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[00:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score:2) 02Re:nice choice of words but - 06Square-Mile Street Network Visualization - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:36] <exec> 08└─Insight from chaotic visuals is called divination,
[00:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:Quasi-"Private" - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:52] <exec> 08└─I look forward to your upcoming comment: "Just because I'm saying it for the third time doesn't make me -1 Redundant! Waah!"
[00:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quasi-"Private" - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:53] <exec> 08└─I don't care what it's labeled, as long as my comment isn't censored by an abuse of the voting system.
[00:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score:1) 02Re:Quasi-"Private" - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:55] <exec> 08└─It's not exactly censored as it is still available but takes an extra click to view. But I agree it was not a troll comment, and I modded the original back up.
[00:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:Curved or bent makes sense, but not opposing - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 606 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:06] <exec> 08└─I thought this too until I owned a Citroen C4 with exactly this design. And TBH, I prefer it. The center gap is usually occupied by your rear view mirror, so you can't see through it anyway. However, one-sided designs routinely leave a huge unswept triangle on the passenger's side. It's not too bad...
[00:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02What about 3 wiper configurations? - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:08] <exec> 08└─I have owned a car with 3 wipers on the front windshield. Also, from TFA, how is a Lancia Stratos the other end of the spectrum from a Reliant Scimitar? Now if it were a Reliant Robin, that might be accurate.
[00:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:29] <exec> 08└─Its not about what people think about you, its that you seem to be sabatoging your own cause. Ive seen so much of it regarding Trump, which is why he got elected. Its just bizarre.
[00:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:38] <exec> 08└─Anyone who doesn’t include taxes (all kind) into his unit price calculations is heading fast into bankruptcy. In essence all taxes are paid by consumers, so are you suggesting that corporations should not pay any taxes whatsoever (i.e. property, sales, income.)? Prices should come down, yes, in a...
[00:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Fairness Doctrine [violates the 1st Amendment]'' - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 1546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:04] <exec> 08└─For-profit businesses do NOT have a right to the public airways. In the past, that privilege was -EARNED- via a commitment to operate "in the public interest". It's been decades since I have seen that commitment from for-profit broadcasters or from "public" broadcasters. I haven't done TeeVee for 8...
[00:13:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:look at it like this... - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:07] <exec> 08└─And then, today, it is all about the fucking jews who managed to get rich while countries got poor and bled out in these great conflicts...
[00:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:''Neither major US political party'' - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:13:11] <exec> 08└─To make that truly meaningful will require that all election campaigns for public office be publicly funded.
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[01:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02down to the details - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:54] <exec> 08└─Once the basic configuration is done, there are plenty of details left. Trico (original wiper maker) had a room full of windshields set up with wipers going day and night. Some had grit sprayers on them, others salt water, others dry--all to see how the rubber blade wore. A family friend (she's now...
[01:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:16] <exec> 08└─Its not about what people think about you, its that you seem to be sabatoging your own cause. Ive seen so much of it regarding Trump, which is why he got elected. Its just bizarre.
[01:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tisI [5866] (Score:2) 02Re:check his meds? - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:35] <exec> 08└─I was think'in the same thing. WTF is BG smoking? How do you income tax an object of factory automation that has displaced a person from their job? Who or what is being taxed and what for? How do you tax a new motor that runs a conveyor belt that replaced a bunch of step-and-fetch-its? Bill Gates ne...
[01:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Let's see - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:39] <exec> 08└─How many jobs has MS Excel eliminated? Let's tax Ms for that. How many jobs has Office eliminated? Let's tax MS for that.
[01:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:"steal" versus "create" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:48] <exec> 08└─Eventually there will likely come a point where AI becomes good enough to replace nearly all jobs, including fixing other robots. It's wildly unrealistic to expect that everyone work in 'creative' jobs, and even if they tried, there would not be enough money in it. The amount of jobs created by auto...
[01:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Now repeat… - 06Triangulene Synthesized - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:22] <exec> 08└─6.02×1023 times please. Or some reasonable fraction of that so we can make a macroscopic sample.
[01:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''call themselves communists'' - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:12] <exec> 08└─...and when making a joke/offhand point, say "Commie". It's like adding a slide-whistle sound effect. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:12:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:''Trump won because he was NOT Hillary'' - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 1302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:49] <exec> 08└─TV reporters As stated, Lamestream Media is a DUBIOUS source of information. As with anything where -profit- trumps all other considerations, they aren't really interesting in truth, just maximizing profits. Similar deal with "public" broadcasting where they are hanging on by their fingernails becau...
[01:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Yes, - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:56] <exec> 08└─And you seem to be saying that the only nervous people live in the EU: How about the people in the middle East, you know, the Iraq/Iran area: The US disrupts Iran by helping out the Shaw in power http://www.history.com [history.com]...
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[02:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Why? - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:38] <exec> 08└─Why are humans still doing that job? Artist? Pfft. whatever. you're a glorified dot matrix printer.
[02:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score:2) 02Re:What about the robots who steal human women? - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:14] <exec> 08└─As I think back on my ex, I would say, "Thanks, and good luck with that!"
[02:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Not a new problem - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:39] <exec> 08└─I distantly remember a Trek TNG or maybe DS9 episode along the lines of "a day in the life of three ensigns" although I'm sure it had a different name and this could work really well. Also the classic TNG episode where Picard was trapped in the turbo lift with some kids during some weird accident, t...
[02:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:What is - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:59] <exec> 08└─Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ Λόγος, καὶ ὁ Λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν Θεόν, καὶ Θεὸς ἦν ὁ Λόγος.
[02:10:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02An arbitrary line - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 745 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:16] <exec> 08└─First off, the issue isn't new, nor is the name Zealandia. A quick internet search shows people arguing about this a decade ago, and the name has been around since at least a 1995 article by American geophysicist Bruce Luyendyk. The Guardian article [theguardian.com] covering this story actually adm...
[02:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yikes - 06Naica's Crystal Caves Hold Long-dormant Life - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:17] <exec> 08└─Why does this sound like the lead in to a bad SyFy movie?
[02:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''Trump: "You think we're so innocent"'' - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:45] <exec> 08└─You beat me to it. ...and any day now, I'm expecting Donnie Tiny Hands to let it slip that USA has more hackers than anybody else and that they're more successful than anybody else. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:14:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:inhumanity? - 06Defense Secretary Mattis Issues New Ultimatum to NATO Allies - 1419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:14:01] <exec> 08└─Where at in Europe are you from exactly? I went back and reread your post and realized that all I got out of it was a "the bombs were bad... they werent devils" and jumped to the conclusion that you were defending the Japanese. I am wondering where you are from because I lived in Alaska for a number...
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[03:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Similarity - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:31] <exec> 08└─Sounds just like most computer users.
[03:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah, my heart breaks - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:32] <exec> 08└─Oh no, what would we do if all them tattoo parlors shut down? Oh the humanity.
[03:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Thank you! - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:59] <exec> 08└─I, for one, appreciate your integrity.
[03:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score:2) 02Re:Uhm - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:10] <exec> 08└─I'm from Michigan, and had friends working for Valeo designing wiper blades. Just about every part in your car has this level of design, particularly if safety is a factor.
[03:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Guppy [3213] (Score:1) 02Asymmetrical wiper design - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:16] <exec> 08└─My Hyundai Elantra has an example of markedly asymmetrical wiper arm design. One is 28", one 14", which is the biggest size discrepancy between the two arms I've seen in a car. Not sure what the mechanical reason for this design is, but it seems to work pretty well. Only problem is that the short bl...
[03:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02My wipers got really expensive - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:18] <exec> 08└─Have an 05 car, replaced the wipers for the first time 2 years ago. I'm used to wiper blades costing maybe $5. These cost me $40. Those were the cheap blades, the good ones were like $60. Bought the cheap ones, they lasted less than a year. Seriously, wiper blades, that need to be replaced every 2-3...
[03:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score:2) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:41] <exec> 08└─I just think it's a hilarious nickname.
[03:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:String pulling narrative theory - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:09:45] <exec> 08└─scene follows scene like beads on a string, and the string always pulls us forward
[03:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Why expect them to? - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:03] <exec> 08└─VR *isn't* a movie kind of thing. Even 3-D is only barely so, but VR explicitly isn't. To see one imagined scenario where it could work, look at the Niven & Barnes Dream Park novels. Or any of several computer games. I don't think the "platform-jumpers" or test-your reflexes games would translate we...
[03:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Make them post a pre-print - 06Gates Foundation Reaches Deal to Publish Articles in Paywalled Science Journals - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:07] <exec> 08└─As a condition of the grant, make researchers publish in an open access journal or post the final, edited version of their paper to a pre-print server like arXiv. Then it will be indexed by Google Scholar and accessible to all. No money gets wasted on paywalled journals, and their relevance is reduc...
[03:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Srlnclt - 06Naica's Crystal Caves Hold Long-dormant Life - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:18] <exec> 08└─I came to drop exactly this. Bravo!
[03:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02Re:So, paleo diet? - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:06] <exec> 08└─Offtopic? Really? I comment on a continent losing a big chunk of it's weight with a stupid diet (paleo diet practitioners died around age 30), and offtopic is the best you can do? / I wanna know who moderates comments, and how they moderated it // there are some really stupid people here /// or peop...
[03:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:''part of one of Nature's cycles'' - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:12:31] <exec> 08└─You're right. It was a 13 foot rise that I didn't believe (unless the summary has been edited). I feel innumerate.
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[04:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Pleistocene Park - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:12] <exec> 08└─Welp, hope they got some chaos theorists working there, or this could go down the drain real fast.
[04:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Up next... - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:13] <exec> 08└─Up next is the Giant Tortoise, at least that one is known to be tasty [qi.com]
[04:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02wrong direction - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:15] <exec> 08└─With the earth's surface currently warming, it seems like the Mammoth is the wrong way to go. Can't they find some extinct creature that is well adapted to high temperatures? Other wise they are looking at some big air conditioning bills for the habitat--assuming they eventually create some live ani...
[04:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:My wipers got really expensive - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:15] <exec> 08└─Wipers are supposed to be changed every 6 months and in my experience, they're in pretty crappy shape after a year. Doesn't matter so much in the summer but every year, when the rainy season starts here, usually some point in October, I have to change my wipers as I like to see the road and get irri...
[04:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My wipers got really expensive - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:16] <exec> 08└─> deteriorate just being exposed to the Sun. My cheap blades last for several years until the ends start to tear. The car is garaged except when actually going somewhere, so no regular sun on the rubber. They start to streak due to contamination well before they are worn out--not sure of the source,...
[04:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Going to go with "no" - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:40] <exec> 08└─This is actually usual too, now you are feigning no interest in who is president (when you clearly care more than me). Why?
[04:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Companies that outsource should pay taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:50] <exec> 08└─I think the price drop was more along the lines of they used the same parts as everyone else now instead of custom jobs for everything.
[04:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Day late, dollar short - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 1007 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:56] <exec> 08└─>unless they hand the robots out for free With the returns they will get from the robots, the up front cost is negligible in the not very long term. They will be more than free, they will make profits skyrocket. >You certainly can't expect the people that still have jobs to want to pay additional ta...
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[04:12:07] <exec> 08└─I'm not the moderator and perhaps you were going for funny but a continent losing what, 0.01% of its mass is compared to you losing a large amount of mass doesn't seem to be particularly on topic, not does the subject. BTW, where do you get the idea that Paleo diet practitioners die at 30? Even in P...
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[05:07:17] <exec> 08└─I imagine a lot of law makers are about to get some hefty donations shortly...
[05:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hopey-changey! - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:18] <exec> 08└─I am starting to think of America as a pimple. There is healing, tolerance, reason, justice, and good sense just breaking out all over the place: legalization of marijuana, marriage rights, and court decisions like this. Meanwhile, all the crazy has been concentrated into one orangy-yellow head! Yes...
[05:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Hopey-changey! - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:20] <exec> 08└─Thanks Obumer!
[05:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:23] <exec> 08└─People steal. Kids steal. Kids steal candy, more than anything. When a kid is caught shoplifting some chocolate, we don't cut off his hand. We don't even fine his parents tens of thousands of dollars. Usually, we scold the kid, call his parents, and his parents punish him - and it's eventually forgo...
[05:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Perverse incentive - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:25] <exec> 08└─Since the damages are divided among all the people who use the same torrent, doesn't this incentivize illegal downloaders to ensure as many people download the same film as possible? With enough people, even a larger penalty could be reduced to about the cost of just buying the movie.
[05:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Sour grapes? - 06India's ISRO Plans Mars and Venus Missions - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:41] <exec> 08└─"Mangalyaan was a marvel in engineering, but no exciting science came out of [it] since the experiments and instruments themselves were mediocre," What's that all about? FFS, a mission to Mars. No, a successful mission to Mars. India joined an elite club when they did that. Not every mission is goin...
[05:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:49] <exec> 08└─Because literally nobody would want some robot arm to stab them with a needle thousands of times.
[05:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Quasi-"Private" - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:08:13] <exec> 08└─Then it more properly would be called "An American Private Enterprise". Privatize profits, socialize losses.
[05:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Companies that outsource should pay taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:09] <exec> 08└─Did they actually dropped the price or just the headphone port?
[05:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Companies that outsource should pay taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:11] <exec> 08└─Why do people repeat this? Haven't we learned anything from free trade, companies cutting costs through layoffs, and all this other sort of stuff? Here's what happens when company sells a product for $100 and suddenly through some event (free trade, automation, etc) has their overhead reduced by $20...
[05:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suggestion - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:09:56] <exec> 08└─lol. Sticks and stones will break my bones, but you will still be the same, sad loser you have always been. Sorry, there is no cure and its terminal.
[05:12:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score:2) 02Re:Former intelligence officials say - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:12:00] <exec> 08└─https://infogalactic.com/info/Louis_J._Marinelli [infogalactic.com] or if you prefer, https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] My guess would be connections with the Russian mob, and possibly with bankers who are unhappy that Russia plans be debt-free by the end of the year.
[05:13:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02Re:The party of science? - 06Website Helps Scientists Blow the Whistle on Political Interference - 4036 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:56] <exec> 08└─Yes indeed, let's try to be accurate. I disagree with the assertion that both parties are the same, empty of all drive other than the lust for power. A problem with the idea of conservatives being those who wish to maintain the status quo or make changes slowly, is that it is an illusion. We haven't...
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[06:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:18] <exec> 08└─He did not even steal the chocolate bar... he just took a picture of it.
[06:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perverse incentive - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:20] <exec> 08└─One quarter of a Million Dollars! [mandatory pinkie to mouth] But if the torrent has two million clients, your share is only 12.5 Cents. Still too much for some movies, but hey.
[06:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:Perverse incentive - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:22] <exec> 08└─This is certainly an interesting development, but I wonder if the studios will push for a judgment that makes each person liable for the whole amount if none of the other defendants pays.
[06:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe not a full-on robot, but how about a cyborg tattooist [youtube.com]?
[06:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Companies that outsource should pay taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:07] <exec> 08└─As a UBI advocate, I would be interested in any sound arguments explaining why it wouldn't work. UBI should cover basics. If you want to keep up with the Jones', you would need to find a job. If you get bored, you would have to argue on the internet all day, volunteer, or again. find a job.
[06:09:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02Taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 973 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:11] <exec> 08└─Anyone who doesn’t include taxes (all kind) into his unit price calculations is heading fast into bankruptcy. In essence all taxes are paid by consumers, so are you suggesting that corporations should not pay any taxes whatsoever (i.e. property, sales, income.)? Prices should come down, yes, in a...
[06:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:13] <exec> 08└─I know its unpopular, but we the people should be calling for greater regulations and taxation of corporations; not blindly trusting the ‘market’.
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[06:09:16] <exec> 08└─Local government is where individuals have the most influence. It also happens to be where government has the most impact on your daily life. Yet people seem to avoid civic politics for some reason.
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[07:07:18] <exec> 08└─The costs of the panels is not my problem. It is the cost of install. ~25-30k before rebate to install a system at my home. 15-20k of that is install. Material is in the 5-6k range. More efficient is better as I can lower the install cost. Most common ones people buy in the 15-20% range. So their cl...
[07:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perverse incentive - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:34] <exec> 08└─It is a rather novel ruling. However, can it stand up under appeal? Upper courts are usually not terribly impressed with novel.
[07:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perverse incentive - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:35] <exec> 08└─Statutory liability for copyright infringement was already novel. Prior, it was limited to provable damages, estimated by the proceeds garnered by offender. But if we share, there are no illicit gains. When I share a movie with one of my millions of friends on the the internets, I would gladly share...
[07:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wrong direction - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:45] <exec> 08└─On the contrary. The first AC gave a big clue: http://science.sciencemag.org [sciencemag.org]
[07:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Stop Now! - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:47] <exec> 08└─The GOP will run it for president
[07:08:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03martyb [76] 02SpaceX Performs Gov't AND Private Launches - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:25] <exec> 08└─When the government is essentially your organization's only customer, then your organization is not really "private". That is to say, when the bulk of your funding comes from stealing other people's resources under threat of violence, then you are not really operating in the "private" sector.
[07:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suggestion - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:10:14] <exec> 08└─You almost made it through an entire comment!! Personally I've been hearing from older generations how media is way more offensive than ever. PC killing Hollywood? Lol more lime "waaah they don't pump out as much racist shit that makes me feel better about myself as they used to!"
[07:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:''height the sea level is claimed to change'' - 06Antarctica Just Shed a Manhattan-Sized Chunk of Ice - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:11] <exec> 08└─Thanks... I learned yet more today on this thanks to you guys. Sure helps me out when I invariably enter into theological arguments.
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[08:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Confirmed. - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:16] <exec> 08└─If there was any doubt that these FM chips are tracking us, let this news dispel it!
[08:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confirmed. - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:17] <exec> 08└─jej
[08:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Valkor [4253] (Score:2) 02Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:19] <exec> 08└─As always carriers don't allow it because of money. I'm fortunate enough to have a device that allows exactly one proprietary app to use it, and the app is clever enough to bypass my ad blocking to show ads.
[08:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:cost of panel - 06Printable Solar Cells Just Got a Little Closer - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:28] <exec> 08└─Printable solar panels should have much lower install costs because they are much lighter.
[08:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:40] <exec> 08└─In today's world, companies think they have a right to profit. Therefore anything that they do not profit from must be illegal. One day it will become illegal to visit an online shopping site without buying anything. After all, you used the resources of the online shop, but didn't pay anything.
[08:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score:2) 02Re:Quasi-"Private" - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:34] <exec> 08└─I agree the system isn't ideal. Who else is actively working to bring launch costs down? Their Blue Sky initiative to lower costs disruptively is showing 'just a matter of time' levels of success. Given the space & defense contractor ecosystem, SpaceX is behaving with something at least a bit like a...
[08:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:My wipers got really expensive - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:01] <exec> 08└─why the hell do you expose them to the sun? aren't they detachable?
[08:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:09:40] <exec> 08└─Who profits from peoples' ignorance?
[08:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New approach - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:51] <exec> 08└─Standard movies won't work, VR would probably be better suited to for more in-depth entertainment than a simple passive storyline.
[08:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Interesting, yes . . . - 06California Secession Leader has Russian Ties - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:12:39] <exec> 08└─Of even more concern, you might look at Islam’s goal to rule the world.
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[09:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Confirmed. - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:07:29] <exec> 08└─On my phone I have to disable "Airplane mode" for the FM chip to work.
[09:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:07:31] <exec> 08└─Well, it is also a feature that only works if you use a wired headset, because it needs to use that as the antennae...
[09:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02good but still too much - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:57] <exec> 08└─i say, if you can produce a genuine movie ticket (cinema) of the movie you downloaded and are now collectively fined for, then your fine should be dropped ... supposedly you already paid the copyright fee?
[09:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02That's no moon - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:10] <exec> 08└─And that is not a mammoth. It's an elephant with few mammoth features.
[09:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Animal Husbandry! - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:11] <exec> 08└─Runaway supports this! More animals to have sex with! The old sow out back is getting kinda boring.
[09:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Franz Kafka: The Penal Colony - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:29] <exec> 08└─Franz Kafka literally wrote the book on this: The Penal Colony
[09:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Suggestion - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:10:40] <exec> 08└─I'm reminded of Police Quest and then almost any open world game since then (right up to the VR Star Wars game i played a couple of months ago) where I travel endlessly through a mute universe until I eventually accidentally trigger the event that progresses the stupid story. Open world my ass. All...
[09:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Percy Filth - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:10] <exec> 08└─Percy filth, that's the answer. It's not just the eyes and ears, it's the "whole body" (for want of a better euphemism). The "adult industry" needs to grab this with both hands and develop the technology a bit further. Give it a few more years, and the technology will be adapted and simplified for l...
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[10:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02interesting move - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:12] <exec> 08└─as far as I can tell, the only option that North Korea has, and that is consistent with their behavior over the last few years, is to declare China an enemy and threaten apocalyptic revenge. the only problem is that it's easy for them to threaten the US: they can motivate their lack of action by the...
[10:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:24] <exec> 08└─But that's just physics: You need some longer antenna to receive the frequency range FM radio is transmitted on. Therefore you can either use a separate antenna cable, or you can re-use the cable of a headset for the antenna. I think the second option is the better one. There's however no reason why...
[10:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03terrab0t [4674] (Score:1) 02Re:Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:25] <exec> 08└─Mine gets good reception so long as I am holding it in my hand. I guess my body acts as an antenna somehow.
[10:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:46] <exec> 08└─This is actually literally true. Copyright infringement in and of itself generally does not include trespass to chattel (denial of access to property), which is a critical component of criminal theft.
[10:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:48] <exec> 08└─Downloading a movie is akin to sneaking into the movie theatre. Uploading a movie is akin to helping someone sneak in.
[10:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:09:55] <exec> 08└─But it's easier to put pressure on corporations: don't like them? don't buy from them. If your sentiment is sufficiently widespread, the corporation will feel the pain in the wallet.
[10:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Mining explosions? - 06Electronic Sensor System to Prevent Mining Explosions - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:22] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to mine an explosion anyway?
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[10:10:37] <exec> 08└─Indeed, my first thought when reading this was: Don't look at movies, look at games. Games already do non-linear, interactive story telling. But that is not the only place to look at: As with all new technologies, one place to look at is Science Fiction. In particular, the Star Trek holodeck is the...
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[11:07:39] <exec> 08└─Given my experience with dedicated radios, I'm not surprised. Without exception, when reception is bad, I always can vastly improve the reception quality by touching the antenna. Indeed, quite often the reception changes from annoyingly bad to almost perfect by this measure. Interestingly, for one r...
[11:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Standalone FM operation.... Really? - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:41] <exec> 08└─This source says: [freeradioonmyphone.org] An enabled FM Chip in your smartphone can make the difference in an emergency situation by allowing you to still hear critical updates. It will also let you listen to your local NPR/APM using three times less battery and twenty times less data than streami...
[11:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02I want... - 06Printable Solar Cells Just Got a Little Closer - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:51] <exec> 08└─My asbestos roof leaks a bit and should be replaced but it costs a bloody fortune to dispose of. I want something that goes over the top of the asbestos to keep the rain out but also acts as a solar generator. The local university has been promising like this for years, but I'm giving up hope. Maybe...
[11:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I want... - 06Printable Solar Cells Just Got a Little Closer - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:53] <exec> 08└─Perhaps asbestos Solar Panels?
[11:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:08] <exec> 08└─Exactly. It's quite ludicrous when if you physically steal a DVD from a shop you're going to get a higher penalty than if you make a copy of the contents of the DVD. You only end up with this kind of situation when you have a large segment of your economy based around a business model that simply do...
[11:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Perverse incentive - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:15] <exec> 08└─Statutory liability for copyright infringement was already novel. Prior, it was limited to provable damages, estimated by the proceeds garnered by offender.
[11:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Quasi-"Private" - 06SpaceX Launches First Private Rocket From Launch Complex 39A - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:14] <exec> 08└─That $4,000,000,000,000 have to go somewhere. Or are you bitching about a $500,000,000 is soo much? Number from, https://www.quora.com [quora.com] As of December 2013, SpaceX has a total of 50 future launches under contract, two-thirds of them are for commercial...
[11:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:24] <exec> 08└─Decoding: E T I M S O [Garbage] I cannot see any porn in that. You should have tried something like: --- .... .... .... -.-.-.-- -- --- .-. . -.-.-.--
[11:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score:2) 02Re:Define Continent - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:11:49] <exec> 08└─The picture to which you linked shows some very distinct plateaus (north and south America) on an otherwise featureless planet. Thus, I suspect that the inhabitants of such a world would come up for a word describing such plateaus. Zealandia might even be one of them.
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[12:07:28] <exec> 08└─Engineering is about fixing leaks. Marketing is about engineering leaks.
[12:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:He'll catch HIVOICE Syndrome - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:36] <exec> 08└─Hmmm. The Chinese aren't stupid. If he declared war on China, I would postulate that Kim Jong Un would suddenly succumb to an untimely malady. Likely HIVOICE Syndrome. HIgh Velocity Ordnance Induced Cerebellum Excision Syndrome. Followed by a very fast installation of a more co-operative puppet. The...
[12:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score:2) 02Re:He'll catch HIVOICE Syndrome - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:07:38] <exec> 08└─Why do I not see the GLARING grammatical error until the moment of hit 'submit.' Then it is instantly visible for the 1/1000 of a second before the screen changes... (Takes a huge hit off of his hash-oil pen) Oh yeah, that's why.....
[12:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Visibility in modern cars is a problem - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:48] <exec> 08└─The wipers and wipe-regions are part of a larger battle over visibility in a car. Visibility in modern cars is actually pretty horrible, compared to past decades. Consider this picture of a car from the 1950s [pinimg.com]. Note, in particular, the huge amount of glass, and the comparatively small ob...
[12:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:So what if they have no idea? - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:31] <exec> 08└─I have a unique VR problem. I really want one. I can (easily) afford one. However, I'm concerned that buying a VIVE or Rift now would be a big mistake. I think that in a few months, at most a year, we'll see a repeat of the Smart Phone explosion as generation 2 comes along with much more and better...
[12:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:What is - 06Hollywood Has No Idea What to Do With VR - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:11:41] <exec> 08└─Well, it says the word is in the beginning, doesn't it? Well, that's also true for movies: It starts with a script. The filming happens later. There obviously have been some alterations of the text, to make it fit better in a religious content, but if undo those minor changes, you get a pretty good...
[12:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score:2) 02Re:Define Continent - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:12:04] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of when people say that Everest is not the world's highest mountain. They claim that the largest mountain actually starts under water (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea). But surely you can claim that Mount Everest, too, starts under water, from that same spot, or from the base...
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[13:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:2) 02"termination of a distributor's employees" - 06Nintendo Switch Stolen by Distributor's Employees Ahead of Launch, Details Leaked - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:19] <exec> 08└─Isn't that a bit drastic? Wouldn't it be enough to terminate his contract and file charges?
[13:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting move - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:30] <exec> 08└─The NK regime has great control over the population. Stuff leaks or gets smuggled in but most still don't quite believe the news from outside- they think it's propaganda that South Korea is doing so well. Even those that don't fully believe the NK propaganda. Most of the ones that manage to leave/es...
[13:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02I’m lost - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:46] <exec> 08└─Doesn’t all cellphones have a frequency modulator? How else does the signal get to the base station? AM?
[13:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:I’m lost - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:48] <exec> 08└─How the fuck do you activate a chip? Short some pins? or they mean like a software lockout. untuneable.
[13:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perverse incentive - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:21] <exec> 08└─Technically, when you share with your friends on the internets you are actually losing money. A portion of your paid Internet plan/bandwidth, utility power, computer/network resources, and rent are being used to share the file. If you were running a business you would be taking a deduction for that...
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[14:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Clearly, I'm growing old - 06GM and Lyft to Test Thousands of Self-Driving Electric Cars in 2018 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:15] <exec> 08└─self-driving electric cars in... ride-sharing fleet
[14:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting move - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:34] <exec> 08└─the problem is that if you suddenly only have two thirds of what you had before (they say 30-40% of exports were coal, mostly to China), you notice it, whether or not anyone tells you why. also, with coal there are a probably a lot of people involved in transporting it, so it would be hard to keep q...
[14:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score:2) 02Re:Confirmed. - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:45] <exec> 08└─I had been hanging onto my old Samsung because it has the physical keyboard that phones don't have anymore. Not having an FM chip gives me one more reason to keep it.
[14:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:52] <exec> 08└─Remember rabbit ears on the TV? Man, those sucked: just walking past the TV fecked the reception. Sometimes you couldn't sit directly in front of the tv, you had to sit off to the side, shit like that. If you held the ears, the reception was great: put them down and you got snow. Sucked.
[14:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score:2) 02Re:I’m lost - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:57] <exec> 08└─3G and 4G phones rely on a much more complicated method of transmission than simple analog FM or even digital FM radio. FM uses a fixed frequency range for each broadcaster. Digital radio allows multiple streams to be multiplexed, but nowhere near the number of Mobile Telephone streams going on at...
[14:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Hopey-changey! - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:17] <exec> 08└─And Hillary is the pus that got squeezed out by the zit head! :)
[14:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:good but still too much - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:33] <exec> 08└─i say, if you can produce a genuine movie ticket (cinema)... then your fine should be dropped ... supposedly you already paid the copyright fee?
[14:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:good but still too much - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:34] <exec> 08└─Until you check the fine print on the ticket. It says you didn't really see the movie: you just paid a fortune for popcorn and a drink, then went home and had the shits from all the 'buttery goodness' poured into the popcorn. ;)
[14:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah right - 06Geologists Spy an Eighth Continent: Zealandia - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:14] <exec> 08└─Yeah right. If the tectonic plate was the only thing that differentiates a continent then India would not be part of Asia, and that's not the only example. This is just the Kiwis trying to stand out from the Aussies like always.
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[15:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score:1) 02"aggressive, tough but fair" - 06SEC Chair Mary Jo White to Rejoin Lawyers Debevoise & Plimpton - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:23] <exec> 08└─Yeah, right... boilerplate deflection... As the revolving door spins... The continuum remains intact... I suppose there's just no point in thinking about it anymore since we seem to have doubled down on the corruption.
[15:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Clearly, I'm growing old - 06GM and Lyft to Test Thousands of Self-Driving Electric Cars in 2018 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:31] <exec> 08└─I'd ask for a car analogy explanation
[15:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Standalone FM operation.... Really? - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:09] <exec> 08└─My guess is the app author is monetizing the work by selling your use stats directly to stations or ratings companies or something. So three MQTT publish go out every minute with a lat/lon/frequency plus maybe your secret private stuff (FB login, email addrs, who knows) I have a different problem in...
[15:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:I’m lost - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:13] <exec> 08└─Sorta, imagine a linux box without a 3c509 ethernet driver compiled in, but a card physically installed. You can see it by running lspci but without a driver to run it, you ain't getting /dev/eth0 I remember compiling my own kernels until at least a couple years into the modular kernel era, say late...
[15:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:42] <exec> 08└─A fine of ~$100? That's not terribly unreasonable. It may even be "just".
[15:09:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Neanderthals next - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:08] <exec> 08└─Wait till our current/recent farm implements get wind of plans to reboot neanderthals and make them the new farm implements. Not just farm implements either, think of low performer employees. Cannon fodder. Guards.
[15:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:26] <exec> 08└─Fascinating. I for one welcome our Borg tattoo artist overlords!
[15:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, my heart breaks - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:31] <exec> 08└─naval piercings
[15:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Why? - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:33] <exec> 08└─Though a single tattoo session can last as long as 8 hours
[15:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:My wipers got really expensive - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:24] <exec> 08└─A lot of engineering goes into making them fall apart that fast. I've noticed the same effect, I think I drove a 80s Horizon in the 90s for like half a decade on the same set of blades, but extensive engineering work makes it impossible for modern blades to last six months. See also disposable razor...
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[16:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:24] <exec> 08└─Springtime for Trump: A Gay Romp With Ivanka and Donald at the White House Yeah, it's getting harder to do gardening while it gets easier: you seem to be able to plant your garden almost a month earlier than in the past, but you gotta watch out for the frosties!
[16:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:26] <exec> 08└─You Sir are fully unhinged at this point. Please seek help.
[16:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:28] <exec> 08└─Soooo, what help ya got for me? Ivanka grow turnips. Yuuuuge turnips. :)
[16:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:30] <exec> 08└─I was mentioning this in the other thread about taxing robots. Why is it that so much low-brow stuff like this is posted against Trump? If you don't like Trump, it is hurting your case to associate anti-Trump sentiment with drivel! At least the anti-Obama versions (no birth certificate, etc) usually...
[16:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:33] <exec> 08└─I wonder what is going on here. It is really warm in the US, but cold in Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Are there any sane discussions of this (that can leave out CO2 unless it is a primary part of the explanation)?
[16:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:35] <exec> 08└─We have pussy willows budding in central Alberta. In February. And record cold waves in other places. It's what happens when you pump more energy into a non-linear system. Which is the role CO2 play here.
[16:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:37] <exec> 08└─Since energy can be transferred by radiation faster than convection, increasing IR active molecules (primarily CO2 + H20) should even out day/night and low/high latitude temperatures (ie like on Venus, where the temperature is very uniform). So I would expect cooling near the equator during the day...
[16:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Clearly, I'm growing old - 06GM and Lyft to Test Thousands of Self-Driving Electric Cars in 2018 - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:52] <exec> 08└─I'm starting to feel nostalgic for times when
[16:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score:2) 02Re:Clearly, I'm growing old - 06GM and Lyft to Test Thousands of Self-Driving Electric Cars in 2018 - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:54] <exec> 08└─I'm starting to feel nostalgic for times when words had a straight meaning and metaphors where artifacts to be used in poetry/literature (you know? Time when news were true and cross-checked facts and propaganda was detected as such by most of the population).
[16:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He'll catch HIVOICE Syndrome - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:12] <exec> 08└─When I saw HIVOICE my first thought was eunuchs & castration. Then I read your expansion which was a bit of a let down.
[16:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting move - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:16] <exec> 08└─When I was going to work in the morning I decided to stop by the McDonald's Drive Through to pick up something extra special. I pulled up and told the lady I would like "One Shamrock-Shake, small" I confirmed that that was it and she told me to drive up to the first window. When I did she informed m...
[16:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02I hate to admit it, - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:18] <exec> 08└─but Trump did call on China to be more helpful and rein in North Korea. Perhaps he is having some success.
[16:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02China will not do anything - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:20] <exec> 08└─What's China going to do? Get rid of him and then have millions of North Koreans making a mad-dash for the border in the ensuing chaos? Support South Korea? Kim Jong Un learned one important lesson from his father and that is knowing exactly how much leash he has. He's not China's ally; he's their a...
[16:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score:2, Interesting) 02connect the dots - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:22] <exec> 08└─Last month China was reported to "... cancel 104 coal-fired projects in development, amounting to a whopping 120 gigawatts of capacity in all." (www.vox.com) The nation is pursuing a policy of less coal and it's serious about it. Stopping the North Korean coal supply is a threefer: less coal, and ex...
[16:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:40] <exec> 08└─I have those on my television but I don't get snow. I get coloured rectangles.
[16:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03iamjacksusername [1479] (Score:2) 02This is about royalties - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:47] <exec> 08└─In 2016, 191 million phones were sold in the North America. The RIAA wants a piece of that pie. I am sure there will be some "royalty" added to the sale of each smartphone once FM becomes mandatory. https://www.statista.com [statista.com]...
[16:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stop Now! - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:40] <exec> 08└─and win.
[16:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Neanderthals next - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:44] <exec> 08└─Politicians.
[16:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sour grapes? - 06India's ISRO Plans Mars and Venus Missions - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:09:53] <exec> 08└─If I were running a space agency and our first Mars mission was successful? I'd be thinking "quit while you're ahead", and prioritizing, say, asteroid exploration. Venus is cool, too -- it's no less a death-trap for probes than Mars, but the difference is (a) you haven't already done that, and (b) i...
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[17:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:29] <exec> 08└─I'm just having fun: Spring time for America in February reminded me of Spring time for Hitler: a gay romp [etc] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] But my main point was the growing season is changing. Then that transit made me think of how ivanka (i wanna) grow some...
[17:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:30] <exec> 08└─I think it sounds like good old fashioned cabin fever. But, with climate change, they've surely renamed cabin fever to something more politically correct.
[17:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:33] <exec> 08└─When the person you're criticizing is as low-brow as Trump, there's really no reason to even try. I mean FFS, WTF is he going to do when there's actually a not fake terrorist attack? No, don't answer that question; I already know the answer. It used to be frightening to me, but who the fuck cares? N...
[17:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:35] <exec> 08└─Soooo, what help ya got for me?
[17:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:37] <exec> 08└─Yugo turnips?
[17:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score:2) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:39] <exec> 08└─The USA was having trouble What a sad, sad story Needed a new leader to restore Its former glory Where, oh, where was he? Where could that man be? We looked around and then we found The man for you and me Where, oh, where was he? Where could that man be? We looked around and then we found The man fo...
[17:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:44] <exec> 08└─correction: "by East/West hemisphere"
[17:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:46] <exec> 08└─Could be Atlantic Ocean currents slowing down. They traditionally kept Europe warm. Another think to keep in mind is that all of these records are weather, not climate. Though, when you get new records year after year, that suggests that climate is changing.
[17:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:49] <exec> 08└─Exactly. A single six, or even a six two times in a row doesn't mean the die is biased. But if you get ten sixes in twenty rolls, it is not rational to assume the die is fair. Even though the result is certainly consistent with a fair die; every possible result is, including a million sixes in a row...
[17:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:4, Interesting) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:51] <exec> 08└─Are there any sane discussions of this
[17:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:53] <exec> 08└─Are there any sane discussions of this
[17:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:55] <exec> 08└─Yeah, talk about the biggest distraction ever. Whoever helped frame this "discussion" is probably laughing like crazy. Well, villainously is probably more accurate.
[17:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Eastern Canada here - 06Springtime for America in February - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:57] <exec> 08└─And we just had positive temperatures (as in +7/8 celsius) during the weekend. I've not lived here my entire life but it's pretty unprecedented from what I hear.
[17:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:59] <exec> 08└─I read TFS, and noted that with all this global warming, the US is now as warm as it was in the 1870's. Interesting. We have records showing that the temps were this high 140 or 150 years ago, yet we're concerned about global warming. Even more interesting are the data that they didn't take 150 year...
[17:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:02] <exec> 08└─The key is in your username. I think the freakout is because the general consensus is that it appears it's happening orders of magnitude faster than ever before.
[17:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:interesting move - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:40] <exec> 08└─They'll just make up some excuse for the shortage. In North Korea very many starved to death because of a "food shortage" due to bad weather and failure to implement Kim's teachings. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org
[17:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Standalone FM operation.... Really? - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:06] <exec> 08└─You made me check the permissions of the "Radio" app on my phone. directly call phone numbersReceive text messages (SMS/WAP)take pictures and videorecord audiolocation (precise and coarse)Modify contactsread call logread contactsread own contact cardmodify/delete SD card contentstest access to prote...
[17:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Standalone FM operation.... Really? - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:07] <exec> 08└─The explanatory note says the app has those permissions because it runs in the same process as com.tct.tctfeedbackhelper. That process is apparently supposed to run the whole phone.
[17:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:I’m lost - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:13] <exec> 08└─LTE uses quadrature amplitude modulation for the downlink and Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiplex for the uplink. http://www.radio-electronics.com [radio-electronics.com]
[17:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02firefighters - 06Printable Solar Cells Just Got a Little Closer - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:26] <exec> 08└─Firefighters might be in favor of thin plastic solar roof panels. With current glass/silicon panels, they are effectively blocked from entering a burning house through the roof. This could be even worse if glass "solar shingles" are used instead of normal shingles. In some cases roof/attic entry is...
[17:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:45] <exec> 08└─First, I absolutely agree that our current U.S. copyright system is broken and needs major reform. It makes absolutely no sense within the original idea of copyright "to promote progress in the arts..." that a creator and his/her descendants should get to live off the proceeds of a work for generati...
[17:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Stop Now! - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:11] <exec> 08└─And still be better than the current occupant of the Oval Office.
[17:10:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Animal Husbandry! - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:14] <exec> 08└─Only if he beats Aristarchus there. Then again, the mammoth has an uncanny resemblance to his mother.
[17:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 600 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:15] <exec> 08└─"The country is ruled not by President, but by millions of career bureaucrats" ^ this!! That is precisely the reason that Trump isn't nearly so dangerous as everyone fears. It is also why a career politician such as HRC would be so dangerous if elected president. She KNOWS how those bureaucrats thin...
[17:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:Day late, dollar short - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 1703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:21] <exec> 08└─A basic, simple robot, with no sophisticated sensors or anything, can pay for itself within months. All the robot need do, is eliminate mistakes. Our machine operators used to load metal inserts into the molds before the plastic part was injected into the mold. Humans get tired, humans get bored, hu...
[17:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score:2) 02Re:check his meds? - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:30] <exec> 08└─Ha! Bill Gates has always been pretty unimpressive, intellectually. His only technical achievement was that BASIC interpreter for the Altair, and even that wasn't accomplished on his own. 90% of his wealth can be attributed to dumb luck. I will never understand how people can elevate the man who was...
[17:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:3, Funny) 02Re:Billy - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:39] <exec> 08└─Of course Billy pays his fair share. Bill Gate's creation voluntarily paid more taxes than were due, and still does to this day. MS would never dream of taking advantage of an Irish tax shelter, or make crazy claims that none of those billions were made in the USA, or any of those other tricks that...
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[18:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny) 02user friendly - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:39] <exec> 08└─But it's easy to use! It just works! It's MAGIC created by scary sexually harassing misogynerd wizards. I don't want to be a misogynerd incel, so I refuse to know anything about how it works. I get laid! It just works! I'm a dumbass who can't even handle setting the time on my VCR! But I get laid! A...
[18:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:4, Insightful) 02Surveillance car - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:40] <exec> 08└─The fact that you can locate your car at any time means that all of the following can do it, too: The company operating the servers.Anyone that company sells the data to.Law enforcement.Some three letter agency.Any hacker breaking into the system. (But hey, those systems surely are well protected! <...
[18:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score:2) 02Re:Surveillance car - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:07:42] <exec> 08└─The newer the model, the more built-in cameras and microphones on the inside, too. The same groups have access to them. The in-car network is all interconnected in a single layer without any compartmentalization. The locks, brakes, and ignition are all on the same network as the Internet-enabled ent...
[18:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:3, Informative) 02Disable/Remove Onstar - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:45] <exec> 08└─TFA did not specify which company manufactured the car, but GM is a my guess. How to disable Onstar without losing bluetooth and without setting error codes [youtube.com]
[18:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02err - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:47] <exec> 08└─how can there be used smart cars, are there legal smart cars yet? also if it works like my android tablet they are slow but cheap
[18:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:03] <exec> 08└─But I don't pay much attention to politics and have no idea how lowbrow Trump is. All I've heard for a year is what looks like morons frothing at the mouth against him. You are (and have been) driving people to support Trump by your actions. I was saying this a year ago and no one listened. Now he i...
[18:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:04] <exec> 08└─The "other side" had plenty lowbrow stuff of their own, like the countless pictures of Obama as a monkey or gorilla. And now "my side" seems to indulge in the same stupid ad hominem attacks, only instead of his skin color it is "yellow hair", "small hands" and "Hitler".
[18:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:13] <exec> 08└─The difference between Earth and Venus is Earth has life. That has a major impact on climate
[18:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:17] <exec> 08└─And if a dice isn't fair, we can conclude CO2 emissions are causing the entire temperature increase, right? This NHST-approach (where you test a strawman) needs to end before it destroys our civilization.
[18:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:20] <exec> 08└─This NHST-approach (where you test a strawman) needs to end before it destroys our civilization.
[18:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:22] <exec> 08└─"NHST in a valid way is when you have a large amount of complex data, have at best very poor models of the data, and want to quickly find possible patterns in the data"
[18:08:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 38 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:24] <exec> 08└─Are there any sane discussions of this
[18:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:28] <exec> 08└─I wonder what is going on here. It is really warm in the US, but cold in Europe: It's this weird "extraordinarily hot" Arctic temperature anomaly. [theguardian.com] That displaced a bunch of cold air that needs to go somewhere.
[18:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:30] <exec> 08└─The jet streams have become less predictable, probably due to carbon dioxide. They make wilder swings resulting in warmer weather when the move towards the poles and cooler when they go the other way. This may be random or it may affect east and west differently - I don't know that we can tell yet....
[18:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:4, Informative) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:35] <exec> 08└─Good lord, Runaway, you can't even cherry-pick properly. No, it isn't. [noaa.gov]
[18:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:37] <exec> 08└─Can I mod someone Spam if they're flinging obvious, disproven bullshit, like you just had to call him out for? We don't have a "-1, But That's Wrong, You Fucking Lying Asshole!" mod, so...
[18:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:40] <exec> 08└─Even more interesting are the data that they didn't take 150 years ago, yet we know for a fact that today's temps are much higher than they were then. "Oh, mid-Atlantic temperatures are so much higher, everything is dying because of it!" Higher than what, exactly? We don't know what the mid-Atlantic...
[18:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:42] <exec> 08└─I read TFS, and noted that with all this global warming, the US is now as warm as it was in the 1870's. Interesting. We have records showing that the temps were this high 140 or 150 years ago, yet we're concerned about global warming.
[18:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02welp I for one am shocked - 06SEC Chair Mary Jo White to Rejoin Lawyers Debevoise & Plimpton - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:51] <exec> 08└─Thieves will thief, par for the course of government work, I expect she got at least one pension as well as high 7 figures the western world is filled with gangs, we would be better off if they where the crips and the hells angles, much more honest
[18:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score:2) 02Re:I hate to admit it, - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:27] <exec> 08└─We never saw the other side of the deal for Trump dropping the rhetoric about Taiwan, wondering if NK was what the Chinese conceeded on.
[18:09:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:This is about royalties - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:59] <exec> 08└─I sometimes download the pod cast of this American life, does that count as MAILCHIP radio?
[18:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wrong direction - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:52] <exec> 08└─We are also needing a "rototiller" for Antarctica since it is warming up. What is better than a Mammoth? Though we should plant some grass first. If like elephants, up to 300 lbs of grass / leaves / twigs per day per animals .
[18:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02what again? - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:02] <exec> 08└─they have been saying this since the found whole ish mammoths in Siberia in the 90's call me when you have a holodeck, wait I mean mammoth where we gonna go get ice cream ?
[18:11:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:22] <exec> 08└─Even if they're Lexmarks?
[18:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah, my heart breaks - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:28] <exec> 08└─In my day, sailors got tattoos and pirates got piercings.
[18:11:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02Re:nice choice of words but - 06Square-Mile Street Network Visualization - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:38] <exec> 08└─Insight from chaotic visuals is called divination,
[18:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Uhm - 06Have You Looked at Your Windshield Wipers Lately? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:12:11] <exec> 08└─I drive a Trabant, you insensitive clod!
[18:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Day late, dollar short - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:11] <exec> 08└─Bingo. And all those cost/benefit relationships are getting bigger at breakneck pace. The meat robots are just expensive and getting in the way at this point. Couple the throwaway mindset with modular design (i.e. unafraid to just replace entire assembly that has one small failure) and robots can be...
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[19:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:25] <exec> 08└─I would rather they push it a bit than release a borked one. Lets say for nice round numbers there are 100million people running windows. Lets say 1% of the computers eats themselves. That is 1 million broken computers. They are playing with a scale that where lots of people have a bad day. We *want...
[19:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:err - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:38] <exec> 08└─how can there be used smart cars, are there legal smart cars yet?
[19:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02"The Cloud" has issues, but this ain't one. - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:39] <exec> 08└─A full factory reset of the vehicle doesn't revoke mobile access, Henderson said. In order to revoke app access, you should go to a factory-authorized car dealership.
[19:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bryan [29] (Score:2) 02AT&T - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:41] <exec> 08└─The AT&T 2G network, that many devices (like cars, including my own Nissan Leaf) used for their internet uplink, was shut down last month. That's one heavy handed way to finally close the vulnerabilities of these devices... Turn off the internet connection technology that they depend on! The Leaf's...
[19:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02New Definitions - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:44] <exec> 08└─"Yours" now means "theirs" and god help you if you try and modify "your" car to do what you want it to.
[19:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score:2) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:01] <exec> 08└─The "other side" had plenty lowbrow stuff of their own, like the countless pictures of Obama as a monkey or gorilla.
[19:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:16] <exec> 08└─No one believes "the climate never changes"[dice is fair] null hypothesis, so rejecting it is a waste of time. It doesn't tell us anything about CO2, etc.
[19:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:27] <exec> 08└─No. But may I interest you in one of our guilt-free ±0 Disagree mods?
[19:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:29] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to mod "touché"! Where you find one user you almost always find the other ;)
[19:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 1485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:31] <exec> 08└─I'm not cherry picking. TFS says records were set, I didn't go searching for them. A record was set, on such and such a date, and that record remained unbroken until now. Meaning - temperatures were lower for a long time, and now they've gone back up to where they were on that date in history. https...
[19:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:34] <exec> 08└─Please, go easy on Runaway! The guy never had the opportunity to get much education, and bullshit is the only real skill he has. Besides, he has the same excuse that the President has: he was given this information, by Fox News, just like the information about the Bowling Green Swedish Carnage Massa...
[19:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:36] <exec> 08└─just like the information about the Bowling Green Swedish Carnage Massacree.
[19:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:39] <exec> 08└─I don't much think you're a shill, but your post is 100% what I would expect. "Sir, public opinion is too strong, denying the warming won't work much longer!" "Shit, OK OK think... How about we start believing in it?" "Sir? I'm not sure I follow." "We agree it's real but we continue to throw around...
[19:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03xpda [5991] (Score:2) 02Mangum - 06Springtime for America in February - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:41] <exec> 08└─Mangum, Oklahoma, not Magnum.
[19:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmn32480 [443] (Score:2) 02Re:Mangum - 06Springtime for America in February - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:44] <exec> 08└─I have added an Ed Note for this. Thanks for catching the Washington Post's error.
[19:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Clearly, I'm growing old - 06GM and Lyft to Test Thousands of Self-Driving Electric Cars in 2018 - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:02] <exec> 08└─Apparently we need more bandwidth, just get your new imant from Musk, that brilliant fortune teller saw this coming!
[19:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Sigh. - 06Nintendo Switch Stolen by Distributor's Employees Ahead of Launch, Details Leaked - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:11] <exec> 08└─Seriously, what's so damn hard about putting the camera on something static rather than waving it around like a damn looney? And I'm sure those few clicks on a basic white Wii-like menu were worth theft-charges.
[19:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:26] <exec> 08└─"visit an online shopping site without buying anything. " And the equivalent IRL will be the "breathing fee" attached to your groceries. Somebody's gotta pay for the A/C in there.
[19:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:good but still too much - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:41] <exec> 08└─Has there been any case law argued as to whether or not owning a physical copy and format shifting it has actually caused damage? (My theory is that in most torts there has to be measurable damage done to the business. No damage, not an actionable tort in most cases.) I think one could argue that So...
[19:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Also interesting... - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:44] <exec> 08└─... This was a default judgment entered. So unless this was a John Doe case, none of the defendants responded affirmatively. Ordinarily not responding would be a VERY stupid thing to do. Interesting that the judge denied fees given it was a default. But the kicker is that for any of the defendants i...
[19:11:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Neanderthals next - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:06] <exec> 08└─Cannon fodder is too expensive compared to robots and machines these days. Benefits paid to the surviving families alone are enormously more burdensome than employing factory workers (themselves being displaced by robots and machines) to make disposable drones.
[19:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Companies that outsource should pay taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:00] <exec> 08└─Or, with a Universal Basic Income, one could actually have time to create their on job.
[19:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Companies that outsource should pay taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:01] <exec> 08└─...own job...
[19:13:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Companies that outsource should pay taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:13:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, I forgot to mention that option.
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[20:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02so the upshot is... - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:31] <exec> 08└─...that -in fact- crime does pay... one might be confused that our betters still talk as if morality has meaning, but that's just for the rubes...
[20:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, but perhaps we'd also like it if they took security seriously in the first place. There's no good reason for them to delay the fixes that they believe are ready just so they can make enterprise customers happy by releasing them all at once. Considering that most Windows users aren't in a positi...
[20:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:42] <exec> 08└─We *want* MS to get this right. I have suffered through a couple of botched windows updates. It is not fun.
[20:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:44] <exec> 08└─Oh yes I *love* fixing broken computers. I have nothing better to do with my day. If you will excuse me I am off to fix my linux box. It has decided to only show half of any list controls. Windows *is* the desktop market. Deal. Linux *is* the embedded/server market. Deal. "Hey, over here!! Found ano...
[20:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02apology - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:46] <exec> 08└─apology for poor english where were you when microsoft dies? i was sat at home using linux when google ring 'microsoft is kill' 'no'
[20:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score:2) 02Re:apology - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:48] <exec> 08└─That's really rather poetic.
[20:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score:2) 02Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:50] <exec> 08└─The quote sounds less like bullshit if you flip it around: "Google's Mateusz Jurczyk, of Project Zero, didn't see it the same way, describing Microsoft's actions as "disappointing" because it put customers at greater risk of exploitation."
[20:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:"The Cloud" has issues, but this ain't one. - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:05] <exec> 08└─These apps are pretty much insecure by default. For the ones I have used all you really need is the VIN and an account on the manufactures website. The VIN is usually in the window or on the door pillar. https://www.wired.com [wired.com]
[20:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score:1) 02Re:AT&T - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:07] <exec> 08└─Not really. Now everyone can spoof 2g cell easier than before.
[20:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:New Definitions - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:11] <exec> 08└─"Your" can both signify possession ("your money") and association ("your partner"). Maybe if the language were more precise in this regard, companies would have a much harder time playing games with ownership vs. licensing. Does anyone know a language that distinguishes both "your"s?
[20:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:46] <exec> 08└─You should have, NHST is bullshit that needs to die in the hottest fire we can find. We're rarely in a position where we don't have an established procedure, we usually have some sort of status quo that we want to evaluate other options to. The relevant question is usually whether or not there's eno...
[20:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:48] <exec> 08└─We're rarely in a position where we don't have an established procedure, we usually have some sort of status quo that we want to evaluate other options to.
[20:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:55] <exec> 08└─Just because the earth's atmosphere in general is heating doesn't imply that it's going to be uniform throughout the world. Hotter areas in the Americas are completely consistent with colder areas in Europe as the amount of thermal energy in the Americas has to come from somewhere. The amount of war...
[20:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:57] <exec> 08└─I'll try. 1) The speed of the jet stream is related to the difference in temperatures between the pole and the equator. When the temperatures get closer together, the speed of the jet stream tends to slow. The pole has been warming faster than the equator, so the jet stream has slowed. 2) When the j...
[20:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:06] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe it would be more popular if it clearly stated "−0" ;-)
[20:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:08] <exec> 08└─You may, except that when someone is wrong on this level, they are endangering others. "+/-0 - Disagree" is for things that aren't so high-stakes. I consider this repeated, unrepentant, agenda-driven denial on the same level as anti-vax and for most of the same reasons. This caliber of stupid needs...
[20:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:11] <exec> 08└─I'm not cherry picking. So many words, and yet you fail to provide a single shred of evidence for your claim that it was hotter in the 1870's than it is now. So yeah, cherry-picking generally means referencing a misleading, but true, fact. Your misleading statement isn't even true.
[20:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:17] <exec> 08└─Mid atlantic temperatures have been measured for atleast 300 years. Well then, clearly 350 years is required for confidence, then. And if you provide 350, then clearly only 400 will do! Recycled god-of-the-gaps argument...
[20:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:20] <exec> 08└─Peak warmup, 8000 years ago? Slowly cooling since then? History in Europe demonstrates that the climate hasn't been steadily and slowly cooling for 8000 years. Remember that mini-ice age, that had people fearing that the earth was going to freeze over again? Are you sure you're not making stuff up n...
[20:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Clearly, I'm growing old - 06GM and Lyft to Test Thousands of Self-Driving Electric Cars in 2018 - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:41] <exec> 08└─I'm starting to feel nostalgic for times when words had a straight meaning and metaphors where artifacts to be used in poetry/literature
[20:10:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:connect the dots - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:10] <exec> 08└─Well of course everything is connected in some way. I'm glad they are waking up to the pollution. It's probably their #1 fear right now as in "the peasants will surely rebel if they can't breathe." Sorry I forgot about their political context, replace peasants with proletariat.
[20:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02And... - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:11] <exec> 08└─Now you see where the coal trump is pushing for will go. He's still playing 50 moves ahead.
[20:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:15] <exec> 08└─Surely the civil damage and the criminal punishment should be decoupled. The company should at most get the value of the what the damage has cost them, and, separately, the perpetrator fined (or imprisoned if bad enough) by the state for the crime of theft.
[20:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perverse incentive - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:18] <exec> 08└─The assassin's creed movie was terrible. I want my 12.5 cents back.
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[21:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Working as intended! - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:23] <exec> 08└─guarantee complete financial privacy and anonymity.
[21:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Working as intended! - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:25] <exec> 08└─Oh ye of little imagination... when I was still a teenager I thought the same thing, so much would be fixed by complete financial transparency. However, that path leads to fascism. Your shitty examples are just that, shit.
[21:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02So anonymous currency breeds anonymous crime? - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 1333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:27] <exec> 08└─I'll admit I don't follow much in the whole Bitcoin world, which seems mostly a bizarre intersection of speculation investors and people who want to do shady stuff. But, if I understand this stuff correctly, regardless of any source code mistake, any completely anonymous currency seems to be begging...
[21:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Insightful) 02Re:So anonymous currency breeds anonymous crime? - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:29] <exec> 08└─Anonymity seems to come at a potentially significant cost. Or am I missing something here?
[21:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:40] <exec> 08└─There could be a gentlemen's agreement between Google and Microsoft, where the latter politely requests another month of non-disclosure to tweak a particularly unstable patch. Google could request proof that work is in progress, and hold off. Now we have the bug in the wild and a few weeks' window t...
[21:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:42] <exec> 08└─There could have been (let's get the correct case), and there's certainly precedent as Google has done exactly that before, e.g. with Apple, but it seems that in this case that didn't happen. Timing may have a lot to do with that, of course; MS only seemed to pull Patch Tuesday on the day itself via...
[21:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Insightful) 02Re:Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 1073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:49] <exec> 08└─The problem is that both sides are 100% correct. Google's position: This is now a known exploit, and if we found it there is a good chance somebody else has already found it and is using it. By keeping it a secret people will continue to be exploited with no way to protect themselves, and companies...
[21:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 2512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:51] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Like I said [mcgrewbooks.com] way back in 2002: In other broken PC news, Rob Lemos (the Linux guy) writes in ZD News of the “Organization for Internet Safety.” This new outfit is supposed to keep your PC secure. Microsoft is at the helm. This, of course, means that your data will not be...
[21:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Surveillance car - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:02] <exec> 08└─I've got a pair of clippers, and the internet has wiring diagrams. My next car will sadly have a dysfunctional antenna, maybe with a switch. I've got enough MP3s to limit the subsequent bitching. My current car is so dumb I only have to worry about old-style "hackers" skilled in lock-picking or wind...
[21:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Surveillance car - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:05] <exec> 08└─My next car will sadly have a dysfunctional antenna, maybe with a switch.
[21:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Surveillance car - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:07] <exec> 08└─There are still enough people living in areas with shitty cell coverage to assume that the car has to operate when it doesn't have a connection.
[21:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Surveillance car - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:09] <exec> 08└─There are still enough people living in areas with shitty cell coverage to assume that the car has to operate when it doesn't have a connection.
[21:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:42] <exec> 08└─A satiric masterpiece No way out A surprise smash! No way out It was shocking, outrageous, insulting And they loved every minute of it! No way out How could this happen? His speech was lousy and long, He got all the facts wrong, Where did he go right? It was so crass and so crude even Goebbels would...
[21:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:58] <exec> 08└─I sum it by "chaotic system is reacting to continuous drift in inputs" One year we'll get wild stuff like recently (as forecasted by climatologists for over a decade), while next year might look totally normal again. Overall, as there is more energy in the system, we can expect more wild stuff going...
[21:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Eastern Canada here - 06Springtime for America in February - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:06] <exec> 08└─Illinois. I turn 65 this year and have only seen warmer Februarys in two of the five years I lived in Florida and the year I was stationed in Thailand, where there is no such thing as winter. It's over seventy F right now!
[21:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:16] <exec> 08└─Once a comment has been moderated, you can use the -1 Overrated mod (you used to be able to mod a comment Over/underrated immediately). That mod doesn't lower the user's karma, but it is so easy to get to 50 karma that it doesn't much matter. Just don't use the spam mod to target comments you disagr...
[21:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:20] <exec> 08└─He's a Trump supporter who reads and believes the National Enquirer, and also believes Trump and company's "alternate facts". There's absolutely no point in trying to have a conversation with the guy, who I suspect doesn't believe his own bullshit.
[21:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:25] <exec> 08└─Did you hear what happened in Sweden? It was terrible.
[21:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:30] <exec> 08└─Remember that mini-ice age, that had people fearing that the earth was going to freeze over again? Are you sure you're not making stuff up now?
[21:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score:2) 02Re:Clearly, I'm growing old - 06GM and Lyft to Test Thousands of Self-Driving Electric Cars in 2018 - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:53] <exec> 08└─The loss of logic and critical thinking in education is bigger in effects than the loss of rhetoric.
[21:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 1034 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:41] <exec> 08└─That's just it. The article just talks about "activating the fm chip" like that's all there is to it, just enable the feature of the chip, write an app to set the station and that's all there is to it. But it's not. You also need to make an external antennae for it, either as part of wired earbuds o...
[21:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:46] <exec> 08└─You either were too far from the stations or had a shitty tuner on the TV. I'm using rabbit ears on my new TV right now, because paying for cable in the digital age is stupid. There's no more snow or ghosts or static in the sound, just a 1080p picture and good sound, with three or four times as many...
[21:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:48] <exec> 08└─That doesn't explain my carrier's probable stupidity. I'm on Boost, data are unlimited. My phone is on the list of phones with the FM chips, but the chip is turned off. Stupid, because if I'm streaming a local station, I'm eating up their bandwidth as well as my battery.
[21:10:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:Standalone FM operation.... Really? - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:55] <exec> 08└─They've been advertising the hell out of the on KSHE's stream; the more streaming listeners they have, the higher their cost. The data, according to the ads, is to provide cover art and crap like that, that I really don't need when I'm listening to the radio.
[21:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score:2) 02Re:This is about royalties - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:04] <exec> 08└─In 2016, 191 million phones were sold in the North America. The RIAA wants a piece of that pie. I am sure there will be some "royalty" added to the sale of each smartphone once FM becomes mandatory. I don't think so, hardware manufacturers are far more politically connected than the RIAA, and that w...
[21:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Perverse incentive - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:11:44] <exec> 08└─Ah, Athanasius! There you go again, bringing in actual facts, law, and history to a Soylentil discussion! Thank you very much. I, the prior AC, stand corrected, and yield to your superior exposition. And by the way, you don't need to make up stuff in the history of copyright law to paint the big bu...
[21:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:39] <exec> 08└─"Permitted in the marketplace" ?? I would assume that 8 hour tattoo sessions are rare, for reasons related to both the artist's and canvas's comfort. But even if very long sessions common, what event or series of events would lead to legal restrictions on sitting time?
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[22:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Three differences... - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:30] <exec> 08└─1. Mega was early to the party. Cloud storage was not yet common. To sell the service, Mega was pretty explicit about using their service to share copyrighted material. 2. They don't have the deep pockets of today's big cloud players. Also not the political connections. 3. Kim Doctor is a thoroughly...
[22:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score:2) 02deduplication doesn't mean other links are illegal - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:32] <exec> 08└─Assume user A is the copyright holder. User B uploads a copy of the file. MAFIAA reports B's URL. Why would A's copy be removed? Sorry bozos, but this can't work the way you want. Now please stop wasting my oxygen and die.
[22:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The difference is the depth of their pockets... - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:34] <exec> 08└─The difference is the depth of their pockets... and who these pockets buy. Also remember Kim Dotcom threatened the music industry with building a distribution platform to legally distribute music that would've shortcircuited dead the current labels? Then the MAFIAA didn't even hesitate to DCMA his o...
[22:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02O Rly? - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 2675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:36] <exec> 08└─From https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The indictment[1][72] alleged that Megaupload differed from other online file storage businesses. Media reports covering the case highlighted several points from the indictment used to support claims of illegal activity. The indictment...
[22:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Working as intended! - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:46] <exec> 08└─I don't want my wife's religious fundamentalist parents to know about the penis extender I purchased on the advice of Ethanol-Fueled, because she would be devastated if they did that weird ritual where they erase her name from the Book of Life in Heaven (see Revelation, etc) and refuse to acknowledg...
[22:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Working as intended! - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:48] <exec> 08└─And don't bring up BS reasons like 1. my gov't doesn't allow me to donate to Wikileaks or Muslim Brotherhood (assuming it's not banned in your country as terrorist organization yet) -- tough luck?
[22:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:So anonymous currency breeds anonymous crime? - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:52] <exec> 08└─Bitcoin is not terribly anonymous. Coinbase just recently was asking me questions about the coins I mined back in the old days. So dude spent 410 BTC on... what exactly? I can tell you for certain he didn't launder it thru coinbase and drop it in his personal checking account. And frankly 1/2Mil of...
[22:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score:2) 02Here's some sauce, not quite just typo - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:54] <exec> 08└─From my research. It looks to be like a fix that is slightly larger and slightly dirtier in terms of magic number hax than "1 character" if I am correct in this commit range being the fix. Can we please start putting sauce links up you guys? It's something we can do here right? I imagine it was stat...
[22:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Here's some sauce, not quite just typo - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:56] <exec> 08└─I was just this commit, that fixed the issue. https://github.com [github.com] You're looking at the dev's entire pre-commit work history.
[22:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:10] <exec> 08└─That has jack and shit to do with this?
[22:08:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02Re:err - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 65 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:33] <exec> 08└─how can there be used smart cars, are there legal smart cars yet?
[22:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:New Definitions - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:41] <exec> 08└─"Your" can both signify possession ("your money") and association ("your partner"). Maybe if the language were more precise in this regard, companies would have a much harder time playing games with ownership vs. licensing.
[22:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:21] <exec> 08└─We have pussy willows budding in central Alberta.
[22:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:24] <exec> 08└─I'm not even sure the calculus style total amount of wildness is increasing. That's another curious problem where just 20-30 years ago who knows what was happening behind the iron curtain, or 200 years ago nobody knew pretty much anything about the weather other than their locale and some sailor lor...
[22:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:42] <exec> 08└─What I like about his sort of trolling is the response is always in defense of the inevitable proposal that the only solution is "workers of the world unite" and rarely "muh numbers". Because the environmental record of the Soviets was so legendarily good, because they executed anyone who complained...
[22:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:55] <exec> 08└─It's well known. There was even a comic about it: https://xkcd.com [xkcd.com] I'm sure you've seen this before. Perhaps you dismissed it because it was a comic, but the science [wikipedia.org] was established long before. Of course, we may have passed that by now. CO2 will do that.
[22:12:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Neanderthals next - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:12:34] <exec> 08└─That seems to be assuming a hell of a lot, Neanderthals raised in test tubes won't have much of a family. Maybe they don't have family bonds naturally anyway. I'm sure legally they'll be declared property, not people. You gotta feed them although a large farm or ranch could kinda feed itself all you...
[22:13:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:04] <exec> 08└─I think you're confusing legally permitted with "F you go away I'm not doing that". It seems to indicate there's way too many tattoo parlors and not enough customers with money. You can sit there for 8 hours when I tell you to and you pay your rent, or some competitor gets their rent paid... Supply...
[22:13:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Having talked to a Tattoo artist: - 06Being a Tattoo Artist is a Pain in the Neck, Study Finds - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:13:05] <exec> 08└─It is a lifestyle. He stated he made all his money on body piercings, and especially intimate body piercings. Hand over fist no less. Apparently out here the standard is a 50 percent cut to the shop owner, rather than a monthly rental fee for the space. Furthermore you have to be either a certified...
[22:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score:2) 02Re:Taxes - 06Robots That Steal Human Jobs Should Pay Taxes, Gates Says - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:14:43] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your comments. I disagree with your point of only being to options: communism or savage capitalism. A hell of a lot more regulations are in place in other countries, mostly in Europe (mandatory guarantees [europa.eu] for example) ) and Canada [cbo-eco.ca] and they do well. In fact Ge...
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[23:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:24] <exec> 08└─The legalese for that is easy: The copy you "buy" is rights for a given performance (typically inside your house only). The moment you share it with others publicly, the contract enabling your right to backup your own copy is void, allowing them to remove it.
[23:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:26] <exec> 08└─You missed the point. "A" didn't publicly share it with anybody. Lets go over it again. A loads a copy of a file to 'cloudservice'. He doesn't share it with anyone. He just access it himself from multiple locations. B loads up a copy of the same file to the same service, the service rather than host...
[23:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:28] <exec> 08└─What part of "user A is the copyright holder" did you not understand?
[23:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:3, Interesting) 02title is a question - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:32] <exec> 08└─For those that didn't notice, or didn't RTFA, note that the title of the original article is actually phrased as a question: "Is Megaupload’s ‘Crime’ a Common Cloud Hosting Practice?" There's also an interesting link I didn't have time to read someone posted on the comment thread here: Megaupl...
[23:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:2) 02Re:title is a question - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:34] <exec> 08└─For those that didn't notice, or didn't RTFA, note that the title of the original article is actually phrased as a question: "Is Megaupload’s ‘Crime’ a Common Cloud Hosting Practice?"
[23:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:So anonymous currency breeds anonymous crime? - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:48] <exec> 08└─Boils down to: do you want to be free or safe?
[23:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:So anonymous currency breeds anonymous crime? - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:51] <exec> 08└─and then sit on it until the statute of limitations expires or you've moved to some special location.
[23:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:So anonymous currency breeds anonymous crime? - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:53] <exec> 08└─> So the dudes identity is out there somewheres... The next obvious question: if you found his/her identity, which country or entity is legally entitled to bring charges against him/her for the "theft" of unregulated anonymous computer zeros and ones, the fiduciary value of which is unrecognized by...
[23:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score:2) 02Re:Here's some sauce, not quite just typo - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:57] <exec> 08└─The comment below the pull request is pretty telling... "This doesn't prevent a miner not using the reference code from including zerocoin spends in their blocks, right? Where's the change in the validation code (if you're prepared to say publicly)?" Anyone with more deep blockchain knowledge want t...
[23:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:16] <exec> 08└─You are exceptionally mistaken. At least one "side" is very far from 100% correct, namely, more black hats knowing about an exploit does not change the number of computers (or people) vulnerable to that exploit.
[23:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Mis-Aligned Interests Of Corporations - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:18] <exec> 08└─So, getting out of the current computer "security" farce relies on mis-aligned interests between corporations? And when those interests align, we won't know the details? We're screwed.
[23:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Surveillance car - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:33] <exec> 08└─It's expensive to differentiate between "-150dB in the canyon" and "-150dB because the antenna is only 6 inches long". I smell lawsuits coming if anyone is ever prevented from dealing with an emergency in a remote phoneless area, just because the car won't start until it checks its Driver Rights Man...
[23:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:04] <exec> 08└─the countless pictures of Obama as a monkey or gorilla.
[23:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:26] <exec> 08└─Well, the Chinese, Japanese and Indians have been keeping track of the weather for millenia. For other regions of the world, there are tree rings and ice cores giving us trends. In the western world, people do need to check how precise the chemists did get with temperature measurements in the middle...
[23:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:28] <exec> 08└─people do need to check how precise the chemists did get with temperature measurements in the middle of the 19th century
[23:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:30] <exec> 08└─"Overall, as there is more energy in the system, we can expect more wild stuff going on, but still randomly/chaotically."
[23:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:57] <exec> 08└─Well then, clearly 350 years is required for confidence, then. And if you provide 350, then clearly only 400 will do! Recycled god-of-the-gaps argument...
[23:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Clearly, I'm growing old - 06GM and Lyft to Test Thousands of Self-Driving Electric Cars in 2018 - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:19] <exec> 08└─> untested unlicensed uninsured illegal self driving cars That's a little hyperbolic. The automakers did make sure that the cars would be legal by getting a green light from the CA legislature (unlike "FU ALL!" Uber). They're also licensed and insured, and I'm sure the policy rates do reflect the fa...
[23:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:I hate to admit it, - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:51] <exec> 08└─As mentioned in another comment, China has been moving hard on solar, and are less dependent on N Korea's coal. (Do you hear the Trump? Solar. )
[23:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:02] <exec> 08└─So the question becomes: if we don't have copyright now, what do we replace it with?
[23:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Justice? - 06Judge Splits $750 Piracy Penalty Among BitTorrent Peers - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:03] <exec> 08└─Downloading is like sneaking in, without using a chair, breathing, blocking the view, using a seat, or even touching the carpet. Uploading is like inviting a few million people you've never met to do the same.
[23:12:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Sour grapes? - 06India's ISRO Plans Mars and Venus Missions - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:12:51] <exec> 08└─- We are not wasting our money with me-too missions! Planets, moons, asteroids and comets are has-been. Sad! So we're putting a lander on the Sun! - But sir, it's way too hot to land there... - No worries, folks. Trust me, it's all planned. We'll land at night! (It didn't start with the specif...
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