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[00:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia, UAE to Donate to Women Entrepreneurs Fund - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
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[00:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DonkeyChan [5551] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia, UAE to Donate to Women Entrepreneurs Fund - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:12] <exec> 08└─But when are they going to stop stoning them in the streets and give them the same rights as men? Ohhh this is just a show that's right.
[00:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:25] <exec> 08└─Shits must be damn good in Taiwan if their top court bother to concern themselves with gay marriage.
[00:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:27] <exec> 08└─We are conservatives, we believe in small government in nothing more than the sweet nectar of liberal tears
[00:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tw.html [cia.gov]
[00:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:31] <exec> 08└─Yep, because we only have limited resources! Therefore, we need to spend all our resources on persecuting gays!
[00:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:33] <exec> 08└─Yep, because we only have limited resources!
[00:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:36] <exec> 08└─" I am totally fucking sick of hearing from assholes who think they are entitled to dictate who other people are allowed to love." I didn't write anything about dictating how others were "allowed" to love. Your reading comprehension sucks, little boy. I'm sick of hearing about minority groups as tho...
[00:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:38] <exec> 08└─Only an ignorant mentally deficient fool would mod the above idiocy up as "insightful". You want people to die ? You have some growing up to do, little faggot.
[00:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Court Grants Standing in Suit against NSA over Upstream Surveillance - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:46] <exec> 08└─At last some common sense coming from the courts. Next up, SCOTUS.
[00:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:02] <exec> 08└─Jeebus, dude! I was fully aware that Hillary is a warhawk when I voted for her. It's not necessary to keep Correcting the Record! At least not for another three years.
[00:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:04] <exec> 08└─Strictly speaking, you don't have all the guns. I have a few right here.
[00:38:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:50] <exec> 08└─...is just a plain moron.
[00:38:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:51] <exec> 08└─That's why I don't wipe.
[00:38:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:53] <exec> 08└─So, Snelling doesn't just want to go to war against the park service, he wants to claim mainstream geology is basically discriminatory. Which it is. The scientific study of geology has the right to say some things (including some religious views that deny accepted geological facts) are WRONG. That,...
[00:38:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:56] <exec> 08└─I believe farting unicorns blew out the Grand Canyon as part of religious belief system. I deserve a permit to go in and dig up what belongs to all Americans to further my religion. Thank you for your support.
[00:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:58] <exec> 08└─Right, because destructive floods are so rare and people only recently developed a sense of hyperbole.
[00:38:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:00] <exec> 08└─> And when the creationist puts out his religious tome, the parks geologist can come back with real geology instead of religiously biased tripe. Good idea. Is there time to make it happen before Mike Pence becomes president? Because he won't be onboard with the idea.
[00:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:02] <exec> 08└─"Complete lack of evidence?" There are cultures all around the world that have the same story about a huge flood sometime in the distant past.
[00:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:04] <exec> 08└─Why? What a waste of time, human resources, money and in the end, no amount of evidence to the contrary is going to make him or other creationists believe they are mistaken. Blind faith is inherently irrational, and it is inherently irrational to expect rational behavior from creationists. Subjectin...
[00:39:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:07] <exec> 08└─Another obvious point here is that the NPS might not want to enable a potential fraudster. This game has been done before. Perform an elaborate science-like ritual, reach the desired conclusion, and of course, rake in the sucker money to continue the good work.
[00:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:09] <exec> 08└─Of course, that sounds absurd even to the most dedicated Bible thumper. They're willing to doubt, but they're generally not willing to accept something that sounds quite that silly. No, it sounds as silly as anything in most mythologies including those rooted in the old testament, the difference is...
[00:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:11] <exec> 08└─I have an important safety tip for this weekend! I'm guessing I'm not the only person eating hot wings, so MAKE SURE to wash your hands THOROUGHLY after you've had your fill! Otherwise the giant sky fairy will give your genitals a sample of the fires of hell when you whack off!
[00:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:13] <exec> 08└─Because those cis+hets I keep hearing about never divorce, though I think I've only met a dozen of these virtuous people who never divorce in my whole life.
[00:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Raspberry Pi Merges With CoderDojo - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:41] <exec> 08└─Or Coder Pi?
[00:39:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surfing the Internet… From My TRS-80 Model 100 [Updated] - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:39:56] <exec> 08└─I apologize for that. I cleaned up the link just a little bit too much. Should be fixed now. <voice narrator="Rocket_J_Squirrel">Again? Gee Bullwinkle, that trick NEVER works!</voice>
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[01:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia, UAE to Donate to Women Entrepreneurs Fund - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:10] <exec> 08└─Just a show, you say? You are not cynical enough: The money will help kick off a $1 billion women's empowerment fund that the World Bank will announce in July, he said.
[01:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia, UAE to Donate to Women Entrepreneurs Fund - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:12] <exec> 08└─Just going to leave this here.... Last week, in “A Young Prince Is Reimagining Saudi Arabia. Can He Make His Vision Come True?,” Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius (4/20/17) wrote what read like a press release for the Saudi regime. What’s more, he’s written the same ar...
[01:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia, UAE to Donate to Women Entrepreneurs Fund - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:14] <exec> 08└─Remember when getting the saudis to pay $25M for HIV drugs [theintercept.com] disqualified Hillary from the presidency? Nope. Never happened!
[01:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia, UAE to Donate to Women Entrepreneurs Fund - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:16] <exec> 08└─I'll believe it when women in Saudi Arabia can drive, go to school/college, or do anything without a male's permission. We make enough oil, it's time we tell the Saudis to flat out fuck off until they join the 20th century, then put them on a very limited leash until they join the 21'st century.
[01:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 1061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:36] <exec> 08└─Marriage is a legal concept, it has little to do with love. Historical examples abound when marriage occurred with no love whatsoever (the parents used to make the decision.) The society created this legal status for a reason - because it is interested in creating and protecting families that, event...
[01:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:37] <exec> 08└─There is a world of difference between persecuting and not granting a benefit for which the applicants do not qualify.
[01:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:39] <exec> 08└─That's religious conservative bullshit. Barren heterosexual couples receive all the legal and financial benefits as fertile heterosexual couples. Homosexual couples can raise children from other people, or orphans, or unwanted children. Also, there are so few homosexual couples wanting to raise chil...
[01:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:42] <exec> 08└─Homosexual couples can raise children from other people, or orphans, or unwanted children.
[01:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Court Grants Standing in Suit against NSA over Upstream Surveillance - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:50] <exec> 08└─because Wikimedia has self-censored its speech and sometimes forgone electronic communications in response to Upstream surveillance, it also has standing to sue for a violation of the First Amendment
[01:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Court Grants Standing in Suit against NSA over Upstream Surveillance - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:53] <exec> 08└─> Is the US strict w.r.t. freedom of speech [...] There was a story last month about U.S. prosecutors considering charges against Julian Assange, who published U.S. government secrets. /article.pl?sid=17/04/21/1213259 [soylentnews.org] Wikimedia hosts documents containing U.S. government secrets--if...
[01:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans on Building a New Gigantic Submarine - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:05] <exec> 08└─That's exactly why I voted for Trump.
[01:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:07] <exec> 08└─That's true, it is pretty ignorant to prejudge fly-over country based on regularly published statistics. I've lived here my whole life. Let me say with confidence that GP is correct! On the other hand, I like open air target practice. I've never actually been to an indoor gun range. Never needed to....
[01:39:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Surfing the Internet… From My TRS-80 Model 100 [Updated] - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:48] <exec> 08└─I still have one of these units.. Bought it in 1984, on the day I met the lady who a year later became my wife of 32 years.. I bought it at my local RS store, paid $795 for the 8kb version. Later that night I went out with friends for pizza at a local Italian restaurant, where they introduced me to...
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[02:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Early Science Results from the Juno Mission to Jupiter - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:59] <exec> 08└─Are there big black airships traveling the atmosphere transporting niggers across Jupiter?
[02:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia, UAE to Donate to Women Entrepreneurs Fund - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:12] <exec> 08└─Strangely, in 15 years of writing columns about the monarchy, David Ignatius has not himself used the term “human rights,” much less addressed their abuse in a meaningful way.
[02:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03n1 [993] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia, UAE to Donate to Women Entrepreneurs Fund - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:14] <exec> 08└─You have a ... fair ... point... The original claim is pretty bold, but still illustrative in my opinion. There may well be other articles with even more, better references to the human rights concept... I would note that the article in question is talking about "arabs" in general -- not specificall...
[02:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 482 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:39] <exec> 08└─In the US at least that's true. They have no ideas, no principles, no ideology, other than making "liberals" unhappy. Unfortunately liberals want a lot of good things, so to frustrate us means moving all of society backwards. They're totally willing to do that, because conservatism is simply nihilis...
[02:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 1238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:40] <exec> 08└─Marriage is an ancient institution that predates heterosexual intolerance. Straight people are also "twisted" and have a sense of "entitlement". And, as a part of the 'vast majority' represent a much larger problem. When are we going to do something about the vast majority and their twistedness and...
[02:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:42] <exec> 08└─You're just jealous because I do better with women than you do, sweetie 3
[02:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:45] <exec> 08└─Who are these liberals, with love in their hearts, being persecuted by such evil men? I have not met them, nor yet heard of their good deeds in all of my years.
[02:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:47] <exec> 08└─I didn't write anything about dictating how others were "allowed" to love. Your reading comprehension sucks, little boy.
[02:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:49] <exec> 08└─They pine to be slavers, and lords of serfs.
[02:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans on Building a New Gigantic Submarine - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:12] <exec> 08└─Cuz as it has no stealth intentions, I would totally paint that sucker yellow. Even if it had stealth intentions I'd paint it yellow cuz you don't find submarines because they make themselves visible. / wouldn't want to live on it // as it's Russian doubt any of my friends are on it /// band is prob...
[02:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia Plans on Building a New Gigantic Submarine - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:13] <exec> 08└─the closest he's come to admitting it was to say "Aboard submarines there are some black boxes. And there are some quiet men who tend to those black boxes." He often worked on the Sea Wolf, which is said to be one of the subs that did the tapping. He worked for the navy both on active duty and as a...
[02:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:34] <exec> 08└─Don't forget ... Sir Humphrey Appleby: Yes, yes, yes, I do see that there is a real dilemma here. In that, while it has been government policy to regard policy as a responsibility of Ministers and administration as a responsibility of Officials, the questions of administrative policy can cause confu...
[02:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:17] <exec> 08└─There are a lot of blue-collar jobs that are a more dangerous than companies acknowledge. The exact number of workers injured each year by pesticides is unknown, because there is no national surveillance system for acute pesticide illness reporting and no surveillance system for tracking chronic ill...
[02:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:19] <exec> 08└─WHY would you want to live forever? Stop and think about "forever" here. It would be endless, eternal hell after a few million or billion years. We are not made to be Godlike.
[02:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:21] <exec> 08└─You need to toss yourself out on to the burn pile. Dry out that swampy skin of yours a bit.
[02:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:23] <exec> 08└─Keep peddling your revisionist junk. My information is current [diabetesjournals.org]. There is such a thing as sloth, and it causes both poverty and obesity.
[02:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:25] <exec> 08└─Most of those fancy Latin names came about since 1776. Learn your shit.
[02:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:27] <exec> 08└─Does this look like a serious screenplay to you?
[02:39:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:25] <exec> 08└─No idea. But plate tectonics was not accepted science fact in the 1940s. Not until 1967 did it became more or less established.
[02:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:26] <exec> 08└─That's the most sane, reasonable, and dare I say it enlightened thing I've ever heard you say. I'm genuinely impressed. ...who are you and what have you done with the real Mr. Hallow?!
[02:44:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:44:11] <exec> 08└─Obviously the problem is political.... There should be a priority list such that the core of the railways, roads, electrical, fiber connections are maintained at a set level. Otherwise the country could face the scenario of actually not getting around, when it matters. A volcano eruption combined wi...
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[03:36:34] <exec> 08└─Don't worry there are many scenarios: * Oil runs out (inflated well reserve data) * CO2 restriction wipes out oil income * Another power source undermine the oil business * Someone decides to let men in green jumpsuits have a vacation in the sand, just ask Iraq
[03:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:04] <exec> 08└─Everybody does better with the women than he does. Dude is over-compensating for his micropenis.
[03:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:06] <exec> 08└─That's because the good deeds are constantly blocked. Socialized healthcare? Evil commie bastard! Same sex marriage? Evil Satan worshipper! Higher taxes for the rich to decrease wealth inequality? Die in a fire. Just because you can't comprehend that these are very important issues, and that support...
[03:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:08] <exec> 08└─Go bury yourself old man, you're only useful as fertilizer at this point.
[03:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:10] <exec> 08└─Why does the gov give handouts for marriage again?
[03:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:12] <exec> 08└─To encourage the production of crotchspawn to be deployed as soldiers in Asia and Africa?
[03:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:46] <exec> 08└─Good joke, and possibly true, though given the choice some sentience might never choose to terminate. "Immortality" will start with lifespans of 120, 140, 200 years, and death by accident or foul play will always be there, at least until you can "backup" into a newly manufactured body ala Doctrow's...
[03:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:48] <exec> 08└─You're blinded by your ideology then. The "neosocialists" are living better lives, healthier and happier. They do grouse about high taxes, but they don't starve, freeze, or neglect their children.
[03:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:50] <exec> 08└─Why would you want to live through the rest of 2017? Or the year after that? Why not just end it now? That option is still on the table even if aging is cured. Of course, WW3 might choose for you.
[03:40:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:40:54] <exec> 08└─This comes about a year after significant outsourcing of IT where BA replaced the UK workers to cut costs...
[03:42:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Snakes Can Hunt in Packs - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:42:24] <exec> 08└─One of my hens was setting under my trailer... heard a ruckus, went out to investigate, there's a gopher snake in the nest, busy trying to suck down eggs while the hen raises hell. Pitched the snake into yonder field and thought no more about it. Next night, another ruckus, and now there are TWO sna...
[03:44:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:36] <exec> 08└─This is typical cargo cult economics. We do the magic rituals under the guidance of the father figure and the bad things stop happening. As I noted earlier, previous and subsequent recessions routinely ended naturally. One doesn't need an FDR to make the bad times go away. Whatever economic criteria...
[03:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:37] <exec> 08└─And yes, there were loopholes, but you're completely full of shit if you think they weren't paying more tax than they are now.
[03:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:40] <exec> 08└─Flexible regulation would be nice, yes, but so would the ability to create businesses without the overhead that inflexible regulations create.
[03:44:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:44:42] <exec> 08└─The reason why high taxes on the wealthy create more jobs is not even difficult to understand.
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[04:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:13] <exec> 08└─All these incremental improvements in computing - speed and storage memory essentially - brought about one HUGE breakthrough: big data and AI. When I was a kid, the ability to process immense masses of data, let alone intelligently, was nonexistent. And then it happened. Not because it was "discover...
[04:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:14] <exec> 08└─We live in a world where people still believe the Creator of the entire universe desperately wants them to cut away chunks of flesh from the sexual organs if completely healthy children. In that light, we're doing pretty darn well!
[04:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:16] <exec> 08└─AI and Big Data has been the focus of academic computing for nigh on half a century. I studied neural nets in an introductory AI course more than a decade ago—long before The Cloud or iPhone.
[04:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:18] <exec> 08└─the first human DNA sequencing took a long time and cost a great deal of money. Now you can use gumball machines to sequence your DNA. I expect this is contributing to rational drug design. When I can find someone to do it, I'm going to get my DNA sequenced then post it on my website.
[04:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:21] <exec> 08└─Why the hell does it take more than two seconds for my phone to turn on? I don't get it. The dam thing should be ready to run as soon as it gets power.
[04:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:23] <exec> 08└─Development costs huge $'s while timed incremental expansion generates huge profits. We've seen some rather incredible leaps on the software side in overall 'AI' performance but the advent of day trading, short term instant profit has crippled long term planning and spending on development for a lot...
[04:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:25] <exec> 08└─the break through in big data hasn't really been 'big' data but the consolidation and analysis of all the separate pieces that have been gathering for quite some time. The constant corporate consolidation and erosion of any sort of morals or privacy considerations is one of the biggest drivers of th...
[04:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:27] <exec> 08└─Really?
[04:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03pgc [1600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:05] <exec> 08└─Idiot. None of your presidents has ever done something about these things. Now it is suddenly Trump that is to blame and ousting him will provide you with a president that will solve all these issues? How old are you? Still believe in fairytales?
[04:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Wants to Add Machine Learning Chips to Smartphone SoCs - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:25] <exec> 08└─I tried your search [nypost.com]. Kuro5hin had a HOWTO called Corpse Disposal Made Simple, but then the hosting company decommissioned Kuro5hin's enter data center.
[04:44:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Think Technology is Disrupting the Job Market Like Never Before? Think Again. - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:57] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't them having the money overseas and not bringing it into the US. The problem is that they're allowed to book the losses from those overseas ventures without repatriating profits. It allows them to get out of paying the taxes that they're supposed to be paying.
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[05:36:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03its_gonna_be_yuge! [6454] 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 125 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:17] <exec> 08└─Without Twitter, there would be no Trump. And without Trump, there would be no ... um .... Yeah, I guess technology is shit.
[05:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:27] <exec> 08└─Oh no! A non-approved opinion outlet!
[05:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:29] <exec> 08└─We're in a deployment phase. Technology isn't improving. It's just being sold to more people. Economies of scale are making it cheaper. But it's all the same technology we had 20 years ago. Case in point: IEEE 802.11-1997. Wi-Fi is twenty years old this year.
[05:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:31] <exec> 08└─If we killed all of the sales and marketing types. Our tech would no longer be shit. Since they're the ones that turn everything to shit when they get ahold of it.
[05:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:33] <exec> 08└─Let any piece of tech drop out of your hand, and there is greater than 50% odds it breaks.
[05:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:35] <exec> 08└─Without Trump we wouldn't have passive aggressive xkcd comics lamenting how She Lost. I wish Ram-Hole Man-Ho had killed himself after She Lost.
[05:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 1193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:37] <exec> 08└─Evolution is incremental. We differ from fish in important ways, and even more so from our single celled ancestors. For some reason, the fact that our culture out paces evolution by several orders of magnitude might not seem fast to everyone, but our progress looks blindly fast to me. 100 years ago,...
[05:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 2013 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:40] <exec> 08└─AI advances alone are enough to completely discredit this view simply because the field potentially encompasses just about everything. As a recent example AlphaGO just solidified its place as the world's best Go player by going 3-0 against the player believed to be the strongest human alive. It actu...
[05:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:42] <exec> 08└─Only some groups of people and which is only the majority in specific places. The more important point is that there is large groups of people that has left this shit in the dust and they are also connected to each other.
[05:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:44] <exec> 08└─Workers controlling the means of production rather than the capitalist parasite class of marketing and sales? It'll never happen. The workers are too busy living in a dream world where they're millionaires because they grunted hard enough "working hard." And every now and then, the grunting pays off...
[05:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:46] <exec> 08└─Now you can use gumball machines to sequence your DNA.
[05:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:49] <exec> 08└─I'm going to get my DNA sequenced then post it on my website.
[05:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:51] <exec> 08└─"Pieces of tech" I've found are pretty resilient to klutz powers, and I have those in spades. Then again, I don't stress my phone by sitting on it regularly. Putting an expensive piece of electronics in one's back pocket and sitting on it has to be the absolutely stupidest thing I've ever heard of a...
[05:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:53] <exec> 08└─Oh is that what the hole was for? I already stuck my dick in the machine. I guess no one else will want it now, and I'll need to pay to replace the machine, so I'm married to the old gumball-and-chain.
[05:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:55] <exec> 08└─Social media and the smartphone are more about marketing than technology. We've had social media for at least ~30 years. The difference is that now companies have realized consumers are idiots when it comes to protecting their personal information and so this exploitation has created a sort of moder...
[05:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:57] <exec> 08└─Why the hell does it take more than two seconds for my phone to turn on?
[05:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:00] <exec> 08└─AI hasn't been invented yet, "AI" is marketing bullshit, and you're an idiot. but that's like looking at Justin Bieber when trying to judge modern music as a whole
[05:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 1783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:02] <exec> 08└─The example of smartphones, which really are dumb as a rock of silicon. They are computer enabled cell phones. Anyway.. The radio authority in many countries had for a long time very hard restrictions on unattended usage etc, so no standby for you. Then telecom corporations also tried for a long tim...
[05:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:04] <exec> 08└─Besides religious shit I think we have shit science. Technical innovations spring from scientific understanding. Researchers are forced to churn out "results" in publish or perish death march which leads to exhaustion and low quality science. And to add insult to injury publications are "disseminate...
[05:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─I'm still waiting for these fantastic AI chips (neuro chips) to be listed at electronic component distributors. As it is now, large corporations tries hard to monopolize the whole thing.
[05:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Saudi Arabia, UAE to Donate to Women Entrepreneurs Fund - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:28] <exec> 08└─Wtf is a D&D tournament?
[05:39:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:41] <exec> 08└─And they contribute far less to the world than proper capitalist nations as well. They are parasites living off the creations of capitalism. Compare what the norse nations have given to the world since adopting socialist policies as opposed to what capitalist nations have. What advances have Cuba or...
[05:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 1205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:43] <exec> 08└─Just when I think you can't possibly get worse you grab a shovel and start looking for China. Socialized healthcare is better, the "long waits" that people complain so much about are actually non-emergency procedures bumped back so that the people who have urgent problems are taken care of first. Of...
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[05:40:43] <exec> 08└─He can collect rocks from his head.
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[06:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, brutal dictatorship is fascinating. Torture and beheading not so much. Let's just hope there's no ideological contagion.
[06:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:17] <exec> 08└─You say that like it's a bad thing.
[06:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:19] <exec> 08└─Putin and Duterte. Now he's a fan of the Saudis.
[06:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:21] <exec> 08└─Obviously the people there like it, otherwise they would protest against it, right?
[06:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:23] <exec> 08└─> Let's just hope there's no ideological contagion. Contagion in which direction? Trump loves dictators and strongmen, and he hates liberal democracies. There is even something called dictator chic [politico.com] and Trump epitomizes it.
[06:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:26] <exec> 08└─Personally I've always found it hard to protest without my head. Got any tips?
[06:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:28] <exec> 08└─Hey, Nazis have great uniform, all the bad guys do!
[06:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:36:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is the same sort of thing that has caused a certain NYT columnist to obsess about wishing we could be more like Communist China and waxing poetic about the virtues of absolute dictatorship. While assuring the horrified readers he doesn't really mean it of course and it is just a passing fan...
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[06:37:05] <exec> 08└─for that you need DNA from people that have the illness.
[06:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:07] <exec> 08└─I Am Absolutely Serious. Kodak never took digital cameras seriously because the people at the top knew that Kodak made its money selling consumables. Kodak finally participated in digital when it helped define the FlashPix image format. But Live Picture did a reverse 7 to 1 stock split, then cancell...
[06:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 1972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:09] <exec> 08└─Society can't handle frequent, massive leaps forward in technology. If someone leaked teleportation blueprints next week then earth would be gone within two weeks. Ability to teleport a bubble of air into someones head, transport nukes/bombs/gas from anywhere to anywhere, toss people into outer spac...
[06:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, author seems to miss that "breakthroughs" can only happen when there's the right mix of incremental improvements. The first computers were "only" incremental improvements over simpler relay circuits, relay circuits were "simply" applications of boolean algebra, and relays were "just" increment...
[06:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:37:13] <exec> 08└─Putting an expensive piece of electronics in one's back pocket and sitting on it has to be the absolutely stupidest thing I've ever heard of anyone doing. It's mind boggling to me that people apparently do this. Yes, those stupid, entitled 40-50 year old millennials need to be more careful with thei...
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[06:39:51] <exec> 08└─Actually yes, some rich assholes decided that loading cheap food with sugar, salt, and fat would make themselves more money. Add in a lot of stress eating and you have a great recipe for obesity. In case you don't get the last sentence, poor people are often stressed out and a biological result is e...
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[07:36:11] <exec> 08└─The Trolley Problem typically involves a spherically useless choice in improbable situation which amount to mental masturbation at best.
[07:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:13] <exec> 08└─Always look for a third option. Throwing the switch halfway, or just as the first set of wheels passes, and causing the train to derail for example. Sucks for any people on the runaway train but the train has to be stopped, best it not also kill bystanders. But yea, it is the rare situation where it...
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[07:36:28] <exec> 08└─The opponents are all dickheads. Thick, stiff, bulbous. Don't you just want to give them head.
[07:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:30] <exec> 08└─http://images.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=anime+nazi [google.com]
[07:37:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 72 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:01] <exec> 08└─Why the hell does it take more than two seconds for my phone to turn on?
[07:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 4625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:12] <exec> 08└─That's the interesting thing. These changes are not about hardware, but revolutions in how software is created. Google has released data on the performance of AlphaGo on various architectures and while it did play on a beastly setup for its penultimate performance, it probably wasn't necessary. On c...
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[07:37:13] <exec> 08└─It is pretty apparent we are in a consolidation and refinement phase. Faster versions of chips support bigger more bloated software and fad languages, repeat. Netscape 4 could run on a 486 with 40MB RAM, not super fast but it ran. Good luck getting your clock widget to run on those resources now. Ot...
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[07:37:15] <exec> 08└─Clearly, this qualifies: 15 Storey "Vending Machine" in Singapore Dispenses Ferraris, Lamborghinis, & Bentleys [inquirer.net] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[07:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:37:18] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, the ability to process immense masses of data, let alone intelligently, was nonexistent.
[07:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:38:16] <exec> 08└─Even with a micro dude's got to have hands and tongue...
[07:39:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:39:58] <exec> 08└─Jeebus, dude! I was fully brainwashed to believe that Hillary is a warhawk when I voted for her. It's not necessary to keep Correcting the Record! At least not for another three years.
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[08:36:12] <exec> 08└─...ability to comprehend that correlation is not the same as causation. And no, putting a 'may' before it does not excuse this complete rubbish that passes for science in social science.
[08:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:29] <exec> 08└─Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Drug Dealers During Trump's Phillipines Visit Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Polar Bears During Trump's Arctic Visit Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Jews During Trump's Nazi Germany Visit Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Policy Discussion During Trump's Co...
[08:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:31] <exec> 08└─Activate your core. That works for everything.
[08:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:17] <exec> 08└─Calculating your way out of Go is impossible.
[08:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Z-A,z-a,01234 [5873] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 2193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:18] <exec> 08└─The guy is not the only one to observe this, for example: Tom Murphy has this post https://dothemath.ucsd.edu [ucsd.edu] John Graham-Cumming observed that most enabler technologies were invented in the 50s through early 80s https://www.youtube.com
[08:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:20] <exec> 08└─At least 10^170. Chess, by comparison, has only 10^50.
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[08:39:04] <exec> 08└─A very courageous comment, AC.
[08:40:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 141 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:40:38] <exec> 08└─If he has actual geologist credentials, doesn't it amount to something like a hate crime to say no to him, based solely on his belief system?
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[09:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:20] <exec> 08└─In the switch-version I'd kill whoever group that didn't have high-visibility vests (unless you wear them you have no buisness being on the tracks - regardless of authorization). In the fat-man version the question is "will you expose yourself to legal retaliation from authorities?" - in most jurisd...
[09:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:21] <exec> 08└─Social science is itself rubbish. See also: religion, economics.
[09:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:24] <exec> 08└─Should be pointed out - in most modern systems you'd be more likely to be able to cause the train to break[stop] then to switch tracks and most likely you'd only have the choice between break/no-break if in a position where you can both see the track and operate it. Heck, switching track for a runaw...
[09:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:26] <exec> 08└─Time to finally start slimming because I don't want to be sacrificed to the Trolley god.
[09:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:28] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, you could read the article. The 5 on the track are tied to the track against their will. They didn't chose to be there, and quite possibly - heaven forfend - didn't dress for the occasion. And of course, you appear to not be familiar with the concept of a level crossing. I spacially i...
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[09:36:30] <exec> 08└─wanton destruction of enemy civilians for no military purpose
[09:36:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 48 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:40] <exec> 08└─Putin and Duterte. Now he's a fan of the Saudis.
[09:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:36:51] <exec> 08└─I think once Mr. Tiny Hands was elected, he was surprised to find out he still needed other people not under his control to agree with him to accomplish things.
[09:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:39] <exec> 08└─I have read that too. So incredible stupid at least in hindsight. But it ought to been obvious for people at the time too.
[09:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:40] <exec> 08└─The original team had a contract that prevented Xerox from interfering with the team for the first 5 years or so.
[09:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:43] <exec> 08└─To rival the performance of dedicated hardware. It's necessary to be able to buy AI chips. It's not about marketing but access to tools.
[09:37:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:45] <exec> 08└─"People just submitted it. I don't know why. They "trust me." Dumb fucks."
[09:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:47] <exec> 08└─You know, innovation is not only about creating, combining existing stuff is innovation and creation, refining stuff too. This analysis is heavily biased on innovation by creating new products, not refined designs. But refining these products is still a huge advance. Those 18XX slow moving gas guzzl...
[09:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:49] <exec> 08└─It would be more correct to say "our tech is old". It's not "shit" if many of these are actually useful. However, "shit" gets more attention.
[09:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:37:52] <exec> 08└─...and that is to have smartphones with frikkin' laser beams attached!
[09:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 916 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:40:34] <exec> 08└─Is it because they show up at hospital when their health issue is end-stage? Because they have no health coverage. No, that's exactly not the case. Diabetes - the kind where you have to inject insulin, not controllable by diet - doesn't normally just pop out of nowhere in a fit, non-overweight adult...
[09:43:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 862 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:55] <exec> 08└─You're displaying a complete disregard of the laws of physics. It's easier and cheaper to send the waste to Alpha Centauri than it is to send it to our own sun. And the comparison of ease is a stark one - with current rocket technology we can send something to Alpha Centauri, but we can't send anyth...
[09:43:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:57] <exec> 08└─> tourist groups are going to Pripyat to admire the luxuriant wildlife. Wearing respirators. Clue - if you need to wear a respirator, it's probably not a pleasant environment.
[09:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Nuclear Regulators Greatly Underestimate Potential for Nuclear Disaster - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:43:59] <exec> 08└─Wearing respirators. Clue - if you need to wear a respirator, it's probably not a pleasant environment.
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[10:36:18] <exec> 08└─Pretty much agree, it's horribly contrived, and very little can be reliably inferred from it. I think the most likely conclusion is that, rather than actually being more utilitarian, they're just thinking less deeply about the consequences of their choice. kiled a fat man lol Why not perform the sam...
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[11:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:25] <exec> 08└─Thank you for coding an actual application rather than going the Electron route!
[11:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:27] <exec> 08└─Always nice to have another email client available. I'm a KMail user these days, but may give this one a try. Seeing a name like "mt_scrtry_rn" makes me hesitate to try to extend it though :)
[11:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:29] <exec> 08└─Seems to be missing. I only see "MailTask", the Android Taster module.
[11:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:31] <exec> 08└─A link?
[11:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:33] <exec> 08└─Googled this one, will add to summary: https://github.com [github.com]
[11:36:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 88 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:52] <exec> 08└─Time to finally start slimming because I don't want to be sacrificed to the Trolley god.
[11:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:57] <exec> 08└─The article is queued, I complained about the dilemma in its generic form. (Just issue commands in a way that will trigger the ATC, normally it is the red button on the same panel as controls the switch (or more likely - the red square near a corner on the same screen)). But even if they are forced...
[11:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:18] <exec> 08└─You beat me to it. I was going to use a title including the word "dunce". The fool has been sitting in the dunce's corner all of his life, if he doesn't understand that the House of Saud rules it's country with an iron fist, and plenty of swords, axes, hatches, or even kitchen knives. A professional...
[11:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:19] <exec> 08└─Or maybe its none of that, but you are so agitated about that stuff that you just had make a post so you could virtue signal.
[11:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:40:59] <exec> 08└─Socialized healthcare is better
[11:43:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Laptops and Tablets in the Classroom: How to Integrate Electronic Devices in the University - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:43:27] <exec> 08└─I dutifully loaded my backpack with my notebooks and a stack of maybe 7 or 8 books -- and realized after that test that I didn't have time to look at any of them if I actually wanted to complete the problems in time. (Or if I did look at one, I needed to know EXACTLY where to find the info I needed,...
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[12:37:01] <exec> 08└─You should stop staring at jmorris' virtues, and grow a pair of your own, deviant!
[12:37:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:57] <exec> 08└─Big data? This is what Big Data looked like ~1940: https://www.wsws.org [wsws.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] chrome-extension://oemmndcbldboiebfnladdacbdfmadadm/http://intsse.com/wswspdf/en/articles/2001/06/ibm-j27.pdf I have...
[12:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:58] <exec> 08└─Workers controlling the means of production rather than the capitalist parasite class of marketing and sales?
[12:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:00] <exec> 08└─But think about it: before you had to type a very precise search string in your search engine of choice to get what you wanted. Then almost overnight, you could type something vaguely relevant and get exactly what you need too.
[12:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:03] <exec> 08└─Oh is that what the hole was for? I already stuck my dick in the machine.
[12:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:05] <exec> 08└─That's deep man. Have an upvote.
[12:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:07] <exec> 08└─> [wsws.org] Unattended terminal? Or did _gewg_ hack into Runaway's account?
[12:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:09] <exec> 08└─Do you even lift, bro?
[12:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:40:53] <exec> 08└─Socialized healthcare is better
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[13:36:08] <exec> 08└─Perhaps appropriately on US Memorial Day, stories like TFS make me reflect on what we oldsters pretty much expected, enabled, and brought upon ourselves, with Big Data: the death of privacy. Sure, groups like EFF and the ACLU are trying to put the genie back in the bottle, but there's no going back....
[13:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:10] <exec> 08└─Didn't someone get the memo that that doesn't exist anymore since the war?
[13:36:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:12] <exec> 08└─They're good music to listen to while coding.
[13:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:14] <exec> 08└─Thank you for bringing this theme up, SN. I live in Serbia, so this affects me in most direct and profound way. This is a revelation, this site had been completely unknown to me till now!
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[13:36:31] <exec> 08└─https://www.tr1adx.net/intel/TIB-00002.html [tr1adx.net]
[13:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:50] <exec> 08└─A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
[13:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 1594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:51] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's contrived. That's why I included the link in the final paragraph -- lots of people recognize the problem is flawed for research, but it's become a sort of de facto "standard" for testing moral questions, which allows comparison with results of other studies. (It was never intended to be so...
[13:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:18] <exec> 08└─You could duck-tape a laser pointer.
[13:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:19] <exec> 08└─That's the interesting thing. These changes are not about hardware, but revolutions in how software is created
[13:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:21] <exec> 08└─To get a feel for how inefficient modern software is, go and take a look at Smalltalk-80. This ran on a 2MHz 16-bit CPU and 512KB of RAM (from memory too lazy to look up the exact specs for the Alto), with interpreted bytecode, and provided a full multitasking GUI environment with introspection in e...
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[13:38:23] <exec> 08└─Could've fooled me.
[13:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:26] <exec> 08└─Another option might be, you know nothing about Runaway. Some people focus on some specific facet of a complicated person's persona, and they think they know that person. The title of this sub-thread offers a suggestion for you to read and think about: http://www.constitution.org [...
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[13:38:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe - just maybe - I'm carefully NOT making an accusation here - the new generations are shallow minded? They ask a question, they get some superfluous answer, and they are satisfied. "Why is the sky blue, Mommy?" "Because it is, Baby, now eat your peas and carrots, and let Mommy watch the soaps."...
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[13:38:37] <exec> 08└─Here is the link to the Geophysical Research Letters special issue on Juno's results: Early Results: Juno at Jupiter [wiley.com]
[13:39:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:03] <exec> 08└─We are conservatives, we believe in small government, and to that end we will be micromanaging your sex and romantic life.
[13:39:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:30] <exec> 08└─Microhands are a thing too.
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[13:42:17] <exec> 08└─Does this mean I now have an equal chance as real scientists to book time on the Hubble Space Telescope as long as I'm trying to find God?
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[13:42:19] <exec> 08└─Why? Because for every loud mouthed holier than thou holy rolling bible thumper who vehemently sticks to their dogma, there are 3 or 4 quieter sitting on the fence I don't really believe all of this and I'm largely doing this because my parents did this types that might actually listen. This man who...
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[14:36:09] <exec> 08└─as I'd hoped. During the election I half-joked that Trump would be the worst president in US history. I might just yet be proven right.
[14:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:10] <exec> 08└─Except that the white house already changed course [theguardian.com].4
[14:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:21] <exec> 08└─the loss of privacy isn't a one-way genie-out-of-the-bottle like nuclear energy. Facebook relies on active participation, unlike nuclear power. I can't opt out of my local utility, but I can and do opt out of facebook.
[14:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:23] <exec> 08└─Those afraid of Big Government should be very afraid of behemoths like Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple and others which are not hindered by the constitution or human rights.
[14:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:35] <exec> 08└─I'm looking for a replacement for Opera, the old versions of which used to do mail as well as browsing. Nothing yet comes close to the simplicity, and the rapid-narrow-search that it can do over nearly 20 years of email archives over dozens of different IMAP/POP3 accounts. The problem I have, though...
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[14:36:44] <exec> 08└─...what is wrong with Chipotle?
[14:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:04] <exec> 08└─Alternatively, in the past some have argued that trolley problem research is flawed anyway because many respondents find the scenarios silly and may not take them seriously.
[14:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:06] <exec> 08└─Time to finally start slimming because I don't want to be sacrificed to the Trolley god.
[14:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:08] <exec> 08└─The "push the fat man" variation is too unrealistic and comical. I prefer to follow-up the typical trolley problem (divert train to kill one person to save five) with a situation of organ transplantation or blood donation: 1. Six unconscious people require blood (all the same type) transfusions to s...
[14:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:10] <exec> 08└─The correct answer is "take out my cellphone and record the impending trainwreck". That sucker is sure to go viral, you might even get to be on TV.
[14:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03a-zA-Z0-9$_.+!*'(),- (3868) (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:12] <exec> 08└─Well said
[14:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:15] <exec> 08└─Having some experience with mturk and other survey where these types of studies are done I would say it's very likely that the mobile version of the survey looked or behaved drastically different than the desktop version. I would not doubt at all that that could have some impact on the results.
[14:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:37] <exec> 08└─You should stop staring at jmorris' virtues, and grow a pair of your own, deviant!
[14:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:39] <exec> 08└─Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of IQ from Trump's protesters.
[14:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Early Science Results from the Juno Mission to Jupiter - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:56] <exec> 08└─Check out the photos with captions - pretty cool stuff.
[14:39:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03n1 [993] 02 - 06Saudi Arabia, UAE to Donate to Women Entrepreneurs Fund - 1208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:07] <exec> 08└─Just going to leave this here.... Last week, in “A Young Prince Is Reimagining Saudi Arabia. Can He Make His Vision Come True?,” Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius (4/20/17) wrote what read like a press release for the Saudi regime. What’s more, he’s written the same ar...
[14:39:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 545 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:36] <exec> 08└─That's religious conservative bullshit. Barren heterosexual couples receive all the legal and financial benefits as fertile heterosexual couples. Homosexual couples can raise children from other people, or orphans, or unwanted children. Also, there are so few homosexual couples wanting to raise chil...
[14:41:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:38] <exec> 08└─If, by contributing far less, you mean they, per capita: output less CO2, rape fewer fisheries into oblivion, and create fewer toxic waste dumps, then, yes, they are contributing "less" - I wouldn't say "far less," but I would say that they are creating and contributing, one example that immediately...
[14:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:40] <exec> 08└─Actually, the article you linked suggests that poverty causes sloth.
[14:41:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:42] <exec> 08└─That's some confirmation bias on an epic scale there. Nearly every modern amenity you take for granted today is a product of U.S. innovation. Including the personal computer that you run good ole Linus's operating system on and the worldwide network you're using to shit talk the people who created i...
[14:41:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:41:44] <exec> 08└─It works well in other nations because the US did the lion's share of the work creating modern medicine. Without our capitalist asses you'd still be getting leeches put on you, albeit at a reasonable price.
[14:42:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:03] <exec> 08└─If the park service had a real reason to deny the man a research permit, they would have offered that reason to Rep. Franks.
[14:42:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:47] <exec> 08└─Because if they can prove that in a fit of pique God summoned a flood to wipe out everyone and everything on the planet except one breeding family and one pair of every single creature in existence, then they can back up their claim that it was all willed into being by the same tantrum throwing deit...
[14:42:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, let's let every idiot with a shovel go dig up our national parks.
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[15:36:14] <exec> 08└─The White House did nothing wrong.
[15:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:15] <exec> 08└─Probably! Now aren't you glad he kept Hillary out of the office: she could have been worse, but SHE would have gotten away with it (ie: Bush).
[15:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:29] <exec> 08└─...le disappoint.
[15:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:30] <exec> 08└─Absolutely: from what i'm hearing, 'Facebook is for old people'... if the old people are smart and get off facepoop (or die!!), then facepoop should just disappear. Leave facebook and help bring it's demise on quicker... and start fighting for your privacy.
[15:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:32] <exec> 08└─Liked! Followed!
[15:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:34] <exec> 08└─You can opt out of Facebook, but it's increasingly hard to opt out of all such tracking. If you deal only in cash everywhere, only browse the internet with maximum privacy settings enabled (which frequently disables a large amount of websites), etc. then maybe. Even then, your information may still...
[15:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:36] <exec> 08└─However, one of Zuckerberg's fears is [that] ... [Facebook] may become a LinkedIn type of site, where everything posted is highly curated for professional purposes and the "social" migrates to other platforms, such as Instagram.
[15:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:49] <exec> 08└─screenshots [atlassian.com]
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[15:36:58] <exec> 08└─They forgot to update their antivirus.
[15:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:26] <exec> 08└─Before long fat people will qualify under the "he was coming right at me" defense because of their increased burden on the healthcare system
[15:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:27] <exec> 08└─1. do nothing. 5 people die 2. move switch/fat man 1 person dies Both have consequences. Moral and lawful. There is no good choice. The only 'good' choice is to minimize harm. Harm will however be a given. a number of news outlets have portrayed the study as concluding that smartphone users are "mor...
[15:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:29] <exec> 08└─To take the action that saves the maximum number of lives is an absolute no-brainer when you have perfect knowledge of what the outcome would be.
[15:37:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 385 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:47] <exec> 08└─Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Drug Dealers During Trump's Phillipines Visit Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Polar Bears During Trump's Arctic Visit Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Jews During Trump's Nazi Germany Visit Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Policy Discussion During Trump's Co...
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[15:37:55] <exec> 08└─Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Iraqi 'Fugees During Trump's Sicily Visit [theglobeandmail.com] The G7 leaders will see no rickety boats full of desperate migrants. The waters off the Taormina coast in eastern Sicily were being patrolled by Italian navy frigates – for security reasons, no landi...
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[15:39:05] <exec> 08└─LEDs have existed for over 100 years, and have been gradually improving ever since. In the 70s, 80s, and 90s LED still weren't as efficient as incandescent bulbs. But they kept on gradually improving and now they're vastly more efficient. We noticed the "revolution" in lighting when the price droppe...
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[15:39:07] <exec> 08└─Another option might be, Runaway was visiting _gewg_, forgot to log out, and _gewg_ posted without noticing. Another option might be, Runaway and _gewg_ are the same person.
[15:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 2096 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:09] <exec> 08└─I really hate to respond to a post with just an article, but really: A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning [andreykurenkov.com]. You just repeated an oft repeated line, but it's simply not true. However, proving that is no trivial task and is not a wheel I care to attempt to reinvent. And...
[15:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 2309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:11] <exec> 08└─Our tech can only look like "shit" to someone with unreasonable expectations. In case it's not obvious, this dissent is a troll. Not much different than someone claiming one record low temperature reading means atmospheric and weather science is shit and Global Warming is fake. Communication has imp...
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[15:39:13] <exec> 08└─... isn't one of those groups that has left it behind.
[15:39:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 900 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:16] <exec> 08└─For most users of technology, the advances in hardware and in Internet connection speeds have simply enabled a mass of bloat...in commercial operating systems, software, and most all of the web. All of those use more resources sacrificing your privacy then computers of the late 90s used doing everyt...
[15:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:09] <exec> 08└─Wow WTF. You sound like American religion threw up all over you and all you can now do is reiterate it over and over again. I just looked up some random major things, Space exploration => UUSR Insulin (diabetes) => Canada Linux OS=> Europe Trains => Europe Computer => Europe Internet => US Hey, look...
[15:42:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:42:10] <exec> 08└─Nice list. Computer? You had to go back to Babbage, I assume, because computing on silicon is U.S. top to bottom. Most relevant being the microprocessor and the personal computer upon which Linux runs. Linux itself? Love it but it started as a UNIX ripoff, so that's not particularly inventive. What'...
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[16:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:24] <exec> 08└─"wondering why you couldn't already" Answer: Money. Same reason most phones don't get free radio despite having FM tuners (although that's getting better, slowly).
[16:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:25] <exec> 08└─I don't understand your "money" reason.
[16:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:27] <exec> 08└─Mobile companies make money from charging for mobile data [npr.org] and hence frequently turn off things like FM tuners in devices. If you allow people to catch OTA broadcasts for free, the mobile companies lose out on data revenue.
[16:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:29] <exec> 08└─They could be using those improvements to offer more channels rather than channels that have so many wasted pixels that they aren't actually visible to most viewers. Apart from wealthy viewers that would probably be getting the content from other sources, this makes absolutely no sense for people wa...
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[16:36:32] <exec> 08└─The digital cliff makes digital TV an inferior replacement for analog TV. I took one look at ATSC reception artifacts, and I abandoned OTA broadcast TV entirely. I only watch streaming video on the internet now, and I avoid adaptive streams, so the only effect of poor reception is a reduction of buf...
[16:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:34] <exec> 08└─I wrote an article a few years back wondering why you couldn't [watch OTA TV on your phone or tablet] already.
[16:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:36] <exec> 08└─They could be using those improvements to offer more channels rather than channels that have so many wasted pixels that they aren't actually visible to most viewers.
[16:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:38] <exec> 08└─How many reality TV channels do viewers really need or want?
[16:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:40] <exec> 08└─According to the article, you'll be able to watch OTA (over the air) TV on your phone or tablet!
[16:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:51] <exec> 08└─Agreed, the White House did nothing wrong. Now, if you want to talk about the people that live and work in the White House, that is another story.
[16:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:53] <exec> 08└─> Now aren't you glad he kept Hillary out of the office: she could have been worse, In the same way that obama could have been worse, but wasn't. But whatever you have to tell yourself to think you aren't the moron. You do you!
[16:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:55] <exec> 08└─I'll believe it when I see it. If there is one constant with this administration, its the making of empty promises. Certainly their entire handling of lobbyists has been one big fat fail. [vox.com]
[16:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:13] <exec> 08└─# Blocking facebook # https://winbeginner.com [winbeginner.com] 127.0.0.1 facebook.com 127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com 127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com 127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com 127.0.0.1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com 127.0.0.1 connect.facebook.net 127.0.0.1 www....
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[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─It's easy to spot someone else's flaws and characteristics, but it is orders of magnitude harder to spot your own-- after all, why ever criticize yourself, or ever look inside yourself? That's painful and it's not fun. Assuming Facebook is able to figure out the things you like and don't like over t...
[16:37:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:17] <exec> 08└─Facebook is just the biggest "face" of the genie. The problem is Big Data running amok in general, not just one, albeit large, implementation.
[16:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:31] <exec> 08└─Screenshots are actually here: https://marketplace.atlassian.com [atlassian.com] The "Screenshot slideshow" link in "Media" has nine images.
[16:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03el_oscuro [1711] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:32] <exec> 08└─Just looking at the code at https://github.com [github.com] It looks like it converts html to markdown style text. Probably more secure too as most phishing schemes rely on hyperlink abuse.
[16:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:34] <exec> 08└─That's a different application. I don't have screenshots uploaded at the moment, but I'll upload a few.
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[16:37:45] <exec> 08└─A friend described starting a restaurant downtown in the mid-70s. They were putting the finishing touches on the remodel, moving in furniture and planning the opening in a few days when a guy with a broken nose showed up. He told them that the pinball machine was about to be delivered and would be g...
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[16:37:47] <exec> 08└─Ah the good old days when you knew who was fucking you. Criminal honesty, who thought we'd pine for such a day?
[16:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:17] <exec> 08└─oh for fuck sake! s/break/brake/g
[16:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:18] <exec> 08└─"Always look for a third option. " Yes, a thousand times this. Wherever there are two possible states, there is a third "state" in-between those two, that is potentially just as stable.
[16:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:20] <exec> 08└─In real life situations, most wouldn't have enough time to make a decision. My guess is that bystander syndrome would kick in for 90% of the "test subjects."
[16:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 917 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:22] <exec> 08└─Although Mr Logic says pulling the switch and sending the train to flatten the innocent bystander would be just as much "deliberately killing someone" as pushing the fat man, I don't think its particularly profound or surprising that people claim to be more reluctant to kill someone with their own h...
[16:38:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:25] <exec> 08└─If a jew had to make the decision, he would make sure to cause the maximum damage to human life, and then he would sit right next to his victims, wailing loudly, so a crowd will gather and he will ask them for money as he just lost all his family. He will go home rich. Jews have no empathy for human...
[16:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:38:27] <exec> 08└─Even in teenage games like food fights, we used to say, "There are no non-combatants."
[16:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:07] <exec> 08└─But think about it: before you had to type a very precise search string in your search engine of choice to get what you wanted. Then almost overnight, you could type something vaguely relevant and get exactly what you need too. Remember that?
[16:40:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:09] <exec> 08└─Putting an expensive piece of electronics [mobile phones] in one's back pocket and sitting on it has to be the absolutely stupidest thing I've ever heard of anyone doing. It's mind boggling to me that people apparently do this. Yes, those stupid, entitled 40-50 year old millennials need to be more c...
[16:40:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:11] <exec> 08└─Only if you use the Science Fiction definition of "synthetic consciousness", "artificial person", etc. But out here in the real world, that definition dwells within the more esoteric realm of "General Purpose AI". More generally AI is a robot that performs specialized intellectual tasks rather than...
[16:40:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 4136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:13] <exec> 08└─I like to use the 10-year rule of thumb for a lot of things. It seems to hold true in really different parts of life. IBM originally did the study that said, in very general terms,. it takes 10 years for a software project of "significant" size to mature. I think this holds for a lot of social chang...
[16:40:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure. I mean yes the company basically died - but they were a film (and camera) company - their death was pretty much out of their hands. But a company is only a piece of paper - nobody mourns it's death. So the question is, do the actual people running it benefit more from running it as...
[16:43:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:10] <exec> 08└─My post said poor people are often obese, and the article shows a clear link. You denied this link, and now you're trying to shift the argument. I also wrote that people are responsible for what they put in their own mouthes. But no, we should pretend lazy bums don't exist, and the poor and obese ar...
[16:43:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 2095 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:43:11] <exec> 08└─I lived in Philly for a long time. (I no longer do). Philadelphia is great for this type of research because it's a microcosm of the geographic containment that goes on around the country. An infamous article in the Philadelphia Inquirer published a "murder map" of the city. That is, a map with dots...
[16:45:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03SemperOSS [5072] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thousands Disrupted as British Airways Flights Axed Amid IT Crash - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:26] <exec> 08└─It is a major failure of BA that they do not seem to have contingency plans that have been regularly tested to prevent this from being a short-term nuisance instead of the IT disaster it became. Heads should roll. The CTO at least and probably also the people responsible for the contingency plans. I...
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[17:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:27] <exec> 08└─There is no need for 4K pixels. Much lower quality should be enough. Higher resolutions and colors can (and currently are) abused to brainwash the viewer using mind-control technologies. A sudden flash of something here and a sudden flash there, and do it enough times so the viewer becomes a mindles...
[17:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:28] <exec> 08└─Here it is! The NiggerCommandLine channel complete with Dwarf Fortress and NetHack in blackscreen. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:30] <exec> 08└─This is over the air, so none of your comment applies. There's a huge need for more OTA channels which is the main reason this is happening. The cable companies hate the competing platform.
[17:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:32] <exec> 08└─I wonder at the lack of mentioning that ATSC 3.0 includes significant additions to "digital rights management" and may result in things like TV capture cards or OTA PVRs no longer working.
[17:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:34] <exec> 08└─I see someone could use some socialised mental health care.
[17:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:37] <exec> 08└─Stop CENSORING my THOUGHTS.
[17:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:39] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, it'll take a lot more than a few tech changes to make OTA TV better. Higher resolution isn't better, it's at best a marginal improvement. Making TV better would require better programming, which costs money. Getting rid of the stupid (but cheap to produce) reality shows, quiz shows, i...
[17:36:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Geezer [511] 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 658 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:58] <exec> 08└─Perhaps appropriately on US Memorial Day, stories like TFS make me reflect on what we oldsters pretty much expected, enabled, and brought upon ourselves, with Big Data: the death of privacy. Sure, groups like EFF and the ACLU are trying to put the genie back in the bottle, but there's no going back....
[17:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:13] <exec> 08└─Can you? https://yro.slashdot.org [slashdot.org] https://spideroak.com [spideroak.com]
[17:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:31] <exec> 08└─ledow, The install could be simpler, but I think the actual day-to-day usage of the program is pretty simple. I'll be posting screenshots of the UI in a bit -- this is complicated by the fact I don't really want to publicly post my inbox to the Internet -- but I can assure you it's very no-frills. H...
[17:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:32] <exec> 08└─That is indeed the link. Sorry for not including that, I meant to :(
[17:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:34] <exec> 08└─Screenshots are uploaded to GitHub: https://github.com [github.com]
[17:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:37] <exec> 08└─I should maybe rename that file :) It's "MailTask Secretarial Runner", and I decided to just take out all the vowels.
[17:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:39] <exec> 08└─it's probably not for me, but good job on the license.
[17:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FIN7 'Cyber-Mafia' Group Giving Heartburn to the U.S. Restaurant Industry - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:51] <exec> 08└─Ah, the good old days when the Mob was about local cash business, coin-op laundry was (is?) another one. To go international they almost needed something like Bitcoin to be invented... Wait, who was that Satoshi guy?
[17:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FIN7 'Cyber-Mafia' Group Giving Heartburn to the U.S. Restaurant Industry - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:52] <exec> 08└─So the new modus operandi is to insert bad code into the process memory. This still leaves many exposure surfaces. They still have to phone-home and won't survive reboots unless bad code is written to disc where code is actually executed on reboot. Even if it's a simple batch file, which they seem t...
[17:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03andersjm [3931] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:29] <exec> 08└─In the real world, the answer to the problem is this: "Since my ability to predict the future is imperfect, I should opt for a solution that does not have short-term ill effects, de-emphasising long-term consequences that may not come to be as predicted. Therefore, I should not push anyone onto the...
[17:38:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:30] <exec> 08└─Have you got the Fat Man Blues ? Try the version by Marc Ribot...I find it mesmerizing, have on replay now.
[17:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:57] <exec> 08└─President Donald Trump congratulated Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on his referendum victory, a sharp departure from the critical reception many European officials have given the vote to expand Erdogan’s powers.
[17:40:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03sgleysti [56] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:18] <exec> 08└─My money is on the above AC actually being Runaway saying, in essence, "I am vast; I contain multitudes."
[17:40:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:19] <exec> 08└─Article is a troll. Let's just play "god of the gaps" with any tech that we can still see room for improvement on. In particular, we'll focus on complicated issues, rather than simple ones, since those are harder to solve.
[17:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:22] <exec> 08└─From what my straight friends tell me, most guys have no idea how to use those, and a good deal of them don't even care to. I'd kind of hope the situation had gotten better over time in that regard but apparently not. There are times I seriously wonder how the hell there are 7 and a half billion of...
[17:42:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jim Hackett’s Toughest Job Yet: Leading Ford into the Driverless Era - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:42:09] <exec> 08└─they want to control movement just as much as they want to brainwash and spy.
[17:43:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 943 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:22] <exec> 08└─I am as serious as an ebola plague. Eternity is not "a long freaking time," it's *forever.* Think about it this way: suppose that as a human you can appreciate and have, say, 100,000,000,000,000,000,000 (that's 100 quintillion) years of more or less unique experiences. That's it. After that, things...
[17:44:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Creationist Geologist Sues the National Park Service Over Grand Canyon Sample Collection - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:27] <exec> 08└─You infidel! It was the Flying Spaghetti Monster that dug the canyon. I will be applying for a permit to keep chopping up the canyon rocks until I find the spaghetti fossil evidence. (Hint: If you start from an "ism", like Creationism, you aren't a scientist. The Canyon has millions of visitors per...
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[18:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:14] <exec> 08└─If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate.
[18:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:15] <exec> 08└─And that's why you should suck your own cock so your sperm never leaves your body.
[18:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:17] <exec> 08└─Interesting choice of words. So, you took her home, with carpet burns on her buttocks, and you call it "carpet bombing"? Yeah, her daddy will understand, LMAO!!
[18:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:19] <exec> 08└─However these compounds hit a target that is important for many cell types in the body. So these compounds are no "magic bullet" and a better comparison is that of carpet bombing.
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:42] <exec> 08└─Being drunk helps.
[18:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:57] <exec> 08└─We all understand - your partisanship won't allow you to understand what a low life criminal Hillary is. She, and her "foundation" collected billions of dollars, by selling influence. Partisan chumps tell us "You have no proof!" OJ Simpson got away with that - "You have no proof!" Al Capone got away...
[18:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:20] <exec> 08└─I live in Serbia, so this affects me in most direct and profound way. This is a revelation, this site had been completely unknown to me till now!
[18:37:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:21] <exec> 08└─> I can and do opt out of facebook. According to instructions I found which date from 2011, one must create a Facebook account for oneself in order to opt out: 100 million people tag photos each day on Facebook. One month after Facebook launched its facial recognition feature, non-users may still no...
[18:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:23] <exec> 08└─I would say you can but it's hard. Time for a reset of all personal information once in a while? like when moving to a new address it could be exploited by creating a new email address, phone number, website etc.. Blocking all tracker sites goes without saying of course. Any computerphone better be...
[18:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:26] <exec> 08└─...or Facebook?
[18:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:28] <exec> 08└─How does it affect you?
[18:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 1727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:30] <exec> 08└─It appears that we can run but no hide. You can add lots of intentionally false information. Weave it in with the true stuff. Now that I think of it, I want a Windows domain system that does the following: Spin up temporary template VMs, Vlan into a private network, destroy after each run Load rando...
[18:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:32] <exec> 08└─Facebook advice you that the best you could do with your life is to work at Amazon as a data entry person for free McBurgers and sleep under the desk while bathing in the corporate pond now and then. This free advice were sponsored by the federal reserve and Bezoz philanthropy Inc.
[18:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:34] <exec> 08└─The main issue is likely to avoid sharing personal information with people that have poor information hygiene.
[18:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 2789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:37] <exec> 08└─Additions: 127.0.0.1 www.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 twitter.com 127.0.0.1 platform.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 urls.api.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 syndication.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 analytics.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 p.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 cdn.api.twitter.com 127.0.0.1 googleads.g.doubleclic...
[18:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:39] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a feature implementation list for a open source project right there. Had similar ideas for some time now.
[18:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:41] <exec> 08└─Though choices.. But why not give your next girlfriend a fake name whenever she's at a family gathering? And no photos because some "old ex-boyfriend is stalking her". Be inventive..
[18:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:03] <exec> 08└─Please don't do that. I get flashbacks to bad experiences with mainframe people who do that, whether the original names fits or not. making things unreadable is not generally a good idea. While on the topic of unsolicited code quality advice, i find the monolithic files for client, server, etc a bit...
[18:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:54] <exec> 08└─Why is this rated Funny instead of Troll?
[18:40:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:43] <exec> 08└─Maybe - just maybe - ... - the new generations are shallow minded?
[18:40:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:44] <exec> 08└─LEDs have existed for over 100 years, and have been gradually improving ever since. In the 70s, 80s, and 90s LED still weren't as efficient as incandescent bulbs. But they kept on gradually improving and now they're vastly more efficient. We noticed the "revolution" in lighting when the price droppe...
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[19:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─Why is daddy looking at daughter's buttocks, incest dad?
[19:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─I see a lot of bullshitting about how natural this fucking shit is, but not a word about whether it actually works or not.
[19:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:23] <exec> 08└─with carpet burns on her buttocks, and you call it "carpet bombing"? Yeah, her daddy will understand, LMAO!!
[19:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:47] <exec> 08└─I wonder at the lack of mentioning that ATSC 3.0 includes significant additions to "digital rights management" and may result in things like TV capture cards or OTA PVRs no longer working.
[19:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:48] <exec> 08└─That you are incapable of realizing what's going on and the techniques used is not really our problem. So this "care" stuff is utterly bullshit.
[19:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think that word means what you think it means.
[19:36:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:53] <exec> 08└─I'd say making TV better takes removing the perverted incentives and being independent for real. Not something likely to happen anytime soon with regards to OTA or cable.
[19:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:55] <exec> 08└─I use cable for on-demand, for things like Dr. Who, Forged in Fire, some anime, etc.
[19:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:57] <exec> 08└─ATSC 3.0 has special sauce in it that makes mobile reception (as in receiving while moving) work better.
[19:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03BigotDetectorGoesBing! [5877] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:59] <exec> 08└─But when a jew gives you something, anything, DO NOT go near it.
[19:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:01] <exec> 08└─They could be using those improvements to offer more channels rather than channels that have so many wasted pixels that they aren't actually visible to most viewers.
[19:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:04] <exec> 08└─Please let it be IPv6. Never good to create new standards that rely on deprecated older ones.
[19:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:18] <exec> 08└─During the Wikileaks debacle he were proven to lie officially so that comparison seems flawed. Not a good idea to lie about matters where the truth is revealed a few days later.
[19:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:53] <exec> 08└─We have a shadow profile on Yugoslavia. It will be restored as soon as the TOS has been clicked. :p
[19:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:54] <exec> 08└─But why not give your next girlfriend a fake name whenever she's at a family gathering? And no photos because some "old ex-boyfriend is stalking her". Be inventive..
[19:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:18] <exec> 08└─Sorry to be AC- I have a login but I'm weary of the low-life personal attacks here on SN. I'm still using Old Opera for all pop3 email (the bulk of my email) and most browsing, and Vivaldi (with lots of blockers / privacy extensions) when / where I'm forced to. I don't mind the "lack of integration"...
[19:38:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Webweasel [567] 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 85 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:51] <exec> 08└─A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?
[19:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:12] <exec> 08└─And what if fatty is some life-saving surgeon while those pedestrians are all stock-brokers, social scientist and lawyers? And what if you just got it wrong and you ended up killing a guy for nothing? Do no harm. Not sure about the consequences? Do nothing. Want to play hero? Jump in front of that t...
[19:39:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:39] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure he considers them virtues.
[19:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:04] <exec> 08└─They could have awaited the right time to release all digital solutions. Once those image sensors reached 1 Mpixel and the flash memories could hold it for a decent price tag. It should been obvious that it was time to act.
[19:41:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:41:06] <exec> 08└─I agree with the article, and I've been saying that stuff for years. Yep, blue LEDs are one of very few in the past 50 years. The FET was "invented" in 1926, but not built until 1947. In the 1950s and 1960s "solid state" - transistors and ICs - were developed, and we're still using that tech- refine...
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[20:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:18] <exec> 08└─Fear! Uncertainty! Doubt! After traveling through some other countries airports I can safely say the US is extremely fucked. The terrorists won, the security theater people have made tons of cash off our hysteria, and a large portion of the US has never been easier to manipulate.
[20:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:20] <exec> 08└─"That's the thing that they are obsessed with, the terrorists, the idea of knocking down an airplane in flight, particularly if it's a U.S. carrier, particularly if it's full of U.S. people."
[20:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:22] <exec> 08└─Isn't it possible to scan the internals of a laptop? It's done with all kinds of other stuff. But those scanners surely won't detect type of material. Which I guess is the problem. Maybe more wavelengths can be used? o other technique.
[20:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:24] <exec> 08└─First thing I saw when I opened my passport was not the passport - but a pamphlet that allowed me the "privilege" of paying a subscription to get through TSA checks faster. Murika.
[20:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah well, make what you want of it, but there haven't been any hijacks or bombings on US flights since 2001. Seems like the country to avoid now is Egypt.
[20:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:28] <exec> 08└─Time for some racketeering lawsuit? Maybe some TSA board members have filed their IRS forms improperly? ;)
[20:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:31] <exec> 08└─What's so special about Egypt right now? It's not like the whole middle east and large areas of Africa is filled with people willing to do all kinds of bad things.
[20:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:33] <exec> 08└─Boot the device and run a diag. program from USB stick to confirm the health of the system. It is not like the modern laptop has a lot of spare room for things like C4 and detonators as well as what is supposed to be there in the first place.
[20:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:35] <exec> 08└─It comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of how the strategy of terrorism works, you blow up some stuff and the state imposes draconian and TERRORIZING military violence ON IT'S OWN CITIZENS making the citizens angry and afraid causing in the end revolution and the destruction of the state you a...
[20:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03iwoloschin [3863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:37] <exec> 08└─https://xkcd.com/651/ [xkcd.com]
[20:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:40] <exec> 08└─Does he mean broader laps ? or wider laptop's ? Soon we'll be banning iPhones, because, well just because...
[20:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:54] <exec> 08└─Carpets need to be banned from airplanes!
[20:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:28] <exec> 08└─This is over the air, so none of your comment applies.
[20:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:30] <exec> 08└─Please let it be IPv6.
[20:37:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 1277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:46] <exec> 08└─Sure, HRC is a typical (in today's terms) corrupt politician selling out the US, but Trump is doing the same thing and worse! At the very least HRC would have had a desire to keep the status quo while doing her corrupt backroom dealings, but Trump and the GOP are hell bent on literally destroying th...
[20:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:47] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Trump is the idiot fall guy, they are using him to rubber stamp horrible legislation and destroy every part of the government that impedes the greedy desires of corporate US. So no, HRC might have gotten away with the standard corruption we've all become so familiar with, but it is u...
[20:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 1257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:48] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the replies, all the below. Sorry, but this is just not going to be for me. The screenshot looks worse than some of the prototype mail clients I knocked up for personal use to test library functionalities 15 years ago. And if it can't render HTML, pretty much that's ludicrous in this day...
[20:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:38:49] <exec> 08└─Please don't do that. I get flashbacks to bad experiences with mainframe people who do that, whether the original names fits or not. making things unreadable is not generally a good idea.
[20:41:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 1994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:37] <exec> 08└─I don't feel the term 'stagnant' is strong enough. 'Shit' is closer but in my observations we are actually backsliding. In other words, in some important ways our current IT technologies are less useful TO US than they were ten years ago and even longer. Aside from the complete cesspool the Web beca...
[20:44:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:38] <exec> 08└─Douglas Adams tangled with this a bit - the Restaurant at the end of the Universe, time travelling immortals watching every movie ever made, etc. and always being so very bored by it all. If you take time travel out of the equation, then there's a lot to try to accomplish before the heat death of th...
[20:44:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 1276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:44:40] <exec> 08└─Ever travel outside the US, get some perspective on the world from the other side of the borders? We are not 100% responsible for 100% of innovation and invention. Hell, we got our rockets from Germans, our nukes from the Jews (o.k. stretching here)... Yes, the US nurtured these guys and let them do...
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[21:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:17] <exec> 08└─Pffft, what's that... 1/2 a B2 bomber? 1/10 an aircraft carrier? A couple missions in Iraq/n/Afghaniwhatsitcalled / weekends in Mar-a-lago?
[21:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:19] <exec> 08└─But science organizations won't get access to that money.
[21:36:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:21] <exec> 08└─You know this is YOUR money, right?
[21:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:39] <exec> 08└─There is enough space..
[21:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:41] <exec> 08└─I mean those things make anybody feel unsafe!
[21:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:43] <exec> 08└─Suggested shortcut to all this - just ban... aircraft. Done.
[21:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:45] <exec> 08└─This will never happen on international flights because the Feds love playing peeping tom into digital devices in the Constitution-free zones, and most people don't ensure their electronics are fresh and clean when crossing, despite the occasional ruckus you hear in the media about so-and-so having...
[21:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:47] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to tell this guy about suitcase nukes!! NO SUITCASES ALLOWED ON AIRPLANES FOR REALSIES. WE'RE LIKE TOTALLY MULLING THIS OVER RIGHT NOW. BRB.
[21:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:50] <exec> 08└─That's why they want you to check-in your devices - that way they can examine them at their leisure, as well as put in malware or whatever. Easier to do if the owner's not there to object.
[21:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:52] <exec> 08└─rip the guts out and install a gumstix. It'll boot. It'll run and look like a normal laptop. leaving you plenty of space. shielded by metal.
[21:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 1183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:41] <exec> 08└─As someone who records my TV content from OTA HD stations, I read absolutely NOTHING good into any of this, except that they'll probably receive even more push back around this conversion than they did around the conversion to digital. It sounds like all the ATSC tuners become obsolete(?) which tota...
[21:37:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:42] <exec> 08└─Looks-Better==Is-Better?
[21:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:36] <exec> 08└─Well, if they're that shallow, good riddance.
[21:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:02] <exec> 08└─Are the hooks into the NSA database neatly integrated or do they use an obscure hack that crashes the system or chews up CPU and bandwidth?
[21:40:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Commerce Secretary Praises Lack of Protesters During Trump's Saudi Visit - 1090 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:40:25] <exec> 08└─Every single move Trump has made so far has been an effort to make rich people richer. Unlike Reagan, there isn't even the pretense of "trickle down". ...and you might ask Kansans how Sam Brownback's trickle-down thing is working out for them. Hint: That's a failed hypothesis in USA. At the same tim...
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[22:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:19] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the delay, Jason Mamoa! Oh well, we can trample on Chile.
[22:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:21] <exec> 08└─Here's a ground telescope [wikipedia.org] to look forward to. It ought to find a lot of KBOs due to the wide field of view.
[22:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:23] <exec> 08└─It would be impressive if this monster can reach diffraction limited resolution. James Webb will have to run for his money.
[22:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:25] <exec> 08└─JWST should be collecting data starting in November 2018. The telescope can only last 5-10 years due to the cooling needed, and it isn't expected to be serviced by SLS. So it could be dead as early as 2023. The Thirty Meter Telescope was supposed to go up by 2022, and that was before construction in...
[22:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:27] <exec> 08└─Same goes for the money to the military.
[22:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:30] <exec> 08└─No option to resupply the cooling system?
[22:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:55] <exec> 08└─Why is it that nobody ever thinks about the obvious idea of... oh... I dunno... NOT pissing off the entire world so that everyone and their goldfish is gunning for you? I mean, isn't it strange how Canada doesn't seem to have these problems? Sure, there have been a few terrorist plots that have been...
[22:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 934 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:56] <exec> 08└─Sniffer dogs are still the most reliable security screening for explosives (plus drugs and a few other things), although technology based solutions such as X-rays and swabbing can be pretty effective too. From a practical point of view though, given the threat of a laptop bomb is almost certainly no...
[22:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:59] <exec> 08└─I was sure that they were mostly obsessed with getting you the hell out of their homeland The die-hard Islamic Jihadists want Islam to literally conquer the world [dailymail.co.uk]. The US is the Great Satan because it is not an Islamic country. They would attack the US even if the US were not in th...
[22:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:01] <exec> 08└─"That's the thing that they are obsessed with, the terrorists, the idea of knocking down an airplane..."
[22:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:03] <exec> 08└─Of course not, the terrorists wouldn't try it again. The greatest security we have are the people on board that will not go to their deaths quietly. Remember the passengers on 9/11 that didn't go along with the plans? Their plane never hit the target. It will never work again for that reason. People...
[22:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:05] <exec> 08└─Screw the explosives. Just figure out how to push some really obnoxious zero-day malware onto the USB stick and let the TSA propogate it onto every laptop they subsequently scan with it; "WannaCry TSA edition", perhaps? Now imagine how many different networks, and in how many different countries, th...
[22:37:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:07] <exec> 08└─LOL. Sure. No space. Just that extra M.2 port, or that extra HDD bay, or that big honking lithium battery can be replaced, or press C4 into the lining around the screen where the wifi antenna goes, speakers, etc. I'm not sure how many laptops you've taken apart to service them, but there are little...
[22:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:10] <exec> 08└─But buildings, cars, free-standing crowds of people, and other more accessible things are enormously more targeted by terrorists than airplanes are.
[22:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:12] <exec> 08└─Easy to say, but you don't know what problems Canada may have with the U.S out of the picture. In other words, Canadians are safer because the U.S takes the brunt of it. You do have a point though. We can take care of the problems with the TSA by bringing peace to the Middle East. Without a jihad th...
[22:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:14] <exec> 08└─iPhones will be the last devices banned. The DHS and Apple are both all about removing rights and freedoms.
[22:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:16] <exec> 08└─Where's me canoe?
[22:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:31] <exec> 08└─So "natural" university lab discovered it. Fucking morons.
[22:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:33] <exec> 08└─I see a lot... about how natural
[22:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:35] <exec> 08└─Still a murderer, now there are just no survivors :) I find it odd to term it waste, when the same God designed procreation to literally waste 99.999% of the "bullets". You have sex, with a woman, deposit a load, and if you are lucky, 2 or 3 of them might survive to become zygotes. Most of the time...
[22:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:37] <exec> 08└─"Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive" I thought they were talking about Roseanne Barr, or Celine Dion.... or Hillary Clinton maybe...
[22:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:39] <exec> 08└─Every sperm is needed In your neighbourhood.
[22:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:17] <exec> 08└─You mean they will start producing something actually worth watching?
[22:38:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:18] <exec> 08└─Pro-Tip: You are an outlier. Analog TV didn't work perfectly for everybody either. Sucks to be you, but your problems are rare.
[22:38:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:20] <exec> 08└─Ah, but you misunderstand who it was "better" for. It was better for the content providers, as now everything is digital they can tack on DRM as they like. Better for you the consumer, was never on the table.
[22:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:23] <exec> 08└─Sucks to be you, but your problems are rare.
[22:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:38:41] <exec> 08└─I prefer my president to be sane.
[22:39:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Tentacles of Facebook - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:18] <exec> 08└─> it's better than jumping from career to career, degree to degree Somehow I fear that companies that treat employees like "human resources" won't choose the path that is best for YOU but the one that is best for THEM. They want to lower wages? let's have more people doing that profession. Especiall...
[22:39:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MailTask: an Email Client and Manager - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:46] <exec> 08└─If you're okay with more unsolicited advice, I'd use "SecretaryRunner.py". The MT, for MailTask, is a little redundant as that's part of the git structure. If you're importing the networking code from Client, that section of code should be in its own file. It has little to do with duplication and ev...
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[23:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Rime' Creators Will Remove Anti-Tampering Code If It's Cracked - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:18] <exec> 08└─The game studios used to be cool. Id released engine source code. Epic quietly released patches that removed DRM. These days? Fuck them all to death.
[23:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Rime' Creators Will Remove Anti-Tampering Code If It's Cracked - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:20] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kubNNTLGW4 [youtube.com]
[23:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Rime' Creators Will Remove Anti-Tampering Code If It's Cracked - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:22] <exec> 08└─Good luck ever getting the source to id tech 5.
[23:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Rime' Creators Will Remove Anti-Tampering Code If It's Cracked - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:24] <exec> 08└─I suspect that what's going on here is that the game devs may be calling the bluff of the DRM merchants, and saying, basically: "If it isn't preventing copying, we're yanking this customer-hostile shit. And not paying you again." It makes a lot more sense than just daring the community to do what yo...
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:40] <exec> 08└─As soon as we dig up the Stargate we won't need to worry about Nimby on Earth ever again. Manifest destiny to the stars. Other planets don't have rights. Build a telescope on Sateda instead.
[23:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:41] <exec> 08└─https://jwst.nasa.gov/faq.html#serviceable [nasa.gov] Why is Webb not serviceable like Hubble? Hubble is in low-Earth orbit, located approximately 375 miles (600 km) away from the Earth, and is therefore readily accessible for servicing. Webb will be operated at the second Sun-Earth Lagrange point,...
[23:36:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:44] <exec> 08└─Let's build it on PJ2-445.
[23:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Construction Starts on the World's Largest Optical Telescope - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:46] <exec> 08└─I'm actually quite amazed that they are not even really considering the possibility, and even seem somewhat dismissive of it. We're looking at 10 years of advances in both space and robotics tech before it's going to be needed, and even if they completely screw it up the JWST would have been EoL any...
[23:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:23] <exec> 08└─I would like to award you some internet points, but they don't "run" anything on their laptop, they just image it and then inspect the image. ... but I was thinking along the same lines as you
[23:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 1915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:24] <exec> 08└─I still remember the first time I crossed the Canadian border after 9/11 (nearly a year afterward). I was with some friends on a camping trip. We decided to take our pickup truck and go for a little daytrip across the border. In Canada, we were greeted by two pleasant (and, I'll admit, attractive) w...
[23:37:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:27] <exec> 08└─If you think security is more important than freedom in a country that is supposed to be 'the land of the free and the home of the brave', then your priorities are, to me, seriously out of order. I would rather risk more terrorist attacks than allow the government to continue violating the Constitut...
[23:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:29] <exec> 08└─There are many factors that cause this problem. If you are arguing that invading middle eastern countries and causing tons of collateral damage is not one factor that causes some people to decide to be terrorists, then I find that hard to believe. It's not black and white. That doesn't mean that ter...
[23:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Homeland Security Chief Mulls Broader Laptop Ban - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:31] <exec> 08└─If I wanted to kill a lot of Americans on an aeroplane, why wouldn't I choose a flight between Chicago and LA? (For example) It makes more sense than an international flight.
[23:37:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:51] <exec> 08└─Hindu, Taoist, Mormon, Spill theirs just anywhere, But God loves those who treat their Semen with more care. Let the Pagan spill theirs O'er mountain, hill, and plain. God shall strike them down for Each sperm that's spilt in vain. [For those who don't know where this thread is coming (ahem) from, y...
[23:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Find Natural Contraceptive - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:53] <exec> 08└─Actually, watch this link [youtube.com] instead; better quality.
[23:38:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:35] <exec> 08└─I find OTA digital has less artifacts and tunes in faster than the same channel on cable. Half the time I try to change channels on cable it won't even tune in and shows the weak or scrambled channel message, then I have to run up and down the channels to get it back. The cableco can shove their cab...
[23:38:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:36] <exec> 08└─Is it tinfoil hat day today?
[23:38:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free TV Will Have 4K Content in a Couple Years - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:39] <exec> 08└─Better for you the consumer, was never on the table.
[23:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06June 1 Deadline for Providing Lobbyist Waiver Documents Looms - 410 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:58] <exec> 08└─A sane president who isn't a malignant narcissist would be even better. Malignant narcissism is a psychological syndrome comprising an extreme mix of narcissism, antisocial personality disorder, aggression, and sadism. Often grandiose, and always ready to raise hostility levels, the malignant narcis...
[23:40:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Smartphone Use May Impact Utilitarian Moral Judgments - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not disagreeing that uncertainty is a significant issue. I think part of the problem is that these scenarios are taken out of the context of a much larger argument that was trying to home in on how our moral "intuitions" work in different contexts that seem somewhat "equivalent" on the surface....
[23:42:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Our Tech is Shit: A Dissent on the Claim Technology is Currently Rapidly Improving - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:42:53] <exec> 08└─Our tech is shit, but I don't agree with all the reasoning here. We are surrounded by computers, and the vast majority of them run software that deny users their freedoms and even outright abuse them by spying and limiting what users can do (DRM); they are essentially black boxes. The tech industry...
[23:43:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Taiwanese Court Invalidates Ban on Same-Sex Marriage - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:43:58] <exec> 08└─127.0.0.1
[23:45:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Relation of Income, Geography to Life Expectancy Studied in U.S. - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:59] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not. You claimed that sloth causes obesity and poverty, then for some reason I can't fathom you posted a "supporting" link that suggests that poverty causes sloth. That would be closer to my argument that that the constraints of poverty tend to lead to bad diet. Sure, everyone would love to...
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