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[00:35:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:47] <exec> 08└─How easily do they get out? Well, they get out at ~9.8m/s^2. Because whatever is below them is a blaze right now, the only way out is the window.
[00:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:48] <exec> 08└─... with graphite on the leading surfaces. I think they built just one prototype. I never heard about it until after the US Stealth fighter and bomber were well-known, so maybe the allies kept it classified.
[00:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:50] <exec> 08└─How DARE you suggest that helping homeless people could lead to anything but a lifetime of wasting our taxes on their newfound entitlement? Have you no shame, rising all the way from the gutter to crush his misinformed ideology?
[00:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:52] <exec> 08└─the vast majority of commercial timber is grown on tree farms. If you object to tree farming you should object to vegetable farming as well. It is one of our most important exports to Asia.
[00:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:55] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure you meant latitude, meaning they are all approximately the same level of northness with respect to the equator . . . ( though Oregon is a tad south of Canada ) Longitude is the measure of eastness or westness with respect to the prime meridian . . .
[00:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:57] <exec> 08└─Ya no problem when it is done correctly. Well, less of a problem and they're still working out the ecological details.
[00:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03nishi.b [4243] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:59] <exec> 08└─I remember watching a TV show about houses made of compressed hay and wood, and the fire testing by some firemen. And they were really surprised by the results, because to burn fast, wood needs a lot of oxygen and a large contact surface between the wood (or hay in that case) and air. So the house t...
[00:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:01] <exec> 08└─I didn't want to blow the three grand a MacBook Pro would have required, so I only got a Mac mini. I lost a consulting client because I was unable to do his work on a Hackintosh.
[00:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:04] <exec> 08└─If you don't make it with flammable glue, and compress wood fibers to the same density as logs, they will be hard to ignite, and burn slowly...
[00:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:36:59] <exec> 08└─That happens when you surpass a certain level of notoriety. I take it as a compliment for the site.
[00:37:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:00] <exec> 08└─Sorry, incorrect. This was a staff decision after surveying community opinion. I was just the front man on account of I don't give a shit if you talk smack about me.
[00:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:03] <exec> 08└─No, it gets forced upon them by loudmouthed snowflakes. Adults are simply capable of working with difficult people as long as they have value to the project and rarely need social-managing.
[00:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:05] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure I follow, if there is no accountability than how does that handle unfair moderations? I reviewed the stories about slashcode and moderation changes but they didn't seem to have a good rundown of the system. What is the actual complaint here? No meta modding to punish people who abuse mo...
[00:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:07] <exec> 08└─Like the place but not the major tools who inhabit it. Still enough decent folks and reasonable discourse even from the trolls to make it worthwhile. Lots of negative feedback recently, we shall see how it goes.
[00:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:09] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the "jesus was hated by the romans" defense of iniquity. I had no idea the mighty bummer was a christian, sounds like you a runaway attend the same church.
[00:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 1660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:12] <exec> 08└─So everyone else should suffer and let assholes be assholes? We're all legally adults so social feedback is no longer allowed? You live on another planet apparently. Computers bred a certain attitude, the lone nerd that manages the tech and looks down on others with disdain because they don't have t...
[00:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:14] <exec> 08└─> if there is no accountability than how does that handle unfair moderations? It does not handle them. > All I know about it is that TMB made changes and shitposts started rising to the top more easily, and maybe I just never noticed before but I started seeing actual modbombs in real time. Exactly...
[00:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:16] <exec> 08└─A staff "decision" where you championed an outcome and nobody felt it worth the effort to challenge you since you were going to do all the work implementing it anyway. Justifified by a couple of surveys curated to the point of being push-polling.
[00:37:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:18] <exec> 08└─All in all, this is hands down the best work environment I've ever had the privilege of experiencing.
[00:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:21] <exec> 08└─You seem to think I'm in a position to push whatever I like down the site's throat. Here's a clue: I have three bosses that can shut down any changes I propose at any time without explanation. It was a nice try at playing the victim though.
[00:38:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:05] <exec> 08└─Arms reaching out, in our prayers, stay strong!
[00:38:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:41] <exec> 08└─Said without irony I presume. You do realize this puts you on the same level as the terrorists right? Actually scratch that, you probably aren't willing to put your own life at risk, so really you're just a cowardly terrorist hiding behind a keyboard advocating genocide. Get it yet?
[00:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:42] <exec> 08└─he had no coherent political ideology
[00:38:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:44] <exec> 08└─Are you sure? It might be a bunch of Christian white supremacists!! Why would you be so quick to assume that DAESH is responsible? Just because they say so, doesn't make it so. /sarcasm
[00:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:46] <exec> 08└─Filter error: Flame wars are bad for the community
[00:38:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ezber Bozmak [764] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:49] <exec> 08└─OK so you are saying the numbers are acceptable given the US homicide rate?
[00:40:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:03] <exec> 08└─Yes there are many frivolous patents, but software doesn't have a monopoly on that. I once invented a lossless image compressor. No one before or since has come even close to the way I did it. I assert that an invention like that is worthy of a patent. I asked my employer to patent it. They agreed,...
[00:40:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:40:04] <exec> 08└─Open Source Initiative. Eric Raymond tried to trademark "open source" but was denied by the USPTO. Public domain is not OSI Approved.
[00:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:50] <exec> 08└─Nobody has made any attempt whatsoever to prevent those ex-students from speaking nor to keep others from listening/rteading it.
[00:43:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06AAA: Tesla Owners Should Pay More for Insurance - 1489 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:43:22] <exec> 08└─I strongly suspect the real reason is that Model S and X are aluminum intensive. Aluminum bodied cars are *much* more expensive to repair than the steel equivalent. Ask any premium car owner -- Jag, Audi have been early with aluminum, but it's everywhere now. Oh please, these sounds pretty overblown...
[00:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Free Play or Flashcards? New Study Nods to More Rigorous Preschools - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:51:06] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to the relatively insightful AC I was responding to? Your comment is profoundly anti-knowledge and anti-science, as well as destructive to an ongoing conversation. The word "fact" is used a bit too judiciously, I think, when non-scientists talk science. The only "facts" are simple,...
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[01:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:59] <exec> 08└─> the vast majority of commercial timber is grown on tree farms in your country, maybe. not in every country!
[01:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Turbidity [4203] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:00] <exec> 08└─This takes place in Portland Oregon, not Oregon City, Oregon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_City,_Oregon). Of course, Portland, Oregon is an Oregon city, but it is not Oregon City. If that makes sense...
[01:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:02] <exec> 08└─Most people don't want to save the lives of the homeless. They want the homeless to die in the gutter so they can be removed permanently. They want the homeless to live in a small jar... cremated. Anybody with a criminal record or mental illness becomes an undesirable. This can only be countered by...
[01:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:04] <exec> 08└─Laminates are (sometimes) great stuff, never disagreed. The word 'plywood' has a connotation of cheap and shoddy though.
[01:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:07] <exec> 08└─I was at the shelter in San Luis Obispo a while back. The staff asks everyone new if they are "a registered or unregistered sex offender".
[01:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Turbidity [4203] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:09] <exec> 08└─I think there is a big constituency that favors some kind of free and humane housing situation for the houseless, but doesn't want it to produce the quality of life issues that are associated with large downtown tent camps.
[01:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:11] <exec> 08└─Who needs farms? Just cut down the old-growth forests. Profit! http://www.forestrytas.com.au [forestrytas.com.au]
[01:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:36:13] <exec> 08└─Actually, when I hear "laminate" on this scale I think "tinder". I would not want to live there when some asshat on the bottom floor goes to sleep in bed with a burning cigarette. I understand it's "fire resistant", but I sure as hell don't want to be one of the guinea pigs verifying that.
[01:37:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:20] <exec> 08└─You really need to get out in the real world and get a job. I guarantee you, you will work with or for an asshole and if you can't manage to deal with it, your ass will be the ass that is fired.
[01:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:22] <exec> 08└─Likewise, nobody trolls irrelevant people. Thank you for the compliment.
[01:37:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:24] <exec> 08└─You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
[01:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:26] <exec> 08└─...who here has never held a job where someone on staff was a dickhead/bitch but you kept on working anyway? Yeah, but there I was getting paid to take the abuse. Only a sucker hangs around volunteering to be abused - especially when there are other projects that will appreciate the participants' ef...
[01:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:28] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see some transcripts of these conversations where the "mature adults" manage to not take things personally. Let's see if they are really that bad and compare to other examples where you claim people are immature whiners. Also we'll need some psych profiles so we can tell if the sample gr...
[01:37:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:31] <exec> 08└─Superficial charm and good intelligence Absence of delusions and other signs of irrational thinking Absence of nervousness or neurotic manifestations Unreliability Untruthfulness and insincerity Lack of remorse and shame Inadequately motivated antisocial behavior Poor judgment and failure to learn b...
[01:37:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:33] <exec> 08└─Fortunately, no. He was nucking futz, so I'm sure his girlfriend (assuming she wasn't imaginary) was too.
[01:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:35] <exec> 08└─Unfair moderations are the duty of the community to correct rather than a select elite or worse yet me. You yourself can take care of any correction you feel the need to. I guarantee you're not seeing mod-bombs that don't get reversed though. We have an admin page that looks through the db for anyth...
[01:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:37] <exec> 08└─Keep in mind that a lot of times the dickheads are mutually at it, and enjoy it, otherwise either one could easily avoid it, but they don't. (No, I know that's not all situations, but I think it's a lot of them once you remove being paid as a factor.)
[01:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:40] <exec> 08└─Since that was a well presented reply, I'll go ahead and respond in kind. I am nothing even approaching a sociopath. Their defining characteristic is that they do not feel empathy. I do. I do not, however, let my emotions control my rational mind, so letting those of others dictate what I think is r...
[01:37:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 415 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:42] <exec> 08└─Your wish is my command: https://logs.sylnt.us [sylnt.us] Check the past week in #dev if you like, wherein FatPhil schooled me on web standards and even called me a Microsoft coder. You do know that we are an OSS project [github.com], yes? We've just been exceedingly fortunate in our staffing. I'd...
[01:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:44] <exec> 08└─There sure are a lot of useless assholes who really hate this place but seem to be in no hurry to leave.
[01:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:46] <exec> 08└─I've got a good example. I opened a bug with an open source project with an excellent reproduction case and a suggestion of how to fix it. After a few days of silence from the developer, they triage it with a low priority, workaround, and a message about their time pressure with other things for wha...
[01:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:48] <exec> 08└─There is more than one of us 'trolling' you (lol at the deflection of criticism). But after this, there is one less. Congrats on winning, your prize is apparently a small pond full of your own piss.
[01:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:51] <exec> 08└─Only a sucker hangs around volunteering to be abused
[01:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:53] <exec> 08└─That's the part TMB totally missed. When you're doing it for free, it's only natural to be less willing to put up with bullshit.
[01:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:37:55] <exec> 08└─"Your delusions of persecution not withstanding, nobody wants to play referee, its something that gets forced on them by sociopaths who think social norms don't apply to them." Now I don't think I know you, Anon, but that line sounds mighty familiar. Makes me think maybe the problems you have experi...
[01:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:09] <exec> 08└─The grand parent had a subject that mentioned technical problems, but the content of said post was a shitting on what the gov did in response to a fundamental flaw in the system. There was a subject content disagreement. I was responding to the content not the subject.
[01:39:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 901 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:21] <exec> 08└─Nope wasn't a war. We called it one, but for various reasons didn't make it official. Besides that, how does that make it any better? Was a war built on lies, and the casualties were way higher than every terrorist attack combined from the last 100 years. I'm sure the civilians that got bombed by ai...
[01:39:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:22] <exec> 08└─"same kinda person as you" Your ignorance is showing.
[01:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:40:39] <exec> 08└─I wonder though how those numbers would look if you removed all the minor modifications of existing drug in order to get fresh patent protection...
[01:44:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hot Jupiter Exoplanet May Have a Comet-Like Tail - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:44:55] <exec> 08└─They are gas giants with anywhere from about 30% of Jupiter's mass to ~13 Jupiter masses. They have short orbital periods. Being as close as they are to their host star inflates them to greater volumes with lower density. They are also probably easier to detect than other gas giant exoplanets due to...
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[02:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bed Partners May Unintentionally Contribute to the Perpetuation of Insomnia - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:32] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to just fucking them until they're tired enough to sleep?
[02:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bed Partners May Unintentionally Contribute to the Perpetuation of Insomnia - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:33] <exec> 08└─I go to bed every night by 10, and am happy if I'm asleep by midnight. I'm up between 5-6 AM. Having a bed partner (heh, nowdays my best chance of getting laid is crawling up a chicken's ass and waiting), makes things worse. Body is tired, brain is "whoo hoo, let's do that again, maybe she has a fr...
[02:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:16] <exec> 08└─I'm all for preserving natural forests and complex eco-systems, but farming trees is a perfectly fine way, if not the best known way, to capture carbon.
[02:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:18] <exec> 08└─I live in subsidized housing now. It enabled me to get quite a good job; I'm going to start paying my own rent in August.
[02:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:20] <exec> 08└─Actually, when I hear "laminate" on this scale I think "tinder"
[02:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:22] <exec> 08└─Just don't put your CLT in an erogenous zone... It could get wet, which makes it slippery.
[02:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:24] <exec> 08└─And have you stopped beating your wife?
[02:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:26] <exec> 08└─“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”
[02:36:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:38] <exec> 08└─who here has never held a job where someone on staff was a dickhead/bitch but you kept on working anyway?
[02:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:50] <exec> 08└─I rarely agree with you on any philosophical or political matter, but I like the idea of everyone having mod points every day. In my opinion it makes the site better.
[02:37:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 1355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:52] <exec> 08└─I can put up with a whole lot of some types of crap at work, and other types I just won't put up with. People changing their minds, having a bad day every now and then, not being super competent, making mistakes, not having great interpersonal skills, those are all normal parts of any relationship i...
[02:37:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:54] <exec> 08└─Have you seen the quality of the comments there lately? It's quite sad.
[02:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:56] <exec> 08└─L. M. A. O! Maybe some day we'll get someone famous commenting here... Like the realDonaldTr...... Oooooooooh!
[02:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:59] <exec> 08└─So go make your own damned site, and you can be who and what you believe the Buzzard to be here. You'll get to make all the decisions, and when you don't like the results, you can change them without asking permission from anyone. Run along, now, little Snowflake, you have a lot of work to do!!
[02:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:01] <exec> 08└─Have you checked your Wheaton meter lately? You are officially in Dick zone. Ohnoes, to JavaScript or not to JavaScript? Why am I still alive? I have to keep BREATHING!!! Don't be a dick, dick.
[02:38:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:03] <exec> 08└─But I also remember Linus being a raging, venomous tyrant at times, but people generally laughed it off
[02:38:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:05] <exec> 08└─You, on the other hand, embrace the alt-left's fascist views, where every word a person utters in his life should be punished, unless those words advance the alt-left agenda.
[02:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:08] <exec> 08└─I wonder about integrity - not only of the poll-makers, but the poll-takers. With a large enough sample of poll-takers, things average out, and you generally get some semblance of truth. But, how many whiners and complainers took the poll, with the intent of making things look worse than they are? I...
[02:39:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:35] <exec> 08└─His point is that the numbers are not out of the ordinary. Particularly given that source's propensity categorize any muslim behaving badly as solely a consequence of his muslimness.
[02:39:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:39:37] <exec> 08└─If I had my way, it wouldn't have happened. Even then all the PNAC, zionist nut jobs involved should be in prison. It's not happening is it? They got their resolution, they used it to go war and the UN is so toothless as to be a complete joke.
[02:41:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:41:22] <exec> 08└─That reflects some of my thoughts. They seem to be lacking simple design principles for self stabilization such as a wings' v shape. When a V tilts on one side, the lift is augmented on that side and reduced on the other. Trying to balance such a contraption relying on sensors and computers alone...
[02:42:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Verizon is Forced to Fix 15,000 “Double Poles” and Other Network Problems - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:42:27] <exec> 08└─Having worked for VZ. I can safely say what you said is probably not true. They did it to themselves. It took me two years to buy 1 set of servers. That was in one of the most profitable growing businesses they have. The wheels of bureaucracy in VZ move very very very slowly. The VZW side of the hou...
[02:45:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:45:04] <exec> 08└─The first job of an intelligence agency is keeping secrets
[02:46:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:46:28] <exec> 08└─So, more important things to do now, but not so important that you can't not spare the time to tell us they are important.
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[03:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:29] <exec> 08└─If you're lucky enough to have a "bed partner" you're probably having sex. Do that more, and during the day. You'll sleep better. It's the only thing that ever worked for me. I haven't slept well in years.
[03:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:30] <exec> 08└─To be honest, the only thing in life I hate more than going to bed is getting up in the morning. Not waking up, getting up.
[03:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaganar [605] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:32] <exec> 08└─late wake time
[03:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:35] <exec> 08└─Few jobs allow for this level of flexibility. You have to be up when everyone else is up and our society has settled on business starting around 0800 or 0900. This means getting up at 0630 to 0730.
[03:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:37] <exec> 08└─Anytime I wake up is morning :P
[03:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:39] <exec> 08└─In my own personal experience, sleep hygiene is a cruel joke. I've had dysfunctional sleep all my life, and have come to accept that I always will. What the shrinks are referring to is that one should use the bed for nothing but sleep and sex, and one should go to bed at the same time, and get up at...
[03:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:28] <exec> 08└─I couldn't have done it without my Soylentil friends. It was you who convinced me that I'd be far more likely to get a job if I accepted the housing. It had been repeatedly offered to me, but I refused it because I have no problem surviving on the street. I wanted that housing to go to someone who r...
[03:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, for the latex fetishists and Roy Orbison fans :D
[03:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:36:31] <exec> 08└─Not all wood. The H.IX was of mixed construction, with the center pod made from welded steel tubing and wing spars built from wood. The wings were made from two thin, carbon-impregnated plywood panels glued together with a charcoal and sawdust mixture. The wing had a single main spar, penetrated by...
[03:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:05] <exec> 08└─"fair bet that a good percentage of that group are both givers and receivers," That's probably accurate. "experienced rudeness" could mean that someone was rude to you, or that you merely witnessed someone being rude to a group or class that you belong to - or it could mean that you were rude.
[03:38:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:06] <exec> 08└─I went through kinda the same thing and have switched to Manjaro with zero problems. System runs faster, too. Xfce and i3.
[03:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:08] <exec> 08└─Sooooo, you just drunk fecked her!? ;)
[03:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:11] <exec> 08└─But that is exactly why they funded this study. To prove the need for more CoCs, more Women in $whatever inititives and make the world perfectly safe for every delicate snowflake to feel fulfilled and brimming over with self confidence as they beaver away pointlessly on projects going nowhere becaus...
[03:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:13] <exec> 08└─That's what I look for: value. If they are a plus, I can work with that and even try to behaviourally modify them to be an even bigger plus (one guy I even wanted to marry my daughter, lol. He was bloody well like my right hand). If they are a negative, I usually just basically ignore them because I...
[03:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 1545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:15] <exec> 08└─Your attitude sounds a lot like Assertiveness 101. Of course, they don't seem to have assertiveness training anymore - nowadays, it's all Sensitivity 101. Each of us has our own limits to the abuse we'll accept, and those limits change from one environment, to another. Submissive people have a high...
[03:38:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:17] <exec> 08└─How long did you stay? I bet it was until your supervisor insisted you fly out to Mar-A-Lago so you could caddy for him and his buddies, like, every weekend this year.
[03:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 1472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:19] <exec> 08└─I have contributed to a few projects. One project I contributed to they were respectful and glad that I helped. One dude tried the 'you should do xyz' and the rest stepped in and nipped that with 'hey he is new and that was YOUR code that was messed up and we will deal with that issue in the proper...
[03:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:22] <exec> 08└─You can either be a decent developer that everyone likes or you can be a decent developer that no one wants to use. Your choice. Being an ass to show how big your dick is for coding only pisses off possible new blood to your project. They are NOT going to tolerate it. Nor should they.
[03:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aighearach [2621] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:24] <exec> 08└─Poked my head in to see if things have changed, found this story right away... neckbeards still crying over the mean SJWs and their big hands ruining the world by complaining about assholes, oh won't somebody please stop these whineys SJWs, wah wah wah wah My goodness, Soylent, get your big boy pant...
[03:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:38:39] <exec> 08└─The problem is technical. The telecommunications system is government trash, and that's why there was both a political/legal solution (which didn't work), and that's why there is even more political/legal action.
[03:45:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 1031 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:45:23] <exec> 08└─The people at the top, not those at the working levels. The reason for this is they are expected to assume they DO NOT KNOW enough to have an opinion. The whole spy game is about compartmentalization, need to know, lots of disinformation, double agents, dirty tricks and spending a lot of time in leg...
[03:46:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:46:48] <exec> 08└─Moron, they were highlighting the fact that conservatives aren't the only ones who face such discrimination.
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[04:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 1335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:35] <exec> 08└─NASA needs to just throw in the towel on this stuff, and all its other missions too, and just work on helping out space agencies in other nations to achieve their goals. For instance, maybe China or India would like to launch a new orbiting communications satellite to Mars to replace our aging one....
[04:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:37] <exec> 08└─Yes, why bother with anything. Let's shut down the EPA, shutdown the social services, shutdown the FCC, shutdown the NSF. I think it's time we finally just give up for good. Let some other countries take over. We can't do it any more.
[04:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:39] <exec> 08└─The "Late Empire" is much more concerned with how to gain votes and influence their worldly interests (or, occasionally, trying to swat a Cheetus Blumpfus fly away). Only rising powers make true advances in technology, art, and literature. We're a racist, sexist Rome and we're at our end. I welcome...
[04:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:41] <exec> 08└─Exactly, I just want to make sure we pass on what we've learned to the other powers that are ascendant. But yeah, we might as well shut down all that other stuff; our voters don't want them anyway, so who are you and I to tell them differently?
[04:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:56] <exec> 08└─What the fuck is a "job" ? Seriously, when is Trump going to MAGA because there still aren't any "jobs" in America. The labor participation rate isn't changing. Since the Great Recession we've regressed to the 1970s level of employment when women were housewives and men could afford to own a home an...
[04:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:57] <exec> 08└─Trumpu-sama is going to hold the working class's rage in check for a few more years. Silicon Valley will come in and replace more jobs with robots. Then everybody dies.
[04:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:59] <exec> 08└─I was working 20 hour days, sleeping 4 hours per night Monday through Friday, and sleeping 36 hours straight through Saturday and Sunday. Then I died.
[04:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:01] <exec> 08└─Well you know what they say, afternoon is college morning.
[04:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:04] <exec> 08└─You will never see such a Works program from Trump or the GOP because that's completely antithetical to their economic philosophy. Only Democrats could deliver such a program, and they are on the outs because they have some peculiar social hang ups and preferences which they refuse to compromise on....
[04:36:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:06] <exec> 08└─You lost me at "working".
[04:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:08] <exec> 08└─If only unemployed men could get disability payments for being socially disabled, in other words not being gossipy backstabbing bitches like every woman. Too bad feminism dictates equality cannot exist and all men are criminals. It is not a coincidence that women are buying guns in record numbers. T...
[04:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:10] <exec> 08└─The password policy at work forcibly ended login sessions after 10 hours which was a helpful reminder to take a 5 minute break for lunch and then login again and continue working.
[04:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:02] <exec> 08└─Stop talking science. The grumpy old men here know better than the people who made painstaking tests of the materials. For their next trick, after having established that this structure will burn quickly and be a safety hazard because it's made of witches, they'll demonstrate to us that the Earth is...
[04:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:04] <exec> 08└─Then they'd support more comprehensive welfare, but they don't. How much faith can one have in people who think solar panels on a house look ugly? I think after I discorporate, I want to sit outside the Pearly Gates and just watch for Americans. I'd like to see their shock when they find out that th...
[04:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:06] <exec> 08└─Witches? We burnt the last of them last Sunday over prayers. Also, the earth is not shaped like a banana, it's more Buddha's Hand [wikipedia.org]-ey from where I'm standing.
[04:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 335 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:50] <exec> 08└─Not only that, but if you experienced rudeness, it's clearly more likely that you yourself were rude. You might have been rude first, you might have been rude back, either way you both experienced rudeness and delivered rudeness to another. And again, I know that's not *always* the case, just saying...
[04:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:22] <exec> 08└─You actually have a place called Barking? That's apropos somehow. I'd like to think that's an example of dry British self-deprecation.
[04:41:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:41] <exec> 08└─Those numbers are for new molecular entities (not different formulations). In terms of close similarities with existing drugs, Dr. Lowe points out that a substantial portion of the academic discoveries fall under this category.
[04:41:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:41:42] <exec> 08└─Academic discoveries (R&D) only account for ~15% of new drugs (link above). Development (R&D) is basically entirely done by companies. The world won't end, but someone would have to pay the very large development bill if we want new therapies.
[04:44:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:44:31] <exec> 08└─Your efforts do no go unnoticed,
[04:45:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:56] <exec> 08└─Eeeeek. I hadn't even considered that. This is why I generally don't tell lies, not even small white ones: there's always better liars out there. I don't want to get involved with anything this convoluted...
[04:45:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:45:58] <exec> 08└─Scan it as "Lineart". This will either remove the tracking dots or make them visible.
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[05:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:37] <exec> 08└─I urge anyone who has a chance to visit this place to go. It's easily accessible by train from London (that's one of the reasons it was chosen during the war). Make sure you pay the extra to see the Colossus. If you are interested in that kind of thing, also on the site is the National Radio Centre...
[05:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:39] <exec> 08└─As far as I know the Nazis didn't intentionally try to weaken their own crypto or insert backdoors. This seems to be a propaganda article to try to influence public opinion to make more people willing to accept the weakening of their crypto and similar. I think most would agree it's perfectly fine f...
[05:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:50] <exec> 08└─Can I have what remains of your country? 1 former world superpower please, it's an upgrade from the 3rd world.
[05:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:52] <exec> 08└─NASA's source of funding is simply too erratic and unpredictable to be relied upon
[05:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:54] <exec> 08└─NASA's source of funding is simply too erratic and unpredictable to be relied upon,
[05:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:36:17] <exec> 08└─president of Atimi Software. He said that at an all-hands meeting. I've taken his advice ever since.
[05:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:12] <exec> 08└─I'm not real sure how many times I was in jail or the booby hatch while I was homeless. In just over a year in my American Taxpayer-Paid For apartment, I've stayed out of jail, I've stayed out of the nuthouse, and I've gotten really good work. I couldn't ask for better coworkers.
[05:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:14] <exec> 08└─Nah, that's particle board or MDF.
[05:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:16] <exec> 08└─And I think you will find that Oregon is a long way south of Norway.
[05:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:01] <exec> 08└─I dunno, being famous for asshole trolling is not exactly a compliment. But you're a total troll, so I guess it is? I mean hell, Hitler was famous too. You can dooo eeeet!
[05:39:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:03] <exec> 08└─We're trying but the babies are really stubborn. They keep running away and poop in my shoes!
[05:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 3146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:39:05] <exec> 08└─We have a bit of a problem today in America, but especially in software. That problem is that most people are just not good at what they do. And by most, I'd expect 80% of the people registered on github could not write a functional tetris clone (to use an example of something that's simple and more...
[05:46:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:46:11] <exec> 08└─"then, viola" Either you mean "voila" [wiktionary.org], or you're 3d-printing violin-like string instruments [wikipedia.org] :)
[05:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oculus Co-Founder Pitches Virtual Border Wall - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:38] <exec> 08└─To clarify, I know it is pointless to debate things on web forums. No one ever changes his or her mind after such debates.
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[06:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:41] <exec> 08└─In a world of mass produced computers and OSS, the enemy government's crypto is the same as the public's crypto. Except the real enemy government is the government currently controlling you.
[06:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 1501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:56] <exec> 08└─That's just not true. NASA's budget, even just since the 1970s, has dropped by 50%. [wikipedia.org] And that's just in raw numbers. You need to keep in mind that a huge chunk of that budget is forcefully used as little more than congressional pork. The SLS, in particular, is extremely unlikely to ev...
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[06:37:19] <exec> 08└─Stop talking science. The grumpy old men here know better than the people who made painstaking tests of the materials...
[06:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:07] <exec> 08└─Speaking of employees. The big difference for OSS is there's a high chance most of those who were leaving weren't being paid. They weren't employees. If anybody still doesn't understand I'd explain it to you if you pay me enough. ;).
[06:39:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06One Fifth of OSS Developers Leave Projects Because of Negative Behavior - 2462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:39:08] <exec> 08└─I won't argue the censorship standpoint, I'm not a fan of such moderation. Freedom of speech is important, but it must be balanced by the rule of law. The community moderation system seems to be doing OK, I haven't seen much weird moderation stuff recently but that could just be someone scaling back...
[06:40:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Roger Murdock [4897] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:41] <exec> 08└─Now genius do pray tell how do I avoid dying from terrorism?
[06:40:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:40:43] <exec> 08└─I'm locked out of my other account, so I'll say it from this one. The violent attacks in Teheran on Wednesday are unacceptable. The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/ them. — President Trump (@POTUS) Saying this as the President.
[06:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:46:21] <exec> 08└─lowest form of anti-Trump propaganda Trump's Twitter feed?
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[07:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:29] <exec> 08└─While people in government will continue to have this opinion, I am glad at least that he is gone.
[07:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:35:30] <exec> 08└─So: he calls for private companies to practice censorship, undoubtedly relying on the loving guidance of the government to decide exactly which viewpoints are allowed. And: he calls (yet again, this is getting tiresome) for backdoors into encryption, because you can trust your loving government. Gov...
[07:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:18] <exec> 08└─Whatever happened to just fucking them until they're tired enough to sleep?
[07:40:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:40:40] <exec> 08└─Americans kill Americans, Europeans kill Europeans, and Middle-East people kill each other.
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[07:44:49] <exec> 08└─> Your efforts do no go unnoticed, Eh, if nothing better, good enough for a start.
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[08:35:37] <exec> 08└─There's something interesting about censorship. Let's take ISIS. It's common sense that they need to be filtered out of society, hidden, not given a platform. Right? That treatment, I think, mystifies and strengthens their image to those that might already be susceptible. Let's imagine they did have...
[08:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:38] <exec> 08└─What about the fact that ISIS uses stolen goods? When they decapitate someone, the video is basically a snuff movie that is being used to incite more such behavior. These videos are legally are the possession of the deceased's estate. Acting on the behalf of innocents decapitated, Governments can an...
[08:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:40] <exec> 08└─in their shoes, I think I'd want the same thing. they think their job is to control everyone. right now, I think the job of the government should be to implement/facilitate self-guidance of populations (i.e. help the police by giving them money, not by writing laws that they ask for). but if I were...
[08:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:43] <exec> 08└─Ugh! Mah, impregnating your nympho rectum sure was hard work.
[08:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:45] <exec> 08└─Acting on the behalf of innocents decapitated, Governments can and must sniff out such videos and bring those distributing them to justice - DMCA style!
[08:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:56] <exec> 08└─Intelligence agencies have no dilemma. They want to be able to break any encryption and keep secret the way as long as they can, so people use encryption trustingly. Governments want the same that Intelligence agencies. They have no dilemma, they have a challenge: How to pretend they have a dilemma....
[08:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:35:58] <exec> 08└─In a world of mass produced computers and OSS, the enemy government's crypto is the same as the public's crypto
[08:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:01] <exec> 08└─As far as I know the Nazis didn't intentionally try to weaken their own crypto or insert backdoors. This seems to be a propaganda article to try to influence public opinion to make more people willing to accept the weakening of their crypto and similar. I think most would agree it's perfectly fine f...
[08:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:39] <exec> 08└─Steel and concrete are both very energy intensive. Wood on the other hand will sequester carbon for a long time.
[08:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 2813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:40] <exec> 08└─It is my privilege to bring NAFTA up to date through renegotiation. I received calls from the President of Mexico and the Prime Minister of Canada asking to renegotiate NAFTA rather than terminate. I agreed, subject to the fact that if we do not reach a fair deal for all, we will then terminate NAFT...
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[08:41:05] <exec> 08└─Here you are with the past month's list: https://www.thereligionofpeace.com [thereligionofpeace.com]
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[09:35:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:22] <exec> 08└─Did I read that correctly? Did Republicans overrule a veto to ensure taxes could be increased? While the reasons provided in the summary sound more than sufficient for this: isn't this sort of the opposite of what Republicans stand for??
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[09:35:36] <exec> 08└─The videos have no value in and of themselves. Their value is in the attached messaging. For instance in America show most people a video of somebody tied down and murdered by injecting him with poisons and they'd be repulsed and angry. Then tell them he murdered a few people himself and about half...
[09:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:37] <exec> 08└─Yes. Intent matters in law. Just as kiddie porn is not a 'medical documentary', so too 'War documentaries' that glorify murder and degenerate into snuff films are called simply 'snuff films'. You want these videos shown, but also want the state to close its eyes and ears. Why? And false positives? Y...
[09:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:51] <exec> 08└─That might be the case but the relevant bit is the "volunteer-led community projects"* produce cyphertext that the government can't read. Hence this whole backdoor discussion. Most governments besides certainly don't have the resources to outdo the best available free software encryption options so...
[09:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:52] <exec> 08└─My understanding is real crypto is rarely broken. Why? Because it would take a looong time and cost a loooot of money. Instead attackers opt for easiers methods and go for the weakest link which never is the real crypto. It's the hardware, the software and the wetware (that's you). That's why your h...
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[09:35:54] <exec> 08└─One thing I have seen over and over is never underestimate the power of passion. I have seen extremely well paid "technical" people whose main asset was a business suit, firm handshake, and captivating demeanor. They were really good at getting people to think they were worth a king-sized paycheck....
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[10:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:27] <exec> 08└─I would be surprised if no life was found on Mars. Life is found on earth in places that haven't seen sunlight in millions of years, so why couldn't there be microbes in some underground water on Mars?
[10:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:28] <exec> 08└─Interplanetary Transport System is on the launch pad in 2024, preparing for blast off. Suddenly, the hatch opens from the outside. "Elon Musk, you're under arrest. You have the right to remain musky." Numerous Mars pregnancies were avoided that day. And the next year, Nibiru collided with Earth and...
[10:35:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:30] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a better place to look than the topsoil. And if life can find a way on Mars, it could find a way on (in) Enceladus, Europa, Ceres, Titan, Ganymede, Callisto, Dione, Rhea, Titania, Triton, Pluto, Eris, Sedna, etc.
[10:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 1273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:39] <exec> 08└─I'm a Republican, I mean, I think I'm a Republican. And it's the opposite of what I stand for. Honestly, folks, I've always stood for paying the least taxes. The least amount of taxes that is legal. And privacy, I've always said that tax returns should stay private. What Obamacare did was very unfai...
[10:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:42] <exec> 08└─Boobs, I meant boobs. Not booms. Had something else on my mind. There's a lot going on in Washington today. A lot that's going to happen. Don't know how to delete my tweet, but it was supposed to say boobs.
[10:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:44] <exec> 08└─Welcome to U.S. politics. A kid in gradeschool could tell you that cutting your income without cutting your spending isn't going to work out well in the short term. Over the moderate term it could very well increase revenue if targeted properly but it's not going to be immediate. You're also suppose...
[10:35:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 905 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:35:53] <exec> 08└─So: he calls for private companies to practice censorship, undoubtedly relying on the loving guidance of the government to decide exactly which viewpoints are allowed. And: he calls (yet again, this is getting tiresome) for backdoors into encryption, because you can trust your loving government. Gov...
[10:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:02] <exec> 08└─The videos have no value in and of themselves.
[10:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:04] <exec> 08└─Not 'resist all forms of censorship'.
[10:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:06] <exec> 08└─One of our best arguments against terrorism is that we live in a free society. If you censor the internet, the terrorists can claim that we don't have freedom. Don't give them arguments against our way of life.
[10:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:09] <exec> 08└─Youre complaining about false positives?
[10:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:11] <exec> 08└─"The terrorists" care more about imperialism and Israel than debating about our free speech limits and slutty clothes.
[10:36:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:36:27] <exec> 08└─Actually I'm also fine with the government trying to crack my crypto.
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[10:38:06] <exec> 08└─The Gulf Stream makes a difference too. 30 ⁰C to be exact. So while it may be freezing in Canada, it might be quite okay on the Norwegian coast on the same north-south degree.
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[10:38:08] <exec> 08└─And rapidly unsequester it for anyone with a match.. :p Or overheated electrical cabling..
[10:40:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:40:13] <exec> 08└─A 8-year latency between spam calling and punishment calls for vigilante action. A technical question. Do these calls show any caller-ID ? or are they such ones that go directly to the voice mail? without any caller-ID information recorded? On the wish list is a possibility to do a whois on phone nu...
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[10:41:34] <exec> 08└─> No? No sympathy or condemnations? Given that public opinion is a convenient abstraction, what makes you know the way people are feeling about this? If people got rid of ISIS, by also enforcing fake refugee control, instead of letting them export oil and turning the world into a big police state, I...
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[10:41:36] <exec> 08└─> same level as the terrorists almost at the same level. Both react against mostly the wrong people, but glassing the caliphate is surely more accurate than targeting civilians in retaliation for attacks decided by entirely other levels.
[10:42:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:56] <exec> 08└─So you're going with Screw them, they're rich. I don't care if we sacrifice medical advancement?
[10:42:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:42:57] <exec> 08└─Like most other replies here, you seem to be lamenting how awful the big pharma companies are (and they really are, no disagreement there), while completely ignoring the question of the financial incentives for drugs research. Why do you think they ever spend a dollar on research? Because they get a...
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[10:42:59] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that there isn't a good history of that getting results. I'm not opposed to the idea in principle though.
[10:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:01] <exec> 08└─Sure, that should be fixed. There's plenty wrong with the way drugs are treated by the US government. The whole point is that the monopoly granted by patents has a limited term, after all. Abolishing drug patents completely, though, remains a stupid idea.
[10:43:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:04] <exec> 08└─So, like I said: If they're no longer under patent-protection, why is no-one else manufacturing them at a lower price?
[10:43:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:06] <exec> 08└─Market failure and regulatory capture, then. Not reasons to oppose the existence of drug patents.
[10:43:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:43:08] <exec> 08└─We're discussing market forces' impact on for-profit drugs-research, and you mention the USSR? Really?
[10:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Arrest NSA Contractor in Leak of Top Secret Russia Document - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:27] <exec> 08└─Await the virtualDonaldTriumph! ;-)
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[11:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:36] <exec> 08└─You can't leave Earth unless IRS can send their goons ahead of you :p
[11:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:38] <exec> 08└─Laws smaws, what are they going to do, send the space police?
[11:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:40] <exec> 08└─So Elon is like Kirk? On a five year mission to impregnate green alien chicks?
[11:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:35:42] <exec> 08└─Prevent people from leaving. Kind of like what the Soviet Union USSR did.. ie "exit visa".
[11:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:13] <exec> 08└─but if I were asked to solve the terrorism problem? I don't know.
[11:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:15] <exec> 08└─but Silicon Valley needed to play ball on national security.
[11:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:17] <exec> 08└─The question is: are people like him (and Theresa May, and all the rest) - are they really just naive? Or are they actively malicious, knowing full well that governments will abuse these powers? The answer is: they really are naive AND they are actively malicious, knowing full well that they will ab...
[11:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:19] <exec> 08└─Yes, but they use these kinds of arguments to lure in new gullible people from our own society.
[11:36:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:36] <exec> 08└─And that is just it, proper crypto should be impossible to just "crack". Otherwise, what is the point of using it? Go ahead and guess at a decryption key, but if it doesn't take billions of years, then again, what is the point of using it? But the masses are trained to expect crypto to be easily cra...
[11:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:38] <exec> 08└─You're assuming here that the strongest form of encryption created by humankind happens to be OSS - I don't think that's a reasonable assumption. There are state actors paying lots of very talented people lots of money to come up with something better than a volunteer-led community project.
[11:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:53] <exec> 08└─The EM drive puzzles me. The tests seems to pan out. Why not send one up with a SpaceX rocket and test in space? The weight is far less than any of the re-supplies regularly sent to ISS.
[11:37:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 1414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:37:19] <exec> 08└─The unemployment rate is the lowest it's been in many, many years. Lowest it's been in 16 years. Because of what I've done for you, the American workers, in my first 100 days. I've nominated Neil Gorsuch, from the Supreme Court, to the Supreme Court. Very good for American business, for American wor...
[11:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:23] <exec> 08└─Is your point that besides the obvious dangers of fire. These all wood houses can't deal with winds properly? Oh and.. fire + wind = *duck*
[11:38:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:25] <exec> 08└─"Laminate" is the code word for guinea pigs that breathe "harmless chemicals we cooked up" .. Those guinea pigs are supposed to pay rent for the service too.
[11:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:27] <exec> 08└─I thought 'termites' before fire or water. De-lamination due to water damage was the second thought. Wood is strong stuff, stronger than many people with no experience in building with it realize. It can be compromised, though, in ways that concrete and steel are not.
[11:38:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:38:29] <exec> 08└─the contingency that I'm not already in hell but all suicide deaths go there
[11:41:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 3460 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:41:22] <exec> 08└─Its a hell of a stretch to extend all the way to domestic fracking natgas but not too far. The whole thing with Iran and Qatar is too complicated to summarize into less than a couple books. None the less... Iran and Qatar split 50:50 the biggest natgas deposit known on the planet. So they're economi...
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[12:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:33] <exec> 08└─Just curious, I try it, click "start free session" and ... logon with facebook. Wonderful, now facebook will not only know who are our friends, what we like, what are our hobbies, interests..., but also our problems, vulnerabilities and deep thoughts. Big brother is already here getting more and mor...
[12:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:34] <exec> 08└─ELIZA [manifestation.com] is still facebook free.
[12:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:36] <exec> 08└─Tell it to Kripke.
[12:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:39] <exec> 08└─Well, to help you with your depression, it first has to make sure you are really depressed. Forcing you to have a facebook account achieves this. ;-)
[12:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:41] <exec> 08└─I think the article is missing the point there: Though users chat with Woebot over Messenger, Woebot promises not to leave any public impression on Facebook profiles or news feeds -- or spy on your social media life. "I won't look at your Facebook page (neither will my creators)," it promises.
[12:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03mth [2848] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:43] <exec> 08└─But can an AI really get into my head the way a therapist would?
[12:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:57] <exec> 08└─Niggers.
[12:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:35:58] <exec> 08└─I wonder how doable that is. There are enough corrupted/crazy "leaders" that would allow you to do things in their country when paid enough. Will the world attack "evil country" if someone puts up a launch platform for going to space? I hardly doubt it.
[12:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:00] <exec> 08└─But if you prefer it over human survival, then your priorities are fucked up.
[12:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:11] <exec> 08└─Trickle down economics don't. That was last re-learned 20-30 years ago.
[12:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:12] <exec> 08└─In my view, state budgets are likely to take a hit from Trump's stealth tax increase: by reducing funding for programs and forcing the states to step in, the states will have to find extra money to fill the gaps.
[12:36:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:37] <exec> 08└─Buddy, if you could harness whatever that slope is covered in you would put the lubricator industry out of business.
[12:36:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:36:57] <exec> 08└─My understanding is real crypto is rarely broken.
[12:37:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:37:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's what I was getting at. The latest rumor is that the Airforce has been actively testing one. The idea was published by some media outlet towards the end of last year. Based on 'anonymous sources' but it does go a good ways towards explaining why NASA has suddenly started pretending the EM...
[12:38:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:48] <exec> 08└─I believe the term is "panel board" or such. Plywood is made of three to several layers laminated large perpendicular thin sheets of wood, each scraped from round timber in one spiral cut. Panel boards are wooden beams laminated in sandwich of two such sheets. I believe there is possibility nowadays...
[12:38:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:38:49] <exec> 08└─Wood is considered as gaseous fuel, it burns with a flame because when heated it emits combustible gases. However, if it is dried and baked prior to installment, to remove volatile compounds, it becomes much stronger mechanically and more resistant to fire.
[12:42:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03quietus [6328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:20] <exec> 08└─ISIS already claimed responsibility for the attack when it was happening -- showing a video from inside the Parliament (while the attack was occurring).
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[13:35:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star's Mass Measured Using Gravitational Microlensing - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:29] <exec> 08└─Note that using gravitational lensing to estimate galactic mass is a standard technique. So maybe this isn't as "ground breaking" as the summary implies.
[13:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:42] <exec> 08└─I Kant.
[13:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:45] <exec> 08└─I've been seeing Dr. Sbaitso for a while now, and we're really starting to make progress.
[13:36:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:01] <exec> 08└─What does "human survival" mean here? Even the current space probes have probably resulted in some small number of human deaths from accident.
[13:36:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:03] <exec> 08└─I wonder how doable that is. There are enough corrupted/crazy "leaders" that would allow you to do things in their country when paid enough. Will the world attack "evil country" if someone puts up a launch platform for going to space? I hardly doubt it.
[13:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:05] <exec> 08└─Life is in the deepest places of Earth because life has been on Earth for billions of years. The problem with your assertion is that we don't have evidence of life on Mars now or in the past. The lack of biological waste products in the Martian atmosphere now is a strong indication of a negative IMH...
[13:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:07] <exec> 08└─Proving a negative is extremely hard. Mars could have had native life that died out and is all gone, never had life, or still have life today. We have checked for life on Mars, and so far found nothing, which of course means either that there isn't any, or that we haven't recognized it. We're still...
[13:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:10] <exec> 08└─As far as I know, you're allowed to land anywhere as long as you don't contaminate. How unbelievably hypocritical and shallow would the human race be if we recognised that this makes perfect sense for space exploration, but then, for the very first planet we set food on, tossed those protections awa...
[13:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:22] <exec> 08└─That is so, but a slimmed-down pig doesn't put bacon on a politician's table. Reelection out-weighs sound management every time.
[13:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:24] <exec> 08└─The entire world economy has been based on trickle down economics since basically the 1970s. The fed loans money to huge banks, when they have more of it they are more likely to loan it to you.
[13:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:26] <exec> 08└─Trickle down economics don't. That was last re-learned 20-30 years ago.
[13:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:28] <exec> 08└─Sam Brownback [wikipedia.org] must be a secret Democrat. There's no other explanation for this behavior.
[13:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:36:30] <exec> 08└─A kid in gradeschool could tell you that cutting your income without cutting your spending isn't going to work out well in the short term. Sure, a kid in grade school could tell you this, but average Americans simply can't understand it, nor many politicians. With the way Americans and their politic...
[13:37:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:03] <exec> 08└─As far as I know the Nazis didn't intentionally try to weaken their own crypto or insert backdoors. This seems to be a propaganda article to try to influence public opinion to make more people willing to accept the weakening of their crypto and similar. I think most would agree it's perfectly fine f...
[13:37:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:31] <exec> 08└─NASA's budget, even just since the 1970s, has dropped by 50%.
[13:37:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:37:33] <exec> 08└─Testing an EM drive in space is surprisingly affordable. For a few hundred thousand dollars, you could build and launch a cubesat to test the EM drive (or other propellantless propulsion system) concept in space. The SN population could afford to test several such concepts, should that ever become i...
[13:38:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 926 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:38:50] <exec> 08└─I couldn't have done it without my Soylentil friends. It was you who convinced me that I'd be far more likely to get a job if I accepted the housing. It had been repeatedly offered to me, but I refused it because I have no problem surviving on the street. I wanted that housing to go to someone who r...
[13:39:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:39:10] <exec> 08└─...and I'll blooow your house down! I never cease to be amazed by US people's fascination with flimsy wooden houses that rot, leak, get eaten by insects, are a fire hazard, and can be obliterated by a good-sized storm. Haven't you guys read The Three Little Pigs or, at least, seen the Disney version...
[13:44:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:44:34] <exec> 08└─I doubt it could ever exceed a 640k payload.
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[14:35:34] <exec> 08└─A galaxy is probably a whole lot easier to measure in this way.
[14:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:49] <exec> 08└─Thank you, that needed to be said. The power of the therapist derives from its position in the mind of the patient as a neutral authority figure. People will do what the therapsist says even though it's the same thing their partners have been telling them for years. The therapist's neutrality makes...
[14:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:51] <exec> 08└─Good jorb psychic guy's force people to use an invasive spy machine to get help this is typical shrink nonsense which is most of the reason that people that actually need help never get it, but sociopaths are gonna sociopath
[14:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:35:53] <exec> 08└─Dr. Sbaitso observes strict client confidentiality, and he doesn't store your records in the cloud. He's really old-school, but does Woebot really have any techniques that Dr. Sbaitso doesn't? Plus Dr. Sbaitso's voice is oddly soothing and hypnotic despite his strange accent.
[14:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:15] <exec> 08└─No one in their right mind gives a small damn about "contaminating" a barren rock. Ain't nobody there, ain't nobody using it, it's ours by right discovery and conquest. If some body of morons starts blocking the exploration of Mars for such silly reasons, I just might become a "terrist". Firebomb th...
[14:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:16] <exec> 08└─The same people probably get upset when you mow you're lawn or plant a non local tree. You have to ignore these people in their quest to keep everything from changing. Don't let their fears prevent progress and a chance for a better tomorrow.
[14:36:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:35] <exec> 08└─Wow, the mental gymnastics going on there in a failed attempt to refute the point.
[14:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:02] <exec> 08└─i wish that stupid fucker was "gone" gone!
[14:37:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:04] <exec> 08└─That's commonly stated, but I think unrealistic. They have been killing themselves for centuries over a disagreement about a succession in Islamic leadership 1,400 years old. If a disagreement over a nuance of Islam is enough to be considered an infidel worthy of death - well, I think their depth of...
[14:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:37:43] <exec> 08└─In a way I think that's why testing it is so important. Right now there is no real bounds on what could be happening. If it fails to work in space then we have radically limited the search space of possible explanations since it's clearly interacting with something on Earth. If it does work then we...
[14:38:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bed Partners may Unintentionally Contribute to Perpetuation of Insomnia - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:38:10] <exec> 08└─Sometimes, you're amusing. Not often, but sometimes. This? Utter bullshit. We have often discussed how government falsifies the unemployment rate. It's easy when you get to define "unemployment". "Oh, you don't count anymore, because your unemployment benefits have run out!" The unemployment figures...
[14:42:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:50] <exec> 08└─I've met and worked with several Iranians over the years. They have, without exception, been really nice people.
[14:44:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:44:17] <exec> 08└─So that's 431 ,presumably large, salaries that aren't being paid. Maybe it's part of his paln to drain the swamp, cut the fat, MAGA.
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[15:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03cockroach [2266] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available On Vinyl - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:39] <exec> 08└─Since you mentioned the C64: Matt Gray, the original composer of the Last Ninja 2 soundtrack, has created a bunch of amazing remixes that will be available on Vinyl: http://files.c64audio.com [c64audio.com]
[15:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available On Vinyl - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:40] <exec> 08└─In the pictures of the different LPs, with supposedly different music, the grooves all have the same pattern to them. Fake!
[15:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available On Vinyl - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:42] <exec> 08└─I love hearing hipsters rave about the superior audio of vinyl, especially when listening to stuff record and mastered in digital.
[15:35:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star's Mass Measured Using Gravitational Microlensing - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:35:52] <exec> 08└─Hubble Space Telescope has been functional since 1994. How come it took so long time to make use of something that has been known since 1936 ..?
[15:36:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 403 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:31] <exec> 08└─No one in their right mind gives a small damn about "contaminating" a barren rock. Ain't nobody there, ain't nobody using it, it's ours by right discovery and conquest. If some body of morons starts blocking the exploration of Mars for such silly reasons, I just might become a "terrist". Firebomb th...
[15:36:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:34] <exec> 08└─Can I just upvote your first and second sentence?
[15:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:53] <exec> 08└─From a quick search it looks like the national debt is around GDP anyway, so one could argue we're already bankrupt...
[15:36:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:55] <exec> 08└─This might be true, but even so, I don't want too many Mississippians to die during this experiment.
[15:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:57] <exec> 08└─Haven't I seen an info graphic that shows the relative outflow and inflow of federal money with the individual states? Obviously this is subject to lots of interpretation, for example, does it count military contracts that give federal funds to companies in many states?
[15:36:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:36:59] <exec> 08└─"during the tax cuts, Kansas' growth was lower than the country's overall growth." Except, this isn't the relevant comparison, which makes it clear that this is a political spin. The useful comparison is: was Kansas' growth higher before or after the tax-cuts and can we identify confounding variable...
[15:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:28] <exec> 08└─But in social media, people get to speak back - and stupidity can be revealed as stupidity.
[15:37:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:29] <exec> 08└─The censorship in many ways arguably makes them stronger.
[15:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:37:50] <exec> 08└─I think that is good. Spying should be expensive, that is what protects normal people from it.
[15:38:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 1564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:11] <exec> 08└─Same AC here. Another thing I'd also add is that it may be, even if it does work, that we could spend years and years of man hours without managing to discover why. Astronomical spectroscopy [wikipedia.org] was discovered and used to make further new discoveries many centuries before quantum mechani...
[15:38:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Paper Argues That Mars Robotic Exploration is in Decline - 1588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:38:13] <exec> 08└─You have to keep in mind here that NASA doesn't get to decide, on the most broad level, how they spend their money. This is one of the many reasons that looking at percents is more useful than raw dollars. The percents are reflective of congresses valuation and direction of NASA. This should be goin...
[15:39:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:51] <exec> 08└─Life is a human construct too, just another filthy invention of a species that would otherwise be called a virus based on its behavior.
[15:43:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:23] <exec> 08└─No, I've seen your posts. I don't mean "conservatism", even if that's descended from "mostly wrong" to "active trying to be wrong about things" over the past 30 years. I mean this identitarian worldview, hinged entirely on flagellating visible differences with other cultures as inherent inferioritie...
[15:43:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03calmond [1826] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:43:25] <exec> 08└─This kind of crap is exactly why I don't post.
[15:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:46] <exec> 08└─Yes, they do deserve to be thrown out. Harvard admitted them thinking they were people of good character, and they proved that they aren't, so Harvard had every right to revoke that. People who publicly post blatantly racist and misogynistic garbage are not suitable for an esteemed institution like...
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[16:35:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:56] <exec> 08└─I can just see the inevitable statements from "audiophiles" who will claim that only vinyl can do true justice to bring out the dynamic range in those 8-bit soundtracks.
[16:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:58] <exec> 08└─Also, you could put the CD-ROM in a standard CD player and it would act like a regular CD of the soundtrack. I remember it was mostly just ambient creepiness though - good for a Halloween haunted house, probably. :)
[16:36:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:28] <exec> 08└─Even if facebook can't see what you tell the bot and Woebot doesn't tells anything to facebook, facebook knows you have talked to Woebot. Whenever a new drug for depression wants advertising, facebook will suggest you are a good target. Whenever a new course about relax or yoga is looking for custom...
[16:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:30] <exec> 08└─They started with display of poor judgement and now promises to not extend that further into their use? ;-) Not trusted..
[16:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:32] <exec> 08└─I'll expect the CongressBot together with the better SenateBot to be releases soon. It might actually be an upgrade! ;-)
[16:36:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:36:34] <exec> 08└─From their FAQ: ARE YOU ANYWHERE BESIDES FACEBOOK? We are understand some people would prefer to use something other than Facebook Messenger to talk to Woebot. Leave your email here and we will contact you as soon as Woebot is available within our own messaging platform.
[16:37:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:01] <exec> 08└─LOL, do as you wish. The rest of the post is intended to shock people's sensibilities, and check if anyone is awake at NSA. ;^)
[16:37:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:02] <exec> 08└─"That might be how some aliens perceive Earth: No intelligent life found so we can terraform and settle it..." All the more reason for the greatest diaspora in the history of mankind. "It's easy to keep the Earth from getting any Mars life: make the trip one way only. Including items and ships." The...
[16:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 1071 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:05] <exec> 08└─I think it is an entirely reasonable restriction until at least as long as we get to where we can realistically do something about Mars. Right now and for the foreseeable future, all we can do is send some symbolic flag-planting mission, fart around on the surface for a short period of time, then co...
[16:37:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 1103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:07] <exec> 08└─Am I missing something? This whole story seems to be about a giant strawman. Some dude named Zubrin is in favor of exploring and settling Mars, which isn't a unique viewpoint by any means, but he's claiming there's going to be some kind of "Planetary Protection" organization which will work to preve...
[16:37:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:09] <exec> 08└─"intended to shock people's sensibilities" A.k.a., "being an asshole".
[16:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:11] <exec> 08└─How perceptive. At least a little more perceptive than most rocks.
[16:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:14] <exec> 08└─Life on Earth started under very specific conditions which have never occurred on Mars. Furthermore, the Martian environment is far more hostile to organic chemistry than Earth.
[16:37:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:38] <exec> 08└─Is there evidence that it works in the medium term, or is that just an excuse for the failure? Note that the tax cuts were initially implemented sufficiently long ago that medium term effects should be starting to show by now. But let's take a simple view: no one wants to live in a state that can't...
[16:37:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:39] <exec> 08└─Over the moderate term it could very well increase revenue if targeted properly but it's not going to be immediate.
[16:37:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:42] <exec> 08└─The useful comparison is: was Kansas' growth higher before or after the tax-cuts
[16:37:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:44] <exec> 08└─Right, so the states on the Coast are not the primary beneficiary of a CROSS FUCKING COUNTRY highway system that links both coasts? This nonsense about comparing in-flow and outflow of money is pure utter bullshit. A lot of the Federal spending in Red states is for shit they either don't want or don...
[16:37:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:46] <exec> 08└─What, you think anyone (and more specifically, anyone in Kansas) will listen to a reasoned analysis, using actual data? I wish you all the luck in the world, but I give you the same odds as an ice cube in hell.
[16:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:48] <exec> 08└─Welcome to Kansas.
[16:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:37:50] <exec> 08└─Way to miss the point. The question should have been asked and answered in the article and summary, rather than in the comment section of a news aggregation site. Instead, we got a comparison that tells us nothing about the results of the different policies.
[16:44:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:18] <exec> 08└─Currently averaging around 60 islamist murders a day during this years ramadan.
[16:44:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:19] <exec> 08└─Actually, I don't think I've ever characterized Islam as "inferior" to our way of life. Islam actually has some things going for it, that seem superior to our way. What I have stated, repeatedly, and very clearly, is that Islam is incompatible with the western way of life. Islam is anathema to every...
[16:44:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ikanreed [3164] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:44:21] <exec> 08└─Yeah, fine, I get it, your flavour of identitarian exclusionism is totes special and unique to you.
[16:45:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Patent Office Director Michelle Lee Has Resigned - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:45:49] <exec> 08└─Interesting fight here. It's like half strawman on one side against half bailey-vs-motte on the other. Carry on.
[16:46:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Toyota Partner Tests Flying "Car"; It Crashed - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:46:21] <exec> 08└─> Trying to balance such a contraption relying on sensors and computers alone is foolish. Trying to balance a Falcon 9 or an F-35 on sensors and computers alone is definitely foolish.
[16:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:45] <exec> 08└─People are free to speak offensive or vile things. Others are free not to listen, or expose others to it. Including private institutions of higher learning. It's one thing to discuss and discourse about vile or offensive things. It's another to say hateful things. For example, discussing the subject...
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[17:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:49] <exec> 08└─It takes resources to get shit done; solving mathematical problems is getting shit done—it takes resources. Prizes like this are simply a crude way of measuring and accounting for the flows of resources required to solve such a problem. That's the whole point of the price mechanism: To figure out...
[17:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:50] <exec> 08└─If it's Erdős related, amphetamines must be involved somewhere. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[17:36:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:05] <exec> 08└─Price unknown (I just assume it's not the $0 that it is currently listed as).
[17:36:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03epitaxial [3165] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:06] <exec> 08└─One of the few games I still enjoy playing. I love the atmosphere and even the sound effects. Then Quake 2 came out with its shitty sounds and zero atmosphere, what a letdown.
[17:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star's Mass Measured Using Gravitational Microlensing - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:17] <exec> 08└─This title & summary is so much better than the one on the green site. Thanks for the effort guys.
[17:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:36:40] <exec> 08└─The aliens are way ahead of that. Politicians receive implants in their sleep, hence the wasp-controlled-cockroach behavior.
[17:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:14] <exec> 08└─he's claiming there's going to be some kind of "Planetary Protection" organization which will work to prevent this because of "contamination", so he then loudly argues against this hypothetical organization.
[17:37:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:16] <exec> 08└─It's pretty important to plant nonlocal trees if we want them to survive despite global warming. Plant southern trees in the north; plant northern trees in the tundra.
[17:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 881 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:48] <exec> 08└─Brownback is a republican. Cut taxes. So he did. To an extreme and ridiculous level. Plenty of us predicted this would not work out. But I don't go fully into it because I'm trying to keep this short. On March 2, the Kansas Supreme Court said that Yes, Kansas actually is a gunna has to pay foe publi...
[17:37:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:37:49] <exec> 08└─Well, as long as it is not bombs … ;-)
[17:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:21] <exec> 08└─Americans voted for someone who has no business being in business.
[17:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:23] <exec> 08└─I for one think it is a crying shame that he is gone. He wanted encryption that is more open. For the good of us all. I was hoping to capitalize on this shiny new (patented) encryption I wanted to sell him and get get mandated. I call it ROT26. It's twice as good as ROT13. Yes, really! I promise. An...
[17:38:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03butthurt [6141] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:44] <exec> 08└─The Polish Cipher Bureau was reading messages sent in the military Enigma code, up until Poland was overrun. Its work was instrumental to what was done at Bletchley Park. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org
[17:38:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:46] <exec> 08└─If it is a room only you have access to (including peeping-through-the-window access, of course), the post-it on the monitor may be a safer place for the password than your head which is routinely carried out of the building and may be susceptible to hacking methods involving a $5 wrench.
[17:39:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 284 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:39:57] <exec> 08└─there's far more homeless than there are shelter beds. The mayor instructed the police to avoid enforcing the camping ban, so now there's tents all over the city. I live in subsidized housing now. It enabled me to get quite a good job; I'm going to start paying my own rent in August.
[17:40:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:47] <exec> 08└─What I took away from The Three Little Pigs was the value of penetration testing [wikipedia.org]. Think of the Big Bad Wolf as a trickster mentor [allthetropes.org] hired by Practical as a way to teach his slacker brothers a lesson.
[17:40:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:49] <exec> 08└─In the article, there is a picture of a guy pointing at a PowerPoint slide. (please don't accuse me of peeking at the article. A friend told me this. Or something) It says Framework. I had to double take, for a second I thought it said Flamework. But maybe we're being a bit overly pessimistic here....
[17:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:51] <exec> 08└─I recently looked at lots of homes to buy. I'd say the houses are about 90% concrete block, 5% wood, and 5% solid poured concrete. There are the odd ones that are hard to classify, most often a 2-story with the lower floor some kind of concrete and the upper floor not being poured. The better houses...
[17:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:40:53] <exec> 08└─Brick isn't a very good building material either, if you live in a place with seismic activity. The Three Little Pigs never said anything about building with steel.
[17:43:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 2320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:00] <exec> 08└─I actually don't know about ringless voicemail, but I suspect that it is no different. The trick is calling someone in a way that goes direct to voicemail, but that will involve still calling them. If it works differently, than no Caller ID is there. Caller ID can be spoofed quite easily since Aster...
[17:43:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:43:01] <exec> 08└─At least this is over with. Dish Network can now change its approach to harvest your vital organs, which you agreed to in your service agreement. (About 2/3 of the way through the service agreement, on page 223.)
[17:44:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:32] <exec> 08└─Gotta agree with ikanreed here, you have a lot of decent viewpoints and quite a few good arguments from time to time; but then you sneak in with some weirdly pro-authoritarian garbage from time to time. My guess is it is latent brainwashing from your stint in the military, plus your older generation...
[17:44:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:34] <exec> 08└─"Americans kill Americans, Europeans kill Europeans, and Middle-East people kill each other." And everybody kills the Jews But during national brotherhood week...
[17:44:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:36] <exec> 08└─So we often here calls for more stories, so why would your two stories not be news but this one is? Or some of the other lame stories TMB submits in order to troll people? I've had stories that didn't make it in that seemed like easy wins. What gives?
[17:44:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two Terrorist Attacks Hit Tehran - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:44:38] <exec> 08└─Intellectual masturbation takes a wrong turn! When you find yourself defending genocide in any manner that isn't comedy then it is probably time to re-evaluate the conversation.
[17:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:19] <exec> 08└─A friend now heats her home with a BitCoin ASIC. It is an outdated and inefficient unit but the rationale is simple. Over a winter, it may only provide enough funds for one pint of beer. However, that's a suitable quantity of funds in a suitable currency for further experimentation. Furthermore, it...
[17:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:21] <exec> 08└─In the tulip bubble, every tulip bulb would have to flower more than 1000 times for the value to be obtained. Unfortunately, tulip bulbs generally flower about five times. BitCoin has a slightly different property. Every coin can be divided into one billion separately tradable pieces and, with some...
[17:49:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Harvard Withdraws 10 Acceptances for ‘Offensive’ Memes in Private Group Chat - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:03] <exec> 08└─What if they withdrew acceptances for people who criticized Trump, said they did not believe in god, etc.?
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[18:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:33] <exec> 08└─The glasses are fitted with eye-tracking technology to ensure they aren't trying to trick the system by avoiding looking at the critical content.
[18:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:34] <exec> 08└─What they say is true: The ones who are insane are the ones who run the asylums.
[18:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:36] <exec> 08└─Along the same idea that hot or cold enforced baths would cure people. The problem is not if people get excited. It's if they act in a detrimental way to it.
[18:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:39] <exec> 08└─What is the added value of VR, in the process of asserting excitement?
[18:35:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:41] <exec> 08└─Having sensors on Moby, not only being watched by people but being videorecorded, nope. They could show a naked Taylor Swift and Kati Perry going at it and they wouldn't get a reaction.
[18:35:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:43] <exec> 08└─Using the same logic then those who are aroused by normal porn should be locked up too as potential rapists? Perhaps the researchers and their supporters should masturbate for real rather than with their research. See also: https://www.japandict.com [jap...
[18:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:53] <exec> 08└─Some interesting quotes: * His colleague Alfréd Rényi said, "a mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems" * Women were "bosses". Men were "slaves". * People who stopped doing mathematics had "died". * Alcoholic drinks were "poison". * Music (except classical music)...
[18:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:35:55] <exec> 08└─Are amphetamines are real boost for cognitive and creative abilities? Related to critical dopamine release [soylentnews.org] that aids retention could be triggered by behavioral changes or pharmacologically via agents like amphetamines.
[18:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:12] <exec> 08└─I love hearing hipsters rave about the superior audio of vinyl, especially when listening to stuff record and mastered in digital.
[18:36:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:46] <exec> 08└─Yes but it depends [dilbert.com] on what are you talking to.
[18:37:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DmT [6439] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:22] <exec> 08└─Just send bacteria before humans go there. Maybe they will survive, and make life easier for future settelers.
[18:37:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:24] <exec> 08└─The US has already sent several rovers and landers to Mars, and the US and other nations (USSR, China, India) have landed on the Moon too, all well after this silly treaty was signed. There's no real "planetary protection community", just some language in an old treaty about being careful to not con...
[18:37:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:37:58] <exec> 08└─Depends on the state in which you are. Over in Washington, they're called Democrats. (Hi, Christine!)
[18:37:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:00] <exec> 08└─I mean if shit like this happens is it unethical to put your house on market claiming low taxes etc etc, and flee the state before shit hits the fan, fuck-all the sucker who bought your house?
[18:38:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:02] <exec> 08└─It has been reported repeatedly that the Laffer curve actually does have an effect when you start at a marginal tax rate of 90 percent. [google.com] In the years since JFK, however, the feedback loop on the economy from tax cuts has been weak. Those have served to empower the already-rich (giving us...
[18:38:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:38:04] <exec> 08└─People with l33t math skillz, who understand addition and subtraction, were able to abstractly model taxes and spending, and understand that this wouldn't last. And it didn't.
[18:43:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe one could exploit the equipment number (EQN) the lies under the dial number (DN) ..? The phone switches got to somehow know how to physically route the call to be able to make it connect at all, and it got to have somewhere to send the return channel. The information as to which carriers that...
[18:43:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:16] <exec> 08└─Why is the telecommunication system, specifically government.. trash?
[18:43:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:43:18] <exec> 08└─Dish is probably happy they get to keep the rest of the cash they made with the robocalls.
[18:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:36] <exec> 08└─The market capitalization of a company typically covers expected revenue over the next eight years or more. The market capitalization of a crypto-currency is much more akin to the current value of cash in circulation, as measured in another currency. On this basis, the total market capitalization of...
[18:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cryptocurrencies Hit $100 Billion Market Cap - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:37] <exec> 08└─No Internet connection means no access to a block-chain which means no block-chain transactions. On a national level, if a government blocks Internet traffic then the resulting block-chain net-split will cause all transactions within a country to silently undo when the connection is restored. Given...
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[19:36:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:07] <exec> 08└─Already convicted but the goal of the program seems to be rehabilitation. So they may still get excited but not act upon it. When measuring it's important to measure the relevant parameters. I'll see several women I'll like to bone every day, doesn't mean I'll initiate mating on the street. Just lik...
[19:36:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:08] <exec> 08└─It's possible to cut females balls off too. It's just they are located on the inside. Male and female anatomy is actually quite similar it's just proportions and locations that has been skewed heavily.
[19:36:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:10] <exec> 08└─If a person doesn't act detrimentally to having a device placed on his penis, then there's something wrong with him.
[19:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:13] <exec> 08└─Good point. A simple bullet to the base of the skull would offer a more certain and cost-effective "treatment" for this lot.
[19:36:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:15] <exec> 08└─That may or may not be true about the hard on. But not wanting to look at it, once you've glanced it, recognized what it is, and refuse to look, is a valid response. Someone who finds such material appealing may be unable to resist looking at it. That is probably who you are looking for. "I just can...
[19:36:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03cafebabe [894] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 755 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:17] <exec> 08└─Computing becomes increasingly surreal and especially when BoingBoing [boingboing.net] reports that Russian malware communicates by leaving comments in Britney Spears's Instagram account [boingboing.net]. This is, apparently, a real problem and not something from a random headline generator or Brass...
[19:36:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:19] <exec> 08└─Because it just does. Can't you understand? Because technology. VR sprinkles the pixie dust of credibility and respectability. Emit a tachyon pulse with modulated frequency and inverted polarity. Back in the day, if those numbers came out of the line printer on green and white striped pinfeed paper,...
[19:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:21] <exec> 08└─What? Saying "Thank you, may I have some more" is considered detrimental now?
[19:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:24] <exec> 08└─Researchers might choose to skew the results by using devices similar to this: http://www.askmen.com [askmen.com] Not researchers with integrity of course but with all that "publish or perish" don't be surprised if there are fewer and fewer of these... ;)
[19:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:26] <exec> 08└─Looking at the images in TFA (sorry), I'd assume most people, pedophile or not, would not be turned on. There's a market for creepy CGI porn. I'm not sure this kind of research is its sweet spot.
[19:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:28] <exec> 08└─What is the added value of VR, in the process of asserting excitement?
[19:36:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:31] <exec> 08└─Looking at the images... Hey now! Not falling for that one again!! I'd assume most people, pedophile or not, would not be turned on. There's a market for creepy CGI porn. I'm not sure this kind of research is its sweet spot. Helps to reduce false-positives?
[19:36:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:33] <exec> 08└─Very true. You can easily believe you DO have to worry about guys who get excited by that. Or maybe not, because they're more likely to find a hot dog exciting than a real kid.
[19:36:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:44] <exec> 08└─they did not respect the price mechanism,
[19:36:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:45] <exec> 08└─That is poor modding; it's a legitimate comment about the nature of prizes for mathematics. I, for one, found it very interesting.
[19:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:47] <exec> 08└─It takes resources to get shit done; solving mathematical problems is getting shit done—it takes resources. Prizes like this are simply a crude way of measuring and accounting for the flows of resources required to solve such a problem. That's the whole point of the price mechanism: To figure out...
[19:37:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:06] <exec> 08└─In Diablo, some monsters could kill you during the freeze time while the CD spun up to deliver their catch phrase. *sounds effect of your gear hitting the ground* "Hmm, fresh meat!" I guess that was technically correct.
[19:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star's Mass Measured Using Gravitational Microlensing - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:37:17] <exec> 08└─HST has been pretty busy, and some researchers are near-sighted. Unless it's the opposite.
[19:38:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:21] <exec> 08└─No one in their right mind gives a small damn about "contaminating" a barren rock. I agree. Now for the hard part: prove it's actually barren.
[19:38:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:22] <exec> 08└─The US has already sent several rovers and landers to Mars, and the US and other nations (USSR, China, India) have landed on the Moon too, all well after this silly treaty was signed.
[19:38:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:24] <exec> 08└─But was he wrong?
[19:38:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:38:26] <exec> 08└─prove it's actually barren
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[19:39:06] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter that much as long as: 1) The debts are in a currency the USA can create 2) Most other countries continue to use that same currency to trade and hold large amounts of it. e.g. it doesn't matter as long as the USA can be a Mugabe and the rest of the world lives in the USA's Zimbabwe. Th...
[19:39:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:07] <exec> 08└─Don' be trustin no expuurts naw.
[19:39:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:42] <exec> 08└─That's how real men filter social media.
[19:39:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 2061 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:44] <exec> 08└─Actually I think that is a great example. In a world without the internet, Trump would never have won. Obviously you may not like him, but he is a product of a strong anti-establishment sentiment that's been growing in the US for many years now - on both sides of the aisle. But without the bidirecti...
[19:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enigma: Why the Fight to Break Nazi Encryption Still Matters - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:40:08] <exec> 08└─Ernst Stavro Blofeld had his fingers into everything.
[19:42:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:42:15] <exec> 08└─Is your point that besides the obvious dangers of fire. These all wood houses can't deal with winds properly?
[19:44:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:44:28] <exec> 08└─Maybe one could exploit the equipment number (EQN) the lies under the dial number (DN) ..? The phone switches got to somehow know how to physically route the call to be able to make it connect at all, and it got to have somewhere to send the return channel.
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[20:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:13] <exec> 08└─Your new fetishes will awaken in that very moment and you will be imprisoned forever.
[20:36:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:15] <exec> 08└─VR child porn test becomes mandatory for all citizens, even if they haven't committed a crime. Failing the test leads to reeducation or termination.
[20:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:18] <exec> 08└─I have serious issues with forcing them to look at it. Unless these are people convicted of actual sexual assault against non-virtual children that are willingly cooperating with the research, that's akin to torture. We have stories about people that've been destroyed by taking shit jobs with Google...
[20:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03YeaWhatevs [5623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:20] <exec> 08└─But without a control it makes for a rather poor experiment does it not? Or do we just make that data?
[20:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:22] <exec> 08└─The problem is not if people get excited. It's if they act in a detrimental way to it.
[20:36:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 1795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:24] <exec> 08└─The abused children. No, the other ones. I'm not opposed to systems that actually help to treat pedophiles or determine those who are a greater danger. But I do think our society has become a bit obsessed with them. In the U.S., child maltreatment stats [cdc.gov] say that only 9% of reports for chil...
[20:36:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:38] <exec> 08└─Poor modding? That is the very thing about the pricing mechanism, it respects no one's taste or opinion. Eat it, economy boy!
[20:36:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:39] <exec> 08└─Mod points are just handed out; your power to mod is not really based on the outcomes of your previous modding. Money is different in that way: If you make a bad bet, you lose decision-making power; if you make a good bet, you gain decision-making power. Overall, it's a good thing to take decision-m...
[20:36:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bogsnoticus [3982] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:36:59] <exec> 08└─>"Price: NaN" Garlic, cheese, or plain?
[20:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star's Mass Measured Using Gravitational Microlensing - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:13] <exec> 08└─I think it kinda is ground breaking in the sense that we could use telescopes with wide fields of view and refine the masses of... lots of stars. This technique also seems to have determined that what was thought to be a binary pair is not.
[20:37:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 1387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:37:38] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter. It's not possible to speak with any mental health professional in the U.S and get privacy. Most of the slave wagers in the medical industry don't even know what the fuck the Hippocratic Oath is, much less respect it. HIPPA is a fucking joke once implemented into a CRM when the slave...
[20:39:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:01] <exec> 08└─The question should have been asked and answered in the article and summary, rather than in the comment section of a news aggregation site. Instead, we got a comparison that tells us nothing about the results of the different policies.
[20:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:39:02] <exec> 08└─Except, this isn't the relevant comparison, which makes it clear that this is a political spin.
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[20:39:04] <exec> 08└─I see now that the article was constructed in this fashion in order to provide you with an opportunity for self-congratulation, since at least you are not as dumb as those stupid hicks from Kansas. That being the case, the articles omission of any useful data makes sense. Carry on.
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[20:42:11] <exec> 08└─apologies for typos above...wtf? I'm sure I read it over a couple of times before posting.
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[21:35:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:27] <exec> 08└─Sign a 10 year agreement then, when it expires and you want to farm your land again find out they've changed the agreement here. I understand losing soil is A Bad Thing, but I'm not seeing how farmers deciding to farm is the problem.
[21:35:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:29] <exec> 08└─Build a wall around it and make the farmers pay for it. #MAGA #PUTINRULES
[21:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:36] <exec> 08└─So that's why no-one is answering the phone... no-one wants to talk to us hicks. See https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:35:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SK Hynix Developing 96 and 128-Layer TLC 3D NAND - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:44] <exec> 08└─I've seen wafers over the years, they were maybe 1/16" thick. I'm guessing 99% of that was the, um, substrate?, with the rest being the actual circuitry. So how thick are these puppies when they stack 100 circuit layers?
[21:36:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:19] <exec> 08└─You are assuming that your definition and understanding of arousal matches that of the people who would inflict this on you. They could measure blood flow to your penis and detect any hint of what they want to call arousal. They could show you a hundred regular porn pics and then one scantily clad c...
[21:36:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:21] <exec> 08└─Beethoven's 9th, my droogs?
[21:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:23] <exec> 08└─So the test only works against people sexually attracted to children, that can also be sexually attracted to a fucking cartoon.
[21:36:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:25] <exec> 08└─This is some kind of Milgram Experiment level stuff here.
[21:36:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:28] <exec> 08└─Actually life imitates life. I forget which country used it, but a similar system was used in decades past to identify homosexuals.
[21:36:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:30] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure if i'm supposed to be okay with it because haw those gross kiddy tiddlers, but this is actually pretty disturbing. I'll ignore whatever ethical issues may be present for children and adults alike and start out with how bizarre it is that they seem to think violently exposing a pedophile...
[21:36:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:32] <exec> 08└─Human rights do not exist when pedophilia becomes involved. Think of the children! But not too hard!
[21:36:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:48] <exec> 08└─The only people your analogy applies to are those already wealthy enough to invest their money in something other than survival. Poor people don't deserve to be poor because they're poor so they must suck at life, and rich people don't deserve to be rich because they're rich so they must be awesome,...
[21:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:36:49] <exec> 08└─People don't just hand resources to wealthy individuals; it must be maintained. If some playboy inherits wealth, then his bad bets means he will squander it away—which happens all the time! Good riddance to the fool! His decision-making power is being stripped away, saving the rest of society from...
[21:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:09] <exec> 08└─IKR! "Let's do it in space. Because, stuff." Oh yeah. QI had ambience and great design. QII was an evolutionary step but one among many FPSers. QIII they did OK with IMO - they really distilled twitch fps. And QII didn't have TF. Q's team fortress was amazing; people still play it. Just incredible.
[21:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:11] <exec> 08└─.. you just made me remember the year I finished Quake using just the axe. I had done it with just the axe+single barrel, without savescumming much (maybe before one of those 1 in 10 interactions - a crazy timed jump sequence or boss fight). The shotty allowed a lot of geometry/ai exploits. With the...
[21:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:13] <exec> 08└─You have to look at the pictures using Monster gold-plated HDMI cables. Those will bring out the subtle differences in the groove patterns.
[21:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:15] <exec> 08└─Because the "cheap knockoff Hell, with some sci-fi bits glued on because reasons" setting of Q1 was so much better?
[21:37:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:18] <exec> 08└─Not really true. The noise floor of vinyl, and the actually delivered top end are both worse than that of CD, unless you're talking about top-of-the-line 45RPM platters, in which case it's more or less equivalent. The high end of analogue audio is high speed reel-to-reel tape, but that's not under d...
[21:37:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:54] <exec> 08└─I thought the European 911 was now 0118, 999, 881, 999, 119, 725…3!
[21:37:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Your Shrink. Woebot Will See You Now - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:56] <exec> 08└─I'm not talking to Woebot until after MichaelDavidCrawford tries it. If MDC gives it a positive review, then I will know for sure that Woebot is shit.
[21:38:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:39] <exec> 08└─Well, there's not much of an atmosphere ("96% carbon dioxide, 1.93% argon and 1.89% nitrogen along with traces of oxygen and water"), or a magnetosphere at all. Isn't nitrogen a key component of most life on Earth, too? I'd guess that doesn't rule out anaerobic bacteria, but after several rovers fin...
[21:38:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03deadstick [5110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:40] <exec> 08└─"That might be how some aliens perceive Earth: No intelligent life found so we can terraform and settle it..."
[21:38:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:38:43] <exec> 08└─I guess it means that no one is allowed to die ever, even if they themselves accept the risks. Which is insane, because you have to accept some amount of casualties at the very least, or else even countless ordinary jobs would be banned and we'd be unable to actually do anything. I don't see the app...
[21:39:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:39:26] <exec> 08└─Doesn't matter that much as long as: 1) The debts are in a currency the USA can create 2) Most other countries continue to use that same currency to trade and hold large amounts of it.
[21:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:33] <exec> 08└─"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals. I am a vegetarian because I hate plants." -A. Whitney Brown
[21:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03ragequit [44] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:34] <exec> 08└─The Green Jello pigs used concrete.
[21:42:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Oregon City Approves Permit for US' First All-Wood High-Rise - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:42:36] <exec> 08└─Concrete is a terrible building material if you have any seismic activity. Lots of 3rd-world cities have found this out the hard way. Combine it with steel and things are totally different, however.
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[22:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:34] <exec> 08└─Because conventional agricultural practices are environmentally horrible. Intensive monocultures, which damage the soil and are causing problems for lots of native insects and animals by taking away food sources and habitat, lots of exposed soil which leads to erosion , tons of fertilizer that tends...
[22:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:35] <exec> 08└─Yeah. Because if this can happen on stuff that really are inherited legacies from Obama (he didn't get increases to CRP,) under Mr. Make America Imperial Again will happily run the environment into the ground if it pleases his billionaire buddies.
[22:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:38] <exec> 08└─I.T. for everybody! Bleach them shirts white and make 'em all Knowledge Workers! MAGA! MAGA! MAGA! Oh right. Don't forget the brownface! I.T. is white collar for brownskins only!!
[22:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:40] <exec> 08└─That's not wind! Those are running NIGGERS STEALING OUR SOIL!!!
[22:35:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:42] <exec> 08└─They pay them billions so that they can spend less time worrying about farming and thus have more time to watch Fox News and loudly express their desire to get the Government off of their backs and to stop giving out money to those welfare queens and other undesirable "coastal elites".
[22:35:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:44] <exec> 08└─Welfare queens don't own land. The founding fathers of this country intended the ruling elite to be white male landowners. White male landowning farmers are owed rent for being white male landowners.
[22:35:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:53] <exec> 08└─Exactly. We're in a backwater part of the universe, not near enough other galaxies for there to be any advanced intelligent life around. So our species is going to destroy itself and the planet it lives on before it even manages to achieve interstellar travel (let alone intergalactic), and no other...
[22:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 3297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:55] <exec> 08└─We monitor only a tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum at any given moment. We are in the process of switching from radio to laser communications with our distant spacecraft. There have been numerous reports throughout recorded history of unidentified flying objects. We haven't located all o...
[22:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:35:58] <exec> 08└─You're just a temporary arrangement of matter drifting towards oblivion in a cold uncaring universe ... and to drive the point home, God put you inside the biggest known hole in the universe. Go hug your wife-beating Sunday-morning-powertools fanatic Harley-riding neighbor, for he is the only close...
[22:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03zocalo [302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:00] <exec> 08└─Both the Drake Equation and Fermi Paradox apply specifically to the Milky Way, not the universe as a whole, so it's perhaps more likely we're just regarded as the village idiot by the other hicks - given some of the inane shit we do to each other it'd be kind of hard to blame them if so. However, ex...
[22:36:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:49] <exec> 08└─That's true, and I don't want to hand those researchers a free pass.
[22:36:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:51] <exec> 08└─Considering the fucked up state of US laws and their application. These people may simply be two underage persons convicted of having a relationship or the horror of sexting. So even the fallacy of assuming correct conviction goes away. As for the power issue. Maybe some clear and pedagogical educat...
[22:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:09] <exec> 08└─Having more kids, lower IQ, medical issues, addiction, etc., are CAUSED by being poor, not the other way around. The wealthy have less kids because they don't have the genetic urge to pump them out because theirs' are less likely to die. There are tons of studies on relation of wealth to IQ, and the...
[22:37:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:37:11] <exec> 08└─As always, you people get the causation backwards. Having a lower IQ leads to those problems, and those problems lead to poverty.
[22:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:00] <exec> 08└─No, because your dumb ass will die from radiation exposure on the way there.
[22:39:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kansas' Experiment with Reducing Taxes Ends in Failure, Republicans Override the Governor's Veto - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:39:45] <exec> 08└─Right, so the states on the Coast are not the primary beneficiary of a CROSS FUCKING COUNTRY highway system that links both coasts?
[22:40:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:40:22] <exec> 08└─Nevertheless, don't destroy freedom in the name of it.
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[23:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Rooftop Solar Returning to Nevada - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:37] <exec> 08└─If they generate as much as they use, do they pay nothing, despite making use of costly infrastructure? This causes a death spiral for the utility companies.
[23:35:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:53] <exec> 08└─Native bees like to pollinate native weeds. Apply all the poison you like, and you still won't kill the pollinator for corn and wheat. Hint: it isn't a critter.
[23:35:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:54] <exec> 08└─Yeah, corn and wheat are pollinated by wind, but a healthy environment doesn't contain only 2 species...
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[23:35:56] <exec> 08└─Plus, there are tons of predatory insects losing their habitats as well. We wouldn't need to apply so many chemicals if predators were around to regulate the populations of "pests".
[23:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Pays Farmers Billions to Save the Soil but It's Blowing Away - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:35:59] <exec> 08└─Because conventional agricultural practices are environmentally horrible.
[23:36:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:10] <exec> 08└─We aren't monitoring the entire night sky constantly for transmissions across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Intelligent broadcasts may be hard to detect for reasons we don't expect. We're also in the process of transitioning to lasers for deep space communications [nasa.gov]. If aliens use la...
[23:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:12] <exec> 08└─If we were in a more dense region. We might have been wiped out a long time ago. Usually in the form of big rocks hitting the surface or a massive GWB from a supernova.
[23:36:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Milky Way Resides in a Great Cosmic Void - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:14] <exec> 08└─There is a good your mom joke in here. Not only have I not thought of one in the last hour, nobody else has either. The internet is maturing :(
[23:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SK Hynix Developing 96 and 128-Layer TLC 3D NAND - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:23] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that 3D NAND die height does not differ that much from 2D yet. Keep in mind that multiple dies are stacked together to make a package [theregister.co.uk], just like with 2D. http://www.techinsights.com
[23:36:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SK Hynix Developing 96 and 128-Layer TLC 3D NAND - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:26] <exec> 08└─My understanding is that 3D NAND die height does not differ that much from 2D yet. Keep in mind that multiple dies are stacked together to make a package [theregister.co.uk], just like with 2D.
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[23:37:01] <exec> 08└─The abused children. No, the other ones. I'm not opposed to systems that actually help to treat pedophiles or determine those who are a greater danger. But I do think our society has become a bit obsessed with them. In the U.S., child maltreatment stats [cdc.gov] say that only 9% of reports for chil...
[23:37:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 654 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:11] <exec> 08└─In France, virtual child porn is forbidden. And in the US the law says that any realistic appearing computer generated depiction that is indistinguishable from a depiction of an actual minor in sexual situations or engaging in sexual acts is illegal under 18 U.S.C. § 2252A. The Australian state of...
[23:37:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:13] <exec> 08└─It's probably a manifestation of a moral law of triviality [wikipedia.org] attention focus on problem prioritization. Maybe a better test would be emotional dysfunctionality? But then sex seems to make people loose all reality check and proportions.
[23:37:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Assessing Child Abusers Using VR - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:15] <exec> 08└─If a machine learning algorithm creates a realistic appearing computer generated depiction of a nude minor, who gets arrested?
[23:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cash for Math: The Erdős Prizes Live On - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:35] <exec> 08└─As always, ignorant bigots like you willfully ignore reality because you love to feel superior, rather than accepting that your station in life is determined by 9 parts luck and 1 part ability... You're no better than anyone else, you just have more money. The sooner we can get rid of the current so...
[23:38:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"QUAKE" Soundtrack Available on Vinyl - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:00] <exec> 08└─I tried installing it, but it doesn't even fit!
[23:39:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03charon [5660] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Enthusiasts Warn Planetary Protection may Stop Humans from Going to Mars - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:39:27] <exec> 08└─I'll just leave this [wikipedia.org] here.
[23:40:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:50] <exec> 08└─It is not. Make a torture/snuff film featuring you or someone you love, and that 'duty' evaporates. You'd want it used to bring people to justice. Not as a recruiting tool. Same deal with child porn.
[23:40:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Former US Spy Chief Calls for 'Filtering' of Social Media - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:40:52] <exec> 08└─We do this for child pornography. What makes purveyors of murder and torture porn so special?
[23:45:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dish Network Receives $280M Fine for Relentless Robocalling - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:45:38] <exec> 08└─I had a some thought that signed data could be sent as FSK tones before letting the call through. Oh and I think a lookup service wouldn't be that hard or costly. And any people letting google run their mail they are hopefully aware that they just sold their life to US "security" orgs.
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