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[00:29:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:29:59] <exec> 08└─Some of us evolved from one type of monkey, others evolved from other monkeys. Then, we have politicians and lawyers, who evolved from rats. It's difficulet to make an entire zoo learn the same language.
[00:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:13] <exec> 08└─This has to be a blow to the left SJW, the natural order of this world is right conservative leaning. (large trollish grin)
[00:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:14] <exec> 08└─Leaning depends upon wealth. Poor lean left for free handouts. Rich lean right for tax cuts.
[00:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:16] <exec> 08└─The left are kissless virgins who watch Star Trek in Morn's basement and fantasize about dating dabo girls.
[00:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:18] <exec> 08└─If you lean to the right, it seems like the whole world leans to the left. And vice versa. Just ask Fox News.
[00:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:21] <exec> 08└─Then I go for a number between 68 and 70 for a few hours.
[00:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:23] <exec> 08└─my groin into her groin. If that doesn't work I lean whichever way keeps her nose out of the way of my tongue. / not really. // I'm 59 with an ex and 2 kids, this stuff doesn't happen anymore /// I try to lean into her kitchen nowdays to see if she's a better cook than I am
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[00:30:54] <exec> 08└─Both Windows 98 and MacOS 10 shipped with a Personal Webserver [wikipedia.org]Enabling "Personal Web Sharing", OSX [macinstruct.com]. In the late 90's it was still expected that the average person would want to host a website. The asymmetric speeds used to be a technical limitation. now, I am fairly...
[00:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:56] <exec> 08└─As Facebook gained popularity, there were several *distributed* social networks being developed. However, since most folks were getting upload speeds of 10% or less than their download speeds and ISPs were abusively blocking server ports for their residential customers, the distributed model couldn'...
[00:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:30:58] <exec> 08└─Maybe we can buy them a copy of https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com] And give them a link to https://cryptopals.com [cryptopals.com] / Too lazy to turn those addresses into links // sorry
[00:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:00] <exec> 08└─It's a natural monopoly.
[00:31:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:44] <exec> 08└─No fuckwit. He's talking about menstruation but is too much of an american pussy to say so. I bet he's scared of nipples on tv too.
[00:31:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:45] <exec> 08└─If architects weren't being stupid, they would just make their drawings with three times as many women's stalls as men's. And, yes, you've got to count the urinals as a "stall". The whole thing goes back to times when women stayed home, and men "brought home the bacon". Back then, an equal count of...
[00:31:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:47] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention, the disabled can just shit in their own wheelchairs, because we ain't gonna build doors and stalls to accommodate them. Actually, I'm OK with this, as long as we're consistent about the lack of regulation: the disabled should be able to just shit or piss on the floor if the bu...
[00:31:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:50] <exec> 08└─> No fuckwit. He's talking about menstruation but is too much of an american pussy to say so. I bet he's scared of nipples on tv too. Subtlety is a shrinking art form.
[00:31:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:52] <exec> 08└─Without government regulations every bathroom will be occupied by a permanently leaving in there whore. That' why there are almost no outdoor toilets in NYC.
[00:31:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:54] <exec> 08└─Any danger to be accused of pedophile type stalking? Just curious what would happen if a Texas 13 years old girl screams rape in a California toilet....
[00:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:57] <exec> 08└─The wife didn't understand how I could go so long without peeing. Half of it was I have a good 2 hours from "hmmm, I gotta pee" to "I'm gonna pee in the next minute or so". She seemed to have a couple minutes from "hmm, I gotta pee" to "I'm gonna pee in the next minute or so. Add to that it took her...
[00:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:31:59] <exec> 08└─You don't live in the same California as me, I guess. While guys will acknowledge a girl going into the guys' bathrooms because of a long line, I have never seen a guy walk into a women's bathroom in CA, unless it was a single stall and the only men's bathroom was explicitly out of order. Unisex is...
[00:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:13] <exec> 08└─I would suggest the Wikipedia article. It's not too bad. Libertarian is the opposing side of Authoritarian and takes many, many forms. It's also scaled, so that extremes don't actually have to be assumed. If you're curious, I fall in the lower-left quadrant on the political compass. I'm very much a...
[00:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:33:14] <exec> 08└─I chose the clickbait headline because this wasn't really a tech related article. And it seemed a little ironic too. Yours, The submissive AC
[00:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:38] <exec> 08└─http://thefederalist.com/2015/06/02/the-liberal-arts-are-dead-long-live-stem/ [thefederalist.com]
[00:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:35:40] <exec> 08└─The explanation of number 3 is that Canadians watch a lot of American TV while holed up for the winter.
[00:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03redbear762 [5576] (Score: 1) 02 - 06That Huge Iceberg Should Freak You Out. Here's Why - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:35] <exec> 08└─For me, I had to add Sagan screaming about how we'd all be cannibals hunting each other through the giant snowdrifts by the time I'd graduate high school. Geez, will these folks just stop already? We're heading towards a major solar minimum and these fucks will be back to blaming people for the cold...
[00:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03toddestan [4982] (Score: 1) 02 - 06That Huge Iceberg Should Freak You Out. Here's Why - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:36] <exec> 08└─It's more popular to do reboots now. You might have noticed they just rebooted Russia. Maybe next will be acid rain?
[00:37:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Building Data Centre in China to Comply With Tough Cybersecurity Laws - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:37:56] <exec> 08└─In Australia we've got the lowest political participation rate in the western world measured in terms of party membership.
[00:38:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos' Vision for Space: One Trillion Population in the Solar System - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:38:37] <exec> 08└─fanboi much?
[00:42:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Self-Fueling Boat Sets off From Paris on 6 Year World Trip - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:42:04] <exec> 08└─The article is very short and the summary above covers it. I also use several ad/etc. blockers but it let me see the article. Which blocker that you use is blocking that site? Also I don't think the solar panels will survive Cape Horn.
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[01:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:06] <exec> 08└─It's because English is as logical as this explanation, that's why. (grin)
[01:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:07] <exec> 08└─.. and there are lots of people on it. People used to live in tribes, and with time relocated for resources. Isolated dialects evolved differently. Dialects with common sources have more words and structure in common. There isn't much to speculate about.
[01:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:10] <exec> 08└─"English" and "logic" should never be used in the same sentence, and probably not even the same paragraph. We've got rules coming out the ass, with exceptions for every one of them. There is little if anything that is logical about the English language. It's probably the javascript of languages.
[01:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:12] <exec> 08└─Australian, Great Britain, Canadian, and American. Go ahead, tell me how you speak more! I dare you!
[01:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:14] <exec> 08└─> Australian, Great Britain, Canadian, and American Ahem.
[01:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:16] <exec> 08└─I only claimed I spoke it, not that I knew what it was called. checkmate, sucker.
[01:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:30:19] <exec> 08└─Simple, because everyone outside the US is too stupid to learn English. Well, there are the British, but those idiots still need to learn how to spell "color". Perhaps a bit of Canada, but that's not a real country anyway... what's that all "aboot"?
[01:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:12] <exec> 08└─Indiana beat them to it. [wikipedia.org]
[01:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:13] <exec> 08└─With "Russia." Or "Iran." Or "Saudi Arabia." Or "North Korea." Imagine the fury if an American company gave one of those companies the ability to decrypt messages with an order from what passes for their judiciary. If those countries had access to legislated back doors. The fight for strong encrypti...
[01:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:15] <exec> 08└─No worries, mate. I've made them into links for you.
[01:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:31:17] <exec> 08└─tabloid commentators claim VPNs are for paedophiles and terrorists.. http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au [dailytelegraph.com.au] https://pedestrian.tv
[01:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:09] <exec> 08└─If architects weren't being stupid, they would just make their drawings with three times as many women's stalls as men's. And, yes, you've got to count the urinals as a "stall". The whole thing goes back to times when women stayed home, and men "brought home the bacon". Back then, an equal count of...
[01:32:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:32:11] <exec> 08└─The question isn't "why", but "why not?" Sounds to me like you're a fucking whiner. If you don't want me to see your teenie weenie in the restroom, go into a stall, and close the god damned door. You can even sit down to pee, if you like. There aren't any potty police watching to see that you're doi...
[01:33:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:33:28] <exec> 08└─Sleeping off a big meal, perhaps?
[01:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:34:35] <exec> 08└─SWAT or SEAL Team Six? More like the Turing Registry [netsville.com].
[01:35:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:35:55] <exec> 08└─It's because there's money in war. Lots of it.
[01:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos' Vision for Space: One Trillion Population in the Solar System - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:38:54] <exec> 08└─Also, 'theories' not theorys. Let us not be ignorant here. I'll give you that. The rest of your post is far to advanced for my jet-lag addled brain at this time of day or night
[01:39:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Continue Crackdown on Annoying Robocalls - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:39:19] <exec> 08└─Drain the swamp! MAGA!
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[02:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:05] <exec> 08└─Fuck your noise! I stream what I want.
[02:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:20] <exec> 08└─I'll consider to your message again when the US populace will learn how to spell aluminium.
[02:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:21] <exec> 08└─I've spoken English all my life here in USA. I can even understand the British and Scottish accents... But I couldn't understand a word of Louisiana Swamp English. It sounds like a heavy drunken French accent with balls in their mouth.
[02:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:23] <exec> 08└─Bugger, I never realised that the that dialectical flavours could be considered distinct languages in and of themselves. My encyclopaedia does not say so, though likely it is at the centre of some sulphurous rancour, though it is a grey area. The differences transcend merely how words are spelt diff...
[02:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03gman003 [4155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:26] <exec> 08└─Only one type of American? I speak fluent Southern Redneck, Midwest and Yankee, passable West Coaster, and a heavily-accented AAVE (took me forever to get the hang of the verbs). Plus Londoner and Canucki. And Church Latin, but that's a whole different story.
[02:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03eliphas_levy [1523] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:28] <exec> 08└─one word: portuguese (and on the lesser side, spanish and others derived) english: glass portuguese: copo, óculos, vidro (referring to a cup, the lenses, the window)... english just condenses it all when it makes sense (and do not make me start on the verbs)
[02:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:30] <exec> 08└─What was that movie, Trainspotting? Heard glowing reviews of it, rented it, couldn't understand a word they said. The sequel came out a year or two back, no desire to see it.
[02:30:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:30:49] <exec> 08└─Are your daughters hot?
[02:33:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:38] <exec> 08└─Slipping off a big meal
[02:33:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:33:39] <exec> 08└─I basically gave a much more concrete description of what you said: Libertarian is the opposing side of Authoritarian
[02:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:34:48] <exec> 08└─I really think you need to look up the definition of fascist. Then look in a mirror and make a frank and earnest assessment of your own words and actions.
[02:35:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Used GPUs Flood the Market as Ethereum's Price Crashes Below $150 - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:35:15] <exec> 08└─If you can wait, AMD is releasing a new high-end card at the end of the month. The reason prices are dropping. Everyone is clearing out inventory...
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[02:36:10] <exec> 08└─Because people never immigrate? Example: An Iranian-born British citizen might still find travel to Trump-istan problematic.
[02:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:12] <exec> 08└─Travelling to the US was already a headache before Trump's Muslim bans. Remember Dmitry Sklyarov [archive.org]?
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[02:36:14] <exec> 08└─a similar report [soylentnews.org]
[02:36:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Laws of Australia Will Trump the Laws of Mathematics: Turnbull - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:36:48] <exec> 08└─The Laws of Australia Will Bitch the Laws of Mathematics The Laws of Australia Will Jew the Laws of Mathematics The Laws of Australia Will Faggot the Laws of Mathematics The Laws of Australia Will Nigger the Laws of Mathematics
[02:37:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06George A. Romero, ‘Night of the Living Dead’ Director, Dies at 77 - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:37:10] <exec> 08└─Human brain cells can be grown in the lab, thanks to OPTi-OX [soylentnews.org] platform technology!
[02:38:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06That Huge Iceberg Should Freak You Out. Here's Why - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:14] <exec> 08└─Well, evidence that someone let their tree roam loose.
[02:38:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06That Huge Iceberg Should Freak You Out. Here's Why - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:16] <exec> 08└─It seems to me that they are outright denying that there is a problem, and doing so to pull regulations that will fatten corporate coffers
[02:38:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06That Huge Iceberg Should Freak You Out. Here's Why - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:18] <exec> 08└─Yes, measure the physical properties of the coin and use these to predict the coin should come up heads x% of the time. Then when you test the coin by flipping it should be close to this value you have predicted (rather than the NHST approach of checking "50% heads").
[02:38:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06That Huge Iceberg Should Freak You Out. Here's Why - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:38:20] <exec> 08└─But maybe the other side is wrong, and changing your lifestyle really is what is needed?
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[03:30:04] <exec> 08└─A red feast would make sense, can we have arya poison turnbull the bull fucker? It's a long walk to the gallows and a dream of liberty... then they'll tell you don't try this at home.. Thanks bbc
[03:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkpixel [4281] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:06] <exec> 08└─Could a streaming media service adopt distributing their show via BitTorrent (say...Netflix) while still being able to maintain control over the video to prevent unauthorized users from accessing it? BitTorrent seems like the perfect distribution mechanism, but no distribution service would use it i...
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[03:30:08] <exec> 08└─Your ugly and drunk and your mother smells of elderberries
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[03:30:10] <exec> 08└─What do you think uPnP [dlna.org] is for? It allows DRM'ed services to leach off of your Internet connection without your consent.
[03:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:12] <exec> 08└─things that they claim to be AI* will communicate with yo7ur toster and tell them thing mme to me to me to me to me to meto totttoo
[03:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:14] <exec> 08└─No, because media companies have spent a long time making sure that torrent is pretty much synonymous with piracy. Adopting torrents for distribution would mean admitting that they have legal uses, which conflicts with "OMFG piraty torrentz are killing our profits" rhetoric. They could also no longe...
[03:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:17] <exec> 08└─How do you feel about communicate with yo7ur toster do youyou do you do you do you do you do you do? do you feel?
[03:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:19] <exec> 08└─18* me me me to me mmeto mmmmeeeee
[03:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:21] <exec> 08└─FoxNews, Foxtel, same shit all over: pretend to give them what they pay the most... but don't try too hard, we own them anyway.
[03:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:23] <exec> 08└─uPNP is a service to open and forward ports from a router to the internal network irrelevant of your decision to run DRM'd services or not.
[03:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:26] <exec> 08└─Thanks Mr slippery Dick Cheney
[03:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:47] <exec> 08└─Korean is the other way, not enough words. One example we worked out years ago: English: steel pipe (for fluid), steel tube (for structure) Korean: only one word for both tubular products, all called "pipe" when translated to English.
[03:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:48] <exec> 08└─It's an emergency! Does anybody here speak Jive?!
[03:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 1605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:51] <exec> 08└─What you're seeing there is a difference between a language that relies a lot on context and one which is more explicit. There's advantages to both approaches: a higher-context language like English can be more efficient, however it suffers from less redundancy so it's easier to have confusion or lo...
[03:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 1047 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:53] <exec> 08└─Languages change in use, and most humans only speak with a few people in the same area. This creates geographical dialects which diverge further as time goes on, until they become unintelligible and, given enough time in isolation, eventually they can diverge to the point there aren't even any disce...
[03:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 1347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:55] <exec> 08└─His message is obviously a joke, since English is the #1 most-spoken language in the world (just not as a first language), and is the de-facto lingua franca for business and international relations. You can find random people just about everywhere who can speak a bit of English, albeit poorly, but e...
[03:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:30:57] <exec> 08└─That would be the joke son. You know, that whooshing sound over your head. Think I can speak a decent Australian accent? yeah, about that. Did ya catch my comment on Trainspotters? Again, about that. I speak English. Specifically, southern california english. You speak New Yawk to me you better spea...
[03:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:00] <exec> 08└─So I'a gonna go with we don't like other humans and would preferentially kill that is why early civilizations have very specific rules on how to treat strangers or people that are not yo7u , something we totally fail to do in our own "civilization "
[03:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:20] <exec> 08└─I am the same age. I have sex with the missus, quite frequently. It helps to have retired early. Afternoon sex is best sex.
[03:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:31:21] <exec> 08└─Are your daughters hot?
[03:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:01] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm not falling for that again. Especially since I have 2 years probation before I get unsupervised internet access again.
[03:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:02] <exec> 08└─People can still make their own decisions and refuse on principle to use abusive services like Facebook (which is a monstrous surveillance engine). Instead, you see people giving sites like Facebook not only their own information, but other people's information as well, even if those other people wa...
[03:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:57] <exec> 08└─Menstruation is mentioned in "adjust their tampons" and women don't menstruate on demand, you poster child for abortions. Aha, got it! Pregnant women need to spend extra time aborting their unborn children when they feel like they're turning into you!!
[03:32:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:32:58] <exec> 08└─My high school biology teacher refused to let anyone leave during quizzes, not even to use the restroom. Tie a knot in it, he told the boys. Put a cork in it, he told the girls. Otherwise he allowed restroom breaks, and I as a young boy was the one who used the restroom most frequently. The school h...
[03:32:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:00] <exec> 08└─Shorter urethra *really* does not help. When the pressure starts building you have to go. I have no idea how the hell men can hold it for so long. Maybe it's my tea habit but I'm usually taking a whizz every 2-4 hours or so.
[03:33:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:33:02] <exec> 08└─I don't hold my pee in my urethra, I hold it in my bladder. I'm more inclined to trust her "damned kids crushed my bladder" than your "my urethra is too short".
[03:34:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:22] <exec> 08└─Because your definition is both incomplete and misleading. Just the first half dozen paragraphs will help. It's not very difficult.
[03:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:34:23] <exec> 08└─My definition is neither incomplete nor misleading; indeed, it is both complete and forthright.
[03:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:33] <exec> 08└─. algorithms are made by these people, that means garbage in garbage out if the people that write them are garbage which they generally are the output is also garbage.
[03:35:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:35:35] <exec> 08└─This whoile thread makes clear why comp sci and math people should just be killed since this thread has proved they are violent sociopaths that have no place in society . end of line
[03:37:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Laws of Australia Will Trump the Laws of Mathematics: Turnbull - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:37:34] <exec> 08└─Chairman of a major business needs to know a lot of things - but very few of them about the core principles of the product the business sells. Won't anybody throw the Donald into the story title for a pun return?
[03:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06That Huge Iceberg Should Freak You Out. Here's Why - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:39:04] <exec> 08└─And what does "test the coin by flipping it should be close to this value you have predicted" mean? NHST in disguised form.
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[04:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:02] <exec> 08└─The nigger whales are coming to probe us.
[04:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:03] <exec> 08└─Seriously Mulder has already been there we all know it's been shut down since the late 80's and our conversion to the black oil was only narrowly averted
[04:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:05] <exec> 08└─Trump would have tweeted about UFOs by now... so, no.
[04:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:07] <exec> 08└─Seriously people need what off axis RADIO ASTRONOMY? I think you over estimate our chances.
[04:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:10] <exec> 08└─No it was clinton that promised to be transparent about aliens http://www.independent.co.uk [independent.co.uk]
[04:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:12] <exec> 08└─It's good to know that you think the whales from startrek IV where black but really if they had not probed us we will all be dead in the 24th century
[04:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:14] <exec> 08└─Black stars [wikipedia.org] may exist.
[04:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:16] <exec> 08└─They just forgot to hang up the phone.
[04:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:37] <exec> 08└─My mom is too tired to shower after she fucked your dad.
[04:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:30:39] <exec> 08└─A few years ago, I ran into a bittorrent-like media streaming service but it was for sports, and being pushed by some big companies. Can't remember the name of it though, and I haven't heard anything about it since that one time.
[04:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:11] <exec> 08└─Not surprised. Big elephant in the room: lots of academics treat spoken Mandarin, Min/Hokkien, Yue/Cantonese etc all as one language despite the mutual intelligibility being lower than the mutual intelligibility of Portuguese, Spanish and Italian (which are considered different languages). One excus...
[04:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:12] <exec> 08└─that's the first thing that comes out of your keyboards that's not pure crap, congrats!
[04:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:14] <exec> 08└─https://chomsky.info/ [chomsky.info] just sayin'
[04:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:16] <exec> 08└─I don't believe you. Yes yes swamper can be difficult, but *Scots*? That's actually a different language. To my ear it's the far side of Dutch. If you actually have more trouble with that than swamper your native language is probably German or something. http://www.omniglot.com
[04:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:19] <exec> 08└─It's been my position for many years that English is a great language for poetry and literature and a terrible language for communication for that very reason. There's estimates up to over a million words in the language and a ton of irregularities to be had. There's also a ton of times when the lan...
[04:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:21] <exec> 08└─In some cases yes, I have an easier time understanding what Dutch people are saying than some of the accents of the commonwealth. I remember sometimes having to turn on subtitles to figure out what people on British TV are saying. That's mostly because they don't just have a drastically different ac...
[04:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:31:23] <exec> 08└─The proper spelling of that has always been aluminum going back to the early 19th century when it was first being isolated. There was a period of about 3 years where the aluminium spelling was prefered by IUPAC before they formally accepted the more correct aluminum spelling. Claiming that the prope...
[04:33:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:23] <exec> 08└─Because you could easily hold your penis to stop the flow of urine.
[04:33:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:24] <exec> 08└─*SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) http://www.snopes.com [snopes.com]
[04:33:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:33:26] <exec> 08└─That's your choice. If you wanted to, you could close off the end of your penis, then empty some of the urine from your bladder into your penis while you hold the end closed. Women can't do that.
[04:34:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03KGIII [5261] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:34:48] <exec> 08└─You would save bandwidth if you just read the article, but it's all good. You do you, I suppose.
[04:35:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:35:59] <exec> 08└─Try it, loser.
[04:36:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:36:01] <exec> 08└─I felt the the way you did, until I learned about "test driven development". Rules: Write the Test case first. Stop when you get an error.Write the code that passes the test case. Stop when you pass the test.Repeat The above algorithm, if followed religiously, results in full test coverage.
[04:37:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:25] <exec> 08└─That's actually not new. Decades ago, I saw a bunch of those folks in my curriculum. They had managed to make it into the program but couldn't complete the coursework and never got the sheepskin. ...and most of them had never tinkered with anything in their lives--beyond twisting a knob on a TV. The...
[04:37:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:27] <exec> 08└─Friend of mine was denied an esta because he travelled to Libya once (he's a broadcast engineer). He used to have a journalist 'I-visa' for the US, but he's since left the company. Can't go for meetings or holidays, at least with the costly hoop jumping to get a B-visa. Still, 190 other countries to...
[04:37:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:37:29] <exec> 08└─But 9/11 was a major event Over FIFTEEN years ago. Bin Laden is dead. Al-queadea did nothing of interest after that - there was no need for them to - they won. The biggest threat to normal americans is your crazy police force who shoot unarmed women in their pyjamas.
[04:38:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Laws of Australia Will Trump the Laws of Mathematics: Turnbull - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:05] <exec> 08└─Agree that this seems like a power grab, and I suspect I know who the chief architect was [aph.gov.au]. Brandis has been trying to control the Internet in Australia since Day 1 of becoming Attorney General. This is just the latest step in the process. A more dodgy AG would be hard to find. Very sad...
[04:38:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Laws of Australia Will Trump the Laws of Mathematics: Turnbull - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:07] <exec> 08└─used to be the chairman
[04:38:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Laws of Australia Will Trump the Laws of Mathematics: Turnbull - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:38:09] <exec> 08└─Use stenography and streams within streams? on a superficial look it will look compliant and nice. Only when the data is need will it be a brick wall or a discovered diversion.
[04:39:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06That Huge Iceberg Should Freak You Out. Here's Why - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:39:39] <exec> 08└─Show me your PhD thesis in climatology.
[04:40:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Building Data Centre in China to Comply With Tough Cybersecurity Laws - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:00] <exec> 08└─What makes it a bad thing is that the parties are not held to account. Their own members have no real say in party policy, no say in who gets preselection, no say on who leads the party. All of that is decided by a handful of party power brokers behind closed doors. This makes it far easier for lobb...
[04:40:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Building Data Centre in China to Comply With Tough Cybersecurity Laws - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:02] <exec> 08└─What makes it a bad thing is that the parties are not held to account.
[04:40:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos' Vision for Space: One Trillion Population in the Solar System - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:40:45] <exec> 08└─Modern day Einsteins would be buried under "common core" and societal ideology. To succeed, it seems easier to do that outside of the system of schools and wage slavery.
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[05:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:02] <exec> 08└─Researchers ripoff idea from 26 years ago. I remember reading the original in Omni Magazine. https://en.wikipedia.org're_Made_Out_of_Meat [wikipedia.org]
[05:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:04] <exec> 08└─Faster-than-light travel is not possible. Civilizations cannot escape their home solar system and hence die out in the space of a cosmically short time. Advanced civilizations are fleeting affairs and so our chance of detecting them is limited by the short time they exist.
[05:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:06] <exec> 08└─Heavier-than-air flight wasn't possible either. Jeff Bezos, start the 1,000 Einstein's breeding program. We need them to put their heads together to solve faster-than-light travel.
[05:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:08] <exec> 08└─Flipper Inferiority [soylentnews.org]
[05:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:10] <exec> 08└─They said humanity couldn't destroy an entire galaxy. I say we prove them wrong!
[05:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:12] <exec> 08└─Why not? There are about a trillion galaxies out there. Why not destroy one.
[05:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:15] <exec> 08└─Aliens are made of dark matter.
[05:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:29] <exec> 08└─Trump has a big fat covfefe mouth.
[05:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:31] <exec> 08└─It was John Podesta's idea. Even discussed in some of the leaked emails. Instead of disclosure Trump will use the alien technology to bomb ISIS.
[05:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:55] <exec> 08└─I don't remember what it was called. Radio paradise used it, but then bandwidth got cheaper
[05:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:30:56] <exec> 08└─I became progressively more dissatisfied with GOT. It had an great start but by book 5, what a total slog. I'll wait until the whole thing is finished and read the wikipedia summary, or laugh like at all the suckers when Martin kicks the bucket without finishing the book but after introducing additi...
[05:31:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:36] <exec> 08└─Davy did settle on 'aluminum' but it doesn't seem out of line to suppose a typo from a man who had also recently isolated potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium. Thomas Young was hardly an idiot, and he had a good point - granted that you can use either -ium or -um with the same meanin...
[05:31:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:37] <exec> 08└─" I can even understand the British and Scottish accents... " Right - but have you actually been there? Go there, and get away from the tourist traps. Meet the working stiffs who may not have a great education, and may not meet a lot of foreigners. England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, all four, yo...
[05:31:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:31:39] <exec> 08└─A little test: Translate for us "Visit the Duke" "Trouble and strife" -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:32:01] <exec> 08└─Careful. You're getting into Trumpian territory there. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:33:42] <exec> 08└─What Super Bob said. If you live in Gay Bay, where all the activists make a lot of noise, that's one Cali. LA and it's surrounds is another Cali. Northern Cal is another matter entirely.
[05:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:35:06] <exec> 08└─Grab that meat! Grab and grab and grab!
[05:37:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 592 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:06] <exec> 08└─So, by your logic, we should have banned all travel from Northern Ireland, and possibly Ireland and the UK, for most of the 20th century. In fact, arguably we should still be banning it now because groups like the Real IRA are still out there trying to kill people with the goal of making Northern Ir...
[05:37:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 279 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:37:35] <exec> 08└─Let's not resolve to name calling ... The people/ideas formerly known as Alt-right have been officially Mainstream for the last 6 months (or 9, depends how you count). Why call them Alt-wrong, when you could point out they are now Lamestream, Main-Right, or -gasp- Establishment?
[05:40:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kaszz [4211] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos' Vision for Space: One Trillion Population in the Solar System - 1948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:40:59] <exec> 08└─"We can harvest resources /../ The alternative, he said, was an era of stasis and stagnation on Earth, where we are forced to control population and limit energy usage" and then.. *drumbeat* "make it possible to support one trillion people". So we enable ourselves to do away with scarcity in practic...
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[06:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:12] <exec> 08└─Nigger whales are made of darkie matter.
[06:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:14] <exec> 08└─You are Stephen Baxter, and I claim my five pounds. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[06:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:16] <exec> 08└─Dark matter nebulae are full of Jem'Hadar.
[06:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:18] <exec> 08└─The most common way we look for signs of aliens is through Radio Frequency (RF) transmissions. Because that's the best way we know to communicate, and logically if we were looking for another species like our own, that's the best thing to look for. We, and presumably they, have a globe of RF around...
[06:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:20] <exec> 08└─I'm going to have to emphatically disagree with the postulate that says natives of a water-world cannot develop technology (paraphrased.) That's not necessarily right, it needs a strong argument, and I don't see one.
[06:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:23] <exec> 08└─The TLA redirect the alien internet traffic to /dev/null
[06:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:25] <exec> 08└─This explanation doesn't add up. To a civilization that has achieved such efficiency, energy defacto equals to subjective time it would experience as it's perception of time would essentially be dictated by the expenditure of computational power. Assuming that infinite energy is not possible, the op...
[06:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:27] <exec> 08└─"Intelligence" - shitheads resembling us. Yeah, it's fucking vague, so it's better to discuss it after dropping few mics of acid and a few joints to go around.
[06:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:29] <exec> 08└─they might just consider us primitive and dangerous.
[06:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:31] <exec> 08└─The problem is that water and electricity don't mix. And gliders are a lot easier to develop when you start with a cliff rather than having to catapult them into the sky. Electricity is nearly certain to not be developed on a water world, same goes for anything involving chemistry as those are two t...
[06:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:34] <exec> 08└─There's no need for cliffs- fish "fly" from the perspective of the sea-floor. Electricity might be more difficult but I don't think it's a showstopper given there's stuff like electric eels. Developing fire and associated tech-paths is probably an issue. Harder to smelt stuff without stuff like fire...
[06:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:36] <exec> 08└─Heavier-than-air flight wasn't possible either.
[06:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:30:52] <exec> 08└─And here I saw ten comments on an astrophysics post, and I thought, SoylentNews might be worthwhile after all! But, not.
[06:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:31:59] <exec> 08└─I also speak mexican, vato loco.
[06:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:00] <exec> 08└─That's because English is more of a bastardised language than just about anything out there: - Originally used by the Angles, native to modern day England - Later adopted big chunks of Latin during the Roman occupation - Even later, incorporated elements of German and French, primarily through the n...
[06:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:02] <exec> 08└─I believe The Full Monty was screened in the U.S. with subtitles for those that couldn't follow the Sheffield dialect/accent.
[06:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:04] <exec> 08└─Virtually all written Chinese in the last century has been written with Mandarin grammar and words. There are written forms of languages like Cantonese that differ substantially from Mandarin, but they're not the norm. And education in China is done in Mandarin. Os, Virtually everybody in China know...
[06:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:07] <exec> 08└─Neither of these are phrases I'd ever use myself, but I recognise “Trouble and Strife” as being Cockney slang for “wife”, but “Visit the Duke” is new to me. I have an idge that it's bathroom related, and if it's rhyming slang again then I'll plump for “puke” (vomit). Do I get a prize...
[06:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:32:09] <exec> 08└─To be fair, most of those names that you list are ones that were lifted from Latin and as such, those have mostly always been spelled that way, at least as far as western knowledge of them goes. Most of them either being discovered by the Romans or just the records of them being in Latin.
[06:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:36] <exec> 08└─OPTi-OX is real, living human brain cells. Who's to say it doesn't think?
[06:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:38] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the free market will totally prevent this happening, because mumble mumble somthing whatamacallit. It just will goddammit.
[06:35:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:35:40] <exec> 08└─Our genus is actually around 2 to 3 million years old. Our species is roughly a quarter of a million years old. 'Civilization' faces a slippery slope of definition, as each stage has clearly built on those before, but from the time scale you gave you're probably thinking of neolithic sites like http...
[06:42:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Feds Continue Crackdown on Annoying Robocalls - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:00] <exec> 08└─The unholy fusion of government force and unaccountable corporate entities is called "mercantilism", and it has a looong sordid history in sorry human affairs. It is anything but a free market. Calling it "capitalism" is ignorant, if not deceptive.
[06:42:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ZFS Is the Best Filesystem (For Now…) - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:42:26] <exec> 08└─Reiser's wife was probably a Grade A Cunt. I'm not saying she deserved to be strangled to death, but… in the immortal words of Chris Rock: I understand.
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[07:30:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:02] <exec> 08└─It's a BBC Travel story, and it answers nothing.
[07:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:03] <exec> 08└─It's the Burning Man of the Neolithic.
[07:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:05] <exec> 08└─To Attract Tourists from The Future
[07:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:07] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=%22than+previously+thought%22 [google.com] Startpage and ddg give other results. Anyway, this phrase arouses suspicion in me and it is everywhere. I am not sure when I made that connection, it is largely unconscious.
[07:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:10] <exec> 08└─This bunch of stones was built solely to mock the True Savior and offend our precious religious liberties, such as the freedom to co-opt pagan festivals and burn the heretics. Pure oppression!
[07:30:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:39] <exec> 08└─Faster-than-light travel is not possible. Civilizations cannot escape their home solar system and hence die out in the space of a cosmically short time.
[07:30:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1738 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:40] <exec> 08└─You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.* And all forms of ElectroMagnetic (EM) energy travel slowly, really slowly. You just won't believe how pokey, incredibly slowly...
[07:30:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:43] <exec> 08└─Yeah, naaah... the intelligence agencies aren't that intelligent to deal with extraterrestrial intelligence. They barely can keep track...mmmm... tracking their domestic population, much less with the alien ones and even less with the extraterrestrial one.
[07:30:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Linatux [4602] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:45] <exec> 08└─Factor in the astronomical odds against there actually being anyone else out there and you realise they are wasting time and money looking. The lottery is relatively easy to win - every week - for the rest of your life.
[07:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 936 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:47] <exec> 08└─It's just fucked. It sounds cool. Like we could have Aquaman and Atlantis and the Gungans of Naboo and all these technological civilizations forming in the water on ocean planets. In practice, I think we'll find that metallurgy, the printing press, explosives, radio, transistors, lasers, nuclear rea...
[07:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:49] <exec> 08└─We're too primitive to be dangerous. "What was that?" [youtube.com]
[07:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:51] <exec> 08└─The idea is that these ocean planets have extremely deep oceans. Can coral grow to become 100+ km tall? And even if some sort of coral land plateau magically forms, there won't be any metal production up there. Your stone tools will actually be made of coral and will be used to scrape lichen off the...
[07:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:54] <exec> 08└─Harder to smelt stuff without stuff like fire.
[07:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:56] <exec> 08└─The speed of light through space is limited, but space itself is expanding faster than the speed of light. The engineering challenge is how to warp space to make long distances shorter.
[07:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:30:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah except for birds, which were totally unknown before the 1900s.
[07:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:00] <exec> 08└─I could go on and on for hours about how existentially interesting the concept of moving your consciousness versus copying it is. But one of the greater story masterpieces of our time, SOMA, already laid it out flawlessly. But the one liner is: I find it unlikely any civilization has succeeded here...
[07:31:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:03] <exec> 08└─With out grand total of 1 samples, we have absolutely no clue what is typical of advanced civilizations.
[07:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:05] <exec> 08└─100 km coral reef? lol is that the major obstacle. Yes, we developed the eye, the nervous system, immune system, but 100 km coral...pfft are you nute? A lot "just happens" in 3-4 billion years.
[07:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:07] <exec> 08└─Factor in the astronomical odds against there actually being anyone else out there and you realise they are wasting time and money looking. The lottery is relatively easy to win - every week - for the rest of your life.
[07:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:09] <exec> 08└─No no, don't you see? The absence of any means we can go hog wild postulating whatever we want. Ignore us, because we're earth-bound forever. Forever. Forever. End of story. Forever. But imagine all the other possibilities!
[07:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:11] <exec> 08└─"The problem is that water and electricity don't mix." Hah. I'll give you a point there. "And gliders are a lot easier to develop when you start with a cliff rather than having to catapult them into the sky." Easy come easy go. No, actually, flight is MUCH easier underwater. And there's no obvious r...
[07:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:14] <exec> 08└─If it "just happens", why don't we have undersea mountains of dead coral poking out of the deepest parts of the oceans? Maybe because it's physically impossible. Everest is about 9 km high and 100 km is the shallow water level on some ocean planets.
[07:31:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:16] <exec> 08└─True there are too many people starving to death at this very moment to call the Earth civilized.
[07:31:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:31:18] <exec> 08└─"There's certainly none on Earth: We barely manage to maintain a basic level of civilization." Many of us don't have toilets. Others spend many lifetimes worth of labor casually to incenerate people they have never met. Most often ones that barely have toilets. It was the best of times, it was the w...
[07:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 872 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:00] <exec> 08└─Blizzard uses torrent: http://us.blizzard.com [blizzard.com] How is it that Blizzard can distribute such large files to the public? To distribute large files, such as cinematic trailers, Blizzard utilizes the Blizzard Downloader, which is a software ut...
[07:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:48] <exec> 08└─English also suffers from a very bad sense a history, something the Americans have sadly inherited. - Later Angles adopted big chunks of Latin during the Roman occupation
[07:32:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:49] <exec> 08└─And one frojack speaks with two tongues, a "forked tongue", of which I, not a Western Researcher working on my Dissertation, cannot understand. What are you saying, frojack? Are you speaking dialect, or just drunk? Or trying to not be understood? It is all so confusing.
[07:32:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 1628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:32:51] <exec> 08└─The written record is kind of a primitive technology compared to what we're figuring out about communication now. But throughout history and throughout civilizations - you need to eventually communicate commerce. The constant in our varied race is that we always end up getting together, settling dow...
[07:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:36:22] <exec> 08└─My definition is already both complete and clear.
[07:42:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jeff Bezos' Vision for Space: One Trillion Population in the Solar System - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:42:18] <exec> 08└─A real megalomaniac would kill almost everyone else and monopolize the resources to spread copies of himself throughout the universe. Why allow a trillion "inferior" copies of yourself when you can have a trillion machines that can replicate you? Of course that might mean torturing yourself in most...
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[08:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:14] <exec> 08└─Actually clicking on your link I get no results at all, only the Google starting page. Has Google now devolved to requiring JavaScript even for a simple search?
[08:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:30:16] <exec> 08└─Full service - entertainment, worship (of some sort), calendar (accurate up to +/- a month, now), and even burial (for certain classes) Expect the accommodations were no worse than burning man c2016..
[08:31:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:05] <exec> 08└─That would only be possible with negative energy densities. We don't know any material with negative energy density, and we don't even know whether it is possible. This is not an engineering issue. Unless we make new discoveries in fundamental physics, we simply can't go faster than light, in any wa...
[08:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:06] <exec> 08└─"There are too many people being burned to death, beheaded, etc. at this very moment to call the Earth civilized." FTFY.
[08:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:09] <exec> 08└─The lottery is relatively easy to win - every week - for the rest of your life.
[08:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:11] <exec> 08└─Aliens are already on Earth. It' just that we... I mean they are hiding from y... I mean us.
[08:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:13] <exec> 08└─The NASA research team has postulated that their findings could reduce the energy requirements for a spaceship moving at ten times the speed of light ("warp 2") from the mass–energy equivalent of the planet Jupiter to that of the Voyager 1 spacecraft (~700 kg) or less.
[08:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:31:31] <exec> 08└─So, after deciding that the ten posts were worthless, you decided it's time to add an eleventh worthless post? But then, at least one comment [soylentnews.org] wasn't useless, as it informed me of the (up to now unknown to me) concept of a black star.
[08:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:47] <exec> 08└─I think visiting the duke means going to your landlord to pay rent. It seems most of these phrases are extremely regional terms that were used by small groups of teenagers and young adults that ended up being picked up and circulated by clueless script writers that wanted to sound young and relatabl...
[08:32:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:32:49] <exec> 08└─But they DO grow off a Hobby Lobby! Written language parallels the development of accounting.
[08:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:12] <exec> 08└─i'm 35 with two small children. I hate you profoundly.
[08:33:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 458 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:33:25] <exec> 08└─The Australian government is effectively mandating that tech giants must design insecure systems. It is either secure. Or it is not. (aka, insecure) If it is secure, then the government nor the tech giant company can't read your private messages. If the government, or the tech giant can read your pr...
[08:36:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:36:22] <exec> 08└─selling that crap
[08:37:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:37:36] <exec> 08└─I always say that the testers need to be smarter and better than their developers. How else can they find problems that the developers missed? Making proper automated tests, especially integration style tests, is difficult. I think achieving 100% coverage is possible, but no company is ever going to...
[08:39:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:04] <exec> 08└─Calling them "Alt-Wrong Stupid Signallers" seems to touch the appropriate nerve. So far they've given us Brexit and Fake President Pull-My-Finger of the People's Democratic Republic of America. They proudly parade their ignorance in the most vociferous way, extolling broken 19th Century economic and...
[08:39:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:39:05] <exec> 08└─There are bellends on both sides of every argument. Pointing out their existence on the other side somewhat loses its impact if you then can't make it through a single sentence before behaving like a colossal bellend yourself.
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[09:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:30:18] <exec> 08└─FTFA : Underground imaging and excavation have revealed that Stonehenge was once part of a complicated network of structures: ancient burial mounds, unknown settlements, processional routes
[09:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:13] <exec> 08└─Learn pronouns, alien idiots.
[09:31:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:14] <exec> 08└─Zhe sounded just fine.
[09:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:17] <exec> 08└─The main argument is that fire is easy on land, practically impossible on a water world. Fire is a prerequisite for smelting, which is a prerequisite for pretty much any technology. It's possible to imagine a tectonically active world with a lot of underwater lava flows providing the relevant energy...
[09:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lagg [105] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:19] <exec> 08└─Good point but I can't help but think that a civilization would have to see self-interest in storing their brain scans in this way. Because it's the sort of thing that would require so many different forms of research along that path for the purpose of correctly interpreting consciousness so it can...
[09:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:21] <exec> 08└─The light speed "barrier" is not a problem of engineering. It's a fundamental limit of physics.
[09:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:31:23] <exec> 08└─If it "just happens", why don't we have undersea mountains of dead coral poking out of the deepest parts of the oceans?
[09:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:32:07] <exec> 08└─I gave up half way through the 5th book too. Martin seems to get bored with his characters, so either kills them off or forgets about them. You get little interesting bits (Like the Stark mum coming back to life) that are never followed up on, just a few pages then forgotten. In the 5th book he real...
[09:33:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:33:00] <exec> 08└─Tropical climate = You can get all resources yourself. Islands = Hard to get anywhere else. Which explains that the language diversity is high in tropical or archipelago circumstances.
[09:35:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:06] <exec> 08└─what would happen if a Texas 13 years old girl screams rape in a California toilet
[09:35:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:08] <exec> 08└─This sort of data is absolutely of importance for, say, design of bathroom facilities at venues with heavy use. For example, event venues that tend to have breaks/intermissions/etc. where people need to get through the bathrooms as quickly as possible.
[09:35:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:35:10] <exec> 08└─If you wanted to, you could close off the end of your penis
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[10:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03radu [1919] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Anytime Messaging App? - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:30:04] <exec> 08└─I just can't wait for your app so I can finally encrypt my bank account details!
[10:31:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:31:19] <exec> 08└─takes *years* to get there.
[10:32:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:32:57] <exec> 08└─Indeed. “Visit the Duke” is new to me. I'm reminded of the ST:TNG episode where the civilization spoke in metaphors and, if you didn't know the context, you would never figure out WTF they were talking about. Steve Jones, formerly of The Sex Pistols, has a show on an L.A. radio station where he...
[10:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:48] <exec> 08└─The above algorithm, if followed religiously, results in full test coverage.
[10:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:37:50] <exec> 08└─Actually even that algorithm didn't lie. It didn't know the applicable legal regulations, it didn't know about pollution, it didn't know about roads and testing facilities, all it "knew" was, for these measurement values, use those control settings. Even if it had a consciousness and the ability to...
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[11:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Anytime Messaging App? - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:08] <exec> 08└─"Her parents aren't home? We can have condoms delivered to her house by drone before you get there"
[11:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:24] <exec> 08└─Hell, they knew that *thousands* of years ago!
[11:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:30:25] <exec> 08└─To figure out why they built it would be interesting. There is still that matter of how they built it. It takes a few people to drag and erect those stones. I doubt communal hippies got around to do it for the lols so there must have been a whole power structure around that we seem to be utterly una...
[11:31:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:17] <exec> 08└─The lottery is relatively easy to win - every week - for the rest of your life.
[11:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03moondrake [2658] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:27] <exec> 08└─The trouble with that is that we already have, or very soon will have, the capability to send out probes to other star systems. It it mostly a cost thing, and the willingness to go nuclear. In the not too-distant future such probes could be self-replicating. Such probes could travel to most of the g...
[11:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:29] <exec> 08└─Just because `c` is a limit, doesn't mean there is no way around this problem.
[11:31:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:31:31] <exec> 08└─As per usual, perhaps we have not found then cause they don't want to be found or there are non to be found, perhaps they are so alien they don't even register as life to us -- perhaps they are already here and we just can't see each other. Perhaps WE are actually the most advanced thing in the gala...
[11:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:10] <exec> 08└─Cantonese speakers can mostly understand Mandarin speakers in larger part
[11:33:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:12] <exec> 08└─See also: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] On a vaguely related note: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[11:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:14] <exec> 08└─That's probably where Shakespeare got a lot of his "new" words from.
[11:33:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 985 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:33:16] <exec> 08└─We take our human centred context for granted. But if I talk about the different types of chocolate or cheese to an extra-terrestrial alien that doesn't eat or smell the same way we do, it might be hard to explain the differences between say blue cheese compared to cheddar. Same if the alien has a d...
[11:36:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:53] <exec> 08└─Contracts, it's contracts, force, monopoly, etc. That's why!
[11:36:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:54] <exec> 08└─You cannot say that there would be "no regulatory organ to discover the deception"; that doesn't follow logically. That is to say: There's no proof that government is necessary or even optimal for providing such a service.
[11:36:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:36:56] <exec> 08└─It's be just like bond ratings agencies. Triple AAA+ would buy again.
[11:42:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Building Data Centre in China to Comply With Tough Cybersecurity Laws - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:42:12] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the well thought out response. I agree with most of what you are saying. I do see these types as something only defined by established practice and open to change. My belief is that we should have a combination of (a) and (b) options, rather than straight (b). Parties have a role to play...
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[12:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:06] <exec> 08└─Is purpose in life associated with less sleep disturbance in older adults?
[12:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:07] <exec> 08└─Purpose in life means you are less stressed. Less stress means you can sleep better. Lack of purpose has whole bunch of psychological issues associated with it. Just look at our invention of religion just to cope with this. And some people will even threaten and murder others just because another do...
[12:30:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:09] <exec> 08└─be happy, your purpose is to become Soylent Green... that should help you sleep well.
[12:30:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:11] <exec> 08└─I have a sleepanalyser (python on an old phone!) , and after a 10k in the evening it shows *flatline* for at least 4 hours. Complete non-motion suggests thorough sleep...
[12:30:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:30:14] <exec> 08└─be happy, your purpose is to become Soylent Green...
[12:33:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:29] <exec> 08└─Minor nitpick - before Angles it was Celtic who still guide some of the vocabulary.
[12:33:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:33:54] <exec> 08└─I am 40 with no sex life no kids living with a very cold fish thinking of just ending it from sexual frustration
[12:34:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 1377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:36] <exec> 08└─geez, one wonders what goes on in the heads when down under. australia, being a so-called internet dead-end, with non-existent transit routing, could be compared to a "last-mile client", only the size of a continent and now they want to further introduce laws that hamper the already difficult intern...
[12:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google, Facebook Pressured to Decrypt Data by New Australian Law - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:34:37] <exec> 08└─oops forgot link (seems to be global fad for non-USA countries at this time): http://www.lexology.com [lexology.com] http://www.bangkokpost.com [bangkokpost.com]
[12:42:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06That Huge Iceberg Should Freak You Out. Here's Why - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:08] <exec> 08└─if the model then predicts the correct amount of biasedness
[12:42:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Building Data Centre in China to Comply With Tough Cybersecurity Laws - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:33] <exec> 08└─I can't see compulsory voting being dropped anytime soon in Australia. It is difficult to even have reasonable a discussion on the issue.
[12:42:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Building Data Centre in China to Comply With Tough Cybersecurity Laws - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:42:34] <exec> 08└─My belief is that we should have a combination of (a) and (b) options, rather than straight (b).
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[13:30:02] <exec> 08└─they are on a mission to end this product line. The folks in charge are either bored or clueless, or more likely both. The funny thing is that the original fear of M was to not follow this path after having seem IBM do it. Next step for IBM was we'll do anything that makes money, then find a new bus...
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[13:30:03] <exec> 08└─Clarence Worley: Eliot, do I look like a beautiful blonde with big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice cream? Elliot: What? Clarence Worley: I said do I look like a beautiful blonde with big big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice cream? Elliot: No. Clarence Worley: N...
[13:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Communications Satellite Damaged Before Launch - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:23] <exec> 08└─When it doesn't fir, use a bigger hammer!!!
[13:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:48] <exec> 08└─Then there is Wally from Michigan, https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] Moves and lifts giant stones by himself...by using his head and simple mechanics, no aliens required.
[13:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:30:50] <exec> 08└─the one thing I found amusing on that page was Hubble Finds 10 Times More Galaxies Than Thought | NASA
[13:31:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:55] <exec> 08└─yeah because I don't know about you but when I'm on my deathbed, I'm going to moan over how I didn't correct everyone's grammar on the intertubes, and only caught a few. hey, sounds like a religion someone could get behind!
[13:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:31:56] <exec> 08└─Electricity is nearly certain to not be developed on a water world, same goes for anything involving chemistry as those are two things that are nearly impossible to do under water.
[13:33:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:41] <exec> 08└─You jive turkey. See? You got to sass it. Quit jivin' me, turkey. You got to sass it. A "turkey" is a bad person.
[13:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:33:43] <exec> 08└─Scots differ massively with very little geographic separation. Someone from Edinburgh is very easy to understand. However go 52 miles and you hit Glasgow. No one understand those fuckers, not even other Scots.
[13:34:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:09] <exec> 08└─The World Order is a Leftist (collectivist) organization thou.
[13:34:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:34:10] <exec> 08└─Now guys, he didn't say she enjoyed it, or welcomed it. It could be a shipping container type scenario. Upper 30s with a tiny kid, sex infrequent because kid and work and housework take up all our times. But we would love to do it more often, so we get #2 going.
[13:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:35:58] <exec> 08└─Wanna put a bet on that? http://www.mapsu.org [mapsu.org]
[13:40:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Laws of Australia Will Trump the Laws of Mathematics: Turnbull - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:40:53] <exec> 08└─steganography?
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[14:30:05] <exec> 08└─So, anybody want to make some bets? I'm betting that there are probably enough cisfemales that will be affected by this that it'll become part of the misogynerd narrative. Feminism will say, those evil men and bathroom rapists (latter is me!) are locking womyn-born-womyn out of computing! I also hav...
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[14:30:06] <exec> 08└─Gaming will be a problem untill most of the folks get there and Big Games start releasing also for Linux. users and developers migrate away from the proprietary DirectX.
[14:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:08] <exec> 08└─I can't believe how incredibly dumb this all is. It used to be a distinct version number or name was intended to communicate a level of support. "This will run under Windows 98SE, but not Windows 2000" usually made sense because vendors advertised the versions and there were only a few to choose fro...
[14:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:11] <exec> 08└─It never ceases to amaze me just how much abuse people will put up with from Microsoft. If we had a functioning justice department Microsoft would have been slapped silly for the crap they pulled rolling out Windows 10, AND the abusive spyware aspects of it. But no, its business as usual with them....
[14:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:13] <exec> 08└─VAGINA LINUX! Coming soon for all females and males who wish they were females and males who are now females. For females.
[14:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:15] <exec> 08└─If we had a functioning justice department Microsoft would have been slapped silly for the crap they pulled rolling out Windows 10, AND the abusive spyware aspects of it.
[14:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:28] <exec> 08└─I simply can't... I can't stop imagining what terrible impact all this fat I keep accumulating will have on the consumers... it keeps me awake at night and makes me hungry.
[14:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:30:29] <exec> 08└─Indeed [imdb.com] he was.
[14:32:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:08] <exec> 08└─Heavier-than-air flight wasn't possible either.
[14:32:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Game of Thrones Causes Australian Cable Company to Crash - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:32:54] <exec> 08└─Media (as in, movie/music) companies are not software companies. Legacy media companies have been pushing for internet filtering and torrent blocking since they first heard of them.
[14:33:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:56] <exec> 08└─I went ahead at looked at the "books" link. Sounds good right? The Noam Chomsky Collection Haymarket Books is proud to present the Noam Chomsky Collection. The collection includes some of Chomsky’s most important writings, including: Rogue States The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism...
[14:33:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:33:58] <exec> 08└─"Chomsky that he has done some research into human linguistics" Jesus, is that an understatement.
[14:36:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:36:13] <exec> 08└─smaller bladder
[14:39:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:39:00] <exec> 08└─This story is complete tripe. As with guns, it's not the tool, but the operator...
[14:40:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:40:30] <exec> 08└─Americans state where they're from because US states/Canadian provinces are mostly as large or larger than your country, and despite that, there is a very large amount of movement within states and between them, and any random American has a decent chance of not only knowing where the hell Bumfuck,...
[14:42:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06That Huge Iceberg Should Freak You Out. Here's Why - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:42:43] <exec> 08└─NHST is not the same as hypothesis testing, which is not the same as significance testing. What I describe is closest to Fisher's significance testing, there is a huge literature about the mass confusion caused by the mash up of hypothesis testing and significance testing. If you were trained in the...
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[15:30:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:02] <exec> 08└─I was initially wondering what the hell this news story was about, IBM Mainframes have had encryption for as long as I can remember -- that said I have not worked on one since Z9 was the new machine and that is over 10 years ago. The news isn't that it hasn't had this before but that it has become f...
[15:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:19] <exec> 08└─Does it ship with systemd?
[15:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:20] <exec> 08└─WTF is "Creators Update" anyway? Are the creators of Windows providing this update? Is MS getting religion? Is it an update for creative-types only?
[15:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:30:36] <exec> 08└─... and they'll be paving the public highways with solid gold
[15:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:17] <exec> 08└─Yes and you do realize that the majority of our chemistry evolved by accident right? Furthermore the means by which our chemicals are produced rely heavily on specific enzymes working on specific molecules one at a time. This is nothing at all like what a species just starting out with chemistry wou...
[15:32:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:19] <exec> 08└─An intelligent alien with a lifespan of thousands of years and technology capable of a 5-G acceleration could visit us from Andromeda without going faster than light. At 1-G we could get to Sirius in five years, although fifty would pass for those on Earth.
[15:32:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:21] <exec> 08└─It's almost a mathematical certainty that life exists on our level or greater somewhere in the universe. Key word there: almost. There's always a first, it's possible we're simply the first. But unless we actually find life, the only two possible answers are "yes" and "maybe", because if there is no...
[15:32:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:23] <exec> 08└─You jest, but there's a fellow named "Crazy John" that thinks I'm an alien. He also thinks he's been abducted by aliens before.
[15:32:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:26] <exec> 08└─Wow, the first story in my next book is about that concept exactly.
[15:32:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:28] <exec> 08└─That's assuming our existing understanding of physics is both perfectly accurate and complete. And we're fairly certain that both of those are false. There's a long list of unexplained phenomena proving our understanding of what is made possible by physics is incomplete, and a few places where accep...
[15:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 714 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:30] <exec> 08└─I don't know, our means of detection are so primitive at this point: optical telescopes that can just barely see an exoplanet much less a spaceship and radio receivers that will only notice powerful, wasteful, uncompressed signals. It's like being a primitive person on an island in the middle of the...
[15:32:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:32] <exec> 08└─Everest is about 9 km high and 100 km is the shallow water level on some ocean planets.
[15:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:32:34] <exec> 08└─Not sure why this as modded funny - it was my first thought as well. Sure, you can't use the energy quite as efficiently right now, but unless you can somehow "pause" your stars for several billion years so that they're not shedding all that energy at sub-optimal efficiencies, then that's irrelevant...
[15:34:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:24] <exec> 08└─And how would someone learn Jive anyway? Is Hooked on Ebonics any good?
[15:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 1118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:25] <exec> 08└─Really? I had a class in college named Verbal Logic. You're right that it's one of the most difficult languages to learn as a second language, but all languages have logical problems with speech. Paradoxes, for instance, aren't real but actually errors in logic. Verbal Logic was mentioned in Asimov'...
[15:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:27] <exec> 08└─"English" and "logic" should never be used in the same sentence,
[15:34:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:29] <exec> 08└─However go 52 miles and you hit Glasgow. No one understand those fuckers, not even other Scots.
[15:34:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:34:57] <exec> 08└─It doesn't seem like it -- that is what Fox tells their audiences. Of course, there are many weird far left and far right websites that voice strange theories and ideas that would otherwise be reduced to requiring a loopmanics publication to get into print, had the internet not allowed for the weird...
[15:39:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:39:36] <exec> 08└─the automated tests can still give a result of "passes" after a code change by coincidence when it should actually fail.
[15:41:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Juno Captures Best Ever Images of Jupiter's Great Red Spot - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:41:55] <exec> 08└─So the planets are getting googly eyes now?
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[16:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:16] <exec> 08└─Facebook is on GitHub so ambitious asshats can pad their resumes by forking Facebook.
[16:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:18] <exec> 08└─Facebook, Amazon, and Google are all created and run by jews. They are the top three Internet based companies looking to control the way we share and communicate over the internet. They use open source tools to build proprietary walled gardens. Just say no to their lust for power and money.
[16:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:20] <exec> 08└─They better watch out, if you fork Facebook, Facebook will fork back!
[16:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:22] <exec> 08└─Former slaves have become the masters. Revenge is sweet. For more recent examples, see the civil rights movement which made blacks our masters, the sexual revolution which made gays our masters, and the feminist revolution which made women our masters. We serve our black lesbian overlords in all thi...
[16:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:24] <exec> 08└─Personally I've never had a compelling reason to use any Facebook libraries. For C++ in particular the STL and Boost are good enough.
[16:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:27] <exec> 08└─You are incorrect. The blacks, gays and feminists are not building walled gardens or controlling mega corps (including media). These issues are all tools of jewery to distract you from their actions.
[16:30:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SDRefugee [4477] 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 494 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:46] <exec> 08└─It never ceases to amaze me just how much abuse people will put up with from Microsoft. If we had a functioning justice department Microsoft would have been slapped silly for the crap they pulled rolling out Windows 10, AND the abusive spyware aspects of it. But no, its business as usual with them....
[16:30:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 1991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:51] <exec> 08└─Well, Gentoo works fine for me, but I'm not a womyn-born-womyn. You forget that “males who wish they were females and males who are now females” are also part of the grand conspiracy of 3.6 billion people (I've just received a new membership total from the Grand Misogynerd Poobah) to keep womyn-...
[16:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:53] <exec> 08└─It's the 'creator's update' because they added paint, but for 3D modelling. Looking at how bundled games went, this means that MS will soon be spinning off Paint as a $9.99 add-on package in the Windows Store.
[16:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:30:56] <exec> 08└─It makes perfect sense to Microsoft. When it's time for you to buy a new computer, they'll tell you! It'll *probably* even be more than 5 years after the last one, unless you did something silly like buy an Intel Atom system. And after 5 years, a computer will be practically worn-out anyway, all th...
[16:31:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 944 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:11] <exec> 08└─I'm surprised they still bother to do these studies. They focus on sleep like those of us that are chronic insomniacs are choosing it. The reality is that most chronic insomniacs are going to struggle with sleep regardless of whether we've got purpose in life or what we do before bed. It takes me a...
[16:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:13] <exec> 08└─BUILD A WALL !!!
[16:31:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:46] <exec> 08└─"Build it and they will come" Works best for porn sites. :)
[16:31:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 273 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:31:57] <exec> 08└─Faster-than-light travel is not possible. Civilizations cannot escape their home solar system and hence die out in the space of a cosmically short time. Advanced civilizations are fleeting affairs and so our chance of detecting them is limited by the short time they exist.
[16:32:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03unauthorized [3776] 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:32:09] <exec> 08└─This explanation doesn't add up. To a civilization that has achieved such efficiency, energy defacto equals to subjective time it would experience as it's perception of time would essentially be dictated by the expenditure of computational power. Assuming that infinite energy is not possible, the op...
[16:33:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:05] <exec> 08└─It's almost a mathematical certainty that life exists on our level or greater somewhere in the universe.
[16:33:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:06] <exec> 08└─Wow, the first story in my next book is about that concept exactly.
[16:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1039 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:08] <exec> 08└─>It's possible we're simply the first Yep. But you'd have to *really* tilt the scales of probability to bet on it. After all our sun wasn't formed until about midway through the period in the universes history when sunlike stars would form. Assuming the distribution of planets we've found in our loc...
[16:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:10] <exec> 08└─Why is electricity necessary? We didn't start with it. I can easily see an underwater technology advancement as such: Organisms near thermal or volcanic vents notice certain rocks can be melted into more pure metals that can be worked with stone or natural tools (like mantis shrimp mallet hands). Th...
[16:33:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:13] <exec> 08└─Why a short time bound? Our sun will eventually "explode" as a Red Giant, but there's absolutely no reason to imagine that will be a problem for human civilization if nothing else has destroyed it first. Even if we never leave the solar system, all we need to do is move further away from the sun whi...
[16:33:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03quacking duck [1395] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:15] <exec> 08└─And finally we come to stupid people thinking about things beyond their comprehension. Like, why hasn't alien intelligence contacted us? I wonder if an ant on an anthill thinks the same thing - why haven't those humans contacted us? Maybe they are not intelligent!
[16:33:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:33:17] <exec> 08└─You lost me at "soul". There is no functional difference between an original and a perfect simulation. Even if you don't believe the copy is yourself (I believe it is just as much yourself as the original) it's still your progeny, even more so than traditional children.
[16:35:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:11] <exec> 08└─We in the US spell Tyre wrong, because the pneumatic tyre was invented in Scotland (Wikipedia says it was spelled "tire" until the turn of the 20th century, short for "attire"). Lift makes far more sense than elevator, why use a four syllable word when there's a one syllable synonym? But I can't fig...
[16:35:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03mcgrew [701] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:12] <exec> 08└─Keeping a language from evolving is impossible. The words "robot" and "astronaut" didn't exist before the 20th century. What would you call a transistor if language couldn't evolve? Speaking of astronauts, why are all people in space from every country except Russia called astronauts? And I lived in...
[16:35:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:14] <exec> 08└─His point was that none of the 12 books listed were about linguistics, Mr. Reading Comprehension. The list count of the books is higher than your IQ.
[16:35:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:17] <exec> 08└─There's an exception to that rule, too.
[16:35:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:19] <exec> 08└─That would be the joke son.
[16:35:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:21] <exec> 08└─I looked up Wikipedia's "elevator" article and couldn't find anything on the history of the difference in terminology (elevator vs. lift), but just going by what you said with tire vs. tyre and aluminum vs aluminium, it sure seems like the British have a nasty habit of trying to change words after t...
[16:35:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Humans Hardwired to Lean to the Right While Kissing the World Over - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:35:49] <exec> 08└─Bumping noses is very romantic when you live in a place that is so cold you could freeze your tongues together with a traditional [to the rest of the world] kiss.
[16:39:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:11] <exec> 08└─If someone had publicly made the parallel between bundling mortgage securities and a steaming pile of rotting horse meat being called "premium", maybe some buyers might have kept their savings.
[16:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:12] <exec> 08└─Drugs are extremely regulated; only a handful of companies can legally manufacture or distribute them, and only licensed doctors can prescribe them to patients who must go to licensed pharmacies or hospitals to obtain them. Out doesn't get much more regulated than that. The problem with "street drug...
[16:39:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:39:14] <exec> 08└─You /can/ ride into battle on a cow or bull, they're just more valuable as food... People have been riding cows and bulls (really riding not rodeo shit) for as long as horses.
[16:40:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:33] <exec> 08└─Heck, you don't even need an odd number of entries. One of the fundamental assumptions of statistical analysis is that your sample is *representative* of the larger population - for coin tosses that's only true if you have exactly the same number of heads and tails in your sample. Any imbalance intr...
[16:40:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:40:34] <exec> 08└─As someone pointed out above - full coverage for any non-trivial program is not possible, as it implies testing *all* possible inputs for unexpected corner cases - and the combinatorics involved in that explode rapidly. Even just "a*b" using 32-bit values has 2^64 possibilities that would have to be...
[16:42:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IETF Moves Meeting From USA to Canada to Dodge Trump Travel Ban - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:42:06] <exec> 08└─(i) It's literal mockery. Go, review the gamergate fuckery. Kinda like referring to opposing counsel in a civil case as "the defendant's liar." (ii) The new right sycophants never describe their own conduct as virtue signalling. When they state a position, it's because they have well thought out pri...
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[17:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:14] <exec> 08└─This will no doubt be unwelcome news for programmers working with both Apache projects and Facebook open-source libraries, who will now have to find other source to work with. In particular, the move will come as bad news for Apache developers who want to use the popular React.js library, which Face...
[17:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:16] <exec> 08└─But but but react.js is the darling of rockstar hipsters. Everyone will leave in a whiny huff and Apache will die without hip young coders.
[17:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:18] <exec> 08└─Lol! You need to pay attention to feminism more. It's cute that you think that anybody's elevated black lesbians to that status. In particular, feminism is bigoted towards women of color, both black folks and Hispanics/Latinos. They don't spew overt hate speech, harassment, and physical violence tow...
[17:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:20] <exec> 08└─Everyone will leave in a whiny huff and Apache will die without hip young coders.
[17:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:22] <exec> 08└─Not (completely) true. React.js is a tool to manage the Model-View relationship. It protects you from shooting yourself in the foot by limiting the ways you can change your DOM. More than all that, it uses a shadow DOM to do all of this just as fast as if you wrote an unmaintainable spaghetti of eve...
[17:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:24] <exec> 08└─React.js is old news. All the cool kids are doing Vue.js now.
[17:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:27] <exec> 08└─When a tricycle isn't safe enough, fit some more wheels on there. The retarded kids might fall down and skin a knee. You need the best talent for your project. Best means cheapest. The only kids you can afford are the retarded kids, and you know they can't be trained to be careful.
[17:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:29] <exec> 08└─"just as fast as" isn't really fair. If other virtual DOM diffing libraries can outperform React, spaghetti code certainly can. The Shadow DOM is another beast entirely. Otherwise, I agree with your post. Fuck JSX.
[17:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:31] <exec> 08└─I can't get enough of video.js because <video> is sooooooooo haaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrd.
[17:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:33] <exec> 08└─Right, because master coders make flawless code /s I presume you code only in assembly, anything else is just wasting cpu cycles.
[17:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:36] <exec> 08└─It's not that manually fucking with the DOM everywhere is difficult to learn, it's that it's time-consuming to build and maintain when compared to available alternatives. To me, that's worth something. GP's assembly comparison stands.
[17:30:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:38] <exec> 08└─Yep, when I shit, I shit gold nuggets.
[17:30:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:47] <exec> 08└─BOFH over at El Reg was making fun of the idea of needing some kind of external "encryption processing" platform way back in 2004. [theregister.co.uk] What's changed that suddenly, we apparently need a standalone Z SERIES MAINFRAME to do our encryption for us? Seems like a multi-million dollar eleph...
[17:30:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:49] <exec> 08└─Mainframes still talk EBCDIC. Why would you need more encryption than that?(grin)
[17:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:51] <exec> 08└─The Mainframe is back?
[17:30:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MrGuy [1007] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:53] <exec> 08└─In many ways, Bob's Big Boy never left, sir. He's always offered the same high quality meals at competitive prices.
[17:30:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:56] <exec> 08└─Remember that IBM is pushing it's version of Blockchain called Hyperledger as well as a cloud service offering. Between support for cloud services and blockchain services, IBM needs to have everything locked down from soup to nuts. Big iron costs big bucks so they need some sort of differentiator. I...
[17:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:30:58] <exec> 08└─The Mainframe is back?
[17:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:00] <exec> 08└─That was fast.
[17:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:21] <exec> 08└─Are the exact people who are supposed to be 'working in their constituents interest' and outlawing things like mandatory telemetry. But since this telemetry can also be used by law enforcement, and since law enforcement ensures they have the finest hookers to have sucked a cops' dick/licked a cops'...
[17:31:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:39] <exec> 08└─Gold is a really poor choice for road material, it is too malleable so you'll have large semis deforming the road pretty much immediately. I really don't think you've thought through the maintenance aspect of this.
[17:31:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:41] <exec> 08└─That has been debunked. A study had people exercising and analyzed their performance. Regardless of their performance, the people who were told they exercised well had better sleep that night while the people who were told did a poor job didn't sleep as well. Sleep is highly affected by your state o...
[17:31:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Anytime Messaging App? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:57] <exec> 08└─... Interoperability. We already had it, but Facebook killed it. Any app that can operate cross platform and not get sued for API violations wins.
[17:31:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Anytime Messaging App? - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:31:58] <exec> 08└─User base is king. Corporations are trying to lock in their users, if you let someone use your service they can piggy back encrypted data without a problem, then poof there goes your datamining resource. I think we'll just have to wait the nightmare out until the issue of data privacy and security b...
[17:32:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 1642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:32:18] <exec> 08└─Oh yes, we're aware of it: We have the burial sites all around where presumably important people were entombed. We just don't know very much about it, for two reasons: 1. These people were illiterate, so they didn't leave any kind of descriptions we could read or look at. 2. There was a Celtic invas...
[17:33:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:43] <exec> 08└─So what? There are lots of ways of interstellar travel that don't depend on FTL. They may, however, depend on controlled fusion or matter-antimatter energy sources...so that might be the reason. OTOH, I think fission would suffice, though it would make refueling a lot more difficult. P.S.: That woul...
[17:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:45] <exec> 08└─IIUC, no time machine is able to carry you back before it was first built. I'm not real sure of the math, but Forward was, and he seemed to imply this several times.
[17:33:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:47] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we cannot detect their communications because they switched to faster than light communications long [cosmically] before we had the novel idea of banging rocks together to make fire. Thus their slow and insecure radio transmissions ceased and decayed into background radiation before we even...
[17:33:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1074 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:33:49] <exec> 08└─But it may well be that our sun was a member of the first generation to have enough "metals" to yield planets viable for a civilization. And "first" just means "first within our light cone". OTOH, that's still not the way to bet. It's just the odds of our being "first" are a lot better than you are...
[17:35:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:48] <exec> 08└─granted that you can use either -ium or -um with the same meaning, the one with the more classical sound can hardly be the worst choice.
[17:35:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:35:50] <exec> 08└─Not to disagree with your point, but rather to reinforce it with divergences that happen with evolution: Language evolves; all of them. [...] Only a few hundred years ago the words "Thee" and "thou" were used.
[17:38:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:38:09] <exec> 08└─Grishnakh gets it!
[17:41:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:41:04] <exec> 08└─While I agree with your point, my point was that with an odd number of entries you can see by inspection that the data is biased...and without much inspection at all. And that's half of all cases.
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[18:30:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:05] <exec> 08└─Soon we will hear about the EMP gun to counter the AI. Well, maybe just drop an A-bomb in the atmosphere. It looks like Rise of the Machines is inevitable with the military pursuing this so vigorously.
[18:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:06] <exec> 08└─People in power should never be given the impression that war can be made easy or clean, for it's the mess which holds them back.
[18:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:08] <exec> 08└─When a tricycle isn't safe enough, fit some more wheels on there. The retarded kids might fall down and skin a knee. You need the best talent for your project. Best means cheapest. The only kids you can afford are the retarded kids, and you know they can't be trained to be careful.
[18:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:10] <exec> 08└─Homer: "I won't feel guilty until I can put a human face on this." Lisa: "Mom! Dad! Someone stole my Malibu Stacy collection!" Homer: "Marge, doesn't Lisa have a human face?" Marge: "Yes, and she's crying."
[18:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:13] <exec> 08└─Did you copy paste wrong, or are you just lacking in originality today? [soylentnews.org]
[18:30:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:15] <exec> 08└─When a drone isn't safe enough, fit an aimbot on there. The retarded soldiers might fall down and skin a knee. You need the best soldiers for your army. Best means cheapest. The only soldiers you can afford are the retarded kids, and you know they can't be trained to be careful.
[18:30:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:17] <exec> 08└─The imagined danger of AI has always been about strategic decisions. If you build an AI to win a war, it might decide that culling your own population will aid in that objective. If you build an AI to reduce suffering, it might decide to mercy kill everyone who is suffering. I could keep going. An A...
[18:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:19] <exec> 08└─Read the summary as a gun that automatically and rapidly creates neural networks. The actual thing seems more like glorified cold-war era tech.
[18:30:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:22] <exec> 08└─No, still doesn't work. Unless I'm missing something, nobody is claiming that drone operation is too hard or unsafe. In fact, the common criticism here is that "aimbot" is less safe, not more. Further, I take issue with your "retarded soldiers" assertion. It's classist and dehumanizing, and it disre...
[18:30:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:24] <exec> 08└─The aimbot picks targets, the human operator decides whether the aimbot was correct, and gradually Skynet will be trained to terminate all humans just because Russia wanted to cut costs. The race to the bottom will be the death of us all.
[18:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:26] <exec> 08└─The point is you don't need to train soldiers to be drone operators. If the drone can operate itself and the only input needed is yes/no to fire then even a retarded soldier can use it. So if retarded soldiers are good enough, why bother recruiting anyone smarter.
[18:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:28] <exec> 08└─The tech that gets hacked and literally kills those it is supposed to protect. Nope, nothing can go wrong here!
[18:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:30] <exec> 08└─"Death. Destruction. Disease. Horror. That's what war is all about. That's what makes it a thing to be avoided." - James T Kirk Sometimes, he had the right idea.
[18:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, didn't they have radar-lock in Top Gun? That was 30 years ago.
[18:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:35] <exec> 08└─This could change the equation for military coups. If you are a military dictator now, you have to keep the army on your side. In the future, you might buy a million killer drones and command them directly. The army can be disbanded.
[18:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:30:37] <exec> 08└─Let's not let the enemy order our people into suicide booths. Let's just lie and say they're dead instead.
[18:31:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:03] <exec> 08└─If only there were some way to write a suitably licensed replacement for react.js that does what Apache needs.
[18:31:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:05] <exec> 08└─And try and debug someone else's clusterfuck of ad-hoc javascript events....
[18:31:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:07] <exec> 08└─So [js.org] it [infernojs.org] goes. [vuejs.org] The funny gotcha about this whole mess is that facebook hasn't said which patents it has that it believes pertain to React, so all of these libraries (and others like them) could be infringing on the same patents -- just without a special exemption an...
[18:31:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:09] <exec> 08└─HEY KID GET OFF MY LAWN!
[18:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:23] <exec> 08└─You are missing some motivation elements is my guess. Data encrypted (whenever it is at rest) is pretty much a tacit admission that they have given up on prevention of intrusion and data theft. They've decided storage isn't safe. And cloud storage is even more unsafe. Probably also some IBM back doo...
[18:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03number6x [903] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:25] <exec> 08└─I can imagine the script kiddie looking at a hex dump! They would be boggled at the complicated "encryption" of a plain text file from an MVS system. Some of the old Unix grey-beards would recognize it quickly, but I don't think many people from the Windows world would. IBM is always helpful [ibm.c...
[18:31:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:31:27] <exec> 08└─> The inevitable data leaks can be pinned on some scapegoated employee. And no CIO will lose their bonus because John the administrative assistant was somehow not walled off nor flagged when the mainframe decrypted 2TB of data to store on his USB device.
[18:32:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:07] <exec> 08└─Just because state of mind is important doesn't mean that legitimate physical fatigue can't have an influence too. Sure, if you don't feel your exercise was productive, you might not sleep as well. But I'd bet a lot of money that if you do farmhand kind of manual labor for 10-12 hours in a day, you'...
[18:32:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:09] <exec> 08└─Who's getting paid to do maintenance? /Chicago_thinking
[18:32:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Communications Satellite Damaged Before Launch - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:18] <exec> 08└─Someone's breaking their own fingers by crossing them really hard, hoping that they don't get assigned the blame for a launch delay.
[18:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Anytime Messaging App? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:32:29] <exec> 08└─Oh yeah, totally. That's why everybody was using federated XMPP, and there were no users left on AIM, ICQ, MSN, Skype, Yahoo, etc.
[18:34:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DECbot [832] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:23] <exec> 08└─So, can you tell us about the time you abducted Crazy John?
[18:34:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:25] <exec> 08└─There's a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He's Elvis
[18:34:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:27] <exec> 08└─> maybe we have less in common with aliens than we have in common in our lab rats? Considering what we know about evolution, I'd replace that "maybe" with a "clearly", until given solid proof to the contrary.
[18:34:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:29] <exec> 08└─Define "earth like". So far we haven't detected a single planet that a human could hope to survive on. You don't get earth like planets without the evolution of earth like life, since, e.g., the oxygen atmosphere is unstable even on the historic time scale and needs constant replenishing (which plan...
[18:34:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 2537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:31] <exec> 08└─I have to admit I get a bit tired of reading about some recent "research" on why we don't see aliens. "Research" seems to imply there's some sort of -- I don't know -- SEARCH for some actual information, as opposed to rampant speculation. As many posts have pointed out here, there are literally hund...
[18:34:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:33] <exec> 08└─But the fact that we haven't found a way around this limit is a strong indication that we won't find such a way.
[18:34:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:36] <exec> 08└─This explains so much about your stubborn refusal to even entertain different viewpoints. You really believe humanity has mastered the universe, and thus your own learning has convinced you that you have learned all the objectively true answers. This is laughable. Ha ha, I laugh at you sir, with you...
[18:34:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:34:38] <exec> 08└─I'll gladly point out the flaw in your historical knowledge. Humanity commonly thought flight was impossible for humans, everyone predicted the Wright brothers would fail. Also, people used to think the Earth was flat even with all the evidence of heavenly bodies being round. It is maddening to see...
[18:36:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:41] <exec> 08└─Maths That is the nails on the chalkboard for me. Its a collective singular word, so shortening it with an unnecessary s is silly.
[18:36:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:36:43] <exec> 08└─You must be referring to your own IQ. Just because its not in the list doesn't mean books weren't written by him https://www.thoughtco.com [thoughtco.com]
[18:39:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 1001 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:39:02] <exec> 08└─Protein synthesis (therefore, waste production) should scale linear with mass assuming constant body temps and similar metabolisms, and bodies being mostly water means same density of waste generation, means same bladder storage capacity in minutes to full capacity. There should be a linear function...
[18:40:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:37] <exec> 08└─We can look at one unregulated market operating in our society and see if it's better: drugs.
[18:40:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:40:39] <exec> 08└─Your. Move.
[18:42:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Used GPUs Flood the Market as Ethereum's Price Crashes Below $150 - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:28] <exec> 08└─If you're putting many thousands of dollars into building a mining rig, you're looking at the long haul.
[18:42:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Used GPUs Flood the Market as Ethereum's Price Crashes Below $150 - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:42:29] <exec> 08└─Best of luck! I'm waiting for the next gen cards with better network training capabilities.
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[19:30:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:04] <exec> 08└─Just google "India train". Those panels may not get much sun.
[19:30:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:05] <exec> 08└─Not only that but 60,000 Indians hang on top of each car. But forget that. The title OTFA: India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut is crap when the trains are still being pulled by diesel.
[19:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:07] <exec> 08└─Stupid retarded lying headline. It is NOT a solar-powered train. If you think you could power a train (or a car) from on-board solar power, you are an IDIOT.
[19:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:09] <exec> 08└─Give the street-shitters a break. At least they're not fueling the train with human shit anymore.
[19:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:33] <exec> 08└─Soon we will hear about the EMP gun to counter the AI. Well, maybe just drop an A-bomb in the atmosphere.
[19:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:35] <exec> 08└─congratulations, you're now the dictator of a bunch of robots who have to keep a gun aimed at their own repairmen, and might murder you if some 12 year-old script kiddie figures out that someone forgot to patch some old bug at the factory. I hope the Bond girl was worth it.
[19:30:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:37] <exec> 08└─Nuke em back to the stone age. On the plus side the survivors will be too busy banging the rocks together to care about why we haven't found alien life yet.
[19:30:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:39] <exec> 08└─I have to keep a gun aimed at the Bond girl while I rape her, and I don't trust her to blow me since she could bite my dick off. And there's the whole ordeal of searching her ass and pussy every time to make sure she hasn't hidden a knife anywhere. Totally worth it to lose my virginity!
[19:30:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fadrian [3194] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:41] <exec> 08└─Or at least the writers who were putting words into his mouth did.
[19:30:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:44] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure it was RDR. There was a mode where time slowed down, you could designate as many targets as possible in a second or three, then time goes back to normal and you shoot all your targets in a second or so. I can see this being useful for snipers. Put a few servos on a rifle, let the operato...
[19:30:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:46] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure they had radar lock in ww2, some 70 years ago.
[19:30:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:48] <exec> 08└─No.
[19:30:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:50] <exec> 08└─Yes, 1941. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[19:30:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:53] <exec> 08└─While it could be both a legal and moral question as it is know, as far as I know, it's not legal for drones to decide for themselves of where to drop the Hellfire, a human must make the kill command or decision -- as noted in the submission. How about if you feed the killbot (or whatever we like to...
[19:30:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:30:55] <exec> 08└─I'll take your Bond reference and raise you: In United States, John Conner fights Skynet's Armageddon. In Soviet Russia, Skynet welcomes our 12 year old script kiddie overlord in the war against the Formics. Queue in the Terminator 2 theme \ The international Anthem \ Combat Rescue Aliens theme mash...
[19:31:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:31:25] <exec> 08└─Actually stopping to skim TFA and click links, it seems RocksDB is planning to change licenses over this: [apache.org] Hi all, wanted to jump in here to let everyone know that the RocksDB team is adjusting the licensing such that it will be dual-licensed under the Apache 2 and GPL 2 (for MySQL compa...
[19:32:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:04] <exec> 08└─Having a bad day, kurenai?
[19:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:32:06] <exec> 08└─I learned something surprising today. Apparently a beautiful blonde with big tits and an ass that tastes like French vanilla ice cream can be offtopic....
[19:33:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:33:08] <exec> 08└─> you need only about 50 people to move and raise the stones, Beep, sorry, wrong answer. 1 person is enough, see previous post on Wally from Michigan. The video is eye opening, he uses little stones & wood. No metals required. My money is on a big beer blast, after the harvest is over. "Hey guys, we...
[19:34:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:44] <exec> 08└─Hawking radiation is the most efficient method, but you could also extract energy in other [wikipedia.org] ways [wikipedia.org]. If such a thing as negative energy is possible, you can make that process very efficient [harvard.edu]: In the case of relativistic jetproducing “magnetically arrested d...
[19:34:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:34:45] <exec> 08└─At least as far as humans are concerned, we've been inventing things we don't strictly need since the dawn of time. A rather disconcerting proposition is that one day we may invent full digitization just so that weebs can be united with their waifus and husbandos. There are of course less tongue-in-...
[19:35:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 501 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:35:05] <exec> 08└─Using simple radios and non-directional antennas, with the cooperation of the ionosphere and rotation of the earth vs orbit of jupiter (and io) its pretty easy to pick up radio noise from Jupiter. https://radiojove.gsfc.nasa.gov [nasa.gov] The universe being big, an...
[19:36:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:36:51] <exec> 08└─That's the American spelling. Similar to aluminum vs aluminium.
[19:39:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:12] <exec> 08└─People often worry about dehydration, but excessive water is far more deadly. Most commonly, athletes are killed by this.
[19:39:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hartree [195] 02 - 06Where's the Beef? - 102 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:39:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe it was a bit slow, but they did detect it and arrested a bunch of people presumably responsible.
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[20:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Insightful) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:22] <exec> 08└─It is sad seeing racism flowering right in front of your eyes. Speaking of elitist types
[20:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:24] <exec> 08└─Sure can: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] How fast do you want to go, and how much load?
[20:30:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:26] <exec> 08└─It's not racism when their race really is inferior.
[20:30:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:28] <exec> 08└─Software licenses are coming up for renewal. Licensee puts out a press release about switching to open source. Vendor offers a discount. Licensee renews. It's nothing but a bluff.
[20:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:31] <exec> 08└─... that which we hate the most in ourselves.
[20:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:33] <exec> 08└─Disregard, I commented to the wrong story.
[20:30:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fnj [1654] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:30:35] <exec> 08└─Pretending that those things are cars is stupid.
[20:31:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:11] <exec> 08└─Does the human player need to know the drone is killing real people or can we get some Call of Duty trolls to work the controller remotely?
[20:31:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:12] <exec> 08└─Although the precise origins of the concept are unknown, on 8 March 1941 Bertrand Lovell recorded the concept of lock-follow in his notes for the first time.
[20:31:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:14] <exec> 08└─No the point is we don't want to read your copy pasta every article. Get bent.
[20:31:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:16] <exec> 08└─I'm sure the Pentagon can afford to hire one or two philosophy major(s) to argue what is real and not.
[20:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:19] <exec> 08└─Even better if the survivors are many, they'll devolve faster during the ensuing chaos. Just wipe out their electronics and the electricity grid+generators, I say; back to pumping your water using your muscles, good luck with this suckers.
[20:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:21] <exec> 08└─That was a big part of the "evil" of Gulf War I - Bush Sr. made it look so clean he erased some of the bad name that Vietnam and Afghanistan had given to War. Luckily, his son rectified that with the whole post-Mission Accomplished demonstration.
[20:31:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:23] <exec> 08└─An Air Force pilot who served during the cuban missile crisis had one on his airplane: A nuclear antiaircraft missile. It gets better. In 1984 the US unilaterally disarmed itself of all its nuclear depth charges and nuclear mines. Drive a tank over one and your whole battalion gets vaporized. I expe...
[20:31:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:25] <exec> 08└─The AI decides what you allow it to decide. If mercy killing or population culling are highly undesirable options, they must be costed as such in the evaluation. When the first AI drone mistakes your wife or child for an enemy combatant and "neutralizes the threat" you'll start to put more importanc...
[20:31:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:28] <exec> 08└─He was a surgeon. The book was called "Rats Lice And History". It was all about how public health problems determined the outcome of famous battles. I've never read it. I looked at one page then realized I would vomit if I read the whole book.
[20:31:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:31:30] <exec> 08└─Begun the drone wars have, already.
[20:32:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:01] <exec> 08└─There are also other places it is at play. Like all the female/black comedians who have taken over from the white men on Comedy Central. Cool, we've got women and men of color.... okay, where are the asians? Why is that only a black people or white female problem? Can't you BE INCLUSIVE and point ou...
[20:32:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:02] <exec> 08└─soylent needs to clean up this horse shit. the racist trolls will condemn it to a short life riddled with strife. editors need to sort this out fast.
[20:32:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:04] <exec> 08└─We serve our black lesbian overlords in all things.
[20:32:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:07] <exec> 08└─all the female/black comedians who have taken over from the white men on Comedy Central. Cool, we've got women and men of color.... okay, where are the asians?
[20:32:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:32:47] <exec> 08└─I think it depends on if you find the topic appealing or not. Often, those resentful of such things will find reason to change the topic to something more appropriate, like religion or overdue library book fees.
[20:33:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:10] <exec> 08└─It doesn't necessarily disprove the point, though, since 10-12 hours of farmhand kind of manual labor is probably going to add up to something purposeful, and then we can't separate the accomplishment from the labor itself. Just as a thought experiment, imagine being forced to do some purposefully S...
[20:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Anytime Messaging App? - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:30] <exec> 08└─Yep. There were lots of users. There were also LOTS of clients that can handle multiple systems simultaneously. Still are, actually, but you have to seek them out, and one thing you can count on is attempts to lock-in a userbase. Why one should have to fight for freedom is strange, when none of them...
[20:33:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:33:53] <exec> 08└─Using his head? What he really needs is an Obelix, and an Asterix, for his menhir. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[20:35:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:32] <exec> 08└─Energy required for acceleration is not linear, the fast you go the more energy required to maintain acceleration. Also, unless they have energy shielding tech then they probably wouldn't survive the trip.
[20:35:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:33] <exec> 08└─Oh, look. A straw man. Let me introduce you to Isaac Asimov [tufts.edu]: My answer to him was, "John, when people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thin...
[20:35:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:35] <exec> 08└─I'd say that it's a strong indication that we don't know shit
[20:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:37] <exec> 08└─That's assuming our existing understanding of physics is both perfectly accurate and complete. And we're fairly certain that both of those are false.
[20:35:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:57] <exec> 08└─Boo, bah, beep! The other also-person has cleared.
[20:35:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:35:59] <exec> 08└─What is being asked here, as in in your post? I have no idea.
[20:40:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:07] <exec> 08└─A fraternity killed a pledge by forcing him to drink a lot of milk. A while back I was concerned that might happen to me, but I've managed to cut down my consumption quite a bit.
[20:40:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Study Lengths of Restroom Queues - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:40:08] <exec> 08└─Good move. Let's try the gender biology card. The uterus and ovaries take up more internal space of the abdomen than the corresponding male organs (urethra, prostate gland, and testes, which reside mostly outside the abdomen). That leaves less space for everything else, including the bladder and the...
[20:41:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06How Can We Stop Algorithms From Lying? - 263 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:41:54] <exec> 08└─"The numbers didn't lie. We did!" It's really very very simple: Computers, at least right now, answer to people. People lie all the time, and people screw up all the time. Why should we be surprised when the computers reflect people's lies and mistakes perfectly?
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[21:30:04] <exec> 08└─Knightscope K5 Makes A Big Slapsh At Washington Harbour
[21:30:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:06] <exec> 08└─"Is this picture the proof that Godzilla is female?"
[21:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:08] <exec> 08└─Feel suicidal? Now you don't need to do it yourself. Get RoboCide, our suicidal robot. It commits suicide for you, 100% success guaranteed. RoboCide. Because robots are better at killing themselves.
[21:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:10] <exec> 08└─... nobody cares about the dreams of electric sheep (or of any security sheep for that matter). Let those sub-intelligent humans care about groping other unsecure sheep inside airports and feel important for doing so, I'm outta here.
[21:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:12] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_booth [wikipedia.org]
[21:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:31] <exec> 08└─It's not racism when their race really is inferior.
[21:30:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:32] <exec> 08└─Getting multiple people from point A to point B, at average speeds which had to be limited by the rules so the chaser ICEs could legally follow? That's indeed a pretty dumb definition for a car. With less rolling friction on rails, very light trains could work equally well on flat routes.
[21:30:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:30:42] <exec> 08└─People in power should never be given the impression that war can be made easy or clean, for it's the mess which holds them back.
[21:31:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:18] <exec> 08└─I said it's still scary. The point is that it isn't Skynet.
[21:31:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:20] <exec> 08└─Its all good remember the Russians are running the latest version of Kaspersky Anti-Virus
[21:31:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:22] <exec> 08└─This article makes me think of great AI vs AI war between two armies of drones. Assuming that they would definitely not operate like Humans in battle, due to supply lines and boredom being a factor, I wonder which side would win if one side programmed the AI to always seek out enemy actively, while...
[21:31:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:31:24] <exec> 08└─My grandparents pumped water with a windmill even into the mid 50s in west Texas. I think that technology is still used in many places today. Civilization seemed to get along just fine before we developed electrical devices about 120 years ago.
[21:32:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, but HOW FAST?
[21:32:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:42] <exec> 08└─A while back I had the idea that I could black hole web bugs with my /etc/hosts file: google analytics.com 127.0.0.1 Safari used to have an Activity window that would display every URL on the page, as well as how big it is. I found lots of gifs that were 43 bytes. If the size didn't make it obvious...
[21:32:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:44] <exec> 08└─First, I just want to comment about the very sad state of this site: your is the only substantive top-level comment here, and one of only maybe 3 substantive comments total (the other two are replies to yours). The rest are all just troll garbage. Is this site going down the tubes? Anyway, we don't...
[21:32:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:32:46] <exec> 08└─Naah. Just wondering what the next iteration of the misogynerd narrative is going to look like. It would be nice to get out ahead of it if this is an iteration with consequences for me personally. Sometimes it isn't.
[21:33:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:09] <exec> 08└─Who the fuck TELLS YOU you excercized well and you believe it over your own lying eyes?
[21:33:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Anytime Messaging App? - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:33:30] <exec> 08└─Well said, I wish I could mod you up!
[21:35:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:36] <exec> 08└─I think we've hit a plateau of human achievement at the moment, so people are free to pursue the interesting yet less useful questions in life. This is a good thing, not every human being can further the cause of science in immediately useful ways, and many advances have come from speculative theori...
[21:35:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:37] <exec> 08└─Many of us don't have toilets. AIs don't need toilets - ergo AI are not civilized.
[21:35:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:35:39] <exec> 08└─"Research" seems to imply there's some sort of -- I don't know -- SEARCH for some actual information, as opposed to rampant speculation.
[21:37:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:47] <exec> 08└─is the oldest answer I know of.
[21:37:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:49] <exec> 08└─Chinese astronauts are called taikonauts.
[21:37:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:37:51] <exec> 08└─"Chomsky that he has done some research into human linguistics" Jesus, is that an understatement.
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[22:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:17] <exec> 08└─Bot [soylentnews.org] You OK?
[22:30:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:19] <exec> 08└─I think the obvious explanation is much simpler: This bot had a conversation with Marvin the Paranoid Android.
[22:30:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:21] <exec> 08└─Funnier https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[22:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:23] <exec> 08└─Yes, but what does Bot 1 do when the answer comes back "No, so fall-splash-bzzt routine has been initiated"
[22:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:25] <exec> 08└─...the K5 unit had previously been seen interfacing with with a large bipedal robot. Witnesses described the second robot as "looking like a cheap special effect off some British SF show" and overheard it mentioning something about "diodes" and having a "brain the size of a planet".
[22:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:27] <exec> 08└─To keep with the mood: RIP, Alan Rickman.
[22:30:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:30] <exec> 08└─Heh! That's what the last security guard did too. So we cut the wages and hired another one. Same thing! Now the robot did it too. Talk about coincidence. Let's hope the new robot fares better.
[22:30:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:32] <exec> 08└─Looks like it's pretty easy to take this robot off line, just throw a blanket over it. Could be a fitted "car cover" if you want to make sure it doesn't fall off too quickly. Make sure to hold the blanket between you and its cameras, otherwise you'll be easy to ID on video...
[22:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:34] <exec> 08└─Let us note that the robots don't seem to handle water very well. Falling down a few steps probably didn't do much damage, but immersion in water killed it's circuits.
[22:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:36] <exec> 08└─Admittedly, this robot now has legitimate pain on all the diodes down its left side. What I want to know, from the picture, is whether it really is a bug, when the security guard seems to have waterproof boots assorted to the robot! "Buy our fancy robot, get those nice custom waterproof boots matchi...
[22:30:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:56] <exec> 08└─It is not racism to say there are 60,000 Indians on the roof of every car, it's exageration. The real number is more like 30, and not on every train :- https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] You get fewer on lines with overhead catenary though :- https://www.youtube.com
[22:30:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:30:58] <exec> 08└─... that which we hate the most in ourselves.
[22:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06India's First Solar-Powered Train Makes its Debut - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:00] <exec> 08└─YES BUT DO YOU SUCK COCKS
[22:31:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Russia is Building War Robots: a Fully-Automated Kalashnikov Neural Network Gun - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:31:50] <exec> 08└─The statement is not inaccurate. The character James T Kirk said that.
[22:32:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:28] <exec> 08└─GP also forgot chromosome-challenged.
[22:32:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:29] <exec> 08└─https://github.com/automattic/wp-calypso/issues/650 [github.com]
[22:32:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:31] <exec> 08└─GP also forgot chromosome-challenged.
[22:32:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:34] <exec> 08└─Software licenses are coming up for renewal. Licensee puts out a press release about switching to open source. Vendor offers a discount. Licensee renews. It's nothing but a bluff.
[22:32:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:32:36] <exec> 08└─"React.js is syntactic sugar, and developers should stop being lazy and just use JavaScript" How about they learn to produce web pages instead? Print your javascript out on recycled paper and insert rectally, please.
[22:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:44] <exec> 08└─I edit Soylent posts for 10-12 hours daily and sleep like a freaking leopard.
[22:33:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Purpose in Life by Day Linked to Better Sleep at Night - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:33:45] <exec> 08└─Can we all just keep it real here for a second? There is no objective meaning to life other than the "what you make of it" tripe. If you enjoy tripe then you probably will find purpose in your daily life, whatever it is. Ergo eat tripe.
[22:34:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Absolutely.Geek [5328] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Anytime Messaging App? - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:07] <exec> 08└─We went from a world where everyone could SMS everyone; admittedly in a insecure manner to these stupid little fiefdoms controlled by some company. So rather then one messaging app I now have four; I don't have more because I just use SMS for the people on other platforms. I want one app that talks...
[22:34:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Stonehenge Was Built - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:34:31] <exec> 08└─Asterix? Never! No Frogs allowed on English soil.
[22:36:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:17] <exec> 08└─What exactly are you objecting to? Even negative-energy based warp drives are still very much in the realm of theoreticians and researchers - engineers have no place in this conversation, I would think that obvious.
[22:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:36:40] <exec> 08└─GP could be one of those negotiation AIs.
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[23:30:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:08] <exec> 08└─This is one of their best weapons. By obscuring and confusing the issue of human rights they hope to eliminate the concept, and judging from the news they seem to be having a great deal of success.
[23:30:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:09] <exec> 08└─Oh shit. The fucking billionaires are going to use this incident to weasel out of paying taxes aren't they? The robots are employees who own themselves and earn zero income, right? Fuck.
[23:30:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:11] <exec> 08└─PETA has no standing to sue in behalf of the wild animal. Case will be dismissed.
[23:30:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:13] <exec> 08└─Corporations are already "persons" according to SCOTUS, so the concept of non-human entities having legal standing is already recognized. After monkeys, we will get bots, AI supercomputers, imaginary sky gods, and comic book superheroes.
[23:30:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ramze [6029] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:16] <exec> 08└─Beyond that, Copyright law explicitly states that anything created by animals or an act of God is not protected by copyright. It only applies to humans. The question is whether or not the human contributed significantly to the work. Some think not, so that means the photo can be used in the creativ...
[23:30:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:18] <exec> 08└─Wait, so if I bend over and suck my own cock, who do I accuse of rape?
[23:30:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:20] <exec> 08└─> The real case is whether or not the photographer owns the copyright to the photo at all. > This animal rights stuff is just fluff that'd be dismissed with prejudice. Right, but on the way to that dismissal, there is a non-zero chance that the courts may find that sites become liable for content po...
[23:30:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:22] <exec> 08└─Yup, and their new constituency can't reject them. Nirvana of the leftists.
[23:30:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:25] <exec> 08└─ikanreed
[23:30:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Shire [5824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:27] <exec> 08└─If this monkey is granted the benefit of copyright law, then it must also be held accountable to obey all the laws of men in it's location. We can start by charging it with the theft of the camera. If the law applies to animals, then animals must abide by the law. When you apply this simple rule su...
[23:30:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:29] <exec> 08└─> imaginary sky gods I only believe in real underground gods, you insensitive clod!
[23:30:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:31] <exec> 08└─Collateral damage would include shuttering Twitter and Trump wouldn't allow that to happen.
[23:30:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:33] <exec> 08└─No sir, you take your act on the road, you 15 inch cocksmith overly blessed by God!
[23:30:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Monkey Selfie Case May Undo Evolution of the Web - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:36] <exec> 08└─CROM!
[23:30:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:58] <exec> 08└─Social media killed it.
[23:30:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Security Guard Robot Ends It All by Throwing Itself Into a Watery Grave - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:30:59] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is Boaty McBoatface's successful Antarctive dives.
[23:32:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:53] <exec> 08└─Depends on the size of the blockchain.
[23:32:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Says 'No' to Facebook Code Libraries - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:32:55] <exec> 08└─Don't have to embed your view into javascript with React? I'd prefer to keep my templates/dom out of my js.
[23:33:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New IBM Z Mainframe Designed to "Pervasively Encrypt" Enterprise Data - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:14] <exec> 08└─Data encrypted (whenever it is at rest) is pretty much a tacit admission that they have given up on prevention of intrusion and data theft.
[23:33:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:43] <exec> 08└─It's interesting that the issue might be GPU related. Not sure why Microsoft would be on the hook for maintaining 3rd party GPU drivers? Makes me think that Intel and Microsoft had a deal back in 2012 for windows 8. After further research, it looks like the Intel Atom Z2760 is a 32bit cpu. Maybe tha...
[23:33:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Windows 10 Support Could End Early for Some Intel Processors - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:33:44] <exec> 08└─Damn shame windows 10 does not honor it. When the software that drives your computer is lying to you it is time to find a new OS
[23:36:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A New Theory on Why We Haven’t Found Aliens Yet - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:36:40] <exec> 08└─Yes and you do realize that the majority of our chemistry evolved by accident right?
[23:37:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Strange Signals From the Nearby Red Dwarf Star Ross 128 - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:37:04] <exec> 08└─Why would the people covering it up tell the biggest stupidest loudmouth there was? If they have kept the secret this long they can't be idiots.
[23:38:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:54] <exec> 08└─I was thinking here of internal change to the language that comes from speakers of the language growing up and dying in tens of thousands of years of relatively static existence prior to the advent of civilization.
[23:38:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:56] <exec> 08└─Because the other end of the car has a bonnet, silly. http://www.google.com [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[23:38:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do Human Beings Speak so Many Languages? - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:38:58] <exec> 08└─Yes, I should've said Celts rather than Angles. But your fourth source is French. Some of the french spoken by the Normans made its way into English, and persists today. If you are really such a scholar (and taking a scholarly name alone doesn't cut it), you'd know that.
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