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[00:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergen Pulls a Fast One - 1973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:36] <exec> 08└─Ants nailed it. The reservation west of Buffalo was making a killing with cigarette sales after New York did the progressive thing, and taxed cigarettes at insane rates. The same progressive crowd who wanted to prohibit cigarettes and tobacco use went crazy. Senecas Clash With Police Over Tax Ruling...
[00:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allergen Pulls a Fast One - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:37] <exec> 08└─Allergen, noun, any substance, often a protein, that induces an allergy. Common allergens include pollen, grasses, dust, pharmaceuticals, and some corporations that make them.
[00:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergen Pulls a Fast One - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:40] <exec> 08└─There must be some other reason the owner did this.
[00:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergen Pulls a Fast One - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:42] <exec> 08└─Because if you take the St. Regis Mohawk Nation to court for any reason you're objectively a racist.
[00:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:56] <exec> 08└─The real question is whether this is the result of being the oldest in the class, or being more ready to learn, or being born in the fall.
[00:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:58] <exec> 08└─This isn't new at all, this is a very old phenomena that was noticed decades ago! I know because it was an issue that was discussed when I started school, as I was younger than most of my classmates. Right at the beginning of the year we were told that it *might* be a problem and if it was I could b...
[00:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:00] <exec> 08└─More likely it's simply a matter of the higher standards put on older students. Getting into gifted programs is trivially easy if you've got a summer birthday and virtually impossible if you've got a fall one because they lower the standards for summer birthdays. This whole thing makes little sense...
[00:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:26] <exec> 08└─On a point of order, if you please, it should be remembered that Martha Stewart went to jail on a much less egregious offence during the Obama administration.
[00:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:27] <exec> 08└─Jesus, that long ago? Wow, I'm old... Anyway, that actually makes the argument stronger that people might face consequences under Trump than they might have under Obama or Clinton. After all, the Bushes were frequently described as the pets of Wall Street.
[00:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:47] <exec> 08└─getting subtle.
[00:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 1503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:49] <exec> 08└─I'm really not sure that your fundamental premise here is correct. Or maybe I'm not sure exactly what your fundamental premise is. Western society has become much more accepting of same sex relationships, but I'm not sure that the last 20 years is a good time frame to show that - in fact depending h...
[00:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:51] <exec> 08└─Hypothesis: much more than 4% of the people looking for dates are gay.
[00:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:53] <exec> 08└─What might arise! [youtube.com]
[00:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:11] <exec> 08└─But that's not what "mild hybrid" systems are. They're parallel hybrids where the engine is a normal car engine (100hp or so) and the electric motor/generator is an overgrown starter motor providing 10 or 15 hp. (Or when serving as a generator, consuming that much.) They're little more than a start/...
[00:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:13] <exec> 08└─How to get a charge in the deep woods. We go dry camping and bring several cans of fuel with us because there are no gas stations. How does one get take extra electrical charge off roads ?
[00:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:15] <exec> 08└─Several cans of fuel and a generator? Or you do like the other reply says and use a hybrid instead of a pure EV, then it's just cans of fuel.
[00:03:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Planning Gas and Diesel Car Ban - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:59] <exec> 08└─USA is 236 years old. China is 3600 years old.
[00:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Lie in Wait After Penetrating US and Europe Power Grid Networks - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:23] <exec> 08└─Well, generally hydropower plants can produce power for as long as they are maintained and there is water. In the cases of large scale hydro you are looking at scheduled preventative maintenance every 3-5 years. For personal hydro plants can expect something in the region of 5-8 years, but even then...
[00:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hackers Lie in Wait After Penetrating US and Europe Power Grid Networks - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:24] <exec> 08└─most people don't even know who they are, or where they live, so a bit of security by obscurity Someone didn't read the Equifax stories.
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[01:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:29] <exec> 08└─So 68 civilizations know about Trump's hair.
[01:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 1262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:31] <exec> 08└─"A full sweep shows there are currently 68 known exoplanets that are in a good spot to catch a planet transiting the Sun. From this list, nine of them are temperate and have sizes similar to Earth, but none are considered to be habitable. That doesn't mean the chances of aliens potentially spying on...
[01:00:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:42] <exec> 08└─They transferred the patent rights to St. Regis Mohawk Indian Nation. Why? The Indian Nation is a sovereign nation, and our patent laws don't apply to them.
[01:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:51] <exec> 08└─I suspect you're wrong on that. The status of original nations in the US is not so clear cut. The US courts, in fact, created a new status for them as 'domestic nations' in order to reconcile the various promises that were made to respect their territory and sovereignty with the political reality th...
[01:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:08] <exec> 08└─One of my kids had a November birthday, which was near the dividing point for our school system. I decided to make him the oldest in his class instead of the youngest; I thought this fit his personality better. When he reached the end of the seventh grade, he decided to skip ahead because most of hi...
[01:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:10] <exec> 08└─Interesting question. It's one we grappled with a bit here in Ontario. My kids are both born very early in the year (yay them), but a family member's child was born right at the end of December. I suggested they just hold him back a year, but got a look of confusion in return from the parents they'r...
[01:01:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 232 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:23] <exec> 08└─The Trump administration is going to clamp down on insider trading? Yeah, when pigs fly. Most that'll happen is they get a wrist slapping, pay a token fine that sounds big but isn't, and they won't have to admit fault or go to jail.
[01:01:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 257 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:32] <exec> 08└─Martha Stewart is a nobody. Equifax is a vital part of banking's usury practice and political campaign funding. They would/will get equal treatment from democrats and republicans alike. It's strictly business. There is no reason to look at it any other way.
[01:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:40] <exec> 08└─What are you going to call them? KKK? Including the black people?
[01:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:42] <exec> 08└─I mean a public national shit list. a hall of shame.
[01:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:44] <exec> 08└─You do realize he pretty much ran on the 'law and order' platform? right?
[01:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:28] <exec> 08└─Like the Prius? I can't think of a worse way to make an electric vehicle...
[01:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:52] <exec> 08└─One thing you need to understand about traffic tickets is, they are considered an administrative affair, as opposed to a criminal problem.
[01:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. - 731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:54] <exec> 08└─I disagree. I don't think most prosecutors or peace officers (or whatever the fuck they are called now) are evil. I think there are very real, measurable metrics they are held to. These metrics and goals, absent any other counteracting forces, produces what we have today. Internally they promote an...
[01:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Drive Becomes Popular Substitute For Torrent Websites - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:25] <exec> 08└─Torrents are dying as savvy pirates come to their senses and abandon antiquated torrent tech, uploading their wares to cloud hosting sites like Google Drive instead. C'mon, this has got to be sarcasm! So, essentially the same thing as secretly sharing warez on ftp sites, as it was done in the 90's,...
[01:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Ruling Confirms Enforceability of Dual-Licensing and Breach of GPL - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:49] <exec> 08└─But which dead operating system are we supposed to raise instead?
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[02:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Len Wein, ‘Wolverine’ Co-Creator, 'Watchmen' Editor, Dead at 69 - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:33] <exec> 08└─Not to be disrespectful to the deceased who is indeed a prolific creator, but he didn't create Wolverine. His character was a one-note villain who made a single forgettable appearance. It was Chris Claremont who turned him into one of comics' hottest properties, and I'm sad that he rarely gets the c...
[02:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:42] <exec> 08└─No, lots more know about it. Somebody from the α Draconis system has been posting all over the galactic net about it, complaining about being stationed in BFE. It's right there next to the pics showing that he tapes his ties. There's been an uproar in the All Thing about how anybody could possibly...
[02:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:01] <exec> 08└─IANAL but it looks to me that the whole patent system is set up so that those with the deepest pockets get what they want.
[02:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:03] <exec> 08└─Original sub: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Now fixed by our brave strong fearless editors
[02:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:05] <exec> 08└─Or, just maybe, perhaps, surprisingly, an army of well-paid lawyers know more than both of you Internet dwellers. Quizas, quizas, quizas,,,
[02:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:25] <exec> 08└─I don't buy it. I know two siblings who were born on the same day (several years apart) and one eventually graduated college while the other, sadly, had a horrible time with school and eventually committed suicide. There are far too many non-school variables to consider.
[02:01:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:37] <exec> 08└─A company spokeswoman said the executives did not know about the breach when they sold their shares.
[02:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Scrutinizer [6534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:05] <exec> 08└─As for poor white people getting the judicial shaft, yes, the absolutely do. But it's a whole different level if you're not white: For instance, my poor white friends have never been arrested for being the victim of a knife attack [... or] shot and killed for holding a BB gun while shopping [...]
[02:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care -- It’s Nowhere Close - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:14] <exec> 08└─Sure, let's promote crassness and weak vernacular by using naughty words like third-graders who just discovered them!
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[02:07:54] <exec> 08└─Little is known for sure about the people who make up Dragonfly. Text strings embedded into some of their code contains both Russian and French words
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[03:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Len Wein, ‘Wolverine’ Co-Creator, 'Watchmen' Editor, Dead at 69 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:40] <exec> 08└─This is cool [cbr.com]
[03:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:11] <exec> 08└─Quite so. I've read and re-read the article now and it seems like they're counting on massive loophole. The loophole might stand up in court, but at the end of the day it's just a delaying tactic -- if this works, will be smacked down by legislation in short order. Nobody's going to stand for this.
[03:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03boxfetish [4831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe us plebes should just start taking the law into our own hands and extracting justice from the millionaires and billionaires who just keep upping the ante on what constitutes corruption and greed in order to extract every last drop of wealth that they can. Good cuts of meat for BBQ are getting...
[03:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:52] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, one of those "I'm basically neutral" types that only ever manages to make excuses for/defend alt-right KEKolds and Trumpster fires, but always qualifies their one-sided neutrality with "Look, I hate both sides, but..." Got it.
[03:03:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 69 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:10] <exec> 08└─"He's an out-doorsy guy: he's always pitching tents when I'm around!"
[03:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:18] <exec> 08└─I don't think I've ever seen quite that much self-serving bullshit in one post before. That is...impressively wrong, and what isn't wrong is only not-wrong because it's entirely opinion.
[03:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:20] <exec> 08└─By around adulthood I came to the conclusion that, to put it informally, "haters gonna hate." Even as a child I could tell most people were more full of shit than a bloating septic tank in August. But thanks for second-guessing me! That TOTALLY doesn't get old! And no, J-Mo does not have it right, b...
[03:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:22] <exec> 08└─They're solving the problem from a processing perspective. It would be a lot easier to solve from a data perspective. I'm pretty sure humans would beat AI from a processing perspective if we change the input data. Now please pull down your pants!
[03:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:25] <exec> 08└─But also, how fast will Southern Baptists and others become pro-choice?
[03:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:27] <exec> 08└─Well put. Anything that you put your identity to is obviously a big deal to you, and is used by yourself as an indication of 'tribe membership' or a point of difference to others. I had never really thought of it that way, but it does seem incongruous to say that it's not a big deal when you're basi...
[03:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:29] <exec> 08└─By around adulthood I came to the conclusion that, to put it informally, "haters gonna hate." Even as a child I could tell most people were more full of shit than a bloating septic tank in August. But thanks for second-guessing me! That TOTALLY doesn't get old!
[03:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yet Another AWS Config Fumble: Time Warner Cable Exposes 4 Million Subscriber Records - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:13] <exec> 08└─You'd think with all the vulture lawyers scurrying around that all these breaches are ripe for a privacy based class action suit to milk em idiots dry... something is amiss...
[03:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Pitched Its Watson Supercomputer as a Revolution in Cancer Care -- It’s Nowhere Close - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:28] <exec> 08└─Tsk! Typical, who says Watson is a he? Sexist Bot!
[03:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Lie in Wait After Penetrating US and Europe Power Grid Networks - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:09] <exec> 08└─Thank you for your reply. I was being kind of flippant, but your reply is very thoughtful. I have been in a couple of hurricanes (not any of the current ones, thank $deity) where I had money but banks are closed, no power so no ATM so no money. One can starve with a lot of money in the bank! Howev...
[03:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Lie in Wait After Penetrating US and Europe Power Grid Networks - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:11] <exec> 08└─Some of the rich have their own hydroelectric power stations (I've seen them)
[03:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Lie in Wait After Penetrating US and Europe Power Grid Networks - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:13] <exec> 08└─Some clips I enjoyed over the weekend on the Primitive Technology [youtube.com] channel (a young bloke in northern Queensland). I found the fire lighting [youtube.com] and the forge blower [youtube.com] quite ingenious.
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[03:08:15] <exec> 08└─A few hundred million can buy the prepared person a lot of future after the fall of society. I think though we will find that most such people die of old age first.
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[04:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:34] <exec> 08└─Well, the DEA is the agency that tried to murder a student by starving him to death. [wikipedia.org]
[04:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Len Wein, ‘Wolverine’ Co-Creator, 'Watchmen' Editor, Dead at 69 - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:43] <exec> 08└─...and the transit was spotted from 68 exoplanets.
[04:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Len Wein, ‘Wolverine’ Co-Creator, 'Watchmen' Editor, Dead at 69 - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:45] <exec> 08└─And you have a 70%... I mean 0% expectation of privacy within the DEA.
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[04:00:47] <exec> 08└─The LORRI camera on New Horizons will have a 70 meter resolution for features on MU69.
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[04:01:15] <exec> 08└─IANAL but it looks to me that the whole patent system is set up so that those with the deepest pockets get what they want.
[04:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:19] <exec> 08└─Some people have no sense of humor.
[04:02:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:27] <exec> 08└─This is the end. This system will become ubiquitous very quickly, and as soon as it gets into the hands of a fascist government--and make no mistake, the US is on the way to fascism--that's it. It's over.
[04:02:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:46] <exec> 08└─I was hoping to see a link to "Idiocracy", as it has a great presentation of the topic. I'd swear that move is a documentary sent back from the future.
[04:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:43] <exec> 08└─Eventually every empire will fall.
[04:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:44] <exec> 08└─Azuma, I don't think that jmorris (in this particular instance) was actively wishing pain and suffering on anyone. That honor falls to you in this thread. He was simply speculating on the mental gymnastics that may be required of some people when they encounter a position that may make them hypocrit...
[04:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:47] <exec> 08└─And what would be the reaction to impeachment of the 'deplorable' 49% of voters who put him in office? Statistically, they are much more likely to be straight-talking, straight-shooting, anti-government types than the weak lefty 'libruls' who want Trump gone. Electing Trump was a great big FUCK YOU...
[04:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 638 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:49] <exec> 08└─"Having said that, most of the gay people I know usually only bring up their sexuality in a contextual conversation, not as a form of introduction" That's my experience as well - for the most part. People that I know personally, friends? Yeah, they just want to be treated like everyone else, get a f...
[04:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:51] <exec> 08└─When I was young, safe sex meant her dad didn't find out. <drumroll>
[04:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:53] <exec> 08└─"Now this part is a little worrying. What other factors are choosy parents going to select against? I foresee a future where everyone genetically selects their kids to be extroverted sports stars and socialites, and within a generation there's not enough competent people left to keep society's techn...
[04:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:15] <exec> 08└─Nope, not like the Prius. The Prius's motor/generator adds/subtracts about 30 hp, and more importantly the Prius can run as a pure EV (at low speeds and for short distances) with the combustion engine stopped. Mild hybrids not only have about half the electric power and correspondingly smaller batte...
[04:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Planning Gas and Diesel Car Ban - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:02] <exec> 08└─Obviously, the Chinese are so commie-incompetent that they fell for their own hoax and will, as predictable for commies, destroy their own economy.
[04:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Planning Gas and Diesel Car Ban - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:03] <exec> 08└─I would guess the ban has little effect.
[04:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Demonoid Hopes to Return to Its Former Glory - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:57] <exec> 08└─The one I really miss for the obscure and hard-to-find is H33T.
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[05:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:34] <exec> 08└─Blame the Supreme Court Justices who decided Katz v. United States. Without this decision, and the ones that followed it, medical (and many other kinds of) data would be protected by the 4th Amendment.
[05:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:36] <exec> 08└─There is no authorization in the constitution for drug laws or enforcement, so there is no valid law there to trump the state statute. But we quit pretending to follow the constitution a long time ago, didn't we?
[05:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:38] <exec> 08└─Then they should argue against the validity of federal law. Unless prohibition is part of the constitution, as it was at one time, it should be declared invalid. These laws stand because there is little to no resistance. Apparently, lack of resistance can be taken as consent, as is reelection of 97%...
[05:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:21] <exec> 08└─This must be some sort of USA or medical field specific topic. What the heck is Allergan? What the heck is Restasis? Why would I care?
[05:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 1627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:22] <exec> 08└─Except that if the prohibition on ex post facto laws were respected, they couldn't make it retroactive, so it will still hold. I'm not a lawyer, let alone a patent lawyer, but I did a little research once this came up. There are several good precedents that they do have sovereign immunity from paten...
[05:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:17] <exec> 08└─It's strictly business. There is no reason to look at it any other way
[05:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:19] <exec> 08└─How many black people voted for Trump in the election? Serious question.
[05:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:56] <exec> 08└─"This reminds me of the common saying "all that goes up must go down". People who say that should be launched into an escape trajectory from the solar system." Why? So they can die before they come down? How would that possibly make anyone better off?
[05:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:57] <exec> 08└─"You mean corporatism, suppression of freedoms and promotion of the concept of total war? Hate to break this to you but Clinton lost an election last year on that platform." True enough, but didn't you notice they had the other guy whipped and in his place within weeks? The elected officials that we...
[05:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:59] <exec> 08└─No, no I don't wonder. It's actually pretty straightforward: people with a sense of righteous victimhood, or who want to sell that agenda to others, came up with it. Or gee, maybe it's a public service that's more polite than #imanidiotstayaway ... wow, now you have me wondering. ZOMGWTFBBQ #ironyal...
[05:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:22] <exec> 08└─Hybrids can make a real, practical difference in stop-and-go driving, where the extra weight more than pays for itself, using the energy gained from regenerative braking to accelerate back up to speed. On the highway, it adds absolutely nothing but weight (though highway mileage is dominated by aero...
[05:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:24] <exec> 08└─It has a couple of benefits, especially for large vehicles. The main one is that electric motors give you a large amount of torque, especially at lower speeds. This means that the manufacturer can choose to provide smaller and more efficient engines that are tuned to a narrower RPM range. Most of th...
[05:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:26] <exec> 08└─How to get a charge in the deep woods. We go dry camping and bring several cans of fuel with us because there are no gas stations. How does one get take extra electrical charge off roads ? This will just cement the Land Rover as the 4x4 for soccer moms and footballer Wives rather than for a actual o...
[05:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03linuxrocks123 [2557] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:55] <exec> 08└─Of course check fraud isn't strict liability! Strict liability is only for very petty offenses, like traffic tickets and ... uh ... statutory rape ... Yeah okay we need some legal reform to make it so strict liability is actually only for very petty offenses, like it's supposed to be, but it's not s...
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[05:05:57] <exec> 08└─You would do EXACTLY the same thing in their situation. You may pretend otherwise but you do not fool anyone.
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[06:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:39] <exec> 08└─From TFA: In his PhD thesis Ming Ma, working in the group of Dr. Wilson A. Smith, describes the processes that take place at the nanoscale when different metals are used in the electroreduction of CO2. For example, using copper nanowires in the electroreduction process leads to the production of hyd...
[06:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 1722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:51] <exec> 08└─This is nothing, folks, the medical privacy situation is much much worse than TFA would have you to believe, and the clusterfuck starts with doctors themselves. Doctors and hospitals these days spit on our privacy. I swear, next time a doctor asks me which drugs I am regularly consuming, I am gonna...
[06:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:38] <exec> 08└─I came here to say the same thing. Very hard to decide whether this is top important or just complete fluff or something in between when there's zero info in the summary besides the he-said-she-said... BOOOO
[06:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:39] <exec> 08└─Settled case law, the court won't even get to the point of examining the patent, it simply has no jurisdiction over the case ...
[06:02:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 179 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:15] <exec> 08└─the only real news story will be if the SEC decides not to investigate. On the contrary! The big news will be if the SEC does go after them. Let's not forget who is in charge now.
[06:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:15] <exec> 08└─The test it is describing means one image was of a homosexual individual and the other was heterosexual. So the naive optimal solution would score an optimal 50% success rate - showing it did vastly better than random and also vastly better than humans.
[06:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:42] <exec> 08└─The electrics only provide assistance? Sounds worse still... needless complexity, unless the electric motor works through a simple mechanical sprag clutch. Hybrids really don't make sense, more of a sales gimmick than anything else. I suppose my initial post doesn't describe a hybrid, mild or otherw...
[06:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedBear [1734] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:44] <exec> 08└─I don't get this hybrid thing. I get it's hyped as more environmentally friendly and efficient technology, but I just don't see it in practise.
[06:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Yet Another AWS Config Fumble: Time Warner Cable Exposes 4 Million Subscriber Records - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:08] <exec> 08└─But the cloud service is sold as being secure. Therefore we don't need to worry any more about security. Therefore FTP.
[06:05:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. - 908 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:54] <exec> 08└─I agree with most of what you said, except this: In most cases, the government should have to pick a single crime to prosecute. One action does not represent 20 different crimes - that's just abusive. There should be some mechanism to prevent prosecutors from piling on charges, but don't throw the b...
[06:06:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. - 884 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:09] <exec> 08└─While I'm loathe to say it, Runaway makes an important point. There's a difference (in US state and federal criminal law at least) between laws that contain a strict liability [wikipedia.org] standard and those that do not. Laws that do not have strict liability clauses are adjudged based upon Mens...
[06:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Humor from Cisco - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:05] <exec> 08└─On-Doard Biagnostics II (ODB II)
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[07:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Struts Flaw Reportedly Exploited in Equifax Hack - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:31] <exec> 08└─"However, financial services firm Baird claimed the targeted software was Apache Struts, a framework used by many top organizations to create web applications." Yes, they use it to make 'webapps' - those insidious assaults on the web itself and all it stands for. I looked it up. https://struts.apach...
[07:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:39] <exec> 08└─Jesus needed at least water.
[07:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:41] <exec> 08└─In the same time, the Aussies developed a marvel of technology, on par or even better than the Dutch: a keg monitoring device [abc.net.au] that "tracks the temperature of the keg, how long it has been at those temperatures so we can tell how the product inside is coping, how fast it's staling and th...
[07:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:43] <exec> 08└─He's making this out of CO2. Is this 'air' or is it a pollutant? It's really an either/or question, it can't be both, they are actually mutually exclusive.
[07:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:46] <exec> 08└─Not a chance. The moon has neither liquid water, nor suitable soil for the production of Barley, and there's absolutely zero chance of Aussies paying the costs involved in space travel without a positive guarantee of piss waiting at the end of the line. Y'all aren't going to the moon until someone e...
[07:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:57] <exec> 08└─Have you found any providers of anonymous medical treatment?
[07:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:58] <exec> 08└─If you live near the Mexican border they're easy to find. Skills as good or better than on this side of the fence, and they're much more productive because they don't have to spend 70%+ of each day filing paperwork. And they'll do just about anything you could possibly want, as long as you pay cash.
[07:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:47] <exec> 08└─Since 2002, a topical emulsion of ciclosporin for treating inflammation caused by keratoconjunctivitis sicca (dry eye syndrome) has been marketed under the trade name Restasis (0.05%). [wikipedia.org]🥄 Allergan, Plc is a multi-national pharmaceutical that produces branded and generic drugs, and p...
[07:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:48] <exec> 08└─That was a atrocious attempt, but it does not appear to be on point at all. There were no patent issues, and no direct invocation of sovereignty (Microsoft does not, yet? claim that.) So I'm not sure what the relevance would be.
[07:03:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 27 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:46] <exec> 08└─Democracy would be a start.
[07:07:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Google Drive Becomes Popular Substitute For Torrent Websites - 2027 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:50] <exec> 08└─Hollywood seems to have found the ideal way to kill torrent sites, anyway. Kinda like the music industry. I don't pirate music anymore because nothing good is being produced, nothing "top40" or popular is worth listening to. There's a problem with this logic. Sure, all music made in this decade is t...
[07:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Lie in Wait After Penetrating US and Europe Power Grid Networks - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:09:20] <exec> 08└─If living by its own (as "King of the castle") they won't have that time against determined adversaries who hold a grudge
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[08:00:49] <exec> 08└─One of the highest producer of CO2 is fermentation. Some estimates indicate around 60 g of CO2 per liter of beer. [triplepundit.com]. Ok, it's a back of the napkin calculation, let's cut it in half: say 30g CO2/liter of beer. US had 24172 Ml of beer in 2014 [wikipedia.org] - which means CO2 emission...
[08:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:50] <exec> 08└─It's really an either/or question, it can't be both, they are actually mutually exclusive.
[08:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:53] <exec> 08└─Sola dosis facit venenum
[08:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:55] <exec> 08└─The moon has neither liquid water, nor suitable soil for the production of Barley
[08:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:57] <exec> 08└─Global warming will be solved by Ethanol_fueled and the alcohol from CO2 in the air, better than some Nazi nitrogen fixing process that goes BOOM when there is a little flood, or something!
[08:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:00] <exec> 08└─https://www.space.com/38095-moon-surface-water-molecules-all-day.html [space.com]
[08:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:02] <exec> 08└─I bet they do need water, too. At least I don't see how they could get the hydrogen from CO2. The only listed product without hydrogen is carbon monoxide.
[08:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:04] <exec> 08└─CO2
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[08:01:06] <exec> 08└─Of course the CO2 released during fermentation was previously captured by the very plants that get fermented. Therefore the process is carbon neutral (except for the carbon used in the industrial farming process, that is).
[08:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:09] <exec> 08└─According to your logic, drinking sea water should be healthy: Salt is something your body needs, and sea water contains a lot of it.
[08:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 2274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:11] <exec> 08└─"Oh?!? Based on what?" Definitions. Definitions themselves. What is a pollutant? I'm going to ask google, even though I know that's an actively hostile and revisionist source, and I certainly don't mean to imply any endorsement of their selection or ordering of results. The whole point is that I'm n...
[08:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:13] <exec> 08└─Carbon Oxygen Squared! You got a problem with that? CO16. Rather rare isotope, but not impossible.
[08:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:15] <exec> 08└─It looks like I got five responses and yours was, by far the best so far. However I believe if you will cast your eye down the page to my reply to c0l0, it actually deals with your far more coherent objection as well.
[08:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:18] <exec> 08└─Remind me - is Nembutal for medicating people or killing people? And did you never hear the case of the bloke who died after drinking 10 litres of water in a day? So is water lethal, or necessary? The world isn't binary.
[08:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:20] <exec> 08└─"According to your logic, drinking sea water should be healthy" According to your logic, anything that is unhealthy is pollution?
[08:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:22] <exec> 08└─Trouble is that's not going to make economic sense without a revolution in physics, not on the necessary timescale, it's simply too expensive to boost out of the gravity well to get started. There'll be Aussies mining there after the Chinese build a brewery, and after the relative cost of labor even...
[08:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:24] <exec> 08└─I completely disagree with your premise when it comes to terminology. To me it's clear that you can pollute a mixture by adding more of a component of that mixture to the base mixture, such that you take it from an acceptable level of that component to an unacceptable level. "X is part of Y, and Y i...
[08:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:26] <exec> 08└─The world isn't binary.
[08:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:40] <exec> 08└─Actually, re-reading this, it was a bit loosely stated. I certainly don't mean to imply they are willing to help you violate laws, Mexican or US. Particularly drug laws. I've never really run into this myself but I've spent considerable times in retirement communities near the border where lots of p...
[08:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:32] <exec> 08└─Both the drug companies and the Mohawk nation have lawyers and they all appear to believe this is a winning move, so I'm inclined to suspect they may have a better idea of the controlling precedents than you do.
[08:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:33] <exec> 08└─The Indian nations are sovereign when it suits them, but happy to suck off the federal teat when it doesn't. Collective guilt only goes so far. The Indian nations either need to become truly sovereign, and take full responsibility for themselves. Or this sham sovereignty needs to be eliminated entir...
[08:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 823 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:35] <exec> 08└─I'll tell you what. If you look, if you look at some of the reservations that our government has approved, that it, in its great wisdom has approved, I will tell you right now -- they don't look like Indians to me. And they don't look like the Indians. Now, maybe we say politically correct or not po...
[08:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:57] <exec> 08└─Alternatively: People are learning before they go to school. The ones that arrive with a 10-month head start over others don't lose it. I'd be interested to see how this advantage correlates with socioeconomic index, because I'd imagine that richer parents spend more time with their children doing t...
[08:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:59] <exec> 08└─September is the cut-off in the UK, as well.
[08:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:01] <exec> 08└─in this case those born in early September,
[08:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:15] <exec> 08└─I was thinking that getting a percentage figure for the populations of countries which officially have *no* gays would be amusing
[08:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:16] <exec> 08└─Stoning people in various demographics to death without trial simply for being born with a certain skin color
[08:07:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03http [1920] 02 - 06Humor from Cisco - 168 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:57] <exec> 08└─OK, I admit it. You've got the time to type out all this stuff, and clearly have access to better drug dealers than I do. What's the real secret to making money online?
[08:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Ruling Confirms Enforceability of Dual-Licensing and Breach of GPL - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:23] <exec> 08└─I don't want to, but then I don't write GPL'd code. The number one justification that I hear from people who choose the GPL is that they want to require that anyone who makes money from their software to contribute back, yet the GPL doesn't actually require this and companies often use GPL'd code to...
[08:11:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Open Source Ruling Confirms Enforceability of Dual-Licensing and Breach of GPL - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:11:24] <exec> 08└─As I understand it, the AGPL simply requires (beyond the GPL) that, if there is a download source button that you do not remove it. It is not restricting how you can use the software, it is restricting how you can modify the software, which is entirely within the bounds of copyright law. If you do n...
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[09:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:41] <exec> 08└─Let them destroy themselves with their own stupidity. Let them be laughed at. Let them be memes. Let them know that millions of people are laughing at them because of their own stupidity. Let their supporters feel a deep embarassment for being associated with them. Hmmm, local elections next week, I...
[09:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:43] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes. I remember that recent outrage [theguardian.com] over a photo of a bus full of women in burqas bus seats...
[09:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:45] <exec> 08└─Mr. Best apparently does not know what Arabic numerals are.
[09:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:47] <exec> 08└─Yes indeed. You want to fight real neo-nazis? You want to really mess with them for coming to 'your town?' Here's how you do it. http://www.dw.com They aren't a threat they're a distraction.
[09:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:49] <exec> 08└─It's a cheap shot, against an inherently racist - and therefore stupid - idiot. I don't think it's big or clever, when that guy still holds the potential to be mayor because of enough people voting for him - the kind of people who won't get the "joke" either. Just his reaction is enough to make a se...
[09:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Apache Struts Flaw Reportedly Exploited in Equifax Hack - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:58] <exec> 08└─In fact, several headlines -- some of which have since been retracted -- all source a single quote by a non-technical analyst from an Equifax source. http://www.zdnet.com [zdnet.com]
[09:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Struts Flaw Reportedly Exploited in Equifax Hack - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:01] <exec> 08└─I had a mental image of a Native American parading up and down with an exploit in his hand...
[09:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:32] <exec> 08└─Well that makes two of you that appear to believe anything harmful is pollution. That's just mindblowing to me. You might scroll down for my other answer, but I'll add, water is lethal, water can be necessary, but neither of those propositions has any direct bearing on the question of whether or not...
[09:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:33] <exec> 08└─> Well that makes two of you that appear to believe anything harmful is pollution. That's just mindblowing to me. I suspect your mind was blown before you read my comment, as noone with a correctly-connected brain could have interpreted it that way. Polluting your brain with too much THC or LSD, are...
[09:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:36] <exec> 08└─According to your logic, the term "pollution" is independent of context? So would you rather I enhance your fuel tank with some sugar, or your cereals with some gasoline?
[09:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:38] <exec> 08└─"I completely disagree with your premise when it comes to terminology. To me it's clear that you can pollute a mixture by adding more of a component of that mixture to the base mixture, such that you take it from an acceptable level of that component to an unacceptable level." So you disagree with t...
[09:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:40] <exec> 08└─Quick question: is Vitamin D beneficial or is it a poison? Without enough vitamin D, you could get rickets or some similar disease. However, if you get far too much Vitamin D, the way Gary Null once did after consuming one of his own supplements [scienceblogs.com], you could develop hypercalcemia an...
[09:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:42] <exec> 08└─"According to your logic, the term "pollution" is independent of context?" I'm absolutely certain I said the exact opposite of that. "So would you rather I enhance your fuel tank with some sugar, or your cereals with some gasoline?" Neither thanks.
[09:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:44] <exec> 08└─You can pollute your body with too much water, then you die.
[09:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:47] <exec> 08└─Trouble is that's not going to make economic sense without a revolution in physics
[09:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:49] <exec> 08└─Or, since you seem so hung up about adding something that was already in the mix: You don't think you can pollute a river by adding (large amounts of) salt? You don't think you can pollute flour by adding rodent hair? You don't think you can pollute vegetables by adding mold? You don't think you can...
[09:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:51] <exec> 08└─You can't pollute air by adding air. That's just nonsense.
[09:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:53] <exec> 08└─A pity is wasn't an US university to discover it. You, with your "teach the controversy" ideas, see what you've done? Put breaks on the science's appeal in US! Now Ethanol_fueled will need to immigrate!! (and to think that producing ethanol from air may appeal even for people of some religions which...
[09:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:56] <exec> 08└─"Quick question: is Vitamin D beneficial or is it a poison?" So your reply is to change the subject? I said nothing about 'beneficial' or 'poison.' Nor Vitamin D either, for that matter. "In the same way, you can't describe CO2 as only either "air" or a "pollutant". " Sure I can. Because I'm speakin...
[09:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:58] <exec> 08└─"You can pollute your body with too much water, then you die." Yeah, no, you actually can't. But you can certainly drown. No pollution required, the purest of water will work just fine.
[09:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:00] <exec> 08└─So to play along with your dictionary game: a) "contact or admixture" - dictionary.com "contact or association" "admixture"
[09:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:02] <exec> 08└─Of course the CO2 released during fermentation was previously captured by the very plants that get fermented. Therefore the process is carbon neutral (except for the carbon used in the industrial farming process, that is).
[09:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:04] <exec> 08└─This water does not exist in the form of ice, save perhaps in the permanent shadows of some craters at the lunar poles. Instead, it is chemically bound to rocks in the uppermost layer of the lunar surface, to a depth "of less than a micrometer [0.00004 inches],"
[09:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:07] <exec> 08└─"It's not "adding air to air" - it's adding CO2 in excess that becomes pollution." It's adding air to air. Air is a composite gas, CO2 is one of the normal components, we're only dickering over the ratios. That's not pollution. And I'll add that contrary to apparently widespread but completely nonse...
[09:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:09] <exec> 08└─Again, none of these words make sense if both the subject and the object are the same. Let's see if we can agree on a little common sense here. Once we narrow those words down as much as you've done, there's nothing to prevent the subject and object from being the same, in some sense. If we ignore e...
[09:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:11] <exec> 08└─Oh, come on, Arik! Really now. You find nothing funnier to post than some bickering over definitions? Look, I am one of the guys that say "AGW is happening due to the increased CO2 concentration in air". You call it pollutant or non-pollutant, CO2 doesn't care about your definitions: it will continu...
[09:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 1908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:46] <exec> 08└─Hmm. I wonder if it is technologically feasible to build a sufficiently powerful laser to mess with the transit luminosity profile enough to send a (possibly slow) message? That is, deliberately do something that looks something like KIC 8462852 [wikipedia.org] to an observer on an exoplanet looking...
[09:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:47] <exec> 08└─The solid angle subtended by the full orbit (radius R) of a small (radius r) planet as a ratio of the full sphere is ~r/R ? Mrad/Maxis 4.1 E-5 ? Vrad/Vaxis 5.5 E-5 ? Erad/Eaxis 4.3 E-5 ? Jrad/Jaxis 9.1 E-5 Pah, let's ignore mars and generously call all other planets Jupiter-ish, because it sweeps ou...
[09:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:45] <exec> 08└─I think we can safely ignore this nonsense; it's written by economists and we all know they were the dumbest kids in class right from the start. Wonder how many other factors they ignored so they could focus solely on age?
[09:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03dr_barnowl [1568] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Drive Becomes Popular Substitute For Torrent Websites - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:35] <exec> 08└─I know... "antiquated torrent tech" hahahahahaha. Torrents are about as cyberpunk as you can get - files hosted everywhere but nowhere, no central server required (not even for torrent hosting with distributed hashtables and magnet links). Cloud file hosting uses some of the same technology, but is...
[09:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hackers Lie in Wait After Penetrating US and Europe Power Grid Networks - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:00] <exec> 08└─Someone didn't read the Equifax stories.
[09:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Lie in Wait After Penetrating US and Europe Power Grid Networks - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:01] <exec> 08└─I was talking about being able to survive without public infrastructure and for how long, and how some people decided to build hydro power plants for long term power for themselves. If we are talking about an active state of war, when people have located where you live and are deliberately attemptin...
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[10:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:41] <exec> 08└─This sort of comment is great for the leftist media to snark at the dumb fascists. *But* does it really help anyone, or is it just an opportunity for the literati to snigger and feel superior?
[10:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:43] <exec> 08└─Agreed. Clearly showing that he is not very bright won't break up his support, and probably actually does exactly the opposite. What is the best way to break up his support?
[10:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:45] <exec> 08└─Well, this was by a member of Die Partei. [wikipedia.org] One of the main considerations probably was: Is it funny?
[10:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:47] <exec> 08└─A politician that is stupid and/or ignorant? This may be something new to Germany. Not that they don't have their deal of evil ones.
[10:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:49] <exec> 08└─> Let them destroy themselves with their own stupidity. Why didn't it work with Trump?
[10:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:52] <exec> 08└─> What is the best way to break up his support? Education of the electorate.
[10:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:54] <exec> 08└─Wait, he is just anticipating the AI revolution. Putting normal numbers [wikipedia.org] on the houses, will provide never-ending job opportunities.
[10:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:53] <exec> 08└─See also Fischer-Tropsch process [wikipedia.org]. It's not a new idea.
[10:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:55] <exec> 08└─This is a stupid semantic argument.
[10:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:57] <exec> 08└─> What YOU appear to have done is to smuggle in the postulate "anything that is bad is pollution." I have done nothing of the sort.
[10:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:59] <exec> 08└─if both the subject and the object are the same
[10:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 2982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:01] <exec> 08└─It's not about funny, I like to make a funny as much as anyone, but this is damn serious. I'm a problem solver, son and grandson of problem solvers, I've been doing it as long as I can remember and I expect I'll be doing it on my deathbed. And I tell you completely serious, no joke, the first step t...
[10:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:04] <exec> 08└─Air is a compound gas composed of nitrogen, oxygen, argon, CO2, and a few other gases in minute quantities. The exact ratio is variable and has varied considerably over time. Introducing more of one of the constituent gases in a compound gas is not 'pollution.' It's changing the ratio. Pollution doe...
[10:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:37] <exec> 08└─> "Older children, in this case those born in early September, do better in elementary school than their younger peers," says Dhuey, whose past research has explored this phenomenon. Older children, in this case those born in early September, *on average* do better in elementary school than their yo...
[10:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:54] <exec> 08└─Okay, Timmy, that's enough internet for you today. Go sit in the corner and think about what you've done.
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[11:00:53] <exec> 08└─Why didn't it work with Trump?
[11:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Struts Flaw Reportedly Exploited in Equifax Hack - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not seeing a compelling argument against MVC web-app frameworks.
[11:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:01] <exec> 08└─"I have done nothing of the sort." Well all right let's take a look at this then. Here's your caricature of my position; ""X is part of Y, and Y is good, therefore Y with more X is good"" I never used the word 'good' and what I actually said, boiled down to match your statement structurally, would a...
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[11:02:03] <exec> 08└─It denotes introduction of a foreign element
[11:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:05] <exec> 08└─> I only said it was not 'pollution. And that is where we are in the clearest disagreement. I believe pollution is non-binary, and depends upon concentration (and other contextual properties). Explicitly - concentration x1 of X in Y can be considered not pollution, and concentration x2 of X in Y can...
[11:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:07] <exec> 08└─> Pollution is a clearly defined term, with a clearly defined meaning The definitions you quoted are not identical to each other. Therefore you yourself seem to have proved that the definition is not as clear as you have just claimed.
[11:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:09] <exec> 08└─If Y is polluted with X, would adding more pure Y *reduce* the X pollution?
[11:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 1635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah that's great, just a few little issues though. See what you're talking about is light helium. It's one of the lightest things that exist in the universe. Light, in this case thought not always, meaning 'having very little mass.' Now if you'll remember you're physics E=MC^2. So in a fuel, all ot...
[11:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:13] <exec> 08└─Alright, let me know when you decide on the name for your new language, and good luck with that!
[11:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:16] <exec> 08└─Pollution is a clearly defined term, with a clearly defined meaning
[11:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:18] <exec> 08└─Paracelsus?
[11:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Study Finds Oldest Kids in Class do Better, Even Into University - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:54] <exec> 08└─Hm,... might this be post-hoc theorizing? My first reaction was to challenge the study. This question pops up from time to time and IIRC the long-term effect has been debunked in the past. TLDR, so I cannot judge the quality of the study, but to follow children to adulthood is extremely challenging...
[11:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:12] <exec> 08└─Yeaaaah, no, sorry, but when someone gleefully posts about people "getting triggered," filling their diapers, etc, that's wishing pain on them, and for the express purpose of enjoying it. Again, read the man's post history; this is not a well-socialized human being we're dealing with. I don't know w...
[11:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:13] <exec> 08└─Not to bring up my last couple of exes, but I'm not sure you can call it rape when it's the third date and she's pouring the vodka... And then she does it again on the forth... And then she brings her girl-friend... Wait, come to think of it, am I getting raped here?! I should have know better when...
[11:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:16] <exec> 08└─That's why I explicitly avoided any mention if identifying anyone.
[11:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:18] <exec> 08└─So, do we know whose ass it is yet?
[11:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06China Planning Gas and Diesel Car Ban - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:36] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the electron-positron collider (bigger and better than LEP, CERN's effort)
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[12:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:34] <exec> 08└─Her identifier was Bj..... Nice one! ;) Pretty cool. My wife would have been a warrior: raise the kids, kill some dude, clean my axe (nudge nudge say no more!)
[12:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:36] <exec> 08└─Feminists would still have hated it. They didn't have special, lower standards on viking raiding parties. You can bet your sweet ass that Lagertha earned every bit of status she had.
[12:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 3902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:03] <exec> 08└─Over the top indoctrination and ridiculous hyperbole about all right wing candidates are Literally Hitler for decades is their support base, not their opposition, at least in the USA, so if you're on the good guys side, um sure, uh, go right ahead with that plan of yours. As a right wing guy myself,...
[12:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 844 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:05] <exec> 08└─I thought he meant Roman Numerals. When I was a kid I thought those poor kids in Rome had to do their arithmetic using Roman Numerals. The school encouraged that belief with discussion and artwork explaining Roman Empire children actually did so. Crack open a modern Roman Missal and the prevalence o...
[12:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:07] <exec> 08└─against an inherently racist - and therefore stupid - idiot.
[12:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apache Struts Flaw Reportedly Exploited in Equifax Hack - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:18] <exec> 08└─Do you see any compelling arguments against proprietary blobware?
[12:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apache Struts Flaw Reportedly Exploited in Equifax Hack - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:20] <exec> 08└─What? Struts is Free and Open Source, you just said so yourself. As for 'blobware' - it's a large complex codebase, sure, but we're talking about large complex software systems. I don't see that security is necessarily improved by having Equifax write more code and Apache write less. Modern operatin...
[12:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 4124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:27] <exec> 08└─"Apparently not so, for you have not been able to point us to any definition that is remotely clear in the sense you would like it to be." I pointed to not one but three definitions and showed how each and every one of them necessarily implied exactly the definition of the word that I used. You can'...
[12:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03baldrick [352] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:28] <exec> 08└─if you had a saltwater enviroment with a fish in it and kept adding fresh water would the fish consider you to be polluting its enviroment ?
[12:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:30] <exec> 08└─"If Y is polluted with X, would adding more pure Y *reduce* the X pollution?" If you have a container of Y polluted with some portion of foreign matter X, to which you add more pure Y, you would now have a larger quantity of polluted Y, with a lower concentration of pollutant X. However, it would st...
[12:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:32] <exec> 08└─No.
[12:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:35] <exec> 08└─And I tell you completely serious, no joke, the first step to solving a problem is to define the problem.
[12:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:37] <exec> 08└─So pollution is a binary attribute in terms of presence or absence??! It is clear that it is you who disagrees with the rest of the world in your definitions.
[12:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:39] <exec> 08└─So, is a cow only carbon-neutral if you bury it once it dies? I mean I like my aged steak, but I'm not too keen on having to *dig* for it.. Besides, the problem with steak is the water use, rather than the by-products.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au [huffingto...
[12:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:42] <exec> 08└─You must be new here..
[12:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:44] <exec> 08└─I pointed to not one but three definitions and showed how each and every one of them necessarily implied exactly the definition of the word that I used. You can't have missed the post, just up the tree.
[12:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:47] <exec> 08└─but please call me back when they can produce 18yo Highland Park (or any other malt, just going through a Highland Park phase at present...) in a similar manner.
[12:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03dx3bydt3 [82] (Score: 2) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:23] <exec> 08└─I would guess that isn't about the area subtended by the planet, rather it is the observable angles where at least one planet would cross the disc of the sun. 1 in 40 implies that 4.5° to either side of the plane of the solar system. Since all the planets have orbital planes that are inclined relat...
[12:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 1608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:03:25] <exec> 08└─Hmm. Equatorial radius of Sun: 695,700 km -> Area of solar disc: 4,371,000 km2 (4.371x1012 m,sup>2) Equatorial radius of Earth: 6,378 km -> Area of Earth's disk: 40,074 km2 (40.074x109 m,sup>2) Percentage of total solar disc covered by earth during full transit (i.e. not at beginning or end): 0.9168...
[12:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:47] <exec> 08└─> humans seemed to have it down to about 3/5 while the computer brought it up to 4/5. It's not really a massive endorsement of the technology to just be slightly better then a human Given that the dataset they were using seems to be exactly 50/50, that isn't slightly better, that's very much better....
[12:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:49] <exec> 08└─If male: if smiling broadly: gay; else: straight; else: if smiling broadly: straight; else: gay;
[12:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06China Planning Gas and Diesel Car Ban - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:09] <exec> 08└─I don't know much about it, but from this description I would say yea (its effects seem arbitrary and dubious): https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Apparently it was designed to limit China's population to 700 million...
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[13:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Turns to White Hat Hacker "Superstars" - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:39] <exec> 08└─Will anyone listen? If what they suggest for security is expensive, will HP push it? Dollars talk an awful lot and LOUDLY. They also shit on people and good ideas. "The three security superstars, who will receive honorariums for their service, include:" ---says a lot right there: we are not hiring t...
[13:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spelli [6123] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:48] <exec> 08└─How does that fit into the feminist/SJW agenda that there is no biological difference between men and women? There is no way DNA can prove sex!
[13:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:18] <exec> 08└─The key factor was whether his campaign would fall apart before he became president. Obviously, he held it together long enough.
[13:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:20] <exec> 08└─As I was saying for a full year up to the election, the majority of the stupidity was coming from the anti-Trump people... They gave the election to him.
[13:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:49] <exec> 08└─"You can pollute your body with too much water, then you die." Yeah, no, you actually can't. But you can certainly drown. No pollution required, the purest of water will work just fine.
[13:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:50] <exec> 08└─So, is a cow only carbon-neutral if you bury it once it dies? I mean I like my aged steak, but I'm not too keen on having to *dig* for it..
[13:03:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 212 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:00] <exec> 08└─There is no authorization in the constitution for drug laws or enforcement, so there is no valid law there to trump the state statute. But we quit pretending to follow the constitution a long time ago, didn't we?
[13:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:08] <exec> 08└─As others have pointed out [coyoteblog.com], the laws and regulations aimed at opioids are all about "OMG drug abuse", and give absolute zero consideration to the people who actually need these drugs. Better to let one hundred chronically ill patients writhe in agony, than to let one unauthorized pe...
[13:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:33] <exec> 08└─Ah, OK, smearing the orbits' precession (I'm using loose terminology - I mean anything that causes the planet to deviate from a perfect ellipse) over the sphere by ignoring the time dimension, yeah that might get it closer to that magnitude of number - "will ever get a chance to see at least one tra...
[13:03:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 797 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:51] <exec> 08└─I suspect you're wrong on that. The status of original nations in the US is not so clear cut. The US courts, in fact, created a new status for them as 'domestic nations' in order to reconcile the various promises that were made to respect their territory and sovereignty with the political reality th...
[13:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:07] <exec> 08└─Both the drug companies and the Mohawk nation have lawyers and they all appear to believe this is a winning move
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[14:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Turns to White Hat Hacker "Superstars" - 907 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:38] <exec> 08└─I'm wondering how HP employees feel about this. Seems to me that it would be a morale killer -- after all, the ethical programmers within HP have probably been (for the most part) trying to do a good job while having to deal with the usual MBA bs...cutting budgets and lowering priority for anything...
[14:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Turns to White Hat Hacker "Superstars" - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:39] <exec> 08└─Fuck stardom. I want paid.
[14:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:50] <exec> 08└─Wanted to say similar. Feminists would be good to take a look at what women are capable of when not focusing one's energies on creating a pervasive narrative about how all womyn-born-womyn would be “rock star” programmers who write bug-free code on the first attempt every time, if only it weren'...
[14:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Troll) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:51] <exec> 08└─Yup. I see the SJW types are out early this morning too. Must have been a sale on Venezuelan, organic, cruelty-free mocha-lattes down at Starbucks this morning. Here, have a preemptive upmod to counter some of the inevitable rage-mods. Mods: Now that was a Troll post. GP was just cold, hard reality...
[14:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:53] <exec> 08└─Mods: Now that was a Troll post.
[14:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:55] <exec> 08└─There is no way DNA can prove sex!
[14:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:58] <exec> 08└─I am honestly baffled when I try to figure out what Tmb thinks a feminist is. If you want someone to know what a bird is, you point at a sparrow, not a bat - and definitely not a lynx.
[14:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Flyby Plan Finalized; Pluto Features Named - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:05] <exec> 08└─I like how they refer to Pluto as one of the "farthest worlds ever explored." We can't call it a planet any more, but looking at the pictures, it sure looks like a world.
[14:01:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06By the Numbers - 3902 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:27] <exec> 08└─Over the top indoctrination and ridiculous hyperbole about all right wing candidates are Literally Hitler for decades is their support base, not their opposition, at least in the USA, so if you're on the good guys side, um sure, uh, go right ahead with that plan of yours. As a right wing guy myself,...
[14:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 1631 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:32] <exec> 08└─are there actual quotes from people with actual names that have suggested that liberals have engaged in "chanting stuff about all white people need to be eliminated via open borders, and anyone not a Marxist is a Nazi"? that seems really like echo chamber propaganda from some biased publication. the...
[14:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, well, what numerals should Germanic peoples use? I happen to be of Germanic descent, and I've been forced to use Arabic numerals my entire life! Though granted I haven't given the Eastern Arabic numerals a spin, but it's still not Germanic! What's the alternative? Roman numerals?! People called...
[14:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:36] <exec> 08└─Why didn't it work with Trump?
[14:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:08] <exec> 08└─Cows fart methane which is about 200x as potent as CO2. So yeah, cows bad.
[14:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:09] <exec> 08└─Increasing the amounts of any constituent gas implicitly requires decreasing the amount of one or more other gases.
[14:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:12] <exec> 08└─Introducing more of one of the constituent gases in a compound gas is not 'pollution.'
[14:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:28] <exec> 08└─You left out ONE BIG point..... You have to have a passport to legally cross the border. [TTBOMK] Growing up in the 1960/70 125 miles from the border was great. Cheap sugar and other staples including limited [? 2 bottles / person] of liquor. Even basic meds, some not needing a script, like general...
[14:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Len Wein, ‘Wolverine’ Co-Creator, 'Watchmen' Editor, Dead at 69 - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:40] <exec> 08└─How is someone's death "breaking news"? Am I supposed to stay tuned for further developments, like the deceased becoming a zombie and rising again?
[14:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:30] <exec> 08└─ok so which political party can we blame? I want to make sure I make condescending comments about the wrong side before anyone else does.
[14:04:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:32] <exec> 08└─I don't see how this changes anything. Is it a US patent, granted by the US patent office? Then it doesn't matter which nation is the rights holder of the patent. Review that thing and invalidate if warranted. If invalidated, the drug itself becomes generic on US controlled soil. If the St. Regis Mo...
[14:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:34] <exec> 08└─Why would one do such a thing? Well, it turns out that whatever patented IP owned by the tribe is protected from inter partes review challenges by their sovereign immunity. The Mohawks are, then, immediately moving to dismiss the PTO’s actions.
[14:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:36] <exec> 08└─but... they were soverign before being enlightned people with guns rounded them up and put them on crummy land. perhaps you can help arm their resistance and re-establish their control of the US? i forgot, you andrew jackson supporters like to blame victims for their problems. with white supremacy c...
[14:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:27] <exec> 08└─Yet Einstein was born to average parents...
[14:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Jaguar Land Rover to Electrify All its Cars by 2020 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:57] <exec> 08└─Will an electric Land Rover be able to stop a charging wino? Not if the electrics are built by Lucas.
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[15:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:38] <exec> 08└─With the global warming, which is NOT a real thing by the way and no amount of science/reality will convince me otherwise, the winds will probably pick up (but don't ask Floridians about that, they don't know ANYTHING about high winds) and make wind power even more affordable. But, probably not. Bec...
[15:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:39] <exec> 08└─The "£57.50" isn't a subsidy of that amount. It's a guaranteed price. That's all the wind farm operator will receive. Unless, of course, somehow, electricity from other sources is free. That would make it a subsidy. Is electricity from other sources free? The summary is a blatant misrepresentation...
[15:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fraxinus-tree [5590] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:41] <exec> 08└─Cheaper per kW installed power, cheaper per kWh produced power, cheaper per kWh produced power including balancing expenses?
[15:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:05] <exec> 08└─No mother-in-law jokes? What's this world coming to? Are Soylentils really that pussy whipped? "Oh my GOD, I can't compare this old battleaxe to my mother-in-law, what if the wife reads this? I'D BE DEAD!!" No, I'm not surprised that a woman could have been a respected Viking. There have been a numb...
[15:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:06] <exec> 08└─If you have a problem with that, start giving the bats and lynxes the boot from your cult. Currently, this [dailysquat.com] is what people think when they hear "feminist". Fat, ugly cunts who're too busy man-hating to be concerned with equal rights.
[15:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:09] <exec> 08└─I thought the idiots would have stayed over at slashdot. Sadly that's not the case. What is wrong with your brain? Can you really not see how irrational you are?
[15:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:11] <exec> 08└─Hold on, let me find you a mirror...
[15:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:13] <exec> 08└─Or, lacking that, some dough at least.
[15:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 1616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:15] <exec> 08└─After a quick read of the paper one can only conclude there are strong indications of wishful thinking on the part of the author. They are applying various modern feminist theories to their findings. They are questioning previous assumptions, which may or may not be correct. But they don't prove tha...
[15:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:17] <exec> 08└─My mother-in-law is dead, you insensitive clod! Also, Boudica in Britain and Dihya [wikipedia.org] in North Africa, resisting the muslim invasion. Women might not be as physically strong as the strongest men, but they're strong enough to be soldiers. They are certainly mentally tough enough. It come...
[15:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:20] <exec> 08└─if only it weren't for $excuse.
[15:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:22] <exec> 08└─Any straight man who has ever been married can vouch for the ferocity, tenacity, and cruelty of the enraged female.
[15:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:24] <exec> 08└─"you insensitive clod!" She loves me after all! Gotta love those strong women!!
[15:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:26] <exec> 08└─Must have been a sale on Venezuelan, organic, cruelty-free soy mocha-lattes down at Starbucks this morning.
[15:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:29] <exec> 08└─Currently, this [dailysquat.com] is what people think when they hear "feminist"
[15:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 3652 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:31] <exec> 08└─Sure, there are people out there who are free thinkers and believe in equality, who, for reasons I cannot comprehend, call themselves “feminists.” Feminism is and always has been a cisfemale supremacist movement, and the arguments they use are just as execrable as the arguments that white suprem...
[15:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:33] <exec> 08└─I love you too! That was an excellent dodge of the question. I still don't know what you think.
[15:02:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03kazzie [5309] 02 - 06Apache Struts Flaw Reportedly Exploited in Equifax Hack - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:16] <exec> 08└─I had a mental image of a Native American parading up and down with an exploit in his hand...
[15:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03goodie [1877] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Apache Struts Flaw Reportedly Exploited in Equifax Hack - 788 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:21] <exec> 08└─was "wow, people still actively use Struts?". Not that I don't think it is a good framework. In principle it works well, but my experience with it was rather debilitating after a while. the idea that you can create navigation rules and bind your view to a model is quite interesting, but it is rather...
[15:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:43] <exec> 08└─So in a fuel, all other things being equal, we'd prefer heavy, but ok, minor quibble, moving on.
[15:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:45] <exec> 08└─Better than paracetamol or parafahrenheit.
[15:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:47] <exec> 08└─According to your logic, anything that is unhealthy is pollution?
[15:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:49] <exec> 08└─If CO2 levels in the atmosphere fell enough, that could bring about an ice age.
[15:03:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:52] <exec> 08└─Well, Highland Park is harder, it will require thick air in input.
[15:03:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:54] <exec> 08└─> Now if you'll remember you're physics E=MC^2. So in a fuel, all other things being equal, we'd prefer heavy, but ok, minor quibble, moving on. I'm sure any day now you'll be announcing your matter-energy converter that makes E=mc^2 relevant for fuel :)
[15:04:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 772 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:09] <exec> 08└─As others have pointed out [coyoteblog.com], the laws and regulations aimed at opioids are all about "OMG drug abuse", and give absolute zero consideration to the people who actually need these drugs. Better to let one hundred chronically ill patients writhe in agony, than to let one unauthorized pe...
[15:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:11] <exec> 08└─*sigh* You left us with a great lead for our stories about Juan's Border Bar and Clinic - then you came back and added more pertinent data. I'm so disappointed. The first time I met Ethanol-Fueled was in Juan's. And, 'Zumi, too. Never saw Aristachus there, though. I heard he simply won't drink cheap...
[15:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 948 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:16] <exec> 08└─A pharma company found a way to make one of their patents immune to a specific legal challenge that was underway by essentially having the holder be someone totally unexpected that has special privileges. The patent is not immune to ALL legal challenges, but it does appear to apply to the specific o...
[15:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:17] <exec> 08└─ok so which political party can we blame?
[15:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stanford University Researchers Create AI to Detect Sexual Orientation - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:09] <exec> 08└─Don't be ridiculous. We have plenty of people going into STEM programs (maybe not as many as some would like...), and the pace of software development, as one example, certainly isn't slowing down. And there's plenty of people going into trades work (again, not as many as some would like) to do the...
[15:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:15] <exec> 08└─Bullshit. That sounds just like the ol' "I was just following orders" excuse. No one forces a prosecutor to prosecute someone who's obviously not guilty, yet they happily do it anyway because it helps their career. That is the very definition of evil. If you do evil, then you are evil.
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[16:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:39] <exec> 08└─There's nothing about Malware that is in any way interesting; it's the most rudimentary stuff ever—that's why our view of the malware hacker is a slobbish teenager in Eastern Europe, rather than a monocled mad scientist with crazy hair; a child could figure out most of these exploits. Software SUC...
[16:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:40] <exec> 08└─All apps should be statically linked and fully isolated from each other. Sure, it takes up more space, but that really isn't an issue anymore.
[16:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:51] <exec> 08└─Poe's law warning, you're being too subtle for S/N.
[16:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:52] <exec> 08└─The "£57.50" isn't a subsidy of that amount. It's a guaranteed price. That's all the wind farm operator will receive.
[16:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:54] <exec> 08└─Cheaper per PR article.
[16:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:57] <exec> 08└─When the winds pick up significantly, they have to shut down the wind turbines. They are designed to capture breezes, and they break if you try to let them run in high winds.
[16:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:59] <exec> 08└─;) Weeding out the idiots, lol.
[16:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:01] <exec> 08└─So build better turbines! Wind(ter) is coming.
[16:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:03] <exec> 08└─In the bizarre system of energy production and supply in the UK you can generally only save money if you switch "providers" every year to get the cheapest tariff. This year is the first year in quite a while that I've been unable to switch to a cheap deal and my energy costs will be going up by almo...
[16:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:06] <exec> 08└─> The subsidies, paid from a levy on consumer bills, will run for 15 years - unlike nuclear subsidies for Hinkley C which run for 35 years. Experience shows nuke plants last longer. The AGRs in the UK were years late and had many construction problems, but they are all expected to last 35yrs+. The p...
[16:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:08] <exec> 08└─Much better than with Ontario Hydro (One): the mismanagement of OH is still being paid for. Bad decisions, mismanagement and huge bonuses to same management: our Hydro bills still (last i looked) show 'debt repayment' to pay back for that mismanagement and 'bonuses'. Idiots should not be able to get...
[16:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:10] <exec> 08└─Glad you like it, Sisyphus, this job is endless ;)
[16:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:12] <exec> 08└─the mismanagement of OH is still being paid for. Bad decisions, mismanagement and huge bonuses to same management: our Hydro bills still (last i looked) show 'debt repayment' to pay back for that mismanagement and 'bonuses'.
[16:01:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 1616 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:41] <exec> 08└─After a quick read of the paper one can only conclude there are strong indications of wishful thinking on the part of the author. They are applying various modern feminist theories to their findings. They are questioning previous assumptions, which may or may not be correct. But they don't prove tha...
[16:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:52] <exec> 08└─It was clearly a transgender.
[16:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:53] <exec> 08└─Iroquois warbands were composed mostly of men and led by men. Civil society may have been matriarchal, but as far as my reading has shown, their warmaking was male dominated.
[16:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:55] <exec> 08└─I still don't know what you think.
[16:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:58] <exec> 08└─...intersectional perspectives...
[16:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:33] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentimal_system [wikipedia.org]
[16:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:35] <exec> 08└─Muh feeeeelz! Poor white people are so oppressed now!! You never stood up against racism before, so why should anyone give a shit about your crybaby whining now? The number of true bigots on the liberal spectrum is way way way lower than on the right. So shut up and fix your own neighborhood, maybe...
[16:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:17] <exec> 08└─Beer causes global warming? 😞
[16:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:18] <exec> 08└─Beer causes global warming? 😞
[16:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 610 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:37] <exec> 08└─The drug war is all about the cash now. If you have significant assets that can easily be seized then you're at risk. I've got a difficult to treat auto-immune disease (presumably a birth defect) where my immune system attacks me. It's painful as hell, and the medications for it barely help. When I...
[16:05:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:17] <exec> 08└─From the article: “The validity of your patents is subject to review, unless you pay off some Indian tribe” does not seem like a good way to run an intellectual property system.
[16:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Atatsu [4251] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:47] <exec> 08└─Again, opposition to Trump != being for Hillary. When are you alt-right types going to get that through your thick skulls?!?
[16:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:49] <exec> 08└─How many black people voted for Trump in the election? Serious question.
[16:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:51] <exec> 08└─Oh, OK, sure, I guess I'll give equal time for a bit. Seems kinda pointless though, since people were shaking their little fists of rage at the Trump direction, rather than the other way around, but .... *deep breath* ... Climate change shows every sign of being real, and in the direction of greater...
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[17:00:45] <exec> 08└─It doesn't sound like a problem related to dynamic linking. The issue seems to be that some forms of library calls on android can cross privilege boundaries, allowing an app with less privileges to call functions in a library with more privileges, and the library operations work with elevated privil...
[17:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:46] <exec> 08└─From TFA: A team of Oxford and Cambridge researchers is the latest to join a chorus of voices sounding the alarm on a new attack vector named Intra-Library Collusion (ILC) that could make identifying Android malware much harder in the upcoming future.
[17:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:48] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=%22in+the+upcoming+future%22 [google.com]
[17:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:51] <exec> 08└─How can it be that a multi-billion-dollar organization that employs for Big Bucks almost exclusively the creme-de-la-creme of the intelligentsia can produce such obvious flaws? HOW?! I've spent much time around those "smart" people; they're not that smart—or, perhaps more accurately: They don't gi...
[17:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:53] <exec> 08└─It doesn't sound like a problem related to dynamic linking.
[17:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:55] <exec> 08└─This. It's not the linking that's the problem, its the uncontrolled communication channel between the app with privileges to read the private data and the app with privileges to expatriate it. This hack goes through an extra library, but it could go through any superstitiously shared memory area - p...
[17:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:57] <exec> 08└─So, if you download the hairspray app and the deodorant app, when you start using the makeup app, you die laughing?
[17:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:59] <exec> 08└─Shouldn't library code always run with the privileges of the application calling it?
[17:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:02] <exec> 08└─It does. It's just a malicious library being used for message passing between two malicious apps. This isn't really much of a worry in opensource libraries. In theory anyway. In practice you may see a few instances slip through now and then.
[17:01:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 51 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:13] <exec> 08└─Poe's law warning, you're being too subtle for S/N.
[17:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:24] <exec> 08└─You live in a time of transition. You can either suffer a bit so that proper and timely investments into the new infrastructure are done, or you can stick with the old infrastructure, and have a sharp transition (i.e. "crisis") when it becomes untenable. Even energy companies are not large enough to...
[17:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:25] <exec> 08└─No, I live in a time where evil money grabbing bastards are encouraged to gouge their customers and get away with it. The energy companies are making record profits [theguardian.com] while claiming that all the money is invested in "Green" energy or paid to the government in taxes. The figures show...
[17:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:27] <exec> 08└─Well, one of the idiots is a staff member and several others are indefatigable foot soldiers for the alt-reich, so good luck with that. Let me help you push that rock up that hill...
[17:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:30] <exec> 08└─Guaranteed price on a demand/supply market can act as subsidies, if the price falls lower than that
[17:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:32] <exec> 08└─Wasnt there an article the other day about a wind turbine that can withstand such winds and be able to power a WHOLE country?
[17:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:34] <exec> 08└─Since it is comparing the guaranteed price, it's cheaper per kWh of produced power.
[17:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:36] <exec> 08└─A rolling stone... ...hurts like HELL! :)
[17:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:39] <exec> 08└─Except: Wynne. Shit happened.
[17:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:41] <exec> 08└─I think they expect the newest nukes to work for 60 years. It is not impossible that the company/administration managing the wind farm you were looking at, either ran out of money for maintenance (for political reasons, bad management, or because the type of turbine wasn't viable for that place afte...
[17:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Turns to White Hat Hacker "Superstars" - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:52] <exec> 08└─I guaran-damn-tee you most of the security issues would be fixed, or never have come up in the first place, if management would get the ever-loving hell out of the programmers' and engineers' way and let them do their jobs. There is something grimly amusing about management screwing up their tech pe...
[17:02:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 34 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:24] <exec> 08└─I still don't know what you think.
[17:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:27] <exec> 08└─No, AC is right, you're a reflexive idiot. You have an image in your mind that covers a very large group of people, we call such images stereotypes. People who regularly use stereotypes as the 100% true version of reality are what we call "morons". For the opposite version of your stupidity: "all Re...
[17:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:29] <exec> 08└─You don't follow modern feminism then. Easter-egg-colored hair, drab clothing, and thick, ugly glasses is the de facto uniform for feminist activists in the US. Do your research then tell me I'm wrong.
[17:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:31] <exec> 08└─I think a feminist should be an egalitarian. What they are is nothing of the kind anymore though. For the most part, they're either bitter little hate-filled bitches in dire need of a good dicking or beta pussies who think going along with the bitter bitches will get them laid (It won't. They're luc...
[17:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:34] <exec> 08└─People who cannot tell the difference between the proper use of a generalization and the inability to see gradations and exceptions are bigger morons though.
[17:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:36] <exec> 08└─That man is made of straw!
[17:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:38] <exec> 08└─Well, damn, I guess I'm not a modern feminist then with the all-black look and hair down to my knees. Meh, given how bankrupt the third wave has been for the last 10 years maybe this isn't a bad thing.
[17:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:40] <exec> 08└─Okay you know what Kurenai? Go fuck yourself. I'm tired of listening to you compare the worst of the worst, the scummy genocidal TERFs, to ordinary women. Shit like this is in part WHY there are TERFs; your unhinged, aggrieved ranting does nothing but add fuel to the dumpster fire of the "transwomen...
[17:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:42] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you, we gay girls can too. My ex had a ferocious temper. It was like being a Ragdoll cat getting savaged by a smaller Siamese sometimes, I swear.
[17:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:45] <exec> 08└─You're likely one of the few percent that understand conformity != rebellion. You likely also know what equality actually means, which disqualifies you for the third wave. I've pointed it out to you before but it hasn't sunk in yet: extreme fringe cases aside, we agree on nearly every social issue....
[17:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:47] <exec> 08└─You don't follow modern feminism then
[17:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:49] <exec> 08└─Fearsome Viking Warrior
[17:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:51] <exec> 08└─You just completely agreed with him while telling him to go fuck himself. This amuses me.
[17:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:54] <exec> 08└─I think you need to google that term before you try using it again.
[17:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:56] <exec> 08└─Er, no, Uzzard. Try reading for comprehension. *She* is, once again, equating the entirety of cisgender women--she's not even sticking to just feminists now!--with the TERFy lunatics at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. My response to her is, once again, "cut that shit out; this is why no one tak...
[17:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:58] <exec> 08└─Understood and approved of. I'll back laziness most any day of the week.
[17:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:00] <exec> 08└─No, no we do not. Not even close. Don't try and drag me down to your level. And take your "fiscal looter" bullshit and shove it up your carrion-molesting ass so hard you choke on it; neoliberals are fiscal looters, the big banks are fiscal looters, in short, all the people transferring wealth upward...
[17:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:03] <exec> 08└─Read his post again without your panties bunched up your ass. He was talking about feminists not all women.
[17:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:05] <exec> 08└─I know, right? Women... Almost enough to make you go straight.
[17:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:07] <exec> 08└─Directionality is irrelevant. Looting is looting. Punching up is not one iota more moral than punching down.
[17:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 619 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:09] <exec> 08└─If you want someone to know what a bird is, you point at a sparrow, not a bat Actually, that's incorrect if you believe the Bible: (Leviticus 11:13-19)--"These, moreover, you shall detest among the birds; they are abhorrent, not to be eaten: the eagle and the vulture and the buzzard, 14and the kite...
[17:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:11] <exec> 08└─Thanks for admitting you put profit and blind ideology above people. Not that I didn't know that about you before, but only someone completely devoid of humanity could possibly say something like that. You're suffering from the moral equivalent of a massive priority-inversion bug; get your scheduler...
[17:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Horizons Flyby Plan Finalized; Pluto Features Named - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:20] <exec> 08└─It has some things going for it. Largest radius of all known TNOs, a moon that is larger than many TNOs, five known moons, a possible internal liquid ocean, and a slightly higher temperature due to proximity to the Sun (affecting the sliver of atmosphere). Eris is more massive, and there might be mo...
[17:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Flyby Plan Finalized; Pluto Features Named - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:22] <exec> 08└─Call it a classification-challenged planet.
[17:03:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] 02 - 06By the Numbers - 86 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:38] <exec> 08└─> Let them destroy themselves with their own stupidity. Why didn't it work with Trump?
[17:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:54] <exec> 08└─I can't believe someone took the time to write an insightful reply to VLM. He may claim to not like murder, concentration camps, etc. but his "well, guess we'll have to fire up the ovens oh well" bit is very telling. What a piece of crap, if he doesn't get his way he'll be OK with using violence. Yo...
[17:05:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 1722 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:47] <exec> 08└─This is nothing, folks, the medical privacy situation is much much worse than TFA would have you to believe, and the clusterfuck starts with doctors themselves. Doctors and hospitals these days spit on our privacy. I swear, next time a doctor asks me which drugs I am regularly consuming, I am gonna...
[17:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:56] <exec> 08└─I swear, next time a doctor asks me which drugs I am regularly consuming, I am gonna ask her in return, which operating system is she using to log my responses. Regardless of the privacy issue, I have to assume you know there is a real reason, and kind of an obligation to ask what you are taking. Mi...
[17:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:23] <exec> 08└─The reason we don't have a solar eclipse every month (or alternatively, never) is that the earth orbits the sun. Other stars don't orbit the sun.
[17:06:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 122 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:32] <exec> 08└─They're sovereign until the government decides it doesn't have to honor treaties with brown people for the umpteenth time.
[17:11:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06What Does an Innocent Man Have to Do to Go Free? Plead Guilty. - 707 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:45] <exec> 08└─The fact that you wrote a check that isn't covered is proof that you did SOMETHING wrong. The question is, intent. You can "cheat" someone out of something, with intent, or without intent. There are extenuating and mitigating circumstances to consider. An individual who writes dozens of checks, on a...
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[18:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:38] <exec> 08└─We back. We black. Dick Niggers. Never fuckin no old pussy. We fuck lotta lotta young pussy. Dick Niggers gonna pull out and write "Dick Niggers" in black hot cum across yo snatch.
[18:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:39] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm stretching here - but couldn't the Voynich manuscript be written in some sort of dog Latin? There doesn't seem to be much evidence that the manuscript actually has been cracked, but that seems to me a bad argument against it.
[18:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:00] <exec> 08└─I think the upcoming future was steamrolled by the downgoing past.
[18:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:02] <exec> 08└─Everyone needs bling on their little electronic screen. Well, the weather apps are nice, if they could predict the weather... And the need for Solitaire? I would hope that goes without mentioning...
[18:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:04] <exec> 08└─>So - I'm thinking - on a multiuser system, it's the user, not the app, that is assigned permissions. But on mobile, user is the product, while app distributors are customers. A different ownership model.
[18:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:06] <exec> 08└─It's just a malicious library being used for message passing between two malicious apps. Seems inevitable when more than one app uses the same library. I would think static linking and full isolation would mitigate that problem, but I'm bumping into some disagreement. Am I really wrong?
[18:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:08] <exec> 08└─Original AC here. You can post all the google searches you want, but the future is *always* upcoming -- or it wouldn't be the future. As such, it's redundant and poor usage. If many people use a phrase like that, it's just many people eschewing clear, concise language. A million lemmings can't be wr...
[18:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:11] <exec> 08└─Why doesn't an app require an inter-process communication privilege? Is not IPC also a matter of I/O. Idiot programmers.
[18:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:13] <exec> 08└─Did they just take all of Microsoft's worst ideas, and try to make them even worse?
[18:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:15] <exec> 08└─Trying to assign permissions to libraries seems a damned half assed way to address security issues.
[18:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:17] <exec> 08└─They do assign permissions based on user, but every app has a different userid. Not sure how this works, or whether it's just a bug or a serious architectural failing.
[18:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:20] <exec> 08└─Maybe the communication is conducted in some less obvious way. Maybe by reading / writing files in some out of the way sub sub sub folder somewhere. The two colluding apps don't have to exfiltrate your contacts list in one second, when one week or one month would do just fine for the attacker as lon...
[18:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 647 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:22] <exec> 08└─The terminology seems to be messing up our understanding. Since libraries work one way on normal operating systems, and another way on Android. On a *normal* os, dynamic linking loads library code into the process's memory space and runs with its privileges. Or, it stays within privilege boundaries....
[18:01:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 413 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:32] <exec> 08└─The "£57.50" isn't a subsidy of that amount. It's a guaranteed price. That's all the wind farm operator will receive. Unless, of course, somehow, electricity from other sources is free. That would make it a subsidy. Is electricity from other sources free? The summary is a blatant misrepresentation...
[18:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:54] <exec> 08└─Yes, but unless the market price falls to zero, a guaranteed price of £57.50/MWh is never a subsidy of £57.50/MWh. But the latter is what the summary claims.
[18:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:55] <exec> 08└─Except: Wynne. Shit happened.
[18:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:57] <exec> 08└─From TFS: "Two firms said they were willing to build offshore wind farms for a subsidy of £57.50 per megawatt hour for 2022-23. This compares with the new Hinkley Point C nuclear plant securing subsidies of £92.50 per megawatt hour." It's handily there, for your reference, in the summary. The sour...
[18:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:00] <exec> 08└─:-) Oh c'mon... People are blaming "global warming" every time their hats get blown off their heads. I'll bet ya hurricanes were a lot bigger during the Mesozoic Era. Humans are becoming too frail to survive much longer on this planet. Pretty soon they're all gonna need one of those little electric...
[18:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:02] <exec> 08└─Depends. Wind turbines are designed for a certain range of wind velocities. They *could* be designed for hurricane strength winds, but those are so uncommon that it would be inefficient. But only some are designed for really low wind speeds.
[18:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:04] <exec> 08└─BTW Fnord666 and I are not the same person. We do, however, seem to share an affinity for evil. I know that's why I do what I do, because I'm evil [youtu.be]!
[18:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:06] <exec> 08└─The best cheapest way to decommission a nuke plant is to bury it where it stands, after blowing up all the really tall shit. And it will leave future archeologists wondering what the ancient mounds and weird purple plants growing on them are.
[18:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:08] <exec> 08└─They know the centralized party is coming to an end. Bond rating agencies downrated their debt a couple years ago, because the built infrastructure that was always the foundation of their monopoly is expensive to maintain and will turn into a millstone around their necks as customers disconnect from...
[18:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Turns to White Hat Hacker "Superstars" - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:19] <exec> 08└─Fuck your money. Pay me basic income.
[18:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:17] <exec> 08└─Sorry but nothing could make me "go straight" any more than anything could make you "go gay." It doesn't work like that. There just isn't any attraction to men here; nothing personal, but you all just don't look or smell (pheremones) right to me. I'm not grossed out by the idea, just about as turned...
[18:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:18] <exec> 08└─No. A feminist is in favor of female dominance. And egalitarian (or, possibly, an equalitarian) is what you call someone in favor of equal treatment. They've always been thin on the ground. Most people believe in better treatment for "people like me".
[18:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:20] <exec> 08└─Read his previous posts without your jockstrap tied tightly 'round your eyes and looped under your beak like some freaky avian BDSM slave; she has quite often dumped on *all* cis women ("cisgender hunnies") in the past and has been known to conflate them with feminists, and all feminists with the TE...
[18:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:23] <exec> 08└─Which makes sense - two universal truths: war is a dangerous business, and women are the long-term strength of the tribe. Wipe out 90% of the men in a tribe, and you're going to have some manpower issues for a few decades. Wipe out 90% of the women, and you're not going to have a tribe in a few deca...
[18:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 991 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:25] <exec> 08└─OK... a bit of reality here. SOME women can train up to be strong enough to be excellent primitive soldiers, but usually only in positions of leadership. But most men can't either. Notable primitive warrior women always seem to come from the nobility, but so do almost all of the notable male primiti...
[18:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:27] <exec> 08└─First, I am talking about feminists, not all women. One is not born a feminist. Our Viking here did not know the word feminist. Feminism does not even speak for all women, TERFs and trans women aside. Was about to post a correction to my post, since I thought I wasn't remembering the Skittles correc...
[18:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:29] <exec> 08└─How does that fit into the feminist/SJW agenda that there is no biological difference between men and women? There is no way DNA can prove sex! Misrepresenting your opponents argument to such a laughable extent just shows normal people how weak your position is. Keep it up!
[18:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:31] <exec> 08└─Clarification on the Hunnies thing. I see I failed with that one, and it did not adequate capture all that I had hoped it would. What I had in mind was disgust levied equally at men and women. At men, because how disrespectful do you have to be to half the planet's population to believe they perpetu...
[18:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:34] <exec> 08└─Well, when your only tool is a hammer, as the saying goes... … all gods look like Thor? :-)
[18:03:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06By the Numbers - 116 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:52] <exec> 08└─Ah, yes. I remember that recent outrage [theguardian.com] over a photo of a bus full of women in burqas bus seats...
[18:03:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KritonK [465] 02 - 06By the Numbers - 59 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:53] <exec> 08└─Mr. Best apparently does not know what Arabic numerals are.
[18:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:16] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the media. He bashed them all the time, but he loved the attention and they loved the ratings. He's still bashing them now, and they still love the ratings.
[18:04:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:18] <exec> 08└─Time may not be the one thing we have.
[18:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:22] <exec> 08└─There is no authorization in the constitution for drug laws or enforcement
[18:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03dx3bydt3 [82] (Score: 2) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:50] <exec> 08└─That sentence would then be more accurate to say, "a randomly positioned observer would have roughly a 1 in 40 chance of observing at least one planet... eventually". Venus and Mercury have the greatest inclination of their orbits, and Mercury takes over 230,000 years for the orbital ellipse to make...
[18:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:37] <exec> 08└─How many black people voted for Trump in the election? Serious question.
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[19:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:30] <exec> 08└─Ladies get moist. Dick Niggers in the house. We ain't never fuck no old pussy, nope. We be fuckin a lotta young pussy, that's right. Dick Niggers gonna slide this fine crafted nigger dick tween yo wet kelp folds.
[19:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:39] <exec> 08└─To me, it looks like a medieval monk's homework (or punishment). A lot of repeated symbols and crude drawings, because it took years of training before they could master the skills to flawlessly copy books. I saw one book from that era in Scotland the other day: jaw-dropping amazing letter consisten...
[19:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:41] <exec> 08└─To me, it looks like a junior coder's homework (or punishment). A lot of code reuse and unnecessary comments, because it takes years of practice before they can master the skills to flawlessly copy-and-paste from Stack Oberflow.
[19:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:44] <exec> 08└─It could be written in somebody's personal made-up language, for all we know. One of the proposed theories involves this being the scrawlings of a person who is just plain nuts.
[19:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:15] <exec> 08└─Some futures are more possible than others. Supposedly the upcoming ones ;).
[19:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:16] <exec> 08└─None of which require a "library". There's an unregulated communication channel, unrelated to using a library or dynamic linking.
[19:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:18] <exec> 08└─It's true. I wrote viruses as a teen. I was a poor teenager who couldn't afford a compiler, so I wrote macro viruses for an unpopular platform which meant they didn't spread very far. As soon as I found a copy of gcc I began writing more constructive software starting with games.
[19:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:20] <exec> 08└─That's what this is looking like to me as well. One app just registers as an intent listener and the other fires the info across that way. I don't think this is using arbitrary shared library instances. I could be wrong.
[19:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:23] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/08/19/0540237 [soylentnews.org]
[19:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:25] <exec> 08└─I would think static linking and full isolation would mitigate that problem, but I'm bumping into some disagreement. Am I really wrong?
[19:01:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Gaaark [41] 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 332 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:34] <exec> 08└─With the global warming, which is NOT a real thing by the way and no amount of science/reality will convince me otherwise, the winds will probably pick up (but don't ask Floridians about that, they don't know ANYTHING about high winds) and make wind power even more affordable. But, probably not. Bec...
[19:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:05] <exec> 08└─I was going to say: Here on the other side of the pond, Americans are still paying for the nuke plants built over 40 years ago. It's partially because the utilities are gouging, as they always do, but it's also that those things are really expensive to operate. Of course, we could reduce the operati...
[19:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:06] <exec> 08└─Only problem is that all that used wind won't degrade for another 50 years, and will keep cycling around. I hear that stuff causes birth defects.
[19:02:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03http [1920] 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 184 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:34] <exec> 08└─I am honestly baffled when I try to figure out what Tmb thinks a feminist is. If you want someone to know what a bird is, you point at a sparrow, not a bat - and definitely not a lynx.
[19:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 1192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:25] <exec> 08└─Do you truly think it didn't occur to them? I don't know, maybe I'm giving the identity-politics brigade too much credit, but there is a very good reason my brand of feminism involves outreach to men and trying to help them break out of the prison the kyriarchy puts them in (and why I tend to say ky...
[19:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:26] <exec> 08└─I was using it correctly. straw man ˌstrô ˈman/ noun noun: strawman 1. an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent's real argument.
[19:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:28] <exec> 08└─just about as turned on by men as by furniture or buildings
[19:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:31] <exec> 08└─No, only a small group of nutters, separatists, and loons are in favor of female dominance. That would be nearly as much of a disaster as the current male-dominated paradigm if you ask me.
[19:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 2594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:33] <exec> 08└─Without speaking for him, I can quite simply describe how many view feminism today. I used to believe I was a feminist. And by that I meant that I believe that women should have all opportunities, rights, and privileges as men. That, in the current wave of feminism, does not make a feminist. It make...
[19:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:35] <exec> 08└─Thanks for clearing up the hashtag there. I was wondering why feminists suddenly had a preference for short men.
[19:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:37] <exec> 08└─I just love the days when I can tell TMB he's a fucked up mess that doesn't deserve to live in a free country. I guess that is why he has such a hard-on for wealth inequality and justifies it with meritocracy. He does not understand human society and lauds ideals that would turn this place into an e...
[19:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:40] <exec> 08└─I think TMB insists on calling Kurenai "he" because it is actually TMBs infiltrator account where he can post his screed from a "SJW" puppet. Horribly unstable people.
[19:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:42] <exec> 08└─Glad to know you consider yourself a massive moron beyond doubt. Didn't think you had the capability for such self-reflection.
[19:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:44] <exec> 08└─> Bloody regressive left, always after my dough. Conversely, plenty of Neo-Nazis want to warm up the ovens!
[19:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:46] <exec> 08└─> just about as turned on by men as by furniture or buildings. Have you by any chance heard of Rule 34?
[19:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:48] <exec> 08└─Haha, TMB is a closet gay? Makes more sense why he's always using penis metaphors.
[19:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:51] <exec> 08└─I agree with the Runaway and extend the remarks to include a general dissatisfaction at the lack of 1) Nobody making fun of the "no true scottman" argument for being a "no true scottsman" argument. Or Scotts-woman as the case seems to be. 2) Nobody making fun of the ridiculous article text by juxtap...
[19:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Flyby Plan Finalized; Pluto Features Named - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:02] <exec> 08└─A minor planet is still a planet.
[19:04:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:37] <exec> 08└─I'm more of a leftist and I (mostly) agree with you. I wish the people that agreed with me on ideology would stop writing recruitment for the opposition. I'll just ignore the genocidal regression in your last paragraph...beyond pointing out that I could flip all the actors and it would sound exactly...
[19:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:40] <exec> 08└─So, unless people stand up, these laws will stand.
[19:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:09] <exec> 08└─Gladly, the speed of light cuts that number way down. Unless they are looking at our solar system with their gravity-sensing mohawks, and telepathing each other about why they would need occlusions, or yellow non-mohawkish head implants.
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[20:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:35] <exec> 08└─I don't think transfiguration is something I want in my beer.
[20:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:37] <exec> 08└─You know how MSG came about? The Japanese has a tradition of making broth by boiling sea weed (kelp). A Japanese chemist analyzed the broth to figure out what make it "brothy", and isolated the chemical compound, and then found a way to synthesize its analogue, i.e., monosodium glutamate, aka MSG. A...
[20:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:39] <exec> 08└─Transubstantiation beer. Drink the piss of Christ.
[20:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03oldmac31310 [4521] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:41] <exec> 08└─Is this what they are brewing by any chance?
[20:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:44] <exec> 08└─Epiphytes are plants but crustaceans are animals.
[20:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:46] <exec> 08└─"from the as-long-as-it's-not-IPA dept." I like IPA's, the hoppier the better. And Porters... mmmmmm.... Now it's gotta be gluten free. :(
[20:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 1035 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:57] <exec> 08└─General rule: If YOU say you've cracked some long-running puzzle that's baffled experts for decades/centuries, you haven't. If, however, you quietly submit a paper, which then spreads of its own accord, is confirmed by others, builds momentum, and becomes public knowledge by some other person unrela...
[20:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:59] <exec> 08└─More of an obscure, possibly encrypted, rebuttal? Khallow is going to be so disappointed!
[20:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:37] <exec> 08└─Well, crap. At least they're close to a month apart. Thank you for pointing it out and I'll strive to do better.
[20:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:39] <exec> 08└─i highlight the text, copy, then open the mail client and paste it into the content of a message I am writing. isn't that what other people do? any other way just adds your friends to someone else's list. People really click on the email icons on websites to share links? wow i thought that was just...
[20:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:41] <exec> 08└─so wait, why would something with wifi permissions need access to my contact list? wouldnt the application that I am using to read from the list need access to the content list, then the application relies on the OS, which then would have the permissions to determine what method to connect to a netw...
[20:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:43] <exec> 08└─And them what?
[20:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:45] <exec> 08└─That's not a library.
[20:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:26] <exec> 08└─Perhaps part of the problem is - yet again - that you insist on writing: Phoenix666 writes: <quote>[Some snippet that happens to include a link to the actual source of itself]</quote>
[20:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:27] <exec> 08└─No, it doesn't say that. What it says now (and at the time I posted earlier) is: Two firms said they were willing to build offshore wind farms for a guaranteed price of £57.50 per megawatt hour for 2022-23.
[20:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 1365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:30] <exec> 08└─Its all very well that wind-generated electrical power is cheaper than nuclear generated electrical power, but what happens when the wind doesn't blow? On the BBC Radio 4 'Today' programme, when this topic was discussed, the spokesperson for the wind-power industry said they were very good at predic...
[20:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 1138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:32] <exec> 08└─Britain, if you're listening, I hope you're able to stop this. The wind and the nuclear. Let me tell you, you live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth. Beautiful, beautiful country. STUNNING! But wind turbines are ruining the beauty of parts of your country. You go to Brussels. I was in Bru...
[20:04:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:03] <exec> 08└─Gloria Steinem & Erica Jong for the win. I've ignored all the more recent entries...
[20:04:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:04] <exec> 08└─Be sure to do that before he fucked up California in the 1960s. ...and don't leave out all the Reactionaries/Neoliberals[1] who lied their way into the Oval Office since the coronation of the union-buster-in-chief. Don't forget Lewis Powell before he wrote his infamous memo in 1971. ...and Roger Ail...
[20:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:06] <exec> 08└─Oh no, Uzzard's a known trans-hater. I won't say -phobe because he's not scared; he's an asshole. It's been pointed out to him several times that gender-noncomforming people have existed in every society going as far back as we have records, that modern brain imaging techniques show there's somethin...
[20:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:08] <exec> 08└─Hi, there! Please leave your personal fanasyies out of the rational discussion everyone his having here, please!
[20:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:54] <exec> 08└─if he doesn't get his way
[20:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:38] <exec> 08└─Actually, at those levels, the oxygen itself would likely kill you: http://science.howstuffworks.com [howstuffworks.com]
[20:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:01] <exec> 08└─What option do you propose? Vote out the incumbent factions (there is only one party). The power is in your vote, not in the banker's money. Gerrymandering be damned, its a bullshit excuse. If ya can't be arsed, well, don't go blaming anybody else.
[20:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:18] <exec> 08└─"Leaned" Trump? What exactly does that mean? Did they, or did they not, vote for Trump? But the larger point which seems to have escaped you is that 8% is barely above a statistical fluke. (Most polls have a margin of error around 3%.)
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[21:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:39] <exec> 08└─Hell yeah we Dick Niggers. You know we never fuck no old pussy. We fuck a whole lotta young pussy. Dick Niggers gonna bone yo pubic domain wit this patented dick nigger dick.
[21:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:40] <exec> 08└─I gotta say, in reference to Google I think this is one of the more accurate applications of this pre-pubescent's troll attempt.
[21:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:42] <exec> 08└─Since Google used it in one of their products they certainly can't claim ignorance. No, this looks like a clear case of EVIL showing through.
[21:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:56] <exec> 08└─Don't confuse mysticism with wizardry.
[21:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:57] <exec> 08└─The fact that someone is FINALLY taking a holistic approach to aquaculture rather than just going "let's dump a bunch of fish in a tank and drop food in now and then." There's three trophic levels represented here, two of which purify their surrounding environment. THIS is how to do fish farming.
[21:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:00] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think this is the "real" story- better aquaculture. Still don't understand why they are putting it in beer.
[21:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:02] <exec> 08└─Naah, they must have meant transmutation [nature.com] in their beer, instead.
[21:01:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 1035 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:14] <exec> 08└─General rule: If YOU say you've cracked some long-running puzzle that's baffled experts for decades/centuries, you haven't. If, however, you quietly submit a paper, which then spreads of its own accord, is confirmed by others, builds momentum, and becomes public knowledge by some other person unrela...
[21:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:16] <exec> 08└─Tolkien wrote in his own personal made up language. Made a fuckton more sense than the Voynich Manuscript, and I would think that linguists could decipher Tolkien's language without too much hassle. It was after all a serious attempt to create a new language with a strong foundation in linguistics....
[21:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:18] <exec> 08└─That is the best possible answer I've ever heard for it. The time period is correct, and you have an interesting point about what it was written on.
[21:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:20] <exec> 08└─Right or wrong, at least someone is trying and put their thoughts out there. How many scholars were baffled for how long before other ancient texts were correctly deciphered? How many tenured experts got it wrong and had their results published and accepted as correct for decades? A lot. But with to...
[21:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 1058 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:23] <exec> 08└─Very interesting thought (and the larger theme is: what if this simply has a lot less meaning than we're looking for), but that explanation does have a couple of problems, too: - If this is a training project, why isn't the text an intelligible copy of (fragments of) something? Making up a decent lo...
[21:01:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 83 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:49] <exec> 08└─Did they just take all of Microsoft's worst ideas, and try to make them even worse?
[21:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:05] <exec> 08└─Code sharing doesn't lead to privilege escalation. On a normal Linux system, the user binaries share the complete C library (and quite a few others) with services running as root, without allowing me to gain root privileges that way. But if the library's only purpose (or one of its undocumented purp...
[21:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 1656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:24] <exec> 08└─As I have pointed out to you (and others) repeatedly, that's not "The Left". The Left is Anti-Capitalist. The Left wants the collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers. The Left wants to own its workplaces; to make them worker-owned cooperatives and to continue making a living by...
[21:04:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:26] <exec> 08└─what Tmb thinks a feminist is.
[21:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:28] <exec> 08└─SOME women [...] primitive soldiers Maybe some day you will grow up and get over your silly chauvinism. Since the invention of the crank-cocked crossbow, hundreds and hundreds of years ago, it's been possible for a female to be just as deadly as a guy. Had somebody figured out the compound bow [goog...
[21:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 1106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:14] <exec> 08└─Racism is stupid. It's really a pair of mental shortcuts: 1. "I don't know how this person will behave, but s/he kinda looks like me, so they must be alright." This is stupid, because that person may be a jerk, or a fool, or otherwise be a terrible person to be around. 2. "I don't know how this pers...
[21:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:37] <exec> 08└─Depending on how the margin of error goes (including black voters who wouldn't admit to pollsters that they'd consider Trump), we could be talking about millions of people.
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[22:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:41] <exec> 08└─As usual with patents, it depends on what is being claimed. It may be that the patent describes much of the prior art, but claims only enhancements and applications of it. These are legitimate things to patent, though the patent examiner may deny them by making an argument about obviousness. If Goog...
[22:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:42] <exec> 08└─When I was a kid, I snuck into my mother's bedroom. She was laying there naked. She had been drinking all night. And then I snuck up behind her, and then I slipped my fingers... ...into her purse. I took her money, the whole week's pay. I really fucked her over. And that's how I got the name Motherf...
[22:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03kanweg [4737] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:45] <exec> 08└─If you look at the Search report it says that all claims are not New, so not patentable, in view of an article by Duda. https://worldwide.espacenet.com [espacenet.com] So, it is considered not-patenta...
[22:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology - 1091 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:47] <exec> 08└─This again shows the problem with public domain in terms of modern copyright and patent law. It's not uncommon for corporations to patent or copyright some work in the public domain, claiming it as there own. With copyrighted work, they have been known to make some minor changes, wrap it up, bind it...
[22:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:05] <exec> 08└─Here's my review of such a beer from 2010, and the commercial description indicates it's a recipe that borrows ideas from way back: https://www.ratebeer.com
[22:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:23] <exec> 08└─> I wouldn't be claiming "Yee ha! I cracked it! You're all useless and I'm a genius!" on national TV as the first thing. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you were born before 1990
[22:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:25] <exec> 08└─Effort is effort
[22:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 1449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:27] <exec> 08└─> How many scholars were baffled for how long before other ancient texts were correctly deciphered? This is a very good point. A lot of ancient texts were completely unintelligible, like Egyptian Hieroglyphs. Some scholars thought it wasn't a real language at all, but pictographic instructions for r...
[22:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:29] <exec> 08└─Until someone can prove it wrong, my vote in on full-scale training project, because no other explanation can be proven more right
[22:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 787 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:57] <exec> 08└─We all talk about wind/wave power as free. There is free power, of course: Solar radiation that would normally be reflected out into space. But wind power? Our planet is a delicate ecosystem that circulates heat and energy around the globe in what are very much like giant rivers. We tap into these c...
[22:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:59] <exec> 08└─Entropy will increase duh!
[22:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:01] <exec> 08└─The interesting thing about wind in the United Kingdom is that somewhere, it's windy, almost always. So, while an individual turbine may produce power 30% (or whatever) the time, there is wind power available almost all the time. The UK is a small country and it's not too difficult to manage a grid...
[22:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:03] <exec> 08└─Earth isn't and never has been a closed system, so it does not necessarily work that way.
[22:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:05] <exec> 08└─Suck it Donald. The UK is going to build an offshore wind farm near one of your golf courses. Hooray for the wind farm master race!
[22:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Flyby Plan Finalized; Pluto Features Named - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:53] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor_planet [wikipedia.org] During its 2006 meeting, the IAU reclassified minor planets and comets into dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies (SSSB).
[22:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Make Alcohol Out of Thin Air - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:14] <exec> 08└─Is that a polluted kind of air?
[22:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:08] <exec> 08└─> The reason we don't have a solar eclipse every month (or alternatively, never) is that the earth orbits the sun. What utter, utter, codswallop. The moon occludes millions of stars all the freaking time, and we don't rotate around any of those suns.
[22:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 0668 Known Exoplanets Could Spot a Transit Event in Our Solar System - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:09] <exec> 08└─And after those 230000 years, has it painted a filigree of stripes, or has it filled in all the gaps?
[22:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:59] <exec> 08└─I thought it was the "draining the swamp" platform?
[22:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Outrage Builds after Equifax Executives Banked $2 Million Following Data Breach - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:01] <exec> 08└─Sorry to tell you this, but it's roughly an order of magnitude smaller. That army of black supporters standing behind you to back you up is quite a bit smaller than you suppose.
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[23:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Accused of Trying to Patent Public Domain Technology - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:49] <exec> 08└─Some asshole Googler padded the resume with another patent application.
[23:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Kelp in Craft Beer - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:09] <exec> 08└─Because beer tastes of fish wee? Just a guess.
[23:01:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:18] <exec> 08└─To me, it looks like a medieval monk's homework (or punishment). A lot of repeated symbols and crude drawings, because it took years of training before they could master the skills to flawlessly copy books. I saw one book from that era in Scotland the other day: jaw-dropping amazing letter consisten...
[23:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:32] <exec> 08└─I didn't say it was a great hypothesis, just that it was both somewhat plausible and not more far-fetched than some of the other ones out there.
[23:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Voynich Manuscript Solution Claimed, Rebutted - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:33] <exec> 08└─In 2014, someone made a procedurally generated book [github.com] inspired by the voynich manuscript. Have a look. It is fun to browse through.
[23:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:18] <exec> 08└─That's basically it, actually. Excellent analogy.
[23:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intra-Library Collusion Attacks Open the Door for a Whole New Kind of Android Malware - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:19] <exec> 08└─Passing data that way requires data memory sharing, not code memory sharing.
[23:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:10] <exec> 08└─Are you serious? Weather is affected by wind, yes. But wind in the upper atmosphere. Turbines tap into a tiny amount of the energy in the planet's wind and at very low altitude. It's never going to affect climate. How about tidal power? Shouldn't you be worrying about the effect of harnessing the ti...
[23:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:12] <exec> 08└─Well I copied & pasted from the article in question. I don't alter copy in any way except to occasionally replace paragraphs with an ellipsis. It seems the BBC went back and edited the article in place. It's a web page, not a print edition, so they can do that. Please aim your slings and arrows at t...
[23:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Offshore Wind Power Cheaper Than New Nuclear - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:14] <exec> 08└─OK. You get what you get, so don't get upset. You're welcome to jump right in and show us all how it's done.
[23:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Turns to White Hat Hacker "Superstars" - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:26] <exec> 08└─I guess that's one way of admitting that HP has previously purged all of their technical know-how and now need to rebuild from the ground up. Real security probably comes from some seriously grueling trench work. What it probably takes is day-in, day-out attention to detail, fuzzing your own softwar...
[23:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03kurenai.tsubasa [5227] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DNA Proves Fearsome Viking Warrior Was a Woman - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:53] <exec> 08└─Wikipedia for kyriarchy [wikipedia.org] includes: …Kyriarchy relies on the creation of a servant class, race, gender, or people. The position of this class is reinforced through "education, socialization, and brute violence and malestream rationalization." Tēraudkalns suggests that these structur...
[23:05:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06By the Numbers - 1631 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:31] <exec> 08└─are there actual quotes from people with actual names that have suggested that liberals have engaged in "chanting stuff about all white people need to be eliminated via open borders, and anyone not a Marxist is a Nazi"? that seems really like echo chamber propaganda from some biased publication. the...
[23:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:43] <exec> 08└─Let them destroy themselves with their own stupidity. Let them be laughed at. Let them be memes. Let them know that millions of people are laughing at them because of their own stupidity. Let their supporters feel a deep embarassment for being associated with them.
[23:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06By the Numbers - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:44] <exec> 08└─"Unless you love McDonalds with all your heart, you're a piece of shit".
[23:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thanks to the DEA and Drug War, Your Prescription Records Have Zero Expectation of Privacy - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:52] <exec> 08└─Vote out the incumbent factions
[23:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Allergan Pulls a Fast One - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:05] <exec> 08└─Allergan's press release [streetaccount.com] mentions two cases that the company sees as favorable: Covidien LP v. University of Florida Research Foundation Inc. and Neochord, Inc. v. University of Maryland. A case they didn't mention is Reactive Surfaces Ltd., LLP, v. Toyota Motor Corp.. [ptabwatch...
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