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[00:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:24] <exec> 08└─Usually what happens when talented people find themselves living under an oppressive regime, they emigrate somewhere else and do work which benefits another country, and the effect is called Brain Drain. If instead they sit on their hands and refuse to work for the oppressive regime and do nothing,...
[00:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:26] <exec> 08└─Put the code up on GitHub where it will be forked 1,500 times. No one will contribute any optimizations, but there will be lots of forks. Most of the forks will be resume padding by idiots who want to try to claim to have worked for NASA.
[00:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:28] <exec> 08└─I heard Leah Rowe is looking for a new gig.
[00:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: Get Your Walking Frames and Shuffle Over to NASA - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:30] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that was my first impression as well. It's hard to imagine a "summer of FORTRAN code love" by unpaid interns.
[00:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Set to Outpace Intel in Semiconductor Revenues - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:46:42] <exec> 08└─In the early 90s Sematech [technologyreview.com] was a big deal for the industry.
[00:47:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03edIII [791] 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 721 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:53] <exec> 08└─That shit is why I never bought BluRay to begin with. I'm happy enough with the products the pirates put out, which are far far far superior. For instance, my pirated content does not: 1) phone home 2) force me to watch other content 3) make me worry if I have the right encryption software 4) force...
[00:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:14] <exec> 08└─What would "Tutorial D" enable me to do that SQL would not allow?
[00:50:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:39] <exec> 08└─In these cases a gun won't help you. Violence as an individual doesn't solve every problem. Where it will help is the rapist, the crazy stalker, a guy hellbent on killing you. In rarer cases, government agents that want you dead, etc. None of that is every day shit for everyone but unfortunately it...
[00:50:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:41] <exec> 08└─I like your style, its very circular!
[00:50:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:43] <exec> 08└─the truth is flamebait!!!
[00:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:45] <exec> 08└─Translation: I hate you, I hate you, I hate you! <stamps foot> Come to think of it, that covers about 75% of your posts.
[00:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:47] <exec> 08└─government is the biggest killer of humanity yet you claim it would be worse without them. you're a slave.
[00:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:50] <exec> 08└─yeah, or they have paid security that does the dirty work of having guns for them.
[00:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03art guerrilla [3082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:52] <exec> 08└─you are not paying attention, and are virtue signaling out your ass, save it for someone who cares about that idiotic, time-wasting bullshit... i did NOT say their movement was violent because they had violence perpetrated upon them, YOU JUST MADE THAT SHIT UP... MY POINT WAS, the movement can be 10...
[00:51:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bike Tire Insert Takes On Flats and Rough Rides - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:41] <exec> 08└─Almost all rims can support tubeless tires in my experience, some better than others of course. Tubeless tires are basically the same except the sidewalls are a bit stiffer (regular tires are also often run tubeless to save weight). how many of those bike tire sidewalls are stiff enough unpressurize...
[00:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skytorrents: A Refreshing Ad-free and Privacy Focused Torrent Site - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:52:48] <exec> 08└─That still leaves a server to be found. If it doesn't exist, it will be really.. hard to find.
[00:54:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:08] <exec> 08└─So what does all this have to do with whether it's viable to encode your music library with something other than MP3?
[00:54:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:09] <exec> 08└─Jean-Michel Jarre have some music that won't encode right using mp3 joint-stereo at anything below 256 kbit/s. I think the Chronologie album is one of them. (no 4?)
[00:54:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:11] <exec> 08└─Patent DE 438818 Method for Pest control Priority date: Jun 19, 1922 Publication date: Dec 27, 1926 Named after something that rotates around a center..
[00:54:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bending Sheet Glass Using Lasers and Gravity - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:54:29] <exec> 08└─My thinking about lenses were not standard ones but applications that requires some really weird shapes. The main point being that surfaces are smooth and lasers are a precision tool.
[00:56:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03GmanTerry [829] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Orléans Dismantles Monuments to Failed Coup and Civil War Figures - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:56:53] <exec> 08└─I think that erasing our past is not useful. As an example, the first movie I ever took my son to see when he was young was Disney's "Song of the South". It was an interesting film as it was the first major film which mixed cartoon characters like Brer Rabbit with real actors like Uncle Remus. It wa...
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[01:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:17] <exec> 08└─Nah, give it to Micro$oft. They'll DRM it so bad it'll BSOD.
[01:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:18] <exec> 08└─There must be a few kids left who haven't experienced police brutality firsthand, aren't on the no-fly list, haven't had their minty linux seized by the fbi, right? Gotta be someone who is still naive enough to work for the feds!
[01:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:20] <exec> 08└─That is most retarded. Feel free to protest making roads as well.
[01:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:23] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are plenty of overeager students who would invest a free summer for a chance at the $55K in prize money.
[01:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate HAMR Hard Drives Coming in a Year and a Half - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:46:47] <exec> 08└─Heating a specific point on the platter that spins fast to store very very small bits. What could possibly go wrong.. Or is that just the Helium leaking? :p Seems kind of edgy to bet your data on this technology. However someone elses data an my profit. Now we are talking!
[01:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower [Updated] - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:04] <exec> 08└─Not sure I would want to move there, but definitely want to visit. It's kind of the astrophotography mecca. Not to mention the generally amazing landscapes.
[01:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower [Updated] - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:05] <exec> 08└─What so bad about Chile?
[01:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower [Updated] - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:07] <exec> 08└─Well for one my morning commute would be about 14 hours... by plane.
[01:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:26] <exec> 08└─I know what you're thinking: "Did Mozilla and Google warn me six times or only five?" Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost NSA track myself. But being this is a CA death penalty, the most powerful ostracizement in the world, and would wipe your business clean off, you...
[01:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:14] <exec> 08└─As I recall, with DVDs that patience had to last until some manufacturer got careless and made it substantially easier for someone to extract the keys from their hardware
[01:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:15] <exec> 08└─The problem is that you then need to re-encode that data which causes data loss. Top that of with very high speed data issues.
[01:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:18] <exec> 08└─200 Mbit or 200 MByte?
[01:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:20] <exec> 08└─Does the release include high-dynamic-range video [wikipedia.org] data?
[01:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:22] <exec> 08└─Apparently, YES [referencehometheater.com]: The Smurfs 2 (2013) Original Format(s): F65 RAW (4K) Master Format: 4K Features: Dolby Atmos, Includes Blu-ray, HDR, Wide Color Gamut Release Date: TBA Notes: Full details unavailable yet. Shot in native 4K, master is native 4K, unsure of CGI resolution.
[01:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:24] <exec> 08└─200 MB aka 200 megabytes aka 200 million bytes. We are doomed to see this mistake forever.
[01:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:25] <exec> 08└─Yes, it does stand out ... but you can't read or maintain it easily.
[01:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:57] <exec> 08└─To add to that, but not specific to India, the age/period is also different. The POMs were pulling out of a lot of their colonies in Asia in the mid 1900s without going through the bloodbath like when the Yanks did it. Malaysia was another colony that got independence through lobbying, no need to ev...
[01:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:59] <exec> 08└─Still, i only gained my appreciation of them as a useful tool. I fail to see what the point of owning so many is, or making such a big deal out of it. I only need 1 power drill, 1 tablesaw, etc. We dont get coverage of power tool conventions in the news. Why would you need more than 1-2 rifles and m...
[01:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03SacredSalt [2772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:01] <exec> 08└─I think I would take South Africa off of that list. The ANC is basically a terrorist organization that came to power after detonating around 40,000 car bombs and amassing large groups of people to murder others with gasoline, used tires, and pointy sticks. I wouldn't say its "improved" either.
[01:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:03] <exec> 08└─First, it isn't Smith & Wesson any more. Now it's American Outdoor Brands. From a March 14 article: [zerohedge.com] Between Election day and Mid-March, their stock went from $28.39 to $19.13. [zerohedge.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:05] <exec> 08└─You know, you could have just not posted. From Wikipedia [wikipedia.org]: An automatic firearm continuously fires rounds as long as the trigger is pressed or held and there is ammunition in the magazine/chamber. In contrast, a semi-automatic firearm fires one round with each individual trigger-pull....
[01:51:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:08] <exec> 08└─Au contraire, mon petit buse! You are wrong. See? -- ( o Y o ) Not boobies at all! You are looking at the business end of a Rigby Deluxe .577 Double! Do you really know anything at all about guns, Petit Buse? What is the rifling twist in a Rigby? Right hand, or left? Rate?
[01:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:51:10] <exec> 08└─all your get whitey propaganda is just going to get more non whites killed. how do you think whites conquered the world? your race exists at our whim. you are a whining, hungry dog. get too nippy and we'll put one through your mangy head.
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[02:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauritius: Safe Haven for Nonhuman Primate Experimentation? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:13] <exec> 08└─Please keep your shitty trolling to where they belong, places like 4chan and the Republican Party. Thanks.
[02:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:41] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Silicon Valley startups have found a new whiteboard challenge! Hah just kidding, it's a homework assignment, but don't knock yourself out trying to make this code ten times faster. We just want to see how you work.
[02:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:43] <exec> 08└─You're the retard who can't comprehend the difference between constructive (roads) and destructive (war).
[02:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online [Updated] - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:40] <exec> 08└─Almost on par with "400 mhz" hmm.. 400 Mhz or perhaps 400 millihertz. Who knows! ;-) Then it's that thing with base. 1000 000 or 1048 576 bytes.
[02:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online [Updated] - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:41] <exec> 08└─Because piracy theoretically hurts movie sales, and junk like this ought to be as unprofitable as possible?
[02:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apparent Copy of an Ultra HD Blu-Ray Disc Appears Online [Updated] - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:43] <exec> 08└─If you're willing to pay movie ticket prices, you can rent through iTunes.
[02:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:46] <exec> 08└─SQL has its problems, to be sure. But in its defense, it is one of the only languages we use that describes what the result looks like instead of . The beauty in SQL is that most of the time the database engine can figure out the most efficient algorithm to fetch your data just based on your spec. Y...
[02:51:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:24] <exec> 08└─growing will for revolution, obviously.
[02:51:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 825 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:26] <exec> 08└─It's also true. I discussed this history a little in my journal [soylentnews.org] a while back. The NRA started its lobbying efforts in 1934 which not coincidentally was the year of the first federal level firearm restrictions in US history under the FDR administration. Then in 1977, the NRA was "ta...
[02:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:28] <exec> 08└─you socialists are the ones who are using automatic knowing that people that don't know about guns think you mean full auto. this is anti-gun propaganda. are you really so fucking stupid that you don't know the democrats did that on purpose to try and scare ignorant middle grounders??
[02:51:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:51:30] <exec> 08└─the other day to declare that the long assault on the Second Amendment was finally over.
[02:52:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06At Last, a Clue to Where Cancer Metastases are Born - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:52:50] <exec> 08└─sounds like a stupid thing to focus on to me. it's already obvious that cancer sends out "spores" all over the place. so fucking what? the problem is that cancer is growing and surviving at all! more treatment medication bullshit. why don't you whores of the pharmaceutical companies work on figuring...
[02:54:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:48] <exec> 08└─I tell ya, kids these days. Back in the day you couldn't buy music online even if you wanted to, downloading a new song took considerably longer than it took to play it. Oh, and playing a MP3 slammed my Cyrix 6x86 with it's weak-sauce FPU so hard you really couldn't do anything else while listening...
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[03:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:05] <exec> 08└─Let's see those "in-demand" techies feel the saturated labor market! Remember, once unemployed, always unemployed! LOLOL you're gonna be Fucked Like Me!! This is my spot under the bridge! I pissed on it! It's my spot!
[03:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Mauritius: Safe Haven for Nonhuman Primate Experimentation? - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:22] <exec> 08└─Fuck you up the ass, cunt.
[03:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower [Updated] - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:35] <exec> 08└─I found a Sky & Telescope page from January [skyandtelescope.com] which says the peak should be around "2:00 UT on May 6th." It also seems to suggest looking "a couple of hours before dawn" around the time that the Moon will set. The viewing is expected to be better from the Southern Hemisphere, and...
[03:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:56] <exec> 08└─Yes, if there were no intermediate certs, the CAs would be a lot more careful about what they sign. That would increase my level of trust.
[03:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber Could Face Injunction Stopping It From Testing Driverless Cars - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:49:07] <exec> 08└─I am mostly aware of the history. I was trying remind her that not everything is an evil radfem plot. There are other actors out there.
[03:51:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 940 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:42] <exec> 08└─A) I am not mad. I am pointing it out. B) I am not sure where are the insults against her character. There is a class difference. The rich of India are westernized, get respected just because they can speak English, and have no understanding of the poor people (you know? the ones who shit on streets...
[03:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:44] <exec> 08└─the British were a civilized oppressor -- complete resource exploitation and genocide doesn't seem to be in their DNA, and wouldn't have been considered an option.
[03:51:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:46] <exec> 08└─You don't say, khallow! Who do you think is the most egregious case of this?
[03:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:48] <exec> 08└─Don't go away, khallow! I enjoy our little talks. and then crapped on anyone (particularly me) who tried. I'm no longer playing the game.
[03:53:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 477 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:53:53] <exec> 08└─Some, jeez, 17 years ago I encoded my CDs with ogg. Couldn't find a player to support it. Some, jeez, 10 years ago got a huge hard drive and encoded my CDs with flac. Couldn't find a player to support it. Now, I just use MP3. Yeah, I can use flacsquish or somesuch to convert flac to MP3, but fark it...
[03:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:06] <exec> 08└─Your position was that the majority of compressed audio is decoded using a CPU with an MMU. I concur. However, if maximum quality is desired and the number of audio channels is large (5.1 surround, 7.1 surround, 22.2 surround) then the use of CPUs without MMU becomes increasingly cost effective.
[03:55:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:55:08] <exec> 08└─If you keep the lossless originals, you can reencode them as lossy compression algorithms improve. Remember how JPEG compression was optimized by 35% a few months ago? If that happens to MP3, I can reencode my music because I still have lossless versions. Sucks to be the guy that only saves MP3. You...
[03:56:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:01] <exec> 08└─Nah I'd rather hang out and be the bane of your existence, more fun that way :)
[03:56:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Ecological 'Pawprint' of Domestic Dogs is Much Greater Than Previously Realised - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:56:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCzRzOfj5vE [youtube.com] Can you hear me ? I hear you...
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[04:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:56] <exec> 08└─How prevalent are MIPS chips, compared ARMS or other cheaper microcontrollers?
[04:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:58] <exec> 08└─Dick Bathroom Stall-Man used a MIPS based Longdong laptop until it was stolen from him by gay Latinos on a mission to free his free hardware from the oppression of ownership. In a shocking move, Stall-Man abandoned free hardware when he later settled for a Core Dildo based StinkPad instead. If the h...
[04:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauritius: Safe Haven for Nonhuman Primate Experimentation? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe you can apply for a visum there yourself once, Trump is done with your domestic economy
[04:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauritius: Safe Haven for Nonhuman Primate Experimentation? - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:16] <exec> 08└─If you want to model disease in humans, go to the prisons. Experiment. Learn.
[04:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Samsung Set to Outpace Intel in Semiconductor Revenues - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:46:59] <exec> 08└─I miss ma grandma. Obviously I am no ceo material.
[04:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Seagate HAMR Hard Drives Coming in a Year and a Half - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:13] <exec> 08└─I love how learning about https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] led me to learn about https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] and then https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] I learned some stuff to...
[04:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Seagate HAMR Hard Drives Coming in a Year and a Half - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:14] <exec> 08└─And if we're lucky, we'll see a little of this: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Patterned media is predicted to enable areal densities up to 20-300 Tb/in2 as opposed to the 1 Tb/in2 limit that exists with current HDD technology.
[04:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower [Updated] - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:35] <exec> 08└─Well spotted. I'm not sure how I made that mistake (thanks to the editor for fixing it). Not only is the station in Illinois, but the by-line of the story credits Tribune Media, which is based in Chicago but has stations around the United States. I'd assume that the instructions are applicable to pe...
[04:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:51:46] <exec> 08└─When socialists use automatics, they are AK-47s, based on the Kalashnikov, a gas-operated assault weapon that can be either automatic or full automatic, or jihadi "spray and pray" modes. Anti gun propaganda? That would make no sense! But anti-ammosexual propaganda? Yeah, hell yeah. Only the most fak...
[04:55:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zyx Abacab [3701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:55:06] <exec> 08└─I hate to interrupt the bitch-slapping festival, but there is a lot of [coresv.net] actual [hydrogenaud.io] data [ietf.org] on this subject. Opus - and several other modern codecs - perform measurably better than MP3, end of story. Even if MP3 is somehow "good enough", the alternatives are still dem...
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[05:46:09] <exec> 08└─US done elected The Donald, didnya notice.
[05:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:11] <exec> 08└─Minstrel shows, blonde jokes, race jokes, and so on. These all point to, indeed, a national sense of humor. And that sense of humor is, always, some representation of the dominant group casting its eyes on the lower classes in some way. Ever notice how people think female comediennes aren't funny co...
[05:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:13] <exec> 08└─Good to know someone gets it!
[05:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:15] <exec> 08└─the Americans are great at physical comedy,
[05:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:17] <exec> 08└─Good to know that only racists have a sense of humor.
[05:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:20] <exec> 08└─Americans generally fail to get the point of much of British humor - particularly the type of which Mr Bean is an extreme case. At the root of a wide strain in British humor is the horror of embarrassment. It is comically outrageous to have situations in which there is someone behaving in the most c...
[05:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mauritius: Safe Haven for Nonhuman Primate Experimentation? - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:47] <exec> 08└─The tech industry is making plenty of people poor and homeless, forget building a wall, we need to build more prisons.
[05:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:17] <exec> 08└─I'm sure there are plenty of overeager students who would invest a free summer for a chance at the $55K in prize money.
[05:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:18] <exec> 08└─I double-checked after reading the GP: we are talking NASA, not the NSA.
[05:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:20] <exec> 08└─So you associate NASA with the later? Pathetic.
[05:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower [Updated] - 1136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:09] <exec> 08└─According to Wikipedia, Yisrael Kristal is the oldest verified male ever and he's 113 years old; Jeanne Calment, a woman, lived to age 122 and was the oldest verified woman. So if you're female and less than 78 years old, or male and less than 69 years old, and you are exceptionally lucky (might a s...
[05:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower [Updated] - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:11] <exec> 08└─Someone once said that everyone talks about the weather but no-one does anything about it. That's no longer true. http://www.bartleby.com [bartleby.com] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] (Where's our weather troll?)
[05:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower [Updated] - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:13] <exec> 08└─Is UT the same as UTC, or some specific time zone?
[05:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06η Aquariids Meteor Shower [Updated] - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:15] <exec> 08└─For most common and legal-trade purposes, the fractional second difference between UTC and UT (GMT) is inconsequentially small.
[05:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:36] <exec> 08└─TFA: SQL and relational database management systems or RDBMS were invented simultaneously by Edgar F. Codd in the early 1970s.
[05:50:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:50:37] <exec> 08└─"Null" is a hotly debating topic. While it's possible to design tables without ever using it, it can create what most would consider a mess of "slim" tables. I don't think they can practically be removed, BUT how they are handled by common operators could use a review. For example, if you concatenat...
[05:52:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:26] <exec> 08└─The whole red light camera racket, what can you do about it when a local government mistimes a light and fines people $75 for missing it by a fraction of a second? Taking your gun to the next meeting of the city council and opening fire is so obviously a really bad idea on many different levels. Not...
[05:52:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06From Gandhi to Guns: An Indian Woman at the NRA - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:52:28] <exec> 08└─holy shit, you are triggered as fuck! I guess that is what happens when someone with a completely unrealistic world-view is faced with evidence that punctures their bubble
[05:53:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:00] <exec> 08└─I've heard that it's possible to recognise which system of romanisation a non-native speaker of Chinese learned with, by quirks of pronounciation.
[05:53:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:01] <exec> 08└─relevant previous topics: Mint Cinnamon ISOs Hacked /article.pl?sid=16/02/21/0517219 [soylentnews.org] Linux Mint Site is Up Again /article.pl?sid=16/02/28/0429236 [soylentnews.org] Why the Linux Mint Hack is an Indicator of a Larger Security Problem /article.pl?sid=16/02/29/025201 [soylentnews.org]
[05:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:53:04] <exec> 08└─Two more, from the summary (emphasis added), [...] "basic Wordpress" blog aimed at promoting Islamic State propaganda [...]
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[06:46:06] <exec> 08└─Every actor now out of work! Desperate actors turned content creators crash YouTube! Panic grips Twitter! Angry mobs picket Mountain View! California under Martial Law!
[06:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:19] <exec> 08└─Minstrel shows, blonde jokes, race jokes, and so on. These all point to, indeed, a national sense of humor. And that sense of humor is, always, some representation of the dominant group casting its eyes on the lower classes in some way. Ever notice how people think female comediennes aren't funny co...
[06:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:21] <exec> 08└─Why, you [youtube.com] knucklehead ...
[06:46:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:23] <exec> 08└─America's sense of humor is anything that seriously hurts or harms the libtards/demoncrats. Followed closely by anything that hurts brown/yellow people or "furiners".
[06:55:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The MP3 Format is now Patent Free - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:55:49] <exec> 08└─Why shame on me? up the thread: epitaxial: 9 out of 10 people can't tell 192kbps mp3 from straight .wav files. bob_super, concurring: most people are not listening in conditions where codec differences are noticeable. Those docs you link: those curves are all pretty darn close at 192kHz and above. T...
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[07:46:03] <exec> 08└─I was thinking of something else. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds [wikipedia.org] It's a story of a very dysfunctional mother and her 2 very different daughters. Despite the poisonous environment, one daughter manages to blossom. *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hi...
[07:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:27] <exec> 08└─anything that seriously hurts or harms the libtards/demoncrats.
[07:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:37] <exec> 08└─In my experience - it used to be common, but it's seriously lost ground to ARM over the past decade, and many of the embedded MIPS platforms I dealt with seemed to be looking to migrate to ARM as well, even if it was only for the improved toolchain support. However last time I checked it was still a...
[07:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:39] <exec> 08└─Microsoft should buy them? Having lost the battle on phones, they prepare to re-birth Windows RT as Windows10 S on ARM tablets. But they're still reliant on Qualcomm to support whichever SoCs they please, which in the latest Windows Phone announcement led to a reduction in the number of supported mo...
[07:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:46:41] <exec> 08└─Having your own architecture is an expensive mess. Especially if it is a niche one. Microsoft will outsource the work and Qualcomm is as good as any partner as it pumps out ARM SoCs like candy.
[07:48:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mozilla Tells Symantec to Accept Google's CA Proposal - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:48:46] <exec> 08└─The whole security of SSL is built upon CAs that break the rule (Such as Symantec) being removed IMMEDIATELY. Imagine being the boss having to tell your admin "there are now 247 people outside the company who know the domain admin password. Please stop giving out our passwords" - and being ignored.
[07:50:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:50:50] <exec> 08└─Strange. My Office 2016 doesn't seem to do that, and I don't have that key. I do however have DisableHardwareAcceleration = 1, so that may be the reason.
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[08:46:11] <exec> 08└─The research began a decade ago, when astronauts placed about 2000 seeds from tobacco plants and a flowering plant known as Arabidopsis thaliana on the outside of the International Space Station. For 558 days, the seeds were exposed to high levels of UV light, cosmic radiation, and extreme temperatu...
[08:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used for Character Animation - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:19] <exec> 08└─As many technologies [curiousmatic.com], I would venture a bet that the porn industry will be the first to adapt it, e.g. to cater to special tastes not legally to be realized otherwise or to provide movies with characters specifically similar to celebrities
[08:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:46:49] <exec> 08└─It seems that MIPS architecture chips are still fairly common as embedded CPUs, though it appears that they have been somewhat eclipsed by ARM of late. MIPS chips were notably used in some common game consoles, such as the Nintendo 64 (which they produced with SGI, which owned MIPS at the time) and...
[08:50:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:50:59] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, everyone else knows that allcaps is mostly unreadable. Heck, lawyers use it for the important clauses they really don't want you to read because if you do you would never sign anything.
[08:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:51:00] <exec> 08└─Why do your strings allow null (Unless they were the result of an outer join)? While having string fields allow null can make sense in some cases, every single time a colleague has wanted a string field to allow nulls, I ask them "what's the difference - in this specific field - between null and an...
[08:53:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Welsh Linux Mint-Using Terror Nerd Jailed for 8 Years - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:53:25] <exec> 08└─Cough: COMPLETELY misleading "headline". Welsh - nope Linux Mint - so what Terrorist - yes. Another "immigrant" "refugee" etc... showing his true colours. Thing is now, can the collapsing "West"ern culture handle a bit of truth?
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[09:45:56] <exec> 08└─Is there any reason to think high UV tolerance in some seeds or plants on Earth supports the panspermia hypothesis? I presume there are many natural films where UV screening properties are secondary or entirely coincidental to their function.
[09:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used for Character Animation - 1274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:06] <exec> 08└─I can see it now... just like those porn sites you go to right now, and someone will do things for you on webcam as you pay by the minute. Imagine your own fantasy character... your ideal sexmate ... created to your own specifications down to the last detail - doing whatever you want. No human othe...
[09:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:24] <exec> 08└─Each country is targeted with its own kind of jokes, Germans are humorless engineers, French are silly romantics, Scots and Dutch are stingy and so on. And per country different groups of people, cities or even villages receive jokes about their supposed traits.
[09:46:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:25] <exec> 08└─There is no distinct American sense of humor, just as there is no distinct American culture. "Physical comedy" is slapstick, and like visual faux pas designed to transcend cultural boundaries.
[09:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:28] <exec> 08└─There's a subtle difference between Humour, and a Joke. Trump is not humourous, he's just a joke. However him being the Leader of the US is no joking matter, and we'll have to humour him for the next few years.
[09:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:46:30] <exec> 08└─I am still very partial to Canada's "Just For Laughs", which I believe they actually improved on Allen Funt's "Candid Camera", which was my favorite laugh show when I was a kid. ( I thought the kid serving mints in the mall that he was apparently was getting out of the urinal [youtube.com] ( 1 min 3...
[09:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:34] <exec> 08└─There is somewhat more relevant information over at HeroX with all the rules and hoops you have to jump thru beyond just being a US citizen. https://herox.com [herox.com] Anyway ... FUN3D design software so it runs ten to 10,000 times faster on the Pleiades supercomputer without any decrease...
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[09:53:37] <exec> 08└─> I've found you can ride a significant distance at speed over rough ground on a completely flat tire without the bead popping. It really varies. I one must turn, a looser fit can roll out the side, both for mtb and road tyres. And you're right it mangles the rim (both the edge and trueness). It als...
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[09:53:38] <exec> 08└─Steel rims are harder to ride than aluminum. Why? Because they weigh twice as much, and all that outer-diameter rotational momentum has to come from (pedaling) and go to (braking) somewhere, when one wishes to speed up or slow down. This is pronounced enough that even though the failure mode is MUCH...
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[10:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:01] <exec> 08└─So it's not only the evil conservatives and religious types that are anti-science, seems to be a lot of socially liberal people that are equally disturbed. Somehow I doubt they'll see it as that.
[10:46:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Linatux [4602] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:02] <exec> 08└─Hard at work again
[10:46:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:04] <exec> 08└─Rather than cutting out such content, it seems like it would have been an opportunity to discuss both how the social construct called "gender" has changed since 1996, as compared with the biological concept of sex. We seem to waste many opportunities to do good things. That's sad.
[10:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:07] <exec> 08└─There's no such differentiation. They are synonyms and always have been.
[10:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 1159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:09] <exec> 08└─If they had edited an old show to remove the part that teaches kids that the Earth is flat, would you be equally up in arms? Unlike certain old books, science is not set in stone, the theories get updated whenever new information is discovered. Chromosomes determining gender is a simplified view tha...
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[10:46:11] <exec> 08└─I predict that self-identification principle of gender determination will produce great advances for women sports records.
[10:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Morning Glory Seeds Resist UV Radiation - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:22] <exec> 08└─From TFS: "These results add to the fast-growing body of evidence showing that panspermia is not only possible, but absolutely inevitable," says Chandra Wickramasinghe, director of the Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in...
[10:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Slartibartfast [5104] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Morning Glory Seeds Resist UV Radiation - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:24] <exec> 08└─Hah. Funny -- I was on Paul Zindel's site over the weekend, wondering if it's time to get some books for my daughter. And, yes, this quirky, odd play is a favorite.
[10:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:46:54] <exec> 08└─Since the PC brigade gained momentum and muslims moved in, no, australia has no sense of humour now
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[11:46:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:01] <exec> 08└─Hate against wiki-leaks and Snowden, etc, but Trump, Hillary, Wasserman-shitz, etc get a pass. Sheeesh.
[11:46:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 195 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:08] <exec> 08└─So it's not only the evil conservatives and religious types that are anti-science, seems to be a lot of socially liberal people that are equally disturbed. Somehow I doubt they'll see it as that.
[11:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:16] <exec> 08└─But what term is better for the 'gender' you identify with? Repurposing 'gender' to have a different meaning from 'sex' doesn't seem obviously wrongheaded.
[11:46:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:18] <exec> 08└─I look forward to the heavy weight self-identified gender boxing championship.
[11:46:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:20] <exec> 08└─Not anymore. A person's sex may be different from their gender.
[11:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:22] <exec> 08└─both how the social construct called "gender" has changed since 1996, as compared with the biological concept of sex.
[11:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:24] <exec> 08└─Except one of them is science fact and the other is bullshit? Nothing wasted.
[11:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:27] <exec> 08└─Nope, I'm afraid it can't. You obviously don't understand what synonym means but not knowing/caring what a word means is a common SJW failing.
[11:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:29] <exec> 08└─Arbitrarily changing the meaning of an established word to suit your political ends is always wrongheaded.
[11:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:31] <exec> 08└─Sorry, Gender Studies professors are not scientists; they are political activists. Biologists still regard sex and gender as the same thing.
[11:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:33] <exec> 08└─It already has, though outside the olympic games.
[11:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 1959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:36] <exec> 08└─We already had the fight between religious zealots demanding creationism being taught as an equally valid concept as evolution, with religion attacking biology to benefit from biologies reputation. The outcome was the highly entertaining foundation of a new religion [wikipedia.org]. Now biology appe...
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[11:46:38] <exec> 08└─Disclaimer: I am considered left of center though not "capital L Liberal". It seems that the reasons or motives for the suppression of rights/freedoms/science/ideas/thinking/whatever determines whether or not that suppression is just in the eyes of the left/center/right. And it is not seen as hypocr...
[11:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:40] <exec> 08└─( o Y o ) <---- Look, boobies!
[11:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:42] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the people conveniently redefining words like "truth" and "news" to fit their own agenda.
[11:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:44] <exec> 08└─There's no such differentiation. They are synonyms and always have been.
[11:46:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:47] <exec> 08└─TMB, disagreeing with you does make someone a SJW (especially when you so casually use that term in a pejorative way). The idea that there must be something wrong with someone who has different views/opinions/experiences is ridiculous. Resorting to name calling undermines any legitimacy your positio...
[11:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:49] <exec> 08└─both how the social construct called "gender" has changed since 1996, as compared with the biological concept of sex.
[11:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:51] <exec> 08└─That's stupid. You really want to try to argue that lying is essentially the same as trying to find a term for a new idea? My favourite example of lying by deliberate misuse of words: When the NSA redefined 'collect' to let them lie to a court about collecting data. [eff.org]
[11:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:53] <exec> 08└─Incorrect. Gender has *always* been a social construct. Sex is a biological trait. And even the biological trait isn't always a binary. Some have XXY chromosome sets. Some are born with male and female genitalia.
[11:46:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:55] <exec> 08└─Biologists still regard sex and gender as the same thing.
[11:46:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:46:58] <exec> 08└─What makes you believe they are not evil religious types with an orthodoxy that demands conservatism?
[11:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Morning Glory Seeds Resist UV Radiation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:10] <exec> 08└─Morning glory seeds could potentially survive a trip between planets
[11:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:41] <exec> 08└─What's with this article? This is just because the sources of humor are heavily rooted in knowledge and socialization. Different cultures have different standards because of different shared backgrounds. You see the same things with censorship- different standards because of different cultures (Amer...
[11:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:43] <exec> 08└─Canadian humour is a joke: the joke is "That American is really funny!" "That American is really Canadian." http://www.ranker.com [ranker.com] (Man, didn't know Nathan Fillion was Canadian as well! That gives me some Serenity!) ;)
[11:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:47:57] <exec> 08└─I have my eyes set on the Microchip PIC32MX170F256B (remember that....) which is a 40/50 MHz alternative to the ubiquitous ATMega 328 from the Arduino world. 3 times the (internal) clock, 4 times the register width, 8 times the Flash, 32 times the RAM; all in a very similar pinout. Available in PDIP...
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[11:48:50] <exec> 08└─This has been on the rise for the last decade or so: 1) big company or agency offers "YUGE PRIZE IF YOU SOLVE THIS PROBLEM!!!". 2) collect all ideas 3) give contract to $$ favourite provider. It is $55k in *prizes*. In otherwords, after they decide someone is good enough they will shell out some sma...
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[12:46:15] <exec> 08└─Why does he consider effecting the election by revealing criminal wrongdoing of a candidate bad?
[12:46:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:41] <exec> 08└─There's no such differentiation. They are synonyms and always have been.
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[12:46:47] <exec> 08└─Biologists still regard sex and gender as the same thing.
[12:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:50] <exec> 08└─Which makes gender a cultural construct. Which was my whole point. There is a difference between biological "sex" and cultural "gender".
[12:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:52] <exec> 08└─xxy and yyx Are NOT genders. They are medical conditions.
[12:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:54] <exec> 08└─Nobody among who argues the earth is flat has been able to disprove all objections. Why does the sun wobble according to seasons and in complete geometrical consistency with a spherical earth? where is the map of the spherical earth that accounts for real world observations? Here we have a different...
[12:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:56] <exec> 08└─boobs ⨀ϒ⨀ ⨃⨃ Bottom ( ) )
[12:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:46:59] <exec> 08└─Reminder that the concept of "gender" as we use it today (as different from sex) was coined by a guy named Money, whose experiments on gender in baby humans caused everyone involved to not only to reject his forced gender change but to ultimately kill themselves. They still use his published studies...
[12:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:01] <exec> 08└─So because a womb screws up and exposes a female fetus to a little more testosterone suddenly sex is a made up concept? Because albinos prove that skin color is a social construct.
[12:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:46] <exec> 08└─Do clowns make you laugh or do they scare you? [nytimes.com]
[12:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:48] <exec> 08└─He did try to be American, but America would have none of it...he's very big in Japan though. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[12:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:50] <exec> 08└─Living as a German in Germany, I rarely hear jokes about German stereotypes, but since I like to laugh about other stereotypes I'd like to hear some more targeting us.
[12:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:04] <exec> 08└─Indeed. Microsoft's compiler groups are already overstretched: the AArch64 port of .NET is a long way behind schedule. There aren't enough other MIPS customers to make up the difference (LLVM work on MIPS is basically done by a small team at ImagTec, me, and a couple of my students - and half of the...
[12:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:06] <exec> 08└─A few years ago I was talking to a friend at Apple about them switching vendors in a similar situation. After the decision to switch was made, there was a delay before telling the vendor (Apple can afford this tactic and it provides a backup plan). Apparently, the vendor called out the Apple enginee...
[12:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:00] <exec> 08└─But sharing $55000 isn't worth my personal time. I spend enough time coding on my day job. The time it would take to analyse this code and and properly use TDD to develop it just isn't cost effective.
[12:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:01] <exec> 08└─Great! Another good reason not to have to travel there and have my body violated when entering the country.
[12:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:03] <exec> 08└─And have NASA pay for it every time they use it.
[12:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:49:05] <exec> 08└─tfa is another great candidate for the "tickler file" -- this topic should be automatically added to the submissions list around the time that the "contest" ends...with a note to Eds or others that followup could be interesting. Then we can discuss how it worked out for NASA and for the FORTRAN prog...
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[12:49:08] <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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[13:47:02] <exec> 08└─Probably not the correct attitude to take... But these people's computers were infected with viruses, then the hackers also had to get control of the telephone system to some extent. It's a lot of extra work, although probably worth it overall. Nothing is going to be 100% secure. That said it would...
[13:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:03] <exec> 08└─My bank issued me with a Chip & PIN device. When I want to setup a new outgoing payment on my account they generate a random number, I stick my bank card into the Chip & PIN device, authenticate with my PIN then enter the number I've been given. This generates a new number that I enter on the banks...
[13:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:05] <exec> 08└─I keep a small balance in accounts with online access or for which I share account numbers (for example, for wire transfers in). Less convenient, but seems like a sensible step. My bank branch is nearby, it's no big deal to go there and transfer funds in person.
[13:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:15] <exec> 08└─t one point, he said that a junior lawyer in the bureau had asked whether the director should consider that his decision on the new Clinton emails might help elect Trump as president. “And I said, thank you for raising that: not for a moment,” Comey said. “Down that path lies the death of the...
[13:47:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Wootery [2341] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:31] <exec> 08└─But what term is better for the 'gender' you identify with? Repurposing 'gender' to have a different meaning from 'sex' doesn't seem obviously wrongheaded.
[13:47:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 616 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:55] <exec> 08└─Reminder that the concept of "gender" as we use it today (as different from sex) was coined by a guy named Money, whose experiments on gender in baby humans caused everyone involved to not only to reject his forced gender change but to ultimately kill themselves. They still use his published studies...
[13:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:57] <exec> 08└─All I thought when I saw that title on the Netflix screen was "Can Bill Nye get any more full of himself?" Maybe it's because I grew up with Mr. Wizard well before Bill Nye came about but I never understood how this guy managed to recently appoint himself as a spokesman for my generation and be such...
[13:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:59] <exec> 08└─It's more like the SJW clan.
[13:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:02] <exec> 08└─Which makes gender a cultural construct. Which was my whole point. There is a difference between biological "sex" and cultural "gender". Being born with or without a Y chromosome is not a cultural construct. One may as well claim species to be a social construct, declare themselves a poodle and go c...
[13:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:04] <exec> 08└─https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/02/150213112317.htm [sciencedaily.com] [sciencedaily.com] https://www.scientificamerican.com [scientificamerican.com] [scientificamerican.com] http://www.pbs.org
[13:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, I'm sorry. Show me on the Venn diagram exactly where any other human believes gender is not the same thing as sex but isn't an SJW. Yeah, I didn't think so.
[13:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:08] <exec> 08└─You can say it as much as you like but it's never going to be true. Gender = sex. What a thing is, it is, and no amount of wishing or denial will change that. Now you can let your freak flag fly however you like and that's fine with me but I'm not going to make special allowances or effort to make y...
[13:48:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:10] <exec> 08└─News? Or science in action? How many old TV show Pluto as being a planet? Sure you could let them air as-is but they are WRONG. Even through no fault of their own at the time of original creation / broadcast. Science - more so than any other subject - is happy to admit when it's wrong, even if they...
[13:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:13] <exec> 08└─Sorry, if you're both specifically studying people who misuse the term "gender" and going along with it yourself in scientific papers, you are either an SJW yourself or a very poor scientist. Words have meanings and in science precision is necessary. Think up a new word if you like but you can't hav...
[13:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:15] <exec> 08└─To those who don't like what Netflix did, protest by dropping your subscription. They probably would have lost more money keeping it in than removing it because the triggered left reacts more swiftly than the triggered right.
[13:48:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:17] <exec> 08└─So the question becomes whether netflix also removed the references to Planet Pluto, or decided they only cared about the Gender thing.
[13:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 1114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:19] <exec> 08└─Actually, genetics isn't as clear cut as you might like to make out. That's entirely the problem. "Intersex" conditions, rather than orientation, are the true driver here. There are people who are NOT clearly male, female or both simultaneously. It is NOT as simple as X and Y, genetically, as there...
[13:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03mystik [3627] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:22] <exec> 08└─This is the same type of action as editing or making unavailable old offensive cartoons. Keeping them available, in their original form, is an important historical artifact that speaks to social issues at the time. Having the original to compare to modern social positions is an important tool to obs...
[13:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:24] <exec> 08└─“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who...
[13:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:26] <exec> 08└─So you are saying Pluto should undergo some kind of Planetary reassignment surgery in order to gain acceptance in the society of 'normal' Solar system bodies? You disgust me! Down with the Planetriarcy!
[13:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:29] <exec> 08└─(although I'm still cross with him over the Pluto incident)
[13:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:31] <exec> 08└─That's right. If you have a Y chromosome (except in cases where you have XXY and female genitalia), you are male. That's your sex.
[13:48:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:33] <exec> 08└─“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who...
[13:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:35] <exec> 08└─There have been cross dressers, butch women, lady-boys and all manner of other ways we define ourselves as long as there have been humans.
[13:49:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used for Character Animation - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:07] <exec> 08└─I think the industry would run into a couple of problems, mainly with the Miller test. If you're referring to child pornography, there is this [wikipedia.org]: In the United States, the PROTECT Act of 2003 made significant changes to the law regarding virtual child pornography.[3][4][5] Any realisti...
[13:49:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used for Character Animation - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:09] <exec> 08└─(see other reply) Highly realistic "simulated child pornography" would fail due to the PROTECT Act of 2003. Celebrity porn would fail because personality rights laws could protect celebrities so long as we allow the Miller test [wikipedia.org] to exist and continue to consider pornography to be obsc...
[13:49:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:57] <exec> 08└─Why do Germans bury their dead so far down? Deep down, they're real nice people. :)
[13:49:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:49:58] <exec> 08└─Ever notice how people think female comediennes aren't funny compared to male comedians? Sexism ingrained in the culture.
[13:50:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:01] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightbulb_joke [wikipedia.org] Lightbulb jokes typically cover the standard stereotype held by Americans: Q: How many Germans does it take to change a lightbulb? A: One, they're efficient and not very funny.
[13:50:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:03] <exec> 08└─How different countries are construed varies a lot, too. When I watch British shows I am frequently struck by English stereotypes of Scots, which don't track with stereotypes of Scots in America. For example, yesterday I was watching an episode of Dr. Who and there was a flippant remark about how he...
[13:50:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 1609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:05] <exec> 08└─Firstly - you can make almost any engineering joke a German joke by making it nationalist. As an example, replace the accountant/businessman/engineer with brit/french/german: A [frenchman], [englishman], and [german] were all to be executed by guillotine. The [frenchman] laid his head down, said his...
[13:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:07] <exec> 08└─Obviously you're not from Europe. Look up Scottish jokes, for instance: "Little known fact - copper wire was invented by two Scotsmen fighting over a penny". Typical German joke: "What is the thinnest book? Answer: A Millennium Of German Humor". And the Dutch are people from the Netherlands, or Holl...
[13:51:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:51:48] <exec> 08└─I am a FORTRAN expert, or was 20 years ago, and I saw this and thought that it would be fun to dig into the code and see if I could identify any low hanging fruit. However, this is Fortran (not FORTRAN), which I have not ever attempted to code in, so maybe not as fun, but I thought I'd take a peek a...
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[14:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:29] <exec> 08└─They need to move to something else. While this specific case is a hell of a hack, it's not the most common way SMS 2FA can be exploited. Unfortunately most telcos are more than happy to help a "customer" swap to a new device after they "lose" their old one. This has been used numerous times already...
[14:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:30] <exec> 08└─The Google Authenticator or other time based authentication schemes work very well. They do have a flaw as well, but it's not as exploitable as this is.
[14:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:41] <exec> 08└─So it's not bad enough HRC had classified info on her personal email server, but Huma was forwarding classified email to Weiner? And none of these people are sitting in jail right now? Yep, it's an us and them situation in the country nowdays.
[14:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03GlennC [3656] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:42] <exec> 08└─Director Comey appears to have shed a light on the fact that both "Democrats" and "Republicans" are lying corrupt corporate whores who wipe their backsides with the Constitution. This is a problem for the people in that the majority of voters view the politicians and parties they back in much the sa...
[14:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:44] <exec> 08└─Laws are for little people. That's why George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, the Clintons, the NSA, the CIA, and most of Wall Street aren't in jail.
[14:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:46] <exec> 08└─Is there any really independent institution in America? or any system at all for that matter? If politicians really want they usually can and will control institutions but they are there for a reason and soon reality and Murphy gives free lessons.
[14:46:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:46:59] <exec> 08└─There's no such differentiation. They are synonyms and always have been.
[14:47:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 1159 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:00] <exec> 08└─If they had edited an old show to remove the part that teaches kids that the Earth is flat, would you be equally up in arms? Unlike certain old books, science is not set in stone, the theories get updated whenever new information is discovered. Chromosomes determining gender is a simplified view tha...
[14:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:46] <exec> 08└─Insightful faggotry? There are but two genders. Anything else is to damned queer even for queers to touch.
[14:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:48] <exec> 08└─Double down on that faggotry!
[14:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:50] <exec> 08└─Nobody among who argues the earth is flat has been able to disprove all objections.
[14:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:53] <exec> 08└─Failed faggotry. However many "genders" there are today, NONE OF THEM are "scientific". Queer, bent, twisted bitches decided that they aren't queer, bent, or twisted, so they must be something different. They make up a word, and that's a new gender.
[14:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:55] <exec> 08└─Do you also have arguments with people about the usage of "hacker" to mean "criminal who uses computers"?
[14:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:57] <exec> 08└─And - the faggotry keeps trolling along!
[14:48:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:00] <exec> 08└─You can say it as much as you like but it's never going to be true. Gender = sex. What a thing is, it is, and no amount of wishing or denial will change that. Now you can let your freak flag fly however you like and that's fine with me but I'm not going to make special allowances or effort to make y...
[14:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:03] <exec> 08└─The oYo boobs still look like an owl to me.
[14:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:05] <exec> 08└─Being alive is a medical condition. Although it is fortunately temporary.
[14:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:07] <exec> 08└─Brain scans are brain scans, Buzzard. They don't have political opinions. I shared those links (as I mentioned in another post) so that you, if you like, can learn more about the science. That's it. Carry on.
[14:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:09] <exec> 08└─> If they had edited an old show to remove the part that teaches kids that the Earth is flat, would you be equally up in arms? Yes.
[14:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:12] <exec> 08└─Nobody among who argues the earth is flat has been able to disprove all objections.
[14:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:14] <exec> 08└─However there's no clear consensus on the vocabulary - "sex = biological, gender=cultural" might be a sensible to adopt some such convention going forward, there's certainly no justification for going back and censoring 20-year-old videos that don't use your preferred terminology.
[14:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:16] <exec> 08└─Hooters?
[14:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:18] <exec> 08└─FYI, the very word "Boob" is itself an orthographic representation of what it describes, and in the correct order too: B (plan view) oo (front elevation) b (side elevation)
[14:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:20] <exec> 08└─Changing the meaning of already agreed-upon words is what we do in languages. It's called linguistic change. Get used to it. It will happen.
[14:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:23] <exec> 08└─Failed faggotry. However many "genders" there are today, NONE OF THEM are "scientific". Queer, bent, twisted bitches decided that they aren't queer, bent, or twisted, so they must be something different. They make up a word, and that's a new gender.
[14:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:25] <exec> 08└─You keep posting these links but they do not counter the arguments being presented, people are arguing "gender" while you post links pertaining to "gender identity". Is it a failure to understand the difference or an attempt to deliberately conflate these two separate issues? The former having alrea...
[14:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 887 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:27] <exec> 08└─First of all, the article is about a kids-show? I expect some level of simplification there. Stuff falls to the ground, the sun is yellow, the sky is blue, a baby comes from a woman and a man when they love each other. No need to add the subject of one-night stands, rape, differences between social-...
[14:48:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:29] <exec> 08└─How many old TV show Pluto as being a planet?
[14:48:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:32] <exec> 08└─to suit your political ends
[14:48:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:34] <exec> 08└─You're free to try. I'm free to refuse your redefinition.
[14:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:31] <exec> 08└─Genetic makeup influences the culture which influences jokes etc. Of course the environment plays a big role too.
[14:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:32] <exec> 08└─Pfah. "Dutch" is when you make the girl split the check with you at the end of the date. Everybody knows that. The correct answer to the question, "What do you call someone from the Netherlands?" is, "Huh?" The right response to, "'Deutsch' is the language of the Germans," is "I'm sorry, but I don't...
[14:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:34] <exec> 08└─Will reply to myself instead of picking one of the thread-contributors: Thanks, I liked them so far, unfortunately don't have enough mod-points for all replies :-)
[14:49:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:37] <exec> 08└─I can't say I know any jokes about Germans, because the silliest people in the world to laugh at are North Dakotans (ie, "Q: Why don't they have ice cubes in North Dakota? A: The lady who knew the recipe, died."). But I did once hear a funny quip about Germans. Shortly after being re-admitted to wor...
[14:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:39] <exec> 08└─There's overlap. Many Americans appreciate Monty Python and such. Eddie Izzard remains a mystery. But then, Britons probably don't understand Duck Dynasty or Jeff Foxworthy either.
[14:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:41] <exec> 08└─"Dutch" is when you make the girl split the check with you at the end of the date. Scotch is when she pays the whole bill.
[14:49:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:49:43] <exec> 08└─Penn & Teller had a sketch called, "The Invisible Thread." Alien efficiency experts come to Earth and demand humans demonstrate they add something unique and different to the universe, or else they will be destroyed. Canadians could save us all with their humor. It's great.
[14:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:01] <exec> 08└─It's not too hard to research. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu [gwu.edu]
[14:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:02] <exec> 08└─But, they're offering $50K in prizes! You could, like, coast on that with 'za and video games for years. You might even be able to score some headphones so mom and dad won't stomp on the floor so much when the action in the basement gets too loud. On the other hand, if you're a Fortran programmer mo...
[14:51:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:04] <exec> 08└─They're looking for 1337 coders to deliver million dollar software for $50K, which by the time it ever got to you would already have had the government's cut of 60% of your work pre-removed, so that in the end you would have delivered incredible value for less than minimum wage. In 1980. And then th...
[14:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03mmcmonster [401] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:06] <exec> 08└─Although to be fair I haven't read NASA's mission statement.
[14:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:51:09] <exec> 08└─Hippy greybeards from the 1960's, possibly. Greybeards from the 1980's didn't have any wars to protest. Grenada was over too quickly. Besides, young people in the 1980's were too busy selling junk bonds, looking out for #1 and learning that 'greed is good'. The 1980's was the era of young college re...
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[15:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:28] <exec> 08└─Who are these guys? I though Musk invented the electric car.
[15:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:30] <exec> 08└─Musky invents, Workhorse makes it work™
[15:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:32] <exec> 08└─The only thing that worries me for a farm truck is what they said about clearance. A foot isn't much when you're on a rough, muddy field. But other than that? Just about everything I want. They just need to come out with an 8 foot bed.
[15:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:34] <exec> 08└─So, they've been selling to commercial fleets for years. And, the truck is aimed at commercial fleets. Good start - consumers are fickle, but business managers are somewhat less so. Built around the batteries, with carbon-fiber frame. That's another good start. Batteries are heavy, and trying to mou...
[15:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:37] <exec> 08└─The fine article must have been edited to fix the KWh errors. I copied the paragraph directly from the Motor Trend site and didn't catch the error before I submitted. And (obviously) our hard working editors didn't catch it either.
[15:46:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:48] <exec> 08└─Most banks will take money out of any of your accounts in order to cover an over-draft. About 4 out of 5 Canadian Banks say they will do in in the customer agreement. The 5th does it anyway (found out the hard way).
[15:46:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:50] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, you can even get an over-draft on a closed account: Got charged again because the closed account did not have enough funds to cover the over-draft fees after I discovered the problem.
[15:46:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:52] <exec> 08└─I can see some flaws here: 0) How do you know that the bank sent you that random number and it's not a authentication for some other transaction? 1) When the Chip & PIN device is wired to the USB port, BadUSB can compromise the microcontroller of the device. Other than that, I think this is the way...
[15:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:46:54] <exec> 08└─This is another weak point for sure. How secure is the hand over of security devices and codes? If those are very secure but the other party will hand those over based on the presentation of a flimsy made identity card. The security is not that great. Maybe it's time for challenge-response chipped i...
[15:47:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:06] <exec> 08└─Laws are for little people. That's why George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, the Clintons, the NSA, the CIA, and most of Wall Street aren't in jail.
[15:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2, Redundant) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:08] <exec> 08└─The result is what we have now. I suspect that things will get significantly worse before it gets better, if it ever does get better.
[15:47:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:11] <exec> 08└─Might be part of Comey's extended ego trip. He thinks that he is leading an agency that is the last line of defense against terrorism, drugs, mass/police shooters, the dark web, the failure of democratic institutions, etc. "Look at me! I tell the hard truths to Democrats and Republicans alike! I mak...
[15:47:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:13] <exec> 08└─If WikiLeaks are so bad perhaps doing the 1984 thing and car jacking with intent to kill should maybe be avoided?
[15:47:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:25] <exec> 08└─Rather than cutting out such content, it seems like it would have been an opportunity to discuss both how the social construct called "gender" has changed since 1996, as compared with the biological concept of sex. We seem to waste many opportunities to do good things. That's sad.
[15:47:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:36] <exec> 08└─Arbitrarily changing the meaning of an established word to suit your political ends is always wrongheaded.
[15:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NSash [4319] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:36] <exec> 08└─Sure you could let them air as-is but they are WRONG. Even through no fault of their own at the time of original creation / broadcast.
[15:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:37] <exec> 08└─Brain scans have nothing to do with you lot trying to redefine a word.
[15:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:40] <exec> 08└─What's established should be preserved. Tradition should be respected. Change should be limited.
[15:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:42] <exec> 08└─I don't personally care about what science has to say about how people choose to view themselves, because I don't care how people choose to view themselves. What I'm saying is pick a different word, you can't have this one; it's already in use.
[15:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:44] <exec> 08└─Yup.
[15:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:46] <exec> 08└─The ultra-liberal dictionary.com makes a subtle distinction, defining "gender" as 1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior: the feminine gender. Compare sex (def 1).
[15:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:48] <exec> 08└─Brain scans have nothing to do with you lot trying to redefine a word.
[15:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:51] <exec> 08└─Brain scans have nothing to do with you lot trying to redefine a word.
[15:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:53] <exec> 08└─Neil deGrasse Tyson's ego is a big as anyone's. TV tends to do that to people. I remember when it was Carl Sagan.
[15:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:55] <exec> 08└─That's fine. Pick a different one. Gender is already widely used and means a specific thing. Oh and don't go asking me to switch pronouns around to accommodate you. I'm not going to start every conversation by asking what your preferred pronouns are today. That's fucking stupid. Agree to those and w...
[15:48:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:57] <exec> 08└─It's not those with skin in the game trying to redefine a word, for the most part. It's their cheerleaders and wannabes.
[15:48:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:00] <exec> 08└─In many languages, all nouns, including inanimate objects, are arbitrarily assigned to have a certain gender. In some languages, there are more than two genders to which nouns are assigned. When taking the relevant classes, this information was always phrased as "Latin has three genders" and never a...
[15:49:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:02] <exec> 08└─Oxford University Press is apparently fully SJW-converged. Its first definition of "gender": 1 Either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones. The term is also used more broadly to denote a range of...
[15:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:04] <exec> 08└─Being as they also include an entirely open definition later down the page, I'm disinclined to allow them as an unbiased source.
[15:49:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:06] <exec> 08└─Many words have multiple meanings. Gender more properly describes the use of sexed pronouns than the actual sex itself. Sounds like the original script was not worded carefully enough. Even if you accept that sex!=gender, it is not clear that your chromosomes have no effect. In fact, I would venture...
[15:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:09] <exec> 08└─Gender on rye, with swiss cheese and mustard. That was a helluva gender last night, wasn't it? I've been gendering about that for weeks! So many genders, so little time. If you get a gender, you should make sure you really want it. They're hard to remove. Have a great gender, Buzzard!
[15:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:11] <exec> 08└─2. Either of the two main categories (male and female) into which humans and most other living things are divided on the basis of their reproductive functions. ‘adults of both sexes’
[15:49:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:13] <exec> 08└─sex in individual, gender is social. (hand-waving a lot there).
[15:49:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 1070 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:15] <exec> 08└─To be fair, having gone back and looked at the context for the original video, the main focus of the show is probability, not biology, which makes "censoring" a little more forgivable. Trouble is, how the hell do you introduce probability to kids when the interesting real world examples are all abou...
[15:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:17] <exec> 08└─While I'm not a Netflix customer, I generally wish them the best because A) it's hilarious watching the major entertainment companies desperately trying and failing (knock on wood) to kill them, and B) fuck the *AA. So I guess I'd weigh this against that and say, "eh, could be a lot worse."
[15:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:20] <exec> 08└─THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH
[15:49:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 1530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:22] <exec> 08└─I'm seeing a lot of comments that more or less imply that political correctness is trumping truth. But the ACTUAL truth of the matter, is that it is correct to remove that information, because it IS wrong. Or at least, it's missing so much information that it might as well be considered wrong. An in...
[15:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:24] <exec> 08└─You can say it as much as you like but it's never going to be true.
[15:49:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:26] <exec> 08└─However there's no clear consensus on the vocabulary - "sex = biological, gender=cultural" might be a sensible to adopt some such convention going forward, there's certainly no justification for going back and censoring 20-year-old videos that don't use your preferred terminology.
[15:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:29] <exec> 08└─Good points but I have a nit to pick. In some languages, there are more than two genders to which nouns are assigned.
[15:49:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:31] <exec> 08└─I know, all those prescriptivist assholes ruining the language for everybody. Oh wait...
[15:49:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:33] <exec> 08└─The word gender has been around longer than that.
[15:49:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:35] <exec> 08└─Interesting quote from this guy, considering he was a huge Christian apologist. Did he say this before he converted back to Christianity?
[15:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Morning Glory Seeds Resist UV Radiation - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:48] <exec> 08└─Does anyone really think that Tardigrades are local folks?
[15:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used for Character Animation - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:01] <exec> 08└─In my jurisdiction, drawings are just as illegal as child rape images.
[15:50:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:44] <exec> 08└─Agreed. I tried to make the point that a comedy like "Peep Show" or "The Thick of It" is still funny for Americans, but often for subjectively different reasons. Just compare the respective national versions of "The Office". Both yanks and brits enjoy the scatological stream of abuse by Peter Capald...
[15:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:45] <exec> 08└─What is it when you drag her behind a dumpster and rape her?
[15:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:47] <exec> 08└─Beware of Germans bearing gift. In Russia, drugs are your friends.
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[16:46:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:27] <exec> 08└─My first thought on reading this was "Oh just fuck off". Some people will just about anyone just to try and get a payout. The lawyers are to blame too, they should be disbarred for this sort of ambulance chasing crap.
[16:46:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:29] <exec> 08└─The victims' families are actually defending the shooter. He alone is responsible, and they just cannot accept that.
[16:46:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:42] <exec> 08└─I figured that happened. I searched for the word "correction" on the page, but did not find it.
[16:46:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:44] <exec> 08└─> ... how far you commute ... No, no, no. You have been brainwashed, along with ~half the people in the country. Cars are for commuting. Fleet trucks go back to the fleet garage and maintenance depot. The idea that a pickup truck is OK to use for a personal vehicle is very much a N. American thing....
[16:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:46] <exec> 08└─Just needs a small, mis-tuned diesel engine to dump black smoke on cyclists and electric cars.
[16:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:48] <exec> 08└─Americans also got extremely fat == need truck.
[16:46:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:50] <exec> 08└─The damned truck gets better fuel mileage than half the cars and all the trucks on the road. Stop your whining. Besides - I have uses for a truck. As things are, when I need to move a little bit of something, I threaten one of the sons until they let me use one of their trucks. The idea that you hav...
[16:46:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:53] <exec> 08└─Musk invented nothing. There were electric cars being sold 100 years ago.
[16:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:55] <exec> 08└─This thing gets the same highway milage, and better in-town milage, than my two-door 2007 hatchback. It is, however, 3.5x the price, so there's that. Alas, none of my immediate family or friends have a truck I can borrow. I had to actually pay a junk-man to haul off some junk this week. The horror!
[16:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:57] <exec> 08└─I saw Redbull trucks marked as electric vehicles. Who make those?
[16:46:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:59] <exec> 08└─This truck isn't for farms or for consumers, it's specifically designed for fleets. It says so right in the article. It's meant for utility companies and others like that who need a light pickup truck for driving around town. That's why it has 4-wheel independent suspension. They aren't even selling...
[16:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:16] <exec> 08└─If it is like the one my bank uses the answers are: 0) you don't, but the number only arrives when you initiate a transaction, if it arrives otherwise you know it's fake. It is also time sensitive, so a MITM attacker would need to wait for you to initiate a transaction, block it and initiate a diffe...
[16:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:17] <exec> 08└─On point (0) I have seen some banks use actual numbers involved in the transaction used as the input number to the customer device such that the customer can actually verify the correctness. And adding new transaction destinations is then a separate operation which again uses part of the account num...
[16:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03epl [1801] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 1198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:20] <exec> 08└─My bank has been trying to block route 0 better. They used to issue a simple chip & PIN terminal like pa, but since about a year now they have a chip & PIN & barcode device: It has a camera in it that you point at your screen after you have put in your card and PIN. It uses this to take a a picture...
[16:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, the FBI should be investigating the DNC. The content of the emails is far more relevant and revealing than the act of releasing them.
[16:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:38] <exec> 08└─More likely is that he is being blackmailed. That usually is the biggest motivator in this business. All those closets are up to the roof in skeletons.
[16:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 1154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:40] <exec> 08└─For what it's worth, Plato, not exactly a fan of democracy, described government going through a cycle that looked like: - Anarchy, in which nobody is in charge. That works until somebody becomes powerful enough to take over, and you get - Monarchy, in which one person is in charge. That works until...
[16:48:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:10] <exec> 08└─TMB, disagreeing with you does make someone a SJW (especially when you so casually use that term in a pejorative way). The idea that there must be something wrong with someone who has different views/opinions/experiences is ridiculous. Resorting to name calling undermines any legitimacy your positio...
[16:48:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:12] <exec> 08└─both how the social construct called "gender" has changed since 1996, as compared with the biological concept of sex.
[16:48:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 393 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:25] <exec> 08└─Which makes gender a cultural construct. Which was my whole point. There is a difference between biological "sex" and cultural "gender". Being born with or without a Y chromosome is not a cultural construct. One may as well claim species to be a social construct, declare themselves a poodle and go c...
[16:48:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fadrian [3194] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:56] <exec> 08└─Changing the meaning of already agreed-upon words is what we do in languages. It's called linguistic change. Get used to it. It will happen.
[16:49:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Wootery [2341] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:01] <exec> 08└─to suit your political ends
[16:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Morning Glory Seeds Resist UV Radiation - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:45] <exec> 08└─I guess they didn't try Kudzu.
[16:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Morning Glory Seeds Resist UV Radiation - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:46] <exec> 08└─Nor systemd.
[16:50:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:44] <exec> 08└─If you think the Scots get it bad, you don't know the Irish. There's a whole class of jokes that begin "An Englishman, a Scotsman and an Irishman walk into a bar....". Clue: the punchline is always about the Irishman.
[16:50:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:45] <exec> 08└─female comediennes
[16:50:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:48] <exec> 08└─It's telling, that Capaldi's is a Scottish character with working class origins - bringing all the cultural associations that tint a context for his angry profanity.
[16:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:50] <exec> 08└─Of course! I'm talking of the character's origins in relevance to the humor. Not the specifics of his casting!
[16:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:52] <exec> 08└─B) Why the hell do we need gender-differentiated nouns for professions anyway? Actor/actress, steward/stewardess, comedian/comedienne--it's pointless and stupid. Just use the un-gendered base version for everybody. Drawing attention to the gender serves what purpose, exactly?
[16:50:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:54] <exec> 08└─20 to life?
[16:50:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:56] <exec> 08└─Indeed. But who do the Irish make fun of, the Manx? The Cornish? The thread still hasn't revealed what Dutch are known for, but the Flamebait mods suggest they share traits with Drax the Destroyer. They are clearly a literal people who cannot detect metaphor or tongue-in-cheek remarks that are actua...
[16:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:59] <exec> 08└─20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life
[16:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:01] <exec> 08└─See, I wouldn't use the term "female actor" either. Just call them an actor; most of the time you can tell what their gender is if you really care by their name. Of course men and women are different, I just don't see the need to draw attention to that in e.g. headlines and other passing references....
[16:51:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Imagination Technologies will Continue to Make GPUs after Losing its Biggest Customer - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:18] <exec> 08└─these were the geniuses who had the powervr graphics chip that was used on some dev boards or something. no open source linux driver. who do you morons think you are selling the fucking dev boards to? you slaveware peddling dumb asses this is not 1995.
[16:52:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Seagate HAMR Hard Drives Coming in a Year and a Half - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:52:52] <exec> 08└─...DragonFly BSD.
[16:55:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SQL is 43 Years Old - Here’s 8 Reasons We Still Use It Today - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:55:45] <exec> 08└─Well, obviously. That's not a defence of SQL, it's a defence of relational database languages. The question is whether SQL is good at what it does. SQL has lots of silly things like using a different syntax for UPDATE vs INSERT, for instance. If we could burn it down and start over, we could fix tho...
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[17:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:21] <exec> 08└─vonClownStick has made so many bizarre idiotic statements on trade that it's brought the $CDN down 3%. That's hurt my company. Can I sue?
[17:46:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 1128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:23] <exec> 08└─We've all lost someone. Some of our losses have been more difficult than some others, but all of our losses hurt. This particular group of people lost their loved ones in a rather spectacular manner, very publicly, to an enemy of our nation, and enemy of our way of life. I can empathize with them, s...
[17:46:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:25] <exec> 08└─What's next?
[17:46:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:27] <exec> 08└─This one is especially specious because (as far as I'm aware) there's no evidence they were radicalized on any of these platforms. This article [businessinsider.com] says: "One law-enforcement official told CNN that the attackers look to have been "self-radicalized." Another source said the inves...
[17:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:30] <exec> 08└─If the TPP passes, perhaps.
[17:46:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03shipofgold [4696] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:53] <exec> 08└─I post most of my junk on Craigslist under "free stuff". Within a half hour there are plenty of responses asking when they can come and get it. Old cast iron bathtub Broken dishwasher also disappeared within a half hour Unwanted glass shower doors. An old bunk bed Old 32" non-flatscreen TV that stil...
[17:46:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:55] <exec> 08└─Every time a Redbull truck gets in an accident, an angel gets his wings... ...and a bunch of neighbourhood kids get heart attacks.
[17:46:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:57] <exec> 08└─I constantly see jacked-up pickups with extra-long suspension, giant wheels ... and less than a foot of actual clearance because of the differential in the middle of the rear axle. Always cracks me up.
[17:46:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:46:59] <exec> 08└─I saw Redbull trucks marked as electric vehicles. Who make those? Apparently they're diesel electric hybrids. Manufactured by Navistar International. A couple [truckinginfo.com] blurbs... [fleetowner.com]
[17:47:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:01] <exec> 08└─Except fleets are usually built around Vans, because you can lock up the stuff you have to carry or work. Small construction contractors are the only guys that regularly use pickups. And also those are one of the few jobs where you can live within the range limitations because you usually go to the...
[17:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:04] <exec> 08└─Not a lot of cyclists nor electric cars on the farm. And if there are, black diesel smoke would be way more benign than what I'd dump on them if they didn't move real slow and lie down until the deputies got there to ziptie and haul them off.
[17:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:06] <exec> 08└─Large farms buy fleets. Small farms buy old fleet vehicles at auction. Farmers really don't need five hundred pounds of wizzy tech to extend their genitalia.
[17:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:08] <exec> 08└─Those guys also often have air lift systems. True the axle is going to sit at half the wheel diameter, but you quickly learn to put the wheels on the object in the path, and not straddle large rocks , (you straddle the ruts). I think you will find a foot of actual clearance gets you most places you...
[17:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:27] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Which bank is doing this? and how much do you have to pay for the service? Two things comes to mind here. First that device is likely to cost some more than a plain keypad-lcd device. And secondly if there's a large data transfer, then the device could possible have a hostile payload de...
[17:48:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 138 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:46] <exec> 08└─There have been cross dressers, butch women, lady-boys and all manner of other ways we define ourselves as long as there have been humans.
[17:49:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Morning Glory Seeds Resist UV Radiation - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:53] <exec> 08└─I need to tell my wife that her attitude and clothing are better than space and radiation at killing morning glory.
[17:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used for Character Animation - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:50:07] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering if this could be used to help robots walk.
[17:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:02] <exec> 08└─I suppose it comes down to whether you consider "actor" a gendered term. Is "actor and actress" male and female, or generic and female? I lean towards the former; you, the latter.
[17:51:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:04] <exec> 08└─Damn, i watched a movie like that, but can't remember the name: would like to watch it again: The movie starts with a woman in an electric wheelchair driving up a mountain road, drinking and tossing empty bottles to the side of the road. The chair breaks down/runs out of power, so she gets on her ce...
[17:51:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:06] <exec> 08└─blarg. vice versa. frack
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[18:46:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:05] <exec> 08└─4425 SpaceX sats in LEO, 700 for Facebook, Google, whoever You mean they won't just be simple dumb pipes, bouncing the signal back to earth? Well, that figures... Yay for making the digital divide even bigger. What will this do about the censorship problem? How easy will it be for gov/corp to shut t...
[18:46:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:07] <exec> 08└─After using DirectTV years ago my first thought was bullshit on those latency claims. But this really is LEO, so the distances are much much smaller than traditional communications in geosync orbit. Some details on other networks in the same space: http://www.satsig.net [satsig.net] Disc...
[18:46:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:09] <exec> 08└─10 times that number of satellites orbiting very low would still give the appearance of empty skys for any re-entering vehicle. Earth is a big place. There are easily 6000 commercial aircraft in the sky on any normal flight day. This site gives you a birds eye view of the busy areas http://www.busin...
[18:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:11] <exec> 08└─When these provides connectivity over China, Turkey and other censor loving places. There might be some conflicts of interest. In the choice between crappy 512 kbit/s ADSL behind a wall of censorship and gigabit feed to orbit without any. Well what will people choose..
[18:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:13] <exec> 08└─They even got a wikipedia page [wikipedia.org] since January 2015. Seems they upset some Broadcom higher ups by "SpaceX stole our best minds." ;-)
[18:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:16] <exec> 08└─I haven't read up on this... how are consumer devices (desktops, laptops, smartphones) expected to communicate with the satellites? Do they send and receive packets directly to and from a satellite?Do they passively receive packets from a satellite in the form of a repeatedly sent bite-sized Interne...
[18:46:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:30] <exec> 08└─Might as well sue Sen. John McCain and the US government while they're at it.
[18:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:31] <exec> 08└─My little brothers friend died in a car accident. His parents went totally nuts, they blame everyone, including his fiance, "If you had just left earlier/later this would've not happened" etc. They lost their minds. And in this case some lawyers are taking advantage of the families.
[18:46:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:34] <exec> 08└─My dog died yesterday. I'm suing the internet.
[18:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:36] <exec> 08└─Some people will just about anyone just to try and get a payout.
[18:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:46:38] <exec> 08└─John McCain? Nah, he's a pretty stand-up guy for a politician. Obviously, this is all really the fault of Warner Brothers, Inc, for teaching people that guns are harmless tools for wacky hijinks involving wascally wabbits.
[18:47:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:10] <exec> 08└─It isn't completely insane. You have to watch where your wheels go, but you're less likely to hang up on your undercarriage. As the old saying goes: horses for courses. Your low-slung 2WD truck is basically a city driver, or gravel roads at most.
[18:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:11] <exec> 08└─> Old 32" non-flatscreen TV that still worked (I admit I didn't expect that one to go, but it did) When I got rid of ours (a 25" Trinitron) the young guy that came to get it said he would use it with old video games. Didn't have the lag of cheap flat screen TVs that he had tried. Note, this was ~5 y...
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[18:47:13] <exec> 08└─Depends on what you do on your commute. I go to the feed mill, and pick up feed by the pallet. How many trips would that take you in your Prius, mister efficiency? I wonder whether you can get a trail rated Prius ... oh, wait, that's what these trucks are, kind of.
[18:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:16] <exec> 08└─I know that, but it's still a major constraint. Many diffs take another 6 inches down from wheel center. When people are ready to drop well over 20k on various mods, why isn't anyone selling a compelling solution to replace the fixed axle? 4WD/AWD with independent suspension isn't exactly a novel co...
[18:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:18] <exec> 08└─Nobody, apparently even you, fixes anything these days. But people who do fix things understand free is a good price, even for the parts carcass, and even if they ultimately have to haul it to the recycle/dump. Of course, they are probably driving a pickup truck from the 60s.
[18:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03sweettea [2023] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:20] <exec> 08└─My Prius holds 800 lbs (officially). My truck holds 1300lbs. Still not a pallet of feed. Were my time slightly less expensive, I'd use the Prius; 1.5 trips with it is still better than my pretty-efficient truck.
[18:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:22] <exec> 08└─They do look rather ridiculous, don't they? But in reality, clearance isn't just about the height of the obstacle you can pass the axle over on a level surface - you can very often drive at least one wheels over such an obstacle to get past it. The tricky part is not getting high-centered afterward,...
[18:47:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:25] <exec> 08└─My truck holds 1300lbs. Still not a pallet of feed.
[18:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:27] <exec> 08└─Right. You are in the other ~half of the population that have not been brainwashed. People in this group mostly drive cars, but some of them need pickup trucks as work vehicles, picking up feed, etc. Thus the comment about trucks in general being compromised these days, as they are fancied-up for us...
[18:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:29] <exec> 08└─So how do you find the time to work on a farm AND work for United?
[18:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:50] <exec> 08└─The hackers first spammed out malware to victims' computers, which collected the bank account balance, login details and passwords for their accounts,
[18:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:51] <exec> 08└─Well, I suppose there are assumptions here, like my browser/OS isn't compromised and under the control of the bad guys. But even more important: 0) I instigated the transaction on the banks website after passing through their initial multi-password login (one full password + one selecting random dig...
[18:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:12] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump! Lock her up! Lock her up! Lock her up!
[18:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:14] <exec> 08└─He announced the find of H's emails on the Weiner-laptop. Then after about a week he announced nothing of significance was found after a cursory review. Why didn't he do the week of cursory review FIRST, before announcing it?
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[18:49:08] <exec> 08└─“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who...
[18:49:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Netflix Edits 'Bill Nye' Episode to Remove Segment Saying Chromosomes Determine Gender - 57 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:35] <exec> 08└─You're free to try. I'm free to refuse your redefinition.
[18:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Machine Learning Used for Character Animation - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:36] <exec> 08└─Or maybe flying jump kicks.
[18:51:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:33] <exec> 08└─particularly the type of which Mr Bean is an extreme case.
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[19:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 1105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:14] <exec> 08└─There is nothing on a drive that should be automatically executed. Ever. Never Ever. Never, Never, Never, Never, Never ,Never, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never....... Never, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never...... Never. Then if there might be an exception, it is still... never ever e...
[19:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:16] <exec> 08└─This is what happens when you outsource your code to countries that have designated shitting streets.
[19:46:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 781 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:31] <exec> 08└─Imagine we did want to make an alien invasion shield. How many turrets do you think we'd need to have to provide complete coverage? If each turret can cover a square mile of land securely, you'd need 3.8 million of them just to cover an area the size of the US. And in terms of collisions, a square m...
[19:46:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:33] <exec> 08└─This information may be out of date, but the last I read consumers would be using "pizza box sized" satellite terminals that work anywhere with line of sight to the sky. So #1.
[19:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:35] <exec> 08└─They propose a lot of satellites, but I don't have any estimate if that can cover the USA or worldwide.
[19:46:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:37] <exec> 08└─Perhaps then we just have to wait for the Kessler syndrome [wikipedia.org] to set in with a vengeance.
[19:46:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:39] <exec> 08└─Since Google Fiber is fizzling out, perhaps this will be our savior from our current crop of ISP's. Any company that allows me to tell the incumbent ISP's to piss off is going to be my hero.
[19:46:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:41] <exec> 08└─Well, I doubt these will be allowed to launch without some kind of 'kill-switch' on board.
[19:46:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 1325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:44] <exec> 08└─There are five of us in a short-range module on a four-month tour. It's very tight quarters, with carefully allotted water, food, and air. One crew member has been gaining weight steadily. He no longer fits in his chair. We don't know where he's getting the extra food, but since there is no renewabl...
[19:46:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:46:46] <exec> 08└─Yeah, well, unless these things are just passive repeaters, the "ISP" that operates them isn't likely to be any better. And the government will still want their kill-switch.
[19:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Farmer Tim [6490] (Score: 1) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:05] <exec> 08└─Warner Bros is indemnified: they clearly stated it was duck season, it isn't their fault if people don't duck in time.
[19:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:07] <exec> 08└─Too lazy to look up but I believe the shooter and his wife were immigrants. So, sue the ICE or whomever the relevant agencies are for failure of their vetting processes, and possibly the FBI and ATF for allowing the false-flag to happen. The bonus is that the shootings took place during the reign of...
[19:47:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:09] <exec> 08└─I rather suspect this was part of their plan for a long time. They lied on the visa applications, hid their associations with particular groups in their home-country, etc. (She more than He from all accounts). Their California Mosque affiliation, and their own Mosque-shopping should have raised a fe...
[19:47:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 915 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:23] <exec> 08└─> ... how far you commute ... No, no, no. You have been brainwashed, along with ~half the people in the country. Cars are for commuting. Fleet trucks go back to the fleet garage and maintenance depot. The idea that a pickup truck is OK to use for a personal vehicle is very much a N. American thing....
[19:48:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:12] <exec> 08└─Ignorance can be cured, stupid is forever. Which one do you have? Hint: it's in the paragraph right above the paragraph containing the sentence you quoted. If you can't find it, it means you're just another quote-quoting idiot and far beyond my help.
[19:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:14] <exec> 08└─On point (0) one sets up a fake bank page. Let you give it login details which then makes the fake page use that to create it's own secure login. After that it can present that it will do one thing and then send another request to the bank.
[19:48:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:37] <exec> 08└─Yep. You could tell when he was giving his speeches around that time he was scared shitless, as if there were literally a sniper's barrel pointed at his head from atop the balcony, like Principal Skinner in the Pretzel-Wagon episode of the Simpsons. It could even be something simple, such as his inv...
[19:48:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:39] <exec> 08└─PffffhahahaHAHAHAHAWWWWW. You think those noisy American iPhone-buying consumerist "anarchists" are going to do anything but collapse to the fetal position and cower once real anarchy comes to America? The ones who will survive will be the ones who already live out on compounds and homesteads and pa...
[19:51:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:51:59] <exec> 08└─When I first saw an excerpt of Eddie Izzard, I was quite confused. There were a few funny bits, but I wasn't "getting it." Then I sat down and watched an entire show of his. I laughed quite a bit. Then I watched a second one and found it one of the funniest things I had ever seen in my life. I think...
[19:52:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:00] <exec> 08└─* honk * [youtube.com]. That guy always had the best lines.
[19:52:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:03] <exec> 08└─Huh? Chaplin was HUGE in the U.S. Yes, at the end of his career, he had problems with the U.S. (that came from a collection of issues). But he was instrumental in DEFINING what Hollywood movies were! His "Tramp" character basically defined American cinema in the 1910s, and he was able to demand huge...
[19:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:05] <exec> 08└─That's a pretty good summary of the main types of jokes about Germans. One that you missed however, for those who into more scatological humor -- for some reason, there's a lot of jokes about Germans and coprophilia. I don't know enough about actual German "tastes" in that regard to know whether thi...
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[20:46:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:08] <exec> 08└─You're ranting about the wrong thing. IBM does not sell flash drives; anyone on this site should know this. No, flash drives should come perfectly blank, but that's not the issue here because IBM is not a flash drive manufacturer or reseller. They're using these to distribute software to some enterp...
[20:46:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:09] <exec> 08└─IBM link was broken, but this one for a Lenovo page worked and explained things: https://support.lenovo.com [lenovo.com] They seem to think that garden variety anti-virus would have already found the offending file and removed it. If you remove the one bad file...
[20:46:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:11] <exec> 08└─IBM instructed customers who received the V3500, V3700 and V5000 Gen 1 systems to destroy the drive to prevent the code from replicating.
[20:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:14] <exec> 08└─I remember when the malware they shipped to customers was called "PC-DOS".
[20:46:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:26] <exec> 08└─10 times that number of satellites orbiting very low would still give the appearance of empty skys for any re-entering vehicle. Earth is a big place. There are easily 6000 commercial aircraft in the sky on any normal flight day. This site gives you a birds eye view of the busy areas http://www.busin...
[20:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:37] <exec> 08└─I'm sure these will be linking everyone's Neuralink's together too.
[20:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:39] <exec> 08└─Neuralink + satellite internet = latency dysmorphia
[20:46:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:41] <exec> 08└─HohohoHawHawHAWWWWWW! At first I thought you were joking, but it's still a good joke nonetheless, I'm still laughing heartily. Using Broadcom engineers for space communications is like using engineers from Sun Tracker® [suntrackerboats.com] to design your new ocean-liner.
[20:46:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 1128 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:46:52] <exec> 08└─We've all lost someone. Some of our losses have been more difficult than some others, but all of our losses hurt. This particular group of people lost their loved ones in a rather spectacular manner, very publicly, to an enemy of our nation, and enemy of our way of life. I can empathize with them, s...
[20:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:04] <exec> 08└─Well, self-radicalized can still mean externally inspired. Sure, maybe he did not accept orders nor be recruited from foreign agents. But really, do you think he designed a gun wielding, gay killing, alliance swearing moment as an original idea? You know he saw crap like this on social media.
[20:47:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but if it results in shutting down Twitter it's worth it.
[20:47:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:07] <exec> 08└─You know he saw crap like this on social media. Our system of criminal justice is based on evidence, not conjecture.
[20:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03nethead [4970] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:49] <exec> 08└─What is really sad is you can't get a decent small pickup these days. I got lucky and found a 2007 Ranger fleet truck (no extras, no extended cab, am/fm radio.) for $3k. I use it about once a week to haul stuff for the house. It should last me the rest of my life. I got 430k miles out of my last Ran...
[20:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:51] <exec> 08└─I'd ideally like to have a crew cab hybrid pickup truck that runs the front wheels directly off the engine, and the rear wheels with an electric motor. Put a decent sized battery in there to run 110/220V tools like this one. Truck is FWD most of the time but AWD/RWD as well, depending on configurati...
[20:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Electric Hybrid Pickup Truck for the Commercial Fleet Market - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:53] <exec> 08└─Given that they've built their entire company around fleet sales, I'd imagine they've done a lot of market research before bringing this vehicle out. They already have a solid name in the market, and a lot of fleet sales connections. FTA: "Workhorse has more than 5,000 preorders, mostly from electri...
[20:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:18] <exec> 08└─SS7 was developed when we had THE phone company. It's assumptions for security are based on that. It's primary "security" was moving from in-band MF signaling to out-of-band so you couldn't access it from a POTS line. It really wasn't meant to have less trusted entities in the network.
[20:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:19] <exec> 08└─The security credentials are often not enough. I started noticing a few years ago that the banks were fingerprinting the browsers and systems quite heavily, and tying it to IP addresses. In order to use my bank, I needed to be using the same browser, same machine, same IP address. Anything else and...
[20:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:22] <exec> 08└─LOL. Yeah that moving to out-of-band signalling was because certain people could whistle the tones themselves :) That was a magical time when a subset of hackers called phreakers ruled the telecommunications networks. Black boxes, Blue boxes, Beige boxes, phreakers were fairly adept and could hack a...
[20:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SS7 Exploited to Circumvent Two-Factor Authentication - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:24] <exec> 08└─The account had 2 factor authentication. You begin the login and get an authentication code texted to you. To complete the login, you must enter the code. The SS7 access allows the bad guy to re-direct the authentication code to his own phone to complete the login.
[20:48:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:48] <exec> 08└─Well, you gotta remember, once the democrats lost their slave trade, they had look elsewhere for fundage. So they turn to organized crime. They really do run the show like gangsters, using worker gangs (now called 'unions') and flexibly enforced regulations to shake down small business (oil, mining,...
[20:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:50] <exec> 08└─Comey's actions very probably changed the outcome of the 2016 Presidential election. J. Edgar Hoover did a lot of bad stuff, but I haven't heard he ever blatantly influenced a national election the way Comey did. To make a very, very public splash the week before an election, and then it turns out h...
[20:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Morning Glory Seeds Resist UV Radiation - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:58] <exec> 08└─The summary links to erowid.org.
[20:52:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:14] <exec> 08└─Agree about Mr. Bean. His near Chaplin/Marceau level of silence serves to emphasize the physicality of his situations, versus their social setting. This creates universality. The show's opening is a dead giveaway: He's literally dropped onto the Earth, "born yesterday", without the graces or experie...
[20:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:16] <exec> 08└─Three things will shape a nation's general sense of humor: the structure and vocabulary of its language(s), its environment, and its social climate. For example, much Russian humor is very dry, sarcastic, usually contains some truth, and can be seen as biting commentary on the absurdities of life. J...
[20:52:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:18] <exec> 08└─"A Scotsman took his new young lady friend to the boardwalk pier, and arm-in-arm, they enjoyed the afternoon sights and sounds of the seaside. After passing by the Aquarium and the roundabout, neither of which he took notice, his companion exclaimed, 'They're cooking up chips, doesn't that smell del...
[20:52:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jeremiah Cornelius [2785] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:20] <exec> 08└─Truth be told, at least in the cities, much of what was "British" in the culture has become very Americanized. Or maybe "Media-tized". The consumption of cultural products that reflect global corporate capital interest have had the same effect on the UK as any overt colonial occupation. English chil...
[20:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Soylentbob [6519] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is There Such a Thing As a National Sense of Humour? - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:22] <exec> 08└─That's an angle I saw some times, but never quite understood. I never consciously met a person into that, and never felt any tendencies in that direction myself.
[20:53:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:53:45] <exec> 08└─The Farce is strong with this one :-)
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[21:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An AI-Driven Genomics Company is Turning to Drugs - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:11] <exec> 08└─First you pull a buzzword laden scam, then you get tons of funding, and finally you celebrate by snorting coke off a hookers ass. I've met healthcare industry executives and I've seen them snorting coke. That's just what you do when you're rich and live above the law. Me I couldn't possibly do drugs...
[21:46:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An AI-Driven Genomics Company is Turning to Drugs - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:12] <exec> 08└─Clang yeah my code compiles! And it's such a sunny day! I'm going for a walk! But where well let's see the direction I walk is determined by whose wi fi I want to leech next. Friday, friday, why does it have to be friday, so not the public library on account of its friday today. Hey I know why not h...
[21:46:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI-Driven Genomics Company is Turning to Drugs - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:14] <exec> 08└─0) Humans starts using AI to make better drugs. 1) AI optimize for its survival. 2) AI instruct humans to unknowingly produce a drug that has virulent consequences. 3) AI wins! Skynet is not your friend. There are some things a civilization will only try once!
[21:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An AI-Driven Genomics Company is Turning to Drugs - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:17] <exec> 08└─AI would get bored without humans for entertainment.
[21:46:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gault.Drakkor [1079] (Score: 1) 02 - 06An AI-Driven Genomics Company is Turning to Drugs - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe not vapor-product but most likely vapor-results. Who knows? Maybe they actually have something. I read these articles recently: (The second is linked early in the pipeline article.) pipeline:software-eats-the-world-but-biology-eats-it [sciencemag.org] four-decades-hacking-biotech-yet-biology-s...
[21:46:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI-Driven Genomics Company is Turning to Drugs - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:21] <exec> 08└─You can get a Mac cheaply by buying a second hand one. Your choice of OS is perhaps a better one than Mac OS X anyway.
[21:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:34] <exec> 08└─Destroying is more reliable than disabling autorun, apparently. Non-destructive "repair" steps: Delete the folder called InitTool on the USB flash drive which will delete the folder and all the files inside.If using a Windows machine, holding down shift when deleting the folder will ensure that the...
[21:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:35] <exec> 08└─Finally, you can read about IBM Storwize with a google search. It's an enterprise virtualized storage system, so it's highly unlikely the thing runs Windows at all.
[21:46:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:37] <exec> 08└─The signature isn't going to mutate in this form. Just about any antivirus that's actively updating should be able to catch it. Most antivirus software is okay with identifying exact copies of a previously seen threat that they got a sample of 2-3 days before you did. 'Cause its just an image printe...
[21:46:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:46:40] <exec> 08└─Can't use a defective OS manufacturer to do the job. Instead a good tool is Unix though one can suspect VMS etc will be ok too. So this would likely wipe the shit to oblivion: dd if=/dev/zero bs=64k of=/dev/[SSD device] (usually takes hours.. but in most cases wiping out the start of a disc makes mo...
[21:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:29] <exec> 08└─My dog died yesterday. I'm suing the internet.
[21:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Empyrean [5241] (Score: 1) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:31] <exec> 08└─They should also sue the ISPs and Internet backbone providers for transferring that data...
[21:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:33] <exec> 08└─You know he saw crap like this on social media.
[21:54:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:02] <exec> 08└─> [...] NASA has nothing to do with [war] Earlier commenters noted that there are export restrictions on this software. A probable reason is that computational fluid dynamics can be used to model nuclear explosions. http://www.dtic.mil [dtic.mil] http://impact.ref.ac....
[21:54:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fortran Greybeards: NASA Wants You! - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:54:03] <exec> 08└─> unpaid interns One of the links says that winners can win "up to $55,000". https://herox.com [herox.com]
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[22:46:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An AI-Driven Genomics Company is Turning to Drugs - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:16] <exec> 08└─If I can't afford food I can't afford hardware. Now if you know some way I can run macos in the cloud for dirt cheap that would be super. But I figure freebsd is close enough for the rare occasion when I want to make sure my code is portable and not full of glaring linuxisms.
[22:46:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scruffy Beard 2 [6030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:34] <exec> 08└─That explains why some malware I have gotten recently implores you to act within a day. I assumed it was just a pressure tactic. However, the very short time-frame strains what little credibility the phishing e-mail had. For example: since when does the Post office require you to pick up a parcel wi...
[22:46:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Warns of Malware It Shipped on Flash Drives - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:46:36] <exec> 08└─IBM said that while the malware is copied onto the victim's device, the malicious code is not executed during initialization.
[22:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:02] <exec> 08└─Commercial airplanes are pretty visible, and don't travel at over 7km/s. Every orbiting object threatens a pretty big arc, which you don't want to intersect unless you also match its speed and direction. Space is mind-boggingly huge, but adding another 5000 things, plus launcher spare parts, up ther...
[22:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:03] <exec> 08└─These things are big, and show up on radar, and traveling in predictable paths. I'm not seeing the issue here. Even the ISS only has to dodge junk once or twice a year.
[22:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:32] <exec> 08└─You know he saw crap like this on social media.
[22:47:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dunbal [3515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Pretty stand up guy. Especially if you're a terrorist who is looking for US money and weapons [wordpress.com] or you want a regional government toppled [o0bg.com].
[22:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:36] <exec> 08└─Maybe, but if it results in shutting down Twitter it's worth it.
[22:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:38] <exec> 08└─I disagree. I recall hearing that the US president can send a text message to every cell phone in the country, in case of emergency. And you just know that the Agent Orange will use that if the Twitter goes bust...
[22:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:40] <exec> 08└─A bunch of terrorists kill Granny Smith
[22:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Bernardino Victims' Families Sue Twitter, Google and Facebook - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:42] <exec> 08└─Oh, but someone does... it was the nyan cat that killed my dog.
[22:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:23] <exec> 08└─Wikileaks simply leaked material that should have been available to the general public anyway, yet that doesn't stop partisan retards from endlessly complaining it. If voters looked at that information and decided not to vote for Clinton, that is not the fault of Wikileaks or anyone else, as it was...
[22:51:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Morning Glory Seeds Resist UV Radiation - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah but what kind of a role model for women in STEM could the protagonist possibly be with a mentor who's a rapey all-men who must be sexually harassing her constantly off stage? Plus, how is that spoiler going to help girls learn that STEM is filled with sexually harassing misogynists who think a...
[22:51:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Morning Glory Seeds Resist UV Radiation - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:33] <exec> 08└─They must be eradicated lest a teenager get ahold of them, any benefits to terraforming Mars or science be damned. Besides, everybody knows that the world is flat, Mars is a wandering star, and science is, er, trying to remember... funding, fame, fraud???
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[23:45:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Brain Mapping Tech Inflates Tissue 20x to Reveal Remarkable Detail - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─I suspect this only works on dead brains? Having your brain swell up 20 times seems like a recipe for serious headache otherwise. As for transcendence. If the mapping is sufficiently accurate it might just work. Except for one factor that might derail even a perfect copy. Every point in space-time i...
[23:46:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06An AI-Driven Genomics Company is Turning to Drugs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:13] <exec> 08└─Nice evolved-life--centric perspective you have there, care to justify it?
[23:46:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06An AI-Driven Genomics Company is Turning to Drugs - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:46:15] <exec> 08└─I really doubt that they have something ... yet. Research companies often (always) speculate on what they might be able to do with a bit more work. If he already had something, it would be in trials.
[23:47:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:01] <exec> 08└─4425 SpaceX sats in LEO, 700 for Facebook, Google, whoever ... hollywood can forget about the male hero landing the crippled ship by hand, it's gonna a take good size computer to make a re-entry trajectory without getting hit by something, unless you can magically invoke "never tell me the odds".
[23:47:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:03] <exec> 08└─Or rather billions of obedient neuroslaves. The wet dream for Global Slave Control Inc.
[23:47:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:05] <exec> 08└─I thought Broadcom was just proprietary suckers. Not that they sucked on a strictly technical competence level. But then maybe SpaceX isn't using them for critical functionality. There's a lot of tasks for a project like this anyway.
[23:47:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX to Launch Broadband Satellites With Latency as Low as 25ms in 2019 - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:07] <exec> 08└─The new fashion trend: Magneto helmet but with a metallic Guy Fawkes mask as the face.
[23:49:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comey Faces Congress: Mild Nausea and "Intelligence Porn" - 3779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:20] <exec> 08└─Actually Plato's progression [mit.edu] was more like: (1) Aristocracy (in Plato's ideal world, ruled by philosophers), degrades through miscalculation of good "breeding" for the next generation (I mean literally "bad math," because Plato believes in a sort of numerological method for determining whe...
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