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[00:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Disagree) 02Sagitarris A? - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:27] <exec> 08└─Could we have fewer submissions about astrology? It gets boring, and no one comments anyway.
[00:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Sagitarris A? - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:29] <exec> 08└─Astrology? I think you are confusing something.
[00:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Astrology... - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 2691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:31] <exec> 08└─Aquarius- You have an inventive mind and are inclined to be progressive. You lie a great deal, you make the same mistakes repeatedly because you are stupid. Everyone thinks you are a f*&king jerk. You enjoy sucking c*&k. Pisces--You have a vivid imagination and often think you are being followed by...
[00:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Black holes matter - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:33] <exec> 08└─A picture of a black hole in space ... let me guess -- it's going to be fairly black?
[00:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02oblig. - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:36] <exec> 08└─> Those hard drives will be flown ... Too much data for the internet, eh? Tell me again, what is the data rate of a station wagon filled with backup tapes? (at least that's the way I heard it first, but some of you may go back further...) The current equivalent might be scores of FedEx packages.
[00:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:oblig. - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 1288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:38] <exec> 08└─Sounds like it's actually a very practical approach to me. The idea is to get all the data into one place for analysis, and there's going to be a *lot* of data coming in all at once during the actual obervation, so that kind of limits your options right off the bat. Fast as modern Internet backbones...
[00:07:49] <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 - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:49] <exec> 08└─Both answers to my post fail in the same way: A legal copy of a copyrighted work is typically unique, based on how it was created. Sure you can get the same file by doing the same legal steps on the same hardware and operating system and tool versions at the exact same second as some other guy, but...
[00:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:51] <exec> 08└─Put in some user-based DRM, and the probability drops to zero.
[00:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 760 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:07:53] <exec> 08└─You're not listening yet. Suppose I (user A in GP's terms) write a book, myself. I and I alone hold the copyright; I didn't license it from big media, and there's no DRM involved. I push a copy of the file to Mega for backup, and don't share the link to anyone. Then I distribute copies of that same...
[00:07:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] 02title is a question - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 645 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:58] <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...
[00:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:so the upshot is... - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:08] <exec> 08└─Yep...who knows if you steal the money the right way, you could wind up being President some day.
[00:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score:2) 02Re:Working as intended! - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:13] <exec> 08└─"axiomatically" I love that word! Did you just coin that, or did it just hang your brain waiting for a good time to use it? Just googled it and it seems to be a real word. Now I'm going for "axiomagically". Expecting something to happen or come true because you heard it or saw it on the interweb and...
[00:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:38] <exec> 08└─Most of what ari posts is only marginally intelligible or related to the topic at hand.
[00:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:08:39] <exec> 08└─Windows *is* the desktop market. Deal.
[00:08:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jcross [4009] 02Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:43] <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."
[00:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score:2) 02Re:Surveillance car - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:03] <exec> 08└─Company shows policy of risk prevention ("there was a risk of unauthorized access to the vehicle") Car wouldn't open. Using current logic, driver must have been a terrrist.
[00:09:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 258 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:09:45] <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.
[00:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:10:21] <exec> 08└─I'm not cherry picking. TFS says records were set, I didn't go searching for them.
[00:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Same old story - 06Nintendo Switch Stolen by Distributor's Employees Ahead of Launch, Details Leaked - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:19] <exec> 08└─Consoles stolen on/before release date is nothing new. I knew a truck driver who made off with six PS2's on launch. How? Easy. Thirty units were headed from a Best Buy warehouse to a store. The trailer was sealed using a tamper proof seal at departure but the warehouse was so hectic during the Chris...
[00:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Username [4557] (Score:2) 02Re:I’m lost - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[00:12:11] <exec> 08└─Driver level stuff is magic, I let other people do that.
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[01:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0, Disagree) 02reasonable - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:28] <exec> 08└─Seems reasonable. If law enforcement groups oppose it, he may decline to do so. Speculation and FUD.
[01:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02let's compromise... - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:30] <exec> 08└─...we'll only trample your rights a *little* bit, and everyone will feel more terrified and cowed for it, deal ? ? ?
[01:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Escort services rejoice... - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:32] <exec> 08└─Congressmen opposed to cop unions will feel safer when they call their mistresses, boyfriends and escorts. As a bonus, getting a warrant or asking the NSA to catch Bad Guys isn't a very high controversial threshold to have to clear, allowing them to parade as Freedom protectors.
[01:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02wire tap laws - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:35] <exec> 08└─"Police have long maintained that the use of Stingrays does not constitute a “search,” " Which part of wire tap laws do they fail to understand? One has a reasonable expectation of privacy on his phone. Everyone knows that a phone can be tapped, but you don't expect it to be tapped, because cour...
[01:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Black holes matter - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:07:46] <exec> 08└─They prefer the term afro-American.
[01:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Yeah... moon grapefruit - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:49] <exec> 08└─The EHT team says it's like looking at a grapefruit or a DVD on the moon from Earth. Since there are no grapefruit or dvds on the moon, sounds like they're preparing to show us a bunch of black pixels and then ask for more funding. Fscking useless scientists, no wonder Trump's going to de-fund them...
[01:08:02] <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 - 741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:03] <exec> 08└─While all DVDs are pressed the same (but you can't legally rip them, let alone post the result online), a legal DRM-protected download is unique, because it contains the unique identification stream that matches your authentication keys to use it. If you strip that, which is a breach of license, it...
[01:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Working as intended! - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:23] <exec> 08└─speaking of favorite new words: pinxterflower in the context of an alternate common name (which it has a bunch) for the wild azalea... not sure why, but it just tickled me...
[01:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:apology - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:51] <exec> 08└─It's a MS H1B outsourced haiku! MS been berry berry good to me.
[01:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:apology - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:52] <exec> 08└─We really need a +1 Poetic mod. For the quality of modding is not strain'd; it falleth like the gentle rain from heaven.
[01:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:08:59] <exec> 08└─Ab-so-whorely!!!! If Ms won't take security as a high priority, let the user do so. If the user knows jack shit, that is their and MS's problem. Reveal the hole and force MS to either dither at their users expense (which they did before secure OS's came along and forced them to deal with security an...
[01:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 1493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:33] <exec> 08└─The thing is, global warming IS happening. But, the driver is the interglacial. There can be no doubt that that primary driver is the same driver that brought previous ice ages and interglacials to this world. I would be an idiot if I were to argue that fossil fuels and other chemicals couldn't have...
[01:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:10:44] <exec> 08└─But the path being followed is actually the "optimistic scenario": https://www.skepticalscience.com [skepticalscience.com]
[01:11:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Same old story - 06Nintendo Switch Stolen by Distributor's Employees Ahead of Launch, Details Leaked - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:11:19] <exec> 08└─So after you spent your loot did you manage to get another driving job? Come one out with the sequel...
[01:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:Standalone FM operation.... Really? - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:12:09] <exec> 08└─In an emergency, cell towers are apt to be overloaded. If the phone can't get its "data", will the FM chip work standalone?
[01:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Neanderthals next - 06Resurrection of the Woolly Mammoth Could Begin in Two Years - 1062 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[01:13:30] <exec> 08└─I've been trying to push for genetic modification of a few brain cells in very specific areas to make them susceptible to light stimulation for activation/suppression as a treatment for epilepsy, chronic depression, and parkinsons' among other things. The whole anti-genetic modification agenda, not...
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[02:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score:2) 02The real issue here is the legal fees - 06Cox Must Pay $8M in Fees on Top of $25M Jury Verdict for Violating DMCA - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:28] <exec> 08└─Big company gets slammed with millions. If you get arrested and charged with something you didn't do it's gonna run 5 figures. Most people can't afford that, they take a plea deal even though they did nothing wrong. Someone does you wrong, it's gonna take you 5-6 figures to pursue it. If you lose yo...
[02:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:wire tap laws - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:40] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the excuse is that they're not listening to the private conversations as such -- they're only using the metadata. Which is a difference from wiretaps, just one that I don't think matters -- it's clear to me that there's a reasonable expectation of privacy in the metadata, too, but I don't t...
[02:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Such warrants are not valid - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:41] <exec> 08└─Stingrays slurp up the communications of anyone nearby, which is potentially thousands and thousands of people. That constitutes mass surveillance, and a warrant for such a thing is not constitutionally valid. The only way for them to make this valid is for the devices to refuse to collect any infor...
[02:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Black holes matter - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:54] <exec> 08└─Afro-American-holes? I don't think Hawking discovered those yet.
[02:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:oblig. - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:07:58] <exec> 08└─Terabyte drives in a FedEx box can definitely outperform ordinary broadband, even to the opposite side of the planet.
[02:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah... moon grapefruit - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:01] <exec> 08└─Grapefruit is better than DVD, in few years people will ask "Whats a DVD?"
[02:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:Three differences... - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:11] <exec> 08└─Living like a rock star in New Zealand while making tons of money off of assisting piracy of U.S. entertainment firms is a sure (and now proven) formula to get the law enforcement agencies to bust you first and let you talk to your lawyers later, if ever. Being a huge, profitable corporate entity wi...
[02:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:19] <exec> 08└─a legal DRM-protected download is unique
[02:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score:2) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:22] <exec> 08└─a legal DRM-protected download is unique, because it contains the unique identification stream that matches your authentication keys to use it.
[02:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (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) - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:08:52] <exec> 08└─Just a wild guess, but could this have been an intentional 'typo', in order to create the circumstances to pull this stunt off?
[02:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 992 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:10] <exec> 08└─Do the connections make sense now, my dear AC? Do I need to explain it one more time? Loud and clear. You are an ass with the mentality of a twelve year old who still thinks replacing $ for S is ROTFLMAOBBQ funny still. Got it. Also today I learned from aristarchus that I am a microsoft shill. Where...
[02:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:11] <exec> 08└─My point is I wanted them to go slow and actually fix it right before giving me broken software. Somehow you turned that into I am a shill. You are mental.
[02:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:09:14] <exec> 08└─Without this kind of pressure, they never get around to releasing any patches. Historically proven.
[02:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:H I L L A R Y ! ! ! - 06Springtime for America in February - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:16] <exec> 08└─^This and Thexalon's post: this is why I love SoylentNews. Roses among the thorns... Intelligentia in with the R-words.... Poetry and song appreciated by those who are not dullards. :) :) :)
[02:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:32] <exec> 08└─Nah... Hands are too small :)
[02:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:10:45] <exec> 08└─As someone living in eastern europe - what european cold wave? This winter has been pretty average, just a single week below -10C. Only one snowfall has settled, and that only stayed for a week. I remember in 1993/4 having it below -20C for a solid month, reaching -29C at the official weather statio...
[02:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Re:"termination of a distributor's employees" - 06Nintendo Switch Stolen by Distributor's Employees Ahead of Launch, Details Leaked - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:46] <exec> 08└─Can't wait for law enforcement to investigate and possibly file charges, if they get around to it. Need a strong action statement in the past tense to put this issue to bed.
[02:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:Same old story - 06Nintendo Switch Stolen by Distributor's Employees Ahead of Launch, Details Leaked - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[02:11:50] <exec> 08└─Ha. He stole other stuff but usually small amounts for himself. Sometimes he fenced stuff, usually clothing. Retired with a pension (teamster). Then he worked with me in our family business where he taught me to drive trucks. Crazy SOB with a real dick attitude but I got along with him. Many fun tim...
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[03:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02Re:The real issue here is the legal fees - 06Cox Must Pay $8M in Fees on Top of $25M Jury Verdict for Violating DMCA - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:30] <exec> 08└─And, since all parties involved are cox, there really isn't any one to root for.
[03:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score:2) 02Re:Such warrants are not valid - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:07:44] <exec> 08└─Exactly! If the unit cannot be set up in a way that it only captures the phone of the person of interest, then its use should be banned.
[03:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magic Oddball [3847] (Score:2) 02Re:O Rly? - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:08:23] <exec> 08└─That was pretty much what I was going to say — I've used Dropbox, Spider Oak, Google Drive, etc. and as far as I'm aware, none of them have ever offered incentive schemes based on how many people accessed the files. Even beyond that, all of those services have advertised themselves as a place to b...
[03:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02What kinds of coin? - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:51] <exec> 08└─The Zcoin team estimates the attacker made a net profit of 410 Bitcoin ($437,000).
[03:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 1536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:10:59] <exec> 08└─The best models that I've seen, ones that were not designed to be predictive, but have continued to be predictive nonetheless, have not been from meteorologists themselves, but data scientists whose job is simply to find complex trends. They found 3 trends from the recent and global climate record:...
[03:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:05] <exec> 08└─I hear they called shenanigans. Shenanigans!!!
[03:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[03:11:14] <exec> 08└─The data being used to approximate the rate of warming is not the same as the proxy being used to measure the historical rate of cooling. You simply can't meaningfully compare such data sets that have completely different resolutions. The old data is *massively* averaged, and thus movement is damped...
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[04:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Operation Google - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:30] <exec> 08└─I got a chuckle behind the meanings of the names, time to kick the euphemism mill into hyperdrive. For those not in the know: http://knowyourmeme.com [knowyourmeme.com]
[04:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Shadowbanning - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 1412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:32] <exec> 08└─At least offenders are notified. I can't think of a censorship tactic more chickenshit than true shadowbanning, like what Reddit got caught doing. The worst part about that was that of all the community nobody would be smart or vocal enough to figure it out and bring attention to it. At least with T...
[04:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02English only? - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:34] <exec> 08└─All the examples in the article were in the English language. I wonder whether there's any significance to that.
[04:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score:2) 02Re:English only? - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:36] <exec> 08└─Learning other people's languages would be cultural appropriation.
[04:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2, Troll) 02censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:38] <exec> 08└─As always, censorship is bad. Any agency or company that self-appoints itself as a gatekeeper for ideas is bad. Don't care how one parses the law, it's still bad. The problem is, that people continue to use the services after discovering that the gatekeeper is censoring them. Half the people don't c...
[04:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:40] <exec> 08└─I think convenience is the true downfall of society. We value education pretty decently nowadays, we generally dislike dictatorships, but it will take quite a bit before the average person appreciates the value of doing things the correct way and sticking to certain principles.
[04:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The real issue here is the legal fees - 06Cox Must Pay $8M in Fees on Top of $25M Jury Verdict for Violating DMCA - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:07:51] <exec> 08└─Cox should get a fair shake, shouldn't they?
[04:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Rightscorp? - 06Cox Must Pay $8M in Fees on Top of $25M Jury Verdict for Violating DMCA - 1229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:53] <exec> 08└─Where have I heard that name before? http://www.mintpressnews.com [mintpressnews.com] A federal court in Georgia has quashed a broad DMCA subpoena which required local Internet provider CBeyond to reveal the ide...
[04:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:reasonable - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:03] <exec> 08└─Sounds just like your typical NPR story: " Around the country, Chrysler dealers were waiting today for just one guy to walk onto the lot -- the UPS man. UPS delivered special letters from Chrysler headquarters this morning, telling dealers whether or not they would survive. One quarter of them got b...
[04:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:Escort services rejoice... - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:07] <exec> 08└─Snowden said that the system in place could be abused for the purpose of blackmailing, and I think what's happening is that politicians and others are starting to fall victim to blackmail (with the first obvious casualty being John Petraeus) -- even if they rightly don't bring that to public attenti...
[04:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score:2) 02Vague analogy - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:29] <exec> 08└─the capacity of 10,000 laptops
[04:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 842 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:51] <exec> 08└─Sigh, if you think this is the real issue? I have some bridges you might be interested in. The reason they went after Megaupload is the same reason they went after Limewire which is their ads were focused on selling piracy with tons of talk about first run movies and big name artists. There is a...
[04:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:08:52] <exec> 08└─Not just that. If I upload a copy of a file that I've bought to a cloud service and keep any and all links to myself, why should I have my copy deleted because somebody with a completely different and unrelated account shared the link or failed to properly secure it? The ultimate resolution of this...
[04:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:09:52] <exec> 08└─Would you say the same if this was another Linux bug like Shellshock or Ghost? The problem with Google's line of thinking is it is basically an is ought fallacy [wikipedia.org] in that because there IS one person who knows of this flaw (The Google researcher) that there OUGHT to be a bunch of hacker...
[04:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:31] <exec> 08└─Shut the fuck up, Donnie, you're outta yer element.
[04:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:38] <exec> 08└─"(a) exists, therefore (c) doesn't" No, that's not what I'm saying. (a) exists, and (c) probably contributes to (a), but for political and financial reasons, someone benefits from exaggerating (c).
[04:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:11:53] <exec> 08└─> There was a mention of records going back that far but they didn't say when the matching temperatures occurred. In the summary I had put: Denver hit 80 degrees [Fahrenheit, 26.7° Celsius] Feb. 10 — its warmest February temperature on record dating back to 1872.
[04:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:10] <exec> 08└─The FM app that came with my phone has a preference that allows using the headphones or keeping the internal speaker working.
[04:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Money - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[04:13:16] <exec> 08└─Digital uses the high frequencies that don't travel as well. Here, with a good outside antenna, went from 10 or 11 channels with 2-3 having close to perfect reception to zero when they switched over. If cable existed here, I'm sure the wife would demand it. Be handy for internet too.
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[05:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bill Dimm [940] (Score:2) 02Re:Shadowbanning - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:31] <exec> 08└─There are some that claim that twitter throttles [youtube.com], which is similar to shadow banning but harder to detect.
[05:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:36] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Perhaps a World-War III with mandatory drafts including college students will give the special snowflakes a real taste of anguish. The handicapped also no longer have an excuse to skate out of duty, for there are plenty of military jobs which can accommodate them. Their pampered lives are so...
[05:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:38] <exec> 08└─I don't think Trump and his supporters are young enough to server in the military though.
[05:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:40] <exec> 08└─Just dump twitter. They presume to know better than you - even if you agree with them today. Next year, though, some of YOUR ideas may be on the chopping block. You didn't stand up when they came for the Jews? Don't expect anyone to stand up for you.
[05:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:07:43] <exec> 08└─And just who is going to build that alternative to your whims? You can never have a guarantee that there will be a replacement of that niche with a freedom of your speech to your liking. We got lucky with Soylentnews, but there is never a guarantee of a viable alternative. The problem is, that you a...
[05:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Sagitarris A? - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:08:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe he's a steampunk time traveler and isn't aware that astronomy and astrology are different in this era.
[05:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah... moon grapefruit - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:08:28] <exec> 08└─What's a grapefruit?
[05:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Three differences... - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:08:40] <exec> 08└─I suspect it's also about establishing precedent. Attack Google, etc. directly, and they're fighting a losing battle on shifting ground. Find a good villain though, and you can get precedent established in your favor. No guarantee for a direct confrontation, but a potent weapon in your arsenal. And...
[05:13:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:Standalone FM operation.... Really? - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:23] <exec> 08└─My phones FM app works fine here without a cell signal. Even works in airplane mode. Only permissions it has are microphone and storage, storage for recording the radio and microphone includes headphone from what I can tell.
[05:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score:2) 02Re:This is about royalties - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[05:13:33] <exec> 08└─I'm under 60 and regularly listen to the radio as there isn't much else to listen to at home, bored of my music while driving and radio is about the only reasonably priced choice at my work. With the price of cell service in Canada, I've better things to do with my money.,
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[06:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score:1) 02Yeeesh - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:20] <exec> 08└─20 or more years is a length of sentence typically reserved for greedy spies [nytimes.com] or Sexual assaultists [foxnews.com] abusing their position of trust within government positions and against vulnerable populations. What is going on here is that they are threatening copyright infringers in at...
[06:07:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 687 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:33] <exec> 08└─As always, censorship is bad. Any agency or company that self-appoints itself as a gatekeeper for ideas is bad. Don't care how one parses the law, it's still bad. The problem is, that people continue to use the services after discovering that the gatekeeper is censoring them. Half the people don't c...
[06:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:38] <exec> 08└─Their children and grandchildren are. Let them beon the front lines for "Operation Cannon Fodder."
[06:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:40] <exec> 08└─Richard Bertrand Spencer is 38.
[06:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:44] <exec> 08└─And just who is going to build that alternative to your whims? You can never have a guarantee that there will be a replacement of that niche with a freedom of your speech to your liking. We got lucky with Soylentnews, but there is never a guarantee of a viable alternative.
[06:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:07:46] <exec> 08└─However, censoring anyone is both ethically bankrupt and intellectually vapid.
[06:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Okay. - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:48] <exec> 08└─Twitter is a private company. They are allowed to censor as they please, whether you like it or not, just like Facebook, Google, and any other media company of any sort.
[06:07:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02The real issue here is the legal fees - 06Cox Must Pay $8M in Fees on Top of $25M Jury Verdict for Violating DMCA - 501 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:56] <exec> 08└─Big company gets slammed with millions. If you get arrested and charged with something you didn't do it's gonna run 5 figures. Most people can't afford that, they take a plea deal even though they did nothing wrong. Someone does you wrong, it's gonna take you 5-6 figures to pursue it. If you lose yo...
[06:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score:2) 02Re:The real issue here is the legal fees - 06Cox Must Pay $8M in Fees on Top of $25M Jury Verdict for Violating DMCA - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:00] <exec> 08└─But only 3 shakes, then it goes to the FCC for indecency.
[06:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score:2) 02Re:reasonable - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:11] <exec> 08└─More likely, hours before the bill will be voted on, the word "not" will be sprinkled throughout the bill, making it legal to use a stingray without a warrant to locate people who are late paying a parking fine. And also lawfully collect and use both voice and data "incidentally" captured from all p...
[06:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score:2) 02Re:Yeah... moon grapefruit - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:40] <exec> 08└─What's a people? ~ Self-driving truck, April 2114
[06:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Yeah... moon grapefruit - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:41] <exec> 08└─It is a grape that is also a fruit!
[06:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score:2) 02Re:Vague analogy - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:44] <exec> 08└─Is that a 2mb laptop pr a 2tb laptop?
[06:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:2) 02Re:Vague analogy - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:08:46] <exec> 08└─I assumed the worst: since the average laptop has a 1TB drive these days, the could have simply said: 10,000TB or 10PB.
[06:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:Working as intended! - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:09:29] <exec> 08└─Cryptocurrencies need strong anonymity because the block-chain is public. Without it, any recipient can trace your entire transaction history. Sometimes, as in the case of political parties, this transparency is required by law. In other cases, such as paying your landlord or barrista, you may not w...
[06:09:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 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)
[06:09:32] <exec> 08└─Boils down to: do you want to be free or safe?
[06:09:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lagg [105] 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
[06:09:37] <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...
[06:11:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02Re:Cold in Europe though... - 06Springtime for America in February - 986 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:11:34] <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...
[06:12:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score:2) 02'not doing enough' - 06SEC Chair Mary Jo White to Rejoin Lawyers Debevoise & Plimpton - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:20] <exec> 08└─I once read that this was because the Republicans were limiting the ability of the SEC to do its job. Sorry, I don't have the [needed citation].
[06:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''works fine here without a cell signal'' - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[06:13:41] <exec> 08└─Only permissions it has are microphone and storage Well, don't leave us hanging. Android? What's the name of the app? License? Pre-installed? If so, what make/model? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[07:07:50] <exec> 08└─Perhaps a World-War III with mandatory drafts including college students will give the special snowflakes a real taste of anguish.
[07:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:52] <exec> 08└─We value education pretty decently nowadays
[07:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:07:58] <exec> 08└─That user was not banned, but was limited.
[07:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:00] <exec> 08└─That user was not banned, but was limited.
[07:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:02] <exec> 08└─But Twitter is also still a private company, so their rules are their rules.
[07:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Okay. - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:05] <exec> 08└─Ya ya same old response. I don't hear anyone calling for legal action against them. Speaking out against bullshit is the least we can do.
[07:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Riders.... - 06Cox Must Pay $8M in Fees on Top of $25M Jury Verdict for Violating DMCA - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:18] <exec> 08└─Oh, gawd, how I wish some judge would tell these "rightsholders" that in exchange for giving them a favorable judgement in their piracy cases, by granting them their rights to keep the whole thing locked up, the "rightsholder" assumes FULL responsibility for mayhem caused by their stuff, including w...
[07:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:Sagitarris A? - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:08:45] <exec> 08└─Two clues: One: misspelled Sagittarius. Two. The distinction between Astronomy and Astrology well predates Steampunk, and STEM, both of which are fictional any way. Real astronomers do it with math!
[07:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score:1) 02Re:Three differences... - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:11] <exec> 08└─If I remind correctly, heavy users, mainly in Viet Nam, where paid to upload copyrighted contents, and made a lot of money. It was not just a storage service, but a well organized fraudulent activity.
[07:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:So anonymous currency breeds anonymous crime? - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:52] <exec> 08└─instead of locking your door or safe or whatever, you now have to have the technical knowledge to ensure your electronic system is secure enough to protect your virtual "money."
[07:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score:1) 02Re:Here's some sauce, not quite just typo - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:09:57] <exec> 08└─I see plenty of duplicated code, which is indicative of low quality of the software. Why don't they have a method like this? public static Bool IsThisAValidPubCoinId(unsigned int id) { ... }
[07:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Standalone FM operation.... Really? - 06FCC Chairman Encourages Activation of FM Chips in Smartphones - 1373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[07:13:57] <exec> 08└─Can you share which app you are using? I am ( failing ) to use the NextRadio app that came bundled in my BLU phone. Like a lot of the other crapware, its insisting I connect to Google Services before it will allow the radio to play. So, I just do not use it. I wanted to stay a bit aloof with this...
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[08:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Weird ruling - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 694 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:27] <exec> 08└─This seems a very weird ruling. Copyright infringement is not criminal in New Zealand. How can systematically doing something non-criminal suddenly become criminal fraud? This seems to be a huge stretch by the court, and I have trouble imagining this holding up on the next level of appeal. That said...
[08:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02conspiracy to defraud? - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:28] <exec> 08└─Defraud who? I see a conspiracy but it's not by Kim Dotcom.
[08:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:56] <exec> 08└─"A fag smoking a fag" was what was actually written. https://twitter.com [twitter.com] The article says it's an instance of "using fag in the British sense, meaning cigarette" but, taking the accompanying photo into account, it also appears to be an ins...
[08:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:07:57] <exec> 08└─My bad. I actually did RTFA, but took TFA at its word and didn't click through all the links. Now that we've found an apparent error, should we now have a debate over whether TFA is "fake news"?
[08:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:00] <exec> 08└─The post I was replying to said that "censoring ANYONE is both ethically bankrupt and intellectually vapid." I do not believe that statement to be valid for all times and places. I wasn't debating legality, rather the parent's sweeping statement on morality. And whether or not I agree with Twitter's...
[08:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:03] <exec> 08└─Well, as with everything, it depends on context. I completely agree with you that if you dislike Twitter's policy, you should encourage people to stop using the service. But Twitter is also still a private company, so their rules are their rules. If you come into my house and start using offensive l...
[08:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:05] <exec> 08└─Mark this day in your calendar, folks. I actually agree with Runaway1956!
[08:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:07] <exec> 08└─Mark this day in your calendar, folks. I actually agree with Runaway1956!
[08:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02gab.ai - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:11] <exec> 08└─For those who may not have heard of it, the platform gab.ai [gab.ai] seems to be heading in the right direction. Their philisophy is exactly what some commenters here have called for: no censorship, but individual readers can set filters however they want. If you never want to see a message containi...
[08:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:reasonable - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:08:33] <exec> 08└─I guess if they pull this off right, Stingray technology will become kinda like BitTorrent, with components out of China easily assembled into devices to be used by anyone who cares to use one for the purpose of things like assuring themselves of spousal fidelity, making sure phone calls at work are...
[08:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Sure - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:41] <exec> 08└─Because law enforcement agencies care so much about following laws
[08:13:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:He'll catch HIVOICE Syndrome - 06China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[08:13:19] <exec> 08└─"Cerebellum" stood out for me. On a second reading I noticed "HIgh." Reading a few more times I noticed "he becomes." It's probably for the best that I'm not a proofreader.
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[09:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score:2) 02Do they outnumber the normal top donors? - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:21] <exec> 08└─I thought motorcyclists were the top organ donors, do drug overdoses outnumber them now or are they still way ahead?
[09:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Terminology is a little confusing - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:37] <exec> 08└─From an American perspective, the term "high court" usually refers informally to the Supreme Court, the last appeal possible. However, in New Zealand, it seems to be a much larger and more diverse collection of courts which may be more analogous to an American circuit court.
[09:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:gab.ai - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:08:15] <exec> 08└─At the moment, the platform is (obviously) dominated by people that Twitter has chased off, i.e., the alt-right. However, as Twitter chases off more and more users, that will change.
[09:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score:2) 0212 hours starting upon next use - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:16] <exec> 08└─A comment above included the message Twitter sends if you're falling under the new regime (see here [twitter.com]): ...12 hours and 0 minutes. The countdown will begin once you continue to Twitter. <BUTTON: Continue to Twitter>
[09:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[09:12:24] <exec> 08└─But if you look at the *words you use*, you do repeatedly just say, effectively, "look at (a), look at (a)!!!!", and that's all we have to go on.
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[10:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03C R Johnson [5368] (Score:1) 02Advantages to launching from Britain? - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:17] <exec> 08└─The advantage would be to simpler and lower cost of logistics. The downside is that it takes a lot more energy to get to orbit then if you launch close to the equator.
[10:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:3, Interesting) 02Britain vs a location in the Caribbean - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 966 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:19] <exec> 08└─Depends on where you want to go: 1) Carribean: good for equatorial orbits (communications satellites, commercial stuff), limited infrastructure, "far from home". This last element is why most commercial launches in the US are conducted from Florida rather than Kwajalein atoll, even though Kwajalein...
[10:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Canada not US. - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:28] <exec> 08└─The motorcycle stats I have heard were from the US, which has notably more days a motorcycle can be ridden, and is a far larger part of the local culture.
[10:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02embargoed? - 06NASA Exoplanets Press Conference at 1 PM EST on Wednesday - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:36] <exec> 08└─If there is an embargo, why does an academic publisher get to make that call? Yeah, yeah, Nature is very prestigious. But for them to arrogate an "embargo" on information they didn't discover or review doesn't impress me. Academic publishers are the worst of the worst.
[10:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Operation Google - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:07:56] <exec> 08└─Never heard of that before. If one party (google) is going to start setting rules, and thus turn it into a game, then the gaming will be the response... Let's not pretend that some of these words won't stick, just because the idea started in some dark and essentially unimportant corner of the intern...
[10:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score:2) 02Re:reasonable - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[10:08:48] <exec> 08└─You should listen to the music channels. Find one that plays a lot of smooth jazz and other calming music. It would be good for you. ;)
[10:09:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 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)
[10:09:39] <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...
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[11:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:Advantages to launching from Britain? - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:24] <exec> 08└─That's strange - gravity's less towards the equator, as you're further from the centre of the earth. The first 20km of the launch is for free.
[11:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Britain vs a location in the Caribbean - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:27] <exec> 08└─Northern Scotland: Bad (from the English perspective) if Scotland decides to leave UK. Because then it won't be domestic any longer.
[11:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Britain - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:29] <exec> 08└─Real weird all the different names... UK, GB, etc. I *think* that the islands in the Caribbean are British, so launching from there would be launching from Britain? Those islands are not, however, England. Something like that... Feel free to set me straight, I never really understood exactly what Br...
[11:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:Britain - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:31] <exec> 08└─United Kingdom - Union of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain - England + Scotland and whatever located on the same island (The British Isles) British Territories - Former colonies and territories outside of UK, but still administered directly by the UK.
[11:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Britain - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:33] <exec> 08└─Clarification: British Territories physically outside of UK.
[11:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Counting the chickens before they hatched - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:43] <exec> 08└─Drug addicts tend to have higher rate of potentially fatal virus infections. I don't think there is enough time in organ harvesting situation to properly test safety for organ acceptors. I guess it is situation of potentially trading one ailment for another.
[11:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score:1) 02Re:Counting the chickens before they hatched - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:07:45] <exec> 08└─Treatment of the viral infection may be less problematic than complete loss of organ function. If one has no car at all, the gift of one with an engine malfunction is better than no car at all. Especially in a situation where no cars are available. Get the one you can get and fix it. My guess is t...
[11:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02The Coming Opiate Epidemic - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:48] <exec> 08└─In the article about Heroin, Fentanyl and Carfentanil [soylentnews.org], I noted [soylentnews.org]:- Through selective breeding and/or gene editing, work is advancing to make yeast which makes opioids and/or opioid precursors. I understand that progress is about two or three steps short of dihydroco...
[11:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Weird ruling - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:04] <exec> 08└─> That said, Kim Dotcom is a jerk. He's depending on New Zealand to defend him, and yet he keep criticizing the country, its laws, its courts and its government. That's not being a jerk. That's being real, unless you are living in the land of elves and faeries.
[11:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Weird ruling - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:05] <exec> 08└─unless you are living in the land of elves and faeries.
[11:08:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Shadowbanning - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 1412 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:19] <exec> 08└─At least offenders are notified. I can't think of a censorship tactic more chickenshit than true shadowbanning, like what Reddit got caught doing. The worst part about that was that of all the community nobody would be smart or vocal enough to figure it out and bring attention to it. At least with T...
[11:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Shadowbanning - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:22] <exec> 08└─At least with Twitter's rules, you can know what they consider offensive
[11:08:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03chromas [34] 02Re:English only? - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:25] <exec> 08└─Learning other people's languages would be cultural appropriation.
[11:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Okay. - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:48] <exec> 08└─And we are private individuals. We are allowed to complain as we please, whether you like it or not.
[11:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score:2) 02Re:gab.ai - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:52] <exec> 08└─I bet the alt-right will repel and repulse the alt-left or moderates from going there. I don't see why, since you can follow whoever you want. For any particular group, you just need critical mass, and maybe a couple of prominent people to follow. Twitter seems determined to become a padded room, an...
[11:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:gab.ai - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:54] <exec> 08└─For those who may not have heard of it, the platform gab.ai seems to be heading in the right direction. […] At the moment, the platform is (obviously) dominated by people that Twitter has chased off, i.e., the alt-right. […]
[11:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:12 hours starting upon next use - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:08:57] <exec> 08└─The best response would be to click "continue to twitter", and then twitter that because of the limitation, you're going no no longer use twitter for at least the next half year, and suggest others to do likewise. And of course, act on that promise.
[11:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Vague analogy - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:09:56] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I remember a documentary some time in the eighties where they talked about the size of the human genome, telling how many PCs you'd need just to store it. Well, even back then it seemed ridiculous to be because, after all, you'd only need the hard disks to store it, instead of the complete PCs...
[11:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[11:10:21] <exec> 08└─The moral of the story: US dreams itself the world police.
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[12:07:19] <exec> 08└─s/then/than/
[12:07:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02Yeeesh - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 598 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:49] <exec> 08└─20 or more years is a length of sentence typically reserved for greedy spies [nytimes.com] or Sexual assaultists [foxnews.com] abusing their position of trust within government positions and against vulnerable populations. What is going on here is that they are threatening copyright infringers in at...
[12:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[12:08:19] <exec> 08└─Good morning, ikann!
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[13:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score:1) 02They finally fixed grandpa's machine - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:18] <exec> 08└─From that old Munster's episode where some con artists sold grandpa a machine that extracts uranium from seawater and Herman told grandpa he was duped. Grandpa insisted it was for real and went about fixing the machine. When the con artists found out they gladly took back the machine and refunded th...
[13:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03subs [4485] (Score:2) 02Re:Advantages to launching from Britain? - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:28] <exec> 08└─In order to get into orbit, you don't need to get a set distance from the Earth's center. You need to simply clear the atmosphere (which is approximately equally thick everywhere) and most importantly, you need a heck of a lot of lateral speed - that's the real cost driver. You need to achieve about...
[13:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Britain vs a location in the Caribbean - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 2575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:31] <exec> 08└─An interesting third option is the Russians launch stuff (like their ISS) into 51.6 degree orbits so for maximal efficiency you should launch around lower 50s which conveniently is more or less Scotland/England. You can reach any inclination from any spot on the earth if you're willing to burn extra...
[13:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:The Coming Opiate Epidemic - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:07:47] <exec> 08└─Opiate addiction and overdose will then reach record levels.
[13:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird ruling - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:05] <exec> 08└─No countries laws, courts, or government should be immune to criticism. That's a really odd objection to raise.
[13:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[13:08:40] <exec> 08└─Anyone remembers the Seven Dirty Words? George Carlin was 'every thing wrong with this world' apparently.
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[14:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 2808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:33] <exec> 08└─The main problem is doublethink about the meaning of "science" There's a lot of really butt hurt people defining science as being anything they say from their academic pulpit, so you end up with quantum computer scientists babbling about immigration law which is about as stupid as listening to a Hol...
[14:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score:1) 02Re:Britain - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 1178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:07:57] <exec> 08└─Thanks! Getting there... What about plain old Britain, is that just short for GB? And, back to the question, are the territories Britain? I was under the impression that the English folks in Gibraltar consider themselves to be in Britain. >Great Britain - England + Scotland and whatever located on t...
[14:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Space planes & Vomit Comets - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:59] <exec> 08└─A slightly more informative video is available on the BBC [bbc.co.uk]. Basically, they're looking at conventional airports in the UK that can host horizontal takeoff technologies - satellite launchers dropped from planes, Virgin Galactic-style fairground rides etc. I think the favourites are the sma...
[14:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score:2) 02Re:The Coming Opiate Epidemic - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 1486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:13] <exec> 08└─I'm going to be offline for a few days or more but I may return with a worrying dystopia. The outline is as follows:- Cost of alcohol continues to fall. I've had a tour of a brewery and it is scary to see 30 people make 0.5 million pints per week. The current limitation is distribution. If a brewery...
[14:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03zeigerpuppy [1298] (Score:2) 02Re:The Coming Opiate Epidemic - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:08:14] <exec> 08└─opiates are already very cheap, grow poppies. the cost is caused by keeping it illegal. we'll probably look back at current drug policy much as we look back at the alcohol prohibition era. A massive waste of resources and lives that does nothing but enable criminality.
[14:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Subject or object, could that be the question? - 06NASA Exoplanets Press Conference at 1 PM EST on Wednesday - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:23] <exec> 08└─I'm really hoping for life outside earth, but i bet it's just "Hey, there's some matter we've found, which kinda, maybe, possibly, combined with 15 other parameters, which we haven't found, could create life on this planet, which we think exists based on a shadow on the light coming from a distant s...
[14:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:05] <exec> 08└─Sometimes its just organic, you get a big enough pile of people on a big enough platform and just like antibiotic resistance doesn't "have to" form yet it always inevitably does eventually, here's gab.ai which like /pol/ is kinda echo-chamber-y but none the less entertaining. trolls who can say ins...
[14:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score:2) 02metadata is real data - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:09:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, but the excuse is that they're not listening to the private conversations as such -- they're only using the metadata. Which is a difference from wiretaps, just one that I don't think matters -- it's clear to me that there's a reasonable expectation of privacy in the metadata, too, but I don't...
[14:11:19] <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) - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:19] <exec> 08└─the fiduciary value of which is unrecognized by any government?
[14:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[14:11:45] <exec> 08└─It's not stockholm syndrome, it's survival. As an individual, I can vote with my feet/wallet. But that only works at the individual level. At work I have to get shit done. That requires productivity software that is written by companies who only care about market share and that happens to be Windows...
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[15:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02WTF? - 06Machine Learning Used to Describe Scents - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:28] <exec> 08└─You're kidding... this can be done analytically based on spectrometry and a knowledge of human smell receptors. It's like they went out of their way to make it as unscientific as possible.
[15:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:4, Touché) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:37] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of really butt hurt people defining science as being anything they say from their academic pulpit, so you end up with quantum computer scientists babbling about immigration law which is about as stupid as listening to a Hollywood star's opinions about the environment or my plumber's op...
[15:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:39] <exec> 08└─no ability
[15:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:42] <exec> 08└─opposition to "science"
[15:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Interesting) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:44] <exec> 08└─I have yet to hear a new quantum physicist use their scientific degrees to try and impose their will as somehow superior. You sure its not more about an insecurity complex from you or your family/friends?
[15:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:46] <exec> 08└─Oh Look it's another anti-Trump rally this time disguised as being "for science." Starting to get a tad old these days but I guess this is what we have to look forward to for the next 4-8 years while the tears from Queen Hillary loosing the election dries out among her supporters.
[15:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score:2) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:48] <exec> 08└─That, and the same reasons why people like me cannot afford to own homes in towns we grew up in. The EPA and local variant of it have so many restrictions on what land can even be used that it shrinks the supply of it, raising prices. Yet they are powerless to stop the springtime chainsaw brigades f...
[15:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:50] <exec> 08└─Wow now that is a new one. The EPA isn't the real problem behind your inability to buy a house, it is more about the state of wealth distribution. Maybe it should be illegal for any one entity to own thousands of homes in order to turn people into serfs? As for the environment, maybe it contributes...
[15:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:52] <exec> 08└─Well if Trump wasn't hell bent on denying important scientific facts in order to increase profits then this would be a different story. As it is there is no reason a protest can't be both. As for the "tears from Queen Hillary", that is a tired response from a special snowflake who wants everyone to...
[15:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:55] <exec> 08└─Was there months of protests when McCain and later Romney lost to Obama? Day after day of crying in the media and parts of the public? I can't recall any massive demonstrations against Obama winning the election what so ever. What we are seeing now is just the worst kind of sore losers that can't ge...
[15:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:07:57] <exec> 08└─hell bent on denying important scientific facts in order to increase profits
[15:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02half a century - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 1648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:07] <exec> 08└─Why its taken half a century is an interesting story, you can get magnesium from seawater because some plants concentrate the hell out of it for you, then you process the plants, indirectly it comes from the seawater. So for like half a century, there's gotta be a way to, I donno, turn farm raised T...
[15:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:09] <exec> 08└─if this is true, i feel sooo relived 'cause it seems sooo much more easy to dig up the 500 x 500 km SAHARA desert, dump the sand in some cauldron and grow silicon wafers for solar panels. this "news" is just one of the propaganda pieces that wants us to feel that "radioactivity" is "natural" and thu...
[15:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Advantages to launching from Britain? - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:21] <exec> 08└─Excellent explanation. And if someone's still not clear on this, get Kerbal Space Program :)
[15:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Space planes & Vomit Comets - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:08:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, the population of Britain is most certainly dense, but less so than, say, Ireland.
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[15:08:46] <exec> 08└─moonshine which risks immediate blindness
[15:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Operation Google - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:23] <exec> 08└─Good luck with redefining google to be a synomym for a hate word. That's not how language works. But the alt-nazis are, by definition, reductive, so its no surprise they would have a reductive understanding of language too.
[15:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:41] <exec> 08└─"eth, you're a fucking asshole. But you're *our* fucking asshole." Awwww, I just got a warm fuzzy feeling . . . . oh wait, I think I pissed my pants. Never mind.
[15:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:09:53] <exec> 08└─"they insult their users' intelligence and degrade the free flow of information and ideas." Thank you. Additionally, it brings Twitter's staff's intelligence into question.
[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:gab.ai - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─Well, Bradley - I thought I'd take a look at the place. Your link brought me to a page with two choices - log in, or "let me in". I click the "let me in" button, and was asked for my email. Fill that box in, and I get this message: "Done! You're #466180 in the waiting list." Hmmmm. Almost half a mil...
[15:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:gab.ai - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:10:04] <exec> 08└─I don't mind seeing nazis and racists segregated from twitter. But it'll create an echo box environment for them which will only reinforce their own views.
[15:10:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Algorithms are cheaper than people - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:09] <exec> 08└─This is happening because dumb algorithms are making these decisions. This appears as simple keyword-based assessment of posts. It's cheaper than hiring actual humans to deal with the problem. But humans are also not an ideal solution. Give someone moderation powers and they'll abuse it eventually t...
[15:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bziman [3577] (Score:2) 02Cox is a great provider - 06Cox Must Pay $8M in Fees on Top of $25M Jury Verdict for Violating DMCA - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:22] <exec> 08└─When I lived in Northern Virginia, I had Cox as my ISP for almost twenty years, and I never once had to call and negotiate my rates or service, like I do now. They advertised a speed and a price and that's what it was. Well, not even... the speeds were consistently faster than advertised, and every...
[15:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score:1) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:30] <exec> 08└─It does if you have a job, unfortunately. We can't all be ACs living in mom and dad's basement into our 40s.
[15:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:41] <exec> 08└─i think it makes sense to disclose early if a 0-exploit is detected being used. after all we are not completely reliant on closed-sourced M$ ... we have firewalls and can opt not to use a certain software/component or disable it (in the mean time)?
[15:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:12:42] <exec> 08└─Microsoft could solve this problem easily, you know. By going back to the previous patch model, with separate patches per problem, instead of these mega-patches they've been using to force telemetry updates and who knows what else on people. But they want the control in information siphoning instead...
[15:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score:2) 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─Because, (a) is the primary driver. I am convinced of that. (c) may make the difference between the temperature rising 11 degrees, instead of 10 degrees. That one extra degree may be a killer, if your about to succumb at 10 degrees. The straw that broke the camel's back, so to speak. But, I still be...
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[16:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02No WTF at all. - 06Machine Learning Used to Describe Scents - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:28] <exec> 08└─Yes. AI experiments tend to orient themselves towards solving subjective problems rather than the objective ones. Science, as much as it possibly can, prefers to deal with the objective, because the subjective can't be structured as a falsifiable hypothesis. Oddly enough, the similarity between two...
[16:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Millions of $ spent just to say... - 06Machine Learning Used to Describe Scents - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:29] <exec> 08└─Well that stinks... Lol
[16:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:41] <exec> 08└─"Perhaps you should stick to your own little binary world and comment on what you know best and leave the politics to the politicians." You were so close!!!! YOU WERE SO FUCKING CLOSE!!! You could have ended your comment before this sentence and had a watertight argument, but no! You go and reveal w...
[16:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Informative) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:42] <exec> 08└─Why, is irony and sarcasm lost on you?
[16:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:45] <exec> 08└─The administration is opposed to scientific results that it doesn't like
[16:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:49] <exec> 08└─That does not disprove my statement. So people can't run their personal blogs how they see fit? Just the mere fact of his profession makes him guilty? Your overuse of key phrases and vague epithets shows your real colors. Emotionally triggered on common topics laid out by media to make manipulation...
[16:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:51] <exec> 08└─That does not disprove my statement.
[16:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:54] <exec> 08└─There's a rather famous quantum computing professor (well, normies have no idea who he is, but in the field he's well known) who gets like 10 blog comments per post on his real topic but occasionally social status signals by "bravely" supporting prog narratives usually political but occasionally whi...
[16:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:07:56] <exec> 08└─The main problem is doublethink about the meaning of "science"
[16:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:03] <exec> 08└─Selective memory, or not being a citizen you just didn't pay enough attention? There were plenty of people screaming about Obama for all 8 years, and if you can't see how Trump's first month in office is beyond scary, how he is already failing on promises and leading us toward disaster, then please...
[16:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score:2) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:05] <exec> 08└─I wasn't saying there wasn't people screaming bloody murder about Obama for 8 years, calling him Obongo, that whole thing about him being a secret muslim, being born in America or not, people not being ecstatic about Obamacare or whatever. I recall that to. What I said was that there was no massive...
[16:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:-1, Flamebait) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:07] <exec> 08└─A professional troll you are, they hand out playbooks during orientation?
[16:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:09] <exec> 08└─Oh no there was just the birther movement, the obsession with his race or his religion, the resurgence of white supremacy groups, and a whole hell of a lot of praying something happens to the man so he's no longer living let alone being Presidential. Before the results where in there where many more...
[16:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:13] <exec> 08└─Heh, the "people mostly making fun of" are two users so far, and only this last comment focused on the AAAS speaking for all science. Having been around for over 150 years and being one of the largest groups of scientists I will have to say that isn't a far-out claim. And "commie scientists social s...
[16:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:3, Informative) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:15] <exec> 08└─April 22nd happens to be Earth day. Rally may have happened without Trump. However, because of Trump, there is some renewed urgency.
[16:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Environmental politics is good cop - bad cop - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 2287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:17] <exec> 08└─No establishment party cares about the environment. Obama, and the democrats, take the position of the good cop and pretending they're on your side yet there's been absolutely 0 notable progress on environment from the democrats. The large decline in carbon emissions had absolutely 0 to do with any...
[16:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Environmental politics is good cop - bad cop - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:19] <exec> 08└─As history shows over and over, it takes a lot to motivate large groups of people. Enough bullshit is thrown around by the "good cops" to make it difficult to unite enough people. It was a great (though despicable) strategy.
[16:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score:1) 02Re:fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:30] <exec> 08└─Nuclear power is dangerous precisely because the reactions produce 4 orders of magnitude more energy than chemical reactions. Molten slat reactors have the potential to capture this energy without requiring a pressure vessel to contain the radioactive compounds
[16:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 1595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:33] <exec> 08└─it is true. orders of magnitude more ... thanks to the "light-speed" constant (c) in the equation (it's HUGE) even tho the efficiency of the conversion is not great. however, nothing comes for free ... the dangerous physical waste lasts for a long time and the addition of "magnitudes" of new energy...
[16:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score:2) 02Why? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:35] <exec> 08└─There is enough Uranium already mined to last another 100+ years, all we need to do is is reprocess the "waste" that the current nuke plants have been dumping out for the last ~6 decades. In that time we can get Thorium based power plants operational and on-line without ever having to mine another o...
[16:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Britain - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:08:56] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia explains it all [wikipedia.org] including a helpful cut-out-and-keep* diagram [wikipedia.org] that says it all. *but don't print it out on expensive paper, because all bets are off post-Brexit... I wonder if it offends a Cornishman to be called British?
[16:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Slob? - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─Ole Kim needs to learn how to slobber on a knob better, or he's going to be a "guest" of the US for a long, long time. Slob the knob, boy, slob them all!
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score:2) 02The pot charging the kettle for being black. - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─It seems the RIAA and MPAA have a great racket going on and don't like competition.
[16:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:10:09] <exec> 08└─And just who is going to build that alternative to your whims?
[16:11:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02wire tap laws - 06Bipartisan Bill Would Force Police to Get Warrants Before Using Stingray Cell Tracker - 572 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:02] <exec> 08└─"Police have long maintained that the use of Stingrays does not constitute a “search,” " Which part of wire tap laws do they fail to understand? One has a reasonable expectation of privacy on his phone. Everyone knows that a phone can be tapped, but you don't expect it to be tapped, because cour...
[16:11:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03vux984 [5045] 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 143 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:55] <exec> 08└─a legal DRM-protected download is unique, because it contains the unique identification stream that matches your authentication keys to use it.
[16:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score:2) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:11:56] <exec> 08└─The DMCA is a uniquely american law. There are lots of places where its still perfectly acceptable to strip the DRM of anything you bought for personal use
[16:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score:1) 02Re:Working as intended! - 06A Source Code Typo Allowed an Attacker to Steal 370,000 Zerocoin ($592,000) - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:25] <exec> 08└─...with no reason as to not use untraceable currency *poof* Ah thanks, looks like I had a bug in wetware function Parse:Simplify:CancelDoubleNegative( )
[16:12:34] <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) - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:34] <exec> 08└─"Cryptocurrencies" are the equivalent of box top stamps backed by CO2 biscuits.
[16:12:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:12:59] <exec> 08└─so you're saying you enjoy botched windows upgrades. got it.
[16:13:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:12] <exec> 08└─it is basically an is ought fallacy
[16:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:Correction - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[16:13:13] <exec> 08└─*is-ought, blarg
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[17:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Taylor as 16 - 06Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:27] <exec> 08└─Do we still use the term "Script kiddy"? Because that term leaps to mind when I think of a 16 year old "hacking" a couple celebrities.
[17:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Theft? - 06Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:28] <exec> 08└─OR un authorized copying?
[17:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Theft is in the eye of the beholder - 06Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:31] <exec> 08└─That's why contracts are so important: They set up the rules of the game. In this case, what was stolen is control over the data.
[17:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No WTF at all. - 06Machine Learning Used to Describe Scents - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:41] <exec> 08└─No idea what you are going on about, but from the abstract: "Regularized linear models performed nearly as well as random forest–based ones, with a predictive accuracy that closely approaches a key theoretical limit." So the original AC is right, there is nothing here except researchers publishing...
[17:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:No WTF at all. - 06Machine Learning Used to Describe Scents - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:43] <exec> 08└─Existing technology applied to novel problem class. That's... pretty much all R&D research.
[17:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:No WTF at all. - 06Machine Learning Used to Describe Scents - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:07:46] <exec> 08└─This isn't something to publish a paper about though... it is like something you do as a tutorial to learn an R/python library.
[17:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Packet Sniffers - 06Machine Learning Used to Describe Scents - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:49] <exec> 08└─really will be packet sniffers
[17:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:05] <exec> 08└─lower mercury alternatives or thinking that injecting mercury could possibly be bad is double plus ungood badthink
[17:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 2759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:13] <exec> 08└─That was a pretty well written response. I enjoy good natured debate with you. No sarc. The first topic from a sophistry standpoint was a major strategic error, in that I know "probably the leading mind in quantum computer science at this time" is probably not a public consumption blog but I figured...
[17:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:18] <exec> 08└─Calm down, take a deep breath. Wasn't that nice that you could do that without coughing?
[17:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:25] <exec> 08└─Before I say anything else, let me clearly note that I am NOT nor have I EVER been a Hillary Clinton supporter. You can check comments I made here before the election to confirm that I severely criticized both major parties and both major candidates. Nevertheless, I also viewed (and still view) Trum...
[17:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score:2) 02Defective Premise - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:33] <exec> 08└─As usual, don't get into an argument with a Prog over their statements, instead find the defective premise they are based on. His remarks reflect growing concern among researchers that science is disregarded by President Trump.
[17:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 719 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:46] <exec> 08└─supposedly thorium and uranium comes from mined ready-formed pure bricks (as in gold-bar-brick). my attention span in mineralogy and geology class was comparable to the life span of a fruit fly (wat? two days?) but i think that mining thorium will also yield uranium and other stuff (in some classes...
[17:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score:2) 02Re:Why? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:08:48] <exec> 08└─In 60 years we may have practical fusion power plants. I just saw this lecture about the ARC (Affordable Robust Compact) reactor design and was very encouraged. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] The main takeaway from the lecture is that confinement in a tokamak scales linear...
[17:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score:2) 02Bad idea. - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:50] <exec> 08└─Go solar or wind.
[17:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:Advantages to launching from Britain? - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:04] <exec> 08└─Launching from the earth is essentially launching from a moving platform (according to the frame of reference from orbit). The earth at the equator is moving at ~500meters per second west to east, most launches are in this same direction to harness that velocity. The closer to the poles that you get...
[17:09:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03subs [4485] 02Britain vs a location in the Caribbean - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 966 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:05] <exec> 08└─Depends on where you want to go: 1) Carribean: good for equatorial orbits (communications satellites, commercial stuff), limited infrastructure, "far from home". This last element is why most commercial launches in the US are conducted from Florida rather than Kwajalein atoll, even though Kwajalein...
[17:09:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02Re:Britain vs a location in the Caribbean - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 2575 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:08] <exec> 08└─An interesting third option is the Russians launch stuff (like their ISS) into 51.6 degree orbits so for maximal efficiency you should launch around lower 50s which conveniently is more or less Scotland/England. You can reach any inclination from any spot on the earth if you're willing to burn extra...
[17:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Britain vs a location in the Caribbean - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:10] <exec> 08└─Launches from Scotland to the equator are difficult, since launching vehicles could overfly Denmark, Sweden, Poland or the Baltic states... So launch from England instead.
[17:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score:2) 02Re:Space planes & Vomit Comets - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:19] <exec> 08└─I said this above, but it probably won't show up, so I'll put it here too: equatorial launches (travelling around the world west to east or geostationary) are usually used for communication satellites. If they're going to be launching spy satellites (which would be my guess because there's no other...
[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score:2) 02Re:Counting the chickens before they hatched - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:09:32] <exec> 08└─Oh thank god I got that new liver, and only with herpes, not even AIDS.
[17:09:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Alarming, but not 100% new - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:38] <exec> 08└─more than 900 people died of drug overdoses in British Columbia, doctors are pointing to one morbid upside.... a significant uptick in organ donor deaths, and... fentanyl is likely playing a role.
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score:2) 02I'd love to watch it live... - 06NASA Exoplanets Press Conference at 1 PM EST on Wednesday - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─But NASA is still using Flash for this -- at least until Friday. I guess I'm out of luck, as I won't use that bug-riddled garbage.
[17:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird ruling - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:00] <exec> 08└─"in the land of elves and faeries." Their government sucks, too!!! Down with height and flight privilege! Dwarf lives matter!
[17:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Operation Google - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:21] <exec> 08└─Erm, nope, that's precisely how language works. Lots of really stupid stuff has crept into the language because large numbers of ignorant people use it, and eventually it becomes unexceptional ("could care less" where "could not care less" is meant, "nonplussed" where "unphased" is meant, etc.)
[17:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:English only? - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:27] <exec> 08└─"other people's" Check your included-in-this-specific-example's-privilege. No-one is "other", just "unspecified."
[17:10:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:43] <exec> 08└─Or, the partisan labels "progressive" and "alt-right" are just red herrings. There is no real progressive policy happening any more, both "sides" just use rhetoric to polarize public opinion and allow bad policy to be passed with little opposition. The evil entities of the world hide behind d labels...
[17:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:45] <exec> 08└─Occam's razor explanation: people caught on to your bullshit and now apply more critical filters when they see your name. I've been tricked into thinking you had a good point before, then retread the comment and saw it wasn't quite what I thought. There have been a few posts of hours I've liked, so...
[17:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:10:53] <exec> 08└─Twitter is trying to sustain itself through advertising. That wasn't a concern for the station that broadcast Carlin's routine. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:12:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Re:Vague analogy - 06Event Horizon Telescope Will Soon Take the First Black Hole Photo - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:13] <exec> 08└─"I assumed the worst" Good policy.
[17:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Three differences... - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:12:26] <exec> 08└─Indeed, only the recording industry can steal from artists via shady shenanigans.
[17:15:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02Re:History repeating? - 06Springtime for America in February - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[17:15:31] <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...
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[18:07:36] <exec> 08└─such as music, TV shows, films and games
[18:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02local licensing - 06New EU Rules on Portability of Online Content Services Move Closer - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:38] <exec> 08└─I wonder how local licensing is even compatible with the open-market philosophy of the EU. Shouldn't every service that is offered in any EU country be available to all EU citizens? Oh, wait, I forgot the lobbyists and their money.
[18:08:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 356 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:10] <exec> 08└─There's a lot of really butt hurt people defining science as being anything they say from their academic pulpit, so you end up with quantum computer scientists babbling about immigration law which is about as stupid as listening to a Hollywood star's opinions about the environment or my plumber's op...
[18:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:22] <exec> 08└─Is this professor speaking about "prog narratives" using his official status as a quantum computing SCIENTIST?
[18:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:26] <exec> 08└─That was a pretty well written response. I enjoy good natured debate with you. No sarc.
[18:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:28] <exec> 08└─Can you provide any citations of where this is happening, first of all? Actually, even if it is, could you provide ANY proof that ANYONE is calling this "science"?
[18:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2, Disagree) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:30] <exec> 08└─So what you're saying is that actual scientists shouldn't have political opinions. Unless they agree with yours, of course....
[18:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:41] <exec> 08└─A guy who went out of his way to promote blatant lies about the previous President's ethnicity, birthplace, family, religion, etc.?
[18:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:43] <exec> 08└─We can't let this happen. We should march on Washington and stop this travesty. Our nation is totally divided! Donald J Trump, referring to Obama's win in 2012.
[18:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03q.kontinuum [532] (Score:3, Insightful) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:49] <exec> 08└─Interestingly, nearly any rally for any moral- or otherwise worthy cause nowadays is implicitly an unti-trump rally. Trump is just evidently wrong on so many issues, he should be right more often just by chance if he picked randomized concatenation of words.
[18:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:Defective Premise - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:08:54] <exec> 08└─Are you using SN as a testing ground for the next Black Mirror episode? Scientific facts have no bearing on policy? Scientists should stick to their labs and let the "leaders" steer the country wherever? This tide of anti-intellectualism is incredibly alarming and proponents such as yourself pretend...
[18:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Hey, Rush Holt - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:56] <exec> 08└─If you care about science, why don't you allow people to read about science? I'm referring to the paywall that blocks access to the AAAS flagship journal Science.
[18:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Trump vs NHST - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:58] <exec> 08└─The best thing that could happen is Trump challenging these people on NHST (which I am sure is all that 90%+ of them do instead of science).
[18:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:11] <exec> 08└─If we'd quit friggin' burning goddamn uranium and move onto thorium, yes, especially if we design modular-type reactors like some of Toshiba's prototypes. Something that keeps the primary and secondary loops entirely separate, and has passive safety ("drain plug").
[18:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score:2) 02Re:fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 1586 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:12] <exec> 08└─Energy transport. Centralised energy generation is useless if you lose most of it trying to get it to its destination. This blows out any non-equatorial landmass being entirely solar-powered for a long time (yes, technically it's possible with huge investment and on small timescales, but we're alrea...
[18:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Japan has some spare uranium... - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:18] <exec> 08└─...slightly used.
[18:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:Advantages to launching from Britain? - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:09:33] <exec> 08└─So you agree with me - equatorial should be more efficient because of the fact you start off with the largest speed for free?
[18:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:2) 02Re:The Coming Opiate Epidemic - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:02] <exec> 08└─Someone wrote on Usenet: Apple juice would be especially high in methanol, since manufacturers treat it with commercial pectin esterase to get rid of cloudiness, and in this case there isn't anywhere for the methanol to go except to stay in solution.
[18:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:The Coming Opiate Epidemic - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:03] <exec> 08└─Unless you count the US government purposefully poisoning moonshine URL:http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2010/02/the_chemists_war.html
[18:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:The Coming Opiate Epidemic - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:05] <exec> 08└─Damn closing bracket didn't come up :(
[18:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird ruling - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:30] <exec> 08└─"Gollum!"
[18:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score:1) 02Re:Weird ruling - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:10:31] <exec> 08└─Kim is a jerk. The reason they're riding him like this is because he's totally legitimately a criminal and they wanna set precedent. Stop supporting kim and home that he gets hemmed up for his endless scams before they can successfully nab him on some piracy stuff.
[18:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:06] <exec> 08└─Idealism is about what the world should be, pragmatism is about how the world actually is. And the sooner idealists see how it actually is, the sooner they deviate from their principles.
[18:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:16] <exec> 08└─Consider that you're getting downmodded because you're actually dangerously wrong about a lot of things, maybe? I've seen the same pattern; over the last 2-3 months I've noticed you and people like you are attracting a lot more (justified!) heat, and it does me good to see you getting what you deser...
[18:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:11:28] <exec> 08└─However, I find your analogy to be flawed WRT Twitter. Twitter absolutely has the right to limit and/or censor speech as little or as much as they like. It is, after all, their infrastructure. That said, their platform is specifically designed to allow the public dissemination of speech.
[18:13:47] <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) - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:13:48] <exec> 08└─I see plenty of duplicated code, which is indicative of low quality of the software. Why don't they have a method like this? public static Bool IsThisAValidPubCoinId(unsigned int id) { ... }
[18:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:user friendly - 06Used 'Smart' Cars Put Your Safety at Risk - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─This guy fucks!
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[19:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Gamify it. - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:29] <exec> 08└─How about driving software that would sense traffic and buildings (and optionally, pedestrians, bicyclists, motocyclists, stray animals, etc.), then render them as colorful Tetris-like blocks? The human would stay engaged and entertained. Or instead of Tetris, it could be modeled on Exidy's Death Ra...
[19:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:30] <exec> 08└─Nissan and Honda have upcoming systems that give the driver 30 seconds to prepare and re-engage the vehicle or it will pull to the side of the road. [emphasis added]
[19:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:frameworks - 06New EU Rules on Portability of Online Content Services Move Closer - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:39] <exec> 08└─That's quite a leap there, calling jquery a 'framework'...
[19:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Is there NOTHING the EU won't stick its hands in? - 06New EU Rules on Portability of Online Content Services Move Closer - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:42] <exec> 08└─This is the definition of micromanagement; I suppose it's the natural outcome of basing society around Civil Law, rather than something more decentralized (like Common Law).
[19:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Is there NOTHING the EU won't stick its hands i - 06New EU Rules on Portability of Online Content Services Move Closer - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:07:45] <exec> 08└─Give Chairman Pai a few more weeks, and the US will probably start to see state-specific geo-locks. Do you think the Americans will skip on an opportunity to gouge the public, now that it was pointed out by the EU?
[19:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Portable... - 06New EU Rules on Portability of Online Content Services Move Closer - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:47] <exec> 08└─...but don't leave the EU with it, please.
[19:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02"Data Theft" Is Very Very Difficult - 06Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:58] <exec> 08└─Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US
[19:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 3778 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:24] <exec> 08└─I can somewhat agree with your assertions. Though, it's still based on the black and white left vs right politics which I think is a disservice to academia, its sciences, and the country as a whole. Science itself isn't political. It's just a word for "knowledge of how the physical world works". Sam...
[19:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:28] <exec> 08└─Hey you! Leave humour to the comedians, ok.
[19:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 2168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:38] <exec> 08└─I guess I still don't see the issue here, but perhaps that's because I don't read this blog or know what you're talking about. Still, from your description, I don't exactly see how this is at all confusing the identity of "science" in some sort of Orwellian fashion. The guy apparently has views on t...
[19:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:44] <exec> 08└─Quantum computing researchers are likely to have more personal experience* with immigration than the current crew of WASPs in the White House. Where does Trump get his expertise on immigration policy? Breitbart News and Steve Bannon? AFAIK, there were no good arguments for the recent Executive Order...
[19:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02blah blah known biased source blah blah - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:08:57] <exec> 08└─Provided for the peanut gallery: Snopes [snopes.com].
[19:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Trump vs NHST - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:10] <exec> 08└─FAKE SCIENCE (failing @NHST [twitter.com] @NASA [twitter.com] @EPA [twitter.com] @CDC [twitter.com] @NSF [twitter.com] @NIH [twitter.com] @NIST [twitter.com] @NOAA [twitter.com] @DOE [twitter.com]) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American people. SICK!
[19:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score:2) 02Never confuse for ignorance... - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 2060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:12] <exec> 08└─What can be better explained by malice. These people simply don't understand. Trump knows about the environment. He knows about pollution. He just "doesn't care." In the same way that the vast majority of those walking (no quotations) don't care. "Oh, I care!!!" Is extremely easy to say. "Oh, I care...
[19:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score:1) 02Re:Advantages to launching from Britain? - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:09:48] <exec> 08└─As massa tried to point out, what C R Johnson meant in #469634 was probably: The downside is that it takes a lot more energy to get to orbit [than] if you launch close to the equator.
[19:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02bwahahaha - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 1925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:23] <exec> 08└─I had been hopeful that maybe, just maybe the USA would see the light as concerns substance prohibition. It figured it out once with alcohol, but it can't seem to generalize from that example. It tried with cannabis which seems to have led to similar (beneficial for society) results, but that will a...
[19:10:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02The Island - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:24] <exec> 08└─We're going to The Island.
[19:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:The Island - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:10:27] <exec> 08└─Lincoln Six Echo, is that you?
[19:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:25] <exec> 08└─I heard that Hillary is still only 29 years old, though... She could serve! :)
[19:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:28] <exec> 08└─"The purpose of the American military is to defend democracy and to defend capitalism" HAHAHAHA For someone who says they have served, you really don't have a clue, do you? Just follow commands, like the Nazi lower command? Defend democracy? Is that what they did in Iran/Iraq? And I thought that was...
[19:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:36] <exec> 08└─I like Ethanol: he provides the ying to my yang. (Did that sound gay to you?) :) He sometimes says VERY insightful things and often makes me think. At the least, he gives me a chuckle. Two thumbs up to Ethanol. "Our Ethanol": yuuuuuuup!
[19:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:11:44] <exec> 08└─Someone probably modded your comment as spam. You need to bring it to the attention of the mods if you feel it is unwarranted.
[19:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score:2) 02Re:push - 06After Microsoft Delays Patch Tuesday, Google Discloses Windows Bug - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[19:14:30] <exec> 08└─so you're saying you enjoy botched windows upgrades. got it.
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[20:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Gamify it. - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:35] <exec> 08└─> Exidy's Death Race That's the problem here: automatic cars don't break the rules of the road... which is extremely boring, outside of the feeling they have to be getting about imminent rear-ending by semis. Driving with the flow, while showing the user the 360 annotated view of other cars, might k...
[20:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score:2) 02Re:Gamify it. - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:37] <exec> 08└─But to keep people awake,
[20:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score:2) 02Re:Gamify it. - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:39] <exec> 08└─Fine. But we're taking it out of their pay.
[20:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gamify it. - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:41] <exec> 08└─I meant to say, this would not be fully automated driving software. The computer would sense the surroundings and draw them as an animation with bright colors and realistic sound effects, making driving fun for the human player. A traffic jam turns into a puzzle. A pedestrian turns into a hopping fr...
[20:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Gamify it. - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:43] <exec> 08└─We could give the 'player' a controller that looks like a steering wheel and two or three buttons located at their feet. I also have a solution for delivery of 'life-like' video-quality which involves a translucent crystaline structure which we place in front of the player.
[20:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Gamify it. - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:46] <exec> 08└─Don't be silly, we don't have yet the tech for Glasses-free 3D at these kind of resolutions. I hope your solution included at least real-time @POTUS twitter feed on the crystalline structure, so that players would keep being reminded that they are in an alternate reality.
[20:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:49] <exec> 08└─Failsafe in a metal box hurdling at 30 m/s are never going to be entirely failsafe. Failsafe is impossible. Failsafe shouldn't be a goal. Least net harm should be a goal.
[20:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:51] <exec> 08└─heh, buddy, thisy here is 'murika, we do our metal box hurdling in mph... and ain't it just like a nerd, people are crashing and burning, and his first thought is he wants the least harm to the internet... nice...
[20:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:07:53] <exec> 08└─Failsafe shouldn't be a goal. Least net harm should be
[20:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:4, Insightful) 02Change the control labels - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:55] <exec> 08└─Try changing the control labels. [_] Notify me of impending death or injury. [x] Do not disturb my sleep unless we reach destination.
[20:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Primary Sources - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:58] <exec> 08└─See the actual policy which defines levels 0-5 [sae.org]. More commentary on the differences between each level. [techrepublic.com] Hyperlinks were not invented to drive traffic back to your own web site, MotorTrend. They were invented to streamline citations so that we can all see the same primary...
[20:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Globalization... - 06New EU Rules on Portability of Online Content Services Move Closer - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:10] <exec> 08└─They outsourced a ton of jobs, globalized tons of markets, the least they could do is give users the same benefits. Oh? That would hurt your profit margins because your online services are beyond ridiculously marked up? TOO BAD! If corporations can set up shop in other countries to avoid taxes, then...
[20:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Taylor as 16 - 06Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:19] <exec> 08└─The proper term would have been "showed them the consequences of not using proper safeguards for sensitive information", had he kept publication to a proper minimum. Three years of probation is an unusually lenient sentence for such a high-profile case...
[20:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02Re:Taylor as 16 - 06Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, I agree it's lenient, but, honestly, I think it's appropriate for a dumb kid. He gets a felony on his criminal record, and his probation terms probably prevent him from coming anywhere near the software industry where before being an idiot, he could've found a career. I'm generally opposed to t...
[20:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Taylor as 16 - 06Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:24] <exec> 08└─Seconded. Realizing that dumb teens don't need decades in jail doesn't occur often enough to US prosecutors. Of course Rachid Al-Islamyah would have gotten 15 years.
[20:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:Theft? - 06Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:28] <exec> 08└─If I download something off bittorrent I have the permission of the person sending me those bits to download them. If someone copies my CC# they do not have my permission, and, I can no longer use that CC#.
[20:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02DTH rulez - 06Data Theft Hackers Sentenced in US - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[20:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:08:58] <exec> 08└─You seem to be combining the liberal/conservative axis with the authoritarian/anti-authoritarian axis. Although using two axises is still simplifying political views, it is much better to characterize perspectives with two axises than one. There are big differences between libertarianism (right and...
[20:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:03] <exec> 08└─Don't worry its fake comedy.
[20:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 1003 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:14] <exec> 08└─My interpretation of this "problem" about scientists talking outside their field: The premise is that being a Scientists affords someone social status. Calling yourself a Scientist (or cargo culting the appearance of one, i.e. I'm not a doctor but I play one on TV) gives your opinions an authority b...
[20:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 2073 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:22] <exec> 08└─So you are leaving the true definition of science alone: the pursuit of knowledge through observation and evidence, with the goal of constructing a body of knowledge that makes useful concrete predictions. But while I can put those words in your mouth, that doesn't mean you or anybody else in the al...
[20:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Ur-fascism is against science - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 1754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:24] <exec> 08└─In his essay on "Ur-Fascism", Umberto Eco wrote: 2. Traditionalism implies the rejection of modernism. Both Fascists and Nazis worshiped technology, while traditionalist thinkers usually reject it as a negation of traditional spiritual values. However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial...
[20:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:26] <exec> 08└─In your comment: Look how dumb soviet genetics got when the results were only permitted to fit marxist theory in the 30s.
[20:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:blah blah known biased source blah blah - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:39] <exec> 08└─a meta-comment about snopes... i used to -not *depend* on them, but- consult them regularly for stupid shit i heard or saw online or wherever, and i would kind of get a reasonable cut at the credibility of that 'thing' from snopes... but then i read a couple of their run downs on some issues/stuff (...
[20:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score:2) 02Re:Environmental politics is good cop - bad cop - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 1350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:09:48] <exec> 08└─At least there have been some good things. Not trumpeted of course - the Democrats are absolutely terrible at taking credit for their own achievements. But solar energy has come a long, long way in the past 8 years, and electric cars are finally becoming available. The Paris agreement may not be per...
[20:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:03] <exec> 08└─> Literally, just float an oil rig outside the national boundary, stick a fission plant on it, if it blows > (Two recorded cases in history? Both of whom you can safely walk past the building still to this day) You point still stands if you properly give credit to the US for being first and third in...
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[20:10:27] <exec> 08└─I think there might be a misunderstanding here. The more speed you have at the outset, the better. So yes, closer to the equator is better in terms of fuel burn. This is all assuming your target is geostationary orbit (which is at the equator). If you want to go into a polar orbit, proximity to the...
[20:10:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02''if Scotland decides to leave UK'' - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:31] <exec> 08└─Similar deal for UK's remote colonial possessions. Consider the USSR (often erroneously referred to as "Russia" back in the day) and how they put their Baikonur Cosmodrome in the non-Russian republic of what is now Kazakhstan (nuclear-tipped missiles too). When they actually were Russia again, that...
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[20:10:34] <exec> 08└─like their ISS
[20:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score:2) 02Kourou - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:37] <exec> 08└─They could launch from British Guyana. Advantages: - ex-British colony - speak English (probably) (kind of ish) - around 9° North of the equator - probably a deep sea harbour nearby to transport the rocket - approx 600 km from the massive ESA spaceport in Kourou [wikipedia.org] in French Guyana, wh...
[20:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Re:Counting the chickens before they hatched - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:10:59] <exec> 08└─Bad example: Most people have Herpes.
[20:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score:2) 02Re:The Coming Opiate Epidemic - 06One Upside to Opioid Overdoses: More Organ Donors - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:09] <exec> 08└─Well, the yeast will get widely propagated throughout the world and the cost of a hit of heroin (or equivalent) becomes about twice as expensive as beer. Opiate addiction and overdose will then reach record levels. Why bother with all that nonsense? According to our president they're already che...
[20:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:Weird ruling - 06N.Z. High Court Rules Kim Dotcom Extradition to US Can Proceed - 1083 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:11:37] <exec> 08└─kim is a jerk... you don't say, unlike, um, gee, i don't know, sayyyy, YOU ! ? ! ? grow up (or shut up, bot), being a jerk is not a crime, per se, percy, and if'ns it 'twere, 90% of us would be in jail... (may be low-balling there) beyond numerous legalistic issues (as many have mentioned, NZ has no...
[20:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score:2) 02Re:English only? - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:04] <exec> 08└─@ chromas- during a tough day, that made me smile and a little gurgling, golem-like chuckle emerged... *sigh* this 'cultural appropriation' bullshit is just so silly, it makes me weak with frustration that ANYONE (oppressor or oppressee) could take more than a few minutes thought to realize how asin...
[20:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:1, Flamebait) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:16] <exec> 08└─For him it is. He has no principles, and doesn't understand why anyone else does either.
[20:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:18] <exec> 08└─You first, Eth. Sure, they might have to crane-lift you outta yer momma's basement, but you just said handicaps aren't an excuse anymore. Drop and give me 20, butterball!
[20:12:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:28] <exec> 08└─Hey VLM, you know that Matrix fan theory about Zion being just another level of the Matrix to catch clever folks who think they made it out? Hint: that's what these alt-right places are. Clever traps that flatter the egos of small-timers like you, who think seeing through one layer of bullshit means...
[20:12:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jmorris [4844] 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:12:30] <exec> 08└─And just who is going to build that alternative to your whims?
[20:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score:2) 02Re:deduplication doesn't mean other links are ille - 06Megaupload's Alleged Crime is a Common Practice - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[20:14:17] <exec> 08└─There is a difference between "playing the game" and pretending to give a shit about copyright holders (which is what the big boys do now) and Kimdotcom dropping his pants and giving the *.A.As a supersized Goatse while flipping them the double bird, and its that "Go fuck yourselves you can't do shi...
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[21:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:4, Insightful) 02US medical system... - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:30] <exec> 08└─So, will it be $100000 per injection, or will the opioid manufacturers use their billions to convince people it's unsafe? We can't allow allow full pain relief, it's a major market driving force!
[21:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Venom?! What could possibly go... - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:32] <exec> 08└─...ah, that feels so nice!
[21:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Intriguing - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:34] <exec> 08└─I hope it works out and adds another treatment to our medical knowledge, but the whole long-lasting bit is a bit troubling. I would want the details about how the long term effects actually occur before agreeing to have my nervous system modified, but perhaps I just haven't experienced enough chroni...
[21:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score:2) 02Re:Intriguing - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:07:36] <exec> 08└─I knew someone that suffered a severe spinal injury that resulted in enough pain to cloud their thinking. They had some kind of painkiller that I later learned was morphine to mitigate the pain, but it... altered their personality when they'd use it. I don't know anything about addiction, but person...
[21:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Alternate receptor sites - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:39] <exec> 08└─Verrrrry interesting. I seem to recall good old paracetamol (Tylenol) gets part of its activity from working on the endocannabinoid system, as it becomes essentially an anandamide reuptake inhibitor. It's strange that the nicotinic receptors control nociception though; aren't they usually more invol...
[21:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score:2) 02Many other factors to study - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:41] <exec> 08└─Side effects, toxicity, addiction, manufacturability. Having an alternate to opioids is a very good thing but this is early research. It is going to be a while, if ever, before you get a bottle of snail venom extract from your local pharmacy.
[21:07:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02Change the control labels - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:59] <exec> 08└─Try changing the control labels. [_] Notify me of impending death or injury. [x] Do not disturb my sleep unless we reach destination.
[21:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Primary Sources - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:08:01] <exec> 08└─drive traffic I see what you did there.
[21:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03BenJeremy [6392] (Score:2) 02To be fair, though.... - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:03] <exec> 08└─...based on my daily commute into Detroit, Ford engineers don't exercise a lot of "situational awareness" when driving their regular "Level 0" cars. I witness legions of people on auto-pilot, not the good kind - changing lanes without signalling, tail-gating (which leads to stop and go traffic) and...
[21:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:3, Funny) 02Look out! - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:06] <exec> 08└─Have the car temporarily swerve into oncoming traffic! The adrenaline rush and the smell from their pants will keep them awake for a while.
[21:09:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:09:21] <exec> 08└─There is an interesting side issue that there is no China environment and no USA environment there's just one environment, and that muddies the waters such that if a local conflict of interest dude is none the less an arbitrary 100x stricter than China compared to the Obama dude who was 1000x strict...
[21:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score:1) 02Re:fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:03] <exec> 08└─imagine a exxon valdez and american-gulf oil spill put magnified by the "magnitudes of nuclear fission power".
[21:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:05] <exec> 08└─hey. i didnt want to replay on a sub-class( sounds strange doesn’t it? but my char type is like @ 6 or so .. call it small print and BIG SORRY!") point was .. we are stuck in a way of life with energy consumption .. you &me (raise children (which is good)). stuck with the situation i dont think, e...
[21:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Japan has some spare uranium... - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:14] <exec> 08└─the have a HUGE pool. it's in a building just beside the no.4 reactor that didn't blow up. however there was no news on its construction and also ... maybe they were smart in wasting a ton of japanese tax payers money in building it (clandestine). anyways ... this pool of waste (all put non) is stil...
[21:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Britain vs a location in the Caribbean - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:10:38] <exec> 08└─The problem for Scotland is that there's pretty much nothing you can do to avoid Norway & Sweden this way
[21:12:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:censorship - 06Twitter's New Tool to Crack Down on Politically Incorrect Language - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[21:12:26] <exec> 08└─I don't have a good conservative exams offhand but they hide behind religion and morality to push their agendas.
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[22:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Makes you wonder.... - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:32] <exec> 08└─Makes you wonder about the career prospects in the field where the grade A students see this as their best option.
[22:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Many other factors to study - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:45] <exec> 08└─More likely a 25 year prison sentence for possessing a controlled substance in form of the snail or its venom.
[22:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Booga1 [6333] (Score:1) 02Re:Many other factors to study - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:47] <exec> 08└─I heard about snail venom being the next big thing for pain relief at least ten years ago. It's "been a while" already. However, they really should get it into pill form. Injections are going to be a sticking point for some.
[22:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Many other factors to study - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:49] <exec> 08└─I'd be worried about receptor overgrowth, mostly, like what happens with some drugs. Anything potent enough to exhibit an inhibitory effect three freaking days *after* its metabolites are cleared probably makes the body upregulate and produce new receptors like mad to handle the influx; what happens...
[22:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score:2) 02Re:Many other factors to study - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:07:51] <exec> 08└─It is going to be a while, if ever, before you get a bottle of snail venom extract from your local pharmacy.
[22:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score:3, Touché) 02Re:Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:10] <exec> 08└─but then you almost always have to demonstrate competence to perform aviation. Not so in operating a terrestrial vehicle.
[22:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Primary Sources - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:08:15] <exec> 08└─For the record, I submitted the article as AC, and I don't work for Motor Trend. There is a source link in the M/T article but it was to a paywalled site, http://www.autonews.com [autonews.com]
[22:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score:2) 02Coffee - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:19] <exec> 08└─Nobody has mentioned chemical stimulants - give the engineers a good onboard coffee dispenser.
[22:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:18] <exec> 08└─Well, there's at least two parts, both where we mostly agree yet somehow find a way to disagree. WRT Science itself isn't political.
[22:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:34] <exec> 08└─By analogy the dude we're discussing has a PHD and its quite legit to call him "doctor". Now if he parrots D party line politics while under cover of academic authority and achievement, well OK whatever. Lets try an experiment and put the good doctor in a labcoat (I don't think theoretical physicist...
[22:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─Therefore, Scientists shouldn't abuse their authority to influence opinions outside of their field.
[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─But if he expresses personal opinions on his blog or Facebook or in a private conversation at a bar, how exactly could he be abusing his authority as a Scientist?
[22:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zz9zZ [1348] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 1603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:40] <exec> 08└─Very good points except that last bit. Scientists have their turf invaded all the time! Journalists that report a preliminary study as near-fact, Corporations that pay for bullshit science, Politicians that cherry-pick or flat out lie, Politicians that shouldn't be in charge due to criminal lack of...
[22:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure Scott Aaronson is really that much at the cutting edge, despite his following (in the blagscape), even though his insight into those Canadian quantum annealers was most enlightening; that is whom you are referring to, isn't it?
[22:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02From GP: ''marxist theory in the 30s'' - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 1950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:09:50] <exec> 08└─Unless they agree with [your opinions] Yeah. He's got Marxism and the Soviet system all jumbled up. By the 1930s, the Soviets had long-since abandoned worker empowerment (the core of Marxism). Bt then, the Soviet leadership had adopted a Totalitarian governmental system and, starting in 1921, [goog...
[22:10:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score:2) 02Re:Disguised anti-Trump rally - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:12] <exec> 08└─Yes, he is as deadly serious as an Ebola plague. Stop expecting your fellow humans to be rational; very often they are not.
[22:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Re:Why? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[22:10:36] <exec> 08└─good good. i heard you, sir but sir: fusion needs to be simple. humans create it. humans break it. not: NATIONS CREATE IT - NATIONS BREAK IT. with fission, it is "NATION CREATE IT - n.korea" "NATION DESTROYS IT" with fusion, it's LPG but for .. forever. you can see why it is NOT desirable?
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[23:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score:2) 02More job killing regulations - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:26] <exec> 08└─First they come for the banks defrauding customers Then they come for power companies dumping coal ash in drinking water Now they're going after mom-and-pop industrialized plagarists. Next thing you know, they'll be after my Swiping-Five-Bucks-While-You're-Not-Looking startup.
[23:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score:2) 02Re:More job killing regulations - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:27] <exec> 08└─SHEEIT! I knew I had a fiver. Damn you ikanreed!!! Damn you to Facebook HELL!!!!!
[23:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Frosty Piss [4971] (Score:2, Insightful) 02Lazy Professors? - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:30] <exec> 08└─I mystified that someone who was managing a PhD student wouldn't pick up of fraud. People have a distinctive writing style, and your professor should know yours by the time you're writing your PhD dissertation...
[23:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score:2) 02Hire from the right countries! - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:32] <exec> 08└─Cuba and North Korea would like to remind you that their students do not get access to the internet to cheat. You can trust their work, and they are used to accomplishing a lot from not much and with little support. The US will only catch up in a few years, once the FCC has folded, and people can't...
[23:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score:0) 02Inevitable - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:34] <exec> 08└─When you make degrees mandatory to get even the most basic jobs in order to participate in the international dick academic ratio dick measuring contest you should expect to be pushing people into the system en masse who're not going to cut it, but must cut it to get a job (that previously wouldn't h...
[23:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score:2) 02plagiarism, or ghostwriting? - 06UK Watchdog to Pursue Essay-Cheat Sites - 2427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:36] <exec> 08└─Here we go again with sloppy definitions. Copying, plagiarism, ghostwriting, and stealing are all distinctly different activities. Propaganda equating copying with stealing has caused plenty of trouble. Now they want to put out propaganda equating ghostwriting to plagiarism. However reprehensible it...
[23:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:US medical system... - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 2010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:46] <exec> 08└─You're absolutely right about the new drug being $100,000 per injection. The drug manufacturer will have a program to help people who are unable to pay their part of the cost after insurance. This of course is the scam. Milk the insurance for the absolute most they can wring out of it. Then 'help' t...
[23:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Venom?! What could possibly go... - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:07:49] <exec> 08└─Isn't venom used to make anti-venom? Give a horse a small dose of venom every day. Gradually increase it. Horse immune system develops resistance. Eventually the dose of venom is enough to kill several horses, but horse is fine. Antibodies from horse blood can then be refined and given to humans as...
[23:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score:2) 02Re:Many other factors to study - 06Compound From Marine Snail is Potent Pain Reliever - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:00] <exec> 08└─Can't you get that from your water tap right now and just put the appropriate label on it?
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[23:08:12] <exec> 08└─"To save costs, we're going to decrease your salary by $20,000 per year. In return, you will be *guaranteed* a 40-hour workweek." "Flex time?" "Yes -- that 40 hours will be flexible. Now who's volunteer-- no no no !!!" Detroit Free Press: Ford Engineering Director maimed in riot.
[23:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score:2) 02Re:Great Failsafe Plans - 06Ford Engineers Snooze in Self-Driving Cars - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:08:21] <exec> 08└─This level, or its equivalent, works well and safely every day in aviation, but then you almost always have to demonstrate competence to perform aviation.
[23:09:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 2168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:42] <exec> 08└─I guess I still don't see the issue here, but perhaps that's because I don't read this blog or know what you're talking about. Still, from your description, I don't exactly see how this is at all confusing the identity of "science" in some sort of Orwellian fashion. The guy apparently has views on t...
[23:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:48] <exec> 08└─Our culture has a science archetype. "The professor" from gilligans isle lets say. Or some steampunk stereotype. That hero archetype knows more than most, can predict the future (using scientific models mostly) always tells the trust, and is a little crazy poor monk-ish and in exchange we cut him so...
[23:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 1265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:50] <exec> 08└─The meta point about the first paragraph is we're both pretty annoyed at those misbehaviors. Most people are. Thats fantastic. The only thing worse than that misbehavior would be if the culture just shrugged its shoulders and went "eh". I'll toss out an archetype... journalist as court jester, some...
[23:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:09:52] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe we're just not destined to agree. But one last point is you're seeming to disagree with me about nor do I see him as some great "mouthpiece" for Science itself. He's just a dude, sometimes entertaining to listen to
[23:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:what is science? - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:00] <exec> 08└─See that's exactly the kind of distractor I wanted to avoid, that turning it into a debate about the Canadian You Know Who people who claimed You Know What and all kinds of opinions on that topic isn't going to help keep the main line of the conversation on track. But yeah, yeah. He posts really goo...
[23:10:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score:2) 02Re:Ur-fascism is against science - 06The Science March on Washington DC - 3695 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:08] <exec> 08└─Yeah I've read that too. I'm reminded of the old saying about generals and admirals preparing for the last war. I'm not sure its relevant anymore in the current year although aspects are interesting. #2 is weird in 2010s with the embrace of identity politics by the left. Anti-white and anti-western...
[23:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score:2) 02Re:fake news? - 06An Electrochemical Method for Improved Uranium Extraction From Seawater - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:10:45] <exec> 08└─imagine a exxon valdez and american-gulf oil spill put magnified by the "magnitudes of nuclear fission power".
[23:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03rleigh [4887] (Score:2) 02Re:Britain - 06Space Launches from British Territory to be Proposed - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org (parent: http://soylentnews.org)
[23:11:26] <exec> 08└─There are also several alternative names for Great Britain (Prydain--modern Welsh), including Brittannia (grande Bretagne--Français) and Albion (derives Alba--Gallic), including spelling variants for all of these! All of these are in widespread use all over the island!
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