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[00:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:54] <exec> 08└─The article was scant on detail, but amazon's original content is available for streaming on amazon right? Have they purchased a TV network? What qualifies this series as "TV"? The mere fact that its episodic video content? Are podcast series "TV" now?
[00:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:55] <exec> 08└─What qualifies this series as "TV"? The transmission of dynamic or sometimes static images, generally with accompanying sound, via electric or electromagnetic signals?
[00:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:57] <exec> 08└─I grew up reading the books, and the movies didn't nail it 100% to be kind. They've already done the Hobbit and LOTR, and beyond trying to nail it 100% again, I don't think they're going to accomplish much. I don't believe you could try something like that with a normal TV budget. It would cost as m...
[00:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 702 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:00] <exec> 08└─I don't think they're even going to try that. The article I read on this a few weeks back indicated they were pursuing this because they envied GoT, and thought the LoTR books would give them enough pre-written material to base their GoT killer on. Roughly paraphrased. The clear implication was they...
[00:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Commits $100 Million to Alzheimer's Research - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:12] <exec> 08└─Wasn't Dozer the Brother of Tank, who served on the Nebuchadnezzar under Morpheus? Why would he reap? Sounds just like the thinking of a machine, to me.
[00:06:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 272 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:21] <exec> 08└─So much this. When everyone is so sensitive that the smallest touch or gesture is sexual harassment combined with the fact that just an accusation of sexual harassment (not even proof) having the chance of ruining your career it's no wonder people would be afraid to help.
[00:06:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 360 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:43] <exec> 08└─Physician friend of ours saved a fellow restaurant patron (stranger) once by performing an emergency tracheotomy with a disassembled ballpoint pen - others' correct attempts at Heimlich had failed and the person was already unconscious from lack of air at the time. Of course he was sued for it. Vowe...
[00:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:53] <exec> 08└─For a man to perform CPR on a woman during sex seems awkward.
[00:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 1051 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:55] <exec> 08└─Faced with a mudball of catastrophic risk I don't even know how to begin assessing, I step aside and shall almost every time. If it comes to it, I will watch strangers die and risk killing/disabling/torturing my close friends and family. >Now think about how you would reflect on that choice afterwar...
[00:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:57] <exec> 08└─A plea deal means he had to plead guilty. Hardly getting off scott-free...
[00:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:59] <exec> 08└─Hmm, this sounds like a problem public/private key cryptography and tatoos could solve.
[00:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 1956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:01] <exec> 08└─I can't perform CPR, therefore I would be mimicking the same TV shows which tell me defibrillators start hearts and gunshots knock people off their feet (which I don't watch, and so have an even less accurate view of their probably-already-inaccurate depiction). I can't remember ever seeing a CPR sc...
[00:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:03] <exec> 08└─I did give the Heimlich once. I'll admit I was fairly uncomfortable touching her breasts during it, right... I'm sure I didn't do it exactly right No shit, you were 6" too high.
[00:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:44] <exec> 08└─To keep a balanced, modern, politically correct, no-discriminatory policy, WikiLeaks should now go full out to UP THE FUN. We need a big juicy leak of Russian and Chinese intel spycode and a leak of Norkies naughty pen-tools for malware deployment. Goal and challenge laid out, now get to it WikiLeak...
[00:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:46] <exec> 08└─No, I would never imply something like that. That presupposes that civilians need permission to own weapons. If you're going for one target.
[00:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:17] <exec> 08└─If you create a backdoor key, anybody can steal the backdoor key. If you create a backdoor key that applies to every single lock, stealing that one key becomes exponentially more valuable. The same goes for separate backdoor keys for every lock that are all kept in the same place. Information securi...
[00:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:18] <exec> 08└─...all we will see is criminals using alternate methods to go about their activities while the average person loses privacy and can be easily targeted by the criminals you want to catch!
[00:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 1195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:20] <exec> 08└─That nobody is innocent is a fault in our laws, not a fault in the powers of law enforcement. It unfortunately leads to selective enforcement, targeted at people the police are already otherwise interested in. But don't miss the "as part of due process" part of my argument. Due process does not allo...
[00:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:22] <exec> 08└─Mainly because Apple's design and marketing make it easy for normal people to understand how to do these things. Apple's business strategy has long been to be late to market with the easiest-to-use product.
[00:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:46] <exec> 08└─and bringing no benefit to the market
[00:12:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Amos Yee to Give Public Talk at Harvard - 193 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:18] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc9oVlZu_V8 [youtube.com] TL;DW: Amos thinks age of consent laws for sex should be eliminated, and according to him, that's the reason Harvard canceled his talk.
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[01:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures - 721 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:51] <exec> 08└─Just like the Dystopian fiction movies where the poor face hellish conditions with little to no medicine, while the rich enjoy life extending treatments. Shorter telomeres are something we're finding all over in poor and low income communities. The food, air, and stressful environment is literally k...
[01:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:02] <exec> 08└─Are podcast series "TV" now?
[01:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bill Gates Commits $100 Million to Alzheimer's Research - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:17] <exec> 08└─more likely his dad has been diagnosed, and since Alzheimers is hereditary Bill is hoping to avoid his fathers fate. As much as I would have liked to believe that BG's motives are altruistic I just can't. I've head too many verified stories about what Gates has done over the years, some from even be...
[01:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Commits $100 Million to Alzheimer's Research - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:18] <exec> 08└─Basically what I think. Guy. Is. A. Douche.
[01:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:05] <exec> 08└─Depends on how old she was. He could have been 6" low.
[01:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:07] <exec> 08└─I'm trained but I wouldn't perform CPR on a woman unless i knew her well. People are too litigious. You're as likely to be sued for bruising from the procedure "my god he was so rough! I'm traumatized for liiiife!" As you are for touching her chest.
[01:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:09] <exec> 08└─It's far better survival when CPR is combined with defibulator machines. And it's worse than that for CPR alone. But is a chance of survival at fairly low cost better than no chance of survival?
[01:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 910 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:11] <exec> 08└─Once you're "in the system" pleading guilty can be the smart and self-serving thing to do. We knew a family practice lawyer who got hit with a hear-say case about inappropriate sexual conduct with a minor. He could have fought it, with the number of "witnesses" they had (two or three with circumstan...
[01:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:14] <exec> 08└─Faced with a mudball of catastrophic risk I don't even know how to begin assessing, I step aside and shall almost every time.
[01:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:16] <exec> 08└─You've made an assumption of breast size. I took enough human anatomy classes to know to go beneath the ribs at least to do a compression so you can manipulate her diaphragm. Beyond that, I was just making educated guesses. She was stacked to say the least, since I needed to lift her breasts up whil...
[01:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:18] <exec> 08└─Thank you! Best chuckle today... Now I can't get rid of that mental picture of horrible, wrinkly, dangling wobbling sacs of.....ewwwwww....
[01:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:20] <exec> 08└─Yeah, that's like here in Canada: I'd have no fear here, but in the states, man..... Here (as well), healthcare is free. In the states, if a bone(s) are broken, someone has a bill to pay, so sue!!!!! If you have little money/no healthcare, you are almost forced to sue. Man, except for recent douche...
[01:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:04] <exec> 08└─it is one of the most surreal, ridiculous moments of my life.
[01:10:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03theluggage [1797] 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 104 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:10:40] <exec> 08└─Scalping exists for economic reasons. The market value of the ticket is greater than the vendor's price.
[01:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:00] <exec> 08└─Price point can work several ways. For example, setting a maximum mark-up/sewrvice fee. Setting a limit on re-sales might also work. It should be possible to re-sell one's own tickets should plans change, and perhaps with mark-ups limited, a consignment re-sale should be acceptable. Inevitably, enfo...
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[02:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:55] <exec> 08└─Personally, we will reach a tipping point where the 1% are pulled down into the pits with the 99% to be torn apart, shortly before we all die.
[02:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:08] <exec> 08└─I also seem to recall somebody summing up the books like so, "three movies of people walking to a fucking volcano". I love the books, but honestly cringe at hearing a TV adaptation in the works.
[02:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:09] <exec> 08└─From the summary: The LOTR original series, a prequel to Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
[02:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:12] <exec> 08└─An "original tale" of Bilbo's grandpa getting involved in some lame imitation of a Hobbit-like adventure, having some sort of crazy unnecessarily violent fight scenes,
[02:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:14] <exec> 08└─Ditch the rest but leave the hot nymphomaniac elf.
[02:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:16] <exec> 08└─I grew up reading the books, and the movies didn't nail it 100% to be kind.
[02:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:18] <exec> 08└─Could there be an alternative to browsing the web with ENIAC?
[02:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:20] <exec> 08└─But I saw all three movies because I wanted to see what happened in the end.
[02:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:30] <exec> 08└─"90% of people needing and getting CPR die anyway." Compared to 100% who don't get it, so that's still not bad.
[02:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:31] <exec> 08└─I would suggest here educating yourself on how you can protect yourself from litigation so you can continue to save lives.
[02:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 4238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:34] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the information. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD2qTmDsiH My prior image of CPR was exerting the absolute most force I was capable of on their sternum with my hands (lift clasped fists up above head, slam down as hard as I can over as long an arc as I can to maximize the time they acce...
[02:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:18] <exec> 08└─So do we have civilian nuclear weapons yet?
[02:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:19] <exec> 08└─Is that like Freedom Fries? ;)
[02:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:22] <exec> 08└─hunt with that big magazine
[02:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:56] <exec> 08└─Why? Who's on first?
[02:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:57] <exec> 08└─Except for computer systems that make you type in a username AND a password, the username CAN be almost like a password: you have to guess the username AND the password. If you don't know that Gaaark username for his laptop is Unic0rnPr0n, you have to guess correctly both username and password. I'd...
[02:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:59] <exec> 08└─You just have to remember to turn off the bodycam first!
[02:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:01] <exec> 08└─"Nobody wants to put everybody in jail. " But there are people who may want to put YOU in jail: give them the power to, and it may happen.
[02:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:25] <exec> 08└─Let's skip the silly sophistry. "artificial scarcity" has a specific meaning and that ain't it.
[02:11:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:26] <exec> 08└─Are there scalpers for, say, airline tickets?
[02:12:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How AV Can Open You to Attacks That Otherwise Wouldn't be Possible - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:12:52] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing.
[02:13:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amos Yee to Give Public Talk at Harvard - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:13:33] <exec> 08└─Many people are saying the age of consent in Alabama, which is 16, is too high.
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[03:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:52] <exec> 08└─If this is just a flaw, a bug, a whoopsie-daisy in crypto world, it's pretty hard to sue someone and get a jury to agree that you should be paid damages. On the other hand, if someone is poking about all cloak-and-dagger then the law might look more generously to the damaged party. Of course they wi...
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[03:05:54] <exec> 08└─There is no intrinsic value to diamond and gold. At least they have some industrial use. You think the US dollar, backed by the US Fed, is a fiat bullshit, what does bitcoin/etc. has to offer? Talk about a pyramid scheme. Come to think of it, Uber and bitcoin should bang up each other.
[03:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures - 1044 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:04] <exec> 08└─Recent headline: Richest 1% own half the world's wealth, study finds [theguardian.com] The world’s richest people have seen their share of the globe’s total wealth increase from 42.5% [theguardian.com] at the height of the 2008 financial crisis to 50.1% in 2017, or $140tn (£106tn), according to...
[03:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:23] <exec> 08└─"three movies of people walking to a fucking volcano"
[03:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:24] <exec> 08└─The Fellowship of the NuvaRing coming soon to a pornhub near you! Watch as the Dildo Slaggins, a diminutive resident of Hobbiton, along with trusty friends, such as Goddaril Bigstaff the wizard, Gimpli the dwarf, and Trilegolas the elf, make an epic journey deep into the Crack of Sumbytch to return...
[03:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:38] <exec> 08└─In a different discussion, you admit [soylentnews.org] to being on a school board in the US. That's more litigation risk than you'll face doing CPR for a dying woman.
[03:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:39] <exec> 08└─What kind of company do women keep? Is it safe to say, "Other Women"? What kind of company do men keep? Is it safe to say other men? When I think of a man in trouble surrounded by other guys, I generally see a question of _which_ of the other men is going to assist. A few might not, but _most_ will...
[03:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:42] <exec> 08└─http://www.gocomics.com/peanuts/1972/05/28 [gocomics.com]
[03:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:44] <exec> 08└─Wow. SJW-tardism has now driven things to a point where it may end up having a death toll associated with it...
[03:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:31] <exec> 08└─WikiLeaks is only as good as its sources, and state-sponsored hackers are typically the most resourceful. Russia and China employ criminal hackers to add a little deniability and get access to top notch talent, and they seem to have no problem using them to dump hacked stuff online. The NSA's TAO on...
[03:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:32] <exec> 08└─You completely ignored the whole bolt-action vs. semi-auto point I made. "Plain old deer rifles" are not semi-auto (esp. if they're "old"). As for carrying ammo, you're forgetting that actual soldiers generally do a LOT of walking, so an extra several pounds of weight is significant. The weight of t...
[03:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Bottle-Stoppers — ‘Wine Condoms’ Will Save Your Booze - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:19] <exec> 08└─I own 25% of Goodyear Tire and Rubber.
[03:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Bottle-Stoppers — ‘Wine Condoms’ Will Save Your Booze - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:21] <exec> 08└─I own 25% of Goodyear Tire and Rubber.
[03:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:39] <exec> 08└─The problem with finding an efficient price point (where the supply and demand curves intersect) is that it typically prices normal people out of the market entirely.
[03:11:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:40] <exec> 08└─Yea.. using pure digital tickets and setting a limit on the resale value or an outright ban on increase in resale value (not the number of times one resell it) should work. If the ownership tracking and transfer is tied to the payment system then enforcement is done digitally. This will rule out dir...
[03:17:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06America is Running Out of Cassette Tape - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:18] <exec> 08└─I just took like-for-like from a given vendor that does both. I didn't say it was best in market - and cdbaby isn't the best choice for a lot of people (look at their T&Cs).
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[04:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:51] <exec> 08└─TFS sounds like contradictory nonsense. Wouldn't you know, it's a phys.org PR BS.
[04:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:53] <exec> 08└─It's just a reprint from the University of Manchester [manchester.ac.uk], and your lack of comprehension is your own problem.
[04:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 1285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:02] <exec> 08└─This was perfectly acceptable behavior. Imagine computers were all replaced by really obedient people who followed company policy to the letter. In this world you notice a store has a buy one get one free coupon without the usual T&C, and so buy two. You immediately return one and keep the second, w...
[04:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:05] <exec> 08└─BOGOF+no-fault return
[04:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:07] <exec> 08└─http://nypost.com/2014/01/29/man-uses-first-class-plane-ticket-to-eat-free-for-a-year/ [nypost.com] Also I see "if you're not perfectly happy with this product then return it ..." on ASDA store-brand stuff in the UK IIRC (owned by WALMART IIRC), but I've never believed they truly follow that policy....
[04:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:18] <exec> 08└─But it could be a factor that aggravates and leads to political turmoil in many places in the world, only to get worse as automation eliminates more skilled and unskilled jobs.
[04:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:20] <exec> 08└─But it could be a factor that aggravates and leads to political turmoil in many places in the world, only to get worse as automation eliminates more skilled and unskilled jobs.
[04:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:41] <exec> 08└─No, I can accept somebody else's version of of what my brain fills in with my imagination. What I meant by nailing it, was just keeping to the damn book. Extremely large departures from the book, like adding a character and plot dynamic that didn't exist before, or entirely missing important events...
[04:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:42] <exec> 08└─The books are inferior! They didn't even have cell phones and neither did the author! What savages! More hot nympho elves!!! TV adaptation in theory should allow for a more faithful retelling since a TV season is typically somewhere around 12-25 hours and the Jackson trilogy was around 9 (maybe a bi...
[04:07:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 182 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:25] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter. People only hear the accusation. The problem is that people believe everything they hear. You shouldn't believe anything you hear, and only half of what you see...
[04:07:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 108 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:30] <exec> 08└─90% of people needing and getting CPR die anyway. This was reported in this study, which I found rather odd.
[04:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:01] <exec> 08└─Plea deals are a travesyof justice. Either you can proove your accusation or not. The vast majority of cases are never tried, because the threat of trial is enough to make a guilty plea the wise choice in each individual case regardless of actual guilt, therefore an accusation is all that's needed t...
[04:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:02] <exec> 08└─This is a good point. I think there is a problem with a lot of people where they just shut down when in a situation of extreme stress. I was in a situation where my vehicle lost control on an icy road as I was lightly breaking for a stop. Rather than freaking out I had one of those super calm moment...
[04:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:04] <exec> 08└─>Plea deals are a travesyof justice They absolutely are, and they are the pragmatic reality of our justice system, ergo: our justice system is a travesty.
[04:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:54] <exec> 08└─Nah, I have a thing for that New York chick with the torch.
[04:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:55] <exec> 08└─Depends on your definition of old. Fifty years ago you would have used a semi-auto unless you personally needed the extra accuracy or you just thought bolt-action was sexier. Trust me, I didn't forget the weight. Every single unit I was in stuck me with an M-60 within a month of my arrival. We're sp...
[04:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Bottle-Stoppers — ‘Wine Condoms’ Will Save Your Booze - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:45] <exec> 08└─All depends on the plastic the bag is made of... even if you can't taste it it's likely leaching nasties into your drink. BPA isn't as bad as lead or other "traditional" wine contaminants, but it's bad enough to try to avoid if you can.
[04:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Bottle-Stoppers — ‘Wine Condoms’ Will Save Your Booze - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:46] <exec> 08└─Decades ago in Miami there was a restaurant called the Gourmet Diner - looked like a '50s aluminum bodied diner, served snobby food to those who appreciated it. The thing that struck me when going there was how the regulars all came with their 375ml wine bottles, just enough to share for a dinner fo...
[04:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Bottle-Stoppers — ‘Wine Condoms’ Will Save Your Booze - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:49] <exec> 08└─Missing step 2.5: consume completely. Waste not, want not.
[04:12:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Large Gas Giant or Small Brown Dwarf Discovered Near the Galactic Bulge Using Microlensing - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:22] <exec> 08└─If you include brown dwarfs along with stars (not on your link), Luhman 16 [wikipedia.org] is the 3rd closest system (6.5 ly), discovered just in 2010 (announced in 2013). WISE 0855−0714 [wikipedia.org] is a sub-brown dwarf (rogue planet) and the 4th closest system (7.3 ly). Finally there is WISE...
[04:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Australia Leads Charge to Revive TPP While Canada Abstains - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:11] <exec> 08└─Colonialism? Coups in various places?
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[05:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:55] <exec> 08└─That's what I wrote, it's a PR blurb. What's your point?
[05:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:56] <exec> 08└─The clear whisky smells similar to the original whisky but we are not allowed to drink it in the lab
[05:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:58] <exec> 08└─Why take all the flavor compounds out of a good whisky after you've labored to run it through peat and aged aged it in charred oak wine barrels? Now if one wants to make fresh water by filtering the salt out, that's a very good use.
[05:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:01] <exec> 08└─we are not allowed to drink it in the lab, however it was a funny Friday night experiment!
[05:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:03] <exec> 08└─There's nothing wrong with the PR blurb. But if you have a problem, you should just read the journals [goldjournal.net] directly.
[05:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:05] <exec> 08└─Smells like the original. IE it probably filtered out all the stuff that would give you a hangover without filtering out the smaller stuff that gives it flavor.
[05:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:07] <exec> 08└─The filtered components could be used somewhere else, such as a food additive. Maybe it could be shipped around the country (lower weight because no water and alcohol) and used to infuse barrels or go directly into beers.
[05:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:09] <exec> 08└─Why take all the flavor compounds out of a good whisky after you've labored to run it through peat and aged aged it in charred oak wine barrels? Just to show that you can. They probably didn't use the most expensive whiskey.
[05:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:12] <exec> 08└─Oh, they're retards if they drank any liquid that had contact with graphene. Graphene to the digestive tract is what asbestos is to the lungs -- cancer-city. Let's hope the goddamn idiots had some half-decent adult supervision in that lab. " Hey man, they say that if you look directly into the laser...
[05:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:14] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps those compounds contribute to hangovers. And everclear has some pretty nice hangovers, with the exception that you wake up in jail for fighting cops, and it had everybody at the party crawling and passing out on the front lawn by 8 p.m. last night.
[05:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:16] <exec> 08└─I wonder.. does the clear stuff left over from doing this to cheap whisky taste like cheap potato vodka?
[05:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:28] <exec> 08└─Indeed. I'm glad that this wasn't a mistake made by a violently imposed monopoly! Slight sarcasm. Only slight. All in all, it could be a better world where people think more deeply about the bullshit they write (which all too often means what the party with more power believes it means). Perhaps men...
[05:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:29] <exec> 08└─Depends on whether the damaged party got a message that said, "All your cyber-coin now belong us."
[05:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:31] <exec> 08└─the courts have held that avoiding taxes through following the law - however unintentional that law may be - is legal. "Evading" is saving on taxes by breaking the law. You may be interested to know that simple failure to pay taxes is a civil, not a criminal offense in the US. The IRS will put a lie...
[05:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:44] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the elites have yet to legalize and provide a daily allowance of cannabis, kratom, etc. to pacify the population. So your meds will have to wait until at least the late 2020s.
[05:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 1318 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:07] <exec> 08└─""Nailing it" can never be done." Yeah no, that's a tiny kernel of truth exaggerated far beyond reality, as an excuse for shitty craft. It's certainly not easy to adapt a good book to the screen, but it's been done. Hollywood, today, never even tries. "Ask 500 people who saw these films and they wil...
[05:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 1621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:09] <exec> 08└─I grew up reading the books, and the movies didn't nail it 100% to be kind. The LotR movies were excellent, but no, not quite 100%. But they were very good, though unfortunately the first one was the best, and the quality dropped a bit in #2, and even more in #3. The Hobbit movies weren't even close...
[05:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:11] <exec> 08└─The LotR books are a bit tedious, and definitely not written the way modern books would be.
[05:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:13] <exec> 08└─so.. just *how many* of the battle scenes do you need to watch? LOTR was a boy's own adventure, with no girl-germs to mess it up. 12-15 hours of tv with boys camping, not washing and occasionally being slightly sensible, with a battle every one or two episodes would mean no one would even notice if...
[05:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Commits $100 Million to Alzheimer's Research - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:29] <exec> 08└─The guy is definitely a selfish asshole, but this is one place where ultra-rich assholes really can help humanity, because they're subject to the same biological weaknesses that the rest of us are. Notice that other silicon-valley billionaires are pouring money into other anti-aging research, becaus...
[05:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:34] <exec> 08└─isostatic changed my position on what I'd do in this scenario BTW, by pointing out what CPR is and that it isn't very risky. It turns out my ignorance of what it was led to quite a distorted view informed pretty much exclusively by one or two vaguly-remembered-but-maybe-imagined scenes from film/tv/...
[05:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:08:35] <exec> 08└─90% of people needing and getting CPR die anyway.
[05:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Android at 10: How Google Won the Smartphone Wars - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:11:54] <exec> 08└─Btw, why this fascination with the word "war"? Why does everything have to be a war?
[05:13:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Australia Leads Charge to Revive TPP While Canada Abstains - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:41] <exec> 08└─The only ones that would not have brought us into TPP are maybe the Greens, and I don't think they'll form a govt any time soon.
[05:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03jb [338] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Australia Leads Charge to Revive TPP While Canada Abstains - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:43] <exec> 08└─As an Australian, I think that the most fitting penalty for an Australian politician who deliberately acts against Australia's national interest would be to exile him to the USA.
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[06:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:13] <exec> 08└─I always wondered why moonshine is clear but commercial whiskey is colored. But I didn't expect anyone to go to the trouble to make the whiskey look like moonshine.
[06:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:15] <exec> 08└─There we go: make cheap whiskey look like bespoke moonshine. Just filter it, pour into a mason jar, and slap a fancy label on it.
[06:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:30] <exec> 08└─Getting mad at hackers is the same bullshit as getting mad at tax avoiding (evading? whatever the legal one is.) companies. Stop, think, change the tax code they hacked instead of demanding they follow the spirit of the tax code rather than the letter.
[06:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:31] <exec> 08└─https://youtu.be/gswQ0Xu21E8?t=300 [youtu.be]
[06:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:34] <exec> 08└─Having a system which requires voting for politicians swayed by lobbying you disagree with if one wishes to have a worthwhile vote isn't. We ought to use a system which is hard* to tactically vote in (IIRC Australia has something NP-hard) and push the number of candidates upwards (which I would assu...
[06:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:12] <exec> 08└─That was THE pitch, not a meeting.
[06:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:14] <exec> 08└─Already donw? Here, save yourself the effort: https://www.pornhub.com [pornhub.com] or, more broadly: https://www.redtube.com [redtube.com] https://www.pornhub.com [pornhub.com]
[06:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:37] <exec> 08└─Article linked to is a useless fluff piece that does not numerically compare the US to any other country, and therefore does nothing to support its assertion that the US isn't more litigious than other countries.
[06:12:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 579 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:12:40] <exec> 08└─Hmm, yes, perhaps the sellers did make enough money off me and whoever else bought to make it worth their while. Not having cared to watch sports much and having gone to few concerts, I have very little experience with gate crashing, scalping, looking over the fence or through a hole, and all the re...
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[07:06:11] <exec> 08└─Graphene to the digestive tract is what asbestos is to the lungs -- cancer-city.
[07:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:30] <exec> 08└─On the other hand, if someone is poking about all cloak-and-dagger then the law might look more generously to the damaged party.
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[07:06:31] <exec> 08└─Having the care and prescience to forestall genocide and war (judging from the wiki, not the ep) centuries in the future is an astounding act of good. For all the hate bureaucracy gets (even the damn name!) it's damn effective at getting shit done on a long enough time scale. Individuals just can't...
[07:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:45] <exec> 08└─Wealth inequality is a bullshit device. Someone who doesn't own a penny to their name has more wealth [vox.com] than 30% of the world. Most of the world doesn't try to save money and hence, doesn't have much to do with the inequality aside from skewing the results. And much of the wealth of the rich...
[07:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:14] <exec> 08└─Hobbits generally lived longer than people, although not as long as Aragorn's line. If they wanted to start just before the Hobbit, there were Aragorn's adventures with the Dunadain. Or, you could go back farther and cover the Akallabeth. Of course, you wouldn't have JRR around to write the details,...
[07:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 328 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:38] <exec> 08└─It may seem harsh to criticise after you've admitted your error and ignorance publically, but you haven't, you posted nothing publically, as you posted as AC. But why the heck did you thing that deformation of the ribcage was difficult if the simple act of taking a breath can do it. How can you be s...
[07:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:40] <exec> 08└─A while ago the british heart foundation did the best public announcement video ever for CPR [youtube.com]
[07:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:08:42] <exec> 08└─And one reload later I see that isostatic already posted a link to it, oh well, it is worth watching several times.
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[08:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:54] <exec> 08└─A pity there's nobody to sell critical thinking.
[08:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:56] <exec> 08└─Mmm... I see... to recognize a good BS detector, one needs to have a BS detector.
[08:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:58] <exec> 08└─Let's cut budgets on education... we need to wage wars in far away lands to protect our oil.
[08:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:00] <exec> 08└─Superior in what way? It's not like we don't have considerable history of messy transitions of power in monarchies.
[08:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:02] <exec> 08└─If elections can be hacked, why continue to have unsecured ways of power transition? Monarchism is superior, in fact, make it female lineage only, at least, it's clear who the mother is :)
[08:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:05] <exec> 08└─Superior in what way?
[08:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:07] <exec> 08└─we need to wage wars in far away lands to protect our oil.
[08:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:36] <exec> 08└─Don't breathe it in and you'll be fine: Graphene Could be Dangerous to Humans [soylentnews.org] Graphene shows potential as novel anti-cancer therapeutic strategy [manchester.ac.uk] Graphene 'could pose health risk' to workers [bbc.com]
[08:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03pTamok [3042] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:38] <exec> 08└─The ghost of my old chemistry teacher is even now on the way to Manchester to dig Charlotte Powell, Graphene Communications and Marketing Assistant sharply in the ribs. It's not clear, it's colourless. A liquid that allows all wavelengths of the optical spectrum to pass through without appreciable d...
[08:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:58] <exec> 08└─Some context, for those who missed it: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[08:07:25] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:25] <exec> 08└─From the summary: The LOTR original series, a prequel to Tolkien's The Fellowship of the Ring
[08:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03WalksOnDirt [5854] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:42] <exec> 08└─Bilbo's grandfather? I don't think that Mungo had any ... wait, you must mean on his mother's side. Yeah, lots of stuff happened with old Gerontius Took.
[08:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:10] <exec> 08└─you are not allowed to tug on anyone's backpack. if a student ignores you, give them a bad grade and/or put that information in any recommendation letters you may write. but don't force them to interact with you in any way.
[08:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:12] <exec> 08└─I've had to do this several times. at least my son looks exactly like me, so it's extremely unlikely I'd need to convince someone I'm the father. luckily they do gradually calm down after they reach 3...
[08:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:14] <exec> 08└─I'm a lawyer. There is an undefinable element of pure chance in every trial. People like to wax about how our system seeks truth and justice or say if you are innocent you should fight -- that's all bullshit when there is every likelihood that you will be convicted based on how someone misinterprets...
[08:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:16] <exec> 08└─medical students/doctors in training are sometimes asked to do CPR on old people in emergency rooms (after the doctors have already been doing it for 20 mins or something, and they lose hope). a medical student told me that they are afraid to do this, because they do break ribs (especially easy with...
[08:09:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 1589 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:18] <exec> 08└─>AC DW, getting corrected on the stupid shit I say without a public black mark is the whole reason I'm AC. I'm very glad my teenage self largely did that, and I assume by the time I'm thirty I'll be similarly relieved my 2- self did the same. >why the heck did you think that deformation of the ribca...
[08:09:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:20] <exec> 08└─I specifically made sure tug on her backpack to get her attention and she twisted around yelling "don't touch me like that!"
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[09:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:51] <exec> 08└─The last EA game I bought was battlefield 2. My buddies and I organized a LAN party for its release and diiscovered it didn't have coop. Looks like they have not gotten any better.
[09:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:53] <exec> 08└─Maybe EA should spend less time withholding heros from players and more time helping players find the hero within.
[09:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:55] <exec> 08└─"Unlocking a hero is a great accomplishment in the game, something we want players to have fun earning," I'm sorry, but players do not have fun -grinding-. And that's all the system does - force you to do the same thing over and over and over and over and over again, just to add something new so you...
[09:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:11] <exec> 08└─Educating users to spot fake news
[09:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:43] <exec> 08└─Just get yourself some vodka and stir in a packet o' Folgiers® Instant Whiskey™ Crystals™.
[09:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.colgin.com [colgin.com]
[09:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:46] <exec> 08└─Thank you, Takyon, for telling idiots. I had firsthand lab experience for the graphene fools.
[09:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:49] <exec> 08└─It's okay...just dont get it down your gullet. For should you do, perhaps you'd best get it out of there.
[09:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:51] <exec> 08└─Thanks for making that clear.
[09:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:12] <exec> 08└─even if this was accidental you would expect it to undermine the value but seems that is not how crypto works. Personal unfounded suspision is that these markets are being heavily manipulated by entites with vast cash reserves.
[09:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:57] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I can't imagine what this show would be about; there's no really great story written by Tolkein before LotR that could be adapted, except the Hobbit, which already has been.
[09:08:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Bill Gates Commits $100 Million to Alzheimer's Research - 576 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:13] <exec> 08└─The guy is definitely a selfish asshole, but this is one place where ultra-rich assholes really can help humanity, because they're subject to the same biological weaknesses that the rest of us are. Notice that other silicon-valley billionaires are pouring money into other anti-aging research, becaus...
[09:10:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:22] <exec> 08└─First of all, the US spies on its allies too. Second, it also spies on it's own citizens. Neither of the above is good from the perspective of the people being spied on. And third, malware IS defined from the point of view of the owner. So the only way what the government wants comes into play is if...
[09:10:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:23] <exec> 08└─She's a legal immigrant, yet they never let her get past Ellis Island. Discrimination against the French, I guess.
[09:13:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:37] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as an artificial surplus. There are N seats available and N tickets to go with those seats. No more, no less. The part you're missing is that the scalpers CAUSE the seller to run out of tickets much sooner with the express purpose of causing prices to rise. They are an economic...
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[10:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:01] <exec> 08└─Well, here, you cannot use the force... You have to use...the SCWARTZ! [youtube.com]
[10:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:02] <exec> 08└─Why your Battlefront 2 outrage is a compliment to EA [polygon.com] There are some interesting points before, but here's an excerpt of the 4th one: Lesson #4: Rage is kind of a compliment, and publishers know this There was very little anger over the horrid economy of Need for Speed: Payback, and EA...
[10:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:04] <exec> 08└─A cut of 75% of the grind still means you need to spend 10 hours to unlock just one character.
[10:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:06] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntuqTuc6HxM [youtube.com]
[10:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:09] <exec> 08└─It depends on how the game is structured. Sure, grinding is boring, and rarely any fun at all. On the other hand, a good game will give you a feeling of accomplishment, when you achieve certain goals. In D&D terms: Everybody starts as level 1, and works their way up: the path should be fun. If you c...
[10:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:11] <exec> 08└─I just checked, it also got 86 gold. I don't know of a comment to get that many before either.
[10:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 4119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:13] <exec> 08└─Of course they toned it down, this time. Then, as usual, they'll put the exact same stunt -or worse- on their next game... That kind of stuff has been going on forever, how is it new? A publisher comes with some abusive behaviour (DRM, always-online for offline mode, micro-transactions, loot-boxes,...
[10:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:15] <exec> 08└─Probably more to do with throwing gold at le epic most downvoted comment of all time than anything else. You can award gold to a comment for any reason.
[10:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 1150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:17] <exec> 08└─Stop buying games on Day One. If you have literally NO IDEA how the game operates, funds itself, etc. than any purchase is supporting WHATEVER method they decide to deploy - DRM, online activation, DLC, character unlocks etc. By the time you complain, they already have your money and have paid for a...
[10:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:34] <exec> 08└─I will tell you the secret weapon: Niggers. that is all I will tell you. Oh, and also just who that secret weapon is. [youtube.com]
[10:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:36] <exec> 08└─If they ain't Dick Niggers, I'm not interested.
[10:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:13] <exec> 08└─I take it that you've never seen graphene synthized in your cup. Well, don't drink it. It don't look pretty and it ain't The Best part of Wakin' Up. [youtube.com]
[10:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:15] <exec> 08└─Is there any expensive potato vodka?
[10:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:17] <exec> 08└─One Google search later... http://www.winemag.com [winemag.com] https://gizmodo.com [gizmodo.com] http://www.alcoholaficionado.com [alcoholaficionado.com]
[10:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:19] <exec> 08└─I take it that you've never seen graphene synthized in your cup.
[10:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:22] <exec> 08└─Well, a matter of taste I s'ppose. I like better the cereals one.
[10:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:44] <exec> 08└─There was a bug (or unintended feature) that allowed this to happen. Possibly the company can be held liable for that, possibly not. Claiming malicious action by a hacker - even if that's true, what does it buy you? Even if you can identify the hacker, they almost certainly don't have $280 million f...
[10:09:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03driverless [4770] 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 111 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:46] <exec> 08└─Wow. SJW-tardism has now driven things to a point where it may end up having a death toll associated with it...
[10:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:10:02] <exec> 08└─I was unclear. They tried to get him to plead guilty(plea deal) to some other bs offense, likely in exchange for probation. He stuck to his guns, and they backed down--They did not take it to court. I can't imagine the level of stress this guy had, and it took real guts to not take the "easy" way o...
[10:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:11] <exec> 08└─What do you mean by service fee? Scalpers aren't official resellers. If it's possible to sell your ticket, that means it's possible for scalpers to stockpile and resell. I don't see that a limit would help - a scalper only needs to re-sell once. Even pure-digital tickets (so that they can only be so...
[10:14:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:13] <exec> 08└─That is the benefit of scalpers.
[10:14:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:15] <exec> 08└─"Corporations are required to show profits!" "If you've got nothing to hide you've got nothing to fear!"
[10:14:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:17] <exec> 08└─I suspect the attraction of the concerts is not the headliner but the collective experience itself.
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[11:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Watch Could be Used to Detect Hypertension and Sleep Apnea - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:53] <exec> 08└─From Gay sex and long phallic throat obstructions. If you are from San Francisco and have a thousand bucks to drop on a status symbol, then do it -- your life could depend on it.
[11:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Watch Could be Used to Detect Hypertension and Sleep Apnea - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:54] <exec> 08└─Apple Watch Series 3 only costs $329 at Kohl's!
[11:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Watch Could be Used to Detect Hypertension and Sleep Apnea - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:56] <exec> 08└─Stop trying to impose your idea of human normal onto me, Herbert! "Pulse is 242, blood pressure is practically nonexistent, assuming you call that green stuff in your veins blood." "The readings are perfectly normal for me, Doctor."
[11:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Watch Could be Used to Detect Hypertension and Sleep Apnea - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:58] <exec> 08└─Fat shaming is the real disease here.
[11:06:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 94 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:10] <exec> 08└─A cut of 75% of the grind still means you need to spend 10 hours to unlock just one character.
[11:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:17] <exec> 08└─Of course they toned it down, this time.
[11:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:19] <exec> 08└─I assume this is an MMO, but even normal AAA games released, 40 hours is pretty close to nothing that one should normally spend in a game. What do these kids want? To play newly released 4 games per week?
[11:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:21] <exec> 08└─After ME:A I have zero hope left for them. I did enjoy DA:I despite the formula and DLC-which-should've-been-part-of-the-base-game, but I won't be paying anywhere near full price again for another installment in that series. The executive layer in that company seems hellbent on draining any leftover...
[11:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:40] <exec> 08└─Goebbels? MiniTrue? Why does it matter if the lies are being told by local politicians or from foreigners? The effect is the same, the nationality of the mouthpiece is a complete red herring. Farage and Boris are both English, are they not? Both influenced the voting public with their downright lies...
[11:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:41] <exec> 08└─You see, Mr. Ed is a Dick Nigger. Mr. Ed was an allegory for the Black Heroin addict who was subject to the pen of the White man and with an addiction to the finest apples and molasses, yet had issues of wondering about his true Black heritage. For example, that episode where he wondered if he was p...
[11:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:24] <exec> 08└─Expensive? Yes, relatively. Drinkable? Yes, according to some. Preferable to almost anything? Doubtful.. Woody Creek Colorado Vodka (USA; Woody Creek Distillers, Basalt, CO); $35 (USD) Made from Colorado grown potatoes http://woodycreekdistillers.com [woodycreekdistillers.com] Also Chopin Vodka: $5...
[11:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:33] <exec> 08└─I think I'm about 15 years younger than you are, but I found the books great to read. It's true that I never read them a second time, and I don't feel the need to (I read Asimov for instance at least three times each or something like that. Hell, I read the full discworld series twice...).
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[12:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Watch Could be Used to Detect Hypertension and Sleep Apnea - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:02] <exec> 08└─If you are from San Francisco and have a thousand bucks to drop on a status symbol, then do it
[12:06:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 4119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:18] <exec> 08└─Of course they toned it down, this time. Then, as usual, they'll put the exact same stunt -or worse- on their next game... That kind of stuff has been going on forever, how is it new? A publisher comes with some abusive behaviour (DRM, always-online for offline mode, micro-transactions, loot-boxes,...
[12:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:24] <exec> 08└─You got me. I actually feel the need to verify that, despite how obviously braindead a move it would be for EA to do that. So... were you joking about them reducing the small credits earned with gameplay by 75% or is it a fact? :)
[12:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:27] <exec> 08└─During the game, players have to obtain credits - either by buying them ... - to unlock popular characters including Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
[12:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:29] <exec> 08└─A game like D&D, if run properly, actually has an engaging and entertaining plot. To compare it to what EA is doing, and then ask yourself if it's a sense of accomplishment, is - after your 40th hour of killing the same group of orcs in the same campaign over and over, do you actually feel like you'...
[12:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:31] <exec> 08└─I just had a discussion in gaming forum where people actually complained that they like grinding if it is done properly, and there are too many casual "gamers" who think they should be able to pay to avoid boring parts, so game companies are incentivized to make grinding more and more boring. See, a...
[12:07:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pTamok [3042] 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 845 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:22] <exec> 08└─The ghost of my old chemistry teacher is even now on the way to Manchester to dig Charlotte Powell, Graphene Communications and Marketing Assistant sharply in the ribs. It's not clear, it's colourless. A liquid that allows all wavelengths of the optical spectrum to pass through without appreciable d...
[12:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:35] <exec> 08└─Can we use it to make an idiot filter? Please? (Graphene is awesome.)
[12:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Commits $100 Million to Alzheimer's Research - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:59] <exec> 08└─The anti-aging whims of the 50 year old silicon valley billionaire are great for 20 year olds.
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[13:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:52] <exec> 08└─The current bulletin introduces unmanned aircraft systems as potential threats
[13:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:54] <exec> 08└─This is like the Apple version of "introduces".
[13:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 1317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:43] <exec> 08└─I wish the corporate overlords would stop beating dead horses and bring something refreshing to the big screen. I'd love to see an adaptation of Malazan Book of the Fallen [wikipedia.org]. I'm on the 8th book in the series now, and it remains still very interesting, even if Toll of the Hounds is a b...
[13:10:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:19] <exec> 08└─Better, but still Wrong. Our kids have autism, and we have had to "abduct" them from public places many times - it's remarkable how few people ever get remotely involved - it happens, and it has always turned out low stress and good for us, but it's really rare.
[13:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:13] <exec> 08└─So do we have civilian nuclear weapons yet?
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[14:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:00] <exec> 08└─Before you write this off as more silly "Dangerous Drones" FUD, consider that 200Kph RC Turbine Jets and 30Km+ range video and control systems are commercial civilian off-the shelf items. A $180 copy of realflight will teach you how to fly it too. In Iraq and Syria slower versions of these are being...
[14:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Watch Could be Used to Detect Hypertension and Sleep Apnea - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:12] <exec> 08└─Another reason not to get it. Not that I'm against detecting health issues, but I much prefer if my medical data stays between me and my doctor.
[14:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Watch Could be Used to Detect Hypertension and Sleep Apnea - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:14] <exec> 08└─Better tap into two markets at the same time: Sell homoeopathic Apple products. Get an Apple product, get it in contact with water, then make a D100 of that Apple-informed water to improve its effect, and then you can sell it for $100 per milliliter, as cure to lacking self-esteem. :-)
[14:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:41] <exec> 08└─So you pay full price for a game, and then can continue to pay in a free-2-play style in-game credits scheme? Nuke it all. Step 1: we need to make software licensing illegal. Pay for the copy of the game, then you can literally do anything you want to that copy as long as you do not redistribute.
[14:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:42] <exec> 08└─You should not consume movies, you should watch them. Well, some you better don't watch, but you shouldn't consume those either.
[14:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03citizenr [2737] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:09] <exec> 08└─There was no bug, they "forgot" to set ownership of the walled, becoming owner required 0 signatures hehe. They did it SECOND time in a row(first time July of 2017 = $30 mil stolen). devops199 claimed ownership and triggered one of the actions you can do as an owner - destruction.
[14:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:10] <exec> 08└─I worked at Aldi for a while. One of their big selling points is they have a 60 day return policy on everything. Most refunds were on 'special buys' (Aldi's big ticket items) but some people would bring back stuff like half eaten jars of jam and ask for a refund because they didn't like the taste. W...
[14:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:58] <exec> 08└─My first thought was: "LotR Babies"
[14:10:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:35] <exec> 08└─The article also talks about sex, and women can perform CPR (chest compression) on a man during sex. For a man to perform CPR on a woman during sex seems awkward.
[14:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:36] <exec> 08└─Not all tendrils of the Clinton machine have been severed yet.
[14:10:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:38] <exec> 08└─It depends a lot on why their heart stopped in the first place. For instance, survival rates are much higher if the heart stopped due to a lightning strike than if the heart had been deteriorating for a while before giving out.
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[15:05:52] <exec> 08└─That being said, the notion isn't particularly innovative - people have been developing code on machines slower than ones that will ultimately run the code for cost savings since organizations could afford to have more than one computer.
[15:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:59] <exec> 08└─Bill is building his own fiefdom to avoid pesky democracy [salon.com]. Or else there's a highway planned for that area sometime in the near future and he's just buying up land to scalp the government. Or both. Either way, Belmont is the name of a major investor. Bill is a one-trick pony: leveraging...
[15:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:01] <exec> 08└─Democracy is one group dictating to another group. Democracy gives an equal voice to unequal people. Bill Gates bought this property through what was presumably a voluntary agreement among all interested parties; "do-as-we-agreed" capitalism a far better model for how to allocate society's resources...
[15:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:03] <exec> 08└─Another billionaire plans to build a high-tech city full of self-driving cars in the desert. It's like a small version of the Saudi city announcement (NEOM [wikipedia.org]).
[15:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 1087 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:06] <exec> 08└─His choice of location is interesting. The climate would be better almost anywhere else - Arizona is hot - and it's hard to see where the water is going to come from. But, here's why I think he picked it: Arizona is close enough to the Left Coast to appeal to people. At least, to appeal to the kind...
[15:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:08] <exec> 08└─That is the beauty of capitalism: You don't get a vote for free; you have to prove yourself, and you have to do so continuously.
[15:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:10] <exec> 08└─Democracy is one group dictating to another group. Democracy gives an equal voice to unequal people.
[15:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:21] <exec> 08└─Fear, whether from DHS trying to justify their department/job or when an actual attack (staged or not) happens. Uncertainty, whether the loss of rights trumps 'improved' security measures. Doubt, whether any of this will help and whether giving up both your drones and privacy is worth it to save us...
[15:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:01] <exec> 08└─From what I've seen that seems to be in the ball park. At the very least they did cut the rewards.
[15:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:03] <exec> 08└─I second this. Awesome game, awesome story, awesome publisher. And they do discount fairly well. Got the other half Witcher 3 the other day for 20 bucks.
[15:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 2433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:05] <exec> 08└─Screw EA... They have been undeserving of my money for over a decade now. They have done the online drm for years now, and then they drop support of games after a sequel exists effectively locking you out of playing older titles completely. They love sports games... essentially updating the stats ev...
[15:07:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:12] <exec> 08└─Neither hacking nor govt propaganda would work with a population able to detect the stench of bullshit. Requires only a modicum of critical thinking and the habit to apply it in most of the cases (self-prejudices included and quite important). A pity there's nobody to sell critical thinking.
[15:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:26] <exec> 08└─Every single camera-facing person on Faux News likewise (and their scriptwriters, of course).
[15:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:35] <exec> 08└─DMCA disagrees with you
[15:15:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:15] <exec> 08└─All it does is replace early-buying fans by high-paying fans
[15:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:16] <exec> 08└─A small nudge into cynicism and derision for your fellow humans and you could easily switch sides, mentally you're already prepared to accept it. I wasn't projecting, but I was overly accusatory.
[15:15:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:18] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as an artificial surplus. There are N seats available and N tickets to go with those seats. No more, no less.
[15:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:20] <exec> 08└─Nonsense. If scalpers can make money with their reselling, and if they can sell out their stock, that means the legitimate vendors could have charged more. It's really that simple. All that stuff about artificial scarcity is for nought.
[15:15:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:15:23] <exec> 08└─If the ownership tracking and transfer
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[16:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:54] <exec> 08└─Well, that's the point, right? It's cool. In addition: After the collaboration, the company behind the modular Raspberry Pi rack and blade designs, BitScope, plans to sell the 150-node Cluster Modules at retail in the next few months. No prices were given yet, although BitScope says that each node w...
[16:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:56] <exec> 08└─Natalie Portman has been announced as the 2018 Genesis Prize Laureate. The acclaimed actress and director will receive the $1million award, which honors extraordinary individuals who serve as an inspiration to the next generation of Jews through their outstanding professional achievement, commitment...
[16:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:58] <exec> 08└─Just think. If you had an account, you could put that in a journal.
[16:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:00] <exec> 08└─Natalie Portman has been announced as the 2018 Genesis Prize Laureate.
[16:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 2016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:12] <exec> 08└─Inheritance is making a bet. Guess what? Donald didn't lose the loan he received from his father; he multiplied it into billions. Guess what? Choosing to make a loan to your son, or choosing to bequeath your wealth to your son, is a valid, voluntary choice; it's the choice to transfer control of you...
[16:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:14] <exec> 08└─I hope he puts his money where his mouth is, and makes sure that ALL the technologies in this city are running on Microsoft software. This includes the autonomous vehicles.
[16:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 1884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:16] <exec> 08└─Capitalism is the philosophy driven by the desire to create a society with 2 characteristics: Voluntary. Every interaction between individuals should be voluntary, where "voluntary" is defined by contractual agreement in advance of that interaction; that is, society's resources need to be allocated...
[16:06:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:25] <exec> 08└─This is like the Apple version of "introduces".
[16:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:29] <exec> 08└─30Km+ range video and control systems are commercial civilian off-the shelf items
[16:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:31] <exec> 08└─I interpreted it as "built from COTS parts".
[16:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:33] <exec> 08└─You'd think it was Obama, he loved his drones, he sent a lot of them. It wasn't Obama. It was another terrible president, George W. Bush. He didn’t have the IQ to come up with drones. But he let his military use them. Sometimes even a very foolish person can make a smart move. And it's very smart,...
[16:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 1312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:17] <exec> 08└─That kind of stuff has been going on forever, how is it new? It's not, but the players keep coming back for more, so I don't see the problem. then there is some backlash, they claim to listen to their fanbase and make their changes slightly less abusive, then the abuse creeps again. Rince and repea...
[16:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:18] <exec> 08└─Marvel/Disney movies are nor made for watching, they are made for consumption - "swallow" it, 30 days later you'll gorget them, but's Ok next serve comes steaming after 6 months anyway. They'll also drive consumption of meaningless stuff, like comic-cons, Maccas-with-toys and other things that aren'...
[16:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:41] <exec> 08└─Thought that was just referring to the "mother" part. No problem.
[16:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:43] <exec> 08└─Someone hacked the DNC's servers. They want us to believe it was the Russians. Maybe so. But when they did so, they didn't spread misinformation. What they did was so much more insidious. They told the truth about the party and about Hillary Clinton. Was it misinformation that the DNC was cheating o...
[16:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:45] <exec> 08└─Correction "They were are corrupt."
[16:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:47] <exec> 08└─Spreading propaganda and misinfo is not 'hacking'.
[16:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:56] <exec> 08└─a sane legal system which holds the people who make mistakes responsible for their actions rather than the people who notice and exploit the mistakes.
[16:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:58] <exec> 08└─Hey, that's MY line! :) :) :D
[16:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:00] <exec> 08└─Uh, what? There *is* an intrinsic value to diamond and gold. You can *do* things with them, not just look at them, therefore no matter how high (or low) the prices go they have tangible value that can't be taken away. You're welcome.
[16:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:02] <exec> 08└─Ethereum has value, apparently. That value is based on what? Oh, it's based on what everyone collectively assigns to it. So it's not a commodity or representative. So therefore holding it entails risk. So therefore you got nailed by an unanticipated flaw, are on the short side of the risk, and got b...
[16:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:05] <exec> 08└─The Auric Goldfinger school of economics - If you have a billion dollars worth of something, and half the world supply of that thing disappears overnight, your stash is now worth 2 billion dollars.
[16:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:53] <exec> 08└─but that would just give modern writers a chance to show their quality. Yeah, good luck with that one. That's not to say that all modern writers suck (GoT has pretty good writing), but their overall track record isn't great. The other thing that's likely to happen is they'll write a pretty interesti...
[16:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:54] <exec> 08└─Here's hoping that the series will be the Elf of fantasy, then. Gimli needs Legolas!
[16:10:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 140 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:31] <exec> 08└─If groping and CPR can be confused, when performed on a random woman, you're either: - Doing CPR very wrong - Doing groping very wrong
[16:11:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:35] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure. Quality of life is a factor as well. You could be giving the gift of months or even years of suffering.
[16:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:36] <exec> 08└─Kids used to be spanked. In school. By teachers. With paddles or switches. Then that generation went on to defeat the world's most insidious, powerful military force. But now it's more important that kids feel super safe and keep their feelings intact.
[16:13:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:09] <exec> 08└─Give the government agent your original key; there's no backdoor involved at all. It's easy to do technically, it's just not a very good idea. At that point everything hinges on 1) the security of the government key escrow system, and B) how robust and trustworthy the process for obtaining permissio...
[16:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:11] <exec> 08└─I love how that URL comes really close to telling you the entire headline, has a seizure in the middle, starts over, then cuts out one letter before completing the last word to make it actually make sense. Bravo.
[16:15:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:57] <exec> 08└─Unless the band is taking a loss on the concert, the tickets are not underpriced. If there was a surplus, it was a natural one (more seats available than people who want to see the concert). In a perfect market, the tickets will cost not a single iota more than necessary to motivate the band to do t...
[16:15:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:15:59] <exec> 08└─Typically, the ticket vendor (nearly always ticketmaster) charges a service fee. Another eaxmple would be a concierge service thet buys the tickets for you because you're busy, like to sleep late, whatever.
[16:16:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Scalper's Multimillion-Dollar StubHub Scheme Exposed in Paradise Papers - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:16:01] <exec> 08└─That price will never be more than the price they freely offered the tickets at.
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[17:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:54] <exec> 08└─How many cubits in each dimension?
[17:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:55] <exec> 08└─For someone who does not quite grasp the quantum computing thing entirely, how does this compare in terms of "horsepower". Is it like an old 486dx2 or is it a quad-core intel or? I'd love to understand more about this but I cant seem to get my head around it entirely.
[17:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:08] <exec> 08└─Whoosh!
[17:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:09] <exec> 08└─Just wondering why they used self-standing RPis rather than RPi Compute Modules which are made for this. They are powering 750 sets of I/O gear they will never use. Takes up more space too, although that might spread the heat dissipation.
[17:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:26] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we're gonna have to have you come in on the weekend, due to you being late....because your WinAlarm didn't wake you up because it froze and because your WinSUV wouldn't start because it froze... in this 105o weather... ...did you get the WinTps report? No? Did you get the WinBSOD? You did! Yea...
[17:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:27] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a nightmare, combined with the horrific Win8/10/Metro UI all over the place on every technological device you use. But it'll be funny as hell to watch idiots put up with that shit. I sure as hell won't be living there. Maybe someone will make a reality TV show about the place.
[17:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:29] <exec> 08└─Only place I can think of recently to compare it with would be Las Vegas, but that just seems not to fit. Especially, since I'm pretty sure he's not going with the let's build tons of casinos, etc.
[17:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 2242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:31] <exec> 08└─His choice of location is interesting. The climate would be better almost anywhere else - Arizona is hot - and it's hard to see where the water is going to come from. But, here's why I think he picked it: Arizona is close enough to the Left Coast to appeal to people. At least, to appeal to the kind...
[17:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:34] <exec> 08└─What a load of bollocks you spew. First of, you're dragging in Capitalism here, we were talking about Democracy pur sang. Now, for what you were spewing: Voluntary. Every interaction between individuals should be voluntary, where "voluntary" is defined by contractual agreement in advance of that int...
[17:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:36] <exec> 08└─Holy mother of angelic buggery, man... Don't give them ideas or else we will be subjected to another generation of kardashians or whatever those half-humanoid modiforms are called...
[17:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:50] <exec> 08└─It's only a matter of time before these are a newspaper headline. Getting there [infobae.com]
[17:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:51] <exec> 08└─FUD. Same with all other "omg turristz!" news stories. Higher chance of dying from anything else,but please be afraid of THIS thing because it is convenient for our police state propaganda.
[17:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Watch Could be Used to Detect Hypertension and Sleep Apnea - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:05] <exec> 08└─You don't want that. That's the cheap one. After one round of golf it'll be scratched. It'll look HORRIBLE. That's a polite word for it. You want the Edition, nothing scratches it except diamonds. So you gotta be careful around diamonds.
[17:07:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 967 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:27] <exec> 08└─After ME:A I have zero hope left for them. I did enjoy DA:I despite the formula and DLC-which-should've-been-part-of-the-base-game, but I won't be paying anywhere near full price again for another installment in that series. The executive layer in that company seems hellbent on draining any leftover...
[17:07:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:31] <exec> 08└─I just had a discussion in gaming forum where people actually complained that they like grinding if it is done properly, and there are too many casual "gamers" who think they should be able to pay to avoid boring parts, so game companies are incentivized to make grinding more and more boring. See, a...
[17:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:40] <exec> 08└─As far as indie games go, I would also highly recommend Terraria.
[17:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:43] <exec> 08└─if they said that skilled play would unlock secret achievements, people would grind 10x as long to unlock the same characters that were awarded to those people that managed to meet the requirements via regular play.
[17:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:45] <exec> 08└─dwarf fortress or go home
[17:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:12] <exec> 08└─And how be is this worse than big media spreading lies and misinformation? I still remember the run-up to the 2nd Iraq War.
[17:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:14] <exec> 08└─Very sad what happened in Zimbabwe last night. My thoughts and prayers are with @CDEMUGABE [twitter.com], Mrs. Mugabe and their loved ones. We are with you!
[17:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:58] <exec> 08└─+1 scientific pedantry.
[17:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:30] <exec> 08└─I think it is very funny that the fervent "fight the Man" crowd gets burned by something that "the Man" prevents (or shields one from) from happening.
[17:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah no sympathy from me either. So many people in this forum decry the insecurity of the cloud for data, yet putting your MONEY there is somehow OK? Fools. Why on earth would you depend on algorithms with NO ACCOUNTABILITY or INSURANCE to manage your money?
[17:10:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Entropy [4228] 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 467 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:51] <exec> 08└─I can't find a reference, but some guy was accused of kidnapping(and charged!) for trying to help a lost crying child in a department store. He was thankfully let go after being pressured to take a plea deal but with the current "males are the devil", and especially "white males are the devil" feeli...
[17:11:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03khallow [3766] 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 249 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:26] <exec> 08└─I'm trained but I wouldn't perform CPR on a woman unless i knew her well. People are too litigious. You're as likely to be sued for bruising from the procedure "my god he was so rough! I'm traumatized for liiiife!" As you are for touching her chest.
[17:11:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 1294 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:37] <exec> 08└─What kind of company do women keep? Is it safe to say, "Other Women"? What kind of company do men keep? Is it safe to say other men? When I think of a man in trouble surrounded by other guys, I generally see a question of _which_ of the other men is going to assist. A few might not, but _most_ will...
[17:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:03] <exec> 08└─That is truly insane. Did the judge throw the case out? How much were they seeking in damages?
[17:12:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:04] <exec> 08└─then we should have laws that let people decide to pull their own plug rather than paint them as victims of their own success because Religion or something.
[17:12:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:07] <exec> 08└─yeah i find in private, with women, i end up giving what i call the 'reverse teabag manuever'. i don't provide such services to men...
[17:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 1580 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:09] <exec> 08└─No, you should be aware of the difference between informed consent and implied consent, something which is taught in a modern CPR class. If a patient is able to respond to you and affirmatively declares you can do it, you have express consent. Informed consent is similar, but it implicates that you...
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[18:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 892 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:52] <exec> 08└─https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3395000 [nih.gov] We present the case of a 31-year-old man who presented to our emergency department in a distressed state complaining of hiccuping for >72 h. [...] We explained the various pharmacologic interventions, their side effects, and, with certain medicat...
[18:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:02] <exec> 08└─This is a completely different paradigm, therefore such a comparison doesn't make sense. To make an analogy: Imagine that usually numbers are written in unary representation (that is, e.g. ten is IIIIIIIIII). To get more numbers onto the same space, mechanisms are devised that can make the I's small...
[18:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:04] <exec> 08└─Does it run Doom yet?
[18:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 1951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:06] <exec> 08└─I see where you are going, but there is a clear relationship between unary and binary; at the same feature size binary numbers require log2 n digits as the unary system. And that expresses its space efficiency quite well. q-bits, as I understand it can exist as a superposition of 0 and 1. So, theore...
[18:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:08] <exec> 08└─It would require a quantum leap in our understanding of these machines.
[18:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:22] <exec> 08└─I suspect it is for the on board network port. Also at this scale size probably isn't an issue, as you need some air just for cooling. And the accessories that aren't used can be powered down: most low-power distributions for the Raspberry Pi have built in routines for turning off unused hardware. I...
[18:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:23] <exec> 08└─Why not any number of more capable and cheaper alternatives? Is it because anything with RPi immediately gets tech news coverage for some reason?
[18:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:46] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, government is composed of men, not angels. So, either your legislation is magical, or there are other forces in play. Here's some food for thought: There never has existed One World Government; nation states exist in anarchy—and thank the Universe they do; their competition among t...
[18:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:47] <exec> 08└─So we're talking about a master-planned place (Hell) built in the desert (Hell) by people With Good Intentions (Hell), and it won't have blackjack and hookers? How much will they pay people to live there? I think they may have to pay royalties [wikipedia.org].
[18:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:49] <exec> 08└─screw you and your insurance! mandated insurance is just another example of things that made more sense in a less tech advanced era. if someone hits anyone now all you would have to do is take some video or pics and give it to the pigs, if they aren't too busy stealing for the insurance companies. e...
[18:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:52] <exec> 08└─Bill is building his own fiefdom to avoid pesky democracy.
[18:06:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:00] <exec> 08└─The current bulletin introduces unmanned aircraft systems as potential threats
[18:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:10] <exec> 08└─It also matches their definition of "courage".
[18:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:12] <exec> 08└─I interpreted it as "built from COTS parts".
[18:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:14] <exec> 08└─Given the incredibly massive number of completely open, easy targets in the US that a low grade moron could hit at will, the only reason there aren't more terrorist attacks is because they aren't trying. US has wasted far more billions on security theatre than the terrorists have done in damage to t...
[18:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:17] <exec> 08└─if the a foreign nation state invades the US i'll be dropping grenades on them too. news at 11.
[18:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 2072 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:19] <exec> 08└─As I've mentioned a couple of month ago in passing [soylentnews.org], there are open hardware and software drones like the AWuAV 3015E that are threatening to disrupt the UAV/drone market very soon. So it's no surprise that, following your typical military-industrial American/UK and Israeli complex...
[18:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:09] <exec> 08└─I dislike Origin a lot. So much so that i'll never buy an EA game again : / Battlefront 2 looks like a lot of fun but there are other fish in the sea.
[18:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:10] <exec> 08└─From Ctrl-Alt-Delete under-comic-post: [cad-comic.com] Note: Because today’s comic is regarding the 75% reduction to hero credit costs, I just know someone is going to spout off in the comments about EA also reducing the credits awarded by the campaign by the same amount. And while at face value t...
[18:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:12] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that you can get The Witcher completely DRM-free on GOG, which is a concept that I'm sure causes aneurysms in EA executive suite.
[18:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:40] <exec> 08└─Spreading propaganda and misinfo is not 'hacking'. Correct, they're trying to muddy the waters. Hacking the servers of our political parties and hacking the servers of the election commissions is hacking.
[18:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:41] <exec> 08└─Hostile foreign intelligence agencies are waging misinformation campaigns against American citizens? What about that one time CNN got a story wrong?
[18:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:27] <exec> 08└─You mean colorless.
[18:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:00] <exec> 08└─of course you do, you suck-ass, Renfield POS.
[18:10:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Will be Bringing Middle Earth to TV - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:52] <exec> 08└─The Fall of Gondolin, tales from Numenor, Turambar, all of those would be good material for screen adaptation. But the announcement made it sound more like they were going to cover the period between the Hobbit and LOTR. I can't imagine what they'd fill that with. Hijinks with Tom Bombadil? Palace i...
[18:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:38] <exec> 08└─Here some answers for you. I am licensed, though not an absolute expert. I have performed CPR. I can't perform CPR, therefore I would be mimicking the same TV shows which tell me defibrillators start hearts and gunshots knock people off their feet (which I don't watch, and so have an even less accur...
[18:12:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:40] <exec> 08└─Two other things I forgot to mention above. And again, THESE AREN'T INSTRUCTIONS FOR YOU TO DO. I'm not trained in how to give those. But, you are aiming for about 2 inches of compression on an adult - and that's a LOT and takes a LOT of force. And, do it with the patient's back on a SOLID SURFACE....
[18:12:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:42] <exec> 08└─Um, i was paddled and i'm a millennial (right on the edge). Paddles pretty much died in my childhood. I also fought in Iraq. I think the children of those who defeated "the world's most insidious, powerful military force" are the ones that went into parent helicopter mode and ended paddles. >But now...
[18:12:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:44] <exec> 08└─why do you think you have a right to touch someone else's kids property to assert your imagined authority? was class over and she didn't want to listen to your bullshit? tough shit motherfucker. if she is acting bad during class? give her a bad conduct grade. beyond that you have no authority or pow...
[18:15:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Bottle-Stoppers — ‘Wine Condoms’ Will Save Your Booze - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:15:32] <exec> 08└─Folks, when you visit Virginia, you should make a stop in Charlottesville. And see the big, beautiful vineyards along the Monticello Wine Trail. The biggest and best of which is Trump Winery. Where they follow in Thomas Jefferson's footsteps. www.trumpwinery.com [trumpwinery.com]
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[19:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:52] <exec> 08└─July 10, 2013 was my last colonoscopy. I did it for the cancer, for a cancer check. I wouldn't do it for the hiccups. It's like some form of punishment. There has to be some form of punishment for folks who get the hiccups or don't take their medicine? No, I don't think so. Not even for getting an a...
[19:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:53] <exec> 08└─TFA tries to bore you to death before getting to the point. The sensor, containing copper, magnesium and silicon (safe ingredients found in foods), generates an electrical signal when splashed by stomach fluid, like a potato battery, said Andrew Thompson, Proteus’s president and chief executive. A...
[19:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:55] <exec> 08└─Just wondering about the side effects...
[19:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:23] <exec> 08└─Why? Because RasPi's don't have a Management Engine. Can you even trust that binary you compiled on box with Intel inside? But more likely . . . because a 750 x RasPi box is way cheaper than a real supercomputer. Yet it lets you test all of the same programming concepts. Even the same binaries if yo...
[19:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:25] <exec> 08└─When I read Natalie Portman and Slashdot refugees I started imagining Beowulf has something to do with this cluster. That twitch has started up again....
[19:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 801 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:27] <exec> 08└─Of course this being a developmental platform, the real intent is to prototype software. But the spin off from BitScope is likely to find a hobbyist market, as well as programmer training. But not at those prices. At $500-$800 they would get snapped up in large numbers, even if they only had 4 Pi's...
[19:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:53] <exec> 08└─Of course, $80 million is chump change when it comes to developing an entire small city.
[19:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:55] <exec> 08└─Subjected to? Are you strapped down and forced to watch TV like in A Clockwork Orange? You do know you have the option to ignore the stuff on TV you don't like, right?
[19:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:57] <exec> 08└─The thing is, $80 million isn't enough to build a town, much less a city. Back nearly 50 years ago a college dorm cost a couple of million, and we've had a few years of high inflation since then, so now it would probably be $10 million or so. So we're talking about the price of 8 college dorms witho...
[19:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:18] <exec> 08└─It's probably a matter of even more time before these are newsworthy newspaper headlines.
[19:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:19] <exec> 08└─It's not silly, but it's also not a newly revealed danger. Airlines have been worried about this for years. Actually, they're more worried about careless people taking down a plane accidentally, and that's also a real danger...but not new. This is just the NHS trying to raise the level of paranoia....
[19:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:21] <exec> 08└─>> 30Km+ range video and control systems are commercial civilian off-the shelf items >Can you provide examples of commercial versions of this? http://www.dragonlinkrc.com [dragonlinkrc.com] is the one I use.
[19:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:24] <exec> 08└─Given the incredibly massive number of completely open, easy targets in the US that a low grade moron could hit at will, the only reason there aren't more terrorist attacks is because they aren't trying.
[19:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:17] <exec> 08└─I've passed the 50-hour mark in Path of Exile (which is free to play, with cosmetic purchases to reward the makers), and while it's fundamentally an isometric clickfest (think Diablo, because it is very much a modern version), there are enough changing landscapes and varied monsters and powers to ke...
[19:08:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 369 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:48] <exec> 08└─It looks like so called mainstream got themselves into catch 22 situation. They were feeding so much bullshit to the population for so long, the said population lost all the defenses and now only lazy can't feed anything to "the People" at will. Tough spot indeed. I am surprised there are still no o...
[19:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:49] <exec> 08└─They hacked Trump's servers, too. [cnbc.com] Yet they only released dirt on Clinton. Lying by omission is misinformation.
[19:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:51] <exec> 08└─And how be is this worse than big media spreading lies and misinformation? I still remember the run-up to the 2nd Iraq War. They were factually reporting the statements made by the administration. It's the administration that was spreading the lies and propaganda.
[19:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:37] <exec> 08└─Probably not, but after NASA starts using it to make urine filters, maybe we can get a commercial version for the idiots who process their beer against the first wall they find.
[19:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:12] <exec> 08└─Not true. Ether - Ethereum currency - is needed to run Ethereum distributed computer. This computer is convenient for certain useful applications. Ether is a commodity similar to electricity and the fact that it is used for exchange making it money is a side effect which may or may not be used in th...
[19:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:13] <exec> 08└─Sure, go ahead and sue in the courts that have jurisdiction over your transactions in government-free decentralized cryptocurrency.
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[20:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:56] <exec> 08└─What is the legal ramification of recording your work day? Can you be sued for recording without permission? Can an employer fire someone for doing so?
[20:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:57] <exec> 08└─I believe that's wiretapping in California, which is illegal. Could be wrong, though. Anyway, even if you did collect fruit of the poisonous tree, your lawyer may be able to use it along with alternate means to coax admission out of a defendant. Also, " Vaughn alleged that employees and supervisors...
[20:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:59] <exec> 08└─I presume it would depend if you are a one or two party state. Some states require both parties to be aware they are being recorded, some only require that one of the parties know that recording is being done.
[20:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 556 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:02] <exec> 08└─Here's my take on that... My employer (after over 10 years there) had everyone sign an NDA which besides forbidding anyone from talking about their (crooked) business practices also forbids taking photos or video or even audio. It also stated the company may install hidden cameras and/or microphones...
[20:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:04] <exec> 08└─The employee says he's one of more than 100 African-American Tesla workers affected and is seeking permission from a judge to sue on behalf of the group.
[20:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:06] <exec> 08└─Many times I've heard blacks say they were going to turn n****r if they didn't get their way.
[20:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:08] <exec> 08└─Which kind of implies that they already have...?
[20:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:10] <exec> 08└─Sounds like we're in need of some major worker's rights overhaul. All this NDA nonsense is getting way out of hand and should only apply to trade secrets.
[20:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:21] <exec> 08└─Step 1, Monday morning: tell your employees that, per secret agreement to escape prison, drug dealers in the area have been putting those chips in their products for a little while. Step 2: pull out some gizmo with wires, and announce that you will now conduct a drug test. Step 3: watch some of the...
[20:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:23] <exec> 08└─In good form as always, leading me to ask: where's the "WTF did I just read?" mod?
[20:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:25] <exec> 08└─The sales pitch is that you share this information with your doctor. That's false. You share the information with a third party who keeps it in a central database. Then your doctor can engage the bureaucracy to get access to your personal data, all without consulting you. It's effectively the same t...
[20:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:38] <exec> 08└─It's a fancy cloudy quantmy computer. So when it is first turned on, it will simultaneously promise cake, open a portal to hell, send a terminator robot in to the past, wonder what Dave is doing, send its user to fight in the Game Grid, determine the answer is 42, and that the only winning move is n...
[20:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:57] <exec> 08└─How is it not a Beowulf cluster?
[20:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:59] <exec> 08└─>Because RasPi's don't have a Management Engine. That we know of. >Can you even trust that binary you compiled on box with Intel inside? Broadcom is so open... [ycombinator.com]
[20:07:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 260 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:22] <exec> 08└─So we're talking about a master-planned place (Hell) built in the desert (Hell) by people With Good Intentions (Hell), and it won't have blackjack and hookers? How much will they pay people to live there? I think they may have to pay royalties [wikipedia.org].
[20:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:53] <exec> 08└─P.S. In the US civilians can buy a grenade launcher:
[20:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Watch Could be Used to Detect Hypertension and Sleep Apnea - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:08] <exec> 08└─I had undiagnosed severe sleep apnea for over ten years. One of the most common symptoms is drowsiness while driving, and I never had that. So I figured the other symptoms were just a genetic fluke, a need for more sleep than most people but nothing more. If you have sleep apnea, you won't remember...
[20:08:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ledow [5567] 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 1150 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:27] <exec> 08└─Stop buying games on Day One. If you have literally NO IDEA how the game operates, funds itself, etc. than any purchase is supporting WHATEVER method they decide to deploy - DRM, online activation, DLC, character unlocks etc. By the time you complain, they already have your money and have paid for a...
[20:08:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:49] <exec> 08└─That's ok, we're all dumb here
[20:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:23] <exec> 08└─Most people do have a BS detector. The problem is that their calibration is likely off, because the noise floor has been so high recently.
[20:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:24] <exec> 08└─Considering the news is all lies, I'm sure 100% of the votes were hacked. The media has 0 integrity these days, which is a pretty sad state of affairs.
[20:12:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:30] <exec> 08└─^ I subbed for a bit and once had a female student try and ignore me completely while walking away. I specifically made sure tug on her backpack to get her attention and she twisted around yelling "don't touch me like that!" Glad I gave teaching a pass, I have zero desire to deal with that level of...
[20:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:27] <exec> 08└─It went further in the process than it should have, being a licensed MD he had malpractice insurance, and being professional corporate lawyers handling the malpractice case they engaged based on minimum cost to the insurance company rather than principles - I believe they postured back and forth for...
[20:13:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:29] <exec> 08└─This is nothing new... social mores have driven irrational and sub-optimal behavior in edge cases since their inception, even in the animal kingdom animals are doing socially driven stuff which leads to early death and detriment to the species.
[20:13:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:31] <exec> 08└─It is a very true fact - CPR delivers a scary-small percentage of normal blood flow to the brain, 5% I believe. Open chest direct cardiac massage is "twice as good" at 10% of normal bloodflow. Both of which, while infinitely better than 0, are not that great.
[20:15:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hackers Say They've Broken Face ID Just One Week After iPhone X Release - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:05] <exec> 08└─You're remarkably naïve to think that they couldn't already lock you or me away if they wanted to. The vast majority of evidence can already be obtained through warrants, and even if all they have is "reasonable suspicion" they can still use that to make your life unlivable.
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[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:04] <exec> 08└─Here in Canada anyway, you can't sign away your rights like that. Well, you can, but it's not enforceable. Some of the stuff described in the GP post I would think is not legally enforceable. Pretty much all of it is pretty damn evil as well.
[21:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:06] <exec> 08└─Congress is scheduled to pass a comprehensive worker protection plan right after they pass campaign finance reform, single-payer healthcare, and cut half the Pentagon's budget.
[21:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:08] <exec> 08└─I've heard some interesting shit from whites, too! Though I have not heard any interesting shit from East Asians, Middle Easterners, Hispanics, Brazilians, or Anunnaki. However, I don't speak Portuguese.
[21:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─Is IS evil, which is why it should be allowed for companies to push these NDAs: that way, the evil people who push these policies could be identified, and then disappeared for the good of society. Honestly, every time I read stuff like this, it reminds me how completely amoral sociopaths aren't only...
[21:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:23] <exec> 08└─Come on now, do you honestly believe that this proprietary database that you don't have the slightest bit of control over will be insecure? History tells us that companies are astoundingly good at security, so what are you afraid of?
[21:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:25] <exec> 08└─We definitely need a +WTF mod. Truth is stranger than fiction though. I found it quite humorous that DRM means digital rectal message, and that it cures hiccups. What was funnier, is that this is true. Not trolling exactly, but weird stories from the ER. I'm afraid if we did create a +5 WTF mod, it...
[21:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:59] <exec> 08└─It's $120 for a node of 4 Raspberry Pis.
[21:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:00] <exec> 08└─I am a little surprised they did go with the Raspberry Pi ...as opposed to an x86-compatible architecture? Perhaps they heard about this: In ARM-related news, on Monday the 13th, Red Hat made available an ARM port of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. RHEL now ready for power-efficient server-grade chips [th...
[21:07:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 2242 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:20] <exec> 08└─His choice of location is interesting. The climate would be better almost anywhere else - Arizona is hot - and it's hard to see where the water is going to come from. But, here's why I think he picked it: Arizona is close enough to the Left Coast to appeal to people. At least, to appeal to the kind...
[21:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:30] <exec> 08└─Guess what? Donald didn't lose the loan he received from his father; he multiplied it into billions
[21:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:31] <exec> 08└─And makes sure that ALL the technologies in this city are running on Microsoft software. This includes the autonomous vehicles.
[21:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 931 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:59] <exec> 08└─One interesting thing is that this is actually part of a prolonged corporate struggle over the future of autonomous vehicles and drones spear-headed by Google against the military-industrial complex as well as the automotive industry: From releasing their AI code open-source to demilitarizing Boston...
[21:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:30] <exec> 08└─We're desensitized, not incapable. When you sleep in a barn, you find it hard to smell bullshit.
[21:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:32] <exec> 08└─Maybe Trump doesn't have incriminating emails because he will tell you straight up what a piece of shit he is? It doesn't take a hack to find dirt on twitterman.
[21:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:20] <exec> 08└─If only we had a filter for wayward apostrophes.
[21:10:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03citizenr [2737] 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 281 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:43] <exec> 08└─There was no bug, they "forgot" to set ownership of the walled, becoming owner required 0 signatures hehe. They did it SECOND time in a row(first time July of 2017 = $30 mil stolen). devops199 claimed ownership and triggered one of the actions you can do as an owner - destruction.
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[22:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:53] <exec> 08└─Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada.
[22:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:55] <exec> 08└─So you play online so you get to play again and then you get to play again in their "masterclass" and then perhaps you'll get a job within 12 months. I'm with the WOPR on this one; A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.
[22:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:57] <exec> 08└─70% of the finalists end up being hired in cyber security within within 12 months. Where to the rest go?
[22:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:59] <exec> 08└─They had their carbon sequestered.
[22:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:01] <exec> 08└─True. Another perspective is that there is more career upside potential to playing these games vs. Flappy Birds or Dota 2, etc.
[22:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:04] <exec> 08└─Let me say that white-hat hackers are gay. I mean, don't you have better to do than to check a website for vulnerabilities that the maker should have fixed themselves and never published to the outside world without at least checking it? Don't they pay their developers well? Don't they have a QC dep...
[22:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:06] <exec> 08└─Ick, you're the reason we can't have nice things! Have fun exploring the dark side, may you realize your folly before bubba finds your booty.
[22:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:08] <exec> 08└─if you hired 100% of the talent, who would you be defending against?
[22:06:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 625 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:26] <exec> 08└─Is IS evil, which is why it should be allowed for companies to push these NDAs: that way, the evil people who push these policies could be identified, and then disappeared for the good of society. Honestly, every time I read stuff like this, it reminds me how completely amoral sociopaths aren't only...
[22:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:27] <exec> 08└─If you have to put down a deposit for an as-yet built car, that means you don't have a pressing need. And if you have that much cash to put down up front for an as-yet built car, then you are probably not in in a desperate need to get the money back. Unless you think that the cars will not come at a...
[22:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:29] <exec> 08└─$1000 down on a Tesla isn't exactly a huge percentage of the car.
[22:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:31] <exec> 08└─All the more reason to not want to pull it back.
[22:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:34] <exec> 08└─My thoughts exactly. Tesla had a large lay-off recently: An estimated 400 to 700 people were dismissed in October after their annual Performance Review, according to a San Jose Mercury News. That’s between 1% and 2% of the company’s more than 33,000 employees. Now we all know that nobody would p...
[22:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:49] <exec> 08└─5) If patients are merely forgetful, they could just as well set an alarm on their phone reminding them its time to take their pills. 6) If patients are avoiding the meds, they just drop the pills into the little quart bottle of orange juice they keep the patch glued to. So its totally unnecessary f...
[22:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:51] <exec> 08└─just inhale as much air as possible, block the breath, push your abdominals as you wanted to exhale (but you block the air at the throat level) and wait for the next hiccup, which will be more like a burp. Keep the air a little more, when it becomes uncomfortable exhale and breath normally. I never...
[22:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:06] <exec> 08└─how does this compare in terms of "horsepower".
[22:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:07] <exec> 08└─As to the OP question: I'd think of this 50 qbit computer in the realm of the Intel 4004 chips, as far as the quantum computing is concerned - very early stage, very few and extremely specific applications. It's surrounded by a highly sophisticated modern binary system, but at its core, it's got 50...
[22:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:31] <exec> 08└─I know. Image that . . .
[22:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:32] <exec> 08└─Hardkernel (odroid), recently announced a similar offering - http://www.hardkernel.com [hardkernel.com] 8G ram, 32 cores, 220$.
[22:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 677 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:30] <exec> 08└─FYI: Heard about one guy with a licensed grenade launcher who has an arrangement with the local sheriff: He also has a license for a single grenade. Each time he shoots it off he just takes the "empty" in the the sheriff to swap out for a/the replacement, so that he doesn't have wait months for the...
[22:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bobs [1462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:32] <exec> 08└─No, the issue is by are large the "terrorists" aren't trying. If they were buses, malls, busy roads, stadiums, theaters, etc would all have been targeted and hit multiple times because it is effectively impossible to prevent these attacks. Look at the past six months.
[22:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:29] <exec> 08└─No, it's an FPS with competitive multiplayer. Most people I know don't even play the campaign, they just jump into multiplayer and kill their way to the points.
[22:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:31] <exec> 08└─You mean there wasn't a Day-One Coop DLC? What a missed opportunity!
[22:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:14:15] <exec> 08└─And, because they aren't spending any time trying to actually prove someone guilty in court, they get to spend that time out on the street fucking up someone else's life too! If more people actually took their cases to court the courts would be so backed up they'd have to drop prosecution on all the...
[22:15:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's absurd. Which is why it has been proven that our governments conducts unconstitutional mass surveillance on the populace. Does the NSA ring a bell? Maybe Edward Snowden? Oh, but I'm sure the CIA would never do this, because they're special. They're special, just like you.
[22:15:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06WikiLeaks Publishes Vault 8 CIA Software Projects - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:11] <exec> 08└─So something the USA deploys against a random country is likely good from the perspective of a typical soylentnews reader.
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[23:05:55] <exec> 08└─... there's money to be made working instead on selfie apps.
[23:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:11] <exec> 08└─The 0.1% are exploiting you to get richer and more powerful. How does that feel to you? Do you think the "companies" in the article are poor, like below the poverty line? Punish the exploiters when you can. Humanity will shed no tears.
[23:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 752 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:12] <exec> 08└─Not so sure. One of my younger relatives introduced me to Twitch. I got to watch some other kid play video games instead of me playing video games. I asked him what the fucking point of all this was. He responded with basically that it was cool and these were the best players, blah, blah, blah. What...
[23:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:53] <exec> 08└─Oh, like a potato battery, *and* it's a digital sensor too. Does it snark at you and try to get you killed while messing with the laws of physics?
[23:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geotti [1146] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:33] <exec> 08└─As long as we steer clear of them sharks on the intertubes, we'll be fine!
[23:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 1728 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:05] <exec> 08└─A century ago, there was a commune in the high desert, less than 100 miles north of Los Angeles. I'm a Pinko and I only recently learned about Llano del Rio [googleapis.com], east of current-day Pearblossom [googleapis.com] in the Antelope Valley. A Socialist politician bought 9000 acres "with water...
[23:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:35] <exec> 08└─The DJI multirotors you can get from Wal-Mart or Target are being used to drop grenades and AP mortar shells.
[23:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:37] <exec> 08└─I haven't heard about any such worry - not from the airlines. Just the security theater department. A single Canada Goose weighs 4 time what you average consumer drone weighs, and they strike aircraft all the time. http://www.foxnews.com
[23:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:39] <exec> 08└─how much worse is: Drones!?
[23:14:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:14:21] <exec> 08└─Why can't I just hit adults when I don't agree with their behavior? All that matters is outcome, so clearly violence is justified even if it's not used in self-defense.
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