - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:26] <exec> 08└─...since they cannot attack the opponent's bishops A small flaw in that explanation: A bishop must always remain on the same color as his starting square, so, to have bishops never clash, yes, both of one side's bishops would have to be on the same color, BUT those would have to be the -opposite- co...
[03:24:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02I don't agree about FOI re emails - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:24:31] <exec> 08└─I don't agree that the Freedom of Information Act should govern campaign emails. During the campaign the candidate is acting as a private party.
[03:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Already been tried - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:14] <exec> 08└─Extreme weather is easy for a wealthy country to deal with. Wealthy countries have better and more sustainable agricultural systems.
[03:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utopian nonsense - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:25:31] <exec> 08└─I have to roll my eyes at that one too. What benefits would there be to a "hot fight"? The charm of the modern democratic systems are that they allow people of quite different viewpoints to work together. Peoples' beliefs and self-interests aren't going to resolve through escalation of conflict. It'...
[03:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Irony Much? - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:39] <exec> 08└─who demands an unattainable level of proof for climate change
[03:26:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Head in the Sand - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:26:51] <exec> 08└─> Do something that can't be easily automated - [...] cooking [...] Perhaps you mean gourmet cooking? Some cooking processes have been successfully automated. Ever eaten canned food? I assume you're aware of the Automat restaurants; one firm even hopes its robots will make gourmet hamburgers: San F...
[03:27:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just wondering … - 06Here’s What a “Digital Miranda Warning” Might Look Like - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:27:18] <exec> 08└─Sadly that isn't really true anymore. There have been SCOTUS cases where the person stayed silent and the silence was used against them or allowed as a method to establish probable cause because they didn't specifically say out loud they were exercising their Fifth Amendment rights. It is to the poi...
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[04:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well. - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:23] <exec> 08└─That's just stupid.
[04:22:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:Well. - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:24] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, but what says "hipster douchebag" better than an Apple product?
[04:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:Well. - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:27] <exec> 08└─Eating off an Apple product?
[04:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilPapa [2366] (Score:2) 02tootski - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:29] <exec> 08└─I use my iPad to chop up rails of coke.
[04:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:22:41] <exec> 08└─I think everyone any formal field of study should stick to one language, which purely for historic reasons at this point, should be English. The parable of the Tower of Babel story is that if humankind were united under one language, they could rival God. If you think we should artificially limit hu...
[04:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02Re:Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:42] <exec> 08└─ISTR when I was a student, i was told the majority of journal articles were historically in German. After WWII, and especially with the "space race", that gradually changed over to English.
[04:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:44] <exec> 08└─It won't matter for long since Google's machine learning amped Google Translate [nytimes.com] is making waves. Add 5-10 years of development and a little careful tuning, and we'll see Chinese/Russian/Japanse/Arabic/Spanish/French->English, etc. machine translations of novels seeming more poetic than...
[04:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:46] <exec> 08└─Bible reference, really? In an effort to map out the scientific agenda of the near future? While it may seem that converting to one language is efficient, it may not be practical. It is quite probably the language cannot be controlled in a way that would allow for a truly universal language, even w...
[04:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02Re:care? - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:22:59] <exec> 08└─The only group that comes to mind is the Jesuits.
[04:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:care? - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:01] <exec> 08└─It could be anything from Roman Catholic education [wikipedia.org] to riding dinosaurs [quora.com]. There's been some impressive stuff done by Christian scientists over the centuries, but there's also some remarkably bad anti-science done today. Skepticism is warranted.
[04:23:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 134 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:23:13] <exec> 08└─The only etymology I can find that confirms "heterodox" as a root of "heretic" is a comment posted 5 hours ago on merriam-webster.com.
[04:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Project Veritas == Project Fraud - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:12] <exec> 08└─The gay vegan mooooooooooooooslims are gonna getcha, and they'll make you wear assless chaps!
[04:24:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Project Veritas == Project Fraud - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:13] <exec> 08└─> Okeefe and his Project Veritas didn't do the Planned Parenthood spare baby parts videos, that was Center for Medical Progress and David Daleiden. Half true. O'keefe and Daleiden are best buds that have worked together on similar lies. As fellow reactionary loony toon, Chuck Johnson, documented in...
[04:24:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hillary is the devil! - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:28] <exec> 08└─If you play Beyonce backwards its says "Hillary is the devil! Hillary is the devil!"
[04:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Are we living in a satire of reality? - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:24:45] <exec> 08└─I'd tell you to stop stuffing your face with those blue pills. Obama is somehow hypercompetent and pulling this deep, covert game, but yet can't do achieve anything serious despite eight years of US presidency.
[04:25:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Just one thing... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:10] <exec> 08└─When stupid doesn't work, stupid just fights harder.
[04:25:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Democracy doesn't scale - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:30] <exec> 08└─Nice quote, Aristarchus! Do you have portions committed to memory? Or did you just read it and say "hey I remember Machiavelli saying something similar" and if so how did you search to re-find it?
[04:25:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Democracy doesn't scale - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:31] <exec> 08└─PS - you can't copyright an idea (you can patent one) but you can copyright the expression of an idea. eg. if one writes a review of a book, the review is a different copyright. Similarly, there are countless renderings titled "the Madonna [and child]" each holding their own copyright to the same id...
[04:25:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02not funny - serious - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:25:34] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck voted this funny? This is serious futurism. Lightspeed communication means even alpha centauri is years to run the candidate announcements and elections. It'll be the problem of our great^n grandkids but that doesn't make it less of a problem.
[04:29:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02yo whiners - you're committing a logical fallacy! - 06HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:29:08] <exec> 08└─The argument "but this split of dev / community is exactly what we are here to avoid" misses the point. The subset of our community who have accepted responsibilities conferred and agreed they wanted to wish the rest of us well. They're not out of the community for doing so, they're including each o...
[04:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nollij [4559] (Score:2) 02Re:Not just IT - 06True Cost of Recruiting a Developer - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:30:48] <exec> 08└─pay the separation fee (employee's salary for a few weeks)
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[05:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03cheshire [1507] (Score:2, Informative) 02dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 846 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:35] <exec> 08└─The pictures I've found of this effort look to me like something a child threw together in a backyard, but I think the basic idea of dynamic plates is something we'll see more of in the future. Probably not with iPad specifically (and I wonder if/when any of these Quince plates will go 'missing') bu...
[05:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:37] <exec> 08└─Give the non-chef layman a color e-ink plate/platter to scrape their slop off before shoveling it into their mouth. What image or video will cause the best-tasting food? Are there imagery-food pairings?
[05:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02wrong application - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:22:39] <exec> 08└─better would be a non-stick frying pan that would display the amount and ingredient that needs to be put next and ... also display "please wash your hands before handling food!"
[05:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score:2) 02Re:Quantity != Quality - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:22:50] <exec> 08└─I would assume that most of these papers are from China.
[05:24:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02Re:Are we living in a satire of reality? - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:24:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not usually a fan of political cartoons, but this [imgur.com] seems quite appropriate.
[05:25:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Just one thing... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:14] <exec> 08└─Fancy term restrictions just make it harder for small time players to game the system. The pros can provide a string of ringers.
[05:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Just one thing... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:25:17] <exec> 08└─The bad side of Trump won't really show until 3-5 years from now. Right now we've just got the anticipation and uncertainty. And, all in all, he's not really out to wreck America. A Yellowstone eruption, that would be bad luck. A nuke going off as part of a domestic training exercise, that would be...
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[06:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:37] <exec> 08└─Bleedin' Outback Steakhouse, with tasteful video of a slaughterhouse in operation? Pictures of sausages or laws being made? Vegan plot!
[06:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score:2) 02Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:39] <exec> 08└─Imagine that: serving a seafood dish on a plate running a closeup video of... well, you know. It'd give the term "dining at the Y" a whole new meaning.
[06:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:41] <exec> 08└─I'll order the fried calamari and goatse platter for $69.
[06:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02This much stupidity should have a warning label - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:43] <exec> 08└─In normal times this would, even though it be Jan 1, be a candidate for dumbest thing of the year. But somehow I suspect 2017 is going to best out 2016 in stupid things and it brought us a bumper crop.
[06:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This much stupidity should have a warning label - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:45] <exec> 08└─The stupidest things of 2017 will come from idiot-in-chief Trump's mouth. The smartest thing will be his impeachment.
[06:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:This much stupidity should have a warning label - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:22:48] <exec> 08└─Ok, this isn't as dumb as iPad plates, but it is weapon's grade. Fun enough to break my usual rule of ignoring stupidity from ACs and have some fun with it. Impeach? Same rule as Obama had, there are at least thirty-four Republicans who realize it would be suicide so that is simply off the table. A...
[06:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:05] <exec> 08└─Bible reference, really?
[06:23:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:care? - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:21] <exec> 08└─Skepticism is warranted.
[06:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:23:37] <exec> 08└─Don't bother; half the people on this site think "Koine" has something to do with change machines.
[06:25:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Just one thing... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:25:36] <exec> 08└─The problem with that is, stupid has gotten so big and so powerful and monopolized so many resources that in its fighting itself it's going to kill a bunch of us little people as collateral. Unless and until we get these bastards on both sides of the aisle onto the notional B Ark and aim it at the S...
[06:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Utopian nonsense - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:12] <exec> 08└─The right found its balls all right; they're spread out on the right's collective face, as the right cracks its own ribcage to bend over far enough to deepthroat itself. Christ, you never mentally made it out of junior high's locker rooms, did you? Sit down and shut the fuck up and let actual ration...
[06:26:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Utopian nonsense - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:26:16] <exec> 08└─Who are you and what have you done with the real KHallow?! ...please tell me you shot him through the brain stem and dumped the body in a wood chipper a la Fargo.
[06:27:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Irony Much? - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:23] <exec> 08└─Every post you've ever made on the topic. Defend yourself all you want It won't amount to anything more than public masturbation. Insane people don't know they are insane.
[06:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Head in the Sand - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:27:34] <exec> 08└─What I didn't mean was industrial food processing. Kinda thought that was obvious. But then again, I'm not Literal Guy.
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[07:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02dirt bag - 06Indicted Prenda Lawyer Also Under FBI Investigation - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:22:26] <exec> 08└─If and when a dirt bag ever grows up, it's still just a dirt bag, right?
[07:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dirt bag - 06Indicted Prenda Lawyer Also Under FBI Investigation - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, but it can fertilize a great big money tree.
[07:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:45] <exec> 08└─If it smells like fish down there something is wrong with a woman's body chemistry, up to and including an infection. That is not normal.
[07:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:22:46] <exec> 08└─Nyotaimori, Hazuki-chan.
[07:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quantity != Quality - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:02] <exec> 08└─I guess when they were insisting on English as a lingua franca, they did not include reading comprehension.
[07:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Translation: - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:23:04] <exec> 08└─Electric eels, to be exact. https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com]
[07:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Lisperanto? - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:23:11] <exec> 08└─Time for a new meta-language that represents spoken language with a clear structure so that it can be auto-translated into multiple languages. I'm not sure Esperanto by itself is precise enough. For example, you know those parts-of-speech trees we created in English class? Well, the meta language sh...
[07:24:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:02] <exec> 08└─Most of those shouldn't be crimes at all.
[07:24:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Hillary is the devil! - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:55] <exec> 08└─If you play Beyonce backwards its says "Hillary is the devil! Hillary is the devil!"
[07:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:How Wikileaks Lost Credibility - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:24:56] <exec> 08└─Runaway, Runaway! Did you watch "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" again? You know it always scares you, what with all the Muslins taking your heart out and shit. So just calm down. Here, have some Ladyfingers and ******toes.
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[08:22:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:26] <exec> 08└─Some condescending cunt drew a stick-figure comic about SQL injection and everyone posts obligatory links to his fucking shit.
[08:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:27] <exec> 08└─atory Fuck you with a rake
[08:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:30] <exec> 08└─Lick my clitmouse, fuckface. https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[08:22:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:32] <exec> 08└─Someone needs a nap.
[08:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:34] <exec> 08└─Someone needs a pacifier but the erect penis is missing! https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[08:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:22:36] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/327/ [xkcd.com]
[08:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Offtopic) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:38] <exec> 08└─WRONG LINK YOU CUNT https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[08:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:40] <exec> 08└─In this case, I believe this one, while not xkcd, is more appropriate -- not to mention a requred reading for anyone implementing anything to do with names: http://www.kalzumeus.com [kalzumeus.com]
[08:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02When dirt bags grow up they become fresher... - 06Indicted Prenda Lawyer Also Under FBI Investigation - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:22:51] <exec> 08└─And as a result turn out to be shitbags, which are just dirtbags that recomposed too much...
[08:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This much stupidity should have a warning label - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:23:13] <exec> 08└─Maybe if the media told more lies and called him racist more he can get there?
[08:28:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03hvergelmir [6453] (Score:0) 02Re:Superfluous? - 06Here’s What a “Digital Miranda Warning” Might Look Like - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:28:31] <exec> 08└─Yup agree with that. Basically anything you say will go over peoples' heads when you arrest them, especially in a chaotic situation. And well, if you get arrested so often that you keep calm and know your miranda rights by heart I'm sure you know what your rights are and what you should (not) do...
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[09:22:37] <exec> 08└─Not xkcd what the fuck this shit I don't even. Didn't you read the dept line? This is xkcd discussion. Get your real work professional programming shit the fuck out of here.
[09:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02In a cemetery in Cheyenne, Wyoming... - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:39] <exec> 08└─...there's a gravestone that simply says "NULL"
[09:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:3, Insightful) 02Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:41] <exec> 08└─Strings must not get automatic conversion to other data types based on the content of the string being parsed!!! Conversion the other way is almost as horrible. One does not legitimately "add" a non-string to a string or compare a non-string to a string. To prevent bugs in production code, type mism...
[09:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:43] <exec> 08└─HAHAHAHAHA Your GOD RANDALL says to use Python. https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[09:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Utf-? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:45] <exec> 08└─have experinced several instances of "special characters" breaking databases - supposedly, these expensive "off the shelf " solutions" were UTF-8, but even a humble hyphen broke them. It isn't always the programmer's fault - sometimes the crappy system they are expected to implement is just crap.
[09:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trouble getting flights - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:47] <exec> 08└─I have trouble sometimes getting on flights. Kinda sucks actually. Mohammad al Hussain bin Laden
[09:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Trouble getting flights - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:22:50] <exec> 08└─How do you have a job? Doesn't HR call a tip to Homeland every time you apply anywhere?
[09:23:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:23:41] <exec> 08└─The Bible is a well-written work of fiction, and it isn't impossible for fiction to contain important lessons or thoughts.
[09:24:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02He did a lot of other shit... - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:24:23] <exec> 08└─Including put out hits on a few people if I remember correctly. The site by itself might have gotten him obscene jail sentences before trial, but it was a number of the later charges that got him the life imprisonment verdict.
[09:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Are we living in a satire of reality? - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:25:47] <exec> 08└─> I don't really even understand what Obama is trying to do. > I mean it seems like he's intentionally trying to provoke international hostilities, > which would be detrimental to our national interests and national security, > just because he didn't like the election result. That's a bit rich after...
[09:26:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If that was true... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:26:01] <exec> 08└─He would never have supported Clinton and would either have requested to be put back on the Independent ballot, or agreed to the Green party offer and joined up with Stein to offer a third party solution. While I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for most of the election cycle, that c...
[09:28:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Head in the Sand - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:28:13] <exec> 08└─> What I didn't mean was industrial food processing. I assumed you didn't. Yet, in industrialised countries, industrially cooked foods are commonplace. Also common are foods that have been processed in a way that minimises the skill needed to prepare them. Those are even served at many restaurants....
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[10:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score:1) 02Like Japan - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:24] <exec> 08└─When growth stalled in Japan, they went on a huge infrastructure buildout plan. That increased internal debt enormously. China's going down the same path.
[10:22:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:41] <exec> 08└─But who the fuck actually uses the string "Null" to indicate a null string?
[10:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:45] <exec> 08└─Not for big creations. Those should be written in Lisp, unless you hack them together in Perl. [xkcd.com]
[10:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:47] <exec> 08└─Python is strongly typed. It definitely does not implicitly convert strings to None.
[10:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Utf-? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:22:50] <exec> 08└─Then it's still the fault of the programmer — namely of the one who wrote the relevant code in the off-the-shelf solution.
[10:22:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02See the positive side - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:55] <exec> 08└─See the positive side: Also surveillance databases might have trouble with that name.
[10:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What's in a name? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:57] <exec> 08└─Wow, the Monroe lover must be deep in his cups. We do seem to have some rather specific haters here. This guy shows whenever XKCD is mentioned. Then there is the Lover of Musk, not sure what his issue is. And the anti-Thiel guy, who is always submitting articles. Unusually, seems most of the time...
[10:22:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02'Standard' names? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:22:59] <exec> 08└─If you are involved in designed forms for entry of people's names, PLEASE read this document https://www.w3.org [w3.org] You might find it surprising just how differently names are constructed in different cultures around the world. Please don't make the mis...
[10:23:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:'Standard' names? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:01] <exec> 08└─Easier to just assign each user a unique serial number. They can have it tattooed on their arm so they don't forget.
[10:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Three issues... - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 1535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:03] <exec> 08└─In my experience, there are three related issues here: - Programmers who never see any language other than English (typically in the US or UK), because everyone else knows about international characters. These are the people who cannot be bothered to configure their database tables to expect UTF-8;...
[10:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not a new problem. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:05] <exec> 08└─My mother tells a tale of one of her classmates, a guy called "R B" who got called up for Vietnam. Apparently single letters confuse the army, so it was noted that his name was only the letters. In all of officialdom since he's been Mr Ronly Bonly.
[10:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Some get lucky though - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:07] <exec> 08└─Like Polish people driving in Ireland: http://news.bbc.co.uk [bbc.co.uk]
[10:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:23:59] <exec> 08└─The Bible is a well-written work of fiction
[10:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score:2) 02Re:care? - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:17] <exec> 08└─If it floats, it's a witch?
[10:24:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:If they have Peter Thiel behind them... - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:28] <exec> 08└─Silly! Homodox is not a word! The opposite of heterodox is orthodox, where "ortho" means "straight", kind of the opposite of the opposite of the sameness you were, um, shooting for.
[10:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:24:35] <exec> 08└─Hmm, what would they make of Attic Greek, then? Not to mention Ionian and Phrygian, which I won't mention.
[10:26:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Just one thing... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:39] <exec> 08└─"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." (Mit der Dummheit kämpfen Götter selbst vergebens.) Friedrich Schiller
[10:26:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Already been tried - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:26:58] <exec> 08└─Or you could build a bridge from the end of the cliff. Or evacuate to the end of the train and detach the last carriage. Or derail the train.
[10:29:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Better idea - 06Here’s What a “Digital Miranda Warning” Might Look Like - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:29:18] <exec> 08└─I'll take "Obstruction of Justice and Destruction of Evidence", for 5 to 10 years, thanks Alex.
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[11:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02But the Smog! - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:22:38] <exec> 08└─It just won't be good old China without the smog.
[11:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Utf-? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:04] <exec> 08└─If they built the system to spec, then no. The marketing dick who lied when they sold it, and the management types who don't agree it is a priority. I expect many people have been asked to stop before the job is done properly. Is that still their fault? I don't see it.
[11:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What's in a name? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:09] <exec> 08└─Myself, I hate to categorize general and specific hate. Specifically, I hate generalizations. To paraphrase an old military chestnut, "Hate them all and let SN moderation sort them out."
[11:23:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score:2) 02Re:Three issues... - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:14] <exec> 08└─Why would you invalidate a name as too short? That sounds like a symptom for a whole bucket of other deeply-rooted problems.
[11:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score:2) 02This reminds me... - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:18] <exec> 08└─I once dated a girl who I had met off the internet. After a month or two I found out she thought my name was Null Void. It was at least partly my fault I guess because I never noticed, but damn. I fucked her sister and stopped talking to her.
[11:23:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score:2) 02Reminds me of this.... - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:20] <exec> 08└─http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/ [kalzumeus.com] (I am unsurprised by TFA - programmers are overworked, rushed to ship, and names are astonishingly hard to get right.)
[11:23:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02Re:Well. - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 28 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:23:38] <exec> 08└─Eating off an Apple product?
[11:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score:1) 02Cooking the food on the way? - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:23:52] <exec> 08└─So if they would use Samsung (the exploding one), then they could cook the food while on the way to the customer? :) ... On a more serious note - is there any heat limitation to the food? You have a bunch of lithium under your face. Could it get dangerous if the food is too hot?
[11:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:Lisperanto? - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:24:16] <exec> 08└─(is newspeak (adjective (* 2 plus) good))
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[12:22:29] <exec> 08└─The origin of skinheads!
[12:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:22:55] <exec> 08└─Airlines, apparently. You should see how the avionics are coded...
[12:23:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:Three issues... - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:23:14] <exec> 08└─What criteria to you impose on incoming data? The goal is to catch and prevent data-entry errors. So: why would you invalidate a name as too short? Perhaps because you don't want people just entering their initials. If you've never in your life seen a name consisting of fewer than three characters,...
[12:23:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02High Level Languages - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:19] <exec> 08└─LOL
[12:23:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02San Francisco - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:23:54] <exec> 08└─OF course a truly snooty and innovative restaurant would use Samsung Note 7's so you could have your dinner flambee'd before your eyes.
[12:24:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilPapa [2366] 02Thiel and Bob - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:42] <exec> 08└─If the back of the head was bobbing up and down, it was definitely Peter Thiel.
[12:24:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02*pshaw* - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:24:53] <exec> 08└─as soon as gold-diggers enrole it will become completly orthodox...
[12:26:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:Just one thing... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:26:40] <exec> 08└─This is exactly it. Look at the last US election. One of the candidates wanted the best thing for the US (whether it would have worked or not is up for debate, but I think Bernie Sanders intentions were never in doubt), while others wanted either power or fame. Look how well that worked out.
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[13:22:28] <exec> 08└─Does that mean Donald Trump isn't Literally Hitler?
[13:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02eyelash - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:22:29] <exec> 08└─On the bright side a genetic therapy might be discovered for eyelashes that go rogue and rub your eyeball until you pluck it (the eyelash not the eyeball) The bad news is I'm not sure a genetic therapy is the way to go for rogue eyelashes. I get about one of those a decade and its so annoying.
[13:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:22:57] <exec> 08└─You would be amazed the number of times I've seen this. I was thinking about getting a licence plate with this value.
[13:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02stupid coders - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:03] <exec> 08└─do stupid things. Like: assuming all people use the local "standard" assumptions of: 1) Dates and Times 2) Currency ans Counting 3) Names 4) Addresses 5) Gender 6) Accounting Practices 7) .....
[13:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Problems with email addresses - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:23] <exec> 08└─Just last week, I was attempting to create an online account, and the web site refused to accept my email address as valid. I use a firstname@lastname.com email. I used to use firstname@lastname.US, and so many sites rejected that address that I ended up abandoning it. Admittedly, that was several...
[13:23:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02Re:Well. - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 74 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:40] <exec> 08└─Well yeah, but what says "hipster douchebag" better than an Apple product?
[13:23:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03cheshire [1507] (Score:1) 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:47] <exec> 08└─Bleedin' Outback Steakhouse, with tasteful video of a slaughterhouse in operation? Pictures of sausages or laws being made? Vegan plot!
[13:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cheshire [1507] (Score:2, Informative) 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 1698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:23:49] <exec> 08└─Food is a basic need and there is certainly imagery surrounding it, though that symbolism may vary a lot among different people. Food photography [digital-photography-school.com] is big for a lot of people and I think color contrast [designlovr.com] plays an important role. In that second link cons...
[13:24:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:Alternative medicine - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 178 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:24:49] <exec> 08└─banning treatments that don't work by claiming they are "non-evidence-based" medicine, like they did with red yeast rice (in support of drug companies' most profitable drug ever)
[13:25:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:You are Right - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:25:52] <exec> 08└─Making it all about him means that he creates the controversy and only he can end the controversy. All the way through the elections we saw this play out - he says something about himself or in relation to himself, then trolls the media for a few weeks crowding out any real news. I hope people catch...
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[14:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Like Japan - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:22:37] <exec> 08└─I still like it better than the US version: Increase your debt without any new infrastructure.
[14:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:04] <exec> 08└─One does not legitimately "add" a non-string to a string or compare a non-string to a string.
[14:23:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utf-? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:09] <exec> 08└─YES They did not write good code. It is up to developers to teach *ALL*, else get the f*** out of the way and leet real developers to do the work.
[14:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Standard' names? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:18] <exec> 08└─Asian language constructs of simple Western words are a bugaboo. Dump truck, for example, can translate to something like "great rock-spewing dragon of wheels" or some such. It makes AYBABTU seem like Chaucer.
[14:23:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three issues... - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:23] <exec> 08└─Actually, during WWII, it was not "nmi" it is "None". That was my fathers middle name on his "dog tags".
[14:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:Three issues... - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:25] <exec> 08└─This is a non-issue. People with such names, which include names that cannot be written in any language or form, and names way to long to fit in any non-digital form, will have a standardized form of their name if they want to exist in society. The problem is names like Null and Drop tables, which a...
[14:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:56] <exec> 08└─Aside from the food industry stuff, think of how many values of "the truth" exist for fun propaganda purposes. Including truths such as "the picture on the mcdonalds food trays today is whatever was the top post on /b/ this morning when anon drove by"
[14:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:23:59] <exec> 08└─What image or video will cause the best-tasting food?
[14:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:24:06] <exec> 08└─Aside from the "well, you know" aspect the SECOND thing I thought of is living 1000+ miles from a coast, seafood can get a bit expensive and we're gonna get large ipads with "red lobster tv commercial" style pictures of ten servings of shrimp and a pint of cocktail sauce but on top of the ipad there...
[14:25:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:07] <exec> 08└─Reports of my death were greatly exaggerated! But more to your point, this FA was submitted by yourself, Anonymous Coward. I would never confuse αἵρεσις with ἑτερός, this looks like the kind of mistake a native English speaker might make.
[14:25:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:25:11] <exec> 08└─Wait, did somebody mention Bit Koine, a technology for converting vast quantities of ouzo and olive oil into a blockchain of Zenos Paradox proofs?
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[15:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Uhh , cowlick? - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:39] <exec> 08└─Is this what is commonly called a "cowlick"? I've never known anyone with blonde hair to get it "knotted and tangled" in such a way; the summary seems quite confused as to whether "uncombable" and "knotted" are the same thing (I'm inclined to believe that they aren't)...
[15:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Like Japan - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:48] <exec> 08└─infrastructure
[15:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Like Japan - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:22:50] <exec> 08└─Our railroad bubbles were in the late 1800s and they dang near broke the country economically. China's railroad bubble is right about now, along with everything else they do economically being in a bubble. We'll see how they do when it pops. Playing the game on the way up is pretty easy, its on the...
[15:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02donuts - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 1451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:53] <exec> 08└─Whats in the donut? The problem with high speed rail is if you're closer than 1/2 hour by car its quicker to drive or bus or cab (or walk) so there's this minimum diameter where the train begins to make sense. Interestingly I live inside the donut WRT Chicago, I can take a train into downtown Chicag...
[15:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Profits - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:22:56] <exec> 08└─US railways are profitable. Europe's are a money pit. I'm guessing they are a jobs program for Chinese central planners.
[15:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03UncleSlacky [2859] (Score:1) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:17] <exec> 08└─Bobby's recently entered the world of business: https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk [companieshouse.gov.uk]
[15:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score:2) 02Re:'Standard' names? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:23:36] <exec> 08└─Easier to just assign each user a unique serial number. They can have it tattooed on their arm so they don't forget.
[15:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score:1) 02Getting a Company Credit Card - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:23:50] <exec> 08└─I remember an office admin having a hell of a time ordering a credit card for (Name is close, but my spelling is likely off here) "Thanikas son of Permal Sundresun" ..but there wasn't a convenient way of abbreviating it - because it was his full legal name. AMEX at the time (about 20 years ago), had...
[15:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:care? - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 1370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:12] <exec> 08└─A more learned devout follower of esoteric Ethanolism could probably answer this better, but I suspect he's talking about our ole buddy St Augustine who merged a lot of pagan and christian thought together or explained one in terms of the other, kinda sorta. Something in the spirit of "Plato's forms...
[15:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:He did a lot of other shit... - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:25:43] <exec> 08└─It's all faked and unproveable and wasn't even entered into evidence at trial.
[15:27:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score:2) 02Re:''both bishops rest on the same color'' - 06Reactions to Russian Hacking Activity - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:27:04] <exec> 08└─look at the 6x7 board, white bishops are on white squares. Dogmatism is never the problem (look at science, axioms are dogmas and ecumenism would be for example embracing ID). Problem is interfering with one's freedom about which ones to pick and to be taken responsible for.
[15:29:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Robots advancing (was Re:Head in the Sand) - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:29:38] <exec> 08└─http://pacificdrain.com/service/robotic-cleaning/ [pacificdrain.com] http://www.huffingtonpost.com [huffingtonpost.com] http://cs.stanford.edu [stanford.edu] https://www.we...
[15:29:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03hellcat [2832] (Score:2) 02I'm in manufacturing, and ... - 06Prediction: The U.S. Will Surpass China as the No. 1 Country for Manufacturing by 2020 - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:29:41] <exec> 08└─... I can listen to the "experts" but I rely on my own observations for the long term. Long term trends include US manufacturing employment: bit.ly/MfgEmp and the participation rate of about 62% (look it up, it's going down) and the share of manufacturing as an economic sector within the US compared...
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[16:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:29] <exec> 08└─"I want to pick random coordinates from a pool of locations deep in the amazon rain forest and the bottom of the seas, and mail someone a letter at that location to see what their response is. I also plan to not use an actual tangible letter, but some ephemeral bursts of RF instead. Who's with me?"
[16:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:3, Informative) 02Not the first such study. - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:36] <exec> 08└─Another famous one is How long since a judge ate before ruling on your case [propublica.org] Judges are human and prone to human mistakes, and the really awful part is that more objectivity isn't really the answer, because there is a lot of subjectivity to how to treat each individual case. I hate c...
[16:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Not the first such study. - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:39] <exec> 08└─Our so-called representatives could fix this by not making every other offense a decade or longer sentence.
[16:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not the first such study. - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:41] <exec> 08└─The obvious answer is to have an order of magnitude more judges, and use some sort of score voting or median type system to form a consensus and reject the crankiest judges. (To let the system function in real time, while avoiding systematic biases arising from conventional sleeping and meal times,...
[16:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Not the first such study. - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:22:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and that's just the tip of the iceberg. One of the even more distressing ones are the studies that seem to show that judges seem prone to the "gambler's fallacy" illusion where they think that because a case or two went one way that they should likely have a case ruling the other way coming up...
[16:22:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02A video worth watching - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:45] <exec> 08└─Daylight Saving Time Explained by CGP Grey https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] and no, I am not the author of this video. But yes, daylight savings is either obsolete or it only exists to give politicians a grandstanding point so they can try and look useful and to distract us...
[16:22:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02schedule tinkerering - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:47] <exec> 08└─Judges in the United States tend to give defendants longer sentences the day after switching to daylight saving time
[16:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Probably not too surprising that... - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:22:50] <exec> 08└─Irritable people behave in an irritable manner. I only skimmed the submitted summary...so was there a deeper correlation discovered, other than a lack of sleep makes most people grumpy?
[16:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Godwin Nazi Hitler - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:00] <exec> 08└─Coincidence though it may be, there's a picture or two of president-elect Trump in the Google image search [google.com] results for "uncombable hair".
[16:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhh , cowlick? - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:04] <exec> 08└─"uncombable" and "knotted" are the same thing[?]
[16:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02So how many Struwwelpeters are there? - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:06] <exec> 08└─I've always wondered what my hair problem was. And now I know. Ich bin ein Struwwelpeter!
[16:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Like Japan - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:17] <exec> 08└─Maintenance of infrastructure would seem to require U.S. local labor, acting as a stimulus for the U.S. economy, rather than spending trillions and misplacing billions in ***istan.
[16:23:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Towards more explanation clarity - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:23:23] <exec> 08└─In Washington, DC, USA, a complex of three buildings behind the US Capitol, collectively known as the "Library of Congress", is served by one metrorail station just north of, and one just south of, the complex, which itself is situated between the Folger Shakespeare Library and St. Peter's Cathedral...
[16:23:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:38] <exec> 08└─Jesus Christ - Now Randall's gone insane from lack of sex! He's totally bonkers!
[16:23:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:39] <exec> 08└─I modded you up, because you're right about him. And now he's not only condescending and preachy, he's jumped on the "social justice" bandwagon as a lame attempt to try to get pussy -- but I doubt its working. Having the balls to openly disagree with women, when done playfully, is what gets the ladi...
[16:23:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:23:43] <exec> 08└─Randall, buddy, calm down. Look, I'm really starting to worry about you. How about this -- I'll buy you a prostitute, but if I do you have to promise me that you'll actually have sex with her rather than cry in her arms all night and piss yourself. Good hookers ain't cheap, especially if you live in...
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[16:23:51] <exec> 08└─Rob Malda's license plate reads, "NULLO" and no, it's not "NULL\0" he's talking about.
[16:24:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Standard' names? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:12] <exec> 08└─Could you pass this along to Western Union for me? As part of a volunteer job, I accept money from college students around the world. Sometimes they want to send via Western Union which requires the sender to specify two things which I use to collect the money (along with a code number): *...
[16:24:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:24:54] <exec> 08└─In Germany Scheisse videos would make any food appetizing. I could start up a restaurant specializing in pork, served on iPads showing Scheisse videos. The eatery could be called "Scheisse und Schewin."
[16:25:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score:1) 02esperanto - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 2157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:25:32] <exec> 08└─To quote a comment from the past (https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=9684&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=improvedthreaded&cid=241469#commentwrap) ...but this time while on a thread that might still be active: I have started thinking that Esperanto should be everyone's 2nd language, simply becau...
[16:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Um, no. Not for founding it - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:26:35] <exec> 08└─Its not that he founded silk-road that got him into trouble, its how he used it. It could have been via carrier pigeon instead.
[16:28:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02Re:Already been tried - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 262 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:28] <exec> 08└─A train is racing towards a cliff. There is no way to leave the train. The experts offer just one plan to deal with the situation: Stop the train before it reaches the cliff. Obviously their solution must be wrong, as they are not offering alternative solutions.
[16:28:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utopian nonsense - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:28:55] <exec> 08└─Someone predicted that he's a Russian shill, wouldn't be too surprising to me. His posts support the worst ideas and would likely lead to civil war. Sounds pretty good to a Russian spook I'm sure.
[16:29:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utopian nonsense - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:00] <exec> 08└─Economics isn't a science. Don't muddy the issue by trying to lump it in with the sciences.
[16:29:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Utopian nonsense - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:29:02] <exec> 08└─Hmm the shills are playing off each other! What does this meeeean??
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[17:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:33] <exec> 08└─That's a poor analogy, because we know there is no intelligence that is non-human at your proposed locations.
[17:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:35] <exec> 08└─I'm totally with you... right up there with putting messages in bottles and tossing them into the surf, then waiting for a reply. On the other hand, have you got a more efficient plan?
[17:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Former SETI Human - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:37] <exec> 08└─wat
[17:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Former SETI Human - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:39] <exec> 08└─He renounced his membership in the human race? Sometimes I have thought of doing the same.
[17:22:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Former SETI Human - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:41] <exec> 08└─I think, like Professor Hubert J Farnsworth, he's just announced that he doesn't want to live on this planet anymore. Or alternately, he's hoping there's intelligent life out in space somewhere because we seem to be fresh out of it on Earth.
[17:22:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:3, Informative) 02METI - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:43] <exec> 08└─METI stands for Messages to ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence.
[17:22:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score:2) 02Re:A video worth watching - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:55] <exec> 08└─Screw it all... Lets go to UTC for all. (and yes, I truly believe this. Even more after watching that video.) And yes this will mess with the minds of bosses/supervisors that think everyone should work 9-5. But I'm fine with that because IMHO everyone should base local work hours locally.
[17:22:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:A video worth watching - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:22:56] <exec> 08└─Does not solve a fucking thing.
[17:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:schedule tinkerering - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:00] <exec> 08└─I wonder, if the clocks were left alone, whether such a scheduling change would result in statistically significant hysteria as does the switch to DST.
[17:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:schedule tinkerering - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:02] <exec> 08└─I do live in the USA, but having stayed in the middle east for the better part of a year once, in a country that doesn't DST, I enjoyed watching the usual "time change day" come and go while being able to leave my clocks alone--it was an unexpectedly satisfying feeling. A few years ago I suffered th...
[17:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02New Year Convictions - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:23:05] <exec> 08└─What effect does a leap second have on sentences?
[17:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:donuts - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:23:32] <exec> 08└─in China, the decisions where to put stations are made, and thsts that. In the US, decisions where to put stations are made. then there are lawsuits because town X got left out. there will be lawsuits because the line goes by some roch area, and the rich folk would rather see it go through the poor...
[17:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Problems with email addresses - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:24:33] <exec> 08└─What did you expect? It's just not going to work when you use: Anonymous@Coward.com
[17:24:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is this the same guy... - 06Indicted Prenda Lawyer Also Under FBI Investigation - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:24:44] <exec> 08└─In San Diego, some attorney in a wheelchair did drive-byes of businesses and sued them for outrageous sums for not having 100% compliance for disabled people. One of the businesses wasn't even open yet, another wasn't open to the public. All lawsuits were settled out of court at a discount.
[17:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:04] <exec> 08└─In general food seems enhanced by hot naked 25 year old women. I'm kinda surprised waitresses and bartenderesses and baristas wear any clothing at all
[17:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02low cost solution? my prediction - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:25:18] <exec> 08└─Very soon we will be seeing clear glass plates with a flat center, slightly raised toward the edges (to keep food on the plate), and then a return at the very edge that holds the plate off the table -- leaving room underneath for a phone or tablet. Plates could be round, square, rectangular (with ro...
[17:25:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:37] <exec> 08└─Euler (1707-1783), resident in Prussia for 25 years, wrote his research papers in Latin. Newton (1643-1726) and Descartes (1596-1650) also wrote their works in Latin.
[17:25:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:42] <exec> 08└─All the places you've mentioned have very different plumbing systems, and very different professional and technical constraints their respective cultures and laws impose on the plumbing. Are you ready to claim everyone on Earth is better off using exactly the same kind of plumbing, because there exi...
[17:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:46] <exec> 08└─There's also problems with continuity and characters. There's father and son... but no mother. Father has fallout-free nukes somewhere in orbit, but prefers to manipulate and social engineer his will into being, instead of negotiating with political leaders directly....wtf? Father's personality and...
[17:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score:1) 02now how i understand the Bible - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:48] <exec> 08└─That is definitely not how I understand the Bible, including the story of Lot and his family. The Book of Mormon etc provide important clarifications, and together I personally find them magnificent. The Bible has gone through many centuries of translation, where sometimes some things can be lost or...
[17:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03lcall [4611] (Score:1) 02not how i understand the Bible - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:50] <exec> 08└─(Sorry, I'm tired & making mistakes, not previewing as I should today. For the subject I meant "not", not "now".)
[17:25:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Babel - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:25:52] <exec> 08└─Bible reference, really? In an effort to map out the scientific agenda of the near future?
[17:26:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score:2) 02Re:Alternative medicine - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:21] <exec> 08└─banning treatments that don't work by claiming they are "non-evidence-based" medicine, like they did with red yeast rice (in support of drug companies' most profitable drug ever)
[17:26:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"Prepping the battlefield" - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 4025 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:26:35] <exec> 08└─There is currently a propaganda war going on against all forms of rational thinking. * Business interests don't want people criticizing their crappy products and services. * Political interests don't want people questioning their positions. * Religious interests don't want people questioning their f...
[17:26:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Denying Reality - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:26:59] <exec> 08└─Maybe so. But you know what none of them are? "Operating a website"
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[18:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Guess what - 06Intel 3D XPoint... Still Coming Soon - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:33] <exec> 08└─It's now Q1 2017.
[18:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Guess what - 06Intel 3D XPoint... Still Coming Soon - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:35] <exec> 08└─Next month will also be Q1 2017.
[18:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:45] <exec> 08└─we know there is no intelligence that is non-human at your proposed locations
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:48] <exec> 08└─have you got a more efficient plan?
[18:22:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:50] <exec> 08└─Launch the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, launch the James Webb Space Telescope on schedule*, find more exoplanets and maybe some exomoons, look for exo-atmospheres with evidence of vegetation or artificial/alien-made compounds, examine those locations in more detail, then decide what to do...
[18:22:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:52] <exec> 08└─That sounds like the current plan... best we've got with the available funding, I guess.
[18:22:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:METI - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:22:58] <exec> 08└─No longer searching, now they are just transmitting in the blind.
[18:22:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:METI - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:00] <exec> 08└─I don't think I even have to mention that many of these METI efforts involve transmitting... tweets.
[18:23:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Great idea - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:03] <exec> 08└─"hey, here is food, come eat us"
[18:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:05] <exec> 08└─I don't think those extraterrestrials could eat us. Their biology (or more exactly, the biology of their usual food) probably would be sufficiently different from ours that they could not digest us.
[18:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Great idea - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:07] <exec> 08└─You willing to take that risk? I'm not.
[18:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:09] <exec> 08└─If they come to eat us, they at least won't wipe us from the surface of the planet. Which I'd consider the greater risk by orders of magnitude.
[18:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Been done - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:11] <exec> 08└─Haven’t we been sending them messages since the invention of the radio?
[18:23:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:A video worth watching - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:26] <exec> 08└─Does not solve
[18:23:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:schedule tinkerering - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:29] <exec> 08└─More sensible... think about what activities actually needed to move to fit the daylight... The fly in the ointment would be the huge state-funded childcare system that we ironically call "education" but mainly exists to look after the kids so that all of their wage-slave parents can go to work.
[18:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:schedule tinkerering - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:32] <exec> 08└─For some reason I suffer far more with a 1 hour change to clocks due to daylight saving than I do from a 6 hour+ change from international travel.
[18:23:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:eyelash - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:23:45] <exec> 08└─That's it for your bloodline, genetic defect like that we can't let you breed. /s
[18:24:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score:2) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:32] <exec> 08└─In SQL, NULL is actually a valid keyword to represent a null value. So if your app has dynamic SQL with unsanitized input you could certainly get this error. If you put in and get an error, then you can probably dump the entire database.
[18:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:33] <exec> 08└─But doesn't SQL distinguish between the keyword NULL and the string "NULL"?
[18:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:41] <exec> 08└─(Score:-1 Gay)
[18:24:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:24:45] <exec> 08└─Addition is supposed to be a commutative operation.
[18:25:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:'Standard' names? - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 1358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:00] <exec> 08└─Well I still see lots of sites (including Google) use First Name Last Name which is retarded. It doesn't even work well for many people with "western" names. To me it would be better to have something like: Correspondence Name with Titles: e.g. what you'd like us to call you when we email you or wri...
[18:25:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This much stupidity should have a warning label - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:25:47] <exec> 08└─Did someone mention politics, or are you responding to the voices in your head?
[18:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quantity != Quality - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:26:05] <exec> 08└─There's probably a fair bit of high quality stuff done by Japanese scientists in Japanese. BTW there's English and there's Modern Scientific English. I wonder if some of the famous old stuff would get rejected today :).
[18:26:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score:1) 02English abstracts and machine translations - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:26:25] <exec> 08└─International patent applications (PCT applications) can be published in one of many languages, but in any case there is always an abstract in English. Patent applications are meant to published and freely and easily accessible. At the EPO website, patent applications can be translated automatically...
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[18:27:06] <exec> 08└─>"never heard of the greenhouse effect" This is probably for the best, it would only lead to more cognitive dissonance. I still can't figure out wtf the greenhouse effect is actually supposed to account for. They say it is 288K-255K = 33K based on a 1-d model, but when pushed will claim the 1-d mode...
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[19:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Microsoft - 06Intel 3D XPoint... Still Coming Soon - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:22:34] <exec> 08└─Lenovo worries me these day; they seem to get getting a little too cuddly with Microsoft. Microsoft is making it hard enough to install Linux on machines without the maker of some of the best development laptops helping them out.
[19:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Intel 3D XPoint... Still Coming Soon - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah heaven forbid there be collusion between the maker of IBM PC's and Microsoft OS's. Where would we be? Oh that's right, we'd have the entire history of personal computing.
[19:22:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Microsoft - 06Intel 3D XPoint... Still Coming Soon - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:38] <exec> 08└─fuck lenovo. spyware installing, MS loving, wwan card whitelisting, linux obstructing scum.
[19:22:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:22:53] <exec> 08└─Not a good analogy. Suppose humanity is on a small ship sailing around the ocean with no particular destination. Sometimes we try to send messages, which we do by tying a letter to a rock and throwing it into the ocean. Unsurprisingly, there's never been a response. Now we come across an island and...
[19:23:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great idea - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:04] <exec> 08└─They aren't going to eat us, any more than you would go to the Moon for a hamburger even if we discovered cows living there. They aren't going to come for our resources either, any more than you would go to the moon to get dirt for your garden. They might be xenophobic and want to attack anyone they...
[19:23:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great idea - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:06] <exec> 08└─With a cheap enough source of energy, they could come for our resources just like you would use a bag of moon dirt that gently descended to Earth in your garden. They could come to eat us, just like you would blow $200 to eat some truffles served on an iPad, or a steak at Trump's hotel.
[19:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Been done - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 1204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:23:09] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_SETI [wikipedia.org] First of all, while trying to synthesize an Interstellar Radio Message (IRM), we should bear in mind that Extraterrestrials will first deal with a physical phenomenon and, only after that, perceive the information. At first, ET's receiving s...
[19:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Loony Tunes - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:11] <exec> 08└─When I were a lad, in my teens, I used to look at the start a lot and sometimes I would have a torch (flashlight) with me. Sometimes I'd point it at various stars and think that in many tens, hundreds or thousands of years, the odd photon from the incandescent bulb would reach that star...
[19:23:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03gtomorrow [2230] (Score:1) 02Shock-headed Peter! - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:48] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter [wikipedia.org] I had this book when I was little and even then I always thought how surreal it was, Shock-headed Peter and company. And now I find out he's real!!! THE HORROR!!!
[19:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:33] <exec> 08└─If you put in (...) you can probably dump the entire database.
[19:24:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Never use defective languages. - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:24:41] <exec> 08└─It won't even implicitly convert string to None. :-)
[19:25:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:41] <exec> 08└─I guess it all depends on what kind of fish we're talking about. If it's mackerel or rotten fish, you're right, but an odor reminiscent of fresh sushi-grade tuna likely wouldn't indicate anything wrong.
[19:25:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:43] <exec> 08└─Your potential for creative forms of evil never ceases to amaze me.
[19:25:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:25:45] <exec> 08└─Prawn on pr0n?
[19:27:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He did a lot of other shit... - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:27:19] <exec> 08└─what kind of troll modded this post troll?
[19:29:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Just one thing... - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:07] <exec> 08└─Term limits are undemocratic. They don't really solve the real problems. If elections are being rigged, the solution is fixing that[1]. If voters keep voting for what's bad for them of their own free will then democracy is working as designed, so the solution is educating/convincing the voters not r...
[19:29:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Democracy? - 0637 Years Ago: How to Fix Democracy - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:29:45] <exec> 08└─There is no cure all. The founders didn't put enough limitations on the government, and the checks and balances they created were not enough.
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[20:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Leaked - 06Intel 3D XPoint... Still Coming Soon - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:48] <exec> 08└─leaked back in July. More recent leaks
[20:23:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:METI - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:10] <exec> 08└─many of these METI efforts involve transmitting... tweets.
[20:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Great idea - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:17] <exec> 08└─You are already assuming that they might attack us for fun rather than for some useful purpose. Which they might, but even that is incredibly unlikely. For one, any civilization that is that violent is probably going to have a hard time with the level of cooperation needed to mount such an operation...
[20:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:A video worth watching - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:36] <exec> 08└─But ignores the if I call now, are they at all likely to be awake problem so handily solved by timezones.
[20:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score:2) 02Re:So how many Struwwelpeters are there? - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:23:59] <exec> 08└─try rubbing some jelly donut on it...
[20:24:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ShadowSystems [6185] (Score:1) 02Re:"Randall Munroe" - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:34] <exec> 08└─I upvoted you on the general feeling of disgust I have over that damned comic. As a totally blind person that uses a Screen Reader Environment (SRE) to interact with websites, having a comic that doesn't include any sufficient alt text or a transcription of the image means my SRE can't find anything...
[20:24:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 1899 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:47] <exec> 08└─I think that is what he meant by inputs that aren't sanitized. I use NULL or null all over the place, but anything inside single quotes is treated as a value, and is not null. I'm having a hard time figuring out how this could cause a problem within SQL specific to the name itself, and not the const...
[20:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:oblig - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:24:48] <exec> 08└─Ideally, yes. Not if you're using Oracle, however. Remember, kids, '' != ''! Because Oracle fucking fails! (Note: '' IS NULL, and as we remember, NULL cannot equal anything. Things can be IS NULL, but never equal to NULL. So, '' != ''.) Also if you're using the edit view in SQL Enterprise Manager (M...
[20:25:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02See the positive side - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:25:07] <exec> 08└─See the positive side: Also surveillance databases might have trouble with that name.
[20:25:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Prince Charles - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:17] <exec> 08└─AKA Charles Mountbatten-Windsor [wikispooks.com] ...which was most likely what was on his military service documentation. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[20:25:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02we don't care - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:25:19] <exec> 08└─People with strange names come from strange cultures and usually live in strange places. They can have their own web site, and maybe it can reject ASCII names. Chances are, the weirdos aren't going to buy they product (non fraudulently) or contribute to the community or click on the ads or whatever....
[20:27:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score:2) 02Re:He did a lot of other shit... - 06Ross Ulbricht Freedom Effort Hacked - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:27:34] <exec> 08└─The kind that thinks unsubstantiated allegations about murder for hire is informative.
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[21:22:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:25] <exec> 08└─i only read the summary, no time to read the article. but this did make me think of something. I do computational physics, i run heavy computations using MPI ("message passing interface"). could someone summarize the gist of UDP vs TCP application-wise? my first guess is that the people writing MPI...
[21:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:22:27] <exec> 08└─Just read the linked article. Basically, TCP is heavily abstracted, and built for non-time sensitive applications. It has built in support to check for and resend missed packets, so loads of overhead. UDP is just a tiny layer on top of the base IP-packet stuff, and works just like the underlying tec...
[21:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score:1) 02The comments under TFA go back to 2008 - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:29] <exec> 08└─See subject, no additional comment needed.
[21:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score:2) 02> CAPABILITY - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:31] <exec> 08└─< Wrong level. > SOYLENT01 So what is the solution for great game protocol design? > SOYLENT02 What is the article missing to mention about game protocol design? < SOYLENT02 The article mentions the lack of ACK in UDP and obvious is obviously. < SOYLENT02 Thus the article is missing a very important...
[21:23:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Loony Tunes - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:16] <exec> 08└─and you were right. but had you no pity for the poor photon? it would meet millions of photons going the other way... and it, alone, would go against the crowd. alone. you may be a bad person.
[21:23:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Loony Tunes - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:17] <exec> 08└─None whatsoever.
[21:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:A video worth watching - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:34] <exec> 08└─are they at all likely to be awake problem so handily solved by timezones.
[21:23:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:A video worth watching - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:35] <exec> 08└─Sure, but removing the codification would tend to make the answer more elusive and less specific. What are we supposed to gain for that?
[21:23:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:A video worth watching - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:38] <exec> 08└─Using actual local time leads to bizarre train/bus schedules and is unworkable if you ever communicate with someone outside your village. As such, the time zones we have are based on local time "somewhere" (not necessarily where we are) and we decide to track along with the time of that somewhere. I...
[21:23:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uhh , cowlick? - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:23:58] <exec> 08└─I've never known anyone with blonde hair to get it "knotted and tangled" in such a way;
[21:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:But the Smog! - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:16] <exec> 08└─It's funny because China was ahead of the curve in terms of its transportation infrastructure's contribution to air quality. Most people did, and still do, I believe, get around by bicycle. Beijing had an entire highway system with on/off ramps, overpasses, etc entirely for bikes. Then they decided...
[21:24:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:But the Smog! - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:17] <exec> 08└─The article mentions "a new airport"; that ought to provide the air pollution you apparently crave.
[21:24:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score:1) 02Re:Profits - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:24:23] <exec> 08└─Amtrak always posts large losses.
[21:26:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:05] <exec> 08└─Looks like I got the term "Food Porn" [wikipedia.org] all wrong :-) Shouldn't the smell of a woman partially reflect what she is eating (similar to the smell of the male privates)? At least some foods leave a distinct non-fish aroma... (asparagus for example, garlic, but allegedly also some exotic f...
[21:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:Cooking the food on the way? - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:13] <exec> 08└─The exploding tray could cook the food and send it flying toward the customer!
[21:26:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:not how i understand the Bible - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:26:44] <exec> 08└─The Book of Mormon etc provide important clarifications,
[21:27:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Prepping the battlefield" - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:27:31] <exec> 08└─They run the schools. They run the education companies that produce the books used by the schools. They run the consortiums that tell the education companies what to put in their books. And what is going on in the schools today? The anti-science orthodoxy is enforced with threats of expulsion.
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[22:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 2974 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:32] <exec> 08└─You got some minor details wrong that don't matter much, but it is interesting that UDP adds little to no latency to an overall path which is important if 28.8 modems are still an ongoing concern. It doesn't really add much overhead unless you're running at 1200 baud like AX.25 stuff I did in the 90...
[22:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:34] <exec> 08└─I don't know what MPI library you are using but read this: https://www.open-mpi.org [open-mpi.org] They use TCP.
[22:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:The comments under TFA go back to 2008 - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:37] <exec> 08└─So? Did TCP and UDP change so much we need new textbooks?
[22:22:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03chucky [3309] (Score:1) 02Re:The comments under TFA go back to 2008 - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:22:39] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not exactly news. One could simply look into a textbook to find the same.
[22:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:an analogy - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:08] <exec> 08└─None of those analogies are truly good though. Anything on Earth can actually *support* intelligent life as we know it. If we aren't sending signals to a planet that at least has water, we might as well be sending signals to parts of deep space where we suspect there is only dark matter. It's unlike...
[22:23:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Not the first such study. - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:40] <exec> 08└─I disagree. Discretion becomes prejudice. Why should two people receive different punishments for the same crime? Too often one person is punished severely while another is let off with a warning just because of race, or economic status, or or because one of them is a cop. I think laws should be wri...
[22:23:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:A video worth watching - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:49] <exec> 08└─I can understand not being all that enamored of changing the clock, but I also understand the rationale. Too many bosses too unwilling to change the start and end of business hours until the other guy goes first. By mandating a change of the clock itself, everyone goes at once even if they don't do...
[22:23:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:New Year Convictions - 06Switching to Daylight Saving Time May Lead to Harsher Legal Sentences in the U.S. - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:23:58] <exec> 08└─They become irrelevant questions.
[22:24:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:So how many Struwwelpeters are there? - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:16] <exec> 08└─We need a +1 WTF moderation :)
[22:24:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:who owns the rails? - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 1503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:38] <exec> 08└─in The UK's rail infrastructure has been in government hands for 70 years. For the first 50, train services were also nationalised. The network was expected to run at a profit even as car ownership took off, and when it became clear (for several reasons) that wasn't happening it was savagely cut bac...
[22:24:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score:2) 02Re:who owns the rails? - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:24:39] <exec> 08└─Backspace ate some of the last paragraph: As a new line is needed, it may as well be built as a high speed line, and extended to serve other areas of the UK. Compared to China, progress is glacial. First proposal 2009, construction starts 2017, first 140 miles to Birmingham completed by 2026!
[22:25:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Eye of the Beholder - 06These Unlucky People have Names that "Break" Computers - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:25:40] <exec> 08└─There is an episode of The Twilight Zone called Eye of the Beholder. [wikipedia.org] In it, Donna Douglas (AKA Elly Mae Clampett) is considered to be ugly. Be careful where you point that finger. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:26:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score:2) 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:26:12] <exec> 08└─Imagine being just about to take a bite and someone sends an image of goatse man or tubgirl to your "plate". No, forget that, don't imagine it unless you are trying to lose weight.
[22:27:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score:2) 02Re:esperanto - 06Languages Still a Major Barrier to Global Science, New Research Finds - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:27:06] <exec> 08└─I learned BASIC as my second language. Now I'm screwed for any others.
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[23:22:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:27] <exec> 08└─Is that what they mean by "hacking the election"? I pictured falsifying ballot box results via diebold machines.
[23:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Russian hacking - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:29] <exec> 08└─Actually "The Washington Post" is what they mean by fake news. When I knew the legacy media was dying, I didn't expect it to go out like Pravda. I don't know why. I don't even know what I was expecting. I guess I thought it would be like factories in the midwest dying in my grandpa's generation wher...
[23:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Even so... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 1194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:31] <exec> 08└─There is still a problem. Our cybersuckurity is an issue created by toxic avaricious executives who will not pay for security in anything less than a pure reactionary stance, and our leaders having deliberately weakened security for domestic spying capabilities. You would think the NSA would be for...
[23:22:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Even so... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:33] <exec> 08└─There is an even more insidious problem - the Washington Post has been a Jew -- okay, neocon -- mouthpiece since (at least that I can remember) around the 9/11 days. Now, pretty much every American publication is. This whole "fake news" meme came from the Jews themselves, who hit you as they say "ow...
[23:22:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Even so... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:35] <exec> 08└─The Venn diagram is that all neocons are Jews but only a small fraction of Jews are neocons. There's a famous screenshot of the "co-incidence detector" showing a page of the wikipedia entry for neocon and all the major names, like all of them, are in the parenthesis. They're not evil people, just li...
[23:22:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Even so... - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:37] <exec> 08└─I think in context you meant the Dual EC DRBG affair from a decade ago. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Unless you got stuff on EC crypto newer than the last couple years ago. That would be funny if like last year Ed25519 was Dual EC DRBG 2.0 all over again from the last d...
[23:22:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What is malware code? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:40] <exec> 08└─Every time I see a story like this, it refers to the mythical "malware code" and here it says they found the "code" on a laptop. Has they ever said anything more than that? Or is it like THE RUSSIANS DID IT BECAUSE WE SAID THEY DID. TRUST US.
[23:22:41] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Where did the REAL error happen? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 4003 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:42] <exec> 08└─I'll be the first to criticize the WaPo for jumping the gun here. I'll also be the first to note I've been concerned about the WaPo's integrity for some time, particularly since the Jonathan Capehart/Bernie Sanders photo fiasco.** But with all that said, I'm also very critical of those who want to p...
[23:22:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03splodus [4877] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:Where did the REAL error happen? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:44] <exec> 08└─Good comment. I don't know enough to add to what you say (let alone take issue with any of it) But it did make think of this (of course) https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I think the smart thing to have done would have been to hold back, investigate, verify... Maybe, in the i...
[23:22:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Where did the REAL error happen? - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:46] <exec> 08└─Wow! Thanks for that linked video. This has to be one of the most concise, articulate, and accurate criticisms of current journalistic practice I've seen... and from Denzel Washington? Bravo to him.
[23:22:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Not connected to our organization's grid systems.. - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:22:48] <exec> 08└─That's what they said. So how did it get on the laptop, and was that laptop ever connected to an Intranet? It's still a high security risk. Then again... I was told by a govt worker that all he does at his cush govt job is "watch porn all day on the govt work computers".
[23:22:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not connected to our organization's grid system - 06Washington Post Publishes False Story About Hacking USA Electric Grid - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:22:50] <exec> 08└─You are 100% correct, this is still a dire threat. The US allegedly destroyed Iranian centrifuges by using side-channel communications between machines that were NOT networked together. So tired of wannabe pundits on these sites coming in so self righteous to "explain it to the stupid masses" and ju...
[23:23:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:02] <exec> 08└─Oh and I forgot to mention the "fun" of SSL stream encryption working quite well on an ordered and guaranteed TCP session and being more of a challenge over a UDP "session". And I forgot to mention the hilarity of "protocol designerz" trying babbys first secure system without even knowing what MITM...
[23:23:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score:2) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:04] <exec> 08└─Bandwidth is not that big of a concern, it is more about ping. Absolute best is still the speed of light between locations, and even that can get annoyingly slow when you are talking about playing halo with someone across an ocean. And when the server has to wait for you to resend packet 29 before i...
[23:23:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:06] <exec> 08└─Ironically the "legacy" pre-PS/2 and PS/2 hardware keyboard interface are synchronous bidirectional serial and USB is error correcting also. Also SSH is how I connect over TCP to most all consoles now a days. A good example along your lines of UDP for UIs "send it and hope it arrives" is some of the...
[23:23:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:question from non-programmer - 06UDP vs. TCP in Networked Gaming - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:09] <exec> 08└─TCP: "Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke." "Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?" "Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke." "Ok, I'll tell you a TCP joke." "Ok, I will hear a TCP joke." "Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?" "Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke." "Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke. It wil...
[23:23:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Re:Great idea - 06Former SETI Human Wants to Send Messages to Proxima Centauri b - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:23:56] <exec> 08└─They've got one thing going for them, they're not humans.
[23:24:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03dlb [4790] (Score:2) 02Re:So how many Struwwelpeters are there? - 06Uncombable Hair Gene Discovered - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:24:49] <exec> 08└─The jelly would certainly keep one's hair in place. But the pasty would be extraneous.
[23:25:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Like Japan - 06China Plans $503 Billion Investment in High-Speed Rail by 2020 - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:25:03] <exec> 08└─Well at least they've been rock bottom before. They can always revert to that when everything comes crashing down. The smart ones have been buying up real-estate in developed countries and sending their kids and money there.
[23:26:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:dynamic plates - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:47] <exec> 08└─No, forget that, don't imagine it unless you are trying to lose weight.
[23:26:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:53] <exec> 08└─Is that even a thing? I've heard of it but it sounds very unsanitary. And objectifying. Also who are you?
[23:26:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Hmm, the potential for pr0n is staggering - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:26:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it does: you're dating a mermaid :D
[23:27:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score:2) 02Russian vegetarian hackers - 06San Francisco Restaurant Uses iPads as Plates - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:27:10] <exec> 08└─Play clips from a slaughterhouse if your dish contains animal products.
[23:28:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:bah - 06Peter Thiel Behind Mysterious ‘Heterodox Science’ Course? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:28:24] <exec> 08└─It's Greek to me \(O_o)/
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