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[00:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:51] <exec> 08└─Ethicists triggered once again.
[00:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:52] <exec> 08└─They are never not ⚠ TRIGGGERED ⚠. That's their job. 💀
[00:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:55] <exec> 08└─If a mouse gain human-like thought processes, is it still ethical to kill it? Shouldn't we grant it the right to property (and access to stock exchange) and the right to bear arms [halloweencostumes.com]? (grin) In relation with "the better end of research" in the TFA context, see also "Flowers for...
[00:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03irtza [4833] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:57] <exec> 08└─Same thing we do every night Pinky, try to take over the world.
[00:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:59] <exec> 08└─Ethicist here. I guess you deserve an explanation. You see, it was either you, with your non-functioning brain, or the mouse, who apparently is getting smarter every day! So we made the decision to let you die, since you do not contribute much to the universe besides whining on obscure news aggrega...
[00:06:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:12] <exec> 08└─Admittedly I don't know much about the JPL
[00:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:17] <exec> 08└─I wonder if Elon Musk secretly performs sacrifices to the sgun god in his spare time...
[00:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:44] <exec> 08└─It can add up if the materials are going to be used to make more space-based products. Iron itself might be worth a few bucks per kilo/ton on earth, but it costs a LOT to get it into space. If you want to build a structure on the moon you can pay a few bucks for iron then pay hand over fist to get i...
[00:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:45] <exec> 08└─While there isn't currently a lot of demand for raw minerals anywhere above the earth's surface, it is slowly headed in that direction. Given companies with profits on their mind are now involved rather than just purely state based actors, give it time. Just give it a bit of time.
[00:07:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 466 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:10] <exec> 08└─or the result of some idiot's agenda ("kill anyone who doesn't believe what I've told you to be the truth", "give my church all your money", "kneel before Zod"). This is entirely wrong. When someone tells you "give my church all your money", and you comply, it's not the asker who's the idiot. Charla...
[00:07:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 638 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:20] <exec> 08└─Religion is a way of making sense of the world. Instead of everything in life being a random chaotic clusterfuck, it's nice to be able to think there's a grander purpose, justice, compassion, etc., etc. "The world would be better if we were just in charge; it's nonbelievers mucking it up and ruining...
[00:07:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 235 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:47] <exec> 08└─As an atheist I don't feel the need to prove anything, as I am making no claims. As far as I am concerned it's the religious who should be offering proof, and as some of their claims are pretty extraordinary, so should their proof be.
[00:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:01] <exec> 08└─That's how you indicate that you're quoting someone else.
[00:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:03] <exec> 08└─"The mind is what the brain does" - Nat Geo Mar. 2005 The "God Spot" [independent.co.uk]?
[00:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:05] <exec> 08└─As an atheist I don't feel the need to prove anything, as I am making no claims.
[00:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:25] <exec> 08└─That's something we should be able to crowdsource from the online gaming community.
[00:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:27] <exec> 08└─Did it signal it's presence? Did it try to signal it's presence? Would a reasonable person in the same circumstance have tried to signal it's presence? My guess "No, No, Yes." Which would mean the car bears some measure of liability. There is no stand your ground law for cars.
[00:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:14] <exec> 08└─Machines are becoming more like humans. If they are not showing real intelligence, they are at least being made to imitate patterns of human behavior and thought. Soon there will be no reason to trust either group more than the other.
[00:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:16] <exec> 08└─This is less than 1% of the entirety of the total value of Ethereum (as perceived by speculators). One must remember that the national debts of issuers of some fiat currencies could effectively destroy 100% of those currencies, so is it appropriate for dollar users (which indirectly is all of us) to...
[00:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:18] <exec> 08└─So, does "devops199" or "Parity" have the ability to make this right by determining and returning those people their $300m? Are they even known individuals who can be sued? Were they required to have those kinds of funds available to them to repair damage or take out insurance before contributing to...
[00:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 062014 MU69 Not a Good Enough Name for NASA: Help Name the Next New Horizons Target - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:45] <exec> 08└─Larry, Curly, and Moe
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[01:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:45] <exec> 08└─I am so dead :(
[01:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:47] <exec> 08└─That's what my brother would tell me. He was a great guy, a handsome person. He was the life of the party. He was a fantastic guy, but he got stuck on alcohol.
[01:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:49] <exec> 08└─I shuda been dead, like couple decades ago. Making me light up again. American Spirit is the shit. Maybe it's the sushi and sashimi that keep me alive. Them Japs live a long ass time.
[01:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03marknmel [1243] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:01] <exec> 08└─The way I see this going - Algernon will be pissed and try to take over the world. I'd like to welcome our new rodent overlords!
[01:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:02] <exec> 08└─When the mouse grabs your pencil and asks for a lawyer in writing, its too late.
[01:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:04] <exec> 08└─Especially a Jewish lawyer. Psychology dictates that people are more receptive to those who look like they do, and both rodents and Jews have quite the snouts.
[01:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03e_armadillo [3695] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:07] <exec> 08└─Nah, this is just a continuation of their experimentation on us: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com [wikia.com] Remember, we are only the 3rd most intelligent species on this planet.
[01:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:09] <exec> 08└─The average Animaniacs/Tim Burton Fan. [imgur.com]
[01:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:11] <exec> 08└─So when rodents get human brain parts, they develop a sense of ethics? Is that the Secret of NIMH?
[01:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:13] <exec> 08└─Ethicist here. I guess you deserve an explanation. You see, it was either you, with your non-functioning brain, or the mouse, who apparently is getting smarter every day! So we made the decision to let you die, since you do not contribute much to the universe besides whining on obscure news aggregat...
[01:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:16] <exec> 08└─So you're not creeped out by the whole implanting human brains in mice thing but you are creeped out out by the people wondering if it's a good idea?
[01:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:34] <exec> 08└─It's called "climate change" and when that Antarctical superblow happens you're going to have to absorb millions of CIA-trained African migrants, all of whom are "fleeing lesbian and gay danger" and want to cut your heads off while subverting your culture. But you wouldn't oppose, much less believe...
[01:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:36] <exec> 08└─Intelligent people are like the Riemann sphere, or more locally a vertical asymptote: they are so smart that their traces wrap around from extreme intelligence into coming from the most retarded stupidity. Perhaps those types should be forced to sniff glue for fun until they get back on our level.
[01:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:38] <exec> 08└─The way I read it is the only thing they were measuring was the amount of heat it takes to do the melting we are seeing today. They don't't directly address the uplift in their results, an actually suggest simple rifting as a source of the heat. Further, there isn't as much heat as Yellowstone exhib...
[01:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:40] <exec> 08└─Turns out there is a lot of coal in Antarctica, so some are in luck. Especially those shivering in their shacks on Antarctica. https://en.m.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[01:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:08] <exec> 08└─There is no ecology of any kind on an asteroid, so there is no "environmental impact" to asteroid mining (unless you have a big accident when trying to get the refined ores back to Earth...).
[01:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:27] <exec> 08└─You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. -- L. Ron Hubbard (scifi author, scientology founder)
[01:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:51] <exec> 08└─Vehicles in traffic aren't supposed to be backing up
[01:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:52] <exec> 08└─Pigeons are very smart. They say if you put a pigeon in front of a mirror, and he has a smudge of lipstick, he sees it in the mirror. And he cleans himself off. A dog won't do that. A cat won't do it. A gorilla will do it, or a pigeon. Very smart. Instead of the cyber, maybe they can teach pigeons t...
[01:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:43] <exec> 08└─Where did it go?
[01:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:44] <exec> 08└─Governments poof money into existence. Cryptocurrencies poof money out of existence. It's a circle of life thing.
[01:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:35] <exec> 08└─As somebody who has dated a dominatrix, I can say that this is true. Good dominatrices can turn down the extra money offered by watersports, good porn stars can turn down the extra money offered by "acting" with Blacks, good programmers can turn down the extra money offered by programming in Django...
[01:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:37] <exec> 08└─How far did the dom lower her standards before she would date you?
[01:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:39] <exec> 08└─What part of the investigation demands a thorough review of all papers and effects?
[01:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 1344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:41] <exec> 08└─I don't think you understand how the game works. She was the only "dom" in her universe, for starters. I'm only an average Joe, I have chest hair and a high tolerance for eccentricities, and was only the "dom" in the sense that she was away from all that shit and helped her with her algebra homework...
[01:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:39] <exec> 08└─To you object to the user losing the freedom to install unsigned code? Or to the false sense of security?
[01:16:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Space Adviser: Mars "Too Ambitious" and SLS is a Strategic National Asset - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:16:08] <exec> 08└─Every administration will and has had a different goal. We can't keep cancelling and un-cancelling plans for every change of president or election cycle. Set a longer-term goal and stick with it.
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[02:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:51] <exec> 08└─This flies in the face of hundreds of studies suggesting light to moderate alcohol consumption is actually health and extends life. There seems to be a requirement to end your study, regardless of your results, with an admonishment to never take a drink. Mostly because there exist people who may dri...
[02:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:52] <exec> 08└─Don't do heroin
[02:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:54] <exec> 08└─Define "excess". Wait, gotta go stock up again.
[02:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:57] <exec> 08└─And then there's me. I like a drink too, but in moderation and not daily. I don't give flying fuck what that study "provides evidence of" I like to have a couple of nice beers while I'm watching sport on TV a couple of times a week. My life would not be as much fun if I stopped, so I'm not going t...
[02:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:59] <exec> 08└─Life will be fun if you do what I did, embrace sobriety and Jesus*. * Also, racism
[02:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:01] <exec> 08└─My great hope is that my cancers will wait till the appropriate treatments are available. 👿
[02:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:03] <exec> 08└─If you want to avoid death by cancer, you should drink more. Like, a lot more.
[02:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:23] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for the AC but yeah. The humans can actually fuck your life up.
[02:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:25] <exec> 08└─Well, they could always experiment on Trump. He could use some human brain tissue anyway.
[02:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:27] <exec> 08└─Could we give politicians at least pea-sized brains? It would be such an improvement.
[02:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:29] <exec> 08└─We are the rodents, [wikipedia.org] just that most of you haven't realized that yet. We are not yet overpopulated to that degree, true, but the connectivity of the internet has accelerated the process. Take a look at the world around you, man!
[02:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:31] <exec> 08└─Same ethicist responding: Is it ethical to throw out taunting ramblings
[02:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:34] <exec> 08└─Whoosh. Give the world peas and you'll be spared. Until then, your impaired sense of humour is more of a tax on this world than a benefit.
[02:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:36] <exec> 08└─Is that the Secret of NIMH?
[02:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:38] <exec> 08└─I believe that it exactly how it happens. That's unlike jmorris, when he receives human brains, he eats them.
[02:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:40] <exec> 08└─Human brain tissue is expensive. We could use pig brain instead and it will still be a non-trivial improvement.
[02:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:03] <exec> 08└─that's really gonna suck...
[02:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:05] <exec> 08└─Intelligent people are like the Riemann sphere, or more locally a vertical asymptote: they are so smart that their traces wrap around from extreme intelligence into coming from the most retarded stupidity.
[02:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:35] <exec> 08└─https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seveneves [wikipedia.org]
[02:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:36] <exec> 08└─Why bring chunks of asteroids on down if you can move (or recreate) the tabs facilities in space? If you think the world has an employment problem now, wait until the whole consumer- oriented industries move into space. And "parachutes" the soon-to-be-garbage from orbit.
[02:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:38] <exec> 08└─Well, no. Relocate the environmental impact from our home planet to the asteroid mining site.
[02:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:41] <exec> 08└─Why would they? If we could technically do it today, there would still be no economic reason to do so.
[02:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:00] <exec> 08└─This is why people believe in imaginary deities. They are too weak to accept the fact they are an insignificant speck in the universe, and when the die, they are gone.
[02:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:01] <exec> 08└─Agreed, this is why I try to avoid Utah.
[02:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:03] <exec> 08└─Bold proclamations of fact offered without any proof. Sounds like this other thing we were talking about recently....
[02:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:05] <exec> 08└─If there ever exists a "proper religion" in those terms, it would still be guilty of supporting delusions. In actual religions, the fraud and con games are the very core of the organizations, not some outlying stragglers. IMHO, the only good person leading a religion (of sorts) is the current Dalai...
[02:09:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:08] <exec> 08└─I thought it was pretty clear they were merely suggesting an alternative hypothesis that would require further study.
[02:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:10] <exec> 08└─I don't like the fact that this comment has been modded to -1 Troll, even though it is poorly argued. -1 Disagree might be better. If you look at it from a "worldly" scientific view...
[02:10:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:26] <exec> 08└─Are you sure about that? My reading is that it was a flaw in a smart contract, not in the Ethereum platform which executed said contract. Anyone who can pay the gas cost can deploy/run a smart contract onto Ethereum. Any bugs in it are then locked in forever more, unless you explicitly provide ways...
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[03:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:49] <exec> 08└─There were previous efforts to disable the ME engine, partially or in full enabled by Soylent News. [soylentnews.org] You can never trust anybody, even the fine fellows at SN, but at least they keep you ahead of the curve.
[03:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:51] <exec> 08└─As does does USB, so ...
[03:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DrkShadow [1404] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:53] <exec> 08└─This is SO old news it was posted in January: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com [bleepingcomputer.com] The JTAG interface is disabled on shipping systems. At least, it's supposed to be. Did they find a system where the manufa...
[03:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:55] <exec> 08└─Not quite the same thing. Same attack vector, different target.
[03:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:12] <exec> 08└─... because we don't hang out in bars.
[03:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:13] <exec> 08└─.. by mercury poisoning. Wikipedia cited two specific people. To eat them when dining out should be OK, but the two dead people ate them every day for twenty years.
[03:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:15] <exec> 08└─The top shelf pussy is in middle schools, not bars.
[03:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:18] <exec> 08└─Mick Jagger was afforded the same things, [dailymail.co.uk] but those which were previously found easily are now buried until said rockstars are dead. CIA tactics, really, like John McCain's or the Bushes' sordid pasts: Don't bring it up until they are already dead, then apply those rules upon every...
[03:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:20] <exec> 08└─The top shelf pussy is in middle schools
[03:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:49] <exec> 08└─Do you have any idea what a mouse could do to you with a human brain? And it would have no mercy, or sympathy, or fellow-species feelings! Be afraid, be very afraid. (And of course, the obvious rebuttal is that the first thing a mouse would do with human brain would be to escape. More afraid.)
[03:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:51] <exec> 08└─You need watch the future historical documentary. "The secret of NIMH". It was all for told!!
[03:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:53] <exec> 08└─+Informative. An excellent lesson in the dissection of a (brain) dead comment.
[03:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:55] <exec> 08└─Who's Told? And why all only for him?
[03:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:57] <exec> 08└─I'll bribe it with some cheese.
[03:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:00] <exec> 08└─No idea. I can only assume it has something to do with Nickel Metal Hydride batteries.
[03:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:02] <exec> 08└─Oops, I'm redundant [soylentnews.org]
[03:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:59] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we are really talking about something 50-200 years from now. Where we have mastered autonomous self-maintaining swarms of robots, ability to fabricate on-site and off-site materials “printing”, on and on… However the 50 year mark should amount to some perfection of these techniques...
[03:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:01] <exec> 08└─Back to garbage, we could also place printers in orbit creating micro drone swarms, designed to seek out and attach to space garbage, fire their X and send it back to earth.
[03:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:03] <exec> 08└─I remember a time, long, long ago when it was thought to be impossible to land a rocket booster and re-use it.
[03:08:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1800 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:43] <exec> 08└─At first glance, you might suppose that people would pick non-demanding religion, but this isn't the case. The more you are doing, the more you have committed yourself. Spending time and money, or proclaiming a nonsensical belief, are forms of commitment. Public display, and a punishment for leaving...
[03:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:27] <exec> 08└─Humans have a very strong desire to explain their world. We dislike the unknown and will come up with an explanation for anything, even if it's wrong. I think religion started as attempts to explain things like earthquakes, storms and volcano's. In the eyes of early humans those things must have bee...
[03:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1999/03/the-market-as-god/306397/ [theatlantic.com] "A few years ago a friend advised me that if I wanted to know what was going on in the real world, I should read the business pages. Although my lifelong interest has been in the study of religion, I am...
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[04:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Geologists Uncover Antarctica's Fossil Forests - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:48] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNvmo1fjvH8 [youtube.com]
[04:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:00] <exec> 08└─Ok. I am a douchebag.
[04:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 975 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:01] <exec> 08└─So when will people wise up to the fact that obfuscated garbage like this is less secure, not a magical panacea of cyber security and everything-under-the-sun management goodness?! Oh, wait... "They're" already trying to claw back the allowance of decent encryption... I'd be willing to bet that in t...
[04:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:03] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNvmo1fjvH8 [youtube.com]
[04:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:05] <exec> 08└─You are one thin-skinned geezer. I mean, everyone knows Linus is an asshole, but you come across even worse than him. Of course, your baby Minix, unlike Linux, didn't get nowhere, except as a broken backdoor for Intel's chips. What a loser.
[04:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:28] <exec> 08└─Oh well, I ain't dead yet. More raw fish for me. Actually, raw beef, too, with some sesame oil. But I ain't crazy. Some fools eat raw chicken - what dumb asses.
[04:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:29] <exec> 08└─Wanna avoid cancer? Die early. If you somehow manage to live long enough, cancer will get you. Remember, life causes cancer.
[04:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:31] <exec> 08└─Let's see... Don't drink or you will die of cancer... About a year or two ago, all the news was that Bacon caused cancer as well... So don't drink or eat bacon or you will die of cancer. You know what, I am going to eat bacon and drink. I may die of cancer earlier, but damn it... WHAT IS THE POINT O...
[04:08:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 643 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:39] <exec> 08└─You ignore that most people have genetic programming to avoid death (there are some people who are without fear). Religion weakens this programming. Almost everyone believes they personally are righteous, and religion teaches that the righteous have nothing to fear from death. It's the other people...
[04:09:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 412 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:20] <exec> 08└─Correction. Most people believe in some kind of *spirituality*. In other words, they feel a sense of connection with the environment around them, people, the universe, what have you. IMO Religion is a method of brainwashing people into doing whatever the controllers of that particular religion want....
[04:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03pdfernhout [5984] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:34] <exec> 08└─For a more nuanced view of cost/benefit: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 642 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:36] <exec> 08└─Indeed, experiments show that our mind tends to make up patterns where there are none (the experiment involved buttons top press to get a lamp light up; in truth the lamp was lit or not randomly, independent of which button you pressed). All people in the experiment "found" rules on which buttons to...
[04:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:38] <exec> 08└─Knowledge is not belief, because belief is a matter of faith
[04:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:40] <exec> 08└─But he believes he knows.
[04:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:05] <exec> 08└─I suspect that if cars of such driving ability show up in the roads, there will be a surge of avoidable incidents just because the computer is too dumb to read the world correctly. One way to avoid that is to wait for a true AI. Another - to replace all cars with computers, at least on public roads....
[04:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:07] <exec> 08└─Had the truck had the same sensing equipment that the shuttle has the accident would have been avoided.
[04:11:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 1881 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:21] <exec> 08└─Perhaps I have bad experience with groups like Sovereign Citizens. I don't have experience with that group specifically, but my experience was directly with Southern Christian Identity, which also throws in some extra nonsense about Aryans being the master race, and proximately with various state mi...
[04:15:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03caffeine [249] 02 - 06There Are No Comparable Statistics On Gun Violence - 851 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:15:13] <exec> 08└─I'm an Australian, a fully licensed gun owner, and I agree with the Australian gun control laws. Australian shooters do see value in gun ownership, but for different reasons to the US. My experience is that the vast majority of gun owners here are hunters or farmers. I've never heard an Australian a...
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[05:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:04] <exec> 08└─So when will people wise up to the fact that obfuscated garbage like this is less secure, not a magical panacea of cyber security and everything-under-the-sun management goodness?!
[05:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:06] <exec> 08└─This new attack seems to involve discovering a way to wiggle bits in UEFI to get debug turned back on and a couple other tricks beyond that. Most of this stuff is fixable with a firmware update, which Intel will probably ship as soon as this hits the FakeNews media scare machine, so will mostly be u...
[05:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:31] <exec> 08└─If you somehow manage to live long enough,
[05:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:33] <exec> 08└─PS (GRI-hips!-IN)
[05:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:35] <exec> 08└─Yea, Ive been slowly realizing why so little (its improved a tiny bit recently, but still) is being done about the rampant phacking, etc these people are doing. Its pointless to reason with them, and they are just destroying their own credibility anyway. May as well just do your best to avoid them a...
[05:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:37] <exec> 08└─Also cell division (mitogenesis) causes cancer, that is why "living" causes cancer, more cells are used up the more you live. Im not exactly clear on why this is an offensive idea, but it is for some reason.
[05:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:14] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our new rat overlords.
[05:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:45] <exec> 08└─Parents never took us to any church or other organized religion. Mom quit being a Catholic as a teen, when she saw the hypocrisy in the clergy and Dad's parents were New England Unitarian, didn't make any demands on him to attend if he wasn't interested. I never understood when peers (grade school)...
[05:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:46] <exec> 08└─"IMHO, the only good person leading a religion (of sorts) is the current Dalai Lama." I also am rather a fan of his. He's also repeatedly said that Christians, Muslims, and Jews should generally NOT convert, as the same universal truths he teaches are also to be found in their own religion, where it...
[05:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:49] <exec> 08└─Timothy Leary wrote a book called "Start Your Own Religion" back in 1966. The book is not long and some (all?) of it is reproduced here, http://www.luminist.org [luminist.org] When I first found the book (randomly, in the stacks of a large library) I started paging throug...
[05:12:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:02] <exec> 08└─They offered to expedite any legal process, which sounds like kind of the opposite of their last stance on it which was "you'll get in there with my help approximately never". Maybe I am reading more into TFS than appears elsewhere but it sounded to me like they're suddenly eager to be super helpful...
[05:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 1757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:12:04] <exec> 08└─Apple offered help (not including degrading the security of their products) last time: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] On February 9, 2016, the FBI announced that it was unable to unlock the county-owned phone it recovered, due to its advanced secur...
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[06:06:42] <exec> 08└─I'm not concerned about Trichinosis because I figure the USDA inspectors do a good job. But I'm paranoid about raw chicken and eggs,because I once had Salmonella. You don't want to get Salmonella.
[06:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Mantle Plume under Antarctica is Releasing Nearly as Much Heat as the Yellowstone Supervolcano - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:44] <exec> 08└─I got the impression that they were taking into account the uplift in their model as well. *shrug*
[06:10:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:04] <exec> 08└─...or maybe the shuttle could do what a human driver does? Lay on the horn and shout obscenities until the truck driver notices and stops...
[06:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:21] <exec> 08└─either people who are bothering to comment in this thread are techno-luddites, who seem to want men with red flags walking in front of AI vehicles, or claim The Is Always An Exception Where A Human Would Have Made A Better Choice, then spend a while concocting more and more ludicrous scenarios to ju...
[06:10:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 462 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:33] <exec> 08└─I expect they'll fix this with another hard-fork, the same as they did when the DAO was hacked. The "smart contracts" are a clever idea, but Ethereum has prominently screwed up too many times - clearly it just is not ready for prime time. It makes for a great test-bed for the idea, buy what people s...
[06:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:14] <exec> 08└─Didn't India just poof a bunch of money out of existence, too?
[06:14:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Stuxnet-Style Code Signing is More Widespread Than Anyone Thought - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:10] <exec> 08└─Paper $100 bills don't seem to be very difficult to make at all, the only thing that keeps them from being readily copied is the action of the treasury department (a whole other kettle of fish...)
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[07:05:52] <exec> 08└─But smell is part of "tasting" stuff too. That's how we detect much of the flavor. Do super tasters also have a super sense of smell? Or they taste the bitterness of chocolate more while experiencing the same levels of flavor from the smell senses. Is it possible for super tasters to get used to the...
[07:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:15] <exec> 08└─>So when will people wise up to the fact that obfuscated garbage like this is less secure, not a magical panacea of cyber security and everything-under-the-sun management goodness?! Nobody ever thought IME was a feature built for consumers. It is a backdoor, or when breached it is a wonderful way of...
[07:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:46] <exec> 08└─Wine is fine but whisky's quicker, suicide is slow with liquor.
[07:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:24] <exec> 08└─Doesn't work this way, not that cheap and fast. You'll need to lobby to it with cheese. This will teach you the lesson of never giving anything a human brain, we are fucked up as many as we are, don't need more. (I suppose this is pragmatical ethics in action).
[07:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 644 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:00] <exec> 08└─If gender inequality is the source of this, why is it that these cultures also mutilate males? If anything, I have to say there is MORE equality when both are getting mutilated. I think you're just seeing a random accidental correlation that isn't meaningful, but that happens to suit your anti-tradi...
[07:10:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:01] <exec> 08└─They are the world's most successful chain letters. Bob broke the chain and suffered eternal punishment but Julie stayed faithful and lived happily ever after.
[07:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 558 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:10:03] <exec> 08└─Remember when you were young, and it seemed like your mom/dad had all the answers, knew everything, and could always be counted to comfort and protect you? Maybe not, not everyone is so lucky. But for many people, religion offers something close to that experience of being protected, of having a fri...
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[07:10:31] <exec> 08└─The problem is, that is based on a "reasonable man" standard, and a computer by definition cannot make such an evaluation.
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[08:05:47] <exec> 08└─"REPAIR can fix mutations without tampering with the genome, and because RNA naturally degrades, it's a potentially reversible fix," explains
[08:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Wounds Sustained During the Daytime Heal More Quickly - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:36] <exec> 08└─Damn I need to cut down on my sex parties!
[08:10:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tftp [806] 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 391 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:20] <exec> 08└─Every driver in a similar situation asks themselves : "does the other guy see me?" This is a very obvious question to ask when you are stopped behind a large trailer, in the blind zone of the driver. You watch him like a hawk, and if he does something dangerous you immediately take action. If the co...
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[09:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Explorers Will Dive Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf Looking for Life - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:44] <exec> 08└─raise awareness about the unique and fragile Antarctic coastal under-ice ecosystems
[09:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer CRISPR to Edit Single RNA Letters in Human Cells - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:53] <exec> 08└─You are you suggesting it would be better not to have such a treatment? Until base-pair editing becomes something a low-income "technician" can do for you, fucking with the master copy sounds like a recipe for disaster. Better to keep some level of indirection in place.
[09:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer CRISPR to Edit Single RNA Letters in Human Cells - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:55] <exec> 08└─Until base-pair editing becomes something a low-income "technician" can do for you
[09:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:04] <exec> 08└─This is suggesting that some people are more capable than other people with regard to something. This is tongueist.
[09:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:06] <exec> 08└─Exactly my question. The tongue doesn't detect many different flavours, so this is pretty irrelevant. It's your sense of smell that does most of the work. TFA is very superficial; I have the feeling the author doesn't even know this. About the only things in beer that you will pick up on your tongue...
[09:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:08] <exec> 08└─*lick*
[09:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Geologists Uncover Antarctica's Fossil Forests - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:17] <exec> 08└─The Permian Period ended 251 million years ago as the Earth rapidly shifted from icehouse to greenhouse conditions.
[09:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:35] <exec> 08└─ame to Vulture South's attention via a couple of Tweets:
[09:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 2939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:08] <exec> 08└─This flies in the face of hundreds of studies suggesting light to moderate alcohol consumption is actually health and extends life. It would seem to, yes. But... If you understand the context here, you'll find out it is entirely compatible with that (unfortunately, probably incorrect - I'll come bac...
[09:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:47] <exec> 08└─It was people buddy and into existence.
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[10:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Explorers Will Dive Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf Looking for Life - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:50] <exec> 08└─How bout raising awareness BEFORE you go diving into it and fucking it up?
[10:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:10] <exec> 08└─There's nothing "wheel"-like about it, no linear ordering, no continuity. It's an unordered list of unordered lists, that's all. But, what would I know, it's not as if I pay attention to beer tastes several times every day? https://www.ratebeer.com Oh - and buy this, I get a tiny slice o...
[10:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:38] <exec> 08└─It's literally a primary source. They are embedding little primary sources in the articles.
[10:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:11] <exec> 08└─some people are teetotal because they can't drink because they are too ill: and sometimes they are ill because of an alcohol induced disease like cirrhosis of the liver. It turns out that if you do the necessary corrections for this kind of thing, the 'J-curve' effect vanishes,
[10:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:12] <exec> 08└─I think it's safe to say that regular sex does not cause cancer (obviously you need to keep clean, don't overdo it, and in general stop if anything is hurting).
[10:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:14] <exec> 08└─that's simply not true. if you want to just stick it into something tight, get some fucking toys. if you want to get laid (=enjoy conversation and sex with another human being) a grown-up is always a better choice. for both activities.
[10:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:53] <exec> 08└─Human brain tissue is expensive. We could use pig brain instead and it will still be a non-trivial improvement.
[10:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:55] <exec> 08└─Oh, please. Why do you insult pigs?
[10:10:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:35] <exec> 08└─Why Call Him God? Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus
[10:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:59] <exec> 08└─Do you understand what will eventually happen if the US debt ceiling isn't extended? $300M is *nothing* compared to that. Employ the wrong guy at the Fed, and tada - the chaos begins.
[10:12:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:12:57] <exec> 08└─In 2013 "of the NBA’s 49 majority owners, Michael Jordan of the Charlotte Bobcats was the only person of color." https://fivethirtyeight.com [fivethirtyeight.com]
[10:13:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03davester666 [155] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Justice Department Calls on AT&T-Time Warner to Ditch Turner Broadcasting or DirecTV - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:13:21] <exec> 08└─You are only decades late with this comment. That ship has sailed a long time ago. Cable/broadcasters/tv stations have been consolidating for a long time, and it's been for the worst (at least for customers, with higher prices and crappier service)...
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[11:06:12] <exec> 08└─My wife is one of them. And indeed she's not male and not from European ancestry. She will avoid any strong taste, can tell differences that others can't. She throws out the pickles from hamburgers because their taste is too strong. Luckily for me this also makes her an exceptionally good cook.
[11:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:33] <exec> 08└─> Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. this is when an average intellect guy should have put Epicurus in chains "it is right, epi, there is no way you can commit crimes if the chain prevents you to move, freedom is not important compared to fighting evil, you implied it, remember?" bu...
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[12:05:57] <exec> 08└─Well the last time we heard about divers going into a fragile unique ecosystem it turned out the real plan was to deploy killer robots and kill a bunch of the sea life: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[12:10:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:10:40] <exec> 08└─Except that god is generally held to be the creator of good and evil, happiness and suffering. If god is indeed all-powerful and all-good, why did god create suffering?
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[12:10:42] <exec> 08└─The practice is rooted in gender inequality, attempts to control women's sexuality, and ideas about purity, modesty and beauty.
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[13:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:49] <exec> 08└─When an infected female 'bites' a human.... ....zombies? Probably another bright idea from people from the bright idea department (STILL within the Ministry of Silly Walks, for some reason).
[13:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer CRISPR to Edit Single RNA Letters in Human Cells - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:14] <exec> 08└─Shame there isn't a mod for ignorant, know-nothing, impulse posting.
[13:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:28] <exec> 08└─Does she... spit or swallow?
[13:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:29] <exec> 08└─She throws out the pickles from hamburgers because their taste is too strong.
[13:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 1800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:57] <exec> 08└─I have had this EXACT discussion with people on Tor and I2P over the past 5ish years. Few of them were concerned with this, even among the actual developers of the software. 'Is it safe to allow nodes running on virtual hosting in data centers'? Is it safe to run this software on Windows 10 (7,8,8.1...
[13:09:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MrGuy [1007] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 602 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:09:45] <exec> 08└─I question the methodology used. The researchers investigated some specific posited mechanisms for what gives rise to supernatural beliefs - being generally more intuitive, being generally less rational. Their research rejected those specific mechanisms (i.e. "people who are more intuitive are more...
[13:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:55] <exec> 08└─An interesting post. Of course it starts from the implicit premise that all religion is about social control, to conclude that all religion is about social control, through a post-facto analysis of a selected sample of popular religion based power structures, but there is something to be said noneth...
[13:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:57] <exec> 08└─No proof can be verified from the inside. I turn the sun green, by interfering with your brain patterns in a novel way, am I god? Entire sacerdotal orders have been based on the ability to predict astronomical events, which is the exact same thing you demand.
[13:10:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03marcello_dl [2685] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:59] <exec> 08└─I use rational thinking to assert that "disproving god" is a logical impossibility built upon an undefinable object, just like "proving god". So, stop being irrational. You can freely believe, not believe, or be agnostics. No problem. Just don't dress it up with empty pseudoscientific crap. Logical...
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[14:05:44] <exec> 08└─There is a big question as to if this is something really useful or a Ponzi scheme. It has some of the attributes of both, and the folks doing this may not be in control of which way it turns out. There may be a person uniquely qualified in this area. Perhaps someone should interview Bernie Madoff?
[14:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Explorers Will Dive Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf Looking for Life - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:07] <exec> 08└─or is it the Mantle Plume under Antarctica [soylentnews.org]? I would be reluctant to blame one factor exclusively. A better question might be what proportion of Antarctic melting is due to Global Warming.
[14:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Explorers Will Dive Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf Looking for Life - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:08] <exec> 08└─Scientist are terrorists! The only way to save the planet is by praying and voting republicans!
[14:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrchew1982 [3565] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer CRISPR to Edit Single RNA Letters in Human Cells - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:19] <exec> 08└─I came to the comments to post exactly the same thing, because it degrades they will have you on the hook for recurring treatments. On the one hand, research and drug approval are fsking expensive, and the greatest human motivator is greed, so no profit, no research. On the other hand, drug companie...
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[14:06:34] <exec> 08└─You're wrong about that, she was a professional chef for a number of years before we met. Because of that and her refined taste, she can tell which flavors will go well together and which won't. And she's always right too.
[14:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:36] <exec> 08└─The wheel is just a handy portable form to make it easy to use. It's more of a classification hierarchy.
[14:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:05] <exec> 08└─Intel designed much of their crappy security with ME in mind. Turning it off might reduce the attack surface in theory. But it could also leave you exposed to a great many backdoors Intel left open for debugging purposes that ME was meant to close in production. It's like killing off part of your im...
[14:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:07] <exec> 08└─jmorris, this isn't fakenews. your attack of the media for doing the right thing, to force a corporation to act in the benefit of its 'customers', can hardly be interpreted as a gay agenda. you're part of the problem if you can't see without your blinders on
[14:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:09] <exec> 08└─That's quite the conjecture.
[14:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:11] <exec> 08└─great, then they can perhaps put a little footnote next to a quite and then attribute such citations in the footer that only people that want to see the full 140/280 characters that they didn't already read because it was too textual. its so bad that i've started mentally filtering out complete part...
[14:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:26] <exec> 08└─how about giving the man a brain organoid? we can wire it in like a co-processor. if we get a good reply then we'll know the ethicists were right
[14:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:27] <exec> 08└─Millions of tons of what? If (BIG IF) a NEO is covered in relatively pure coltan (currently trading at $120/kg) it could be very economically feasible to just fly out there and redirect a couple of tons of it to fall in the deep Australian interior - and it would make a hell of a military demonstrat...
[14:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:14] <exec> 08└─So, what was the physical cause for the universe's beginning?
[14:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:44] <exec> 08└─I always wanted one that sounded like James Brown.
[14:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:40] <exec> 08└─I don't know, seems like it could be a handy ability in some special situations if you could also restrict the ability to change it - say if you need all, or a majority, or whatever of the stakeholders to approve any changes.
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[15:05:50] <exec> 08└─Ponzi scheme.
[15:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:58] <exec> 08└─Aaaaaand... in 3 years time, you have a population of mosquitoes resistant to that bacteria strain. Happens every time, antibiotic resistant germs, roundup resistant weeds [nytimes.com] Rinse clean and repeat.
[15:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:00] <exec> 08└─In a couple of years, most mosquitoes will be the offspring of females that won't mate with infected males. These offspring will inherit that trait, so we'll be back to square one.
[15:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:02] <exec> 08└─Every insect you have ever interacted with is covered with foreign bacteria.
[15:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Merlin Engine Fails During Falcon 9 "Block 5" Testing - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:10] <exec> 08└─Risk averse can be a bad thing. This is risk management, which is a good thing. Testing in a safe, controlled environment is to see the unexpected and learn from it. This seems to be working, which is a good thing. If they never fail, then they are likely not trying hard enough to find the limits of...
[15:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:56] <exec> 08└─You can never smoke, exercise regularly, not drink, avoid gluten, and eat nasty-ass kale our whole life. Guess what? You're still going to die. Enjoy life while you're alive. There are no bonus points for dying healthy.
[15:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:58] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you don't wanna be messin wit' dose Dick Niggers -- they've been to prison many times and have been hardened into killing machines. The knockout game is the least of your worries. Remember the scientist from Terminator 2 who built the T-800? He was a Dick Nigger.
[15:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 1822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:43] <exec> 08└─With apologies to Ed and Patsy Bruce, here's something I wrote in the 80's after running across the more famous Waylon & Willie version... Space is a life that not many can take for too long. Cold-hearted asteroids, and too many things to go wrong. You try not to think of the lovers that you've l...
[15:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:44] <exec> 08└─Realistically, rockets are already dead technology.
[15:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:46] <exec> 08└─Someone else already points out that cheap iron becomes not so cheap once lifted to orbit and beyond. So I'll point out something else. A half ton of rare earth metals might very well be economically worth mining from an asteroid and landing back on earth.
[15:09:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 913 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:49] <exec> 08└─I don't have numbers to back this up. But I'll suggest two economic reasons for mining asteroids. 1. Each pound of Iron, Aluminum, etc may be cheap on earth. But it suddenly becomes worth a whole lot more once boosted to orbit and beyond. As we start to construct structures in space, in orbit, or ev...
[15:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jman [6085] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:36] <exec> 08└─I would argue that belief in God is a result of evolution, in that consciousness is a mechanism for recording data from the senses and manipulating it to effect better survival (imagine one's brother being eaten by a large predator before they could get back to the safety of the tree, then thinking...
[15:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:06] <exec> 08└─FTFA ; "The shuttle did what it was supposed to do, in that it's (sic) sensors registered the truck and the shuttle stopped to avoid the accident,"
[15:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:12:08] <exec> 08└─I have reversed and/or sounded the horn in similar situations. In fact i avoid going anywhere close to a truck which looks like it is manoevering. I don't consider myself a "superior" driver.
[15:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06iPTF14hls Survives Apparent Supernova - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:16] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and every now and then, the lucky rookie comes up with a rather simple theoretical model which explains everything, gets taken to a room with senior astronomers, get shown that his model is already well understood but with it astronomy and grants and big particle accelerators become obsolete a...
[15:14:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPTF14hls Survives Apparent Supernova - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:17] <exec> 08└─> Different features of the supernova appear to be arising from physically distinct locations in space it's a bug.
[15:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06iPTF14hls Survives Apparent Supernova - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:14:20] <exec> 08└─Yes I know, I am implying the universe has bugs. It explains a lot doesn't it?
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[16:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:51] <exec> 08└─When the asteroid, which had a diameter about half the length of Manhattan
[16:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:52] <exec> 08└─The Chicxulub impactor (/ˈtʃiːkʃəluːb/ CHEEK-shə-loob), also known as the K/Pg impactor and (more speculatively) as the Chicxulub asteroid, was an asteroid 10 to 15 kilometres in diameter[3][4] which struck the Earth at the end of the Cretaceous, approximately 66 million years ago,[5] creatin...
[16:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:54] <exec> 08└─So BP, Exxon, and Shell have actually been laboring away at a 10% profit margin to save the world. I for one welcome our new planetary savior overlords.
[16:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:56] <exec> 08└─My fellow senators, we must give more money to NASA to start an asteroid protection programme. Otherwise, something like this may happen again and WE WILL LOSE OUR OIL!
[16:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:08] <exec> 08└─The quickest way to get BC outlawed is to make a bubble, have it burst, and have a bunch of unhappy 'investors'. It seems to me that some strong discouragements to speculation and encouragement to actual uses of BC might help in this area. Currently the former waaaay overshadows the later. The curre...
[16:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:18] <exec> 08└─Alternate scenario, mosquitoes evolve defenses to the bacteria of infected males. Artificially induced evolution may have other undesirable effects. But hey, it solves our problem today. So pollute the air and water. Burn those fossil fuels. Chow down those opioids! Eat those donuts! Introduce genet...
[16:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:20] <exec> 08└─We'd be releasing males only, with chromosomes damaged by the bacteria. These males are grown under our control. Once infected, they leave the population being grown at the mosquito factory. Resistance mutations are wildly improbable, essentially being speciation events in the wild. We don't get a n...
[16:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:22] <exec> 08└─This is a minor variation of a type of bacteria that is found all over nearly every kind of insect. Avoiding the bacteria (by smell?) isn't likely to work when every existing mosquito has similar bacteria.
[16:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:25] <exec> 08└─We're using bacteria to damage males grown in a captive population. It's similar to how we use radiation to damage male fruit flies. We control our captive population. Mosquitoes which have been exposed to the bacteria don't go back into our breeding pool in the captive population; they are instead...
[16:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Merlin Engine Fails During Falcon 9 "Block 5" Testing - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:34] <exec> 08└─If anyone could clarify the thing about the thrust, that would be great. I want to know if it is closer to 2% or 11% better than the predecessor.
[16:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Merlin Engine Fails During Falcon 9 "Block 5" Testing - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:36] <exec> 08└─However, it's a bold claim / complete lie to be able to re-use these devices 10 or even 100 times if they blow up while merely undergoing testing. Progress and testing is good and expecting. Bold claims should come AFTER successful testing, though, not before.
[16:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:14] <exec> 08└─And she's always right too.
[16:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:15] <exec> 08└─Is she an extrovert? I believe that introverts tend to experience all sensations at a heightened level when compared to extroverts. Thus, for an extrovert, having a heightened sense of taste might have them experience the taste with a similar cognitive load as a normal-tasting introvert, while being...
[16:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:48] <exec> 08└─Once it becomes generally known how to hack ME, I think it is not "game over" but it is "game on". The hackers and malware purveyors will have a field day. You can expect popular malware distribution channels (aka "advertisements") to be getting lots of new material (eg, "advertisements") to, um, "d...
[16:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:27] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a closeted alcoholic or somebody with mental problems. I haven't had a drink in over 15 years and unless you've got a really fucked up social life, it is indeed possible to go years without drinking and still have plenty of fun. Alcohol is a crutch and by no means necessary to have a goo...
[16:08:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:28] <exec> 08└─Simply put, those studies are full of shit. People who drink in moderation are far more likely to be healthy than people who either binge or abstain completely for the simple reason that people who abstain are frequently recovered alcoholics and those that binge are likely to wind up with health pro...
[16:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:30] <exec> 08└─People in religions that never partake of alcohol also do other things not related to alcohol that tend to cause good health. Pinning it on alcohol is something that alcoholics love because it helps rationalize what they're doing. The 7th day adventists get used in studies like that all the time, bu...
[16:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:32] <exec> 08└─This kind of ignorance is ridiculous. Believe it or not, there are people out there that actually have the kind of diet that you're knocking that seem to have no particular problem enjoying life. Perhaps you ought to try it before you knock it. Fats, salt and sugar are easy flavors to appreciate. Bu...
[16:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:35] <exec> 08└─You die, but rather than having decades of misery from diabetes, stroke and dementia, you're likely to get to enjoy your later years for longer rather than living in a state of more or less agony through most of it. People like you are so incredibly short-sighted and it's why the nursing homes are s...
[16:11:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 815 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:14] <exec> 08└─My position is there are two broad groups of factors that have an intersection but are substantially different. One is "spirituality" and the other is "religion". Spirituality is a feeling that arises from wanting to know beyond the currently known combined with a childish belief in self-importance....
[16:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:10] <exec> 08└─Remember when you were young, and it seemed like your mom/dad had all the answers,
[16:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03MindEscapes [6751] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:11] <exec> 08└─Would you know good was good without suffering to compare it to? It would just be what is and no longer good.
[16:13:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06$300m in Cryptocurrency Accidentally Lost Forever Due to Bug - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:40] <exec> 08└─I would argue that ether is not a fiat currency. The reason is, as far as I understand, ether is the only way to make ethereum Turing machine run. To run this computer one needs electricity and ether (and one can be conveniently converted to another so just ether). From this point of view ether is j...
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[17:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:43] <exec> 08└─I hope Facebook will treat this sensitive data with the care it deserves and ensure there are plenty of backups to prevent data loss. Who would volunteer to provide offsite storage of this data for Facebook?
[17:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:45] <exec> 08└─Facebook explains how it’ll review nude photos to stop revenge porn - Select company employees will indeed look at your nudes [theverge.com] Actually, Facebook Will Not Blur the Nudes Sent to Its Anti-Revenge Porn Program [vice.com] I give it up to another 24 hours (Saturday dead news cycle) befor...
[17:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:47] <exec> 08└─I tried to upload a nude of myself but it was rejected because the file size was too large.
[17:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:49] <exec> 08└─scheme is moronic
[17:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:52] <exec> 08└─CIA blackmail material.
[17:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:54] <exec> 08└─Look at my links below. Will they restrict uploads to 18-year and older uploaders? What about all the teen accounts that set their age as 90? Facebook has an existing "facial" recognition algorithm. It seems like they should be able to alter that to block nude photos automatically (the ones that are...
[17:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:05] <exec> 08└─I'd question those findings as well. Once again, we have a group of researches coming up with some amazing "findings". I suspect they assigned weights to possibilities, and maybe they didn't really "manipulate" the numbers, but added a little weight to numbers that looked good, and maybe lightened s...
[17:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─It's about 30 minutes, unless you're on the B train going uptown. Then you're gonna get stuck at the curve coming into Columbus Circle and it could take up to 50 minutes while waiting for the A train to pass. That's by subway. By bike it's about 20 minutes, unless you're going downtown and get held...
[17:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:08] <exec> 08└─I bet you didn't glance at the paper [nature.com], which is open access.
[17:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:19] <exec> 08└─This is why I invest in DogeCoin. The only coin where the purpose is more important than the value.
[17:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:20] <exec> 08└─Didn't you lose it all recently?
[17:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:22] <exec> 08└─The legitimacy of all money, unless it is based on the usefulness (thus inherent though variable value) of the material it's made of, is based on nothing but the agreement of those accepting it to keep accepting it. It's no more or less legitimate than the dollar, ruble, or yen in that sense. It's d...
[17:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:24] <exec> 08└─Ponzi scheme.
[17:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Merlin Engine Fails During Falcon 9 "Block 5" Testing - 693 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:48] <exec> 08└─I can appreciate the point made, but say all of the math points to them being able to be reused 100 times, and in this instance a fuel pump on the rocket that they got from a 3rd party had an o-ring that slipped out of place and boomed. That really doesn't say anything about the fitness of the rocke...
[17:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Merlin Engine Fails During Falcon 9 "Block 5" Testing - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:50] <exec> 08└─Sigh. The point of the testing is to figure out where things go wrong, and then fix them so they are able to meet the design goals. If you honestly think SpaceX is planning to fly the exact same design that had a testing incident, then I have a lovely bridge to sell you.
[17:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Merlin Engine Fails During Falcon 9 "Block 5" Testing - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:52] <exec> 08└─However, it's a bold claim / complete lie to be able to re-use these devices 10 or even 100 times if they blow up while merely undergoing testing. Progress and testing is good and expecting. Bold claims should come AFTER successful testing, though, not before.
[17:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Explorers Will Dive Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf Looking for Life - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:04] <exec> 08└─These days, every bit of research is somehow tied to global warming, no matter how absurd the connection. It seems there is the belief, true or not, that you can't get funding without a connection to global warming. I'm sick of this agenda. I'm getting really disinclined to support funding science....
[17:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Explorers Will Dive Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf Looking for Life - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:05] <exec> 08└─Agree. Nothing these days can just be about facts, there always has to be an agenda. Including science. And I'm sure they're assuming the result ahead of time here, too. Their goal is to prove an effect, because they know there must be one. Combine an attitude like that with the typical poor underst...
[17:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Engineer CRISPR to Edit Single RNA Letters in Human Cells - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:17] <exec> 08└─[Citation needed]. I read nothing in the release that says it's a treatment that must be repeated (at least, not any different from changing the DNA.) While you could be correct and it's an enzyme that directly affects translation and must be present whenever translation is made, it could equally be...
[17:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Geologists Uncover Antarctica's Fossil Forests - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:44] <exec> 08└─Not really at all. The Permian period was really, really long. Literally just Google 'Permian period' and you'll see it was nearly 50 million years long. Being within 10 million years of the end of it is actually near the end, in geologic time. And yes, that's basically exactly what happened to kill...
[17:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:11] <exec> 08└─You're complaining about Twitter, then you end your post with hashtags? Is this supposed to be ironic?
[17:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:55] <exec> 08└─Other entries on the list of things that cause cancer: - Food without calories (artificial crap) - Food with calories - Going outside - Not going outside - Breathing
[17:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:56] <exec> 08└─It's unnatural for somebody to approach the end of their life so slowly and with so much suffering.
[17:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:58] <exec> 08└─The things alcohol does are mostly things that can be classified as unnecessary and undesirable, it's just that there's all these people claiming that being drunk is fun, when really they mean that their lives suck and they need to forget.
[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:40] <exec> 08└─It's actually the sister organization to NIMBY, who don't mind so terribly much about their backyard so long as it's not in their house. NIMH = Not In My House
[17:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:42] <exec> 08└─It's not brains they lack so much as souls.
[17:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:44] <exec> 08└─If they implanted them in lemmings, would they behave like French? If they implanted them in turtles, would they behave like DMV employees? If they implanted them in cockroaches, would they behave like lawyers?
[17:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:46] <exec> 08└─... Tommorow, it's PICKLE RICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And nice summary and article, Takyon!
[17:12:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:42] <exec> 08└─Sure, you can have gradations of goodness without having evil to compare it against. For example, allowing people to starve is evil, not sharing when they would otherwise be fine is neutral, sharing delicious food is good. You can know that sharing is better when compared against not sharing, you do...
[17:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:43] <exec> 08└─The proposed god is all powerful. That has to include the ability to create a universe in which pleasure can exist without pain. Whether us humans can know pleasure without pain, is hardly the point. The whole system can be blamed on god.
[17:13:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:13:17] <exec> 08└─Maybe where you live. Near me I can probably count the number of times I've seen that in the last 6 months on the fingers of one hand, and have a few fingers left over.
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[18:05:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03tangomargarine [667] 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 17 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:51] <exec> 08└─scheme is moronic
[18:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:55] <exec> 08└─If Facebook doesn't trust their algorithms to recognize revenge pr0n, then they probably don't trust them to identify that this person doesn't look 90 years old. As for automatically recognizing nude humans, Facebook will end up with quite a training data set if people actually do submit plenty of p...
[18:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:57] <exec> 08└─At some point, it would become unnecessary to have humans vetting the photos to ensure they are actually potential revenge pr0n or blackmail material.
[18:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:59] <exec> 08└─What about all the teen accounts that set their age as 90?
[18:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:02] <exec> 08└─Remember to save revenge porn photos in a new file format before uploading.
[18:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:04] <exec> 08└─Bingo! Tangomargarine wins all the internets for a month. The real problem is, there are millions of users who actually think that Facefook really is trustworthy. And, if Facefook were trustworthy, WTF makes anyone think that US half-intelligence agencies are trustworthy? If NSA wants a nekkid pictu...
[18:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:06] <exec> 08└─I'm confused as to why they need to upload the image at all, they could have the hash computed in the user's browser and just upload that. With this scheme, there shouldn't be any reason to restrict minors from partaking. Maybe the images need to be reviewed by a human before hashing to ensure that...
[18:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:08] <exec> 08└─I tried telling you that that much alcohol would fuck up your calorie count but did you listen?
[18:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:10] <exec> 08└─Reading your link below, yes, they review beforehand. I guess no children, then.
[18:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─There are so many problems with this, you really have to wonder: which PHB actually approved it? Let's see: - You have no idea which photos your ex might upload, so you have to upload lots more just to be sure. - If you took video, are you supposed to upload each frame individually? - Anyway, you do...
[18:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:15] <exec> 08└─Or just post them yourself. It's difficult to blackmail someone with public knowledge.
[18:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─Sounds more like a PFY scheme to me. Get all your users to send you nudie pics which you can then blackmail them with.
[18:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:19] <exec> 08└─Yep. That's the downside of client-side computing. You can't trust the data processing. Done server-side you could just let anything with a fleshtones:non-fleshtones ratio above N through to the hashing function and feel relatively certain it's worth blocking that hash.
[18:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:22] <exec> 08└─Monochrome revenge porn?
[18:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:24] <exec> 08└─There is that. The most valid reason that the military had for banning homosexuals, was that they could be blackmailed. Let the homos make the fact that they are homosexual public knowledge, suddenly, they can't be blackmailed for being homos. On the other hand, ugly people probably don't want to po...
[18:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:26] <exec> 08└─But if you're the sort of person who could be blackmailed with nude images, you wouldn't want to do that. I personally wouldn't care, but some people do. This doesn't seem like a helpful solution for those people.
[18:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:28] <exec> 08└─- How did you get all those nude photos? - They uploaded them! - Why? - They "trust me". Dumb fucks.
[18:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:30] <exec> 08└─What we need is a societal change that recognizes two things: 1. Everybody is naked sometimes. Everybody has genitalia of some kind, and there aren't that many varieties really. 2. The vast majority of people have sex at some point in their life. Until evidence that people are sometimes naked and so...
[18:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:33] <exec> 08└─Lead by example. Inspect kids' genitals.
[18:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:35] <exec> 08└─They can use this technology to censor any person a government or corporation doesn't want to exist. Any photo you upload to try and bring attention to the person is just poof gone. A few years and they will be able to simply insert an alternative person or generic standin as needed to replace someo...
[18:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:37] <exec> 08└─There it is. Have another mod point!
[18:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:39] <exec> 08└─Yeah, my views on that situation are much like my views on abortion though. Don't have unprotected sex if you don't want a kid and don't take pictures of it if you don't want them on the Internet. When exactly did it become hate speech to advise someone to take some responsibility for their actions...
[18:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:41] <exec> 08└─Facebook says it's not storing a copy of the photo, but only computing the file's hash and adding it to its database of revenge porn imagery.
[18:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 1390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:55] <exec> 08└─Methods Model calculation We used a coupled atmosphere–ocean global climate model developed at the Meteorological Research Institute, MRI-CGCM3. I have often voiced my opinion of models. Those models make assumptions, much like autonomous car and other robotic software makers make assumptions. Tha...
[18:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:57] <exec> 08└─Mehhh - I should have put that first part in quotations, or even a blockquote - "Methods Model calculation We used a coupled atmosphere–ocean global climate model developed at the Meteorological Research Institute, MRI-CGCM3."
[18:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:59] <exec> 08└─One Manhattan is a quarter of a Long Island, m which places it at about 2 Chardonnays.
[18:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:14] <exec> 08└─Pyramid may be closer to the facts than Ponzi. Bubble may be closer still. They all have idea that new investors fund returns for previous investors. Ponzi seems more central control. Pyramid seems more active work of current investors to find new blood. Bubble seems more self inflating. Each new in...
[18:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:16] <exec> 08└─It fits bubble nicely. The people who have invested in it refuse to acknowledge all signs that there is a value realization problem, and keep pushing the prices up. When you ignore all the red flags, and dismiss all the friendly advice from people trying to protect you, that typically ends with brui...
[18:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:31] <exec> 08└─That is a good explanation. What you are saying, if I understand, is that the male, as delivered from the factory, is unable to produce an offspring. And the female won't ask for a refund or replacement item. So it is not a matter of some astronomically small chance that one out of billions of femal...
[18:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:33] <exec> 08└─Male mosquito carries damaging bacteria. Male mosquito mates with female, transmitting bacteria. Pregnant female needs a snack, transmits bacteria to human. Humans interact with humans, transmitting bacteria again. What are the odds of the bacteria mutating to makes humans sterile?
[18:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Merlin Engine Fails During Falcon 9 "Block 5" Testing - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:46] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9_Block_5 [wikipedia.org] https://spaceflightnow.com [spaceflightnow.com] Thursday’s reflight of a previously-used Falcon 9 first stage booster went a long way toward SpaceX’s goal of recovering and rapidly...
[18:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:41] <exec> 08└─> But it suddenly becomes worth a whole lot more once boosted to orbit and beyond. As we start to construct structures in space, > in orbit, or even on other planetary bodies (Mars, Moon) it may be cheaper to mine from asteroids. And you're lifting up there the half-billion dollar transformation pla...
[18:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:43] <exec> 08└─Actually, once building mines in the asteroids starts, pollution out there *is* going to be undesirable. Too much small stuff really limits the speed you can use. That said, it might be possible to solve the matter by giving a hunk that you aren't using a strong electrostatic charge. Not sure wheth...
[18:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:45] <exec> 08└─You are accurately describing the early phase of the project. Once manufacturing in space takes off it would reduce the need to build stuff on Earth. And lowering something from space to earth isn't nearly as polluting as lifting it off...by several orders of magnitude. But the main effect would pro...
[18:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:13:37] <exec> 08└─It's a flawed conclusion because it is a flawed premise. The spirit is not of the mind nor body though inextricably tied to them during life. So why would responses in faith be controlled by the mind or body? Influenced, probably. Controlled, no, not at its' root.
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[19:05:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:49] <exec> 08└─Oh wait, it's: "if it's weird in ways that everyone understands and is used to live with", then why fragment to try to fix it ?
[19:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:51] <exec> 08└─Then, of course, there was the lock-in effect of C's success; to link to any of the vast mass of pre-existing C you had to write new code in C
[19:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:28] <exec> 08└─Nah, revenge porn will just move to threatening to show you pictures of your grandparents getting their freak on when that happens.
[19:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:29] <exec> 08└─Ron. Jeremy.
[19:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:32] <exec> 08└─I disagree. I do agree that blackmail the most valid reason the military (and other agencies) had for disqualifying gays from a security clearance, but the more obvious reason from the military perspective is that they didn't want buttsex and dyking out all over the place. It's difficult to keep dis...
[19:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:34] <exec> 08└─Yeah. It'd be much more difficult than text filters for certain. Low hanging fruit would be possible for a bit at least though.
[19:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 1269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:36] <exec> 08└─They want you to upload your nude pictures, so they can create hashes of the pictures and use these for comparing to photos your associates may upload? They don't see the potential for abuse here? Worse, how does it work with under-age people? It's not like they're immune to this, but this creates a...
[19:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:38] <exec> 08└─You never know who will go onto politics or express anti-government sentiment when they get older.
[19:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:41] <exec> 08└─How about just not using Facebook? Oh, right, how could I forget, people are vain idiots.
[19:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:43] <exec> 08└─If they were serious about it, they would let people compute the hashes on their own machine, without uploading the original file to facebook. I suppose it would be slightly easier to avoid the filter in that case, but only slightly.
[19:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:45] <exec> 08└─6 months later... "Beginning tomorrow morning, only paid Facebook accounts may keep their content private, and will have the ability to delete uploads, in order to best serve our customers..."
[19:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:47] <exec> 08└─Your mention of abuse made me think of something: see a meme you don't like? Label it "revenge porn". I guess that is you you are supposed to submit the files ahead of time.
[19:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:49] <exec> 08└─"only computing the file's hash" So, how much does a photo need to change, before it generates a different hash? A little cropping, for a closeup? Do a redeye filter on it? Change a few pixels in a corner? Hide an encrypted file in it? Maybe just strip the metadata? I wonder how much their little sc...
[19:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:52] <exec> 08└─The problem is that they still have to retain a copy of the materials in case there are court proceedings and the stuff involving minors is illegal to posses. So, they wouldn't be able to have the images in order to verify that the images are illegal and as a result, there's a huge hole that could b...
[19:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:54] <exec> 08└─The religious people will never come to terms with this. After all, the guy who created the entire universe is interested in nothing like what joe and jane do in the privacy their bedroom.
[19:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:56] <exec> 08└─But then how would Zuckerberg get copies?
[19:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:58] <exec> 08└─It's not just that. There's also the issue of due diligence. If FB doesn't have a copy, the original could be anything at all. They also wouldn't have any way of training an AI to verify that the things being uploaded are likely to be illegal or harassment rather than just images that somebody is tr...
[19:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:01] <exec> 08└─Facebook says it's not storing a copy of the photo, but only computing the file's hash...
[19:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 1176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:03] <exec> 08└─Presumably, it's not just one hash, it's a half-dozen or more done with varying degrees of filtering. If you divide an image up into 8 pieces, it's hard to change the original so that it doesn't have the same relationship between the samples. The downside is that if it's only 8 there are going to be...
[19:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:05] <exec> 08└─fappening 2: electric boogaloo!
[19:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:07] <exec> 08└─Another issue: There is now a brand new vector for phishing. From "Faecbook Securty" "YOUR NUDES HAVE BEEN POSTED! Plz send us teh nudes so we remove them from internet and anyone who see them, immediately, thank you."
[19:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:09] <exec> 08└─Since they don't really, from what I have seen so far, go into any great depth about how this revenge-p0rn protection scheme will work it's quite hard to know. Will they even store metadata? Will there just be one hash per image or will they run a few different once? Considering the amount of people...
[19:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:11] <exec> 08└─FaceBook Incorporated
[19:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:14] <exec> 08└─Don't smoke if you don't want cancer, chemotherapy should be illegal. #MAGA
[19:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:16] <exec> 08└─As someone who maintains various mail systems, they are already doing this.
[19:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:32] <exec> 08└─So, converting to other units here, about 20 KiloJews?
[19:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 341 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:34] <exec> 08└─It's unfortunately that the asteroid hit in that location. If it hadn't, dinosaurs probably would have survived, and evolved into an intelligent species that surely would have been better than these shitty humans. They'd probably have had interstellar travel by now too. Maybe there's a parallel univ...
[19:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:36] <exec> 08└─But 20 kiloJews is two Deutsche Bahn trains (it would be only one Indian Railways train), which would only realistically be a threat to Argentinian Dinosaurs.
[19:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:52] <exec> 08└─BTC will remind everyone that even though they know who and what Ponzi was all about they can still be total rubes. How people can invest in something so volatile is beyond me. While centralization sucks for a variety of reasons I just can't see how cryptocurrencies can possibly work in reality unti...
[19:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Human Brain Organoids Implanted into Rats and Mice - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:11] <exec> 08└─But then it will want a cookie, and some milk.
[19:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 1763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:22] <exec> 08└─Printing materials will probably always have limits. It's my guess that the limits will involve strength, but I'm not sure. Other technologies will be favored for many purposes. This isn't to say that they won't be automated, just that printing will only be one of the approaches used. I suspect that...
[19:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:23] <exec> 08└─If you're going to use it on the moon, it probably makes more sense to dig it on the moon. Smaller bodies, though, might well have different trade-offs, and for use in space itself, asteroids are probably the best bet. But that seems to depend on automated factories which we are a few years (decades...
[19:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 676 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:25] <exec> 08└─I really doubt that for the rare earth metals. Remember the asteroids won't have had the same kind on geologic actions concentrating them. If the process happened at all, it will require an explanation that hasn't occurred to me. Also, the rare earths aren't really all that rare on Earth, they're ju...
[19:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:18] <exec> 08└─Richard Dawkins is relatively intelligent about his arguments, and couches his argument in terms of scientific knowledge because he is a biologist. He gets pretty close to speaking in absolutes, though; by his implications, 'not only is religion archaic and stupid, but you should consider yourself s...
[19:14:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:20] <exec> 08└─Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
[19:14:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Truck Driver at Fault in Minor Crash With Las Vegas Driverless Shuttle Bus - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:14:54] <exec> 08└─Yea, but you're here and as a result fall into the 10 types of people who can count to 1023 on their fingers, barring additional encoding or previous accident.
[19:16:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FBI Bemoans Phone Encryption After Texas Shooting, but Refuses Apple's Help - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:16:50] <exec> 08└─Ah, that's the detail I was missing, thanks
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[20:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:10] <exec> 08└─Ooh ho ho! Another shill proclaiming the end of C because Rust or (hahah) Go is here. Go - a Google monstrosity pet langauge Rust - a containment zone for people too retarded for C/C++ Oh he's a self-proclaimed systems programmer. Let's see: "relentless cycling of Moore’s Law had driven the cost o...
[20:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:11] <exec> 08└─So we get death of C announced every a year or so per tech news site. But please tell me, what language is used to write the kernel, most of those fancy new programming languages' interpreters, and most serious code? Yeah, code that is used to directly earn money (business logic, shit webpages, etc)...
[20:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:14] <exec> 08└─Go doesn't even make dynamic linking support. So how is it going to help me leverage my OS security support when everything is linked in?
[20:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 855 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:16] <exec> 08└─At least one other guy agrees with you and I: http://harmful.cat-v.org [cat-v.org] Recently I was helping a friend with an Arduino project he dreamed up. I hadn't touched Arduino before, but have done a fair bit of assembler here and there on an assortment of microprocessors. I wa...
[20:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pvanhoof [4638] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:18] <exec> 08└─"C is only nice if you want to make libraries where ABI stability is paramount. " ABI stability is possible with C++. But it's indeed very hard. It's also hard with C, though. Having to add padding members and space to your structs so that you can add members later on, having to do the same thing in...
[20:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 550 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:20] <exec> 08└─From "Surely you must be joking, Dr. Feynman [northwestern.edu]": I thought my symbols were just as good, if not better, than the regular symbols--it doesn't make any difference what symbols you use--but I discovered later that it does make a difference. Once when I was explaining something to anoth...
[20:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:22] <exec> 08└─More to the point: > "relentless cycling of Moore’s Law had driven the cost of compute cycles cheap enough to make the runtime overhead of a language like Perl a non-issue". My battery doesn't like the way you think. My server's customers, always bitching about more throughput and less latency, do...
[20:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:25] <exec> 08└─Remember the big hype of Go or Swift? They're moribund now
[20:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 1539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:27] <exec> 08└─Also, to write those higher-level things properly, sometimes you need to be able to dive into C. A couple of examples: - I worked on some fairly high-level business code at a Fortune 1000 company for nearly 5 years. Most of it was in Python, which worked just fine. But we had to interface with a 3rd...
[20:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:29] <exec> 08└─then why fragment to try to fix it ?
[20:06:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:40] <exec> 08└─I tried to upload a nude of myself but it was rejected because the file size was too large.
[20:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:30] <exec> 08└─So, how much does a photo need to change, before it generates a different hash?
[20:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Jiro [3176] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:31] <exec> 08└─They can't let you do it on your own computer. If they did, people could maliciously report someone's non-porn image as porn.
[20:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:34] <exec> 08└─Maybe they're planning on using them as input to their new AI image generator...everything guaranteed artificial, but lifelike.
[20:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:36] <exec> 08└─Facebook will end up with quite a training data set if people actually do submit plenty of photos.
[20:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:38] <exec> 08└─Truly, this is the last generation of actual 'clean' people who will be able to run for office. From this point onward, any candidate opposed by FB will have their private (pun intended) info selectively leaked. No-one will be able to get elected anymore except for the incumbent and their presumptiv...
[20:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:40] <exec> 08└─The problem with that is that by definition revenge porn is posted by somebody other than the target. So, if the target doesn't have a FB account, it just means fewer "friends" see it. But strangers might see it and most people have friends that are on FB, so those people can see as well.
[20:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:42] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever looks at the Original Submission. But I put in a very telling quote from Mark Zuckerberg. He said "they trust me -- dumb fucks." Let me tell you, people who trust him are very foolish. Very foolish! He wants to be your president. Don't do it! He's a smart cookie. But a very bad or sick g...
[20:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:45] <exec> 08└─Review your photos... Not post a native application to generate hashes of your photos and store your hashes. Rocket geniuses, status confirmed.
[20:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:47] <exec> 08└─So, if anyone at Facebook knew how to make a non-web based app, and any Facebook users were sophisticated enough to understand how to be relatively sure that the app is restricted from uploading by itself, they could make an app that would transform a photo into a hash and allow the user to copy-pas...
[20:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:49] <exec> 08└─If they calculate the hashes on the server, that can't happen?
[20:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:51] <exec> 08└─Nah. The electorate will just adapt to not care about typical scandals anymore, just like how they elected a pussy groper.
[20:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:54] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it just didn't get rejected by the fugly filter?
[20:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:14] <exec> 08└─I certainly hope we can develop interstellar travel in a matter of a thousand years, not 60 million...
[20:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:15] <exec> 08└─So, the asteroid accurately hit one of the few locations on the planet that caused maximum casualties. There is no way something like that could have happened naturally! That rock must have been guided by aliens!
[20:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:34] <exec> 08└─No, Dogecoin still has the same value it has always had!
[20:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:51] <exec> 08└─Just what I was going to say, it sounds like an ideal trigger for speciation. Anything having to do directly with mate preference like this is going to drive evolution fast.
[20:09:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Explorers Will Dive Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf Looking for Life - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:19] <exec> 08└─Fucking it up exactly how?
[20:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:51] <exec> 08└─And she's always right too.
[20:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:27] <exec> 08└─Gentleman and Ladies, this is it. This is the Golden Age of hacking. We are living in it. Massive connectivity. Universal embedded OS & processor-in-a-processor, complete with NIC access. Revel in it. Toast the super-geniuses at Intel and the NSA. Thank you, we couldn't have had this without them.
[20:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 472 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:29] <exec> 08└─The text and image are both the same to you but they are very different to other people (like blind people and robots). If it was only text then they would be excluding the proof (source material). If it was only images then the page wouldn't be as searchable, indexable, and it would be junk for scr...
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[21:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop 3D Polymer-Based Gel Process for Growing Large Quantities of Neural Stem Cells - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:53] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of that utterly lame "The Brain" [alchetron.com] SiFi horror film of the late 80's.
[21:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop 3D Polymer-Based Gel Process for Growing Large Quantities of Neural Stem Cells - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:55] <exec> 08└─https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/09/stem-cells-tooth-damage/ [statnews.com] http://www.cbc.ca [www.cbc.ca]
[21:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop 3D Polymer-Based Gel Process for Growing Large Quantities of Neural Stem Cells - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:57] <exec> 08└─Caltech's freshman orientation takes place at a summer camp on one of the Catalina islands. It is there that The Caltech Community Cult captured our hearts and minds. Physicist Jerry Pine gave a talk in which he said he used to work on Big Science experiments at CERN and SLAC, but he longed to have...
[21:06:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:07] <exec> 08└─Ooh ho ho! Another shill proclaiming the end of C because Rust or (hahah) Go is here. Go - a Google monstrosity pet langauge Rust - a containment zone for people too retarded for C/C++ Oh he's a self-proclaimed systems programmer. Let's see: "relentless cycling of Moore’s Law had driven the cost o...
[21:06:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 1539 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:16] <exec> 08└─Also, to write those higher-level things properly, sometimes you need to be able to dive into C. A couple of examples: - I worked on some fairly high-level business code at a Fortune 1000 company for nearly 5 years. Most of it was in Python, which worked just fine. But we had to interface with a 3rd...
[21:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:19] <exec> 08└─C++ is used for Arduino because Arduino is for babies and assembler makes babies cry. 99% of Arduino code is essentially dumbed-down C/C++ anyway. When was the last time you saw any pointers in any hobbyist-written Arduino code?
[21:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:21] <exec> 08└─There are only two kinds of people: those that incorrectly oversimplify things into two categories, and those who realize that reality is a bit more complex than that.
[21:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:23] <exec> 08└─C++ is used for Arduino because Arduino is for babies and assembler makes babies cry.
[21:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:26] <exec> 08└─C++ (and Python) are perfectly able to do procedural programming without those silly objects. The nice thing is, when objects start to make sense for your code, you have those as well.
[21:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:28] <exec> 08└─Note that I explicitly excluded business logic, websites and so on. It depends on what type of program you're writing. Heck, most of my coding time is spent doing Perl! Use the right tool for the job. there are only two kinds of languages
[21:06:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 95 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:49] <exec> 08└─I tried telling you that that much alcohol would fuck up your calorie count but did you listen?
[21:06:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 418 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:59] <exec> 08└─What we need is a societal change that recognizes two things: 1. Everybody is naked sometimes. Everybody has genitalia of some kind, and there aren't that many varieties really. 2. The vast majority of people have sex at some point in their life. Until evidence that people are sometimes naked and so...
[21:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:41] <exec> 08└─why they need to upload the image at all, they could have the hash computed in the user's browser
[21:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:42] <exec> 08└─This is an issue whether it's done on the client or the server, it's not relevant to the quote. An AC below suggests that they'll probably divide the image so subsets of it can be hashed. I could see this helping for corners (if some, but not all, edges were cropped), or for sections around somethin...
[21:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:44] <exec> 08└─The point of a hash is that close is not good enough. With the scheme described in this thread, it sounds like you can recreate the picture by playing a game of warmer/colder (the nudie will be the near unique result with nice gradients).
[21:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:46] <exec> 08└─Which again, will have no effect if people simply accept that politicians also get it on sometimes. I mean, nobody really wants to picture Angela Merkel doing it, but I'm reasonably certain she has and probably still does.
[21:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:49] <exec> 08└─Native app not needed, this can be done in a browser. Objections to doing the hash client-side it are in at least two threads above (facebook is doing human review prior to hashing, to keep out non-porn).
[21:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:51] <exec> 08└─Well to be fair, he was running against the worst candidate for the office in the history of the country. Who only managed to get the nomination by bribing the party itself to rig things in her favor. A ham sandwich probably would have beaten her.
[21:07:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:53] <exec> 08└─She's not bad from the neck down. [typepad.com]
[21:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:55] <exec> 08└─mod +1 alliteration.
[21:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:58] <exec> 08└─Nah, insurance should. Pay for it and you can have anything you want guilt-free.
[21:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:00] <exec> 08└─Anything? Even abortions? Even... insurance?
[21:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:02] <exec> 08└─Birth control is not flawless. It's better to not have sex at all if you don't want a kid. Also, hope you don't get raped. But at least abortion is legal so the problem can be taken care of if desired.
[21:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:24] <exec> 08└─It's been 60M years since the dinos yielded to the mammals, and yet you want more time? I'll ask the Gods what the lead time is on the asteroid order, but I'm pretty sure the insects are gonna be pissed if you delay...
[21:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:26] <exec> 08└─and evolved into an intelligent species that surely would have been better than these shitty humans
[21:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:28] <exec> 08└─I suspect they assigned weights to possibilities, and maybe they didn't really "manipulate" the numbers, but added a little weight to numbers that looked good, and maybe lightened some numbers that didn't look so good.
[21:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dinosaurs Could Have Survived Asteroid if it Had Struck Almost Anywhere Else on Earth - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:30] <exec> 08└─Interesting, but remember, every single prior civilization that humans have created has collapsed. It seems a bit optimistic to think that this one won't.
[21:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:49] <exec> 08└─To operate an exchange is a felony punishable by two years in prison and a $100,000 fine.
[21:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:50] <exec> 08└─We accept it here because you can reliably and instantly convert it to more easily used currencies. If we had to touch BTC our taxes would suuuuuuck for our poor CPA.
[21:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:52] <exec> 08└─However I have finally conceded that others believe it is money, and that they are willing to pay absurd amounts of sound money for it. That's why I plan to buy a bitcoin when my client pays me, which is Real Soon Now because my code is within a few days of beta. Provided the bubble has not burst, I...
[21:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EPA Approves the Use of Bacteria to Fight Mosquitoes - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:10] <exec> 08└─Couldn't a speciation event hurt the fitness of the new species?
[21:09:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Explorers Will Dive Beneath Antarctic Ice Shelf Looking for Life - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:39] <exec> 08└─And bonus, anyone who even shows a hint of questioning this is a heretic!
[21:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How to Tell If You’re a Supertaster - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:11] <exec> 08└─supertasters = children?
[21:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Management Engine Hacked Using USB - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:50] <exec> 08└─That's quite the conjecture.
[21:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06American Society of Clinical Oncology: Alcohol Use Increases Risk of Cancer - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:37] <exec> 08└─Enjoy your long, boring life. Hey, watch out for that bus! Opps, too late. Thanks for living.
[21:13:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:36] <exec> 08└─I am aware of that, and have considered it. As we construct structures in space, on a big enough scale, building the infrastructure for refining mined rocks becomes just one small part of a much larger infrastructure of construction. It would inevitably become economically attractive to mine asteroi...
[21:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:38] <exec> 08└─Interesting. Thanks
[21:13:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 1059 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:40] <exec> 08└─There's different kinds of pollution. In earth-based mining, one big problem is "tailings": all the leftovers from the earth dug up after the valuable ores are removed. They tend to be full of a lot of other not-so-desirable materials like arsenic and mercury, plus you have to put them somewhere, an...
[21:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 1252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:42] <exec> 08└─I remember a time, long, long ago when it was thought to be impossible to land a rocket booster and re-use it. Just ask the NASA and Congress people who said (1) impossible to re-land a rocket booster, and (2) impossible to re-use it. Huh? When did they ever say that? Did you forget that's exactly w...
[21:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Asteroid Mining Could Begin in 10-20 Years - 1134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:13:44] <exec> 08└─If you're going to use it on the moon, it probably makes more sense to dig it on the moon. It certainly does, however that doesn't mean that everything you need will be conveniently available on the Moon. The Moon has very different geology from the Earth. IANAG, but I have read some stuff that poo-...
[21:14:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Why do we Believe in Gods? Religious Belief 'Not Linked to Intuition or Rational Thinking' - 105 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:53] <exec> 08└─You can't scientifically proved[sic] there is a God, but you also can't scientifically prove there isn't.
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[22:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:54] <exec> 08└─And yet, environmental treaties always give China a pass. They're "developing"!! We can't hold them to any standard! Is it any surprise that China's economy is booming while Europe and North America are stagnant? We have to pay for environmental protection* (with boatloads of regulations) and they d...
[22:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:55] <exec> 08└─China once said about pollution "The USA started it, we don't care"
[22:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:58] <exec> 08└─So all this trash is coming from nations of filthy subhumans? Color my sweet patootie surprised!
[22:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:00] <exec> 08└─You think environmentalists are rooted in reality? Their idea of nature is growing their own tomatoes in their 5 story walk-up.
[22:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:02] <exec> 08└─Is it any surprise that China's economy is booming while Europe and North America are stagnant?
[22:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Develop 3D Polymer-Based Gel Process for Growing Large Quantities of Neural Stem Cells - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:13] <exec> 08└─From TFO(riginal)A on a certain scientific hub: For cells embedded in 3D materials, both stiffness and degradability [of the gel] can be critical design variables. Whereas cells cultured in 2D are unrestricted and free to spread, cells embedded within nanoporous 3D hydrogels require matrix remodelli...
[22:06:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 521 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:27] <exec> 08└─More to the point: > "relentless cycling of Moore’s Law had driven the cost of compute cycles cheap enough to make the runtime overhead of a language like Perl a non-issue". My battery doesn't like the way you think. My server's customers, always bitching about more throughput and less latency, do...
[22:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:37] <exec> 08└─Rust's still in its infancy but it can already produce and make use of shared libs. It's in no way ready to produce a usable kernel (or probably libraries that need to have a stable ABI, I haven't checked.) but you can produce anything else you like and end up with a much less bug-prone binary while...
[22:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03isj [5249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:39] <exec> 08└─and now you can use C++, so why use C? I do that whenever I have a choice. But one of the semi-embedded projects I work on is based on a vendor framework that generates C code and wrappers. No extern "C" exists in any headerfile, and the framework has ownership of main(). So I have to stick with C....
[22:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:41] <exec> 08└─Libraries, and the way they are accessed, is the problem. Without the header file, written in C/C++ of course, which makes developing in C by far the easiest way to use these library functions, there's no way to be sure of the details of the parameters to pass. That information is not part of the li...
[22:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:43] <exec> 08└─ABI stability is possible with C++. But it's indeed very hard.
[22:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:46] <exec> 08└─To be a prolific writer, you should never proofreed your work.
[22:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:48] <exec> 08└─They'll just be replaced entirely.
[22:07:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 333 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:01] <exec> 08└─Look at my links below. Will they restrict uploads to 18-year and older uploaders? What about all the teen accounts that set their age as 90? Facebook has an existing "facial" recognition algorithm. It seems like they should be able to alter that to block nude photos automatically (the ones that are...
[22:07:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:54] <exec> 08└─Nobody ever looks at the Original Submission. But I put in a very telling quote from Mark Zuckerberg. He said "they trust me -- dumb fucks." Let me tell you, people who trust him are very foolish. Very foolish! He wants to be your president. Don't do it! He's a smart cookie. But a very bad or sick g...
[22:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:12] <exec> 08└─Why CIA onlly? FB has employees from all over the world, none have goverment clearance. FB is not subject to DSS audits and can run the machinery in any way they please. Given the wealth of data they obtained, FB is obviously an important target for intelligence services of all major countries. Blac...
[22:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:13] <exec> 08└─" FB has employees from all over the world, none have goverment clearance. "
[22:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:15] <exec> 08└─A good hashing algo will switch 50% of its bits for every bit flipped in input [wikipedia.org]. If two inputs aren't bit-to-bit identical, the hashes will look quite far away on from the other. Or... we are not speaking about crypto-hashes here?
[22:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:17] <exec> 08└─And, if ex applies a filter or, say, changes Green value in pixel 523097 from 180 to 179, the hash should change. Hard to believe Facebook engineers are really this naive? Maybe it's a social experiment, just to demo how gullible people are?
[22:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:20] <exec> 08└─its what I thought, too how come someone hasn't gotten him fired yet. i guess maybe that since he is mr facebook, he knows better than to let secrets get online. still the guy needs a good slapping because he's evil in a way that simply goes beyond what everyone expected bill gates to be. windows is...
[22:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:22] <exec> 08└─If I suspected that I were a victim of revenge porn, I'd browse /b/ before I'd browse Facebook. Also, I have an old story I posted on Slashdot and may have posted here. Pardon if I already posted it here. Anyway, when I was a freshman in high school, a disgruntled ex-boyfriend of a 16 year old stude...
[22:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin SegWit2x Fork Cancelled, Prices Surged... and Sagged - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:09] <exec> 08└─Its market cap is $133,610,547 or 20,246 BTC [coinmarketcap.com] right now.
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[23:05:58] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 239 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:58] <exec> 08└─I saw this lovely article earlier today. https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] I'd rather have a stagnant economy than live in that hell hole.
[23:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:00] <exec> 08└─Considering that plastics isn't the only human byproduct massively flowing down those rivers, You have to applaud the researchers for approaching them to make their measurements. The more dams they build, the less the rainy seasons can flush all that stuff into the sea, and the more toxic those rive...
[23:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:02] <exec> 08└─Hey troll, the problem was actually started by western offshoring to specifically evade environmental regulations and get cheap labor.
[23:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:04] <exec> 08└─The thing is, there is just one planet. Their pollution doesn't just affect them, but us as well. And I never said they were "stealing our jubs". Read what I wrote again, it's like you replied to a post that said something totally different. Maybe I am more interested in them meeting the same standa...
[23:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:06] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe working in China [youtube.com] isn't the best idea.
[23:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:09] <exec> 08└─this paper makes me somewhat optimistic; perhaps we could address plastic escapement from the 10-20 worst rivers on a regional or global level and dramatically decrease the amount of plastics going into the ocean. We now can better address the primary sources of this plastic waste knowing a signific...
[23:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:11] <exec> 08└─We've regulated to the point that businesses just went elsewhere. We could have kept medium-strict regulations and they would have mattered, but no, we insisted on strict regulations. The only regulations that currently apply are weak ones in foreign countries. We've effectively gone from medium-str...
[23:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:13] <exec> 08└─I want a native-born English-speaking US citizen cleaning the toilets for minimum wage overnight at the local hotel. That is exactly how it used to be. Wages for these jobs would go up naturally, without government mandate. I'd like to see nearly all Americans living in self-supported families. I'd...
[23:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:15] <exec> 08└─That was not the problem, the real problem was that other countries had lax regulations. The only disturbing part is that we allow sociopaths to run industries.
[23:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:18] <exec> 08└─A lot of those rivers belong to China. Six of them, is it six? I think it's six. Although maybe, probably, some of them join together. Don't some of them join up? The pollution here in China, as you know, is HORRIBLE. I don't blame China. After all, who can blame a country for polluting while it bui...
[23:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Recent Study Show 95% of Plastic in the Sea Comes From Just 10 Rivers - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:20] <exec> 08└─Chinese plastic, American plastic, EU plastic, Japan plastic, UK plastic [soylentnews.org], all going into Yantze. We have to pay for environmental protection* (with boatloads of regulations) and they don't.
[23:06:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KiloByte [375] 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 1046 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:40] <exec> 08└─So we get death of C announced every a year or so per tech news site. But please tell me, what language is used to write the kernel, most of those fancy new programming languages' interpreters, and most serious code? Yeah, code that is used to directly earn money (business logic, shit webpages, etc)...
[23:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:00] <exec> 08└─Rust - a containment zone for people too retarded for C/C++
[23:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ [tiobe.com] On that chart, the big movers is that Go is tanking after being "winner" last year - so that peaked! And Rust, not even on the main list, and well at the bottom. Top languages are clearly Java and C and C++. And Javascript is gaining, thanks to NodeJS....
[23:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 1829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:04] <exec> 08└─Including "details of the parameters to pass" in the compiled library is of little use. Suppose a struct layout changes. Now what? Are you proposing to parse something, then dynamically convert between the layout used by the library and the layout used by the program? This is a performance killer; a...
[23:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:06] <exec> 08└─So we get death of C announced every a year or so per tech news site. But please tell me, what language is used to write the kernel, most of those fancy new programming languages' interpreters, and most serious code? Yeah, code that is used to directly earn money (business logic, shit webpages, etc)...
[23:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:08] <exec> 08└─Rust - a containment zone for people too retarded for C/C++
[23:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:10] <exec> 08└─Want a vendor to be liable? Put that in the contract. You have the power to create law; it's called "contract negotiation".
[23:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Eric Raymond: "The long goodbye to C" - 1102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:12] <exec> 08└─The typical behavior for an interpreted language would be to run for a while, modifying your data files, and then suddenly crash with an exception. People expect better of compiled programs, and anyway the whole point of a compiled program is to quickly and directly access the data. Type checking is...
[23:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:44] <exec> 08└─...prejudice dies hard, and the military—and its socially conservative supporters—were not about to let the inconvenient truth get in the way of their bias. They came up with a series of rationales for discrimination, each of which eventually fell: gay people were dubbed a security risk; then cr...
[23:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:45] <exec> 08└─but only for the old and the well-endowed.
[23:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:47] <exec> 08└─Here's what they could do without involving any user action. Use a nudity detection algorithm, which I'm sure they are already running: https://lizrush.gitbooks.io [gitbooks.io] https://blog.algorithmia.com
[23:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:49] <exec> 08└─You don't pay for insurance. Insurance is a bet. You're betting that you're going to be sicker than most of the other people using the same bookie.
[23:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook to Fight Revenge Porn by Letting Potential Victims Upload Nudes in Advance - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:52] <exec> 08└─Rape, incest, and responsibly using birth control but it still failing are extremely rare exceptions that I'll be happy to address separately. For the overwhelming majority of abortion cases though, it's being used instead of a condom. Example: In 2013 29,007 abortions were performed for black women...
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