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[00:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02The Fallout spammer amused me... - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:03] <exec> 08└─In Fallout (1), a random encounter dropped you into a town with an angry mob confronting a spammer. I usually stayed out of the ensuing ruckus, and chuckled as the spammer met his demise...and then looted his corpse, of course. :-)
[00:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:15] <exec> 08└─They stand up for everyone. And that includes suspected terrorists. Especially when they are suspect for no good reason at all. And that is a good thing.
[00:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:16] <exec> 08└─Would you feel better if the TSA used Phrenology instead?
[00:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Isreal - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:19] <exec> 08└─Isreal
[00:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Isreal - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:22] <exec> 08└─Yuuuuup. I am shocked that any soylentil would think TSA is useful.
[00:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Isreal - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:24] <exec> 08└─Yuuuuup. I am shocked that any soylentil would think TSA is useful.
[00:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:26] <exec> 08└─I'm all in favor of the ACLU, but in this case I'm wondering if there is an upside. I remember how much fun it used to be to fly and I guess I've given up hope that USA airports will go back to a reasonable level of security. As it is, I drive much longer distances than I ever used to before 9/11. N...
[00:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:28] <exec> 08└─I'm all in favor of the ACLU, but in this case I'm wondering if there is an upside.
[00:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Doesn't seem as interesting as FTL. - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:39] <exec> 08└─I played a fair amount of FTL. This new successor doesn't look very interesting by comparison. Sure it's has 8bitish-pixel-graphics and a catchy tune but beyond that this doesn't seem like anything I would get into at all. The interesting thing about FTL is that is spawned a lot of copycat games --...
[00:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02I for one ... - 06The Curious Case of Cockroach Magnetization - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:51] <exec> 08└─welcome our new magnetically-organized cockroach overlords. I also recommend they enlist well-respected and trusted news anchors, to exhort humans to toil in their rare earth mines. This would improve efficiency in obtaining the resources necessary to solidify the leaders' electromagnetic power base...
[00:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Actually... - 06Reforming Economics - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:03] <exec> 08└─Yes I read that disclaimer, but given the penchant of the messenger for outlandish crazy talk, and the website looking like a sophisticated con job for a university, I won't bring myself to read something that has a high probability of matching those first two impressions. Besides, you should link d...
[00:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:13] <exec> 08└─Of course economics is a science, it is the dismal science! https://www.theatlantic.com [theatlantic.com] Agree with another poster (in this thread) that economics experiments aren't possible, terrible outcomes...
[00:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Live by the Gun, Die by the Gun - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:42] <exec> 08└─Most people who are in love with the current interpretation of copyright law suddenly think it doesn't apply to them when they're caught, usually because whoever it is that's trying to defend themselves can't afford a team of overpriced lawyers.
[00:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score:2) 02Re:Footnote - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:46] <exec> 08└─The sentence reads to me like someone with English as a second language. The verb structure is reversed like you would get in Spanish or Italian. But I do understand what they meant and can second the recommendation for both the author and this particular story.
[00:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Nope! - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:50] <exec> 08└─Wow: is that Mick Jagger or Tim Curry?, lol!
[00:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:55] <exec> 08└─That all depends on whom you compare yourself with. If you believe everyone should judge every aspect of everyone else's life, then I guess you are entitled to be afraid not to like Beyonce (she and her fans will make fun of you, after all).
[00:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score:2) 02Re:Music? - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:06] <exec> 08└─Actually, Beyoncé can sing with great technical proficiency: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] It's just that her voice is so bland and generic that she's better off making money off rapping and dancing.
[00:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Already a done deal - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:08] <exec> 08└─Indians have been persecuted for a long time, why stop now?
[00:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 3209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:44] <exec> 08└─Computers are already much more reliable than your average human. Computers basically do what humans can do without computers only faster and more reliably. For instance take excel. You technically don't need a computer to do everything that excel can do. You can do it all with pen and paper and pre...
[00:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:46] <exec> 08└─On the one hand if there is too much liability no one would release a self driving car and overall driving will remain as unreliable as your average human driver since humans will continue to drive. We will never progress past that. On the other hand if there is no liability whatsoever self driving...
[00:12:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:32] <exec> 08└─Political Correctness? Damn straight. Other people call it, manners.
[00:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''conservative'' - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:38] <exec> 08└─Thanks, good point. I'll call them reactionaries or extremists, more nonpartisan too!
[00:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Tipped Your Hand - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:58] <exec> 08└─Denial only makes your problem worse. The world is moving on from horrible ideologies, except in the middle east where such crap was intentionally implemented by the US in pursuit of cheap oil and world power. So congrats, you are the next homegrown supporter of violence. Where are these PC stains i...
[00:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Wah! - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:59] <exec> 08└─So you bait someone into misunderstanding you then cry about it? Ha ha HAAAAAA, what a maroon!
[00:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incitement - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:03] <exec> 08└─Was gonna say... This thread is not actually funny, but I can't help but think about all the people calling for Muslims to condemn the extremists, yet when it comes to fuckers like Milo they get all defensive and lose perspective. Hypocrites hoorah
[00:13:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:When and how much? - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:25] <exec> 08└─Ouch!
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[01:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 0230 years sounds about right - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:04] <exec> 08└─I hope his cellmate Bubba was a computer user.
[01:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:19] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with using astrology and/ numerology??
[01:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is not real - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:24] <exec> 08└─Its more like the behavioural stuff israel does is far more comprehensive. The TSA's BDOs are all into doing random encounters with people and looking for bullshit like micro-tells. I almost never fly, but the one time I did about 5 years ago I ran into a BDO guy. He didn't say that's what he was do...
[01:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Isreal - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:26] <exec> 08└─Israel unabashedly profiles people. And, mostly, it works. The US refuses to profile people, so they look around for other methods - and shockingly, it turns out that it's just another form of profiling. Except, it doesn't work for shit. Maybe it's time we dropped the pretenses, and take some lesson...
[01:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:31] <exec> 08└─The 'We're just covering our ass.' excuse doesn't work because the entire situation is still illogical and violating people's rights to cover your ass is unacceptable.
[01:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:33] <exec> 08└─I always thought that joking about a bomb in an airport was like "yelling fire" in a crowded theater -- neither is protected speech?
[01:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:35] <exec> 08└─That isn't a good thing to think, yelling fire is only illegal if there is no danger, joking about having a bomb should be treated similarly. If it is a joke, or they quickly claim it was a joke, either let it slide or search their bag to determine if it is a joke. Anything else is human stupidity a...
[01:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:37] <exec> 08└─"a joke would have no effect on the probability that it did contain a bomb." That seems pretty naive. Cracking a stupid joke shouldn't put you on a terror list, we can agree on that. But, your sense of humor results from a multitude of things. If your background has conditioned you to find certain j...
[01:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Obligatory - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:39] <exec> 08└─"I need to check your ass hole!"
[01:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:42] <exec> 08└─Admit it. You're just queer. Your interest in my asshole has nothing to with terrorism.
[01:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Bad sequal - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:53] <exec> 08└─I'm waiting for Faster Than FTL!
[01:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:huge profits ahead - 06The Curious Case of Cockroach Magnetization - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:02] <exec> 08└─You don't even need magnetic fields. Leave some food on the counter overnight and you'll find it's attracted cockroaches like iron filings to a magnet.
[01:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Is there a counterpart that is? - 06Reforming Economics - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:47] <exec> 08└─If Economics itself is dubiously a science, is there a subfield or related field that most scientists agree is a science? Maybe at least something that can be considered to be under mathematics (or the social sciences)?
[01:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:09:14] <exec> 08└─busily monetizing Tolkein's work after all these years.
[01:10:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:called it - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:18] <exec> 08└─And what was the result of these challenges? Doesn't sound like this tribe is getting any more land out of it. I'll note also that there have been two relevant treaties since, the Treaty of Fort Laramie of 1868 [wikipedia.org] and the Agreement of 1877 [wikipedia.org]. Why should the first treaty...
[01:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 2050 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:59] <exec> 08└─After skipping the first three paragraphs (roughly correct, but somewhat out of place, making me wonder if you understand what you're replying to) we get to this: "When saying computers and software is unreliable you need something to compare it with." Yeah, you do. I'm comparing them to other progr...
[01:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score:1) 02Re:The Naive Ignorance of History - 06Marathon Pharmaceuticals is Part of the Problem - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:26] <exec> 08└─>>It exists because people were being killed. >Yep, that's fraud. It's not fraud if the deaths were from compounds that were accurately listed. > nor have you presented anything in support of your contention Neither have you really, just a bunch of opinions and something about an FDA conspiracy. How...
[01:11:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shortscreen [2252] 02cool story bro - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 498 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:53] <exec> 08└─But wait, why does Russia even need to 'cozy up' to Trump, I thought they already owned him? Since we're on the subject of Russia, I just want to tell everybody what I learned from my own anonymous sources. They said there is an alien base beneath lake Baikal and the land giveaways in the far east a...
[01:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:News ambiguity - 06NBC Says Russia May Consider Handing Edward Snowden to the U.S. - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:09] <exec> 08└─To believe that he hasn't cooperated or been pumped by Russian intelligence for all he is worth is like believing in fairy tales.
[01:12:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:48] <exec> 08└─I am convinced that this site has been targeted for wrongthink, and is being shilled on accordingly. Suddenly, after Trump's victory, this site went from about 50-50 wrongthink vs progressive, and now the modding is like 20-80.
[01:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Wah! - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:18] <exec> 08└─I didn't bait anyone, they chose to leap to conclusions, which seems to be something they learn at 'church' these days.
[01:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:incitement - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:22] <exec> 08└─What Milo has done (that is, nothing, as far as this thread has shown) is nothing compared to what those "extremists" do.
[01:13:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:Oh it comes with an app! - 06Innovative Spirit: These "Smart Glasses" Adjust to Your Vision Automatically - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:50] <exec> 08└─Measure the nerve pulses that control the eye's lens. That should give reliable information about what distance the eye tries to focus on.
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[02:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Awesome - 06World's Largest Aircraft Repaired and Ready to Fly Again - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:08] <exec> 08└─I really hope they succeed, and open up the market for airships the way Tesla has EVs. Cruising around the world in an airship would be my ultimate dream. Also, it would be gratifying for that Hindenburg meme to die once and for all.
[02:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Awesome - 06World's Largest Aircraft Repaired and Ready to Fly Again - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:10] <exec> 08└─The Nazis lost the war. Deal with it. I suppose you yearn for the good ol' days of the Hindenburg?
[02:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Needs some Sharia Law - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:20] <exec> 08└─Remember the Saudi blogger who was sentenced to 1000 lashes for "insulting Islam through electronic channels"? [wikipedia.org] What do you think a Sharia tribunal would hand this guy? 1 lash per spam sound about right? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Overreach? - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:23] <exec> 08└─he created fraudulent "From:" address fields
[02:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''fraudulent "From:" address fields'' - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:25] <exec> 08└─It does point to how crap the protocol is that that can be spoofed that easily. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:Isreal - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:45] <exec> 08└─Thanks, that is what I was getting at. Whole thing is security theater designed to take away more freedoms without making anything more secure.
[02:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:52] <exec> 08└─Except the linked anecdote shows a case in which: 1. the tweet happened 3 weeks in advance 2. the language used was so blatantly not menacing and lack of specifics (""Free this week, for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America."), the authorities' reaction really smells of "sending a messa...
[02:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Self-Driving Cars will Kill the Airlines - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:55] <exec> 08└─As it is, I drive much longer distances than I ever used to before 9/11.
[02:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:00] <exec> 08└─Straight or queer, your anal cavity is a ripe target for government-funded exploration.
[02:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:02] <exec> 08└─I think GP was referring to this [youtube.com].
[02:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't seem as interesting as FTL. - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:14] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty damn sure they weren't playing the same FTL you played, since the FTL they're talking about doesn't have any crystals or monster spawns. There are monsters of a sort, but they beam onto your spaceship from their spaceship and can appear anywhere. And there's only 'darkness' if you don't h...
[02:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Doesn't seem as interesting as FTL. - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:16] <exec> 08└─Oh you are absolutely right. Egg on my face. I got it mixed up with Dungeon of the Endless. So just ignore my entire rant.
[02:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"Economics" is crap - 06Reforming Economics - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:39] <exec> 08└─austrian economics are certainly crap, you did well
[02:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:re Rational - 06Reforming Economics - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:04] <exec> 08└─When a rational agent operating in a free market is postulated as the basis of your models you are setup for failure. There are no rational agents nor free markets. People buy things out of perceived need, status and other irrational feelings.
[02:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:more from tfa - 06Reforming Economics - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:08] <exec> 08└─I would say both points are valid. Where you studied, and when you studied, make a big difference in the kind of instruction you get. Isn't that widely true, though? Else, there would be no qualitative difference in studying chemistry at MIT vs. Hunter College, NYC. I believe most of us would conced...
[02:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm sure some people know real economics - 06Reforming Economics - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:12] <exec> 08└─The people who understand real economics are just not pretending to teach it like the snake-oil salesmen in universities. They're the ones who own the world.
[02:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's an idea: - 06Reforming Economics - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:19] <exec> 08└─How about, if economics wants to be treated as a science, it obeys the laws of thermodynamics? Infinite growth in a finite universe, let alone a finite planet, is insanity.
[02:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's an idea: - 06Reforming Economics - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:21] <exec> 08└─How about, if economics wants to be treated as a science, it obeys the laws of thermodynamics? Infinite growth in a finite universe, let alone a finite planet, is insanity. And how about it starts taking human nature into account?
[02:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:48] <exec> 08└─While I'm no fan of Beyonce, this reeks of trolling. The family hasn't produced any music. Any income they may receive from Messy Mya's recording is not affected - indeed, they may well experience increased sales due to the free advertising.
[02:13:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:15] <exec> 08└─What about your imbecilic comments? They contribute nothing other than more posts to sort through in favor of actual insight.
[02:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:13:24] <exec> 08└─You surround everything in the same way that a rancid hunk of feces surrounds my cock as I push deeper and deeper into your rectum.
[02:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02On funding digital public works & AI cars - 06Ford Investing $1 Billion in Self-Driving Car Startup - 3879 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:52] <exec> 08└─From 2001: http://pdfernhout.net [pdfernhout.net] Consider again the self-driving cars mentioned earlier which now cruise some streets in small numbers. The software "intelligence" doing the driving w...
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[03:07:16] <exec> 08└─Oh, the humanity!
[03:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:''fraudulent "From:" address fields'' - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:28] <exec> 08└─It does point to how crap the protocol is that that can be spoofed that easily.
[03:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''The Safest Airline'' (El Al) - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:51] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure this is the item GGP is referencing. from "60 Minutes" January 2002 The Safest Airline [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [cbsnews.com] Note that they use college graduates (former military officers), not high school dropouts like USA. The US refuses to profile people In the TechDirt article...
[03:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-Driving Cars will Kill the Airlines - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:00] <exec> 08└─California is building a bullet train system. [wikipedia.org] One wonders (assuming it ever gets finished) if things like dining cars and being able to get up and stretch your legs will make them more appealing than riding in a private car for hours. ...then there's the 220 mph thing. Whether the se...
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[03:08:14] <exec> 08└─I must agree, and I plan on avoiding rogue-like games in the future. I appreciate the risk factor of potentially losing characters, but I don't want to have to repeat the game 10 times just to beat it once. There obviously was a lot of thought put into the plotlines but looking through the FTL wiki...
[03:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:56] <exec> 08└─The assumption that somehow tacking mathematics onto an explicative narrative makes it more scientific is to misunderstand the nature of human sciences as opposed to empirical sciences. If you have a model that can strictly be described in mathematical terms, rock on. But the fact is that we don't,...
[03:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 1338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:57] <exec> 08└─Friend of a sysadmin who works at a bank checking in here, he's a college drop-out, self-educated. In January 2008 when I was visiting him, he pulled up some data on mortgage defaults across the US. These are in default, these are (effectively in default but not called that), these are ninety days...
[03:08:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:00] <exec> 08└─It seems everyone (in politics) wants to push for austerity based on a paper that was discredited years ago. In fact, once the math errors in the paper were corrected (by a student) it showed that austerity was the worst response to the situation. Yet years later there is still the big austerity pus...
[03:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:08] <exec> 08└─Paying interest totally benefits the country. Pay lots of interest!
[03:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:re Rational - 06Reforming Economics - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:13] <exec> 08└─I thought the problem was that people act in their best interests in the short term even if it's not in their best long term interests.
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[04:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score:2) 02Re:''fraudulent "From:" address fields'' - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:24] <exec> 08└─No, it's not. When it started the protocol was about serving email to a much smaller world. Like universities and researchers. They were not thinking about how to construct a protocol capable of billions of messages and the creep of greed and profit into the protocol. The fact it's held up means it'...
[04:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''fraudulent "From:" address fields'' - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:25] <exec> 08└─it's a good protocol ...but the *default* config is seriously dated. We have the technology. It just needs to be embraced. Aye, there's the rub. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''no such thing as terrorism'' - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:36] <exec> 08└─That's too broad a statement. That said, the "terrorism experts", specifically those affiliated with Lamestream Media, get it wrong about 80 percent of the time. The Orlando shooter was just a gay guy who was mixed up about his sexuality. He claimed allegiance to both al-Qaeda and Hezbollah (2 group...
[04:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:42] <exec> 08└─They'd be much better than the methods currently in use?
[04:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's an idea: - 06Reforming Economics - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:21] <exec> 08└─Yyyyyeah I'mma call bullshit on that one, sorry. After what I've seen "economics" used for in this country? Not buyin' it (so to speak). Or has economics become politicized?
[04:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Disabled is required for some platforms - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:10:12] <exec> 08└─Not sure if parent is informative or trolling... The NSA appears to have a similar mission. You conveniently omitted the signals intelligence aspect of their mandate: to acquire and use information from the global information infrastructure for the purpose of providing foreign intelligence, in acco...
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[04:10:29] <exec> 08└─The Wikipedia page I linked in the summary says there were mass strandings in the same place in 2012, 2014 and 2015. Linked from there is a BBC News article about possible reasons for mass strandings, both at Farewell Spit and in general. It says there's evidence that sonar can be a cause, but that...
[04:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 1518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:39] <exec> 08└─This has little to do with licensing or the definition of the word 'engineer' and more to do with the fact that companies want to keep charging you for something they developed years ago. The issue here is the mentality that companies get from copy'right', they want to keep profiting off of somethin...
[04:13:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:24] <exec> 08└─The problem with hate speech is that it leads to genocide. That is why it is illegal in many jurisdictions.
[04:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:Ford is learning - 06Ford Investing $1 Billion in Self-Driving Car Startup - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:14:58] <exec> 08└─Developing it internally with what talent (while starting from behind)? Licensing it from what supplier? This strategy has failed many times before (and even under good situations, it tends to fail more often than succeed).
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[05:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Relatively tiny my a... - 06Tiny Airborne Probe Could Help Local Weather Forecasts - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:10] <exec> 08└─It's a dam' Predator B [wikipedia.org] with a take-off mass of a wee over one metric tone without payload. I don't see how this would qualify as a tool for weather forecasting for Australian outback conditions - they mostly use Rotorway helicopters - empty weight of 450 kg, can carry two persons. [w...
[05:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:08:05] <exec> 08└─The US is no longer the home of the brave. Crime is at an all time low but you still hear people saying shit like "in these times you can never be too careful" because they've bought into the fear pumped 24/7 through the media. Maybe it isn't intentional, maybe it is. Regardless, turn off the news n...
[05:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:06] <exec> 08└─Sigh... Another semantic debate. Oh goody: this should be informative. Let's begin with the dictionary: SCIENCE the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Economics stu...
[05:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score:2) 02Re:Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:15] <exec> 08└─It turns out though that if investing $1000 nets you 20% and the interest you pay is 5%, you should probably borrow more if you can.
[05:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:called it - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:09] <exec> 08└─Congrats. You've just argued away the existence of the office of the president.
[05:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:called it - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:12] <exec> 08└─One might argue that the tribe never imagined a pipeline of potential poison being run directly over their primary source of water. Did you even read the second treaty? Sell or starve, the tribe lost a huge amount of hunting grounds and the US military comes in and blackmails them into signing a bad...
[05:11:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Blame and responsibility - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:11:35] <exec> 08└─Engineer is one of those words with multiple meanings. Didn't it originally mean someone who operated siege engines, and then meant someone who operates a steam engine, which morphed into operating a train. As far as I know, a train engineer doesn't have individual insurance to operate a train, nor...
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[05:15:17] <exec> 08└─Buying a startup has an even worse record. Remember GM and Envia? You use the billion to buy talent rather than give it to a possible shyster to do it for you.
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[06:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02There is no problem, everyone is dead - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:13] <exec> 08└─All three of these reports conflict each other. The "Dam Fails" one is particularly egregious, considering that article says no such thing has happened.
[06:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bad ux - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:15] <exec> 08└─I was just trying to read the words on a tablet then a new window to twitter opened up.
[06:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Update (9:30pm local) - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:17] <exec> 08└─As of around 9pm, water depth in the dam had dropped to 900.70' (decreasing by about 4"/hour) and water's no longer flowing over the eroded area. There's reportedly a plan to plug the gap using boulders dropped from helicopters, which are coming from a wide area. (info from the SacBee's live Twitter...
[06:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:Update (9:30pm local) - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:19] <exec> 08└─I'm particularly glad about things (potentially) stabilizing, because the evacuation has been a mess. Residents were told everything was perfectly safe — then word suddenly went out over Facebook, Twitter, and robocalls that it was expected to collapse within the hour, so roads promptly jammed. Wo...
[06:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02obvious solution - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:21] <exec> 08└─Keep leaky infrastructure downstream of the places where people live, not upstream.
[06:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Suck that dev cock - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:51] <exec> 08└─Geesh, talk about editorializing. I'm surprised the submitter had to dexterity to type up that summary with his holes and hands filled with the developers' cocks.
[06:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Software industry as we know it... - 06Uber Leads to Divorce - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:12:13] <exec> 08└─Only on pontoon bridges.
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[07:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Innumerancy is an epidemic, and lack of editots - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 1112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:05] <exec> 08└─innumeracy is rampant, as is the lack of human editors. This article is proof. The chart says this: Anonymous posts: 191,460 Registered posts: 2,023,559 ---------------------------------- Total: 2,215,019 Then the paragraph right below says anonymous comments account for 43%. Huge editorial...
[07:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Innumerancy is an epidemic, and lack of editots - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:06] <exec> 08└─But since Wikipedia is known for wielding the banhammer in a very political fashion (inner cabal immune, everyone else not so much) it is safe to assume all 34 feel free to do it because they know they are unbannable.
[07:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Innumerancy is an epidemic, and lack of editots - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:08] <exec> 08└─Then the paragraph right below says anonymous comments account for 43%. Huge editorial fail or innumerancy? The rest of the paragraph makes as little sense so I'm leaning toward both.
[07:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Anonymity Doesn't Make People into Fuckwads - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 1012 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:10] <exec> 08└─“Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience != Total Fuckwad” These results are consistent with a lot of recent research. Turns out the "greater internet fuckwad theory" [knowyourmeme.com] was wrong. Which, in retrospect, is unsurprising, it was just anecdotal pop-psych. Many people who are motivated...
[07:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02More nuance needed - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 3154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:13] <exec> 08└─First off, here's a link to the original study [arxiv.org], which is quite a bit easier to read than the circuitous writing of the linked article. Secondly, isn't the headline a bit exaggerated? Yes, apparently 34 users are responsible for almost 9% of attacks (apparently out of ~227,000 users). So...
[07:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Update (9:30pm local) - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:23] <exec> 08└─At the time that those earlier stories were submitted, it was not urgent and no official had yet ordered an evacuation. When takyon tipped me off that this was happening, I added his update, bumped the story up to breaking news, and set it to publish immediately in between normal stories.
[07:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02downsides - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:26] <exec> 08└─The area downstream is a nice valley. There was a nice valley upstream, but it got filled by the reservoir. The reservoir is used for drinking water. Humans are filthy, with all sorts of toxic dumping, so keeping them out of the watershed is good.
[07:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02From the headline I thought... - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:28] <exec> 08└─...that the goatse guy had gone on a rampage. I hope he's OK.
[07:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02damn - 06Fast Food Chain Arby's Acknowledges Breach - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:36] <exec> 08└─There goes BOTH my credit cards :(
[07:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:damn - 06Fast Food Chain Arby's Acknowledges Breach - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:38] <exec> 08└─Where will we get our venison burgers now?! [soylentnews.org]
[07:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pay Cash You Fools - 06Fast Food Chain Arby's Acknowledges Breach - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:40] <exec> 08└─For privacy reasons I stopped using a credit card for anything but online purchases (and there I only use "disposable" credit card numbers that bind to the first merchant to post a charge and reject charges from all other merchants). I have never had a credit card compromised in my life. Although I...
[07:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02If it fails again... - 06World's Largest Aircraft Repaired and Ready to Fly Again - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:57] <exec> 08└─...and the envelope is breached, the headline can read "Giant Butt Cracks."
[07:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''fraudulent "From:" address fields'' - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:12] <exec> 08└─Let's start with a hug and whatever happens, happens.
[07:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:30] <exec> 08└─“The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one’s time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.” — H. L. Mencken.
[07:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Grandma - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:40] <exec> 08└─But, at least we won't see idiot TSA agents groping Grandma and her 9 year old granddaughter at the airport. Most terrorists are military age males, for starters.
[07:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Self-Driving Cars will Kill the Airlines - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:51] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_California_High-Speed_Rail [wikipedia.org] High speed rail has been on the books since the 70s. The current one is estimated for 2029 for phase1. And for fucks sake dude just login already instead of singing everything.
[07:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Obligatory - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:56] <exec> 08└─On the flip side, it's the closest you'll get to a free medical (proctological) check in the US.
[07:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:59] <exec> 08└─Unless they charge you for the examination [techdirt.com] :/
[07:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 1761 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:52] <exec> 08└─Even in the social experiments you mention, you wouldn't necessarily be proving anything. There are just so many confounding variables in these events. I realize your examples were off the cuff and rhetorical, but they expose a real issue nonetheless. Your selection of Chinese, or homeless is going...
[07:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:53] <exec> 08└─If you have a model that can strictly be described in mathematical terms, rock on. Here is the thing you must have missed in your econ classes. They claim they do. Yet have managed to miss every recession and boom since the 1930s. The models they do have model very narrow fields of study. The rest i...
[07:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Disabled is required for some platforms - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:11:15] <exec> 08└─The CSE is Canada's analogue to the NSA. It has a similar remit. The topic is SELinux, which is software written by the NSA to make Linux more secure. The CSE, I suggested, could do something similar for OpenBSD. Omitting information I deem irrelevant, while noting the omission and linking to the fu...
[07:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02water getting contaminated - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:09] <exec> 08└─The protesters left crazy amounts of human waste, burned tires, burned cars, and other junk... all in an area that gets flooded by the river. Some "water protectors" they are! http://legalinsurrection.com [legalinsurrection.com]
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[08:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Innumerancy is an epidemic, and lack of editots - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:15] <exec> 08└─Get real, everyone knows Wiki is fully prog converged.
[08:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Anonymity Doesn't Make People into Fuckwads - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:19] <exec> 08└─“Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience != Total Fuckwad” These results are consistent with a lot of recent research. Turns out the "greater internet fuckwad theory" was wrong.
[08:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Update (9:30pm local) - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:32] <exec> 08└─At the time that those earlier stories were submitted, it was not urgent...
[08:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Update (9:30pm local) - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:34] <exec> 08└─I see you're trying to play gotcha, so ok, you win: you got me to respond. The earlier stories say the spillway (not the dam, mind you) was broken but there was no danger to the residents living downstream. It is right there in the summary. You don't even have to click on the link to see this: But t...
[08:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:downsides - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:38] <exec> 08└─Humans are filthy, with all sorts of toxic dumping, so keeping them out of the watershed is good.
[08:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:damn - 06Fast Food Chain Arby's Acknowledges Breach - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:49] <exec> 08└─At "Road kill cafe" [google.com]
[08:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Obligatory - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:06] <exec> 08└─Not so, every passenger pays. Megan's Law, however, created a registry of no-cost examiners.
[08:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Reforming Economics - 2123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:48] <exec> 08└─I'm really not sure where to start. If you expect to participate in a discussion of economics it really isn't asking a lot to expect you to at least know the basics. And you just failed. The nonsense at Wikipedia not withstanding, there are four major threads of Western economic thought with non-tri...
[08:12:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:called it - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 911 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:08] <exec> 08└─What you fail to understand, which is completely understandable since you are so ignorant of how the world works, is that the office of presidency has been guided by norms. One of those norms is that arbitrarily undoing the actions of a previous president is only done under exceptional circumstances...
[08:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:water getting contaminated - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:18] <exec> 08└─Lol, that's hilarious. Hilarious that you would believe that. Look at the picture. It is a very small pile of junk shot in a way to make it look like all the snow behind it is part of a vast field of garbage. I don't even need to read the article to know its exaggeration and lies, the deceptive phot...
[08:14:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02Re:Nothing more than republican virtue signaling - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 2762 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:14:18] <exec> 08└─It is not ok when the primary purpose of speech is to cause violence. Milo has come really close to being nothing but this, and if some alt-right types want to flaunt the bloody shirt of free speech about this, well that is just more of the same. Incitement. So I would propose a test for free speec...
[08:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02What a Brave Boy! - 06Tennessee Bill to Require Free Speech on Campus - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:15:19] <exec> 08└─The fact that I have the nerve to speak (in this case, write) proper English is enough right there for you to dehumanize me completely.
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[09:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score:2) 02Is this significant? - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:07] <exec> 08└─> Evaders cost the Port Authority about $31 million in unpaid tolls in 2015, the last year for which data are available. > A recent audit showed the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission lost about $37 million to toll violators. Would be nice to know 1. What proportion of the total toll income is this? 1...
[09:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Connivance with car rental companies - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:08] <exec> 08└─I'd like to know how much they scam of rental cars with the lack of cash or credit card options. Every time rent a car on the East Coast there's a sneaky toll road just outside the airport that is impossible to avoid that triggers the $7.80/day fee for the entire rental. Fucking makes me want to avo...
[09:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:More nuance needed - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:07:23] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the study look at pseudonyms attacking pseudonyms? Am I wrong is saying that Wikipedia regards comments made by non-logged-in users (shown as coming from an IP address) as anonymous, and comments made by logged in users as non-anonymous: but there is no requirement for usernames to be linked...
[09:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no problem, everyone is dead - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:32] <exec> 08└─The best that could be said about that is that just the emergency spillway failing would be worse than most regular dams. It's about 30 ft tall, and someone claimed each foot holds about 150 billion gallons of water (grain of salt, internet single source). As of now, they have the water level below...
[09:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:obvious solution - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:42] <exec> 08└─if a frog had wings it wouldn't bump its ass on the ground, but alas both frogs and humans alike must deal with the reality of gravity
[09:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Design flaws - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:45] <exec> 08└─Whenever I've been for a walk around dams local to me, the auxillary overflows have without exception been concrete and stone baffled (mind you, they will get used more frequently due to the amount of rain we get). Who in their right mind would leave it unlined and to run off straight down a hillsid...
[09:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Profiling and false positives - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 2043 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:54] <exec> 08└─First, outside of the SJW world, there is nothing wrong with profiling. Your young, swarthy male is immensely more likely to be a threat than your ancient, asian grandmother. While some random checks are essential, concentrating limited resources on the demographics more likely to pose threats is co...
[09:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:02] <exec> 08└─They're not protected speech? According to whom? Not the first amendment. You much be referring to our treacherous courts which ignore the Constitution, but they are simply incorrect. Anyway, telling a joke is different from someone trying to cause a panic, even if you think the latter should not be...
[09:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:09:06] <exec> 08└─That seems pretty naive.
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[10:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02lather, rinse, repeat... - 06US House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:00] <exec> 08└─It isn't getting passed this time around either, because we all are PTs. Potential Terrorists. And we can't have anything crazy like a warrant to inhibit the police from fishing around in the communications of PTs. Hell, they'll start working on "fixing" access to phone calls soon.
[10:07:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:Innumerancy is an epidemic, and lack of editots - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 183 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:18] <exec> 08└─Then the paragraph right below says anonymous comments account for 43%. Huge editorial fail or innumerancy? The rest of the paragraph makes as little sense so I'm leaning toward both.
[10:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Anonymity Doesn't Make People into Fuckwads - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:21] <exec> 08└─Actually, Mr. AC, the present research contradicts you. As the summary points out "anonymous users were six times more active in posting personal attacks". Thus, anonymous users may not be the most persistent attackers, but anonymity clearly emboldens people to act in less polite ways than the avera...
[10:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Anonymity Doesn't Make People into Fuckwads - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:23] <exec> 08└─"Out of how many anonymous posters?" RTFA. Approximately 100,000 unique IPs for anonymous users in this study.
[10:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:More nuance needed - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:27] <exec> 08└─Yes, you are correct. But pseudonyms, like real names, have a "reputation" that follows you. Pseudonymous users nevertheless tend to behave worse online than real-name accounts, and anonymous users behave worse than pseudonyms. All of this is pretty well known, I thought.
[10:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Profiling and false positives - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:57] <exec> 08└─First, outside of the SJW world,
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[11:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this significant? - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:19] <exec> 08└─2. What is the cost of enforcement?
[11:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score:2) 02toll booths are idiotic - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:21] <exec> 08└─Toll booths should be banned by constitutional amendment, as well as nuked from orbit. The sum of wasted space, wasted time, wasted money, wasted fuel, and motor vehicle accidents due to the stupidity that is toll booths, is a disgrace and a stain on humanity.
[11:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Toll operators deserve it - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 2160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:24] <exec> 08└─I avoid tolls the legal way: refuse to take the toll road. Judging from the traffic on the service road, a lot of people feel the same way about it. These toll road operators cheat. In Texas there is a state highway 121 that goes NE out of Ft. Worth. Just past DFW airport, it becomes a toll road. It...
[11:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02In the UK - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 1654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:26] <exec> 08└─In the UK toll roads are the exception. The public are very anti-toll roads, and you ought to get more anti in the USA too. One of the few tolls here is on the two Severn Bridges from England into South Wales and is the subject of a political row that has been going on since the first was built 40 y...
[11:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score:1) 02Re:More nuance needed - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:44] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that 'real name' accounts behave better. I'm providing the first link I could find, as I don't have the time to dive deep into Google Scholar https://techcrunch.com [techcrunch.com] Some people are p...
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[11:07:45] <exec> 08└─Definitely some hyperbole in the 34 users and their 9% of attacks being "responsible", but it does sound like they are a good candidate for a small pool of users that could be made an example of - say by revocation of their access rights (temporary or permanent, Wikipedia's choice) - to "encourage"...
[11:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02just like a submarine - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:07] <exec> 08└─it requires some engineering and math and calculation and stuff to get a spill-way right. if the slope and angle are "wrong" then you can get pitting and cavitation ... really! one would think that a straight slope is the perfect shape for a spillway ... alas ..not.
[11:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:03] <exec> 08└─So, what blew up the Arndale Shopping Centre, when I lived only miles away (and was planning on heading into down later that day)? What was it that kept me, and everyone else, on an underground train, between stations, for over an hour as it was unable to pass through Harrow on the Hill station? The...
[11:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Isreal - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:21] <exec> 08└─> Israel unabashedly profiles people. And, mostly, it works. Questionable. I say that as someone with Palestinian relatives. > Most terrorists are military age males, for starters. So why did Israel unabashedly flag females who are in relationships but flying alone as being a threat? Because they we...
[11:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:51] <exec> 08└─Except investing 1000 doesn't net you 20%, it nets something with a cauchy distribution which appears to be centred at 20%, but, being cauchy, not only doesn't have a standard distribution, but also doesn't even have a mean.
[11:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 02Re:Copyright trolling - 06Beyoncé Sued for Over $20 Million by Slain YouTube Star's Estate for Sampling a Song - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:34] <exec> 08└─You think a single song released only a year ago would have made so much money that 1% of the singer's profits would amount to $20 million?? So the singer would've made $2 billion out of that one song in the course of one year? Really?? <Hypothesis time> Some website imagined/estimated Beyonce's ye...
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[12:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02obvious applications - 06Fully Integrated Broadband Terahertz Spectroscope on a Microchip - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:07] <exec> 08└─So from now on, when you send of by mail for a pair of "X-Ray Specs" from a small ad in the back of a comic book, you might actually get a product that functions as advertised?
[12:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score:2) 02I can't stand those "license plate protectors" - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:27] <exec> 08└─I often see cars with tinted "protectors" that only serve to block high speed cameras from reading them. It's obviously to allow them to skip paying for tolls. But they have the side effect of stopping humans from reading them as well. Need to grab someone's license plate number ina hurry? Too bad....
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[12:09:12] <exec> 08└─Isreal
[12:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:''The Safest Airline'' (El Al) - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:09:19] <exec> 08└─I just realized that a lot of our people are much younger than I am. Maybe even you? Anyway - it's worth reminding the world WHY Israel is the way it is. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] It is also worth mentioning that the "shoot the hostage" approach has been attribu...
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[12:09:54] <exec> 08└─It depends a lot on your initial ship configuration. I think I completed it on the third or fourth attempt, but there are some of the later ships that I've never managed to finish it with. I like the game, and it was well worth the money, but there are a few things that I don't like, mostly the over...
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[13:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:09] <exec> 08└─Needs ATP. 26% Faradaic efficiency. Lame.
[13:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pax [5056] (Score:1) 02Re:obvious applications - 06Fully Integrated Broadband Terahertz Spectroscope on a Microchip - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:18] <exec> 08└─So from now on, when you send OFF by mail for a pair of "X-Ray Specs" from a small ad in the back of a comic book, you might actually get a product that functions as advertised?
[13:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02between infrared and microwave - 06Fully Integrated Broadband Terahertz Spectroscope on a Microchip - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:20] <exec> 08└─just because I don't know the spectrum by frequency. basically these are relevant for molecular spectroscopy, not atomic (the light spectrum is relevant for atomic). I'm not sure why they mention medical imaging (the press release doesn't say), but the spectroscopy aspect is very cool. in college we...
[13:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:between infrared and microwave - 06Fully Integrated Broadband Terahertz Spectroscope on a Microchip - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:22] <exec> 08└─Too long, didn't read version: these guys made a chip that you can put in your phone. after you do that, you can take a glass of water, put it between the phone and the sun, and the phone can tell you if it's likely that some particular molecular compound is present in the water from the glass.
[13:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02180 Days - 06US House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:31] <exec> 08└─Why the hell is there a limit? A warrant (in a free country) should be required for access to information in *all* cases.
[13:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score:2) 02Re:180 Days - 06US House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:34] <exec> 08└─Why the hell is there a limit?
[13:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:180 Days - 06US House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:36] <exec> 08└─As I've stated many times before, I'm of the opinion that it should be a serious crime for any company to release *any* information regarding an individual without a warrant. This is a classic case of law enforcement overstepping their bounds.
[13:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this significant? - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:47] <exec> 08└─If it's costing you millions on a yearly basis, you're a moron for not investing in hardware that reduces this fraud.
[13:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Toll Evasion Makes Sense - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:54] <exec> 08└─TFS cites the Tri-State area, and it makes total sense that people evade tolls. Between New York and New Jersey you cannot avoid tolls, and they are very expensive. I blanche at paying them the couple times of year I cross the Hudson or hop across from Staten Island. People who live in the strange a...
[13:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02LEO - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:56] <exec> 08└─Even LEOs are not free from temptation
[13:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03morpheus [1989] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no problem, everyone is dead - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:26] <exec> 08└─Ok, not exactly perfect wording, my fault. The dam did fail, however, not the main portion of it but the dam as an engineering system, including the spillway and all. Also, at the time I submitted it, the emergency evacuation was ordered. It was not in the paper article I linked to (these things ten...
[13:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03morpheus [1989] (Score:2) 02Re:Design flaws - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:39] <exec> 08└─Well, they do have a concrete lined spillway. It failed first due to what is now believed to be a sinkhole. What is failing now is the emergency spillway. Its top is lined with concrete but as the name suggests it is only supposed to be used in an emergency. It is also worth pointing out that this i...
[13:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Pity - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:42] <exec> 08└─It's too bad there's no mechanism for sending some of that water east of the Sierra Nevadas. It is vast country, beautiful, but dry as a bone.
[13:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Awesome - 06World's Largest Aircraft Repaired and Ready to Fly Again - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:09] <exec> 08└─Goddammit.
[13:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:''The Safest Airline'' (El Al) - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:55] <exec> 08└─The Russians have the same strategy with hostage situations. It works pretty well as a deterrent because potential hostage takers know that the objective in any hostage situation is to kill the hostage takers. In the US and most of Europe, the objective is to free the hostages. This means that takin...
[13:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Profiling and false positives - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:09:59] <exec> 08└─Your young, swarthy male is immensely more likely to be a threat than your ancient, asian grandmother
[13:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:12] <exec> 08└─The no-fly list, I almost agree with you. No one knows who is on it, and it has been demonstrated that some pretty lame people have been denied boarding privileges. No one knows how you get on the list. The list is done all wrong, just like the rest of our security theater. But, there SHOULD be a li...
[13:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:upside? - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 1780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:10:16] <exec> 08└─I only went to the USA once before 9/11, and I don't remember the security much, but on my most recent trip (I got home yesterday), it was vastly better than previously. For one thing, they've turned down the sensitivity on all of their sensors. The milliwave radar used to always flag my hair as sus...
[13:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:23] <exec> 08└─Plenty of economists predicted the subprime crisis - as in, central bank policy creating investment bubbles especially in real estate - they just weren't published in mainstream media because no one wants to hear that.
[13:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Re:Telling signs - 06Reforming Economics - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:37] <exec> 08└─This is probably quite shocking, so I hope you're sitting down, but it turns out that siphoning off money from a country's coffers to pay interest is not good for the country at the time.
[13:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's an idea: - 06Reforming Economics - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:11:55] <exec> 08└─If you're the sort of person who questions the consensus of climate scientists, saying "the science isn't settled," or who hand-waves evolution away as just a "theory," then the sort of leap you're making is not large. I don't think you're that sort of person, so step back from making that leap and...
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[14:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:06] <exec> 08└─Shotgun shells aren't very expensive, and probably your best readily available off-the-shelf solution. I'd imagine the tough bit is not destroying these RC aircraft, they're pretty fragile little things (unlike real drones,) but detecting them so you can respond before they drop their grenade or wha...
[14:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score:2) 02Re:Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:14] <exec> 08└─What does this mean? It seems informative, in a way, but I can't quite understand how Adenosine Triphosphate makes a reaction lame.
[14:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:17] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/IPod [wikiquote.org] https://slashdot.org [slashdot.org]
[14:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 1243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:19] <exec> 08└─Aside from the obvious ipod comment the deal is you can convert some rather expensive enzymes and energetically expensive ATP into a small low efficiency electric current and some ammonia. You can't cheat mother nature so it still costs great piles of energy to make ammonia its just abstracted to fa...
[14:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:21] <exec> 08└─We make ammonia so that we can have fixed nitrogen without having to grow nitrogen-fixing crops such as legumes or clover. ATP is an energy-rich biological molecule. It's been made artificially but not, AFAIK, on an industrial scale like we make hydrogen or nitrogen. Mostly it exists inside cells. I...
[14:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02But How Does It Scale? - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:23] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of my senior design project: we had numerous alternative reactions available for one critical stage of our process but threw most of them out over things like "takes 34 hours to make 1 kilogram of product."
[14:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score:2) 02I'd check the fine print well... - 06US House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:44] <exec> 08└─Any law that was passed by this Republican Congress is suspect by default.
[14:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this significant? - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:55] <exec> 08└─Or select a better more efficient financialization model, one that probably doesn't involve tolls. I don't really see the point of a toll other than the usual corruption and payoffs. It seems a system optimized to maximize waste.
[14:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I can't stand those "license plate protectors" - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:01] <exec> 08└─I often see cars with tinted "protectors" that only serve to block high speed cameras from reading them. It's obviously to allow them to skip paying for tolls. But they have the side effect of stopping humans from reading them as well. Need to grab someone's license plate number ina hurry? Too bad....
[14:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Confound your lousy toll! - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:06] <exec> 08└─You gotta pay the troll toll if you wanna get into that boy's hole.
[14:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no problem, everyone is dead - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:35] <exec> 08└─As of now, they have the water level below the emergency spillway
[14:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no problem, everyone is dead - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:38] <exec> 08└─The editors missed a truly epic opportunity to refer to the hole as "Goatse Sized" rather than "Gaping". Like Nietzsche said, when you gaze into the goatse the goatse gazes back into you. you can see that effect with humans staring at this thing. The dam, I mean, not the legendary goatse. Although I...
[14:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:bad ux - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:41] <exec> 08└─Welcome to the swap that is web-dev. A painful existence in a filthy, disease ridden sewer ruled by an ever changing junta of frameworks and standards. The populace of said sewer is an ever growing mass of mostly brain dead vegetables who somehow managed to open a text editor on a mac and then proce...
[14:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Design flaws - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:53] <exec> 08└─It failed first due to what is now believed to be a sinkhole.
[14:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:30 years sounds about right - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:34] <exec> 08└─Or a penis pill success story. A really huge success story.
[14:10:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Correction - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:57] <exec> 08└─(which you can buy on vinyl, you worthless hipster scum)
[14:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02What's economics for 21st century?? - 06Reforming Economics - 1734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:12:12] <exec> 08└─I've been wondering about that myself, I mean economics has real repercussions in politics; if "The Economy" or "economic growth" isn't real, then the foundations under societal constructs such as savings accounts and pension funds, isn't real either. "the old is dying , and the new is struggling to...
[14:13:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:called it - 06Recent News Dispatches From Standing Rock (DAPL) - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:13:50] <exec> 08└─What you fail to understand, which is completely understandable since you are so ignorant of how the world works, is that the office of presidency has been guided by norms. One of those norms is that arbitrarily undoing the actions of a previous president is only done under exceptional circumstances...
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[15:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:15] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine this hasn't been an issue for the last 30 years in the middle east. So, just ask the commanders what they do there.
[15:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:16] <exec> 08└─It's actually only become an issue there in the last few years, mostly within the last few months.
[15:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 1960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:18] <exec> 08└─I think its public knowledge that they're already into radio jammers because of IEDs now you need a GPS jammer for the autonomous ones and they're good. I don't know if the army is going to issue short range jammers with every soldiers TA50 just like helmets and gas masks, but, well, maybe? Its also...
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[15:07:21] <exec> 08└─I'm really surprised this wasn't one of the listed options. Instead all of these "net" ideas of trying to snare the drones somehow. There is a reason you shot small birds with shotguns, same applies to small drones. Hitting is great but hard but if you use a shotgun they don't need to take the full...
[15:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 3193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:23] <exec> 08└─"I'm really surprised this wasn't one of the listed options." You and I are thinking of it as a technical problem to solve, while those who are actually working on this for money are viewing the problem as 'how to get paid lots of tax money' so simple and inexpensive is not what they are going for....
[15:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:25] <exec> 08└─How do you detect and track a small mostly plastic object flying around.
[15:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:27] <exec> 08└─Another low-tech option: spear throwing [upi.com].
[15:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:29] <exec> 08└─"Tolcheev said the man who threw the spear apologized and offered to pay for repairs to the damaged device." That's just messed up. What else was a medieval man with a spear supposed to do when some sort of supernatural gnat started buzzing him? The organizers that gave 'permission' for that anachro...
[15:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:32] <exec> 08└─There is thing thing called range and accuracy.
[15:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:34] <exec> 08└─Its a shotgun, it doesn't work like video games.
[15:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 1613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:36] <exec> 08└─Not an expert on shotguns, but most people I know that are seem quite doubtful as to how effective they would be for this. Accurately shooting upwards is quite hard compared to lower angles because it can be quite tricky to accurately judge distance without some foreground or background to relate to...
[15:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 923 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:38] <exec> 08└─"Accurately shooting upwards is quite hard" You might be surprised to know that shotguns are used often, probably primarily, for hunting birds. Live birds, flying in the air, usually significantly smaller targets than these RC aircraft. "Even assuming buckshot rather than a single bullet" Buckshot?...
[15:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Radio Interference? - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:41] <exec> 08└─Ignoring any local rules about radio jamming anyway. Not that they matter if a war's going on.
[15:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Touché) 02I could - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:43] <exec> 08└─I could answer this question with a very modest (for a defence project) research grant Say $500M? That's like 0.1% of the DoD budget for 2017. Com'on, I'll even offer a generous 25% discount (for repeated business)
[15:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Is this significant? - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:28] <exec> 08└─Or select a better more efficient financialization model, one that probably doesn't involve tolls.
[15:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Connivance with car rental companies - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:30] <exec> 08└─The denver airport is like this. You can take the awesome wide toll road for 5 bucks or so, or you could take the dilapidated, probably on purpose, two lane road and hope a pothole doesn't swallow your car. If I am in my car I bite the bullet and pay the toll, If I am in a rental its full speed over...
[15:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:More nuance needed - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:00] <exec> 08└─The result would be a McDonalds hamburger of merely 91% protein of unknown animal source rather than 100%, it would feel good yet accomplish very little. Even if intimidation took hold it would still be twice of about nothing is still nothing. There are other side issues of course where I suspect I...
[15:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Deletionist - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:01] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting conceptually if the deletionist rabble attacked articles of low quality discussion leading to controversial personal attacks, rather than merely trying to inflict maximum pain on the fanbase. I guess I'm saying if they could be tricked into thinking the fanbase is people who...
[15:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02america's future - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:32] <exec> 08└─I would have expected this out of China or India or somewhere. Isn't that how it's supposed to go? Chinese can't build anything! America: the has-been country that can't build and maintain anything anymore. But go ahead and build that wall. Show the world that you can do what China did centuries ago...
[15:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Actually... - 06Reforming Economics - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:03] <exec> 08└─The guy can be a shit head. Fine. But to dismiss everything he says based on a few outlandish posts is unfair to say the least.
[15:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:First we need principles - 06Reforming Economics - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:19] <exec> 08└─What's that old adage: "Economists have predicted 12 of the last 3 recessions"
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[16:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Who? - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:22] <exec> 08└─1) Who? 2) I have this nice "Bookmark" menu on my computer... works every time... since... I dunno... long time ago. 3) How can clouds become full? They should expand automatically... with an automatic notice before and after it happening, billing can be done afterwards as well or automatically.
[16:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Who? - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:23] <exec> 08└─Well, looking at Wikipedia (it's the first time I heard about Instapaper), it seems that this service doesn't store just the link, but the actual page (how they keep out of copyright issues, I have no idea). Which means that it provides a bit more than synchronized bookmarks, and also explains how t...
[16:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Does seem tricky - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:25] <exec> 08└─I mean, link bookmarking just isn't where it will be 10 years from now. My, what a golden age that shall be. I hear about some of the developments that they've almost got nailed down. Someone was talking about being able to share link bookmarks, like, between computers! How cool would that be?! So e...
[16:07:37] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 210 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:37] <exec> 08└─Its also very wealthy western thinking, to safely and remotely use a $1000 single use toy, or even a $100 single use toy, when a $100 AK47 has better range, repeatability, reliability, requires less training...
[16:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 2185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:47] <exec> 08└─Like I said, not an expert on shotguns, but I got the distinct impression that most birds are brought down with the shotgun much closer to horizontal than vertical - although maybe that's down to the type of bird; it's mostly stuff like grouse and fowl around here. How well that translates to drones...
[16:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02fricking lasers - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:51] <exec> 08└─My previous post about the folly of buying expensive military toys to use against dirt poor insurgents notwithstanding, why don't they just use a military grade one of these [wikipedia.org]?
[16:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Well first things first - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 1221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:53] <exec> 08└─While I was a subscriber in the 80s and enjoyed it, I really doubt Popular Science is the best source to be answering that question. (Or saying confusion exists...) And you can bet there will be plenty of officers of the current War College, West Point, Annapolis, Colorado Springs, and TRADOC who ar...
[16:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And incorrect conclusion as well.... - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:55] <exec> 08└─.... The measure would not be something as-cheap-as-a-drone. If you were reckoning on those grounds, you'd have to use the proportion that ISIS (or other aggressor) spends on drones of their budget compared to the budget of the alliance against them spending on a countermeasure. (Writ large, if I ha...
[16:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:07] <exec> 08└─the deal is you can convert some rather expensive enzymes and energetically expensive ATP into a small low efficiency electric current and some ammonia.
[16:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:08] <exec> 08└─The actual process is exothermic [nawabi.de] so any energy you put in is purely energy required to make the process happen, not energy you actually need for the reaction itself to happen (or rather, to happen fast enough). So you don't need to "cheat mother nature".
[16:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:between infrared and microwave - 06Fully Integrated Broadband Terahertz Spectroscope on a Microchip - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:22] <exec> 08└─just because I don't know the spectrum by frequency.
[16:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'd check the fine print well... - 06US House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:35] <exec> 08└─So... Everything for the last two years and at least the next two then? https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org] Not real sure where you've...
[16:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score:1) 02Re:Is this significant? - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:49] <exec> 08└─Business 101 dictates that you should not look at absolute cost. Invest somewhere else if return is better. You might not be a moron for not doing the investment.
[16:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score:1) 02Re:Connivance with car rental companies - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:52] <exec> 08└─I've gotten billed for using bridges in other states. I didn't even bother contesting the bill. I simply didn't pay and that was the end of it.
[16:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:toll booths are idiotic - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:55] <exec> 08└─Replace them with troll booths.
[16:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Identifiability Makes People into Fuckwads - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:19] <exec> 08└─The relevant part of the analysis is that anonymous users tend only to do a handful of attacking comments. So on a per person basis, anonymity does not correlate with high levels of trolling. But identifiability does - named users account for the majority of people with 6 or more attacking comments....
[16:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:More nuance needed - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:24] <exec> 08└─Indeed, that's why nobody takes Aristarchus seriously. He's a huge fool that contributes nothing of value while making vague remarks and not even bothering to state what his issue is. Dude's probably one of those Aspie folks that just needs to get laid. I don't really care who the fuck he is in real...
[16:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02"activity level" - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:29] <exec> 08└─Just because a user has a high activity level does not mean they are providing useful content to the site. But Wikipedia has driven itself to this culture with internal wars and are now reaping what they sow. I quit being an occasional editor when I stumbled into someone's domain when I tried improv...
[16:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Design flaws - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I know the main spillway is lined. I'm saying it's a bit of an oversight to have the "emergency" (overflow) spillway unlined and with nothing but a bare hillside to run down; all the dams I've seen around home have had properly engineered overflows as well. Particularly when that part of the d...
[16:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Breaking news - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:02] <exec> 08└─Rarely is the term "breaking news" that appropriate …
[16:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:damn - 06Fast Food Chain Arby's Acknowledges Breach - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:14] <exec> 08└─It looks like this where I can be smug and say that I'm glad that when I get a craving for curly fries, I use cash.
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[17:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02Re:Who? - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:22] <exec> 08└─At least the summary describes them as a ".ink bookmarking service". Now I just need to know what the hell a "link bookmarking service" is.
[17:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Cloud professionals - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:25] <exec> 08└─The nice part about the cloud is the professionals don't have to worry about the hardware, the bad part is they ignore everything... I'd cry bogus on the story. Nobody doesn't monitor anything, even the most fly by night wantrapreneuers do better work than that. More mysterious is the whole implicat...
[17:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:2) 02Re:Cloud professionals - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:27] <exec> 08└─This week long process to return to full functionality is odd to me too. I gotta wonder how large their database was and WTF is going on that it's taking a week to manage this. I've imported ~50GB Sybase DBs in hours. That was on hardware dating back to about the P4 era. Obviously they've got a larg...
[17:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cloud professionals - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:29] <exec> 08└─they've also gotta be working with hardware more modern too
[17:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Celestial [4891] (Score:2) 02Used Instapaper - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 770 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:31] <exec> 08└─I used to use and even subscribe to Instapaper. It basically scrapes articles you tell it to, and saves them in a nice, easy to read format. The legality of it, I have no idea. But it makes a lot of articles much easier to read, and has been around for several years. I liked it because it reformatte...
[17:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Used Instapaper - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:33] <exec> 08└─While you're here explaining things, can you explain to me what exactly pinterest is? I occasionally have things lead me to it, but I can't see shit on the site without signing up for an account (which I won't do), and blocking the nastygram they give you to login gives you a handful of pictures rel...
[17:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score:2) 02Re:Used Instapaper - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:35] <exec> 08└─A catalog of ideas!¡!¡!¡!¡!¡! Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann summarized the company as a "catalog of ideas," rather than as a social network, that inspires users to "go out and do that thing."
[17:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:50] <exec> 08└─Is it still more reliable now that everyone's had a decade and a half to digest IEDs being a thing, and decide it's easiest to just shoot anyone spotted digging up a road?
[17:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:51] <exec> 08└─They might choose to dig up the road when no one is around to shoot them. In Montreal is we were to shoot everyone digging up the road, it would stop the sewer renovation project dead in its tracks.
[17:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:56] <exec> 08└─I like your thinking. I order to reduce the cost of operation, we can make the drones semi autonomous. Then you can have dozens of drones controlled by a master "manager" that will keep observation of all the drones, ensure the drones are patrolling the correct locations, schedule charging, alert gr...
[17:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 1297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:59] <exec> 08└─From a combat perspective suddenly having tank commanders going from three people and a radio yelling at them to an extra ten pilots high on energy drinks back home is likely to be a problem, so I like the idea of a flight controller talking exclusively to the tank commander. Something I like about...
[17:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:08] <exec> 08└─"I got the distinct impression that most birds are brought down with the shotgun much closer to horizontal than vertical - although maybe that's down to the type of bird" It is, and firing at a 45 degree or even greater is fairly common. "If you allow for just a three second timer delay then for a n...
[17:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:10] <exec> 08└─Sure, but that cuts both ways, they need to come down low to deliver their own ordinance.
[17:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:12] <exec> 08└─That's not a bad idea, of course, but they still need to actually do a little damage now and then to sustain the fear. These things don't carry big payloads - not a 500lb bomb, no, they're carrying hand grenades that weigh approximately 1 lb. and don't have all that large a blast radius. Sure, it mi...
[17:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:14] <exec> 08└─Sure, but that cuts both ways, they need to come down low to deliver their own ordinance.
[17:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:16] <exec> 08└─Was going to say, a load of 00 buck is highly cost-effective, until our Pentagon awards Beretta a $500M contract for the new "Dronerator" 18.5mm hand-held anti-UAV kinetic weapons system.
[17:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:19] <exec> 08└─they're pretty fragile little things (unlike real drones,)
[17:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Re:Radio Interference? - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:22] <exec> 08└─That's what I was thinking; ECM. Commercial drones use known frequencies and have to be controlled remotely by radio signal. Jam the signal, and whoever is controlling it can't get to their target. Now, if you're talking about drones that are programmed to fly to a specific GPS coordinate to bomb a...
[17:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Swarms of drones - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:28] <exec> 08└─I don't think there's a cheap solution. With regards to warfare, the problem, in the future, is not just drones, but swarms of drones. As an old Navy avionics technician I tend to think in terms of ECM, but that won't solve every problem. Drones are fairly useless without GPS. Perhaps we need to thi...
[17:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'd check the fine print well... - 06US House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:07] <exec> 08└─Any law that was passed by Congress is suspect by default.
[17:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'd check the fine print well... - 06US House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:09] <exec> 08└─Let's not get into a partisan he-said/she-said argument. I'm sure you haven't been thrilled by the recent Democrat administrations, either. Suffice it to say, in the past decade (or maybe "since the fall of the Soviet Union?"), the US has been eroding the ideas of individual freedom and civil libert...
[17:09:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02Toll operators deserve it - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 2160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:28] <exec> 08└─I avoid tolls the legal way: refuse to take the toll road. Judging from the traffic on the service road, a lot of people feel the same way about it. These toll road operators cheat. In Texas there is a state highway 121 that goes NE out of Ft. Worth. Just past DFW airport, it becomes a toll road. It...
[17:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score:2) 02Re:Anonymity Doesn't Make People into Fuckwads - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:52] <exec> 08└─I don't think AC is saying they have to be mutually exclusive. I read it the other way - both can be both (both anonymous and identified can be both social and/or bad).
[17:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Thunderbirds are GO! - 06World's Largest Aircraft Repaired and Ready to Fly Again - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:07] <exec> 08└─TB .02 is ready for action!
[17:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''no such thing as terrorism'' - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:38] <exec> 08└─"and, apparently, didn't have easy enough access to mental health professionals." because ssri pushers have been so successful in the fight against "gun violence".
[17:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:41] <exec> 08└─The attitude displayed by grandparent poster is unfortunately all too common. A danger doesn't "exist" until it happens to them personally. "Ignorance is bliss."
[17:11:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''The Safest Airline'' (El Al) - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:11:58] <exec> 08└─the innocent are always twits to an authoritarian
[17:12:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:FTL - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:36] <exec> 08└─Some other good games with lots of randomness (not rogue-like): Darkest Dungeon, Airships: Conquer the Skies, Rimworld
[17:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:FTL - 06'Faster Than Light' Successor Shows Off Adorable Mech Battles - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:39] <exec> 08└─Like fuck. It's almost impossible.
[17:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Disabled is required for some platforms - 06Solve Security-Enhanced Linux Issues With Ease Using SELinux Alert Browser - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:00] <exec> 08└─Well, I missed that (implied) suggestion.
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[18:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Desler [880] (Score:2) 02Re:Cloud professionals - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:38] <exec> 08└─Being of course.
[18:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cloud professionals - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:39] <exec> 08└─That's a double fail in that the last time I ran a DB access without checking and appropriately responding to error codes was a couple presidents ago after an unfortunate incident. So no error handling code AND no database monitoring, not bad. I think I'm beginning to understand why I sleep thru the...
[18:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:00] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Now the "IED" can be hidden ten or twenty metres away from the road, and when the US patrol drives past it simply takes to the air and follows them.
[18:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:01] <exec> 08└─Also relevant here: The US helps even more by backing local leaders who at least appear to be worse for the population than you are. For example, the reason the Taliban has as much support as it does in Afghanistan: The warlords that are backed by the US and the Kabul government routinely rape boys...
[18:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:21] <exec> 08└─While it's true that aircraft in general are quite fragile (by land vehicle standards, at least) a load of number 8 birdshot is not a threat to an A-10, and I suspect it wouldn't be a threat to a Predator or Reaper either. But it should tear a quad-copter to shreds quite neatly.
[18:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I'm going to build... - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:30] <exec> 08└─...a wall.
[18:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Noisy - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:32] <exec> 08└─Quad rotors are rather noisy and their hum, distinctive. While humans might not notice with all the clanging going in a war zone, it shouldn't be too hard for a computer with a microphone doing some low rate signal processing and perhaps a little machine to detect drones by just listening for them....
[18:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:45] <exec> 08└─The actual process is exothermic so any energy you put in is purely energy required to make the process happen, not energy you actually need for the reaction itself to happen (or rather, to happen fast enough). So you don't need to "cheat mother nature".
[18:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I'd check the fine print well... - 06US House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:13] <exec> 08└─I've only just finished paying for the last. [wikimedia.org]
[18:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Is this significant? - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:28] <exec> 08└─I can only see two workable financing systems: Tolls and taxes. For both, you've got your share of people who avoid it, and your share of people who consider it fundamentally misguided.
[18:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:I can't stand those "license plate protectors" - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:39] <exec> 08└─They are technically illegal ("obscuring license plate") . Seems to be not enforced though.
[18:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Toll Evasion Makes Sense - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:42] <exec> 08└─The toll roads of NY and NJ also show that the Democrats are not interested in working-class voters, and instead want to harm them. Toll roads disproportionately hurt poor and working-class people, who already have enough trouble affording transportation expenses, whereas rich assholes in limos real...
[18:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Don't feed... - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:46] <exec> 08└─...the tolls.
[18:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Innumerancy is an epidemic, and lack of editots - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:57] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you refuse to accept human nature as reality. It's not just Wikipedia that's like this; the "inner cabal" phenomenon is endemic to humanity. We readily see this in our governments; why do you think Wikipedia would be immune? The only places you don't see this is in organizations that are...
[18:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:Anonymity Doesn't Make People into Fuckwads - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─I think you're correct: both things are true, just for different groups of people. Some people, who value their social group more, want to claim credit for their bad behavior. Other people, who don't care about being part of a particular social group, just like to vent anonymously for their own pers...
[18:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score:2) 02Re:america's future - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:48] <exec> 08└─We can build stuff just fine in America. The problem is the cost: it costs a lot of money to build stuff right, so we need to cut corners a lot to get it built at all. Remember, we have a lot of cronies and politicians who need to get paid off in order to build anything at all, and all that graft ad...
[18:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:What's economics for 21st century?? - 06Reforming Economics - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:16] <exec> 08└─Decentralization. The elites want most of us little people dead, and my money is on them doing it through a combination of bad laws and what you might term "malign neglect." Hence, we need to take matters into our own hands. We've all become so alienated from one another and from the soil and the sk...
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[19:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny) 02shocking they named it after someone associated... - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:23] <exec> 08└─...with COBOL
[19:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:shocking they named it after someone associated - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:24] <exec> 08└─It's a university. That's probably what they're still teaching with.
[19:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:shocking they named it after someone associated - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:26] <exec> 08└─She's done a lot more for the field than you ever will.
[19:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Troll) 02SJWS RUN AMOK - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:28] <exec> 08└─ERMAGERDHEILTTRUMPARGLEBARGLE
[19:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWS RUN AMOK - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:31] <exec> 08└─Yup, way to show your age and/or intellect. Change must be stopped, everything was fine as it was in my younger days, all these new fangled gadgets are morally bankrupting our minds. THEY TURK 'ER JERBS! Blah blah blah.
[19:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Cloud professionals - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:54] <exec> 08└─I have seen the same thing with owned servers. Didn't even know it was cloud until you pointed it out. When you hire college kids and h1bs with no exp you get what you get and they learn a lesson and you go out of business. The older dudes have already been burned and know 'uh you *really* want to d...
[19:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Used Instapaper - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:58] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, Instapaper was sold to Pinterest a few months ago
[19:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:33] <exec> 08└─#8 shot has an effective range of 30-35 yards, not 300. Not a single pellet will make it more than half way to that 300 meter target (and be ineffective for the last 115 meters) as they will all literally drop to the ground at about 150. If you use duck loads (#4 size range) you can extend that a co...
[19:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:40] <exec> 08└─Why does the font on this reply look different than all the other fonts?
[19:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Radio Interference? - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:44] <exec> 08└─A target may only need to be a fixed target for, say, 15 minutes. My non-expert non-military opinion is that it is likely in modern warfare that plenty of targets are not moving for short periods of time. It may only take 15 minutes or less for a bad guy to send a drone to your location once your po...
[19:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Re:Noisy - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:54] <exec> 08└─"machine" => "machine learning". Hit "submit" when I meant "preview"
[19:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Ever hear of Falconry? - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:56] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKNN49idCUo [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Is this significant? - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:50] <exec> 08└─> has proved to be important in the detection of many offences, including locating stolen vehicles, tackling > uninsured vehicle use and solving cases of terrorism, major and organised crime. Yep, everyone should wear a tracking collar, we'd catch bad people easier. On the more cheerful side, I reme...
[19:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:More nuance needed - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:34] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that 'real name' accounts behave better.
[19:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:There is no problem, everyone is dead - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:53] <exec> 08└─The editors missed a truly epic opportunity to refer to the hole as "Goatse Sized" rather than "Gaping".
[19:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:dry as a bone - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:13] <exec> 08└─>dry as a bone not really https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[19:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Pay Cash You Fools - 06Fast Food Chain Arby's Acknowledges Breach - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:28] <exec> 08└─It's too bad you will lose your cash in the efforts to combat terrorism. Bitcoin won't remain an option either; something just as convoluted but with government insights will be required. India's approach is working well; when you deny the other options and make them illegal, people embrace the rema...
[19:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Awesome - 06World's Largest Aircraft Repaired and Ready to Fly Again - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:47] <exec> 08└─Got your tunes ready? [youtube.com]
[19:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Thanks ACLU! - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:12:23] <exec> 08└─Of course terrorists exist. Just the damage they manage to inflict is quite insignificant. There are plenty of boring everyday things which cause much more mayhem. You're much more likely to die because a filing cabinet falls over you than because somebody decides to blow you up... So it's good to g...
[19:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:re Rational - 06Reforming Economics - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:31] <exec> 08└─I have heard economists don't like it when you try to apply demand curves to the supply of economists. That is to say, even if economics is not a science per se, it still fills a need.
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[20:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score:2) 02Re:shocking they named it after someone associated - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:25] <exec> 08└─I'm still entertained by the fact she said Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, "We've always done it this way." I try to fight that.
[20:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:3, Informative) 02What an amazing person - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:28] <exec> 08└─She retired in 1966 aged 60, after a very successful career. She was then brought back out of retirement multiple times, eventually finally retiring from active military service aged 79, she then worked as a consultant for the next 6 years. She also popularised the light-nanosecond.
[20:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:What an amazing person - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:30] <exec> 08└─I only consume high-SI heavily relativistic nanoseconds, you judgemental clot!
[20:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''popularised the light-nanosecond'' - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:32] <exec> 08└─Well, it already was pretty popular--among those who needed to know about it. 8-) I would have said "made more folks aware of it". She had a presentation which included the distance that an electron can travel in a nanosecond. [blogspot.com] After showing what a nanosecond looks like, Admiral Hopper...
[20:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:20] <exec> 08└─Same for Syria. Assad's pretty bad but many in Syria figured the extremist rebels, Al Nusra Front (Al Qaeda in Syria) and ISIS were worse. Then many of those who thought the rebels etc were better started changing their minds after getting more close-up experience with them.
[20:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:I'm going to build... - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:53] <exec> 08└─It's a Wal-Mart. It's 2,000 miles long. Mexicans come in one side to work and take home money. Americans come in other side to shop and leave behind money. Everyone happy, I think.
[20:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Noisy - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:56] <exec> 08└─That aids in the detection problem. What about stopping the drone after detection?
[20:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score:1) 02Maybe not the best... - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:59] <exec> 08└─Perhaps the most EFFECTIVE way to stop a drone involves tackling him/her, hogtying, and a gag.
[20:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Use a drone to kill a drone - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:01] <exec> 08└─The defense drone could drop light strong nylon strings that get caught in the aggressor drone's propellers. Doesn't require super accuracy, just higher altitude and enough fibers to do the job. Or several jobs on several drones.
[20:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score:2) 02Fireworks - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:04] <exec> 08└─Put a ridiculous amount of those little nylon wires in fireworks and aim it in the general direction of the (swarm of) drones. Enjoy the show. You could automate this by monitoring typical drone frequencies.
[20:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:18] <exec> 08└─So, it's like the smug metrosexuals who are so proud of the electric buses in their city that "don't pollute." Yeah man, totally pollution free - at your front door, but killing the planet overall twice as fast as a standard diesel model.
[20:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:lather, rinse, repeat... - 06US House Passes Long-Sought Email Privacy Bill - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:39] <exec> 08└─Can they still run stingrays without a warrant? Can they still use whatever they happen to hear while operating the stingray, including non-targeted private conversations?
[20:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03slap [5764] (Score:1) 02Toll hikes - 06Crazy Ways People Avoid Tolls - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:20] <exec> 08└─My impression is that some toll roads had significant increases after the 2009 financial meltdown. Not one huge jump, but every year it would go up. As an example, I'd take the Pennsylvania tollroad. in 2008 it was $8.00 for the part I would drive. Now it is $18.25.
[20:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Anonymity Doesn't Make People into Fuckwads - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:40] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I was not generous enough to AC, but please note the title of your post, which is the title of this thread. On its face, it seems to be... well, claiming what it says.
[20:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02machine learning algorithm - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:52] <exec> 08└─To analyze the gigantic trove of sample comments, researchers developed a machine learning algorithm that was able to identify and distinguish different forms of online abuse and personal attacks.
[20:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Needs some Sharia Law - 06‘Top 10 Spammer’ Indicted for Wire Fraud - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:10] <exec> 08└─I'm so conflicted right now...
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[21:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Practice Building Structures - 06NASA Picks Target Sites for 2020 Mars Rover - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:20] <exec> 08└─Enough with this rocks nonsense; I mean, yeah, sure, get some rocks, and tell us for the billionth time that water existed long enough to allow for cells to evolve, but damn! Let's at least look like we're doing something to make the way for a manned mission. Why not take the time to figure out how...
[21:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Practice Building Structures - 06NASA Picks Target Sites for 2020 Mars Rover - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:21] <exec> 08└─Why build a structure? All we need is the right cave, a way to polish rocks, and an inflatable door.
[21:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:Practice Building Structures - 06NASA Picks Target Sites for 2020 Mars Rover - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:23] <exec> 08└─Are there "the right caves" that could be outfitted so easily? What if we want to park ourselves in the ice cap?
[21:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:shocking they named it after someone associated - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, Grace Hopper is Grandma COBOL, at least that's how I first got to know of her when I was in school. One should not condemn her because of her association with COBOL. For what it was designed to do, COBOL is a decent language. One must also keep in mind that COBOL was designed at a time when the...
[21:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:shocking they named it after someone associated - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:36] <exec> 08└─"One must also keep in mind that COBOL was designed at a time when there was little experience with programming languages in the community. We in 2017 are standing on the shoulders of some giants in the business." And despite that, it's still the best tool we have for many jobs.
[21:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWS RUN AMOK - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:40] <exec> 08└─I read this and thought it was a preemptive sarcastic jab at people who would be offended by this change. Hope I'm right... I think its great, we should start renaming lots of stuff to honor the people that actually deserve it. Sadly *cough cough gladly* we would also need to rename that SF hospital...
[21:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:What an amazing person - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:45] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I guess I assumed more people would know who she was, so I didn't include further details in the summary. Here's a link [yale.edu] to the detailed Yale bio of her, which has some additional details beyond the Wikipedia article.
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[21:08:32] <exec> 08└─Also relevant here: The US helps even more by backing local leaders who at least appear to be worse for the population than you are. For example, the reason the Taliban has as much support as it does in Afghanistan: The warlords that are backed by the US and the Kabul government routinely rape boys...
[21:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:35] <exec> 08└─This is why it's time to say, 'Fuck it', and drop the bomb, exterminate them all. Right now we are fighting a PR war, and we will lose until we do what is necessary. Too many people on the planet anyway. We could do quite well to wipe out 5 or 6 billion people and still keep a sufficient labor force...
[21:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:37] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't it be possible to build a drone that acquires a target from a distance using GPS, and then uses some other unjammable techniques or cheap sensors to deliver the payload to the target?
[21:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:31] <exec> 08└─>Monocultures are lame! Absolutely, they are an arrogance against nature, an ignorance of the big biological picture, and they're easy for accountants, investors, and commodities traders to understand - so, we've got lots of them because: money.
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[22:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Erm... - 06Hubble Just Saw a Star Rip Apart the 'Big Brother' of Halley's Comet - ScienceAlert - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:17] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't something 100k times more massive than your average comet actually be a small moon (ok, dwarf planet)?
[22:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Erm... - 06Hubble Just Saw a Star Rip Apart the 'Big Brother' of Halley's Comet - ScienceAlert - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:18] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't something 100k times more massive than your average comet actually be a small moon
[22:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Practice Building Structures - 06NASA Picks Target Sites for 2020 Mars Rover - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:28] <exec> 08└─Starting with the right topology. bringing the materials to make a hole is lighter than the materials to make materials to build a shelter. We've proven pretty adept at making holes in the Martian ground for decades...
[22:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:shocking they named it after someone associated - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 2133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:43] <exec> 08└─I've been studying the history of CS and programming. FORTRAN (Formula Translator) was the first high level language, and the designers focused on demonstrating that a compiler could generate decent code, as people were skeptical that a machine could be programmed to do as well as experts writing co...
[22:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:shocking they named it after someone associated - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 1403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:44] <exec> 08└─ENVIRONMENT DIVISION Well, its main competitor at the time, Fortran, is pretty horrible by modern standards too. Luckily, nobody uses primeval 60s computer languages like COBOL, Fortran, Algol or Lisp any more :-) (runs away very fast pursued by a gang of very not-dead Fortran, Lisp and COBOL coders...
[22:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:SJWS RUN AMOK - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:49] <exec> 08└─What I find telling about this situation is that they found someone who can stand on their own two feet in greatness without needing to be held up. My town is considering renaming a building after the "first african-american to live in the town". Has nothing to do with the persons ability or being k...
[22:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:SJWS RUN AMOK - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:51] <exec> 08└─My town is considering renaming a building after the "first african-american to live in the town". Has nothing to do with the persons ability or being known for something.
[22:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Geraldo - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:54] <exec> 08└─Geraldo rage-quit over it. [thehill.com] Always thought he was a douche.
[22:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:machine learning algorithm - 06Wikipedia Comments Destroyed by a Few Highly Toxic Users - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:11:13] <exec> 08└─How would rate limiting help? They aren't spamming the site. Even the users who do the most trolling are still taking the time to manually write each comment out one at a time.
[22:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:bad ux - 06Breaking News: Gaping Hole in Spillway for Tallest U.S. Dam Prompts Evacuation - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:30] <exec> 08└─I am ashamed of my existence.
[22:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Awesome - 06World's Largest Aircraft Repaired and Ready to Fly Again - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:22] <exec> 08└─This thing is already a failed prototype they bought back from the US army or something. And a few years back, a startup in Germany also tried to build something very much like this under the name "cargolifter" - too slow, too vulnerable, too cumbersome to operate. Their huge hangar in the boons of...
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[23:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:4, Touché) 02Re:Erm... - 06Hubble Just Saw a Star Rip Apart the 'Big Brother' of Halley's Comet - ScienceAlert - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:10] <exec> 08└─… that's a surveillance station. Or why else would it be called "big brother"?
[23:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Erm... - 06Hubble Just Saw a Star Rip Apart the 'Big Brother' of Halley's Comet - ScienceAlert - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:12] <exec> 08└─There's great irony in Big Brother being ripped apart by a dim brown entity...
[23:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Erm... - 06Hubble Just Saw a Star Rip Apart the 'Big Brother' of Halley's Comet - ScienceAlert - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:14] <exec> 08└─There's great irony in Big Brother being ripped apart by a dim brown entity...
[23:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Erm... - 06Hubble Just Saw a Star Rip Apart the 'Big Brother' of Halley's Comet - ScienceAlert - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:16] <exec> 08└─"Wouldn't something 100k times more massive than your average comet actually be a small moon (ok, dwarf planet)?" Beyond the semantic concern, it seems unlikely that a comet that size could actually exist. As objects scale up the effects of gravity increase, the pressure would increase, is it a dirt...
[23:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score:1) 02This is not their final form - 06Hubble Just Saw a Star Rip Apart the 'Big Brother' of Halley's Comet - ScienceAlert - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:18] <exec> 08└─Mostly I wanted to make a "final form" joke, but really they will eventually cool to be a black dwarf in a few trillion years.
[23:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"They are sending their worst to the star" - 06Hubble Just Saw a Star Rip Apart the 'Big Brother' of Halley's Comet - ScienceAlert - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:21] <exec> 08└─The White House named it "Bad Hombre Comet".
[23:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hold on a sec - 06NASA Picks Target Sites for 2020 Mars Rover - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:31] <exec> 08└─Let's not bring samples directly back to Earth. There is a slim chance we have no immunity to some nasty Mars microbes and could be decimated. Set up a lab on ISS or the moon. I realize the chance of a "killer bug" is quite remote, but it's NOT zero.
[23:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Kudos to Yale... - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:57] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the entertaining youtube link. :-) I was aware of her, but had put no effort into 'exploring' her. She seemed to be quite the character, and someone I would have probably enjoyed hanging out with, though I expect I would be out-classed mentally.(pro-tip: that's called a 'learning experien...
[23:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02Outrage! - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:59] <exec> 08└─President Bannon needs to issue an EO reversing this decision, post haste!
[23:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Just needs to cut... - 06Yale to Rename "Calhoun College" to Honor Computer Science Pioneer Grace Murray Hopper - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:01] <exec> 08└─All of Yale's government funded R&D and social support programs :) Be awesome if they could do the same to MIT, Harvard and the other Eastern colleges at the same time. Don't leave the UC/CSU systems out either! :) Damned Dirty Lib'ruls need an example made as well.
[23:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02A Cautionary Tale - 06How a Poker-Playing AI Could Help Prevent Your Next Bout of the Flu - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:09] <exec> 08└─But what if we could recruit computers to be our allies in this game against viruses?
[23:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02Re:Cloud professionals - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:27] <exec> 08└─It's almost certainly a management fail. They may have decided to save money by not having a db admin, pushing that work onto one overworked sysadm who was steadily falling behind, barely able to tamp down one fire before he has to fight two more. When he warned them that the db was about to run out...
[23:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Used Instapaper - 06Instapaper Needs One Week to Restore Full Service After 31-Hour Downtime - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:34] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone got what they deserved lol. Great analysis my friend.
[23:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:57] <exec> 08└─of course.
[23:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score:2) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:04] <exec> 08└─So what you are saying, some dude with a $200 drone can invoke a $5,000,000 counteroffensive. Sounds like the $200 guy wins no matter what here.
[23:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:14] <exec> 08└─"No sane person thinks shotguns have 300 meter range." To the contrary, people that shoot trap think they have a 300 meter range, that's considered minimum distance for safety. Of course you'd find it difficult to hit anything at that range - but birdshot can and does travel that far and retain enou...
[23:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:1) 02Re:Cheap - 06No One Knows the Best Way to Stop a Drone - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:15] <exec> 08└─Ballistics http://www.njskeet.com Bottom left.
[23:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Needs ATP. - 06New Ammonia Production Method Generates Electricity - 1323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:54] <exec> 08└─I'm not quite a permaculturalist, but I definitely am no fan of monocultures. There are no monocultures on my farm, in fact. That said, there are lots of valid, technical reasons why monocultures can make a lot of sense, given some limiting assumptions. Bear in mind that farming is really biological...
[23:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:''The Safest Airline'' (El Al) - 06ACLU Claims: TSA's Behavioral Detection Program is Useless, Biased, and Based on Junk Science - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:13:30] <exec> 08└─You, however, are a twit who is not innocent.
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