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[00:14:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe the technology could find eventually use in non-biological systems as a lower-cost and/or more durable alternative to ribbon gap-welding, [macgregorsystems.com] though the conductivity would likely be inferior to the gold/silver/copper ribbon used for gap-welding.
[00:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Buys Driverless Car Sensor Company Mobileye for $15.3 Billion - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:19] <exec> 08└─But then again I am biased because I work for Boston Dynamics' wireless applications division, which collaborates closely with Alphabet's Waymo (autonomous vehicle) [waymo.com] division for sensor work. Waymo was formerly known as "the Google self-driving car project" but eventually Alphabet decided...
[00:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Buys Driverless Car Sensor Company Mobileye for $15.3 Billion - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:21] <exec> 08└─You lost me at Tyrone Jenkins.
[00:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoftBank May Sell 25% of ARM to Vision Fund; Chairman Meets With Saudi King - 729 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:34] <exec> 08└─Oracle deployments are slow-as-shit even on Exascale Clusters, and another truth about Oracle is that database people who design the forms/menus on Oracle rollouts are severely autistic. Even in purely American corporations Oracle rollouts have the look and feel of being designed by autistic Chiname...
[00:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SoftBank May Sell 25% of ARM to Vision Fund; Chairman Meets With Saudi King - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:36] <exec> 08└─Arabs are inbred barbarian scum. and what this agreement is is a more-generous-than-deserved chance to allow them to diversify their portfolio before they fade into irrelevancy. They should not be allowed that chance, but should be nuked from orbit.
[00:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:01] <exec> 08└─Forgot to ask: How do they reconcile the usual launch No-Go zones with being less than 2km from the Mexican border?
[00:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:03] <exec> 08└─> That would be another no-go zone. That's kind of my question though. I'm pretty sure the exclusion zones around the Cape are somewhere between 3km and tens of km. I don't see Mister Wall negotiating with the Mexicans to forbid them from their own airspace. It's also well within range of 0.50 cal.....
[00:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4) - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:15:13] <exec> 08└─I missed the previous versions and looked at them, and I'm not going to pretend I know shit about computing but I found the language menu: 1. American 2. British [...] Pretty hilarious. If only Stormtroopers of Death [bestrocktshirts.com] released an album called "Speak American or Die."
[00:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:02] <exec> 08└─To Protestants yes. I was raised Catholic (ignore the username, I'm a mostly Sicilian/Irish mix who is, somehow, a van Eck...) and boy oh boy was my mother's side of the family Catholic. Dogma says it is literal blood and flesh. Hilariously, everything that could possibly be tested to prove or dispr...
[00:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:16:04] <exec> 08└─To Protestants yes. I was raised Catholic (ignore the username, I'm a mostly Sicilian/Irish mix who is, somehow, a van Eck...) and boy oh boy was my mother's side of the family Catholic.
[00:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:17:34] <exec> 08└─What ATA do you use with your Raspberry Pi?
[00:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:02] <exec> 08└─He didn't get hit by a car. Didn't you hear, he blew his mind out in a car? Apparently he didn't notice that the lights had changed. A crowd of people stood and stared. They'd seen his face before, but nobody was really sure if he was from the House of Lords.
[00:20:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:20:57] <exec> 08└─I do wonder how this got published,though./quote. Because the massive elitist conspiracy to push AGW isn't really a conspiracy. In fact I think at its core you could call it "science". Oh look, from the evil bastion of liberals called California no less! I guess you'll just be mystified at how such...
[00:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:44] <exec> 08└─China doesn't just want the existing islands. China is building islands: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:21:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Japan to Send its Biggest Warship to the South China Sea - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:21:46] <exec> 08└─"Islands" was almost hyperbolic for what was mostly inhospitable rocks and reefs ... To achieve proper fait accompli, and guarantee that any competing claim (or international judgement) wouldn't be easily enforced, the Chinese needed enough room for a bunch of military equipment, including airstrips...
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[01:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:07] <exec> 08└─This is just another example of life imitating art, meaning comedy. This story is like the Trump presidency; you just can't make up this stuff!
[01:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:08] <exec> 08└─Rule n+1: Your activity is being recorded. (Soylentnews might be one of the last exceptions pretty soon).
[01:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 834 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:11] <exec> 08└─Huh, those sinusoidal waveforms are pretty spiffy. I wonder if they have square, triangle, and sawtooth waveforms, with an arb waveform capability coming (heh) in the future -- which would likely require something more complicated than your garden-variety rotationally-weighted DC motor...perhaps a s...
[01:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a Plastic Electrode That Stretches Like Rubber But Carries Electricity Like Wires - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:14:20] <exec> 08└─If this stuff is cheap enough, it might be great for anti-static bags for semiconductor parts. Or 3D printed circuits.
[01:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:09] <exec> 08└─(more info at healthcare.gov)
[01:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4) - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:15:20] <exec> 08└─Why is it hilarious? Brits speak English. Americans mumble and slur their way through a loosely related dialect.
[01:16:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:11] <exec> 08└─And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.” Exodus 29:33. Here, the meaning. Always forgetting to consider Jesus as the one going to fulfill the Law, are we? > Dogma says it is l...
[01:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:12] <exec> 08└─Genesis is not an English book. It is the transcription of oral tradition. It contains at least one symbol, the number 144000, 12x12x1000. One symbol says everything else can be symbols. Hebrew is a concrete language lacking abstract terms. http://www.ancient-hebrew.org [anc...
[01:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:35] <exec> 08└─Problem: it's not "essential" to import millions of freeloaders from other countries and pay for their homes, food, schools, child support and medical expenses.
[01:21:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:10] <exec> 08└─First, down-mods from both sides of the political arena are usually corrected by other folks who come by later. As of now, the parent comment is at +1, which seems about right to me. I don't think the parent was trolling, nor do i think it was interesting. Second, I tend to agree that people misuse...
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[02:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Millions of US Employee Records 'Leaked' - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:16] <exec> 08└─If they've done nothing wrong, they have nothing to fear.
[02:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:27] <exec> 08└─of societal interference into the burgeoning science of teledildonics. For shame!
[02:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:28] <exec> 08└─Shrug... black man + white woman ... is pretty much 'diversity cliche' sure, but 'jew propaganda'?? I'm not seeing it; its marketing... they're trying to hit the demographic that buys expensive internet vibrators... I don't think you need to read much more into it than that. We're just lucky it didn...
[02:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:30] <exec> 08└─Expect soon to answer onlne questionnaires regarding your intended use of items used in privacy. It isn't enough that some creepy people are collating the data about what you are doing, or with whom. They'll be asking how pleasurable the experience was, and how it could have been better. Expect the...
[02:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:32] <exec> 08└─The women I know who have large collections of expensive vibrators don't need any man at all, Black or White. To suggest that the demographic which prefers expensive vibrators are White women who prefer Black men is wrong. Maybe they are women of any color who want release without acknowledging hara...
[02:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 1075 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:14:34] <exec> 08└─This whole thing seems a bit iffy to me, but then I gather I'm not the target audience or buyer. It also seems somewhat limited - you can turn it on and off and you can adjust vibration speed and mode, someone else has to do the actual moving since it can't do that on its own. So what they are loggi...
[02:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Leebert [3511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 1418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:15:33] <exec> 08└─I'm puzzled by this as well. As some of you know, I work at NASA, and I've done a fair number of visits to Kennedy. I can't really think of anything anywhere near pad 39A that is actually *worth* $63M. It's more than 3 miles from the closest "expensive" buildings (the VAB and the buildings clustered...
[02:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:37] <exec> 08└─Okay, number one, you type like a schizophrenic, and number two, I'm actually a Deist, not an atheist. I know an evil spirit when I see one, and that is what Yahweh (a.k.a. "The Flying Canaanite Genocide Fairy") is. The irony here is that you don't believe in God; *I* do. You, my babbling friend, ar...
[02:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:39] <exec> 08└─And, hang on, number 3: "double fulfillment" is the same kind of delusion as Jesus Tortillas. You people never take the context of these verses into consideration, jeez. Hasn't it ever occurred to you that any being worthy of the title God wouldn't, indeed by definition *couldn't,* possibly be offen...
[02:16:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:16:41] <exec> 08└─I didn't get that one, no :) Thankfully my mother herself is a terrible Catholic, hell she even married a Jew! She ended up with a Deist and a couple of atheists as her kids, LOL.
[02:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:04] <exec> 08└─Don't Americans have any rights besides being able to be armed if you're the right colour and being able to be impolite? Simple things like the right to be considered innocent until convicted, little well being able to continue your life if found convicted and completed your time.
[02:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Murdoc [2518] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:06] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. They get caught all the time, they just don't get punished, usually. Just like big corps like Microsoft and the banks. They're special, 'first class' citizens, unlike the rest of us.
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[03:14:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of US Employee Records 'Leaked' - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:00] <exec> 08└─If this is a leak from Dun & Bradstreet that's kind of a big deal. They keep track of all kinds of corporate details and members can query D&B for credit ratings and such like on other companies. Typically part of vetting a new supplier or customer for business-2-business deals.
[03:14:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millions of US Employee Records 'Leaked' - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:02] <exec> 08└─Although I disagree with entities being allowed to collect so much data without permission, being American-centric, I doubt the hack's damage. American banking institutions are pretty good with recouping funds transferred as a result of ID theft. If you're a company with a shitty track-record the tr...
[03:14:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of US Employee Records 'Leaked' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:04] <exec> 08└─They were selling the data anyways. An issue only to the dirgbags that were selling the data in the first place.
[03:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:19] <exec> 08└─PSA: Eth's a troll. I'm not sure how much of his own jenkem he's huffing, but I suspect he doesn't really believe most of what he posts. It's missing the feeling of hostile intent, or at least, hostile intent above and beyond grossing people out.
[03:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:20] <exec> 08└─Your activity is being recorded. (Soylentnews might be one of the last exceptions pretty soon).
[03:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:23] <exec> 08└─collections of expensive vibrators don't need any man at all
[03:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:25] <exec> 08└─It's so frustrating when my dildo keeps dropping the WiFi!
[03:14:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:14:27] <exec> 08└─Then use the wired ethernet port.
[03:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03evilviper [1760] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4) - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:38] <exec> 08└─Xenix doesn’t understand xterm termtype, and it *really* wants a legitimate vt100 on the other end of the connection.
[03:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4) - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:15:39] <exec> 08└─I see action on Michal's RSS feed and sure enough, 3 stories about Xenix. http://www.os2museum.com [os2museum.com]
[03:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:16:37] <exec> 08└─not-nothingness != "somethingness" most likely, "nothingness" is the state found in most internet discussions. Also, there may be no one to hear in your forest, but, if a male (god or otherwise) said it, he is still likely to be wrong. This may disprove the infallibility of all gods (well, those wit...
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[03:16:38] <exec> 08└─I was taught that it was supposed to be an actual miracle, but it seems that the physical aspects of the "mystery" only happen every once in awhile. My main point is that when religions make physical claims, then they can be tested by science. If a physical claim is an essential part of the god's ex...
[03:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:04] <exec> 08└─In theory, yes, but in practice there are many loopholes that allow the violation of rights to be privatized while pretending that the government has no part in it..
[03:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Remastering the One Beatles Live Album Finally Made It Great - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:41] <exec> 08└─spectrograms—imagery you might associate with ghost-hunting
[03:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Arctic Ice Loss Somewhat Natural, Study Says - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:38] <exec> 08└─Been there, done that. There are people that get paid to propagandize wikipedia full time and they are ruthless. Go learn.
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[04:14:35] <exec> 08└─This is true. For example, the "free" version of Turbotax, asks how you are feeling. Further extrapolation indicates that the free version is free as a result of the data they are collecting. For me, the stakes are so low I don't care...but that may not apply to the rest of you.
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[04:14:44] <exec> 08└─In the early 1930s, Laurens Hammond figured out that the synchronous motors which allowed the clocks he manufactured to be so accurate could also be applied to a musical instrument that never went out of tune. He developer the Hammond electric[1] organ. [1] It was only "electronic" in that it used v...
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[04:14:46] <exec> 08└─I love the Hammond organ, and I love more that Hammond hated the Leslie Rotating Speaker. The two go together like pissin' and the wind, and eventually became inseparable. But like the ending of Metal Gear Solid 4, the combination of the pair mutated into something that neither of their creators cou...
[04:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Buys Driverless Car Sensor Company Mobileye for $15.3 Billion - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:14:56] <exec> 08└─I lost it at "sheeeit".
[04:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4) - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah. This is what I was wondering. Once the OS is running, what about apps? MSFT's Xenix: A minuscule temporal window https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Microsoft [...] purchased a license for Version 7 Unix from AT&T in 1978, and announced on August 25, 1980, that it would make it...
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[04:16:53] <exec> 08└─I'm an atheist, but I come from a jewish family. I dated (and, gasp! lived with) a Catholic woman for several years. We attended the wedding of one of her cousins, it was a traditional Catholic wedding with High Mass and the like. At the end of the ceremony, the priest told the couple that they coul...
[04:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:17:20] <exec> 08└─Ah, alternative facts. Lemme make that less "alternative" and more "facts" for you. Problem: it's not "essential" to import millions of freeloaders workers from other countries and to pay for their our homes, food, schools, child support and medical expenses.
[04:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 4908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:29] <exec> 08└─I've honestly just about had enough with the traditional phone system. It seems like it's become actively dangerous to even have a phone number. I heard about a new scam recently where they say something like "Hello? Can you hear me?" as soon as you pick up the line, and then record you saying "Yes,...
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[04:21:55] <exec> 08└─Wow, just wow. Hopeless people are hopeless. Or shills, hard to say which is which nowadays eh comrade?
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[05:14:38] <exec> 08└─If it's tied to a notable person's phone they they've got saleable information, possibly blackmail material. (selling time/location info to paparazzi, or a politician's info to an intel org) There is lots of room for abuse here.
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[06:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:05] <exec> 08└─But they told me on Fox News that the USA has the best healthcare system in the world! Just think how much better it's going to be when they get rid of Obamacare. If only we had an affordable care act instead of that horrible Obamacare!
[06:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:07] <exec> 08└─This is a perfect example of how people fall through the cracks of a nationalized health care system. Waiting an additional *decade* until the death panels kick in? Pathetic.
[06:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:09] <exec> 08└─I just heard Trump make this claim. I am quite sure that he means this and will be supported by the Republicans in this effort to take care of his people. Problem is: his people (the people he is going to take care of) are the billionaires. The 99.9%: he doesn't care about them and he is going to sc...
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[06:14:11] <exec> 08└─Yeap. The next peak of efficiency will be when cystic fibrosis patients in Canada will be living longer than presumably healthy people in US. Oh, don't get me wrong, the "presumably healthy people in US" may actually be terminally ill, except nobody is going to diagnose them... 24 millions of them w...
[06:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:13] <exec> 08└─At last, something to finally wake up the Republican base, let them see what their "leaders" really envision for them.
[06:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:15] <exec> 08└─Turns out, I am not one of their people? I am not at least a millionaire, with my own well invested rainy-day health-care hits-the-fan account? If only I had a tax break for the interest I get on my "I might die" money! Poors could have the same tax break, and TrumpNoCare could just pay for itself!...
[06:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Underground Ocean on Enceladus May be Close to the Surface - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:24] <exec> 08└─I'm bringing up this Wikipedia list [wikipedia.org] a lot. We have lots of possible subsurface oceans in the solar system, but many are estimated to be under hundreds of kilometers of icy crust. Two of them could be comparatively easier to penetrate: Jupiter's moon Europa (10-30 km of ice estimated)...
[06:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Millions of US Employee Records 'Leaked' - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:34] <exec> 08└─I believe the story author nailed the real issue head-on... Troy Hunt, who published news of the leak, said the information had "enormous" potential for scammers.
[06:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:57] <exec> 08└─Give humanoid fuckbots nice firm manos to hold and caress the lonely ladies. Problem solved.
[06:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a Plastic Electrode That Stretches Like Rubber But Carries Electricity Like Wires - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:15:09] <exec> 08└─"To each his own", said the old woman as she kissed the cow. When I got through working on my car, I expected to have to clean schmutz off my tools. When I bought my electronics tools, I never expected to be wiping oil off of them. You can have Hammonds. Hammonds have a distinctive sound and some fo...
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[06:16:17] <exec> 08└─wy50 and 60 were on the international suppliment disks, which I got working and installed. It more or less works properly as long as I use CDE's dterm vs. gnome-terminal/xterm so it's sorta moot right now, but I'll keep that in mind the next time I run into this specific issue. Having usable vi is n...
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[06:16:19] <exec> 08└─I have a set of Xenix software to demo which will go at the end of this series such as Microplan, and possibly MGR if I can get it to build. There was also Word for Xenix and SCO UNIX but that seems to have disappeared off ye olde internet. Only newer version for SCO UNIX.
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[07:14:11] <exec> 08└─This is a perfect example of how people fall through the cracks of a nationalized health care system. Waiting an additional *decade* until the death panels kick in? Pathetic.
[07:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:16] <exec> 08└─"Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die." The new US health plan: saving you from decades of suffering, wether you wanted "saving" or not.
[07:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Engineers Develop a Plastic Electrode That Stretches Like Rubber But Carries Electricity Like Wires - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:15:10] <exec> 08└─One of my chief frustrations with "electrodes" is the contamination and corrosion they experience should I pass a current through them in an aqueous solution. I have ended up using precious metals, but just as soon not do that, as they are often considered "disposable" as they come in contact with n...
[07:20:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Boaty McBoatface Submarine set for First Voyage - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:20:04] <exec> 08└─They should paint it brown and name it the Shippy McShipface.
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[08:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 1405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:10] <exec> 08└─Human counters are slow and not very accurate, and trying to lock down a general purpose computer for voting is a very difficult security problem, even if you do it right, which they obviously didn't. You really have to build a vote counter that counts mechanically, using punch cards, optical scanne...
[08:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:11] <exec> 08└─You really have to build a vote counter that counts mechanically, using punch cards, optical scanners, or the like, and which doesn't have any CPU at all but only special-purpose, non-programmable computations. It can store its result onto some sort of physical record, like another punch card, a pap...
[08:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 7585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:13] <exec> 08└─I really agree with you. I would never trust any form of eletronic or mechanical vote where there is no direct way to check manually at all times. Having been working for elections in Italy for the last 11 years, i can have my say. First of all, in Italy, we have tons of elections, we love them some...
[08:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:15] <exec> 08└─Slow is not bad... at all! And accuracy is not correctness... You can be 100% accurate, but completely wrong. In elections, you don't need speed or accuracy. You need accountability and recheckability (is this even a word?). Elections issues are people issues, and no more guarantees of results can c...
[08:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:18] <exec> 08└─This problem is not hard. It's just that people often insist on doing it wrong.
[08:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:31] <exec> 08└─> The new US health plan: saving you from decades of suffering, wether you wanted "saving" or not. And yet... they want to ban abortion. Of course it has nothing to do with "saving", they need masses chasing the american dream (whatever this may be) to squeeze their life in an efficient and producti...
[08:14:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:14:33] <exec> 08└─Good God, magister, seems you are quite depressive lately. Communists! So Cruel! Well, at least we won't have to pay for their healthcare anymore!
[08:16:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NCommander [2] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4) - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:16:33] <exec> 08└─That's actually keyboard selection, not language support. The base system uses American English, but the international suppliment includes 8-bit clean binaries which could theorically also be translated. I speak relatively decent Spanish, but I haven't actually tried it because a lot of those packs...
[08:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:34] <exec> 08└─Oooh... a High Mass! Didn't think they had that stuff in Catholic Churches. I oughta start going there more often!
[08:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03oregonjohn [6105] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How to Deal with a Phisher? - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:13] <exec> 08└─I pay $22 a month to avoid these kids of calls, and still they occasionally get through. I have my cell number which is only given to friends or businesses I trust explicitly. I have a $22 a month service that uses my 25 year old phone number. I recorded my message, "... Dial 1 for technical assista...
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[08:19:14] <exec> 08└─I was getting a lot of calls too... as I have a stellar voting record. In my area, the fact whether or not someone voted seems to be a public record. WHO they voted for, of course, is not. So I got a lot of calls before the election. It was a good chance for me to vent steam, as no matter which pa...
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[09:14:07] <exec> 08└─I've not seen a lot of evidence that today's young people can read.
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[09:14:08] <exec> 08└─u wot m9
[09:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:11] <exec> 08└─I thought the same way earlier. I think, each generation has their retro-phase. When most of my reading-time was spent at home, in my room, there was no reason to go for e-books (except, maybe, project-gutenberg). Being on the train 2h a day, and liking to travel on vacations, e-books do have some s...
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[09:14:13] <exec> 08└─I've not seen a lot of evidence that today's young people can read.
[09:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:15] <exec> 08└─That's why they prefer dead trees. Paper books are for display purposes only. Like vinyl records.
[09:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:17] <exec> 08└─Same as sex, only it last longer.
[09:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:19] <exec> 08└─E-readers do support PDFs. Just shittily. Tablets and laptop screens can handle illustrated PDFs just fine. A few technological advancements related to either fast-updating color e-ink or lower power consumption quantum/OLED/whatever displays could result in a bit of convergent evolution, merging th...
[09:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:31] <exec> 08└─One of my colleagues consulted for the Dutch government back around 2007 demonstrating TEMPEST attacks on these machines. It wasn't just the accent, he was able to read the entire screen display from outside of the booth. This led to a standard for TEMPEST resistance for voting machines, which none...
[09:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:33] <exec> 08└─I don't see the distinction you are making between accuracy and correctness, to me they are the same. However, you are right that verifiability is an absolutely essential attribute in any election - recounts must be possible. I've only just noticed the similarity between another security-related fie...
[09:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:49] <exec> 08└─There's some pro-lifer w/ a sign on his property on a route I drive home sometimes -- a baby swaddled in an American flag and some slogan that includes "60 million abortions". I live in WA state with about 12M other people and it seems plenty crowded enough without another 60M stretched across every...
[09:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:14:51] <exec> 08└─The way we will get a single payer system, most preferably a non-profit public system, is through the backlash of Trump making the absolutely horrid ACA, even crappier.
[09:20:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Slackers Turned Saviours - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:32] <exec> 08└─Nothing to do with the absence of systemd in slackware? the headline fit.
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[10:14:32] <exec> 08└─You gonna tell me the younger generation actually enjoy listening on vinyl [soylentnews.org] and wanking with Playboy [soylentnews.org]? What's next? Hours spent in sank MUD D&D and dwarf fortress? (if they start smoking weed, trippin' on acid, listening ummagumma, fairies wear boots or - good god,...
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[10:14:34] <exec> 08└─Transmission and engine manuals for my older Ford E350 van I just got off of Craigslist. I will also get the digital version if I can find unencumbered versions - but I still all too well remember my first experience with DRM when I bought a CDROM version of ICMaster and got something I could not us...
[10:14:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 1328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:36] <exec> 08└─Call me weirdo (or preferably, don't), but actually I'm fine with paying for my books. There are few readers I really like (e.g. Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, Isaak Asimov, Neil Gaiman; previously: Stephen King, J.K. Rowling), and I want them to be able to life from their book-selling because I wa...
[10:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:38] <exec> 08└─Well, if I remember well (the mind is the second thing to go), the other side will get red and sore as well after 3 hours.
[10:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 1013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:40] <exec> 08└─DRM was the thing that kept me from getting into E-books years ago. Quite a few years ago, when I was trying to figure out which laptop to purchase, I was in a Barnes and Noble bookstore and they had a table full of what looked like really nifty little electronic readers. I played with one for a wh...
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[10:14:54] <exec> 08└─From the point of democracy, the most important aspect is that the inner workings of the system are public, understandable and verifiable (by anyone, not just some technocratic cabal). Even 100% accuracy comes way after that since if 49.99% candidate gets counted as 50.01% the actual issue is in tho...
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[10:15:03] <exec> 08└─I just heard Trump make this claim. I am quite sure that he means this and will be supported by the Republicans in this effort to take care of his people. Problem is: his people (the people he is going to take care of) are the billionaires. The 99.9%: he doesn't care about them and he is going to sc...
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[10:15:20] <exec> 08└─furthermore, if we find such life on one moon but not on others, we could seed the barren moons from the live one. A billion years from now we could be the ancient aliens.
[10:15:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 792 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:43] <exec> 08└─Expect soon to answer onlne questionnaires regarding your intended use of items used in privacy. It isn't enough that some creepy people are collating the data about what you are doing, or with whom. They'll be asking how pleasurable the experience was, and how it could have been better. Expect the...
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[11:14:48] <exec> 08└─Call me weirdo (or preferably, don't), but actually I'm fine with paying for my books.
[11:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:49] <exec> 08└─Yes, I read about them as well, but didn't find any of my favourite authors there.
[11:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:14:52] <exec> 08└─Not sure what kind of device you were looking at. If it was e-ink, yes, it would probably be terrible at browsing the web, and also for lots of other things. E-ink is great for reading, but not much else. One problem with e-ink is that, while it requires 0 energy to keep a static display, it does re...
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[11:14:54] <exec> 08└─There's some of that, but there's also the ease of browsing. I have an app on my phone that I've scanned the barcodes or entered the ISBNs for all of the books I own that have them (still about 100 that don't to go), but I find it much easier to wander along the shelves to find something to reread t...
[11:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:09] <exec> 08└─s/very difficult/unpossible/ Take it from a guy with a hardon for security that's been writing billing code for over twenty years. You cannot write perfectly secure software. You will always miss something. This is why I use nothing but pre-paid Wal-Mart debit cards with the exact amount I need on t...
[11:15:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:15:28] <exec> 08└─If the people needed to live longer, the Market would see to it. At least in America honest people can make a good living out of selling health insurance. You won't get that in commie countries.
[11:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06There's Now Only One US State Where Mug Shots Aren't Public Records - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:58] <exec> 08└─Simple things like the right to be considered innocent until convicted, little well being able to continue your life if found convicted and completed your time.
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[12:14:58] <exec> 08└─I own both a B&N Nook HD+ and an Amazon Kindle HD8.9. Both arrived with that crippleware B&N and Amazon thought would sell more books. Both now have Cyanogenmod installed making them great general purpose tablets. I agree that the crippleware that both came with was crap, but the HW was great. While...
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[12:15:16] <exec> 08└─Human counters can be quite quick, but yes, they can make mistakes. That said, there is oversight to mitigate this. In the UK where counting is done by hand I have attended election counts several times (as a count agent for a political party). There will be a whole bunch of count agents from most i...
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[13:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:18] <exec> 08└─First two years are torture in most STEM degrees. Dealing with bull you have 0 interest in only to get that nice algorithms class years after suffering Composition I and II.
[13:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:19] <exec> 08└─It is supposed to guarantee that all graduates can write, have a basic understanding of the scientific method, have heard of the Marshall Plan and Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and know that iambic pentameter has something to do with poetry.
[13:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:21] <exec> 08└─<rant> It is foolish to eliminate the bachelors' degree or try to morph it into a vocational degree. Yet, we've heard that whine from capitalists for a long time now. Despite the need, trade schools have been eliminated and, when not eliminated, looked down upon and denigrated. In other words there...
[13:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:29] <exec> 08└─What was stuff with "intelligence value" doing being stored or transmitted using yahoo? OK, the gibberings of wackos which might lead to acts of insurrection might count, but why should the US care if Russia's snooping on those, that's none of their business. The only thing the US has the right to c...
[13:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:14:59] <exec> 08└─DRM and annoyances are avoidable if you pirate the ebooks Yes, but if the younger generation were to do that, the publishers would see falling ebook sales. Hmmm...
[13:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:01] <exec> 08└─quite freely available at https://www.gutenberg.org [gutenberg.org] Don't give a dime to the DRM peddlers.
[13:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:03] <exec> 08└─If we believe the article, the trend is benefiting dead tree, not increasing piracy. To my knowledge, there is no "Kodi for ebooks"... yet. Ebook piracy is a niche activity, possibly with the exception of college students looking to save on overpriced textbooks. If young people were using pirated eb...
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[13:15:05] <exec> 08└─> I'm fine with paying Pretty much everyone is fine with authors making a living. It is the means that we do not like. You don't like it either. (I note that half the authors on your list are dead, Asimov for 25 years now, surely it should be okay to release their works to the public domain? And 2 o...
[13:15:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Shimitar [4208] 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 7585 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:16] <exec> 08└─I really agree with you. I would never trust any form of eletronic or mechanical vote where there is no direct way to check manually at all times. Having been working for elections in Italy for the last 11 years, i can have my say. First of all, in Italy, we have tons of elections, we love them some...
[13:15:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:20] <exec> 08└─One of my colleagues consulted for the Dutch government back around 2007 demonstrating TEMPEST attacks on these machines. It wasn't just the accent, he was able to read the entire screen display from outside of the booth. This led to a standard for TEMPEST resistance for voting machines, which none...
[13:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:26] <exec> 08└─Slow is not bad... at all!
[13:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:28] <exec> 08└─The advantage of paper ballots is that their manipulation is subject to the rules of classical physics, which cannot be changed and to the degree needed are perfectly well known to anyone, so everyone can easily estimate the security of the vote, without requiring special knowledge. Moreover, the wh...
[13:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:30] <exec> 08└─Funny thing: I kept linking "skullduggery" to tweets by candidates in hypothetical scenarios :) At any rate, tweeting doesn't affect the count. It might affect how people think about various candidates, but not the process of counting. So I'm wondering how taking it slow allows for more opportunity...
[13:15:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:33] <exec> 08└─As prof Dan Wallach put it: The purpose of an election is not to name the winner, it is to convince the losers that they lost.
[13:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:35] <exec> 08└─Anyway, I digress. Point is: counting is finished before the morrow.
[13:15:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:37] <exec> 08└─So, I'm wondering what "skullduggery" one could enact that would help "throw an election".
[13:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:15:56] <exec> 08└─The ACA, modified or not, is not the first problem. It's the anything for profit payment system in the US. This results in crazy, opaque pricing and a focus on doing stuff instead of healthy outcomes. The first thing we need is one price for all instead of the used car salesman mentality. The second...
[13:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Underground Ocean on Enceladus May be Close to the Surface - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:06] <exec> 08└─subsurface liquid penetration
[13:16:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of US Employee Records 'Leaked' - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:16:18] <exec> 08└─Mixed Bag of Regulatory Rollbacks [soylentnews.org]
[13:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SoftBank May Sell 25% of ARM to Vision Fund; Chairman Meets With Saudi King - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:19] <exec> 08└─Saudis, apple, ellison, foxcon...
[13:17:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03epitaxial [3165] 02 - 06Xenix 2.2.3c Restoration: Xrossing The X (Part 4) - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:56] <exec> 08└─I really enjoyed this series of articles. I had read about Xenix but never encountered it anywhere in the wild. Fascinating to see how easily magnetic bits can be lost.
[13:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:06] <exec> 08└─> context of verses My reply stemmed from the meaning of eating from the sacrifice, what context would I be missing? > telling what a god can or cannot do/feel/be we don`t know the meaning of "being offended" for a god, so I recommend you stick with what is revealed or discard it without building as...
[13:19:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:07] <exec> 08└─The problem is that abiogenesis did not bother the religious guys or the unbelievers back then. Why should people infer necessary consequences on doctrine now? Wait until you reproduced a self aware guy, who is not distinguishable from any soulless narcissist here, at least.
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[14:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:37] <exec> 08└─General education is supposed to take place in high school so that higher education can focus on advanced principles or skills. What I see in the US is a pushing back of this basic education higher and higher up the chain. I knew people that tried teaching in less famous colleges in the US but spent...
[14:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:38] <exec> 08└─I for one think people need to be educated in a wide range of subjects, otherwise they make poor citizens in a democracy. Of course, this shouldn't mean you can't get any courses first year you're actually interested in. I find many engineer types completely ignorant of how the world actually works...
[14:14:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:41] <exec> 08└─Taking 4 GE classes right now as a comp science major, can confirm I hate it lol. I did things backwards though, finished all my technical classes already. Now I just need to pass these last 4 GE classes (that I've been putting off) and I graduate. Yay!!!
[14:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:43] <exec> 08└─http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/education-not-income-predicted-who-would-vote-for-trump [fivethirtyeight.com]
[14:14:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:45] <exec> 08└─General Ed requirements are bullshit designed to fill pockets perpetuate a culture of elitism. Nothing else.
[14:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:47] <exec> 08└─I had a teacher once tell us that the undergrad is essentially a license to think. Seems fairly reasonable. Vocational training is vocational training. These are two different things to prepare the individual for specific career paths. Yes, those are generally different paths. What exactly is the is...
[14:14:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:49] <exec> 08└─...is a holdover from the privileged classes of the 19th century. A bachelor of science (note that last word) should specifically educate you in a scientific or technical field. A bachelor of arts, correspondingly, in a non-scientific/non-technical field. The way you teach a civil engineer to build...
[14:14:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:52] <exec> 08└─Vocational training is vocational training.
[14:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:14:54] <exec> 08└─Sure, that label is subjective. But real smarts do involve grasping concepts outside your specialty.
[14:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:03] <exec> 08└─We've already seen the state interest in email accounts. U.S. likes to get its hands on whatever data it can hoover up, and China likes to hack the email accounts [reuters.com] of pro-democracy or Tibet activists. I suspect this story is being pumped up because of election-time hacking scandals, tha...
[14:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:05] <exec> 08└─Why don't they get code names like 'Fancy Bear' or 'Cozy Bear'? Might I suggest 'Yogi' and 'BooBoo'?
[14:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:07] <exec> 08└─How about "Vodka" and "Krokodil"?
[14:15:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:10] <exec> 08└─Nuclear Alice and Bearly Bob.
[14:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Topical Curcumin Gel Used to Treat Burns - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:19] <exec> 08└─http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2017/01/12/curcumin-will-waste-your-time [sciencemag.org]
[14:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Topical Curcumin Gel Used to Treat Burns - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:21] <exec> 08└─As a wise person once said, we have a special word for an alternative medicine which has been properly tested and proven to be effective and safe: it's called 'medicine'. Some medicines did indeed originate from herbs and suchlike — this appears to be another — but that doesn't mean that all her...
[14:15:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 1773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:50] <exec> 08└─Oh those millennials, they're so horrible! They don't want to carry proprietary devices that can only display DRM-laden e-books that they don't even fucking own, can't even fucking lend to a friend, can't even fucking resell, can't even fucking swap, can't even fucking donate to a library! It's the...
[14:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 2092 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:52] <exec> 08└─Let me give you another fucking comment to mod down. My favorite music is stuff like Yes (mostly their 70s work), Boston, Starcastle, Rush, Emerson Lake & Palmer, &c &c. You know what's just SO FUCKING AMAZING I can do with all the CDs I bought? Ok, so the first thing to understand is that not every...
[14:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:54] <exec> 08└─Can't. You asshole love your war on drugs too much. Weed is the reason there's an opioid epidemic, remember?
[14:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:56] <exec> 08└─Wooo. Time for you to cut back on the morning coffee intake, I think. However, I do share you contempt for the Boomers. And Yes is fucking awesome, though after I had a major part of my CD collection stolen years ago, I never really recovered. And my turntable has been broken for decades, so I mostl...
[14:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:23] <exec> 08└─It's not as water resistant : (
[14:17:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03gidds [589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Buys Driverless Car Sensor Company Mobileye for $15.3 Billion - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:46] <exec> 08└─M is for Mossad
[14:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:32] <exec> 08└─One problem is if the rocket tips over and blows, there is a chance that it would blow a hole open in The Wall, and the hoards of illegal "bad dudes" would come flooding through. Little known fact: The Great Wall of China wasn't a military defensive construction, it was to keep out all the illegal M...
[14:19:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:52] <exec> 08└─Neural networks (and any other training or experiential-based algorithm) have qualia by definition
[14:19:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:54] <exec> 08└─Because our known math does not seem capable of producing qualia like "lemon scent"
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[15:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:22] <exec> 08└─It's non-GMO, gluten-free, low-fat, hold the onions, organic kale washed in pure organic children's tears instead of filthy city water.
[15:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:23] <exec> 08└─Isn't the most hated crop spinach?
[15:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 1054 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:26] <exec> 08└─You forgot artisan. Eat your greens! Unless they're greens we don't want you to eat! Eat your soy beans but run to the fucking hills and scream the end of civilization as we know it at tofu and Garden Burgers™! Kale is the fucking end of civilization! Eat your flavorless iceberg shit lettuce! “O...
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[15:14:28] <exec> 08└─Most of us outside tropical regions wouldn't even know of palm oil.
[15:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:30] <exec> 08└─Read it first as "most hated cop" and took "makeover" literally. "I wonder who the most hated cop is? Wait..."
[15:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tyrsal [5456] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:32] <exec> 08└─"evokes images of mass deforistations, human rights violations etc..." It.. does?
[15:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:34] <exec> 08└─More hated than kale: rutabaga. Seriously, who eats it on anything close to a regular basis? You can't even find it in many grocery stores.
[15:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:54] <exec> 08└─My degree (doctor of medicine) required thousands of hours of "on the job training" yet I constantly hear from academic types that "It's not a REAL doctorate"...
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[15:14:56] <exec> 08└─"It is supposed to guarantee that all graduates can write, have a basic understanding of the scientific method, have heard of the Marshall Plan and Maslow's hierarchy of needs, and know that iambic pentameter has something to do with poetry." I knew all of these things by the beginning of grade 9 it...
[15:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1040 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:58] <exec> 08└─Can't agree, TMB. Can you imagine an illiterate engineer? An engineer who DOES NOT understand the scientific method? Alright, so maybe he doesn't really need poetry. On the other hand, any supposedly educated person who knows nothing of poetry is probably a terribly boring shit when you get him away...
[15:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:00] <exec> 08└─That is interesting, dude. The impotent, neutered elite voted for Hillary. Not to worry - most of them aren't smart enough to feed themselves. When they can't hire some menial to prepare their meals, they'll all starve to death. Good riddance.
[15:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:02] <exec> 08└─Medicine is an art, and you'll still be practicing at it until you're worn out and thrown away. The doctor who cut my belly open is 19 years my senior, and he's still practicing. If he ever gets good at it, he can stop practicing. As for the assholes with the elitest attitudes? Fek 'em. You already...
[15:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:04] <exec> 08└─Depends on the kind of engineering. A chemical engineer is definitely going to need the SM but a bridge builder is not; they need math. Teaching people to not be boring is not worth tens of thousands of dollars and it should never be a job requirement. The above is assuming you're correct in your as...
[15:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:06] <exec> 08└─Penmanship? I'm one person who is grateful for the advent of computers. I owned a typewriter from age 20, until computers and printers came along. My "penmanship" sucks donkey dick. There are times when I had a hard time deciphering my own writing. Stupid pens and pencils simply refuse to obey my co...
[15:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:09] <exec> 08└─If bachelor's degrees aren't worthwhile then they shouldn't cost so damn much. If you expect everybody to have a bachelor-level education then socially fund them like Europe. It is supposed to guarantee that all graduates can write, have a basic understanding of the scientific method, have heard of...
[15:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:11] <exec> 08└─Listen to the callousness in your words. WWJD? Not wish for someone else's death, even if they "deserved it." If there's judgement after death, you've just incriminated yourself.
[15:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:13] <exec> 08└─I don't like NCLB at all but it sure as hell doesn't make teachers give undeserving As. Unless you live in a very abnormal area you have no idea about education and are just playing keyword bingo. Vocational training should come back, right now lots of people suffer through standardized (bastardized...
[15:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Magneto [6410] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:15] <exec> 08└─It's interesting you say that. I've heard the opposite from people in the UK. There is an idea that a degree from the US is too general and lags behind the more focussed equivalents available in European countries. A bachelors student from the US may have had an equal amount (or more) time to study...
[15:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you just have a chip on your shoulder. People shouldn't be so judgmental about lack of a college degree, but you shouldn't go the opposite route and say most of it is worthless. There is more to life... Sounds more like you're annoyed by the average human.
[15:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:19] <exec> 08└─We've been seeing more people career jump into software engineering by attending a "Code Academy" or "Code Guild". Near a year ago we hired a guy who's only previous experience was working at walmart for six years. We hired him over the other people with degree's because he could actually program.
[15:15:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1009 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:22] <exec> 08└─Well, there's nothing to argue with, there. I'm completely in agreement that a formal education isn't necessary for a person to be interesting. But, an education is necessary. Father in law, for instance. His formal education ended at the 6th grade. But, he pursued his education all of his life. The...
[15:15:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:24] <exec> 08└─QED? LOL
[15:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:26] <exec> 08└─otherwise they make poor citizens in a democracy
[15:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Topical Curcumin Gel Used to Treat Burns - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:47] <exec> 08└─But one is at least based on some level of scientific rigour, while the other simply isn't.
[15:16:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:21] <exec> 08└─"just get a fucking safety razor," That's a large part of what's wrong with society today. Real men don't shave. If a real man does shave, he uses a straight razor. Safety razor? That was the start of all those damned safety labels on everything that enable total idiots to reach breeding age. If you...
[15:16:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 1666 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:22] <exec> 08└─I forgot to add that I think you give Millennials way too much credit though. I seriously doubt that listening to vinyl or going with "non-standard" razors has anything to do with practicality and everything to do with being "nonconformists". They're much more fads than anything else. Why did Pabst...
[15:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:24] <exec> 08└─hah, nice rant. I've actually been using a safety razor for two years now. Still running on the same box of blades. At this rate, should be good for another three years or more. 12$ stretched over 5 years is amazing. The up-front cost of the razor is a bit higher though. Especially if you want somet...
[15:16:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:26] <exec> 08└─You asshole love your war on drugs too much.
[15:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:28] <exec> 08└─I don't know which comment to reply to with this highly relevant thing that popped up in the TorrentFreak feed, so I'll put it here: eBook Pirates Are Relatively Old and Wealthy, Study Finds [torrentfreak.com]
[15:16:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:31] <exec> 08└─Found one!! Did you use your razor to cut the leather for your bootstraps? Be more of a douche please, we need some competition for EF.
[15:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 2870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:55] <exec> 08└─Indeed, they seem to be confusing accuracy (correctness) and precision (amount of "detail") Two factor is indeed a major security upgrade as it makes security considerably more difficult to bypass - but it relies on *both* factors being used. Without the something you know, it's just a standard key-...
[15:16:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:56] <exec> 08└─Sure it is, it take hours. Electronic voting is done counting the moment the last ballot is cast. Think of the news media cycle man, think of the media cycle! ...actually, I'm kind of surprised the media isn't a big proponent of manual counts - they draw out the anticipation for many hours or days,...
[15:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 1568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:16:58] <exec> 08└─Except there is no complex algorithm - there's just the generation of trustworthy regional tally sheets. Everything else is just simple inter-regional aggregation rules - publicly post the initial tally sheets as soon as they're confirmed, and anyone who wants to can quickly verify that the aggregat...
[15:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:19] <exec> 08└─At least in America honest people dishonest agents can make a good living out of selling overpriced health insurance designed for maximum deniability.
[15:17:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:21] <exec> 08└─will wipe out that US$673B "savings" from Trumpcare and then some... So, many people will suffer and the US will still be worse off financially. For example, when people are really sick they will go on disability payments, or not be able to work and so qualify for Medicaid, or end up as criminals in...
[15:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:23] <exec> 08└─or not be able to work and so qualify for Medicaid
[15:17:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 1162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:25] <exec> 08└─The plutocrats want to exploit everything for profit. The socialists want it to so un-affordable that it collapses and must be replaced (by socialized medicine). Look at that unity of purpose! ACA's financial models were intentional lies. The phased introduction was designed to destroy the previous...
[15:17:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Underground Ocean on Enceladus May be Close to the Surface - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:36] <exec> 08└─They always underestimate the temperature because that idiotic 0-d SB law model is used. The "greenhouse effect" originated as a deviation from that model.
[15:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of US Employee Records 'Leaked' - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:49] <exec> 08└─Where is the actual data? I haven't been able to find a link to this dump anywhere.
[15:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:14] <exec> 08└─If porn has taught me one thing it's that with a black man around one doesn't need a vibrator.
[15:20:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:43] <exec> 08└─Neural networks (and any other training or experiential-based algorithm) have qualia by definition
[15:20:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:45] <exec> 08└─What do you think they put in the thurible? https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
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[16:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling, and Detecting Life in Chile's High Desert - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:41] <exec> 08└─Is the rover a failure if it doesn't immediately return to the researchers and indicate life?
[16:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:57] <exec> 08└─Spinach is great. However the fools who cremate it before serving deserve a fate worse than death.
[16:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:58] <exec> 08└─It should.
[16:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:00] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a model of car from the 1950's.
[16:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:03] <exec> 08└─Cos I swear to you if I didn't cut down the forest to plant palm trees for oil, I wouldn't have cut down the forest for cattle, sugar cane, coffee, (insert crop here)... Blame palm oil. Anyway I planted a forest. And just to prove that you can NEVER please eco - types, apparently I'm a bad person be...
[16:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:05] <exec> 08└─How often is regular? I tend to make a dish (swe "rotmos") on it a couple of times each year. Over here you find the rutabaga in most larger grocery-stores. Then again - I guess there is a reason it is called "swede" (Also that is the only way to make boiled carrots edible)
[16:15:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:07] <exec> 08└─Not only tobacco is useless, it has horrible crop water productivity ratings: http://www.afedonline.org [afedonline.org] As for oil palm, it's debatable (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/231922452_THE_water_relations_and_irrigation...
[16:15:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:09] <exec> 08└─I've never seen it in any recipes or mentioned in restaurants. I think I saw a few bottles of it in the grocery store but I pretty much only use olive oil now for cooking anyway and occasionally peanut oil for anything requiring temperatures too high for olive oil.
[16:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:11] <exec> 08└─I regularly use tobacco as a way to remove aphids and wasps from my garden. A few strong tobacco plants pull the aphids of of the rest of the garden to attack it, they of course die from the nicotine. Then the wasps eat the dead aphids and die. I love seeing a ring of dead yellow jackets and wasps a...
[16:15:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:13] <exec> 08└─> “Organic” (as opposed to what? silicon-based?) is the worst marketing-inspired term... I'm sure that you feel this way, along with many others. It's a shame that what started before WWII in England and shortly after in USA as the organic farming movement has now been (mostly) co-opted by big a...
[16:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:16] <exec> 08└─I'm heartened by the increasing availability and falling prices of organic produce, though the cynic in me suspects it's largely due to dilution of the original meaning, which has been under attack by industrial agriculture since pretty much the moment it was coined. As for berries - it seems to me...
[16:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:18] <exec> 08└─I suppose that's true of anyone who never reads the ingredient list on their food, or cooks everything from raw ingredients. Palm oil is used extensively in processed foods.
[16:15:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:20] <exec> 08└─People burn it to ashes before serving?
[16:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:57] <exec> 08└─My dad is a retired mechanical engineer and electrical engineer with about 50/50 military and medical engineering experience. I learned more from him growing up than I ever did in school. I got a two year aas in machine tool technology for dirt cheap, and have been able to be the sole breadwinner fo...
[16:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:58] <exec> 08└─Having a high technical education lends power to a person. With enough technical skill, one can make a difference in the world far beyond his/her area of expertise. With great power <strike>comes</strike> should come great responsibility, and someone who might work on e.g. auto-piloting war-heads, d...
[16:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:00] <exec> 08└─That doesn't sound right. The stuff coming out of college students currently suggests to me that they're not really on a track to possessing a license to think, or at least, not one that they've come about honestly. I might be getting a little "old school", but crybaby breakdowns alternating with sh...
[16:16:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:03] <exec> 08└─I believe that AC is saying that if an employer wants someone with penmanship skills, they should get someone with a penmanship cert rather than an X year degree.
[16:16:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:05] <exec> 08└─As someone who got a PhD, I'd like to say that I admire your dedication and patience, and I know I could never have gotten a medical degree. I personally consider an MD to be harder to get and more valuable than a PhD, and I'll do my best to point this out to other PhDs when it comes up.
[16:16:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:07] <exec> 08└─yes also I was trying to make a point of certification about whatever skill, notice the "lab procedures for making LSD" if you what to evaluate peoples ability to do any particular job, certification in skills is the way to go, if we want general education and critical thinking skills then a general...
[16:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:09] <exec> 08└─also in an off topic way, the +/- is a good compromise between the slash reload/hide and a totally flat comment system good job.
[16:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:11] <exec> 08└─I may be in the minority w.r.t. to other academics, but I support vocational and hands-on (experiential) learning. I used to follow the mantra (taught to us by the elders) that a bachelor's degree with only theory would be sufficient in the industry. That is wrong thinking. I have seen too many stud...
[16:16:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:23] <exec> 08└─I suspect the "intelligence value" is more in the ability to do highly targeted phishing attacks against prominent figures. Read their Emails, find out what they are interested in and then send them a finely crafted Email that suckers them into a click they later regret (if they figure it out). Othe...
[16:16:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Topical Curcumin Gel Used to Treat Burns - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:35] <exec> 08└─That's not what the paper says though. It says that gel is better than oral. Given that curcumin's oral bioavailability is less than 1%, that's hardly surprising. Some say it's utterly useless for anything when taken by mouth. So one paper, by someone who's been publishing papers on the wonders of c...
[16:16:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Topical Curcumin Gel Used to Treat Burns - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:37] <exec> 08└─Today should be stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:16:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Topical Curcumin Gel Used to Treat Burns - 763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:39] <exec> 08└─Nope. Totally quack science. What good do you expect an herbal poultice to do? Do you think the active ingredients can somehow magically leach out of the herbs into the poultice and wound so that they can do some good? Idiot. First you have to isolate the compounds, then figure out how to produce th...
[16:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:19] <exec> 08└─Looks like misdirected anger, possible misinterpretation of your last bit.
[16:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:21] <exec> 08└─Poor baby - have you been triggered?
[16:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Techwolf [87] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:23] <exec> 08└─First one is Digital Restriction Management. A bit of googling will find all the horror stories of folks that can not read there e-books. Two is paper is still cheaper then e-book. Especially in the used book sales.
[16:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:17:50] <exec> 08└─>I would never trust any form of eletronic or mechanical vote where there is no direct way to check manually at all times. I would go one step further - I wouldn't trust any vote where such a check isn't preformed as a matter of course, *especially* electronic ones - just because the last N election...
[16:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:15] <exec> 08└─Hope you don't have any kids. Ever.
[16:19:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:04] <exec> 08└─Being recorded by your ISP and the TLAs is a given. I was merely pointing out that pretty much any server sending you any data will keep those precious logs for monetization.
[16:19:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:06] <exec> 08└─You're holding it wrong, I guess.
[16:21:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:39] <exec> 08└─Which one of us has put in almost 12 years studying the Abrahamic religions, Church history, comparative religion, logic, philosophy, apologia, counter-apologetics, and a bit of Hebrew and Koine? I'll wager it's not you.
[16:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 2146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:41] <exec> 08└─I did not call you atheist. And I am speaking as atheist now, in fact if I were a true atheist I would insult you and all the fake atheists a bit more, because absence of evidence arguments or rationalizations are a big "trick me" sign hanging on your back. You cannot tell a deity from a sufficientl...
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[17:14:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling, and Detecting Life in Chile's High Desert - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:24] <exec> 08└─Not to explain the joke ... but if the rover can't find life in the Atacama, let's not bother to send it to Mars as is.
[17:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling, and Detecting Life in Chile's High Desert - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:26] <exec> 08└─Is the rover a failure if it doesn't immediately return to the researchers and indicate life?
[17:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling, and Detecting Life in Chile's High Desert - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:28] <exec> 08└─ESA rover then not finding life on Earth is a partial success, considering the rover itself only made it as far as Brazil due to technical difficulties.
[17:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mars Rover Tests Driving, Drilling, and Detecting Life in Chile's High Desert - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:30] <exec> 08└─The main lesson from the Viking landers and Mars meteorites is that it's very difficult to rule out odd chemical reactions and geological processes for any result that resembles life. Natural processes can be very "creative" in how they can end up mirroring life. Until something is seen actually mov...
[17:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:58] <exec> 08└─Almost any other member of the Solanaceae family will be a better choice for mixed crops.
[17:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:14:59] <exec> 08└─Or drown it in hot water.
[17:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:01] <exec> 08└─> I wonder who the most hated cop is? Had the same misread, and found the answer: Alastair Johannes Phillers Jr, a big-city police officer. Most women declare they absolutely hate the cop A. Phillers.
[17:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:04] <exec> 08└─Every restaurant uses Palm Oil. Or more precisely partially-hydrated palm oil.
[17:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:06] <exec> 08└─Seems like a very good use. But I wonder if there are any over-reaching regulations against growing few of these plants.
[17:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03rondon [5167] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:08] <exec> 08└─So potatoes, chili peppers, or tomatoes would work?
[17:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:54] <exec> 08└─people need to be educated in a wide range of subjects, otherwise they make poor citizens in a democracy
[17:15:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:55] <exec> 08└─The "liberal arts" were, in the ancient world (long before the nineteenth century) said to be "liberal" in the sense that they were fit for people free (liber=free)... free from the duties of work. The unfree were those who had to till their fields for a living or grind grain or in other ways dedica...
[17:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:57] <exec> 08└─People need a license to think? That should be the motto of academic elitism. If you're not allowed to think without paying for a formal education, taking courses that indoctrinate you in the right way to think, and receiving approval from people already licensed to think, are you really free to thi...
[17:15:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:15:59] <exec> 08└─Why should people be forced to pay for it to learn what they need to know to get a job in IT then?
[17:16:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:01] <exec> 08└─As a European, I can't make heads or tails of what you are saying. Please explain what you think has changed in (a) engineering, and (b) science degrees at both the university [now: scientific master's] and 'trade school' [now: professional master's] level. If anything, achieving these degrees tends...
[17:16:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:04] <exec> 08└─An MD isn't equivalent to a PhD because the goals of the two programs and their outputs are different. The former takes a high-capacity brain and turns it into an effective pattern-matching system that can work with an enormous number of inputs and possibilities and complexities (symptoms -> diagnos...
[17:16:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:06] <exec> 08└─The issue is that a degree is insanely required for consideration for most white-collar jobs and quite a lot of blue-collar jobs nowadays. No sane person goes to college to expand their mind. They do it to make better money after they get out and general ed courses are utterly worthless to that end.
[17:16:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:08] <exec> 08└─You think the average human has a college degree? Interesting...
[17:16:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:10] <exec> 08└─You think we can afford this? I believe you might be in need of an economics class. Putting a large chunk of your population in debt for the first decade or so of their working life is other than brilliant policy.
[17:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:13] <exec> 08└─Ever bother to look up the word practice in a dictionary? Moron...
[17:16:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:15] <exec> 08└─They might not be quite sufficient, but they're a lot better than doing nothing at all. Yes, it is a little bit too late, but not that much (most college students start at age ~18, right when they start voting). It is a bit of a Band-Aid for our horrible public education system in high school, but t...
[17:16:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:28] <exec> 08└─Let's not forget the emails people get for password resets, from the various places they purchased stuff, and their bank.
[17:16:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Topical Curcumin Gel Used to Treat Burns - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:16:44] <exec> 08└─They work 307% better when delivered by an old witch wearing the proper black cloak and pointy hat. Headology also works for doctors, as long as they properly wear a white blouse and stethoscope.
[17:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:27] <exec> 08└─There are some disadvantages, though. Different DRM implementations, no generic hardware, hassle to get the books onto the device (The books have a lot of spy-crap installed, and since I don't want it to be public how much, when and what I read, using the WLan on the device is an absolute no-go. Pur...
[17:18:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:03] <exec> 08└─But they told me on Fox News that the USA has the best healthcare system in the world! Just think how much better it's going to be when they get rid of Obamacare. If only we had an affordable care act instead of that horrible Obamacare!
[17:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mike [823] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:21] <exec> 08└─Or was I just Paul Ryan dreaming? Dreaming of Ayn, again, oh no, not again! Get away from her, Greenspan! She is my goddess! Together, we will roll out blue steel and cut medicare and Social Security, and retreat to Galt's gulch,
[17:18:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:23] <exec> 08└─> when people are really sick they will go on disability payments, We'll solve that problem by stopping those. > or not be able to work and so qualify for Medicaid, We'll solve that problem by stopping that. > or end up as criminals in prisons from lack of mental health care or drug addiction treatm...
[17:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cystic Fibrosis Patients in Canada Living Longer than Those in U.S. - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:25] <exec> 08└─And you're all gonna die. Why the longevity pissing contest?
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[18:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:36] <exec> 08└─"No hay entradas que coincidan con la consulta: song of the south." If the Motion Picture Association wants to partner with Romaly to adopt this tactic more thoroughly, along the lines of Where to Watch [wheretowatch.com], the site's operators will need to add motion pictures that have already compl...
[18:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:37] <exec> 08└─Tricking people will not build goodwill. And most people would watch movies in theaters if they wanted to, the want of a free ticket is not what is stopping them.
[18:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:39] <exec> 08└─"... where the downloader can request two free movie tickets for the film they attempted to pirate." I assume this only works for new movies. So if or I would "pirate" some old movie from the 80's, like if I wanted to re-watch Aliens, they are not going to do a special cinema screening just for me +...
[18:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:42] <exec> 08└─New word! "Whey" a conjunction of when and they. I like it.
[18:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:44] <exec> 08└─Aww crap, I totally missed the "except they aren't torrents for the actual movies". I thought you would get the movie but it would include their little message. If they included a low res version of the movie with some "message breaks" then this could actually be a good idea! Not to mention realisti...
[18:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:46] <exec> 08└─This. I don't avoid theaters because it costs $20 to get a seat (for one even). I avoid them for the people, because I don't really give a damn about most movies they've come out lately, save for a couple of the recent Marvel ones. The fact that I'm laying down $20 on top of that and have a bunch of...
[18:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:48] <exec> 08└─I really should pay more attention to when I write these things. I didn't even notice that one - the first thing I noticed after having clicked submit was that I had written 'buy' instead of 'by" in one sentence. But since there is no editing I have just learned to live with my horrible spelling and...
[18:14:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:50] <exec> 08└─so they have you buy the balls for whey change their minds.
[18:15:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:38] <exec> 08└─Even if you read the label it can be difficult to spot since they're allowed to call it 'glycerin,' 'stearic acid,' or even just 'vegetable oil.' Products with palm oil [schusterinstituteinvestigations.org] A few examples: Oreos, Cheez-Its, Coffee-Mate, Nutella...
[18:15:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:39] <exec> 08└─The most hated crop in the world has to be rocks. Many farmers claim that nothing grows well on their land, except rocks. Arkansas land is better than some farmland on this earth. It grows rocks, ticks, and rattlesnakes.
[18:15:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:42] <exec> 08└─rain, water gets under rocks, freeze -- expansion of the ice moves rocks toward the surface
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[18:15:44] <exec> 08└─*partially-hydrogenated palm kernel oil
[18:15:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 1249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:46] <exec> 08└─If that's true, then someone needs to call out both them and whoever is allowing it on charges of fraud, because both glycerine and stearic acid have definite meanings, and palm oil is neither. If instead though they're producing stearic acid and/or glycerine from palm oil (both are synthesized from...
[18:15:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:48] <exec> 08└─Your second link explicitly states that it's the much higher concentration of omega-6 fatty acids that are the big problem with excessive vegetable oil consumption. And from what I can find palm oil is actually extremely low in omega-6, approximately the same as butter or lard. So, if that's the ent...
[18:15:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:50] <exec> 08└─I'd be more concerned about tobacco hornworms getting to my tomatoes :(
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[18:15:53] <exec> 08└─OP likely means they're all poor alternatives to just spraying some nicotine but at least you get to eat the stuff that isn't tobacco.
[18:16:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 2419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:52] <exec> 08└─Here's my take. A "Liberal Arts" education concerns itself with educating the whole person. In a limited sense this means that the writers should still have a basic understanding of how sciencey stuff works, the science guys should be able to analyse a text and put together a coherent sentence. Even...
[18:16:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:54] <exec> 08└─a little background in history, philosophy and ethics to be able to understand the moral implications of his doing
[18:16:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:56] <exec> 08└─I don't have a strong opinion, just kind of being devil's advocate here. I have seen too many students (not mine) go into industry and fail a basic interview question of how to join two database tables together.
[18:16:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:16:58] <exec> 08└─Fuck off and die, idiot - gp merely posted an old joke, that was probably a tired joke when Hippocrates was learning medicine. The doctor to whom gp was responding undoubtadly recognized the joke, and grimaced at seeing it tossed at him one more time. And, you entirely missed gp's words of encourage...
[18:16:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:00] <exec> 08└─Y'know what they say when you are seeing assholes everywhere....
[18:17:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:02] <exec> 08└─It seems to me the primary skill you'd want in an MD is someone with a truly fantastic memory. The more they can memorize, the better they can do in diagnosis. This is why there's work in applying AI to this profession, because computers can memorize stuff so much easier than humans, and can be cons...
[18:17:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:05] <exec> 08└─> As for the assholes with the elitest attitudes? In my experience, that would be surgeons. Something about having the confidence to cut people open and believe that it will make them better also seems to select for assholes. As in, basically every surgeon I've ever met. One friend recommends surgeo...
[18:17:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:07] <exec> 08└─Skills is what is needed, as I said up thread certifications should be demonstrated in specific skills not a general assumption of competence which is almost always wrong. That would tell you something that BA/Bsc doesn't if I have my cert in lab procedures for making LSD you know I can do it but I...
[18:17:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:09] <exec> 08└─As usual you aren't thinking very critically... won't regurgitate the inane garbage they were taught but actually have to think about things at least a little bit to form an opinion on them
[18:17:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:11] <exec> 08└─the folks coming out of strong Liberal Art schools are actually doing quite well
[18:17:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:13] <exec> 08└─Good point, education should be socialized. While we're at it lets throw in healthcare too!
[18:17:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:15] <exec> 08└─Just because some people make unethical decisions doesn't mean we shouldn't educate people about ethics. What about the children of unethical people? They'll grow up learning that it is ok to screw people over, but maybe some education will open their eyes and let them see their parents for the assh...
[18:17:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:18] <exec> 08└─Maybe you just don't appreciate the value of the GEs you took. It is difficult to quantify such exposure. That said there definitely are worthless classes, so do your research and try and avoid things which will give you no value. If the college level course is beneath your highschool education then...
[18:17:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:20] <exec> 08└─Isn't it in the state's interest to maximize the number of good citizens by providing free education to all? Doesn't tuition exclude a large swath of humanity from becoming better human beings?
[18:17:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:22] <exec> 08└─The focus in life shouldn't just be money, a university degree should increase more than the job skills of the student. It is meant to make people better and more well rounded. It is clear from how you approach life and treat others that you could have benefited from some of the GE classes that are...
[18:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:24] <exec> 08└─^^^^^^^ Industry doesn't want to shoulder the burden of training their employees, they just want smooth non-stop productivity. It is stupid and short sighted, much like just about everything else in the US. The system is crashing because all the bad decisions and unrealistic expectations have had de...
[18:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:26] <exec> 08└─- General education through high school has been watered down by programs like NCLB. Everyone gets an 'A', there are no consequences to failing to learn, we wouldn't want to hurt anyones feelings.
[18:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 2156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:28] <exec> 08└─What has always bothered me is that the STEM degrees have to take a ton of liberal arts classes, and if they are a good school a good mix of science and math outside of their major, but the liberal arts students have to take very little in the way of science and math. So to graduate I needed: 2 clas...
[18:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:30] <exec> 08└─credentials are a sociological tool to promote some and exclude others, certs in specific skills would eliminate this fraud.
[18:17:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:33] <exec> 08└─People with (non-BS) college degrees typically pay their education back in taxes, and then a lot more. High schoolers have lower odds. people who don't finish high school are highly likely to cost more in assistance (and/or policing) than they pay in taxes. That's why many countries have low or free...
[18:17:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, you can. First of all, I don't think it is a money problem in the first place, it requires a cultural shift. Education should be something to be proud of, not something to be ashamed of or ridiculed for as a nerd or something. Science is not a matter of believe or opinion. Religious believe is...
[18:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:37] <exec> 08└─I never meant that education would make people behave morally (although that could be hoped for but as you say there is plenty of evidence to the contrary) but just that education gives people facts so they at least can make rational decisions, evil aside. Hailing from a Scandinavian country where a...
[18:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:39] <exec> 08└─Vocational education has lost all respect, even though that's where lots of really essential jobs are.
[18:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:41] <exec> 08└─These so-called "useless" classes are precisely designed to keep you big-brained STEM'ers from making beyond-stupid comments like this [twitter.com]. You don't know everything because you can do linear algebra while toking a bong. And you aren't better than me because you think reading music is a us...
[18:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:43] <exec> 08└─Teaching people how to properly express themselves and communicate is critical in highly technical environments too. I've read enough datasheets and product descriptions, heard enough tech presentations, to know how some people can be great at coding or designing while requiring an english-to-englis...
[18:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:57] <exec> 08└─What was stuff with "intelligence value" doing being stored or transmitted using yahoo? OK, the gibberings of wackos which might lead to acts of insurrection might count... Sarah Palin, for one, but I think you covered her with the second sentence.
[18:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:17:59] <exec> 08└─...Trump supporters will continue to deny the facts that Russia is trying to undermine the US from the inside out. This is getting ridiculous at this point. Why aren't there mass protests over Russia deliberately putting its nose precisely where it does not belong? I'm really getting sick of this. N...
[18:20:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Underground Ocean on Enceladus May be Close to the Surface - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:03] <exec> 08└─I know. It's even worse than the ball Earth model.
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[19:14:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:29] <exec> 08└─It frustrates me how it seems that often the medications that actually work are the addictive ones. I know a number of people who live in excruciating pain daily, and oxycodone is the only thing that gives them real relief. They take it as directed. Sadly though, I also know of a number of people wh...
[19:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:45] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm sick of being advertised to after paying good money for something... MPAA take note, I avoid buying movies in any format that forces me to watch anything without being able to skip, or that won't work without bullshit software restricting my ability to use the thing I just bought.
[19:14:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:46] <exec> 08└─Ahhh Marvel movies, the ones that put me to sleep like mother's bosom.
[19:14:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:48] <exec> 08└─no shit! film industry idiots act like "piracy" is why i don't want to drive to some theater and watch a movie with stinky, loud strangers in an environment that is out of my control. There might even big pigs there to treat me like a criminal. Maybe i can buy some overpriced poisonous food? screw y...
[19:14:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:50] <exec> 08└─According to the article, it doesn't actually work at all, because nobody's seeding the torrents.
[19:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:53] <exec> 08└─I'd actually find a trailer torrent site useful. I find YouTube annoying. One of my favorite now-dead music sites had music video clips from around the world, which introduced me to a lot of foreign groups. Only problem was that I couldn't buy the music in-stores, online, or from iTunes. Regional li...
[19:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:55] <exec> 08└─You must be the misunderstood genius who vastly prefers the Hot Tub Time Machine series for their insightful commentary and intricate storytelling, no doubt.
[19:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:57] <exec> 08└─Obvious honeypot is obvious.
[19:15:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 325 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:31] <exec> 08└─I regularly use tobacco as a way to remove aphids and wasps from my garden. A few strong tobacco plants pull the aphids of of the rest of the garden to attack it, they of course die from the nicotine. Then the wasps eat the dead aphids and die. I love seeing a ring of dead yellow jackets and wasps a...
[19:15:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:39] <exec> 08└─> I wonder who the most hated cop is? Had the same misread, and found the answer: Alastair Johannes Phillers Jr, a big-city police officer. Most women declare they absolutely hate the cop A. Phillers.
[19:15:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:51] <exec> 08└─All vegetable oils are bad in the kinds of quantities that are being pushed into the food chain, and it's not even as if we're being forced to pick a "least worst option" of the lowest in Omega-6; it's perfectly possible to provide a nutritous diet without stuffing ourselves full of the stuff. The p...
[19:15:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:53] <exec> 08└─if you were doing it to restore the land back to nature it is kind of funny that you planted all the same species.
[19:15:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:55] <exec> 08└─Roundup is not purely glyphosate. Roundup's "inert" ingredients aren't all inert: https://www.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] One specific inert ingredient, polyethoxylated tallowamine, or POEA, was more deadly to human embryonic, placental and umb...
[19:15:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:57] <exec> 08└─So far have not had an issue with that, which I am kind of sad about because I love big caterpillers.
[19:16:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:59] <exec> 08└─I don't have a strong opinion, just kind of being devil's advocate here. I have seen too many students (not mine) go into industry and fail a basic interview question of how to join two database tables together.
[19:17:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:22] <exec> 08└─You don't think that there are any other confounding socio-economic variables of comparing elite private liberal art schools to run-of-the-mill STEM graduates?
[19:17:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:24] <exec> 08└─While I agree it's a waste of time teaching penmanship in the age of computing, if you pick up calligraphy as a hobby and treat it as an art, the penmanship would naturally follow: http://www.zanerian.com [zanerian.com]
[19:17:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:26] <exec> 08└─The best cable tech I ever met was a scruffy contractor guy in a half rusted out truck that fixed in 20 min by relocating the cable and sealing it so water didn't get in, what 3 other cable techs had failed to do rebooting the modem. As for Phd's the are largely useless, a small minority make real c...
[19:17:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:28] <exec> 08└─Good thing the Republicans swept every branch of government last election; we came dangerously close to some real progress there.
[19:17:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:30] <exec> 08└─I wasn't saying that penmanship was a waste of time nor was it intended as some sort of mockery, it is simply an easily definable skill that can be tested, calligraphy is a whole other ball of wax and requires skills more similar to painting than writing I could have chosen typing instead but I want...
[19:17:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:32] <exec> 08└─People with (non-BS) college degrees typically pay their education back in taxes, and then a lot more. High schoolers have lower odds. people who don't finish high school are highly likely to cost more in assistance (and/or policing) than they pay in taxes.
[19:17:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:34] <exec> 08└─I find many engineer types completely ignorant of how the world actually works and yet having a political opinion, based on what who knows.
[19:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:36] <exec> 08└─Tyson picked up a bachelors degree in physics from Harvard. If he didn't get a liberal arts education there, then he probably wouldn't have gotten it anywhere else either.
[19:17:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:39] <exec> 08└─"I agree with your solution, but disagree that it is a sociological tool. I would call it an artifact, something that has come into being based on societal circumstances." OK your not allowed to disagree with me and then agree with me again in the same sentence. I agree with you that there must be m...
[19:17:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:41] <exec> 08└─skill applicable to a particular database your company deployed No it is as simple as they can not write 'select * from x,y where x.col1 = y.col2' AND understand how the all of the theory they learned relates back to it. I regularly bump into other programmers who 'dont do SQL'. I then teach them ho...
[19:17:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 933 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:43] <exec> 08└─If you notice I did not disparage the additional classes but pointed out the disparity between STEM and non STEM general education requirements. One who gets a BS degree has a far more rounded education than someone who gets a BA degree as the sciences and math are severely lacking in a BA yet the a...
[19:17:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:45] <exec> 08└─'python is a hard skill to learn'.
[19:19:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:20] <exec> 08└─As prof Dan Wallach put it: The purpose of an election is not to name the winner, it is to convince the losers that they lost.
[19:23:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheLink [332] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:23:24] <exec> 08└─You clearly still don't understand the meaning of qualia even after reading and writing the definition! The internal and subjective component of sense perceptions
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[20:14:29] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 1649 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:29] <exec> 08└─Want to know what's broke? It's not that there are synthetic opioid painkillers. They've existed for a long time, sold under many different brands with no substantial abuse prior to 2000ish. It's fucking marketing. It's absolutely no coincidence that the opioid epidemic followed tightly on the heels...
[20:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:30] <exec> 08└─Mod points, my kingdom for a mod point...
[20:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:32] <exec> 08└─There's an important unanswered question there: Did those people in excruciating pain try marijuana? Whatever you may think of hippie dopers, they don't overdose, aren't physically addicted, and are generally harmless, whereas I can say none of those things about people who end up migrating from oxy...
[20:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:55] <exec> 08└─Exactly: you shouldn't be listening to those music clips in the first place, because you're in the wrong region. You need to listen to music that's approved for you by the RIAA. See the latest Top 40 chart to learn which music is suitable for you.
[20:14:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 2275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:56] <exec> 08└─Well I do avoid theaters because of the $20. That, and they feel it appropriate to charge $6 for a drink that I can get for less than $2 at a gas station. Exactly the same. Same size cup, same quality ice, same bullshit HFCS in it, etc. Then a *small* bag of popcorn is $7. The movies costs more per...
[20:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:14:59] <exec> 08└─I quite often mix words together when typing, I just found this one kinda fun.
[20:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:57] <exec> 08└─I first read the headline as "A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Cop," and started wondering why we'd be running a story about old Sheriff Arpaio getting a haircut and a fancy pair of shoes...
[20:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:59] <exec> 08└─You're right, it's more like the 2nd option. "Allowed to call it" was bad phrasing on my part.
[20:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:16:01] <exec> 08└─It would happen anyway because big objects tend to rise to the surface. Phrase of the day granular convection [wikipedia.org].
[20:17:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:36] <exec> 08└─i would have liked to live in Scandinavia but those are socialist indoctrination centers as much as schools. That is why some Scandinavian or European countries are currently being invaded by Muslims (FFS!) and standing idly by while their children/teenagers are being sexually assaulted and their el...
[20:17:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:37] <exec> 08└─Is that to which you refer the classes where the self-righteous outrage gets taught? Or is this spirituality learned in the classes where the students focus their cultural bubbles so completely inward that they come out turning into a four year old when faced when attitudes and opinions outside it?
[20:17:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:40] <exec> 08└─Today's separation of STEM from the rest of the liberal arts is a sham to those too poor to attend college.
[20:17:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:42] <exec> 08└─yeah. we don't need doctors. people just need a very good "app". i'm not joking either.
[20:17:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:44] <exec> 08└─College isn't for getting a job, but you're free to hold an incorrect and unfounded opinion to the contrary. In fact, people being mislead to believe college is for getting a job are one of the primary drivers behind the dysfunction in higher education.
[20:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─our own government is a much bigger problem than the ruskies. stupid yahoo using fucks!
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[20:18:02] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Today's charges are also distinct from the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia launched an "influence campaign" in order to help President Trump win the election.
[20:19:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:02] <exec> 08└─Next year is the first year in a long time where stuff drops out of copyright in the US. Some anonymous stuff from 1897 fell out this year. Music is a special case in copyright law where depending on publish date and location of publication local laws may still apply. For example published in New Yo...
[20:20:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:51] <exec> 08└─Ethernol-Fuelled wrote : The women I know who have large collections of expensive vibrators
[20:20:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:52] <exec> 08└─Ethanol-Fuelled wrote :- I wonder if they have square, triangle, and sawtooth waveforms
[20:22:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FAA Requires Additional Liability Coverage for Kennedy Space Center SpaceX Launch - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:22:02] <exec> 08└─Can you take off from Texas and land the booster in KSC?
[20:23:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:31] <exec> 08└─Show me a computer algorithm that actually experiences chocolate and a computer algorithm that pretends to experience chocolate, both producing the same outputs for the same inputs.
[20:23:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 868 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah you just need to account for a couple other things. Nehemiah 9:6 "You alone are the LORD You have made the heavens, The heaven of heavens with all their host, The earth and all that is on it, The seas and all that is in them You give life to all of them And the heavenly host bows down before Yo...
[20:23:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enzyme-Free Krebs Cycle Could be Origin of Life on Earth - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:35] <exec> 08└─So, counter my assertions logically instead of using an appeal to authority. You still can't morally judge a god even if you study 120 years.
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[21:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:20] <exec> 08└─Mad Max: Fury Road is a 4th installment in the series and the upcoming Blade Runner film is a sequel to the original (hell it's even got Harrison Ford in it playing an aged Deckard.) This is the second time I've seen an article where the writer somehow doesn't know the difference between the words S...
[21:14:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:22] <exec> 08└─Like any entertainment franchise, it's a matter of what you do with. Make captivating stories and use visuals to tell that story well, the franchise lives and grows. Do it poorly, and you bury it.
[21:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 1371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:24] <exec> 08└─Matrix wasn't particularly original, not saying it wasn't good - it was quite enjoyable, as it was a mishmash of various sci-fi and fantasy books, movies and role-playing games from Johnny Mnemonic (which had Keanu in it, story by Gibson), Snow Crash (Stephenson) and the pen and paper RPG Shadowrun...
[21:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:26] <exec> 08└─The original Matrix was (in my opinion) a brilliant piece of sci-fi. It was an interesting story in an interesting world, that was custom designed to take advantage of the medium of film. It used several scifi and cyberpunk tropes without feeling derivative. Then they had to go and make two sequels...
[21:14:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:28] <exec> 08└─I forgot about Gibsons other work such as Neuromancer which came around the same time as TRON. Anyway -- back to the point: Matrix, not original at all. But still good.
[21:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 1080 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:30] <exec> 08└─None of it is entirely original, I mean... the Matrix borrows from Shadowrun, Shadowrun borrows from D&D, D&D borrows from Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Rings borrows from The Worm Ouroboros... it's standing on the shoulders of giants all the way down. Well it's more like pyramids of giants I guess...
[21:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:33] <exec> 08└─What more needs to be said other than: "remakes are typically bad money grabs, and this is a bad idea that should be ignored"?
[21:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:35] <exec> 08└─Oblig. xkcd [xkcd.com]
[21:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:37] <exec> 08└─My stupid explanation is that EMP will destroy another EMP type device.... I know I know... but it would make sense why they can't be hoarded. And the ships are mobile and can be moved far apart. Anyway there are more inconsistencies throughout the other two movies, to a point where I don't want to...
[21:14:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:39] <exec> 08└─There are far too few ways to expand that universe and make an original story, because you have humans holed up underground fighting the machines in virtual reality, and that's about it. The special effects were cool and the action looked good, but the whole humans-as-batteries and esacpe-VR-only-th...
[21:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:41] <exec> 08└─Hollywood wants to trivialize (and therefore dismiss) the fact that The Matrix is real and this world is a computer simulation. Hollywood is just a tool to control the masses, to brainwash them into believing the unreal (comics) and forgetting that they are being manipulated to be herded like animal...
[21:14:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:52] <exec> 08└─The thing is once you go down the pill route mary jane does not work as well. Someone going through withdrawals will try it but it will not work. The other way around? Maybe. I am of the opinion it should be rescheduled because of its relatively harmless nature. But it needs better study before we c...
[21:14:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:54] <exec> 08└─It frustrates me how it seems that often the medications that actually work are the addictive ones. I know a number of people who live in excruciating pain daily, and oxycodone is the only thing that gives them real relief. They take it as directed. Sadly though, I also know of a number of people wh...
[21:14:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:56] <exec> 08└─>And I say that as somebody who has never used a recreational drug stronger than alcohol, and only been really drunk once in my life. And you could continue to say that even if you were a regular user of marijuana. Alcohol is actually one of the strongest and most dangerous and addictive of the comm...
[21:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, weed is totally responsible for the opioid epidemic! Hooray for gateway drug theory! And let's just keep it schedule 1 so those studies can never happen. AND let's THROW OUT the fucking studies that have ALREADY BEEN DONE. Fuck you.
[21:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:00] <exec> 08└─I doubt very much that they have. It's simply illegal in most places and so can't be prescribed. Even in other places where it is legal, you can bet the DEA is itching for a chance to bust any doctor that dares to prescribe marijuana for any reason.
[21:15:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:02] <exec> 08└─> Mod points, my kingdom for a mod point... Raise the bar? (that is, your personal standard) I rarely give out more than one or two mod points per day. That way I almost always have one when I see something really good (or really bad). Most days I look at ~75% of the stories, browsing at -1.
[21:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:04] <exec> 08└─They certainly are now: “I’m astonished to hear people suggest we can solve our heroin crisis — have you heard this? — by having more marijuana,” Sessions said during a speech to a gathering of law enforcement on Wednesday. “I mean, how stupid is that? Give me a break. So we’re going...
[21:15:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:30] <exec> 08└─Romaly is an idiot for trying this stunt. He's being clever, and convincing no one of anything. He ought to try listening instead of preaching. Once in college, I saw a flyer advertising a free show of football follies. They even threw in free snacks! So I went, saw about 10 minutes of football foll...
[21:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:32] <exec> 08└─Sticky floors and seats? Check. People who have kids, pass in front of you to sit in the middle of the aisle and then while the movie is going have to take every one of the kids to the bathroom (and have to pass in front of you, making you squeeze your feet and legs in uncomfortably) ONE AT A TIME!!...
[21:15:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:15:34] <exec> 08└─Piracy is a service problem. Going to the theaters is clearly more inconvenient than piracy. It's like DRM all over again, why doesn't the media monopoly realize that they can stop piracy by providing good service, instead of shitting up their service trying to beat piracy?
[21:16:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 987 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:34] <exec> 08└─Sure, but there's nothing special about vegetable oils in that regard - *all* fats are bad in the quantities being commonly pushed into the food chain, butter and lard would be only somewhat better. The link specifically calls out the health risks of vegetable oils, so I point out that palm oil does...
[21:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:13] <exec> 08└─As for PhD's there's an impression that PhD students in the US are largely used as cheap labour rather than as researchers. Sure you may spend 7 years where we spend 4, but half of that is spent doing non-research activities (such as teaching) which are a very minor part of a PhD in most of Europe.
[21:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:14] <exec> 08└─Good luck with that, the derision against anything but hard science seems to run very very deep.
[21:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:16] <exec> 08└─Yadda yadda sjw cuck MAGA! Speaking of bubbles...
[21:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:18] <exec> 08└─Industry doesn't want to shoulder the burden of training their employees, they just want smooth non-stop productivity.
[21:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:20] <exec> 08└─"I agree with your solution, but disagree that it is a sociological tool. I would call it an artifact, something that has come into being based on societal circumstances."
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[22:14:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:05] <exec> 08└─You have always and forever been, under penalty of perjury or obstruction of justice, able to be forced to submit evidence or testimony to a court of law with a signed warrant, though case law gradually addressed edge cases, it's never been the case that you could legally refuse to allow warranted s...
[22:14:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:07] <exec> 08└─I feel like a broken record these days.
[22:14:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:09] <exec> 08└─There is a constitutional right to anonymous communications in the United States. It has been affirmed by the Supreme Court on at least two occasions that I can think of, the last time in the early 2000's. Encryption is a method of ensuring both privacy and anonymity. I wonder if Comey is aware of t...
[22:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:11] <exec> 08└─Fascists don't care about laws, they seize power and force through whatever they want.
[22:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:13] <exec> 08└─I don't know if it's still done but... Cops here used to carry signed blank warrants in their patrol cars.
[22:14:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:31] <exec> 08└─None of it is entirely original,
[22:14:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:33] <exec> 08└─So, non-obligatory: https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com] "So it has come to this!" Matrix reboot, and a Soyentil with the handle of "Soylentbob" posting oblig. xkcd. Brace for impacting Apocalypse in ten, nine, eight, . . . .
[22:14:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:35] <exec> 08└─Looking forward to a Matrix with modern special effects, it just wasn't believable with the fake-looking ones they had to use in the original.
[22:14:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:37] <exec> 08└─So basically, Hollywood is like the Ori from Stargate SG-1. Hallowed are the Ori... Hollywood... it all makes sense!
[22:14:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:40] <exec> 08└─</sarcasm> I can only hope..... Getting a root canal might be more entertaining than 90% of the movies released in the last oh 5 years or so.
[22:14:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:42] <exec> 08└─The question is what is in a reboot - are they going to retell the story of the movie again, which seems kinda pointless
[22:14:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:44] <exec> 08└─Eh, originality isn't derived that way else almost no literature would be in any sense original. We could go back to Shakespeare or ancient Greek plays. The philosophy of The Matrix in turn goes way back to Plato's allegory of the cave. Come to think of it, The Matrix is Greek in so many ways here....
[22:14:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03varsix [5867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:46] <exec> 08└─Another Hollywood remake/sequel. It's funny how the peeps in Hollywood complain about not making enough money, and that people pirate too much. If they want us to support them with our dollars, however, perhaps they should consider making some movies that aren't complete and total drivel. Maybe they...
[22:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:04] <exec> 08└─I blame Doctor House MD. This obnoxios guy is guilty of making it look cool to be an addict to opioids. They should take way his physician permit.
[22:15:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:34] <exec> 08└─The hollywood lizards need people to come to theaters so their life energy can be used by the alien entities that inhabit this planet and beyond. People watching movies (brainwashing programming) at home (without knowledge of movie maker) does not give them the energy they need. You can bet that the...
[22:15:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Film Distributor Creates Torrent Site Clone That Gives Away Movie Tickets To Combat Piracy - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:35] <exec> 08└─Not only the drinks just as good at the gas station, but some gas stations have video screens now. The oil companies are producing their own content to show at the pumps. If electric cars become the norm, they'll be ready to make feature-length productions. Return of the drive-in cinema?
[22:16:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:38] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck would invest money to "restore land back to nature"? I did it so my grand-children can make money. Now, argue that the piece of land which was deforested, abandoned scrubland and pasture when I bought it is worse off than it was now that it's covered with forest canopy and protected fro...
[22:16:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmoschner [3296] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Makeover for the World's Most Hated Crop - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:16:39] <exec> 08└─Cheyenne Mountain Zoo has an app that lets you scan the barcode of a product and it will tell you if the product contains responsibly sourced palm oil. It isn't perfect but is a good start. Sustainable Palm Oil Shopping iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com
[22:18:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's the usual BS answer. I didn't give a sh*t about your "well-rounded" student nonsense. I wanted a degree to get a job and stop the struggle of being poor. Because of that I had suffer through soft sciences, history, etc. UGH. You can take that crap and shove it.
[22:18:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:26] <exec> 08└─College isn't for getting a job, but you're free to hold an incorrect and unfounded opinion to the contrary. In fact, people being mislead to believe college is for getting a job are one of the primary drivers behind the dysfunction in higher education.
[22:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:28] <exec> 08└─The easy counter to this statement is "If you truly want to end the struggle, you need to climb the social/corporate ladder -- to do that you need all the soft-shit so you can not sound like a complete fuck-tard when you open your mouth." The piece of paper itself is really almost worthless, all it...
[22:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03varsix [5867] (Score: 1) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 1914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:30] <exec> 08└─Traditional university education is simply obsolete and outdated. Technological change is constantly accelerating. We need to adopt new methods of education so that we can re-skill people at a faster pace than before. Also, who really needs to show up in a classroom to learn something? Me, personall...
[22:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:32] <exec> 08└─The first step is to recognize that we do NOT have a shortage of STEM workers, we actually have an over-abundance. If we ACTUALLY had a shortage, employers would be willing to provide training or even tuition in employment contracts. It used to be expected. That's what junior and trainee positions w...
[22:18:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06America Needs to Get Over its Reverence for the Bachelor's Degree - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:34] <exec> 08└─No it is as simple as they can not write 'select * from x,y where x.col1 = y.col2' AND understand how the all of the theory they learned relates back to it.
[22:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Russian FSB Officers Charged Over Yahoo! Hack - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:52] <exec> 08└─If you want real data, control them. Become the management and you will have all the data without hacking anything. There are certain hideous races that practice this technique and all the world's data goes to their smelly hideout somewhere in the middle east.
[22:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Topical Curcumin Gel Used to Treat Burns - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:09] <exec> 08└─The cabal behind big pharma will not tell us that a simple technique can save us so much suffering. In fact, they enjoy seeing humans suffer. Most forms of cancer were cured in the 1960's and the technique was hidden and only members of the cabal are cured. No one heard that Clinton (Bill or his hus...
[22:19:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Topical Curcumin Gel Used to Treat Burns - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:11] <exec> 08└─I really do hate these little cookie cutter biomed study press releases. I heard one on the radio the other day about how "colon cancer is increasing" and "scientists say it is probably due to genetic and environmental reasons" (followed by an actual recording of some guy saying exactly that inane t...
[22:19:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ebook Sales Continue to Fall as Younger Generations Drive Appetite for Print - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:56] <exec> 08└─And it's a whole lot easier to correct the typos in a paper book. How do you change "level" to "lever" in an ebook?
[22:20:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Shimitar [4208] 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 432 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:09] <exec> 08└─Slow is not bad... at all! And accuracy is not correctness... You can be 100% accurate, but completely wrong. In elections, you don't need speed or accuracy. You need accountability and recheckability (is this even a word?). Elections issues are people issues, and no more guarantees of results can c...
[22:20:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03compro01 [2515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:20:27] <exec> 08└─Sure, but no realistic system will have that much of a delay. In Canada, the counting of the paper ballots is done within hours of the polls closing, then phoned into the returning office. I've done this in both federal and provincial elections.
[22:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Vibrator Maker Pays $3.75 Million Settlement Over Data Collection - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:50] <exec> 08└─I think something needs to be done about the rampant (what I would consider) abuse of EULA's. There should be some rights that you can't just click away, like your right to privacy and to not be spied on. Stuff like "by using our site you agree to our 99 page terms of service that nobody will ever r...
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[23:14:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:09] <exec> 08└─I believe it's self evident that panopticon is inevitable; the only question is the matter of who will have access to it. Since information is power, if the government has access but the people don't we will be subjected. If everyone can know everything about everyone, including those in the governm...
[23:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:11] <exec> 08└─We, that is the apparent majority of Americans, are all terrorized and willing to give up our rights to feel safe, yet that feeling is futile.
[23:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:13] <exec> 08└─*Subjugated*
[23:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:15] <exec> 08└─Uh... so the law says we can compel these people to testify. No need to infiltrate their every thought for that. This guy is a walking affront to constitutional rights and due process. If I'm on an encrypted line to my priest, and make a confession, then you can either compel the priest to testify,...
[23:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but so far the Constitution system seems to be working pretty well. The courts are doing their jobs, and I think Trump is going to find Congress pushing back once they tire of having to cover for his excesses.
[23:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:20] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say futile. There is a power-struggle underway in American intelligence and there are still a lot of good guys still in there. Through a combination of gross negligence and eating each other alive, we are still going to get more leaks. The deep state is desperate and is shitting its pants...
[23:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:22] <exec> 08└─So let me get this straight: It's bad when Big Brother makes sure people behave, but when Snowden (aka Russia) and Assange do it, you guys all cheer. The reality is that there's always going to be someone watching you, whether it's the tribal king impregnating your wife on your wedding night in 3000...
[23:14:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:24] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but so far the Constitution system seems to be working pretty well.
[23:14:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:26] <exec> 08└─No warrants should be respected. Encryption, anonymity, and the global internet make that feasible in some cases.
[23:14:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:28] <exec> 08└─We can pick who to kill first, second, third, fourth....
[23:14:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Director James Comey: "There is No Such Thing as Absolute Privacy in America" - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:30] <exec> 08└─The only deep state is the state officials deep up The Orange One's arse. Care to join? They're taking invitations.
[23:14:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:57] <exec> 08└─It will get money which is what it is all about. But for us the viewer the 2/3rd films were not good. Instead of continuing on with the neat premise they had promised in the first one they decided to make Neo some sort of 'god figure'. The battery thing did not make sense. The 'war' did not make sen...
[23:14:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:58] <exec> 08└─I don't believe I saw the third one, but I saw the second one in theaters and got extreme action fatigue -- seriously, the whole movie was one long action scene and became exhausting to take in. " The Matrix was not expected to be a blockbuster when Warners released it in March 1999. "
[23:14:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, this exactly. People are bitching about the cost of movie tickets, but considering how fun you can make movie trips, the ticket prices are still well worth-it, if only the movies themselves were. We used to enjoy getting a big group of us and getting high, sneaking in pints of vodka and pourin...
[23:15:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03ticho [89] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:02] <exec> 08└─...and now you made me sad they cancelled the third SG movie. Thanks!
[23:15:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Get Ready for the Matrix Reboot - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:05] <exec> 08└─Mad Max: Fury Road
[23:15:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:24] <exec> 08└─Alcohol is actually one of the strongest and most dangerous and addictive of the commonly used recreational drugs out there
[23:15:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:26] <exec> 08└─It's possible that the AC is a true AC (unlike you and I) and doesn't have any mod points.
[23:15:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06City of Everett, Washington Sues OxyContin Maker Purdue Pharma - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:28] <exec> 08└─Sessions was also astonished that to hear that people expected him to tell the truth while under oath at his confirmation hearing.
[23:20:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:36] <exec> 08└─I have seen count agents argue that a drawing of a penis next to their candidate's name is actually a vote for their candidate - this is usually a successful argument as it is a clear mark against a name.
[23:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Come There's No Digital Voting in Netherlands? - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:38] <exec> 08└─An inquiry was held into eVoting by the parliament of Victoria (a southern state of Australia). Here is a knowledgeable and well reasoned argument from an industry expert who has worked on such machines. Short summary: internet voting is a stupid idea, while voting machines can work but you must be...
[23:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Millions of US Employee Records 'Leaked' - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:31] <exec> 08└─It just occurred to me... Why is the result of a leak called a dump???
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