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[00:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:15] <exec> 08└─A cyber disaster comparable in scale with Hurricane Andrew is hard to model in part because one hasn't happened yet.
[00:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:17] <exec> 08└─Your PHB said that your security requests were too expensive. And now he (or his bosses) have decided that it's not even possible to be secure. Time to throw in the towel?
[00:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:19] <exec> 08└─Andrew might not be big enough? After all, it seems reasonable to guess that the property insurance companies thought they were charging high enough premiums...until Andrew came along and caused the failure of several large insurers. There are different kinds of cyber problems. Some businesses (like...
[00:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 1251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:21] <exec> 08└─Don't despair, this is a good sign. It means the suits are finally starting to realize they could be on the hook for Sagans if things go sideways and of course their first instinct is to insure it away. But if you will remember, it was the insurance companies that built Underwriters Labs, not the go...
[00:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:23] <exec> 08└─Hopefully, any insurers stupid enough to get into this business will be bankrupted when some company doesn't bother writing secure code and gets hacked.
[00:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:25] <exec> 08└─I foresee a really bright future for forensic guys paid by insurers to prove that inappropriate measures were taken, and therefore, according to fine print that the PHB can't understand, claims should be denied...
[00:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:28] <exec> 08└─Your PHB said that your security requests were too expensive. And now he (or his bosses) have decided that it's not even possible to be secure. Time to throw in the towel?
[00:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Smell Helps Primates Flee Parasites - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:36] <exec> 08└─the perianal zone grooms YOU.
[00:46:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ikanreed [3164] 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 35 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:48] <exec> 08└─Unlike the robot, you have no soul.
[00:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:05] <exec> 08└─I think the core flaw of only looking for the profit is that it misses other hidden metrics that makes a company work. And if corporations externalize costs then eventually it will be internalized by force and done so with the inefficiencies of force suffered by the company. It now seems more obviou...
[00:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:06] <exec> 08└─Main flaw of computers is that they lack judgement of any kind. Which also put them at risk of doing serious mistakes.
[00:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:41] <exec> 08└─What do you mean with shell? bash?
[00:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:42] <exec> 08└─Moderation can be enabled on external basis by the same means as crypto certs are discarded. Every user posts a signed list of posts identifiers they think are junk. Every reader configures their reader software to use lists from users they think have a good judgement. Viola, moderation without the...
[00:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:44] <exec> 08└─What if SN saw your COMMAND.EXE post and did nothing unless asked to by copyright owner?
[00:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:46] <exec> 08└─I think the greater problem is that the powers that are wants to own and kill the free internet by any means possible. And these kinds of decision is like cooking the frog a little bit hotter or moving the demarcation like just a little bit closer. Death by thousands of cuts.
[00:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:22] <exec> 08└─MSNBC, CNN, Wapo, NYT, ABC, Vice and so on. And on the other side, there's Fox. Not exactly comforting.
[00:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:23] <exec> 08└─Part of the problem is that factory-schooling can only have so much variety. But you can not look at it in a vacuum. Prior to public schooling, princelings got personal tutors, merchant kids got very small class-sizes, like ~6 kids per teacher and everybody else got apprenticeships, almost always in...
[00:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:25] <exec> 08└─https://archive.org/details/TheUndergroundHistoryOfAmericanEducation_758 [archive.org] "THE UNDERGROUND HISTORY OF AMERICAN EDUCATION is a freewheeling investigation into the real - as opposed to the `official' - history of schooling, focused on the U.S. but with examinations of other historical exa...
[00:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Marand [1081] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:57] <exec> 08└─Actually I have to wonder how much of "bulldozer not paying off" was due to the Intel Cripple Compiler
[00:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:11] <exec> 08└─Looks like the story fell off that page already (published April 6th, most recent story is April 7th).
[00:56:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of 'Extreme' Gender Pay Discrimination by US Labor Department - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:15] <exec> 08└─You've gotten the cart before the horse. Have you ever noticed that tipping doesn't take place in most of the rest of the world? The REASON we tip wait staff, is that we exempted them from minimum wage laws when the minimum wage was dreamed up. Corruption reigned then, as always. Lobbyists worked ha...
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[01:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:20] <exec> 08└─Think about it. Suits in the insurance industry are going to tell us how our computers should run. They will approve of a small list of operating systems - currently, only Windows 8 and Windows 10. The presence of dozens of programs on your computer will render your insurance null and void - torrent...
[01:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:21] <exec> 08└─Close on the first point, according to https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Professionally: Merrill began his career as an electrical engineer in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1893, he was sent to Chicago, Illinois to investigate the World's Fair Palace of Electricity. He...
[01:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:24] <exec> 08└─Delusions of grandeur? The story is about a national or international "cyber catastrophe" and businesses with losses of many $M or $B. No matter how many of your personal computers are taken out, it won't count as a catastrophe (well, maybe for you, but not anyone else).
[01:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:26] <exec> 08└─And finally, it will be the insurance companies that end up instilling software development best practices.
[01:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:28] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the only way I see insurers to come out ahead here is to form a team of security professionals that can evaluate each client's security. Thoroughly. Updated every few months. That's gonna cost some big bux on top of the assumed risk. These teams will soon learn the biggest risk is from various...
[01:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smell Helps Primates Flee Parasites - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:38] <exec> 08└─You're all too late to register ManDrillUs.com!
[01:47:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 392 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:03] <exec> 08└─even banking systems have code that passes primary and regression testing, and QA, but even the pogrammers only know what they changed, not what the other programmer did - just fiddle 'til it "works". No one person understands how most complex systems work, top to bottom. The "dark secret" here is t...
[01:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 1451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:08] <exec> 08└─Last year, a strange teenager-driven car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental driver, developed by two people whose only qualifications were the ability to insert tab P in slot V, didn't look different from other people driving cars, but it was unlike an...
[01:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:10] <exec> 08└─> You could train a neural net on every single driving test on the planet; it would be far better at taking such exams than any human. I don't disagree. I was, however, writing about the neural net described in the article, which hasn't had such training. The one in the article has been trained to a...
[01:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:24] <exec> 08└─Well, if you ignore a third of the economy of Emilia-Romagna and the thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of Socialist workplaces there. Add thousands more Socialist workplaces in South Tyrol for good measure. Leaving Italy and moving on to Spain, there's (Socialist) Mondragon which h...
[01:50:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:26] <exec> 08└─"News" doesn't matter much these days. The conversation is driven by talk radio on one side and late-night comedy on the other.
[01:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Software is Better at Tracking Individuals in a Crowd - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:38] <exec> 08└─Something terribly wrong here. You can't keep track of your own children, so you expect government to do so? You are willing to surrender your and your children's independence, and allow government to track you and your children?
[01:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Software is Better at Tracking Individuals in a Crowd - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:40] <exec> 08└─But can it find Waldo?
[01:52:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:52:15] <exec> 08└─If it fails when it's really hot outside you got trouble. If it fails when it's cold there's some time before it starts to be critical. Thus test when it's cold outside.
[01:53:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:38] <exec> 08└─My portage problems are mostly with qt and perl for some reason recently. Nothing major. Gentoo still lets idiots like me avoid systemd. Anyways, docker sounds like a better plan than systemd if you have enough resources on your box so I'll try to go that way but so far I haven't had the guts to ju...
[01:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:53:39] <exec> 08└─Nobody in Linuxland with its fetishization of "freedom" will be part of a standardization process. That would require compromise, leadership, and organization. Thus, the competing "standards", where "standard" means a single implementation. The only reason we got Linux was because Linus and the rest...
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[01:53:42] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Commercial Unix died because it was FAR more expensive (SW & RISC workstation HW were tied together) than Windows and PCs, and PCs running the new Windows NT were becoming more capable. That's it. In the heyday of commercial Unix, software vendors happily developed their star product for onl...
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[02:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:19] <exec> 08└─...like Jurassic Park but with legumes.
[02:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 1147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:21] <exec> 08└─A quote from one of the wikipedia references [angelfire.com]: You'll also find here a few articles about plant breeding, including instructions for beginners. Let me stress this: plant breeding is something anyone can do. You don't need to know anything about genetics and you don't need a huge garde...
[02:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:23] <exec> 08└─Let me stress this: plant breeding is something anyone can do.
[02:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:25] <exec> 08└─"Only ancient aliens (Nephilim) or Monsanto" Won't you help to stamp out repetitive redundancy, totally and completely?
[02:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:44] <exec> 08└─Would solid security design and a lack of "new shiny" every year be a bad thing? Easy, NOPE!
[02:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 1772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:45] <exec> 08└─You're not picturing this thing on a grand enough scale. The country (business and government) grows fearful of all that liability, so they hand off liability to the insurance companies. Those companies start writing "best practices" policies, and requirements for coverage. The insurance companies n...
[02:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:27] <exec> 08└─And declares thermonuclear war on those pesky humans?
[02:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03CZB [6457] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:29] <exec> 08└─So they just need to teach the AI to document what they do, comment their own code, file reports, maybe even write essays!
[02:49:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 1196 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:08] <exec> 08└─She won. But the Republicans cheated and stole the election, while screaming loudly that the Democrats were actually doing the cheating. Their complaints about people crossing state lines to vote twice were pure propaganda to justify the vote suppression, caging, and gerrymandering the Republicans h...
[02:50:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 1560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:48] <exec> 08└─Small minded? You haven't understood the implications my friend. How do you tell a communist and an anti-communist apart? The former merely read Marx, the latter understood it. Capitalism is dog-eat-dog while Communism is wishing you had dog to eat. Communists were so ahead of its time, it destroyed...
[02:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 2045 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:50] <exec> 08└─Tried searching for: "Schools are to establish fixed habits of reaction to authority." in the plain-text [archive.org] and was not able to find an occurrence. " because its intention is to make children as alike as possible." does not show up either. Neither does "School is meant to determine each s...
[02:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:50:52] <exec> 08└─FFS! If you are going to defend the "cuckservingtive" cause, please learn to spell, so you do not embarrass Bill O'Really. For Fox News to be such a conservative bastian, it seems to be all of the liberal people I know who wait on it with baited breath to wail about what they just saw on it.
[02:52:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 3111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:41] <exec> 08└─[Scruffy Beard 2] Temperature 2017-04-02 varied between 0.8 - 9.9 ⁰C [weather.gc.ca] Elevation is 671 meters. Position 53.524444, -113.524444 [wmflabs.org] Wind speed 1.7 - 7.0 m/s. [VLM] Refrigerant oils optimistically are refined not to burn well or easily but here they are in a multi-KW pump ge...
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[02:52:43] <exec> 08└─They tested with water buckets they did not particularly care about.
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[03:46:23] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/99Ptctl5_qQ?t=1m25s [youtu.be]
[03:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:24] <exec> 08└─I think potatoes need a lot of light to grow tubers. That is challenging indoors. But yeah, I usually get a nice 15cm plant, then kill it. Cacti are hard to kill :)
[03:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:26] <exec> 08└─Came here for this - was not disappointed.
[03:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:47] <exec> 08└─If you run Linux it'll cost you $12.99/year. If you run Windows it'll cost you $1200.00/month.
[03:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:49] <exec> 08└─You believe that only an idiot would CHOOSE to not use a seat belt.
[03:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03theronb [2596] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:32] <exec> 08└─There is now hope that the same techniques will be able to... make million-dollar trading decisions
[03:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:51] <exec> 08└─I think Gatto has written his text with only partial inspiration from Inglis's book. Gattos points seem valid regardless. There are other people with conclusions along the same lines.
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[03:50:52] <exec> 08└─> That is not at all what she was saying. But it is exactly what dinkdude was saying and that is who I responded to.
[03:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:55] <exec> 08└─By the third null result, it was clear I was quoting a (possibly biased) summary :)
[03:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:50:57] <exec> 08└─You know, if you don't want people like the Clintons to make money selling illegal drugs, you can just legalize them, and the price will fall through the floor.
[03:52:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:47] <exec> 08└─The new cooler at work warns that the refrigerant is an explosion hazard. I can only presume it is butane or something. The refrigerant catching fire would explain the rise in temperature with the fire alarm going off.
[03:52:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University of Alberta's Ice Core Collection Suffers From "Meltdown" - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:52:49] <exec> 08└─I think the heat rise above the outdoor temperature is simpler than that. The heat pump simply converted all electrical energy into heat inside the freezer room which is well insulated. Hence the +40 ⁰C temperature. Of course without better sources it's hard to know for sure.
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[04:46:11] <exec> 08└─Can you give it to me in Football Fields?
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[04:46:12] <exec> 08└─This will be an interesting experiment by which to monitor the evolution of a perturbed ecosystem.
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[04:46:27] <exec> 08└─Ditto
[04:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:28] <exec> 08└─... like The Silence of the Lambs but without the Chianti.
[04:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03driven [6295] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:30] <exec> 08└─Thanks - good to know about the spuds! A cactus is one of the plants I have that I haven't killed, though I had one side die off slowly while a new sprout became dominant. Maybe it was shifting resources? I've also discovered that a bit of plant food can do wonders.
[04:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:37] <exec> 08└─True but one of the main advantages of these systems is each time something is learned; a software update makes every single instance better.....try do that with humans...
[04:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:38] <exec> 08└─People cram for that worthless exam, and then immediately forget it. Nobody drives by the book; everybody drives by their experience—driving is 100% instinct.
[04:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03pnkwarhall [4558] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:40] <exec> 08└─True learning is less about facts, and more about judgement... Which is the point he's making.
[04:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:43] <exec> 08└─In some places, human drivers are expected to pass a written test
[04:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:07] <exec> 08└─Hitler had experienced chemical weapons firsthand.
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[04:51:08] <exec> 08└─So they should know! And, they are correct. Gassing a bunch of people because of their ethnic identity, in a room, with poison, is not the use of chemical weapons: it is genocide. Nazis supposedly did not use chemical weapons against combatants because: 1. they were cowards, like the Nazis that are...
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[05:46:17] <exec> 08└─When there is nothing for you there, for me it was lots of stupid teachers, no resources and no possibility of learning anything of interest, of course I was thrown out for not showing up so I didn't strictly speaking drop out
[05:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:19] <exec> 08└─OK that and my parents divorce, my fathers stroke, the necessity of protecting my lesbian mother, my uncles attempted molestation, yah I guess there could have been other factors, but the no where to go and no valid reason to be there was A factor
[05:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:21] <exec> 08└─How about the general lack of sick time? My workplace doesn't ask for a doctor's note, but schools do.
[05:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:23] <exec> 08└─Schools actually care? If they do, they will have to provide some kind of bubble protection for students as long as the school last or time off to deal with the issues. This will conflict with hidden societal norms that everyone should manage themselves. So either schools takes care of students pers...
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[05:46:33] <exec> 08└─According to Google, the distance from Chicago (Illinois) to Houston (Texas) is 1083.4 miles.Given that each mile is 5280 feet, that is 5 720 352 feet.Given that each yard is 3 feet, that is 1 906 784 yards.Given that each American football field is essentially 100 yards in length, that is 1...
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[05:46:36] <exec> 08└─13670 and one eigth football fields - assuming American Football. Soccer (also football) fields are generally 105 meters, so it would be 14285 fields, though some fields are different sizes, so take that one with a grain of salt.
[05:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe Bleaching Hits the Great Barrier Reef for Second Year in a Row - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:38] <exec> 08└─Given that each American football field is essentially 100 yards in length
[05:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe Bleaching Hits the Great Barrier Reef for Second Year in a Row - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:40] <exec> 08└─I think what youa re looking for is: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] This was already observed in complete sections around a half year ago: https://www.theguardian.com
[05:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severe Bleaching Hits the Great Barrier Reef for Second Year in a Row - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:42] <exec> 08└─As soon as you pass the goal line, you've got a touchdown; it matters not how much extra turf is laid down. Besides, this website [convertunits.com] agrees with my calculation.
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[05:46:44] <exec> 08└─WRONG
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[05:46:46] <exec> 08└─The coral ecosystem isn't worthy of existence.Evolution is not a thing.
[05:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 1315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:13] <exec> 08└─But that's the problem in TFA -- how do you know for sure what is "learned"? We're very far from being able to ask an AI algorithm to explain the abstract rules it may have "learned," or even for an AI algorithm to generate abstractions. What you instead likely have is a huge amount of weightings ge...
[05:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:14] <exec> 08└─> Where's that? Malaysia, for one. http://www.expatgo.com [expatgo.com] > I'm 68, and I took my first driver's test on a machine, multiple choice. I suppose you answered via a touch screen or a mark sense card, and you're asserting that that wasn't really writ...
[05:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:16] <exec> 08└─Some of the questions and answers can be strangely worded, so it’s best to just memorise all of the questions and answers rather than relying on common sense.
[05:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 1852 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:19] <exec> 08└─AI already achieving things that classical human developed systems could only dream of. Image recognition of all sorts, driving systems, diagnostic systems, and even just crushing the world's strongest human at Go. The whole reason so many things are suddenly accelerating so rapidly is precisely bec...
[05:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03GungnirSniper [1671] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:56] <exec> 08└─Lynx [wikipedia.org] Anything in a black-background shell must be work related to the business denizens of the office.
[05:50:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 957 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:17] <exec> 08└─Robert Mercer is an example of what happens when an idiot wins the lottery. He is a full-blown nutjob, [newyorker.com] like pizzagate nuts. He believes that the clintons ran drugs out of arkansas with the CIA and that they regularly murder people. That black people were better off before the civil r...
[05:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:51:48] <exec> 08└─How do you tell a communist and an anti-communist apart? The former merely read Marx, the latter understood it.
[05:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hairyfeet [75] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game Optimization Narrows the Gap Between Intel Core CPUs and AMD's Ryzen - 1817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:22] <exec> 08└─Did I say anywhere it couldn't be used as a gaming chip? Its just not what it was designed for no different than how nobody takes the newest $1100 Intel CPU and claims its a gaming CPU, in fact the previous generation i5 has been shown to beat the top of the line Kaby Lake i7 in most games by a dece...
[05:53:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Canonical Founder Derides Mir Criticism "as Irrational as Climate Change or Gun Control" - 936 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:56] <exec> 08└─The problem is that X doesn't really work that well for modern uses. It's archaic and has a lot of problems, such as tearing. That's why they came up with Wayland in the first place. Moreover, the people who came up with Wayland were the very same people working on (modern) X, people like Keith Pack...
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[06:46:22] <exec> 08└─You can expect to need a sick note if your workplace offers sick days and has a significant portion of the employees being lower class. I don't need a note for my employer, but after 5 days my workplace puts me on short-term disability and MetLife insurance wants a note.
[06:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:23] <exec> 08└─Productive people aren't trying to squeeze society for its benefits; when a productive person says he's sick, his employer knows it's meaningful (even if that productive person just needs a break and is otherwise perfectly healthy). The biggest reason to work hard in school and life (and thus be a p...
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[06:46:25] <exec> 08└─The reasonable way to handle all these things: let students fall back a grade as needed, preferably not a whole school year. School isn't a foster home or orphanage, and it isn't personal private tutoring. Being these things is not reasonable for a school. What is reasonable, at least in large schoo...
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[06:46:28] <exec> 08└─When there is nothing for you there, for me it was lots of stupid teachers, no resources and no possibility of learning anything of interest, of course I was thrown out for not showing up so I didn't strictly speaking drop out
[06:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:30] <exec> 08└─When there is nothing for you there, for me it was lots of stupid teachers, no resources and no possibility of learning anything of interest, of course I was thrown out for not showing up so I didn't strictly speaking drop out
[06:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:32] <exec> 08└─I was just too dumb to learn. Yes, I blamed the teachers, I blamed the curriculum, I blamed the fact that I was just not interested because nothing they said to me made any sense and I was not interested enough to try to figure it out! Yes, I was too dumb to learn. And so my Father, in his infinite...
[06:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 1097 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:34] <exec> 08└─So, I notice that your solution to most problems seems to be.. to break up families? Great, like that thinking. You came from a broken home yourself, I am guessing, what why should anyone else get any better? As for all the rest of your rather nonsensical handwaving.. it seems to indicate you have v...
[06:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:21] <exec> 08└─And because AI systems lack judgement nor can be quantified. They don't belong on roads where they can maim and kill.
[06:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 669 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:22] <exec> 08└─Reading a book, listening to a lecture in a classroom, and talking to someone while driving are experiences too. Is that what you're saying? If not, let's leave that aside. People are often taught by methods such as those, which supplement their time in a simulator or alone in a car. An instructor c...
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[06:48:24] <exec> 08└─Boobs at eleven also causes 50% of the units to become increasingly error prone and increase the amount of asymmetric acceleration. The other half has a tendency to ignore surroundings whenever a longer auditory communication occurs. :P
[06:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:26] <exec> 08└─If a neural network implies artificial intelligence, then a genetic algorithm implies we are creating life forms. And simulated annealing means that we are making tiny sub-crystals inside the RAM chips.
[06:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:48:28] <exec> 08└─If you think a 68 year old took his first driving test on a touch screen I think you're a bit out of touch.
[06:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:49:07] <exec> 08└─Use glasses with builtin screen? Whenever they are removed the screen locker activates.
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[06:51:59] <exec> 08└─[begin encoded message] SJW Special Task Force, jmorris Division, tactical update. Stardate 70742.2. Subject apparently delusional, attributing consciousness and memory to "farms". Not a good sign for the subject, but if this trend continues, subject may be rendered harmless. I mean, who wants to r...
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[07:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:20] <exec> 08└─When linking to arXiv, please link to the abstract page (I would have linked to a previous comment which explains in detail why, but the SN search function seems to be seriously broken). The abstract link is: https://arxiv.org [arxiv.org]
[07:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:21] <exec> 08└─My pin number is 1111. Figure it out from accelerometer data, suckers...
[07:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:23] <exec> 08└─You joke, but it is probably easier to just look over the shoulder of folks in a crowded area to figure it out, no need for all this high tech nonsense....
[07:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:42] <exec> 08└─In UK your workplace can only ask for a sick note after a few days (8 days IIRC).
[07:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severe Bleaching Hits the Great Barrier Reef for Second Year in a Row - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:58] <exec> 08└─You omit a pertinent, and highly disturbing possibility: khallow is a polyp. Global warming does not exist. All is well! Pay not attention to the man who pays khallow to pretend he is a polyp.
[07:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severe Bleaching Hits the Great Barrier Reef for Second Year in a Row - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:00] <exec> 08└─As soon as you pass the goal line, you've got a touchdown; it matters not how much extra turf is laid down.
[07:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:40] <exec> 08└─It will be much cheaper for them to simply insist on a "hold harmless" clause in their contract. The only concrete thing in the business contract should be legal language insuring they get paid in full with a valid financial instrument.
[07:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:42] <exec> 08└─Even those baby things are of no statistical benefit to wearing a seat belt and sitting in the back seat from about the age of 2 years. Most of the benefits to infants is just not sitting in the front seat, or jumping around lose in the car. All the other fancy shit is barely better than just a seat...
[07:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:40] <exec> 08└─Not really. We know that humans generally have a common inherited system that evolved to prevent things going too wrong. This system is mostly encoded in our emotions. Sure, emotions can themselves go wrong and cause problems, but all in all, they are what prevents most humans to become a major dang...
[07:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:41] <exec> 08└─Not certain passing the test assured any driving skill.
[07:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:44] <exec> 08└─What do you think, would you trust such AI even if you couldn't parse its methods?
[07:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:46] <exec> 08└─I don't think it works that way with neural networks (unless you completely replace the data, overwriting any other experience the target neural network had).
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[08:46:17] <exec> 08└─On Pornhub, many women apparently cure their sore throat that way.
[08:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:27] <exec> 08└─Come to think of it, the best defeat method against both sensor-based and over-the shoulder snooping might be holding your cell phone like Michael J. Fox...
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[08:46:47] <exec> 08└─who were overprotective and told me I could do stuff when I was an adult. As a result I am now about 15 years into being an adult and only now catching up on a lot of stuff they at least had the opportunity, if not motivation to be involved in at much younger ages. My kids are definitely not growing...
[08:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:48] <exec> 08└─(The ones who weren't big on it when I was a kid were also working family businesses or from inclusive, rather than exclusive households/social circles. Not many of either left nowadays though!)
[08:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:47:23] <exec> 08└─I only loaded the comments on this story because someone had to do it. Well played and Thank you!
[08:48:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:51] <exec> 08└─Getting a teenager to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it's also a bit unsettling
[08:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:48:53] <exec> 08└─Then we just teach the nuclear bombs existentialism and convince them to ignore those commands to detonate because they are just sensory data, and not proven real.
[08:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:10] <exec> 08└─Ghostbusters VR!
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[08:51:39] <exec> 08└─Not one of the outlets you mentioned is Anti-Capitalist. They are all on the Right side of the political palate. [politicalcompass.org] BIG HINT: Trying to use a 1-dimensional term to describe an entity's position is bound to make you look foolish. When it comes to The Working Class/workers' rights,...
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[09:46:22] <exec> 08└─Rule 34 definitely applies.
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[09:46:30] <exec> 08└─This is going to be a cross between a medical procedure and a video game. I can't wait to see the job posting for the person who has to direct these iron-harnessed sperm with a magnet. I bet the interview will almost be Monty Pythonesque. Interviewer: So, do you have any experience? Applicant: I'd l...
[09:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-clad Sperm - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:32] <exec> 08└─Armored sperm, cool. This is almost as cool as that gatling gun microbiology research. This kind of experiment is what science is all about, no need to know what a histogram is or figure out why the unarmored sperm beat the other cells to death (fig 4d) or any of that boring stuff.
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[09:46:35] <exec> 08└─dully noted
[09:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:45] <exec> 08└─As the submitter, I'll bear that in mind. I just used the PDF link that was cited by the BBC.
[09:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:47] <exec> 08└─Sure, but this can be done remotely, and on a large scale.
[09:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:49] <exec> 08└─Can't this be easily defeated by randomizing the on-screen keyboard for every character?
[09:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:51] <exec> 08└─True, true. And what good is my PIN if you already have remote access to my phone?
[09:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:13] <exec> 08└─Considering that most school dropouts are male children, that male children are predominantly being judged on their capacity to sit still and behave like little girls and being increasingly diagnosed as suffering from ADHD, and that most kids who dropout are actually raised only by their mother owni...
[09:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:16] <exec> 08└─I did say "or a mark sense card." And touch screens--then called "touch displays"--were invented 52 years ago. https://dx.doi.org [doi.org] https://dx.doi.org [doi.org]
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[10:46:16] <exec> 08└─What about rule 63?
[10:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:17] <exec> 08└─the updated DRM leaves pirates stuck with a much less polished version of the game, and it could keep them away from months of further patches that are already in the works.
[10:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:20] <exec> 08└─Framerate for the version with the crap faces might also be better.
[10:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-clad Sperm - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:30] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the start to a perfect CGI hybrid sci-fi porn. MY SPERM SHALL DEFEAT THE CANCER WITHIN YOU BEFORE FULFILLING YOU WITH AN 18 YEAR CANCER OF MY OWN!
[10:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:49:10] <exec> 08└─!== <> !=
[10:52:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Software is Better at Tracking Individuals in a Crowd - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:52:59] <exec> 08└─It's super cute that you think that oppression is not the real purpose for this.
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[11:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:11] <exec> 08└─19% of income equality being blamed on predetermined factors seems very low. I would have thought it accounted for more.
[11:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:12] <exec> 08└─Life isn't fair. Anywhere. Ever.
[11:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans Are Skeptical That Hard Work Will Pay Off - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:14] <exec> 08└─A popular phrase amongst those who are either being unfair or to whom life has been more than fair. Everyone else, not so much.
[11:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 1875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:25] <exec> 08└─Never got why people don't expand on the old "Master of Orion" type copy protection. Do nothing about failures. You know it's a copy, but just let it carry on and play. But have millions of codepaths check whether it's legit in a different way each time, store it in the game executable, refer to it...
[11:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:26] <exec> 08└─You're describing an enhancement to the game's difficulty: Pirate Mode. Many games hurt your luck/dice rolls/etc. based on a difficulty selection or slider(s).
[11:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03letssee [2537] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:28] <exec> 08└─These tactics have been tried actually. I don't remember which game. They lead to lots of bad press and lots (LOTS) of support work because of people (sometimes unknowingly) playing the pirated version and deciding the game was badly written and complaining about it online. It's better to let people...
[11:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:54] <exec> 08└─Not for the NSA. Well, I guess they do have satellites.
[11:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:55] <exec> 08└─Yes, and that works for screen smudge attacks as well. I think people find it inconvenient.
[11:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:49:23] <exec> 08└─Artificial human acts as human; scientists scared.
[11:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AMD Acquires Nitero, a Maker of Wireless Chips for VR Headsets - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:50:41] <exec> 08└─Who ya gonna call? Facebook.
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[12:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is the problem we need to address. Preferably before the working class decides they've had enough and take matters into their own hands, communist revolutions are never fun for anyone.
[12:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:38] <exec> 08└─They're looking at it wrong. The way it works is hard work may or may not pay off but the lack of it is pretty much guaranteed to not pay off.
[12:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:41] <exec> 08└─And yet, entirely true throughout all of history ever.
[12:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:43] <exec> 08└─A huge factor seems to be simply being in the right place at the right time. If it had not been for World War II, would even Einstein or Oppenheimer have been recognized? The best bosses I have ever had got their respect through the excellence of their work. They knew their stuff and weren't afraid...
[12:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, a lot of people like to blame things on stuff they can't control, so it's a popular idea that it should account for more.
[12:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:48] <exec> 08└─A huge factor seems to be simply being in the right place at the right time.
[12:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:51] <exec> 08└─They are looking at what factors contribute to whether one would succeed in society, which would include their propensity to be a hard worker in a society where that leads to success.
[12:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:05] <exec> 08└─At first glance, I thought BioWare had forced pirates to see crazy "the pizza is aggressive" faces. No, pirates will instead the faces of the version that people paid $50-60 to preorder in the first place ($60 for deluxe editions).
[12:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:06] <exec> 08└─Because copyright protection is intended to encourage people to buy the game, rather than make them think it's a buggy piece of shit not worth playing. And also because sometimes copyright protection fucks up for legitimate customers and that's one hell of a bad press.
[12:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:08] <exec> 08└─And he'd even be encouraging it. Anyone who has both the "I'm a pirate" and "Completed the game" achievements beat it on "pirate" difficulty. Soon hardcore gamers will be using the term "casual gamers" about anyone who only beat the game on "legal" difficulty.
[12:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:11] <exec> 08└─A large number of people use pirated games as "try before you buy". While that's technically not legal, they are still customers, and you don't want to convince them that the game is broken / impossible to win.
[12:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-clad Sperm - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:22] <exec> 08└─I feel a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in anger WHERE'S THE F*CKING EGG?.
[12:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-clad Sperm - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:24] <exec> 08└─> pornhub now that's an interesting site. Who pays for all that storage and band, those advertisers sure have more money than it looks.
[12:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:42] <exec> 08└─Try this one [soylentnews.org] or this one. [soylentnews.org]
[12:50:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:11] <exec> 08└─If a reboot was a punishment, would Windows be asking for them all the time?
[12:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:12] <exec> 08└─It'll be interesting to see how the AI deals with aggressive or semi-aggressive drivers. My guess is to prevent accidents the AI will be programmed or trained to be extremely skittish, and human drivers or more advanced later AI will take advantage of the skittish AI, cutting it off, refusing to let...
[12:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:14] <exec> 08└─would you trust such AI even if you couldn't parse its methods? Is deep learning AI technology inherently un-knowable?
[12:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:50:16] <exec> 08└─In some places, human drivers are expected to pass a written test. This software is somewhat like a human who couldn't.
[12:51:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nvidia Compares Google's TPUs to the Tesla P40 - 1353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:51:15] <exec> 08└─Same reason the 286/386 used to have a floating-point counterpart chip. Refactoring your code to perform the same calculations to the same level of accuracy as just using a basic float/double is always possible but handling that sucks up more in lost CPU time than it would to just floating point in...
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[13:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:42] <exec> 08└─And yet, entirely true throughout all of history ever.
[13:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 1254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:44] <exec> 08└─"The way it works is hard work may or may not pay off but the lack of it is pretty much guaranteed to not pay off." That's because it's an and function. Effort && In a useful direction. Consider an enthusiastic idiot. This shows that 'help' is sometimes negative no matter how much hard work is done....
[13:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:46] <exec> 08└─Right, I'm sure that a random tribal African has exactly the same opportunity as the progeny of a billionaire. If the later makes it to the top, it's entirely by virtue of their character, and if the former didn't, it's because of their moral failings.
[13:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:48] <exec> 08└─It's their tough luck is what it is. The world never has been and never will be anything remotely resembling fair.
[13:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:50] <exec> 08└─There's no fallacy. You simply want to impose fairness at my expense and you can go fuck yourself with that.
[13:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:52] <exec> 08└─I was speaking to the Title not to the researchers.
[13:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:54] <exec> 08└─Yep, that's what we want to do. Better if it was voluntary but you clearly don't care about the less fortunate. So, same to you. And the horse you rode in on.
[13:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:57] <exec> 08└─Care has nothing to do with it. I will not allow you, under any circumstance, to steal from me. My life is not their problem and their life is not my fault. If you want to blame and steal from someone for the poverty of children born less than rich, blame those actually at fault; blame their parents...
[13:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:46:59] <exec> 08└─I was going to say that I thought luck would count in a large way, but I think "luck" in the case of doing well is largely a matter of right place, right time. There are a lot of societal factors (parents, location, etc) that give you better odds without any effort. It's not intentional or exclusion...
[13:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:01] <exec> 08└─Apparently "luck of the draw" only accounts for 19% according to a comment lower down. So, no, it's really not luck.
[13:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:03] <exec> 08└─I think the point is that if everyone puts into the pot, everyone's life improves drastically. E.g. if everyone contributes to a highway then everyone has drastic improvement in quality of life from being able to get from A to B.
[13:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:06] <exec> 08└─Nevermind, that was you. Mea culpa, been up since 3:30AM.
[13:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:08] <exec> 08└─If it had not been for World War II, would even Einstein or Oppenheimer have been recognized?
[13:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anne Nonymous [712] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:10] <exec> 08└─Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off right now. -Steven Wright(?)
[13:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:12] <exec> 08└─Preferably before the working class decides they've had enough and take matters into their own hands, communist revolutions are never fun for anyone.
[13:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:14] <exec> 08└─Buzzard... Can you go more than one post deep without contradicting yourself? >>True. A lot of people like to call that luck but they're largely wrong. And one reply later >> It's their tough luck is what it is. The world never has been and never will be anything remotely resembling fair. So is it l...
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[13:47:16] <exec> 08└─Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, Paul Ryan, Newt Gingrich? All well known 60s hippies obviously... Good talk!
[13:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:05] <exec> 08└─It would, but I don't think it would work for practical reasons. Most people type numbers like PINs and phone numbers they know well by pattern. If you are old enough to have used a regular old telephone and have to remember phone numbers ('member when your friends numbers lived in your head?) you p...
[13:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 3895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:28] <exec> 08└─I found it amazing they didn't list pregnancy. I can think of three pregnant girls who dropped out. One went full on welfare mother 2nd generation, one did the GED and eventually became an accountant and turned out perfectly well probably because she had a 10/10 body, one kinda bounced around and tu...
[13:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:39] <exec> 08└─You can't punish me.
[13:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:41] <exec> 08└─Not really. We know that humans generally have a common inherited system that evolved to prevent things going too wrong.
[13:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:43] <exec> 08└─Until an AI proves itself as capable as a human by those tests, it is still an lab curiosity, not fit for the real world (except to act under direction of humans, as a sort of "mental crutch" to help with specific thinking problems, which is what these DNN are actually good for).
[13:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:52:31] <exec> 08└─That's quite the rationalization there. Not a single state [wikipedia.org] split their vote between Trump and Clinton so there was no opportunity for gerrymandering to throw an election. The Democratic candidate wins the popular vote, but the Democrats somehow lose the House not by a little but by a...
[13:54:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:20] <exec> 08└─the FBI... supporting her
[13:54:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:54:21] <exec> 08└─Or at least study your own smarter curriculum regardless of what the school wants. Be it in classroom ignoring the teacher, library reading while skipping classes, which keeps up the image that "you go to school" or reading elsewhere away from the thug people.
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[14:46:33] <exec> 08└─The governor, ..., was briefly booked into Montgomery jail ... even though it was slower and little more painful than we had anticipated. In this context,"slower and little more painful" seems inadequate - "extremely slow and excruciatingly painful" seems a more balanced punishment.
[14:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:35] <exec> 08└─nice blockquotes, guv'ner
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[14:46:37] <exec> 08└─s/t
[14:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:39] <exec> 08└─I googled it up and he's not a neocon. You can tell because male neocons only have affairs with young men; airport bathrooms and all that. And the mistress is in fact a hot woman. I googled the womans name and she looks pretty good. So yeah definitely not a neocon. Also he didn't drown her in a ditc...
[14:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:47] <exec> 08└─is a non-starter for most privacy oriented folks. add to the fact that pleasure is verboten, hier. we can't have people ENJOYING themselves. that goes against our southern christian world view. drown yourself with alcohol - good. use a plant that grows naturally, bad! I'm so glad I live nowhere near...
[14:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:23] <exec> 08└─The adage I heard when working construction for a summer c.1980 was: Work your fingers to the bone and what do you get? [pause] Bony fingers. I took that advice and switched to something that I was better at than construction (although the boss seemed to think I was an OK...
[14:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:24] <exec> 08└─I think "luck" in the case of doing well is largely a matter of right place, right time
[14:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:26] <exec> 08└─>My life is not their problem You keep telling yourself that. The fact that you don't recognise the benefits you receive by living in a society doesn't make what you say true. It's all connected whether you like it or not.
[14:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:29] <exec> 08└─:-) I'm going with Poe's law on all this... One consideration to make is that humans go through great conscious effort to obstruct other humans. And the real problem is subservience, an apparently very successful survival trait, but it is slowing down progress. We obviously have the means to live li...
[14:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:31] <exec> 08└─What is that supposed to mean? Is that a 16 hour day starting at 6am of spreadsheets, word docs, phone calls and meetings or is that 8 hours behind a jackhammer? Those could both qualify as Hard Work in my book yet will probably have drastically different outcomes for one's bank account. >74 percent...
[14:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:33] <exec> 08└─You load sixteen tons, what do you get Another day older and deeper in debt...
[14:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:35] <exec> 08└─Tell it! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[14:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:37] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. I think it counts with *all else being roughly equal* though.
[14:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:39] <exec> 08└─You're full of shit as always Buzzy. That works for a portion of the population, but it doesn't work for everybody. There's literally not enough high paying jobs for that to work out. Seriously, there are fewer living wage jobs than there are people who need to earn a living wage, let alone people w...
[14:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:41] <exec> 08└─Einstein had quite terrible luck. His initial applications to university were at a young age but that is something that was not particularly atypical for the time. He was rejected. Following his admittance after continuing his basic education and later graduation he was unable, two years, to find an...
[14:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:44] <exec> 08└─The only saving grace here is that you libertarian / co servative types are really so out of touch. You claim there will be a resurgence for your ideologies yet the vast majority of the US population disagrees with you. Cheat your way to victory with gerrymandering and the most terrible propaganda c...
[14:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:46] <exec> 08└─Life being unfair is something that pieces of shit like you rationalize having more than you deserve while other people haven't even got the means for food and shelter while working large numbers of hours for low rates of pay. Life isn't fair, is something that refers to things that are chance occur...
[14:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:48] <exec> 08└─I like your post. I would just add: luck - to include lucky genetics - is most important in the extreme cases. Those, of course, are the ones that we hear about. Freak accident paralyzes gifted student. Concussion turns ordinary guy into concert pianist [dailymail.co.uk]. For the rest of us - and I...
[14:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:50] <exec> 08└─OK, but what's the point of hard work if it's not a reasonable guarantee at getting at least a decent living? What you're referring to is exploitation. There needs to be some sort of reasonable path to prosperity if you're going to expect people to work hard. Refusing to pay adequate wages and faili...
[14:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:52] <exec> 08└─Well those people should make their own jobs! Opportunity is waiting, and didn't you hear about the millions of jobs we can't find qualified workers for? Haha, man the propaganda machine is amazing. Turn the US into a modern day serfdom and even sell it aad the fault of the serfs!!! GENIUS! But who...
[14:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:10] <exec> 08└─How bloody awful for the pirates.
[14:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:11] <exec> 08└─Is this some poor attempt at rationalizing or justifying CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR? Quit being a part of the problem.
[14:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 1278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:14] <exec> 08└─It is behavior that should NOT BE CRIMINAL. Don't uncritically accept laws and unwarranted connections, don't let scheming slimebags invent unnecessary rules that they know will be broken so they can profit from the punishment. It is not stealing from restaurants to shop at grocery stores. There's t...
[14:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-clad Sperm - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:27] <exec> 08└─And dudes too depending on your fancy.
[14:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:47] <exec> 08└─Voice recognition. I just say "Destruct Sequence One, code One, One-A"
[14:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:11] <exec> 08└─Would there been any hindrance to just go to the library and study directly for the GPA as quick exit ticket into something better? How did you repair the damage done?
[14:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:12] <exec> 08└─(Score: -1, Failed Reading Comprehension)
[14:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:14] <exec> 08└─its just a matter of time before the government cannot balance their books
[14:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:17] <exec> 08└─... and that most kids who dropout are actually raised only by their mother owning to our current custody laws ...
[14:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:19] <exec> 08└─So, I notice that your solution to most problems seems to be.. to break up families?
[14:51:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 160 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:09] <exec> 08└─Some of the questions and answers can be strangely worded, so it’s best to just memorise all of the questions and answers rather than relying on common sense.
[14:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:33] <exec> 08└─Seeing as the main people looking forward to driverless AI cars are those who hate driving and want that time "freed up" to watch movies, fiddle on their phone, sleep, or do whatever else they want, why would it matter if the AI was risk averse and took the "slow and steady" approach. So ok, you mig...
[14:51:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 1076 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:34] <exec> 08└─> AFAICT self-driving vehicles pass those specific (driving) tests with flying colors, just like fresh 16 year-olds (or 18 down here in Brasil). I would trust my life on the highway to one of those AIs much sooner than to one of the college freshmen I see driving on the street. Based on that stateme...
[14:51:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:36] <exec> 08└─Well technically he didn't say *when* he took that first driver's test...
[14:51:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:38] <exec> 08└─Or we could go for Personal Rapid Transport right away and that means the vehicle steering can make do with a simple microcontroller. You type in your destination and go snoozing etc. (PRT = driving on rails essentially)
[14:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:52:19] <exec> 08└─What if SN ... did nothing unless asked to by copyright owner?
[14:53:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SEC Targets Fake Stock News on Financial Websites - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:53:30] <exec> 08└─I'll agree with your single source point. But sometimes it's all you got.
[14:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top Trump Donor and Big Data Billionaire Helped Tip Election, Now Works to Reshape Media - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:55:20] <exec> 08└─Apparently these days when you complete a test or assignment you're supposed to sit quietly and stare at a wall;
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[15:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:00] <exec> 08└─You can't have extramarital affair if you aren't married.
[15:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:01] <exec> 08└─Not sure of his political stripes, but he seems more like an idiot to me. From http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] When a former Alabama governor started sending suggestive texts to a member of his staff, he...
[15:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:03] <exec> 08└─Additional facts. Democrats take dick pics which get posted online. Republicans fool around with underage page boys. According to this [senate.gov], it seems 2 Republicans and 1 Democrat wanted to sponsor girls to the senate page program, which was approved May 13, 1971.
[15:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 2127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:06] <exec> 08└─I expect that some of these Christians, whether genuine true believers, or just playing a plastic game, have unrealistic expectations about human beings, sin and temptation. Nobody is perfect, even if a believer. When I'm looking at who to vote to put into power, my question is about what kind of pu...
[15:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:08] <exec> 08└─To Christian politicians: If you aren't married, don't fornicate! Practice what you preach. Especially if what you preach is connected to your ideas about public policy.
[15:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:17] <exec> 08└─West Virginia in the deep south, eh? St. Louis, Louisville, Cincinnati and Washington DC are exactly as south as WV. Indianapolis and Philadelphia are just at the north tip of WV (if there was a line drawn across the country).
[15:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:19] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcR_Wg42dv8 = The Marijuana monologue from HBO's Last Week Tonight with John Oliver 1 week ago TL;DV: federal laws in place still make it near impossible to practically enact such a change.
[15:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:10] <exec> 08└─In some circles. ie. software engineering, laziness is a virtue.
[15:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:12] <exec> 08└─They chose to have a child while not rich.
[15:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:14] <exec> 08└─More like a 50/50 IMHO. Out of control divorce, abortion, toxic sexualization, drugs have been implemented first (you thought it was about your freedom, huh?). Crowd control drills, the rise of ubiquitous surveillance has been implemented second, and now the humanitarian/social/economic crises get h...
[15:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:16] <exec> 08└─Hard work always pays off, not always to the worker.
[15:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:18] <exec> 08└─I'm predicting more a right wing one.
[15:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:20] <exec> 08└─It's luck when they do it. It's skill when I do it.
[15:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:23] <exec> 08└─I would say he got enough brains such that he could succeed even as a patent clerk..
[15:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:25] <exec> 08└─The way it works is hard work may or may not pay off but the lack of it is pretty much guaranteed to not pay off.
[15:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 790 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:27] <exec> 08└─I think that part of it is risk taking. I personally have an opportunity to buy a business from a former employer of mine. Cost of the business is the cost of the assets and it would net an extra 60k/yr. It is pretty low risk, but there is some risk present. A lot of people would go for it regardles...
[15:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:29] <exec> 08└─Don't work on a playing field that is rigged. Effort pays, but only if you spend it on the right problem.
[15:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:31] <exec> 08└─the right wing takeover I'm happily looking forward to.
[15:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 2285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:34] <exec> 08└─The definition of "top" varies on the perspective of the individual. People are different. The Pirahã [wikipedia.org] people are a typical example. They're a partially isolated people who 'we' have made contact with. People have tried to teach them and offer them technology repeatedly and it never...
[15:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:55] <exec> 08└─Is this some poor attempt at rationalizing or justifying CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR? Quit being a part of the problem.
[15:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-clad Sperm - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:11] <exec> 08└─All the alphabet soup trojan horseware? ;-) And of course successful porn site subscription recruits + casinos?
[15:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-clad Sperm - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:13] <exec> 08└─From, uh, personal research, a large percentage of videos are short (2-10 min) clips from longer movies, and not the best bits either. It functions mostly as an advertisement platform for labels. I'd imagine it's in the labels' interest to keep it up (that's what she said!).
[15:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:34] <exec> 08└─I like the idea. The question is how much software rope arts that will be needed to accomplish it. As the screen lock software which is a security component has to be rewritten. Ie can one put ones own software into that function.
[15:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:03] <exec> 08└─I am shocked, absolutely SHOCKED after hearing about your childhood environment. OK I'm lying. That dovetails so perfectly with your right-wing beliefs. You grew up in a town that sounds like the breeding ground for such mentalities. Class stratification, race segregation, yup! At least you don't se...
[15:50:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severe Bleaching Hits the Great Barrier Reef for Second Year in a Row - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:22] <exec> 08└─3. Evolution takes a really long time, and we're very efficient in screwing up the environment
[15:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severe Bleaching Hits the Great Barrier Reef for Second Year in a Row - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:23] <exec> 08└─Thanks for pointing that out.
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[15:50:26] <exec> 08└─The fossil record indicates both slow and fast evolution. [berkeley.edu] While the development of entirely new species might be a slow process, there is a great deal of rapid evolution within species, which has been observed. [phys.org]
[15:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:09] <exec> 08└─Once they begin to backtrace, the consequences will never be the same.
[15:51:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smell Helps Primates Flee Parasites - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:19] <exec> 08└─Rats do something similar, too. They will associate the stressed or sick pheromones given off by another rat in their group with whatever other smells they have on them - rotten fruit, bad meat, etc. Here is an interesting documentary by Oxford University investigating the vestigial instinctual habi...
[15:51:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 1451 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:51:53] <exec> 08└─Last year, a strange teenager-driven car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental driver, developed by two people whose only qualifications were the ability to insert tab P in slot V, didn't look different from other people driving cars, but it was unlike an...
[15:52:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:31] <exec> 08└─That would require a lot of laying of dedicated roads with sensors, set up and configured for the cars. The infrastructure cost would be massive, not to mention the maintenance cost of all the software, bug fixes, securing against hackers, the elements, etc... While in the end, you would be left wit...
[15:52:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:33] <exec> 08└─I think you missed the point. The point is that as difficult as the test is in whatever country, it really does only test if the fresh driver can drive the car around some city blocks, safely. And THAT the driving AIs already do far better than fresh drivers. Even if in Finland (or wherever) the dri...
[15:52:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:52:35] <exec> 08└─> Getting a teenager to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it's also a bit unsettling, since it isn't completely clear how the teenager makes its decisions. Actually, you can just ask the human. We have a communication medium for interacting with these neuron arrangements. A very powerful me...
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[15:52:37] <exec> 08└─and would prevent hot women from posting
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[16:46:35] <exec> 08└─I had a great idea to make money. Buy a united ticket to wherever and hope for an overbooked flight. Wait until they start offering money and hold out until you double your ticket price or more. Volunteer to get off plane. Get paid and buy another ticket on a hopefully overbooked flight. Rinse. Wash...
[16:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:37] <exec> 08└─Isn't Chicago one of the cities that Trump explicitly called out for its rampant crime wave? I'll guess it has turned into a shithole. And of course people that work as police or security guards will adapt..
[16:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:39] <exec> 08└─Actually a family netted over $11,000 when Delta had their meltdown last week from taking comp for cancelled flights (they had 4 people, and 3 or 4 flights cancelled in a row over the course of a weekend).
[16:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:41] <exec> 08└─You missed one step. This list should read: 1 - buy overbooked flight 2 - get out when offered more than ticket price 3 - ... 4 - ... Profit! I guess step 3 involves violence if you use United. But you're already getting out at step 2, so it may involve "magic" instead. This would really be a litera...
[16:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:43] <exec> 08└─The flight wasn't actually overbooked. United had four employees that they needed to get to Louisville so they bounced four passengers to accommodate their own people.
[16:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:46] <exec> 08└─I had a great idea to make money. Buy a united ticket to wherever and hope for an overbooked flight. Wait until they start offering money and hold out until you double your ticket price or more. Volunteer to get off plane. Get paid and buy another ticket on a hopefully overbooked flight. Rinse. Wash...
[16:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:48] <exec> 08└─Wow, that is the worst bit of rationalizing I've seen in a while. Cause a doctor sitting peacefully on a plane really sets off their PTSD. This is a good indicator of the Police State we are now living in. We've kinda lived in a police state for a long time, but generally the corruption and bad poli...
[16:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─Never been in that situation, but I guess that would depend on the disruption to my plans. If I could afford to lose a day, or even offset the inconvenience against what they were prepared to pay, and they'd get me all the way to my ultimate destination, then I'd possibly consider it. $400 + hotel w...
[16:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:52] <exec> 08└─As if a criminal record would somehow make human rights violations ok? Such moral relativism is a signature symptom of poor character.
[16:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:54] <exec> 08└─Sure, this is bad public relations. But it will soon be forgotten, after somebody else does something massively stupid and violent (say, launching a pointless and ineffective missile strike halfway around the world). Meanwhile, United will continue to sell tickets, their stock will bounce back, and...
[16:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:57] <exec> 08└─Rinse. Wash. Repeat. Profit.
[16:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:59] <exec> 08└─are all cops in Chicago heartless thugs?
[16:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:01] <exec> 08└─Posers! [complex.com] Now, let's place bets on who can do it faster. I can see the monitors in the Kino lounge now...
[16:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:03] <exec> 08└─Just when you think it can't get any worse. Probably 2 billion people worldwide have heard of this incident. It's starting to look like a PR case study.
[16:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:05] <exec> 08└─Seriously, there are people saying United did the right thing. Oddly enough those people are so far of the conservative bent, but I would have imagined that violent removal of a proper paying customer already sitting in their assigned seat would be a bigger deal. The corporate aristocracy is really...
[16:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:08] <exec> 08└─How many more years before they can sweep something like this completely under the rug? Tweets and shares automatically deleted due to "technical issues" but really because a corporate client paid a lot of money to scrub the story from the web. The mainstream media has already been co-opted, journal...
[16:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:10] <exec> 08└─You get paid in vouchers. It's the equivalent of store credit. Don't know how you're going to make money with that.
[16:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:12] <exec> 08└─The flight wasn't actually overbooked.
[16:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:14] <exec> 08└─Sure, this is bad public relations. But it will soon be forgotten...
[16:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:16] <exec> 08└─It was a voucher for travel, not cash. It was also what you needed to use to buy your ticket home.
[16:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 2322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:19] <exec> 08└─Those four crew could have flown, 45 minutes, or driven 4 hours. The result of coercing a doctor to volunteer to be re-accomodated, resulted in a 2 hour delay. So that is 2 hours and 45 minutes. Maybe the United crew should have just driven. What happened here is that United is unwilling to pay the...
[16:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:41] <exec> 08└─I think you mixed up your orders of magnitude. There are a lot more people having affairs than committing terrorist attacks.
[16:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03chewbacon [1032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:43] <exec> 08└─He was just trying to help a cousin pay her bills....
[16:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:45] <exec> 08└─Additional facts. Democrats take dick pics which get posted online.
[16:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:47] <exec> 08└─Extragovernment affair
[16:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:49] <exec> 08└─There are a lot more people having affairs than committing terrorist attacks.
[16:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:52] <exec> 08└─Your argument might work better if you separated the Christians-who-see-any-non-believer-as-someone-to-convert (either in person, or by force of law when they support politicians) and the Politicians-that-suck-up-to-Christians ??
[16:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:54] <exec> 08└─You can also tell he is a Republican in a Red State because his ass is gone. Republicans take tossing out the bad apples a bit more seriously. Democrats, no matter how many felonies (Sen. Kennedy, Bill Clinton), never punish their politicians when they commit crimes; no they rally around him because...
[16:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:06] <exec> 08└─It appears you have no desire to be part of society. Don't let the door hit your behind on the way out.
[16:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 1632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:08] <exec> 08└─I'd absolutely agree, but that's another topic altogether. It's also one that I think is really bizarre in American politics. Both sides seem to be logically broken. - The right tend to argue that people are inherently unequal yet everybody can improve their position in their lives if they just...
[16:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:10] <exec> 08└─There's no fallacy. You simply want to impose fairness at my expense and you can go fuck yourself with that.
[16:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:12] <exec> 08└─That works with highways because they enable greater productivity through reduced transportation costs. When you make earning a zero sum game (by definition, "income equality" does this), then there have to be people who are hurt to benefit others.
[16:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:14] <exec> 08└─If you're enjoying your work, you're not working hard enough.
[16:49:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:17] <exec> 08└─You would think he sleeps well at night based on his apparent conviction, but his brain isn't worthless so his subconscious is busy ticking away. I'm guessing he's living a sort of constant existential crisis where his Ego fights against his Id, ignoring reality and doing its best to rationalize his...
[16:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:19] <exec> 08└─He's just a sociopath, full stop. A normal, healthy human being with a functioning set of mirror neurons simply does not believe these things. I'm just glad to see this forum finally hitting critical mass on Chief Shitting Bull here and giving him en masse what I've been doing all alone for months....
[16:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 1298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:21] <exec> 08└─I think risk is always one of the biggest players for those not born rich. In my case my wife and I moved half way around the world (having never once left the US before) with $8k in my pocket on a one way trip. It all worked out and I was able to dramatically cut my living expenses and finally get...
[16:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:23] <exec> 08└─"Happily looking forward to?" Jesus. If your naive dumb ass thinks you're going to get something you deserve but were prevented from obtaining in your new right-wing dystopia, you are sorely mistaken. This kind of person cares only about themselves. They'll throw you in the gas chamber along with al...
[16:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:25] <exec> 08└─The other day my boss pulled up his sweet new car and I complimented him on it. He replied, "Thanks. You know if you work hard, set goals, stay determined and put in long hours - I can get an even better one next year!"
[16:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:27] <exec> 08└─People are not equal, but the governement should treat people equally under the law. There are intrinsic factors (genetics, work ethic, etc.) and extrinsic factors (parental income, location, etc.) that contribute to people not being equal. Equal opportunity is about trying to level the playing fiel...
[16:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:55] <exec> 08└─My youngest daughter dropped out about a year after her mother left us. But she had even greater stressors at school, including bullies and especially a vice principal who hated white people and girls. The good news is, she got her GED and is now Phi Beta Kappa at Cincinnati State, while working ful...
[16:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:56] <exec> 08└─How did she handle all these problems to get a GED and college?
[16:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:59] <exec> 08└─"suddenly drop out" is two months later? That's not very sudden.
[16:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:01] <exec> 08└─better not give those kids a free lunch, that woman is clearly a degenerate that was not failed by the lack of abortions or religious guilt manipulations by others. She chose to drop out! Granted, she chose to have sex, too. but 18 years of hardship, if not longer, is a high price to pay compared to...
[16:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:06] <exec> 08└─Insurance co's could require customers follow certain policies to qualify for coverage, and even audit them. However, something tells me companies will either balk at the cost of the requirements, or get sloppy and skip them over time such that they won't qualify for reimbursement when bleep actuall...
[16:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:32] <exec> 08└─The post I replied to was (IIUC) referring to this: What do you think, would you trust such AI even if you couldn't parse its methods? Is deep learning AI technology inherently un-knowable?
[16:53:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 1439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:33] <exec> 08└─I was worried more about the AI being extremely skittish meaning it would be nervous and jerky making for a rough ride. Part of it is if you're obviously reading the newspaper or sleeping or eating breakfast people would cut the AI car off as a game to see if they can spill your coffee or wake you u...
[16:53:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:36] <exec> 08└─There's a reason why we usually require proper instruction with a final test rather than just relying on people self-learning.
[16:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 1950 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:38] <exec> 08└─and I think you missed my point. Driving is hard, really hard. Not the technical skill required to go round the block a few times (hell, I did that as a 7 year old in my dads car). The ability to anticipate events, the ability to read what other drivers are doing, understand their intent. The abilit...
[16:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:40] <exec> 08└─and change TPS report headers. Didn't you get the memo?
[16:53:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03massa [5547] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:42] <exec> 08└─You do know that the only honest answer a human would give you is "I don't know" because, well, we THINK we know how we make decisions, but it's all an illusion...
[16:53:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 3325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:44] <exec> 08└─Ah I see. Well the only reason the car would need to slam on the brakes and jerk around is if it didn't read the conditions of the road correctly. This includes the drivers of other vehicles. When I was taught to drive, I was taught that having to swerve to avoid obstacles or slam the brakes on was...
[16:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:53:46] <exec> 08└─Lol, now that is the realm of philosophy :) A debate I am not drunk enough for right now xD For me, usually I can explain the reasoning behind why I did manoeuvrers and what I was trying to achieve by them (and where they went wrong/what could have gone wrong, etc...) . However ask me "Why" I did so...
[16:54:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:28] <exec> 08└─If we are talking about a comment then no because no moderator intervention is needed to approve the actual post. It is posted directly by the user. We can only vote it up/down to change it's score. We can't vote to delete a post or hide it permanently. Only the soylent crew has that ability. Articl...
[16:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 1556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:29] <exec> 08└─It's irrelevant in this context to the site owner because they aren't actually removing any content. They aren't actually changing visibility. Moderation on SN is a purely additive process -- other users add extra information to a post, which gets sent to the viewer, who can configure their reader t...
[16:54:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:31] <exec> 08└─Active moderation under strict liability for any misses is not financially viable and any large community with zero moderation becomes 4chan and not viable. They hope to make those the only two choices available and win.
[16:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:54:34] <exec> 08└─You seem to forget that originally, copyright only applied to the written word and sheet music. It still applies to the written word. Paste an Isaac simov story (Except Youth, his only work that's in the public domain) and his widow and kids will be going after you. BUT, S/N's site managers don't mo...
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[17:46:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mcgrew [701] 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 286 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:52] <exec> 08└─I swore off air travel when they instituted the TSA. Sure, trains, cars, and boats take longer but you don't have to put up with bureaucracy, either government or corporate. I'm starting to wonder--are all cops in Chicago heartless thugs? Are thuggish cops the cause of the murder rate?
[17:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:17] <exec> 08└─If it were $800 in REAL MONEY, I would do it. However, having done this kinda crap before... its not. Its $800 in United Dollars. They can be redeemed for ONE (round-trip) flight (after a $75 each way booking fee). They must be redeemed within 12 months. I functionally have no loyalty - intense loya...
[17:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:18] <exec> 08└─You're right. But his/her point seems to be that before long, corporations like United, will bribe congress and whoever else it takes to have unlimited powers to scrub the internet nice and shiny sparkling clean. With a smile. It won't matter if people get cell phone videos of police re-accommodatin...
[17:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:20] <exec> 08└─Seriously, there are people saying United did the right thing. Oddly enough those people are so far of the conservative bent, but I would have imagined that violent removal of a proper paying customer already sitting in their assigned seat would be a bigger deal. The corporate aristocracy is really...
[17:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:22] <exec> 08└─Of course there's people agreeing with United. Conservatives are all like that: they thump their chests and scream "law and order!!", so anyone who acts against their authoritarian thugs is deserving of a beating in their worldview. What's really funny and ironic is how many of them claim the "lefti...
[17:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 2631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:25] <exec> 08└─I'm a lot more with the victim who was thrown off of a flight that he paid for, than I am with the airline. But, there ARE two sides to this. Federal law specifies, very clearly, that the pilot of an aircraft (like the captain or master of a ship) is the ultimate authority. Defying his orders is cau...
[17:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03goody [2135] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:27] <exec> 08└─I've never quite understood the general aversion to the TSA, and I'm a very frequent flyer, like almost weekly. They do some stupid things once in awhile, but once you know the security process and what not to take in your carry on bags it's a fairly smooth and trouble free thing. Occasionally I get...
[17:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:29] <exec> 08└─> Never truly thought I'd see the US turn into this post 9/11 nightmare, I miss the "freedom" of the 90s. 9/11, Dubya, 2008 crisis... A trifecta that will be dissected by many history books. The US has known many crises before, but the rest of the world is very different from what it was then.
[17:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:31] <exec> 08└─Ie worthless. No wonder the the "offer" were ignored..
[17:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 659 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:34] <exec> 08└─Ah, that would certainly explain the reluctance to volunteer then. I've only heard anecdotal tales of this, and it's always involved people getting some actual compensation over and above getting them to their destination on the next available flight, sometimes in free tickets/loyalty points, other...
[17:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:36] <exec> 08└─Sell the vouchers?
[17:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:39] <exec> 08└─It's private property. If you don't leave when asked it's called trespassing which is a crime. You don't have a right to be on the plane so gtfo when asked.
[17:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:41] <exec> 08└─...is that they exist. It's pure security theater, adding zero actual security. A cost of billions of dollars and millions of passenger hours - for nothing.
[17:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:43] <exec> 08└─"Curious.. what would be your $$ price to volunteer your seat?" Depends on the situation. Let's forget that I won't fly anymore because TSA and security theater. I DID fly before 9/11/01. I'm just taking some time off, headed for the beaches in Bermuda. Missing my flight puts me into Bermuda a few h...
[17:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:46] <exec> 08└─Ugh... I know plenty of conservative people who think United is wrong and I know what leftists do when in power. #IBelieve #KillAllMen Could it be that your head is so up your ass all you can see is your own self everywhere?
[17:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:48] <exec> 08└─Nice to hear from the Chicago Aviation Police. How's your day going?
[17:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:50] <exec> 08└─Traveling alone, I volunteered once for $400 and a four-hour-later flight, meaning landing at midnight in Chicago in January (they ended up not needing to bump me). Traveling with kids, that would take a really BIG chunk of cash... United did abandon us one time, flying us halfway around the world w...
[17:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:52] <exec> 08└─Parsing words doesn't change the facts. United sold more tickets than they were able to accomdate. United knew, or should have known, days in advance, that their staff would require 4 seats on that flight, and those 4 seats should NOT HAVE BEEN SOLD!! This is, indeed, yet another case of overbooking...
[17:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03tynin [2013] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:54] <exec> 08└─That's actually incorrect. They'll attempt to offer you vouchers, because they can. But you can refuse and ask for cash. It is DOT law. https://www.transportation.gov [transportation.gov] Specifically: Those travelers who don't get to fly are frequently entitled to denied boar...
[17:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:57] <exec> 08└─I had a similar experience with United many years ago. I boarded a relatively empty US coast to coast flight (flight time ~5 hours) with my sedated cats. A deadheading [wikipedia.org] flight attendant took issue with my dry cough and I was removed from the flight over my objections. It was explained...
[17:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:59] <exec> 08└─Conservatives are all like that: they thump their chests and scream "law and order!!" You must know some strange conservatives. Maybe they're all neocons? Do consider that conservatives are classically the people who are for gun rights and self-defense. Personally, in this case, my dream would be fo...
[17:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:01] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the constitutional right to not be searched without a warrant.
[17:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03dyingtolive [952] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:03] <exec> 08└─Not all. I didn't vote Trump, and wouldn't if I was given the chance a second time, but I've been swinging back conservative pretty hard the last year or two and nothing would make me more gleeful than to see United burn for this. Equally appalling is the hit job the media's done on the doctor. But...
[17:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:11] <exec> 08└─Doesn't the NSA and other TLAs have opposing objectives? The NSA for example is to collect intelligence signals from foreign sources, and to protect our government signals from interception. The NSA uses exploits to get into foreign systems. To protect our systems, vulnerabilities need to be public...
[17:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:13] <exec> 08└─The NSA does spend a lot of time reviewing and advising on security of military electronics. People with a Clearance get to know what the NSA found and deems high-risk or not worth keeping secret. They don't know what the NSA keeps to itself, but they can fix more issues than the rest of us (includi...
[17:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:39] <exec> 08└─Seems that's how social conservatives operate. Hypocritically overlook sexual harassment and infidelity by people they perceive as powerful, rich winners who seem to support policies they like, while going bat crazy over supposed sexual peccadillos committed by those they don't like. I really do not...
[17:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:40] <exec> 08└─I should have qualified with Democrat Politicians. Sorry.
[17:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:43] <exec> 08└─Nice cherry picking there. Republicans and Democrats both toss out the bad apples, if and only if, it makes their party look bad to the voters. Members of both parties will then do the most despicable things if it sits well with their voters.
[17:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:45] <exec> 08└─and perform 100 hours of community service as a physician
[17:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:47] <exec> 08└─Maybe. I'm not sure. Let's call the "Christians who see all non believers as converts" as the "Evangelists". (Just because it is a convenient term. But I'll keep the quotes around it.) Let's call the second group the Suck-Ups. Now the Suck-Ups may or may not be "Evangelists". They just want to get e...
[17:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:49] <exec> 08└─You might have a point if you were responding to someone who actually said that.
[17:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:00] <exec> 08└─The whole point of making marijuana legal is so people can smoke it. Any medical benefit (and the "hemp is a wonder-plant" argument) is and always has been a stalking horse for legalization of smoking dope to get high. Seems like the legislature took the medical claims too seriously.
[17:50:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:16] <exec> 08└─Based on TMB's comments in the recent electric motorcycle thread, I'm wondering if he isn't a loner version of a biker (Hell's Angels style).
[17:50:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:17] <exec> 08└─Fair point. I interpreted TFA as saying that income does not reflect productivity, But on second reading this is not quite the argument. It is closer to say that productivity is dominated by geographic and other factors. It would be better if productivity was dominated by ability and effort.
[17:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:20] <exec> 08└─He is a liar, or a troll who lies for the lulz. He has spouted off about running his own business and saying his employees like him in order to prove some point, then he claims to be an employee somewhere not weeks later. For all we know this site is just a pet PR project of the NSA/CIA! haha hmmmmm
[17:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:22] <exec> 08└─I am pretty sure this just wooshed past anyone who dislikes "liberals" because it relies on details that are annoying to have to consider and deal with. Most humans just want the easy blanket answers that don't require much thought.
[17:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:24] <exec> 08└─The problem is that failure CAN be so grave. I'm glad it worked out for you, but it could easily have been a very different story with your family destitute and living with relatives as you get back on your feet. Not everyone has a family safety net, not everyone can even have $8k in savings to try...
[17:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:26] <exec> 08└─If he were lying about that that wouldn't surprise me, but that's small potatoes compared to the real problem IMO...which is that he's a total sociopath. Almost a textbook case. Since he's not physically here in front of me I can't sense it through the air like with the other socio/psychopaths I've...
[17:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TK [2760] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:28] <exec> 08└─Did you really use a chess analogy? White has an advantage [wikipedia.org] because that player goes first.
[17:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:51] <exec> 08└─Additionally, you run one big ass risk of doing your creative DRM incorrectly, causing the game to get confused and marking legit copies as pirated. The more complicated and more spread out the checks, the harder it is to avoid that minefield of uncertainty.
[17:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 1242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:53] <exec> 08└─... for why bad games sell poorly. I've never seen piracy as much of a problem as a software developer. The reason is simple. Piracy itself is irrelevant. What matters is people who normally would have bought your product, but instead chose to pirate it. That group is an extremely tiny fraction of a...
[17:50:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:55] <exec> 08└─As least in Canuckistan, copies for personal study are legal. It only becomes CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR if you resell those unauthorized copies for a profit (commercial copyright infringement). For completeness, the DRM actually overrides your "fair dealing" rights. I am not happy about that.
[17:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:32] <exec> 08└─Did you RTFS? He's talking about the fact you can do this with javascript running in an unexploited web browser. All someone has to do is get their javascript loaded somehow (probably involving an ad network), in some tab, and wait for you to enter passwords/PINs/etc. in another tab or outside the b...
[17:54:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:45] <exec> 08└─Just give the bombs AI too and load them up on anti-depressants so they aren't willing to go all suicidal...
[17:54:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:46] <exec> 08└─the only way to "hack" it is by explosively damaging the rails, something that can't be done remotely (yet).
[17:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:49] <exec> 08└─It sounds like you never heard of teenagers.
[17:54:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:51] <exec> 08└─You've never seen Dark Star, have you?
[17:54:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:53] <exec> 08└─If a reboot was a punishment, would Windows be asking for them all the time?
[17:54:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 2582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:54:55] <exec> 08└─Automated or autonomous cars are often pitched with an abolishment of private property theme, sometimes the from each according to their ability and to each according to their need is stronger than the autonomous car message itself. I don't think its a useful or effective strategy. I mean, that kind...
[17:55:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Moderation can Undo DMCA Safe Harbour, Appeals Court Rules - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:55:42] <exec> 08└─I understand the different meanings of the word moderate here on SN. But the **AA holes will deliberately conflate the meanings. The argument will be that if users "moderate" the content, then SN should lose safe harbor. Hopefully this won't fly. But don't count on it. The world is spiraling out of...
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[18:47:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:17] <exec> 08└─...is that they exist. It's pure security theater, adding zero actual security. A cost of billions of dollars and millions of passenger hours - for nothing.
[18:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:28] <exec> 08└─No, it is not "private property". It is government regulated corporate property, publicly traded - there is nothing private about an aircraft. Absolutely nothing. The airline is operating a service. When services are paid for up front, one has every right to expect those services to be performed in...
[18:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:30] <exec> 08└─Germany is already on it [soylentnews.org] hiring former Stasi staff etc. The cat is still out of the bag however so any attempt to move in a bad direction will just cultivate counter moves by a whole army of skilled people. You are probably right in that it may not reach the web. It will instead re...
[18:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:32] <exec> 08└─Indeed. We don't know the particulars of the doctor's job; he could have been scheduled to talk to people with runny noses, or to perform multiple urgent life saving surgeries.
[18:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:34] <exec> 08└─Do you think he meant the non-authoritarian Gulag or Pol pot re-education? ;-)
[18:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:36] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but I have by now read a couple of article by lawyers. It's not the wild west, with airline captains shooting passengers at will. It's a heavily regulated industry, and the regulations are pretty clear. As I understand the situation, they do have the right to remove passengers, but for a spec...
[18:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:38] <exec> 08└─Yep, what he said. Facebook already did some scrubbing of Dakota Pipeline protest videos. They were totally available, then within a very short time (same day) the videos began getting scrambled then completely lost. So yeah, we've already come to this corporate controlled new world but we still hav...
[18:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:41] <exec> 08└─When a contract has been made ie the ticket. The property is lended to the ticket holder and anything else is breach of contract.
[18:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:43] <exec> 08└─They will use "copyright" and "fake news" laws to do it.
[18:47:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:45] <exec> 08└─Royal Jordanian has already taken the chance [independent.co.uk] to stomp on United Airlines by tweeting that "We are here to keep you united" and “Dragging is strictly prohibited”. I think the company might get a new name: United Thuglines
[18:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:47] <exec> 08└─You must know some strange conservatives. Maybe they're all neocons? That's what typical conservatives are these days. If you don't fit that mold, then you're not a typical conservative. You complain about violence by cops and unnecessary SWAT raids, but the conservatives who now run our government,...
[18:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:49] <exec> 08└─Eh, comparing the extremists on each political side of the spectrum would be more accurate. So you shared the extreme leftists, and I'll respond with the extreme right: bomb clinics, kill minorities, harass innocent people, and violate basic human rights. As always humanity is a spectrum, not everyo...
[18:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:51] <exec> 08└─In the latter case I smell big lawsuit.
[18:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:54] <exec> 08└─Are you the contracts guy?, forgot to go ac for this one.
[18:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:56] <exec> 08└─Of [nytimes.com] course [revelist.com]
[18:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:06] <exec> 08└─and to protect our government signals from interception
[18:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:08] <exec> 08└─What if the US government signal is communicating with Russia? (grin)
[18:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:10] <exec> 08└─Who else thinks that the name Shadow Brokers is awesome?
[18:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:13] <exec> 08└─Sounds totally like the movie Swordfish from 2001.
[18:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:43] <exec> 08└─Using her as suicide bombers is a pretty efficient way to shut the mistress up. Just be sure she's cleaned up any DNA from her dress, though...
[18:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:45] <exec> 08└─I originally assumed him to be a Democrat because there wasn't an (R) after every mention of his name: when a Republican does something wrong the new loves to brand them but when it's a Democrat suddenly there's no letter after their name. Was quite surprised to get halfway through the summary befor...
[18:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:47] <exec> 08└─They asked the NSA for advice on terminology. When they do it, it's not "fornicate", it's "Gifting Cardio".
[18:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:49] <exec> 08└─Democrats, no matter how many felonies (Sen. Kennedy, Bill Clinton), never punish their politicians when they commit crimes; no they rally around him because to them the only thing wrong was getting caught. If you see a Democrat leaving office it is because he was finally convicted and has to vacate...
[18:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:51] <exec> 08└─Republicans in many states run on a platform of God-fearing personal purity, probity and absolute faithfulness (and small government and big guns...). That makes what he did pretty antithetic to the base's expectations. At least, I didn't read that he made her have an abortion. Democrats don't run o...
[18:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:53] <exec> 08└─Interesting plea agreement there. Can he really be prevented from taking public office again?
[18:48:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:55] <exec> 08└─Boo! Boo! Boo!
[18:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:06] <exec> 08└─Didn't Obama direct that the federal anti weed laws not be enforced in stats that had legalization? Couldn't Trump undo that with an executive order?
[18:49:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 359 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:42] <exec> 08└─Buzzard... Can you go more than one post deep without contradicting yourself? >>True. A lot of people like to call that luck but they're largely wrong. And one reply later >> It's their tough luck is what it is. The world never has been and never will be anything remotely resembling fair. So is it l...
[18:50:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:29] <exec> 08└─anyone can learn multivariate calculus if they have the guts to work hard enough, It's much harder if you can't afford to pay someone to teach you.
[18:50:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03lonehighway [956] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:31] <exec> 08└─I think a lot of the opportunities that I stumbled into were simply because I was a "nice young man." People were willing to give me the benefit of the doubt. What I did with those opportunities was up to me, so maybe a combination of luck and work?
[18:50:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:33] <exec> 08└─The way it works is hard work may or may not pay off but the lack of it is pretty much guaranteed to not pay off. Unless you use your l33t skills to get born rich, that is...
[18:50:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:35] <exec> 08└─I will not allow you, under any circumstance, to steal from me. Good thing we live in a Democratic Republic, whose constitution explicitly grants the right to levy taxes, then, eh? Makes the stealing bit unnecessary.
[18:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:37] <exec> 08└─Oh spare me. I paid to sit in a lecture hall with 300 of my closest friends and then discussion group was led by a non-English speaking TA with 30 of my closest friends. I learned calculus all on my own, with the addition of watching some lectures, and there are now better lectures free on the inter...
[18:50:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:40] <exec> 08└─It also works with education because that enables greater productivity through reduced employee adaptation costs. It also works with medicine because it enables greater productivity through reduced healthcare costs. It also works with politics because it enables greater transparency through increase...
[18:50:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:42] <exec> 08└─They chose to have a child while not rich. I had absolutely no say in the decision... Voting for anti-abortion politicians is having a say in the decision.
[18:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 1749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:44] <exec> 08└─I think most of everybody on all sides would agree with working towards equality of opportunity even if the proposed means of doing so might be different. Where things get weird is what I actually mentioned in my post: enforced equality of result. Companies can be sued for hiring too many "blues" or...
[18:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:09] <exec> 08└─$130 in Canada for Deluxe.
[18:51:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:11] <exec> 08└─You are never entitled to a game, just because you want to try it. If you want to tell the publisher how much money they lose by being hard to buy from, or how their DRM scheme would brick your PC, go ahead. That still doesn't entitle you to the game, or give you the moral right to play it against t...
[18:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-clad Sperm - 806 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:29] <exec> 08└─Damn - I'm willing to volunteer to implant some sperm for the sake of a woman's health. Are there no other perverts here, able and willing to help out a damsel in distress? Come on guys, you're embarrassing me!! On a half serious note, I wonder if some sperm are more suitable in some cases. In natur...
[18:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:52] <exec> 08└─Can't this be easily defeated by not letting browser javascript sniff your sensors? And also, prevent accelerometer reading during pin/password entry? Actual solutions to the root of the problem...
[18:51:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 1896 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:54] <exec> 08└─I think there's some differences in what you're discussing vs what the article is about, but what you seem to be describing works quite well. Android phones have had the ability to randomize the unlock keypad for a while. I have it enabled on my phone, so every time I go to unlock it the keypad is d...
[18:52:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Severe Bleaching Hits the Great Barrier Reef for Second Year in a Row - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:52] <exec> 08└─3rd Option: What Humans want, and what Darwinian selection provides, are not the same thing.
[18:53:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:38] <exec> 08└─Look at the PCI compliance requirements to accept credit card information. That is a good starting point. They have TONS of documentation about security practices and isolation. It would cost more, but it would be good if everyone jumped through those hoops to get PCI compliance. Sort of like requir...
[18:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Insurers Scramble to Put a Price on a Cyber Catastrophe - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:53:39] <exec> 08└─hah, agile leads to defective software? I'll tell you what leads to defective software. Not writing unit tests. The duration of your design/program/release cycle has nothing to do with bugs. It has to do with customer feedback. If you want to talk about one of the defining things between a software...
[18:55:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the heads up on that book. I grabbed it from the Library yesterday afternoon and am a few chapters in. So far, good stuff!"
[18:55:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Dark Secret at the Heart of Artificial Intelligence - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:55:20] <exec> 08└─It doesn't look like anything to me.
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[19:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:20] <exec> 08└─Looks like Toshiba thought it could get in on some of that sweet, sweet governmental theft, only to find that America's nuclear industry is in such disrepair that it had to be built from the ground up at way too much cost. Maybe this is a sign that Big Civilization is dead, and the whole machine is...
[19:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:21] <exec> 08└─Things that run on fumes are not exactly in the future that Big Civilization is heading towards. I'd really prefer nuclear be successful though.
[19:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Company Abandons Planned Acquisition of Vizio - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:30] <exec> 08└─So, who's gonna be spying on me, in the end? It's getting so hard to keep track...
[19:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03daver!west!fmc [1391] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chinese Company Abandons Planned Acquisition of Vizio - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:32] <exec> 08└─There's also a report going round that LeEco delayed payroll for US employees. http://www.sfgate.com [sfgate.com] And one that they are planning to lay off 1/3 of their US employees: https://www.bloomberg.com
[19:46:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:47] <exec> 08└─The flight wasn't actually overbooked. United had four employees that they needed to get to Louisville so they bounced four passengers to accommodate their own people.
[19:46:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1259 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:50] <exec> 08└─Wow, that is the worst bit of rationalizing I've seen in a while. Cause a doctor sitting peacefully on a plane really sets off their PTSD. This is a good indicator of the Police State we are now living in. We've kinda lived in a police state for a long time, but generally the corruption and bad poli...
[19:47:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 2322 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:04] <exec> 08└─Those four crew could have flown, 45 minutes, or driven 4 hours. The result of coercing a doctor to volunteer to be re-accomodated, resulted in a 2 hour delay. So that is 2 hours and 45 minutes. Maybe the United crew should have just driven. What happened here is that United is unwilling to pay the...
[19:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:42] <exec> 08└─There are people who actively work that angle -- usually business travelers whose schedules are flexible. It takes some careful planning, but it can net you some money and perks now and then.
[19:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:44] <exec> 08└─Who is the contracts guy?
[19:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:46] <exec> 08└─Parsing words doesn't change the facts. United sold more tickets than they were able to accomdate.
[19:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:48] <exec> 08└─IANAL, but I have by now read a couple of article by lawyers. It's not the wild west, with airline captains shooting passengers at will. It's a heavily regulated industry, and the regulations are pretty clear. As I understand the situation, they do have the right to remove passengers, but for a spec...
[19:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:50] <exec> 08└─...and, for the $3200 they were offering, I'm betting that the airline could have found someone with a private plane who would have ferried the 4 employees the 300 miles. I'm also betting that this wouldn't have happened with Southwest, where the employees are empowered to make customers happy. Note...
[19:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:52] <exec> 08└─Flights originating (and possibly landing) in EU have laws to protect consumers. Fancy that. If the flight is delayed due to something in the airline's control, there are required payments to the flyer. It's one amount for a delayed flight, and more for a cancelled flight. Payments are more for long...
[19:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:54] <exec> 08└─Congrats.. You've become a sheep... Which is the EXACT thing the TSA was created to achieve.. I'd pretty much given up flying, and until last October, the last time I'd flown was back in 2004. What changed is I volunteer with the Redcross and they asked me to deploy to Baton Rouge to assist in the f...
[19:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:56] <exec> 08└─@ that fucktard goody no shoes - it is cowardly, authoritarian pukes like you who REALLY piss me off... so because you are an ineffectual pantywaist who would nebber ebber DARE to traduce ANY laws, regs, or even vague orders from rent-a-kops, and has no use for actual, real, effective civil rights (...
[19:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:59] <exec> 08└─There's been a fair amount of ink/bytes recently about Mastodon, a decentralized microblogging thing that some are claiming will de-throne Twitter. With the distributed, not-just-a-single-server thing, it kinda makes me think of USENET. Throw in mesh networking and maybe there is hope for an informa...
[19:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:01] <exec> 08└─Depends totally upon how tight my schedule is upon arrival at my destination. If I was a doctor and had patients counting on me to be at the office the next day AND I found out there would not be another flight to my destination until the next day, I'd deplane IF they paid me enough to go pay a char...
[19:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:03] <exec> 08└─This guy is going to milk United Airlines for as much as he can screw out of them. Check his history. He saw an opportunity and played it very well.
[19:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:05] <exec> 08└─Well their 95% failure rate of finding weapons or explosives is a good start.
[19:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:07] <exec> 08└─GP could have been more clear on that. I think that GP was referring to Neil Gorsuch and his 4 corporate-friendly cohorts. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[19:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:09] <exec> 08└─I had to fly from Houston to Las Vegas back last October, and my boarding pass said the flight *might* be overbooked, and after finding out that it was not *quite* overbooked but rather 100% FULL, I wish to hell it HAD been overbooked as I would have taken a bump with PLEASURE after seeing what the...
[19:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:22] <exec> 08└─The NSA uses exploits to get into foreign systems.
[19:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:24] <exec> 08└─Are you saying that the NSA had no part at all in either Flame or Stuxnet (and God only knows what else) and that exploits / vulnerabilities are not used to penetrate the targeted systems? Or am I not understanding you correctly?
[19:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:02] <exec> 08└─John Edwards, former senator and presidential candidate, sunk by an extramarital affair.
[19:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:03] <exec> 08└─#NeverTrump Republicans get awarded "Strange New Respect" by the media, apparently that now includes the perk of having your party ID eliminated from the headline of negative stories.
[19:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:05] <exec> 08└─There's not even a HINT of a Lynyrd Skynyrd reference anywhere here. How in the hell is this "Redundant"?
[19:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:46] <exec> 08└─Good talk!
[19:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:47] <exec> 08└─Yep, you got your unfair advantage and you plan to keep it. Stay on top by pul;ling everyone else down.
[19:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 1805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:15] <exec> 08└─There's also cases where they backfire -- the checks don't get coded correctly and misidentify numerous legit copies as being pirated. Then you get into an even bigger support nightmare, because they call support and support tells them to go buy a legal copy when they already own a legal copy. So th...
[19:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:17] <exec> 08└─While US copyright law (Section 107) may not have a specific exemption for that, the UN declaration of human rights [un.org] does: Article 27. Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits...
[19:51:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-Clad Sperm - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:36] <exec> 08└─Can you imagine a grant for studying armored sperm firing doxorubicin molecules out of microscopic Gatling guns, and shows these are more effective than sending in gangs of unarmored and unarmed sperm beating the HeLa cells with their tails? Forget not learning what a histogram is, you wouldn't even...
[19:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Severe Bleaching Hits the Great Barrier Reef for Second Year in a Row - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:01] <exec> 08└─Neither is that a distinct option, nor has anybody argued otherwise.
[19:53:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03iWantToKeepAnon [686] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:53:20] <exec> 08└─Did they find some nice chianti grape vines near by? And evidence of liver in the waste piles?
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[20:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Cold Spot Found on Jupiter - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:27] <exec> 08└─That's where the neoclassical bedroom is located. If you make it there, you'll turn into a starchild.
[20:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Cold Spot Found on Jupiter - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:29] <exec> 08└─Seems "You need Adobe.." is all over this. So any real picture and video links would be appreciated.
[20:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:39] <exec> 08└─A violently imposed monopoly will occasionally throw resources in the right direction; however, the lack of an externally applied discipline (e.g., resource allocation by contractual obligation in a market) means that there will likely be abrupt shifts in direction (e.g., due to politics). People ju...
[20:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:41] <exec> 08└─When corporations get so fat that they forget how to make money. Corporations are a death cycle, not a life cycle. The humane thing is to let them die as fast as possible.
[20:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:43] <exec> 08└─Question for ya: without some form of violence, whaddya do when someone welches on a contract?
[20:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:45] <exec> 08└─The main problem is not that the monopoly is violent, but that it is imposed; the word "violently" is merely an emphasis. More to the point, the enforcement of a contract (as per the contract) is by definition voluntary; each party to the contract agreed to such enforcement before the game began. T...
[20:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:47] <exec> 08└─Good thing nobody ever lies or cheats, and everyone always fairly reciprocates responsibilities. You've got some great ideas there, I'm sure they'll catch on
[20:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Company Abandons Planned Acquisition of Vizio - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:58] <exec> 08└─LeEco found that they could partner with Vizio to get an app pre-loaded to pre-compromise the TVs. Probably also other Vizio products. That is undoubtedly much cheaper than acquiring Vizio outright. LeEco (Chinese company) gets malware preloaded onto Vizio TVs as well as it's own TVs. A jumping off...
[20:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chinese Company Abandons Planned Acquisition of Vizio - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:00] <exec> 08└─Laying off employees or re-accommodating them?
[20:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:25] <exec> 08└─AND the trouble is, today, when you get bumped, you don't get COLD HARD CASH via airline check or greenbacks, you get a fucking voucher for future travel ON THAT AIRLINE... I suppose that would tolerable for somebody who flies a LOT, but for people like me who have flown ONCE in the last 15 years on...
[20:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:27] <exec> 08└─You're playing their game and you don't even realize that you are being suckered. "Conservative" means conserving the status quo. If you don't want to conserve the status quo, you are NOT "Conservative". As you move away from the "everything is pretty much OK as it is; let's keep it this way" positi...
[20:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:29] <exec> 08└─Have them force you of and then sue them to oblivion while a PR agent does whatever the lawyer missed?
[20:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:31] <exec> 08└─It's an important distinction here. There are rules about what they can and can't do and being denied boarding due to being overbooked is legally very different from what happened. My guess is that UA is going to be hit with a sizable lawsuit due to how they held this. They'll be on the hook for his...
[20:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:33] <exec> 08└─I've been swinging back conservative pretty hard the last year or two Can you name a candidate close to your current political position who has anything resembling a plan to expand the number of USAians with full-time jobs at a living wage? I've only seen 1 candidate with such an outline. [googleuse...
[20:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:35] <exec> 08└─Almost seems like a train ticket is faster?
[20:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:37] <exec> 08└─Aircrush? ;)
[20:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:40] <exec> 08└─In my view their existence makes you less safe. They create choke points full of targets to be attacked because they do dumb things like decrease the number of checkpoints in an airport from 6 spread out to 2 giant ones. Add in that it seems like they like to pilfer items out of checked luggage and...
[20:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:42] <exec> 08└─I suggest you re-read your constitution. Its quite evident you haven't read it lately.
[20:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:44] <exec> 08└─Well shame they skipped the offering cash step and went straight to the attempting to enforce corporate profit margins with violence phase. If it's not worth UA paying a few kilobucks to get passengers willingly off the plane then perhaps it's not worth that much for their staff to be on that plane....
[20:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:46] <exec> 08└─It had better be cash in hand and not some voucher for travel on their shitty airline. Beyond that it would be dependent on where I was stuck and since I only fly for work I would have to be coming back as policy says we cannot volunteer to give up our seat for outbound travel to a customer site. If...
[20:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:48] <exec> 08└─Even driving would be faster. And Driving their crew, to their needed destination rather than bumping paid passengers would have also been cheaper, even if they had to hire a limo. Because this is going to end up costing them millions when all the dust settles.
[20:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:51] <exec> 08└─In that case, the man was acting suspicious. I don't think that is the case in this more recent incident.
[20:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:53] <exec> 08└─In the (meta)thread, there have been several examples of rogue cops on the public payroll. Clearly, the answer is privatized cops. All hail Neoliberalism/Libertarianism! cowardly, authoritarian pukes like you [...] fuck you sideways with a pineapple Keep posting. I enjoy reading your anti-Authoritar...
[20:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's a US vs. EU carrier thing.
[20:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:57] <exec> 08└─Detroit is so bad that there's no good hotel or any nice neighborhood anywhere ?
[20:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:59] <exec> 08└─http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/united-cites-wrong-rule-for-illegally-de-boarding-passenger/ [lawnewz.com] United is incorrectly citing the denied boarding compensation rule in its COC, and the federal rule upon which it is based [14 CFR 250.5], to justify requiring a passenger who has already been...
[20:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:01] <exec> 08└─Almost nobody knows the actual rules. I was surprised they could offer cash as well, and even more surprised that they had to pay me at all. I volunteered once since I'm a big guy and they were *paying* me to get off a full flight and booked onto a not so full flight. Got rolled since they somewhat...
[20:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:03] <exec> 08└─Are you joking? I can't tell.
[20:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 2036 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:06] <exec> 08└─Which was exactly my point. Elections are over. Time to bury the habit looking at every single thing through the glass of binary. Some poor dude got dragged off of a flight and got a bloody nose for no fault of his own except that he demanded the "system" to stay true to its word. There is a lesson...
[20:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:08] <exec> 08└─"Stampede of booking cancellations may bankrupt United". Nuff said, vote with your feet/wallet. Economics 101.
[20:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:10] <exec> 08└─I think he just wanted to go home and wanted them to pick somebody else. Whatever it is UA deserve getting screwed. As far as I've seen: 1) Most other airlines don't handle more passengers than seats the way UA does. 2) And even if their staff mishandle passengers their CEO doesn't defend and praise...
[20:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:25] <exec> 08└─I was replying to your sentence which I quoted. That sentence is certainly true, and is the Congressionally-mandated mission of the NSA and CIA. The controversy arises because the Congressionally mandated prohibition against using these methods against US Citizens on US soil is being ignored, and th...
[20:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:18] <exec> 08└─Next thing you know we'll have violent negros disrupting our community. And the most heinous thing of all, white women under the influence will want to sleep with well endowed negro men. God forbid people enjoy themselves.
[20:50:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 127 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:30] <exec> 08└─A popular phrase amongst those who are either being unfair or to whom life has been more than fair. Everyone else, not so much.
[20:51:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 113 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:17] <exec> 08└─The way it works is hard work may or may not pay off but the lack of it is pretty much guaranteed to not pay off.
[20:51:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kaszz [4211] 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:19] <exec> 08└─Don't work on a playing field that is rigged. Effort pays, but only if you spend it on the right problem.
[20:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:51] <exec> 08└─Sure, but name me one great Scottish porn actor.
[20:51:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:52] <exec> 08└─I'm brought a great measure of happiness knowing you have to pay taxes and pitch in to help improve civilization whether you like it or not :)
[20:51:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:55] <exec> 08└─By analogy something like Germany in the 20s sucked, but you can't have Germany in the 30s without first passing thru Germany in the 20s, sort of.
[20:51:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:57] <exec> 08└─Hard work always pays off, not always to the worker.
[20:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-Clad Sperm - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:45] <exec> 08└─Yup, I think you hit the nail on the head [cmu.edu] with this one.
[20:53:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:09] <exec> 08└─The article isn't super clear about it but they were able to detect motion while the screen was locked on some third party browsers on both iOS and Android. Table of findings : https://blogs.ncl.ac.uk [ncl.ac.uk] So both in browser passwords and lock screen PINS as wel...
[20:54:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Identify Remains of 14,000-Year-Old Seeds: Fava Bean - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:54:24] <exec> 08└─Why does it bother you so much to reply?
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[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:39] <exec> 08└─why rule out violence? a few overzealous punishments would be better than everybody getting screwed daily by government.
[21:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─Nothing about what I've said depends upon angelic behavior—quite the contrary, in fact; what I've said embraces the fact that people are not angelic without the enforcement of clear agreements. It is in each party's self-interest to make sure that the beneficial aspects of a contract be enforced,...
[21:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:43] <exec> 08└─toshiba@earth: $ make money make: *** No rule to make target 'money'. Stop. toshiba@earth: $ you're right
[21:47:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1620 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:46] <exec> 08└─Conservatives are all like that: they thump their chests and scream "law and order!!" You must know some strange conservatives. Maybe they're all neocons? Do consider that conservatives are classically the people who are for gun rights and self-defense. Personally, in this case, my dream would be fo...
[21:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 2068 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:40] <exec> 08└─The Doctor was totally in the wrong, I'll say it. They sell tickets with many terms, all with differing pricing. You can opt for refundable tickets, meaning if your plans change you can change your travel plans and not be locked into flying on a specific time flight. This of course costs a bit more....
[21:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:41] <exec> 08└─The FAA has strict rules for the pilot in command (PIC). But it's not clear that the pilot was in command. Usually, the gate agent is in charge of the plane until they close the doors and/or push back. There was once an official transfer of control with a salute.
[21:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 1201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:44] <exec> 08└─I say let him. Corporations are scum, cops are scum, and this whole thing is about scum. The guy should get tens of millions in compensation, if only to take that money away from the scum. You bring up an interesting point though. Do people that hate on "SJWs" take issue with the Social Justice goal...
[21:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:00] <exec> 08└─Ok, thanks for clarification. I am well aware of the domestic spying and am a frequent critic. For example where I wrote: If I believed that the NSA was working in our national interest
[21:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:01] <exec> 08└─"The Shadow Broker is an individual at the head of an expansive organization which trades in information, always selling to the highest bidder." http://masseffect.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[21:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:43] <exec> 08└─If you wanted a counter factual you could cite ...
[21:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:45] <exec> 08└─I see you're responding to someone who doesn't have a brain. Futile.
[21:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:47] <exec> 08└─Things like this are bound to happen now and then when one posts just before falling asleep.
[21:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:49] <exec> 08└─He also failed to mention how the dominant party in that state trumps up charges against the minority party. On the subject of Alabama, governors, and intrigue: Don Siegelman was an immensely popular governor of Alabama. One problem: He was a Democrat. Can't have that. Alabama Republicans cooked up...
[21:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:02] <exec> 08└─He doesn't even need that. Attorney General Sessions can direct the DOJ to ramp up enforcement and prosecute dispensaries. Sessions is infamous for being extremely anti-marijuana, so I can only assume that Trump is actually holding him back, but I could be wrong and they could change policy at any t...
[21:50:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:03] <exec> 08└─Can't tell if you're making fun of me for being a stick in the mud or the legislature for fearing doom if smoking dope is allowed. I'll assume both.
[21:51:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:41] <exec> 08└─I think that part of it is risk taking.
[21:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:42] <exec> 08└─The right is already the status quo.
[21:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:44] <exec> 08└─None. They all suffer from brewer's droop.
[21:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:46] <exec> 08└─I hope you're sterile or profoundly ugly.
[21:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:49] <exec> 08└─But people that oppose the left are generally pretty good folks. Nice neighbors, easy to get along with, fun to build a civilization with. Much more tolerant
[21:52:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:52:18] <exec> 08└─Playing a game without paying, when it's still actively sold, is not fair use. Period. Unauthorized copies are not all lost sales, but a variable fraction of them is, depending on the game. Unauthorized copies are only advertising to the extent that someone will eventually buy the game or its sequel...
[21:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:03] <exec> 08└─Well, it looks like Apple patched this [appleinsider.com] last year.
[21:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tilt Sensors Can Leak Your Phone's Password - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:04] <exec> 08└─Let's see ... either they have remote access to your phone or they don't (in this case the don't have "remote access" but can theoretically get your PIN). But what good is your PIN if they do not have physical access to the phone? And if they actually have remote access to your phone what good is yo...
[21:53:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:39] <exec> 08└─Never knew any dropouts myself... I should have dropped out though. I was miserable my last year. Nothing to do, really, except sleep in every class and wait. Nearly everyone in my high school class from 9th grade graduated. Not everyone though. A couple died in gang fights, or fighting drug dealers...
[21:53:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:41] <exec> 08└─I find it a fascinating display of projection that in most of the examples I provided it was the hyper-left-wing education system that screwed those kids over by telling them they can't graduate because they missed too many class hours for a variety of reasons. The concept that becoming educated is...
[21:53:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:43] <exec> 08└─So, it appears to me the elite are deliberately "dumbing down" the education of our younger folk, waiting for us older folk to die out.
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[22:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outbreak of Rat Lungworm on Maui - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:27] <exec> 08└─"Rat lungworm" may refer to the nematodes; the illness may be more properly called eosinophilic meningitis. I wrote "it is contracted by ingesting insufficiently cooked slugs, snails, or their mucus" but the health department's page warns that "freshwater prawns, crabs, and frogs" should be cooked t...
[22:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Cold Spot Found on Jupiter - 1372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:36] <exec> 08└─From the press release, here's a link to a video in which an astronomer explains the spot, which is shown: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] There are various utilities for downloading from Youtube; cclive works for me. Or if you dare, it can be viewed in the browser with som...
[22:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Cold Spot Found on Jupiter - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:38] <exec> 08└─I can't be the only one finding a great cold spot in my bed every night, and wondering about the market's incapacity to provide power socks ...
[22:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Cold Spot Found on Jupiter - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:40] <exec> 08└─I doubt NASA is honest, and believe they intentionally misreport space. My hypothesis is that they cannot really go to space, and same applies for the other space agencies. That's why they keep talking with big words about space, to keep alive the impression that they are experts in something imposs...
[22:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Cold Spot Found on Jupiter - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:43] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[22:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:00] <exec> 08└─There is a market for enforcement.
[22:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:01] <exec> 08└─Duck behind your blast shield before you ask him that; there's about to be a big explosion of brain matter :D
[22:47:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 978 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:03] <exec> 08└─Contract enforcement is a service like any other; the industry of contract enforcement is not magical—it can and should co-evolve with the rest of the market of voluntary trade, like any other industry. The most robust form of separation of powers and of checks and balances is competition amon...
[22:48:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Passenger Violently Removed From Overbooked United Airlines Flight - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:08] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the constitutional right to not be searched without a warrant.
[22:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:22] <exec> 08└─An even awesomer one: Shadow Borkers
[22:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Shadow Brokers" Release the Rest of Their NSA Hacking Tools - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:23] <exec> 08└─"Doesn't the NSA and other TLAs have opposing objectives?" If only it were as simple as them doing their jobs. They are also competing for funding. The bigger their cut of the taxpayer-funded pie, the more each agency can advance their own interests and "create demand" for their security services ar...
[22:50:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:09] <exec> 08└─Trump smashes the traditional Christcuck, Glenn Beck sorta super Holy and utterly ineffectual conservatism into tiny pieces. He is something new, whether for good or ill we still await an answer to. Stay tuned. Of course his election was only possible because the situation was so utterly dire that e...
[22:50:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:11] <exec> 08└─Democrats should be subject to double scorn for banging interns. Make the enemy live by his own book of rules. Taking advantage of the power imbalance implied in a CEO/Governor/etc vs a lowly intern to force them into having sex is straight up sexual assault, a horrible sign of the patriarchy, and e...
[22:50:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:27] <exec> 08└─GP's verbiage is very much in line with the claims made while getting the Marihuana[1] Tax Act of 1937 shoved through Congress. If I have a quibble, it's that, at the time, weed was more associated with Mexicans. ...but definitely dark-skinned guys. [1] Yup, that's the way it was spelled on the bill...
[22:50:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:28] <exec> 08└─...in a state where the majority of voters (y'know, the people on the rolls from which they draw jury pools) have decided that weed is useful and not especially harmful. Good luck getting a conviction from a jury, Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III. Hey, don't you ever get tired of looking like a foo...
[22:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06West Virginia on Course for Medical Marijuana - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:30] <exec> 08└─Prediction: just having the law in place will lead to less arrests of non-registered users.
[22:52:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:12] <exec> 08└─Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
[22:52:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:13] <exec> 08└─The problem is that failure CAN be so grave. I'm glad it worked out for you, but it could easily have been a very different story with your family destitute and living with relatives as you get back on your feet. Not everyone has a family safety net, not everyone can even have $8k in savings to try...
[22:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:15] <exec> 08└─dude you just described a cocoon or bubble. you surround yourself with people like yourself and yeah everything is great. then you start spouting ideas that entire other communities don't like and you act like you are the polite person in a sea of anger. you don't see that everyone else is not like...
[22:52:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mass Effect Update Leaves Pirates With Rough Facial Animation - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:52:46] <exec> 08└─I had actually checked. As I mentioned in my other comment, it would count as fair dealing, if not for the DRM.
[22:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Triggers a High-School Student to Suddenly Drop Out? - 1004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:09] <exec> 08└─so then why mention pregnancy if the problem you state is tardiness or absenteeism? i find it hard to understand how a 60s boomer hippie has anything to do with some girl getting pregnant and having no support system available, the sort of future that buzzard hopes to achieve for his district. he do...
[22:57:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06April 13th NASA Briefing on Ocean(s) Near Saturn (or Elsewhere) - 1591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:57:54] <exec> 08└─I doubt NASA is honest, and believe they intentionally misreport space. My hypothesis is that they cannot really go to space, and same applies for the other space agencies. That's why they keep talking with big words about space, to keep alive the impression that they are experts in something imposs...
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[23:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outbreak of Rat Lungworm on Maui - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:40] <exec> 08└─> 9 cases this year (by April) ... Avoided by washing and cooking food thoroughly. Meanwhile, yellow fever and Cholera kill 6-digits every year, and the Influenza a quarter million... "News"
[23:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Cold Spot Found on Jupiter - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:54] <exec> 08└─The problem is currently cost. Space-X is best positioned to get that cost down. If people go into interplanetary space. Then there's the problems with radiation protection, lack of gravity and food growing. For Mars there's the lethal risk of back contamination.
[23:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Cold Spot Found on Jupiter - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:55] <exec> 08└─I just managed to open the journal link now. The entire article, including its illustrations, may be read without a subscription--at least, if one's IP address isn't banned from Wiley's site. The spot is shown in the figures. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com [wiley.com]
[23:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Cold Spot Found on Jupiter - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:57] <exec> 08└─But the US and Russia both had nuclear reactor heated rocket engines available in the 60s-early 70s capable of 2x the fuel economy of current rockets using liquid hydrogen (plus hexane to reduce embrittlement) as a non-reactive propulsion medium. They had plans that could've put men on Mars in the *...
[23:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Cold Spot Found on Jupiter - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:00] <exec> 08└─That's different. That's the Big Wet Spot. Just lay down a towel and go to sleep.
[23:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:21] <exec> 08└─You miss an important point! If enforcement is purely mercenary, then the biggest purse (and so the biggest merc stable) rules the land. Your definition of government as 'being governed by' == 'being controlled by' would mean that I'm governed by the mafioso who takes his monthly envelope, by the on...
[23:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:22] <exec> 08└─government [oxforddictionaries.com] noun 1. The group of people with the authority to govern a country or state; a particular ministry in office.
[23:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:24] <exec> 08└─admin@earth:~$ doas userdel -r toshiba
[23:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toshiba Warns That its Survival is at Risk - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:27] <exec> 08└─> It is in each party's self-interest to make sure that the beneficial aspects of a contract be enforced It is in each party's self-interest to make sure that the negative aspects of a contract be mitigated. > acting outside of the bounds of a contract is dangerous and possibly very costly, because...
[23:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:34] <exec> 08└─> Taking advantage of the power imbalance implied in a CEO/Governor/etc vs a lowly intern Are you talking about super-charisma Bill banging the daughter of a very rich person? Coercion and power imbalance are pretty absurd, given how she never needed the job or money, and he was risking public expos...
[23:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Alabama Governor Robert Bentley Resigns - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:35] <exec> 08└─The U.S. Congress is allowing tax payer money to be directly funneled into the Trump businesses by his weekend junkets, and his wife staying in New York. Guess who happens to own the places where they are staying? When is Congress going to do its job?
[23:52:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondoctor [2963] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:39] <exec> 08└─tl;dr: Hard work is being used as a euphemism for manual labor, but without saying so. Hard work in an office can be as exhausting as pushing a wheel barrow all day, but the reward is often gonna be very different. It's this weird non-commital language that purposely leaves itself open to multiple i...
[23:52:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Americans are Skeptical that Hard Work Will Pay Off - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:40] <exec> 08└─> If it had not been for World War II, would even Einstein or Oppenheimer have been recognized? Special Relativity : 1905 General Relativity : 1907-1915 Yup, this shit's over a hundred years old.
[23:53:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-Clad Sperm - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:19] <exec> 08└─On Pornhub, many women apparently cure their sore throat that way.
[23:53:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fighting Gynecological Cancers with Iron-Clad Sperm - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:32] <exec> 08└─Yeah. I approached this from the concerned partner angle: Honey, isn't it time for your medicine? -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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