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[00:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:54] <exec> 08└─To protect a person from his own stupidity requires Tyranny. If there must be a government, its sole role should be to ensure that interaction between individuals is voluntary, as defined by contractual agreements in advance of interaction. (Of course, given that government is founded atop involunta...
[00:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:56] <exec> 08└─To protect a person from his own stupidity requires Tyranny. If there must be a government, its sole role should be to ensure that interaction between individuals is voluntary, as defined by contractual agreements in advance of interaction. (Of course, given that government is founded atop involunta...
[00:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:20] <exec> 08└─For exactly this kind of career, that was one of our recruiting ideas. I don't know if we actually built the box. The trouble is finding a place to install it (right audience, property owner accepts it, etc.) and making sure the game is suited to the job. Where is anyone supposed to find a person wh...
[00:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:21] <exec> 08└─It is a problem with the structure of society. Causing destruction with no purpose other than to hurt people is not a good way to bring about change. Possibly revolution will be needed, but hacking some website and/or stealing data and selling it off is more likely to hurt your fellow serfs instead...
[00:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:45] <exec> 08└─That's an anti-Libertarian stance. Won't fly here.
[00:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:47] <exec> 08└─It's keeping their options open. When their turn comes they can decide to go ahead with the purchase, or get their deposit refunded. The longer the waiting list, the more it makes sense to keep the option open.
[00:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:49] <exec> 08└─Which is worse? Someone playing the race card? Or someone sweeping racism under the rug?
[00:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:22] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure the NSA will also want to have a quantum computer. And not for doing chemistry. ;-) Anyway, you sound like that IBM employee who once estimated that the world will need maybe 5 computers.
[00:08:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:02] <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.
[00:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:21] <exec> 08└─The water issues could be resolved with a little landscaping (see the swales built for flood control during the FDR era, and which are now green, lush, and noticeably cooler than the desert surrounding them, you can see them on Google Earth, and they are located in a national park so you can visit,...
[00:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:51] <exec> 08└─Them reusing the Origin branding on the monstrosity that is their launcher is just sad. So so sad. Lord British would be spinning in his grave, were he dead.
[00:11:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:11:05] <exec> 08└─Thanks for making that clear.
[00:14:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Women Less Likely to Receive CPR from Bystanders - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:14:37] <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...
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[01:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:55] <exec> 08└─To protect a person from his own stupidity requires Tyranny. If there must be a government, its sole role should be to ensure that interaction between individuals is voluntary, as defined by contractual agreements in advance of interaction. (Of course, given that government is founded atop involunta...
[01:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:56] <exec> 08└─To protect a person from his own stupidity requires Tyranny. If there must be a government, its sole role should be to ensure that interaction between individuals is voluntary, as defined by contractual agreements in advance of interaction. (Of course, given that government is founded atop involunta...
[01:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 1294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:58] <exec> 08└─T o p r o t e c t a p e r s o n f r o m h i s o w n s t u p i d i t y r e q u i r e s T y r a n n y . I f t h e r e m u s t b e a g o v e r n m e n t , i t s s o l e r o l e ...
[01:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:01] <exec> 08└─In that case Mr. Commissioner, we must: Eliminate the potential criminal pitfalls that go with admitting an opoid addiction. Fix our FUBAR mercenary health care system so people can afford the licensed health care providers you recommend.
[01:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:03] <exec> 08└─T o p r o t e c t a p e r s o n f r o m h i s o w n s t u p i d i t y r e q u i r e s T y r a n n y . I f t h e r e m u s t b e a g o v e r n m e n t , i t s ...
[01:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:05] <exec> 08└─To protect a person from his own stupidity requires Tyranny. If there must be a government, its sole role should be to ensure that interaction between individuals is voluntary, as defined by contractual agreements in advance of interaction. (Of course, given that government is founded atop involunta...
[01:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:07] <exec> 08└─Government has no business making decisions for people. If there must be a government its sole role should be to facilitate voluntary interaction between them (but I doubt government would be very good at that, considering government is founded on involuntary interaction).
[01:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:10] <exec> 08└─If there must be a government its sole role should be to facilitate voluntary interaction between them (but I doubt government would be very good at that, considering government is founded on involuntary interaction). Government has no business making decisions for people.
[01:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:12] <exec> 08└─I'll upmod your first comment if you stop spamming, since it probably doesn't need to be at -1. How's that for voluntary interaction? Slightly changing your comment is not going to help you avoid the spam mod. A bot/filter isn't downmodding you.
[01:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:37] <exec> 08└─It's not that strange. Play Starcraft, Destiny or some other game for a while, then watch gameplay footage from the pros to see how bad you are by comparison.
[01:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:04] <exec> 08└─Both are wrong - and they are not mutually exclusive.
[01:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:24] <exec> 08└─This approach suffers from too many ways to "do it wrong". Did I really inhale "as much as possible", I have no idea what it means to "push [my] abdominals as you wanted to exhale", and how are you "block[ing] air at the throat? Etc.
[01:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:41] <exec> 08└─That quote crossed my mind when I wrote that post. But the thing is, was he wrong? The PC is dying as appliances and the "cloud" are slowly taking over. I believe some people will keep having general purpose computers at home. But like automotive fearing people will stop owning cars once they're aut...
[01:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:12] <exec> 08└─harsh regulatory/litigation environment that creates large business concentrations
[01:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:13] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but there are places. The air intakes, for instance. It wouldn't take a large hard part to require expensive repairs. And I've heard about worries about them striking the pilot cabin windows. Haven't heard of it happening, though.
[01:09:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:16] <exec> 08└─Thanks for sharing that link. I'm curious about regulations - do you need a license to operate equipment with that much power? I'm in the US and I have a 1 watt 5.8 ghz transmitter I use with my hexacopter but I use it with my amateur radio license. Unlicensed transmitters can't be over a few hundre...
[01:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:40] <exec> 08└─"The clear whisky smells similar to the original whisky," well that's sorted then.
[01:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:41] <exec> 08└─Vodka is supposed to be a neutral spirit. If you can accurately distinguish potato vodka from grain vodka, there's a fault in one or both.
[01:11:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:43] <exec> 08└─We used to say "water white."
[01:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:45] <exec> 08└─For each error, dock the pay of the submitter and editor, and watch how quickly the proofreading improves!
[01:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Graphene Water Filter Turns Whisky Clear - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:48] <exec> 08└─Well, you drink pure alcohol is so you want, I sticking to an "imperfect" vodka.
[01:12:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Pollution Linked to Osteoporosis and Bone Fractures - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:12:37] <exec> 08└─However thought this was funny: in the future, only the rich will drive their own car; it will be a mark of prestige, to show the plebeans that they can be in control of themselves and their wealth. Having a driving instructor for their progeny will almost be like having their personal tailor.
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[02:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:53] <exec> 08└─And does it contain an unlocked stage0 bootloader, or is it locked down similiar to modern OEM windows systems with something akin to SecureBoot even though it could have been made fully optional for the plebs, but left unlocked/self-configured for the security minded users. Additionally: How does t...
[02:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:54] <exec> 08└─They run at over 2GHz, decently priced for that market. As more and more tools get ported to ARM, and more and more people realize that their phones are running apps quite competently on ARM, Intel is potentially going to get a run for its money on the desktop too. That's an interesting development,...
[02:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:56] <exec> 08└─Epyc 2 (AMD x86 Ryzen for servers) could ship with 64 cores. https://hothardware.com [hothardware.com]
[02:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 1033 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:14] <exec> 08└─Not only that but finally admit that cannabis flower can play a role in treating opiate addiction. If anybody truly cared about the patients instead of just grandstanding and making cynical political moves, cannabis flower would be fast-tracked through the FDA. But no. Now cannabis flower is an issu...
[02:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 979 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:16] <exec> 08└─Except there are other functions of government involved here which do not interfere with the ability of the individual to do what they wish with their body. First, fraud. It is not a violation of the autonomy of the individual to stop those who would lie to him, take his money, and disappear. Which...
[02:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:18] <exec> 08└─Not only that but finally admit that cannabis flower can play a role in treating opiate addiction.
[02:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:20] <exec> 08└─Does the illegality of cannabis help enrich the mobsters Chris Christie allegedly has ties to? Maybe!
[02:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:22] <exec> 08└─Good for you giving an insightful reply that this spammer does not even deserve. For someone who complains of tyranny they sure do try and force their opinions on others.
[02:07:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:04] <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.
[02:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:15] <exec> 08└─If their turn comes and they don't want the car, it might be wiser to sell the right for the new car to someone who is chomping at the bit. As these toys are pricey, one can get far more than the $1k of the deposit - considering that the supply is highly constrained.
[02:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:16] <exec> 08└─Yes, Black employees and supervisors call each other "Nigga" all day every day. No, they don't.
[02:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:37] <exec> 08└─The difference is this: when the digital rectal massage was administered, the patient didn't have to bend over for it—unlike the other kind of DRM.
[02:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:38] <exec> 08└─I wonder if fidgeting with a flashlight cell would spoof it.
[02:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:57] <exec> 08└─That quote crossed my mind when I wrote that post. But the thing is, was he wrong?
[02:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:24] <exec> 08└─No blob, no boot. Reverse engineering in progress but far from complete https://github.com [github.com] Oh, BTW, many modern ARM implement TrustZone. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] The only informative part...
[02:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:08:26] <exec> 08└─You'd need some really fast interconnects for most serious supercomputing applications. The Raspberry Pi 3 has a built-in 10/100 Mbps Ethernet, which is pretty damn slow for as far as that goes. There's 802.11n wireless on the Pi 3 too, but I seriously doubt that you can really get the nominal maxim...
[02:09:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sulla [5173] 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 180 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:56] <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.
[02:10:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:12] <exec> 08└─During the game, players have to obtain credits - either by buying them ... - to unlock popular characters including Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader.
[02:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Star Wars Game in U-Turn After Player Anger - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:33] <exec> 08└─And they threw in a bunch of free DLC after launch. And their two big DLC (really, proper expansions) were exceptional value for money.
[02:11:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:11] <exec> 08└─Fuck yeah! Mr Ed! And Ma & Pa Kettle! Old TV rules! Grew up on Land of the Giants: Great show!!!!(until you download it and watch it....yikes!)
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[03:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:56] <exec> 08└─I have a funny story about that from a guy I knew. First of all, being a mule is still a preferred method. Knew a guy who smuggled 10K worth of heroin in a condom tucked deep into his ass. Well, when he came back and went home, he forgot about it and took a shit, then flushed it. 10K worth of heroin...
[03:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:57] <exec> 08└─Put them a mile apart, making breaches costly. Drug bazookas would need to be like artillery, including dense projectiles to overcome the air resistance. Drones would need larger batteries and longer-range radios, and flights per day would be severely reduced. Tunnels become major engineering projec...
[03:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:59] <exec> 08└─Two walls, with the Graboids from Tremors suspended in an "acoustic cage" between the walls. #MAGA!
[03:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:02] <exec> 08└─It is the enemy of the American people! Tremendous drugs are pouring into the United States at levels that nobody has ever seen before. This has happened over the last three to four years in particular. The wall will stop much of the drugs from pouring into this country and poisoning our youth. We n...
[03:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:04] <exec> 08└─And bribing a border guard still gets the semi through.
[03:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:15] <exec> 08└─Trust zone isn't like IME. If you are in control of trust zone, it is a good thing. If some phone vendor uses it to protect DRM, it is a bad thing. I have dev boards where I am in control of trust zone.
[03:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:17] <exec> 08└─As more and more tools get ported to ARM, and more and more people realize that their phones are running apps quite competently on ARM, Intel is potentially going to get a run for its money on the desktop too.
[03:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:19] <exec> 08└─1. TSMC, not TMSC. It's a mistake many have made, including me. 2. TSMC is Taiwanese rather than Chinese. A distinction that might help you avoid getting beat up by a Taiwanese nationalist.
[03:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pslytely Psycho [1218] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:42] <exec> 08└─Yep, and he's pissed that the entire west coast has stopped making their payments and that that shit is spreading!
[03:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03jcross [4009] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:44] <exec> 08└─Or even: 3. Research how/whether kratom can be used to get off opioids and publish information about safe use. I mean, maybe it doesn't work well if used carelessly, but that could be said of nearly any medical intervention. I do know at least one person who used it to get off heroin, so presumably...
[03:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:11] <exec> 08└─DURR I R LEET HACKAR WE R ANONYMUS WE R LEEJUN get laid kid, it'll do you a world of good
[03:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03BasilBrush [3994] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:41] <exec> 08└─Non-transferable AFAIK. But you might be able to buy it and sell it on.
[03:08:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 314 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:16] <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...
[03:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 861 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:22] <exec> 08└─noticeably cooler than the desert surrounding them I like the sound of that--especially for a place noted for having water coming out of the "cold" tap that's every bit as hot as the stuff coming out of the "hot" tap. I was worried that any water exposed to the air would evaporate and be a loss to w...
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[04:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:00] <exec> 08└─"Drug potato cannon". Seriously, using the word bazooka just isn't appropriate here. It's much closer to a potato cannon.
[04:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:01] <exec> 08└─https://www.getdjtrump.com/videos/bd11edde58384fa6d14f/mexico_is_not_my [getdjtrump.com] https://www.getdjtrump.com [getdjtrump.com]
[04:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:03] <exec> 08└─"Drug Bazooka" would be a great name for a band, though.
[04:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:05] <exec> 08└─How about just legalize drugs, localize production (more jobs), and impose local/state taxes (more services). Doesn't cost anything really, but walls take costly materials, endanger wildlife, and will ultimately be undermined, gone around, or gone over.
[04:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:18] <exec> 08└─TSMC is Taiwanese rather than Chinese.
[04:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:19] <exec> 08└─So, this doesn't seem to compare well with a rack full of Raspberry Pis - granted there are plenty of applications that will run better on the Qualcomm configuration, but if you're looking at flops per dollar, or fault tolerance, it would seem like a re-spin of the basic Raspberry Pi concept (but wi...
[04:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:12] <exec> 08└─Sounds great....so just how much does it cost to play?
[04:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:43] <exec> 08└─...I already have a semi!
[04:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:23] <exec> 08└─The promise of quantum computing is that it can make certain calculations that take unrealistic amounts of memory and/or storage space feasible. A classical computer which can do what the 50 qubit quantum computer here can do would require something like 4.5 terabytes of memory [soylentnews.org] usi...
[04:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, but where else could he assemble an army of Uruk-hai without being bothered?
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[05:06:11] <exec> 08└─Before that word was used for a weapon, it was a musical instrument. In the 1930s, funny guy Bob Burns had a homemade trombone-like instrument that he used in his act. [google.com] The thing that USA.mil developed looked like that, so they asked him if they could reuse the name. He said OK. -- Origi...
[05:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:12] <exec> 08└─Get outta here! Fuck your common sense you goddamn communist!
[05:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:14] <exec> 08└─...means "Brown water". Sounds like a lovely place. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:16] <exec> 08└─If "legal" retail prices for cannabis drop, maybe these will be packed with heroin or cocaine instead.
[05:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:19] <exec> 08└─You're making way too much sense, dude. ...and let's remember that Prohibition in the 1920s was a major inflection point for Organized Crime. When you make something illegal, you lose control of it. Ask a teenager: "Which is easier to get, dope or booze?" "Dope, dude; they ask for ID for booze." --...
[05:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:21] <exec> 08└─Legal weed has reduced weed from cartels to 50% of the original price.
[05:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:23] <exec> 08└─I keep hearing this and I don't believe it. Teens who know even the most square 21 year old can ask that 21 year old to go into a liquor or grocery store and buy them some alcohol. Someone has to be cool enough to know a drug dealer that can get them weed in states where it is still illegal. The liq...
[05:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:25] <exec> 08└─Any politicians who continue to oppose cannabis legalization should be scrutinized for ties to the cartels and the pharmaceutical industry.
[05:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:10] <exec> 08└─Imagine a beowullf cluster of..... what?!!!
[05:10:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Department of Homeland Security Terror Bulletin Warns of "Weaponized Drones" - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:20] <exec> 08└─It's the concentration of natural resources and technology that dictate how large businesses grow through the principle of economy of scale.
[05:13:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 3471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:27] <exec> 08└─Consider a formally verified kerberos(sans DES)/NTP/microkernel system used to gain access to internal resources. All you need do is only grant creds to people who sign your contract stipulating they use the systems in good faith to perform their work, and you're good to go with liability once again...
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[06:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:55] <exec> 08└─How much trunk/bonnet space do you give up for hydrogen tankage and generator? How do you find hydrogen fuel refill stations? Are they close to the free. Tesla charging stations?
[06:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 745 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:56] <exec> 08└─From TFA: "there are only 39 hydrogen fueling stations in the U.S., with the vast majority located in California." I don't think TRDT would want to drive around that blue state. The other problem (again FTFA #1) is that "The first problem with that rosy scenario is that hydrogen and oxygen love each...
[06:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:59] <exec> 08└─How do you find hydrogen fuel refill stations?
[06:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:01] <exec> 08└─An 'ordinary' tank of gasoline represents an enormously more powerful explosion than any tank of compressed hydrogen. The real problem with hydrogen is finding a way to get the stored energy density higher. And, of course, keeping the hydrogen contained. It really likes to sneak out of tanks. Aside...
[06:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:03] <exec> 08└─With the current DHS worried so much about explosive drones, delivery trucks and airport attacks, how will they feel about 200 MPH bombs running around the Highways.
[06:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:27] <exec> 08└─Neither is the mention of nearly one ton of marijuana. Why would you risk this for marijuana, less risky to drive to a legal pot state. And how many launches would it take to shoot a ton of pot over the fence.
[06:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:28] <exec> 08└─Agree, there is probably more pot grown in US than all of Mexico, Central America and Colombia these days. If one can't drive into Colorado.Washington, Oregon, Nevada or California, there are plenty of old/new bootleggers in Tennessee, Virginia, Louisiana and Texas to supply all our needs.
[06:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:30] <exec> 08└─You're reminding me of a great scene with Terry the Toad in "American Graffiti". [google.com] https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] I sometimes wonder if the decision that I made a decade ago to stop consuming fiction was the correct one. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews....
[06:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:49] <exec> 08└─Is that on foot or in a Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II?
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[07:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:53] <exec> 08└─They didn't fail. They did exactly what their pharma donors wanted them to do.
[07:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:54] <exec> 08└─And these experts want to nip such thinking in the bud
[07:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:32] <exec> 08└─And a moat between the two walls, with alligators? https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[07:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:34] <exec> 08└─We could, perhaps, legalize drugs. I sure wish precursors like iodine weren't restricted! The wall is cheap. We could build a new one every year and still spend less than we do dealing with the illegals. We've built interstate highways; they take far more space and materials and are much more harmfu...
[07:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:36] <exec> 08└─This isn't a communist country. Bribes don't go over all that well. When you offer or demand a bribe, there is a decent chance that the other party will report it. We can randomize the guards and hide their identity. This makes bribes much less likely to succeed. Cutting down on border traffic would...
[07:11:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 148 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:11:59] <exec> 08└─Hostile foreign intelligence agencies are waging misinformation campaigns against American citizens? What about that one time CNN got a story wrong?
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[08:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:07] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't electrolysis be a viable option?
[08:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:37] <exec> 08└─After forgetting he had $10k worth of of heroin shoved up his ass on an international flight, he went home and ate too much acid and now he thinks he is an orange, right?
[08:09:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:08] <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.
[08:09:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03richtopia [3160] 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 692 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:09:09] <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...
[08:13:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:13:43] <exec> 08└─You mean East Texas, right?
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[09:06:12] <exec> 08└─only if you discover an exotic way to not spend in the process the same amount of energy that you could use to move the car...
[09:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:44] <exec> 08└─since you put it that way, $10,000 doesn't sound like a lot of money at all.
[09:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:46] <exec> 08└─Canada
[09:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:01] <exec> 08└─It does support TrustZone and also has trusted certs burned into ROM. Customers can add their own certs at purchase time. It's not clear from their marketing whether you can add new certs afterwards, nor whether there's any revocation mechanism.
[09:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03kai_h [1524] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:33] <exec> 08└─This cluster is not designed to give you the performance of a supercomputer, but rather as a test bed to run code on to see how well it parallelises on a cluster. It's like a cluster with it's L Plates on. Processing speed & interconnect speed are secondary considerations over allowing researchers t...
[09:12:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Votes in 18 Nations 'Hacked' in Last Year - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:12:23] <exec> 08└─Also the detector works 100% on the premise that their shit don't stink.
[09:13:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Parity's $280m Ethereum Wallet Freeze Was No Accident Claims Startup - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:13:55] <exec> 08└─Dude, forget source code and get into legal code. You seem to have a knack for the absurd word games required.
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[10:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:53] <exec> 08└─Though a few have updated. I believe no-script, mublock origin, and https everywhere exist now in usable form for the new firefox.
[10:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross 128b: A Newly Discovered "Earth-Like" Exoplanet Orbiting a Less Active Red Dwarf - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:00] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_stars [wikipedia.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Ross 128 will be the closest star in around 70,000 years, but it will be just under 7 light years away, whereas the Centauri system is about 4.24-4.36...
[10:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:10] <exec> 08└─There is a lack of sophisticated outcome data on dose, potency, and abuse potential for marijuana. This mirrors the lack of data in the 1990s and early 2000s when opioid prescribing multiplied ...
[10:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:23] <exec> 08└─Electrolysis on-the-run is indeed stupid. As a source of hydrogen to 'fill a tank'**, it's Ok. --- ** Assuming a tank of hydrogen reaches a decent level of specific energy.
[10:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:57] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a Breaking Bad episode I'd watch
[10:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:58] <exec> 08└─No, it means "sausage [wikipedia.org] water". It doesn't make me want to visit there any more though.
[10:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:14] <exec> 08└─The RPi3 uses a quad-core Cortex A53. The A53 is a dual-issue in-order pipeline. Qualcom's new chip is a 48-core superscalar out-of-order core that can issue 3-4 instructions per clock. It also has a better cache design (and much bigger caches), better branch predictor, and a whole bunch of other di...
[10:08:00] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:01] <exec> 08└─if you hired 100% of the talent, who would you be defending against?
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[10:08:39] <exec> 08└─HR workers just get a relatively small salary, but are all too happy to do the dirty work for the executives.
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[11:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:53] <exec> 08└─We are indeed in the era of quantum browsing, where the page has been parsed and not parsed at the same time. Thanks, javascript.
[11:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 4414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:54] <exec> 08└─Speed is good. But what's the point when the changes have made the browser useless? I've been forced to downgrade after FF forced the lastest version on me and killed almost all my addons (at the time most were not ready yet). And to keep it downgraded required changes in plenty of profiles (I use 5...
[11:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 1028 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:56] <exec> 08└─Noscript is still being worked on. It should become available any day now, but it is not ready yet. Ublock origin is already available, but with some minor problems regarding <noscript> tags, which is unknown if they will be fixed: from what I understand, uBlock origin's developer has requested addi...
[11:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 1361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:05:59] <exec> 08└─The problem is not that Firefox is breaking compatibility with addons, it's that they waited so long to do it. Chrome was release 9 years ago with per-tab sandboxing. Safari had it shortly after. Edge has had it since its creation. It's something that is now considered such a basic feature of web br...
[11:10:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Bill Gates Invests $80 Million in Arizona "Smart City" - 492 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:10:13] <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...
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[12:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:55] <exec> 08└─So what's all this? Wait a few more years, not much will be left of crypto-currencies, unless some real application comes up. We are just not there yet, if things like this make news. Come on, can stuff like this really be considered currency?
[12:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:57] <exec> 08└─real application
[12:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03esperto123 [4303] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:09] <exec> 08└─Adding to the complains, now that they put this version out of the door, they should gather every last one of its programmers and convert all extensions with more then a dozen users that are still on the old API to the new one, otherwise they will lose even more market share because most users hange...
[12:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:11] <exec> 08└─I can switch back to Firefox when there's a working Vimperator-style addon. Meanwhile I'll stick with cVim [github.com].
[12:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:13] <exec> 08└─I just downloaded FF57 to give it a try anyway, and to my surprise (apart from it loading really fast) there *were* some results for "Vim" on the addons search. I'll try and see if any of them is good enough.
[12:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:44] <exec> 08└─> My favored approach is metal hydrides, which offer high density plus controlled release. You need to add heat to get the hydrogen out. Not bad, as we are discussing favored approaches. My favorite is to bind the hydrogen with carbon atoms [wikipedia.org], ideally forming longish chemical chains. T...
[12:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:29] <exec> 08└─... is BT. Here's your second challenge, starfighter :- Your career is under attack. You have been pushed into a lousy company with bad pay and conditions, and worse prospects. You have 12 months to find another job before you become unemployable.
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[13:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:00] <exec> 08└─Pretty shitty way to launder money i would say... Risky, and too complicated. Set up a fake gas pump with over-inflated gas prices instead. And you get free gas for your illecit business too!
[13:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:01] <exec> 08└─Hey, do that brand new thing and STICK IT TO THE MAN! It's the FUTURE, it's the Internet, it's... WHERE DID ALL MY MONEY GO??? Only a fool would buy into this sort of thing.
[13:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:03] <exec> 08└─The Bitcoin market cap is over $125 billion currently. It didn't get to that level through drug deals and magic blockchain fairy dust alone. People have found a use for it: getting cash past borders.
[13:06:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 4414 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:13] <exec> 08└─Speed is good. But what's the point when the changes have made the browser useless? I've been forced to downgrade after FF forced the lastest version on me and killed almost all my addons (at the time most were not ready yet). And to keep it downgraded required changes in plenty of profiles (I use 5...
[13:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:20] <exec> 08└─Browsers should not be second-tier operating systems. Javascript was a mistake. ActiveX was a mistake, Flash was a mistake, javashit is just as big a mistake. The perversion of the web has made video playback (for example) included within the browser. Which is insane. Every website "developer" team...
[13:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 1250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:23] <exec> 08└─Personally i have given up on Firefox such long ago. I already wrote about it in the past, and i do not want to annoy anybody again. Anyway, the point is... Firefox is just a memory. I switched to Chrome on all my platforms by now and i am fully happy with the change. While i am a power user, i neve...
[13:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:25] <exec> 08└─I beg to disagree. We have almost come around full circle in that a browser is (almost) an operation system. This is the only chance for this generation to get true cross-platform applications. So far, it has allowed Linux users to easily keep up with other platforms as so much has moved to the web....
[13:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:27] <exec> 08└─when they reduce pwnership 30% as well.
[13:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 362 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:29] <exec> 08└─Regarding tabs, I use TreeStyleTab: https://addons.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] Maybe you'll still prefer multi-row but nowadays with screens getting wider it actually makes more sense to have the tabs by the side. There are other similar add-ons for Firefox. The Sid...
[13:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimbrooking [3465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:31] <exec> 08└─My go-to FTP client for years. Gone forever.
[13:06:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 78 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:44] <exec> 08└─They didn't fail. They did exactly what their pharma donors wanted them to do.
[13:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:48] <exec> 08└─This commission knowingly and willingly failed to act in the best interests of the US population, and for that, they should be held accountable. They have spread dangerous misinformation. They are attempting to block a benign medication in favor of, quite frankly, extremely dangerous opioid painkill...
[13:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:50] <exec> 08└─...than to have smoked THE DEVIL'S LETTUCE! Honestly I think Big Pharma will be OK with MJ only after they develop a prescription pain pill dervied from it that they can sell you. --Ashley
[13:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:52] <exec> 08└─Chris Christie: Does he have ties to the mob? Would his hypothetical mob friends prefer to see cannabis stay illegal? Do any of the Commission members have ties to the cartels? By the time we figure it out, a lot more people will have died.
[13:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:54] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahydrocannabinol#Brand_names [wikipedia.org]
[13:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:57] <exec> 08└─FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal [soylentnews.org] 1. We don't approve of using kratom to treat opioid withdrawal. 2. We understand that people are interested in using kratom as a treatment, and we encourage you to conduct the research to help...
[13:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 1670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:03] <exec> 08└─As I mentioned, the Pi's I/O is lame - but the basic approach of a rack full of inexpensive ARM systems would still seem to address a lot of needs, even and perhaps especially cloud needs without resorting to the BIG IRON. IBM tried making BIG IRON systems for the cloud about 10 years ago (ahead of...
[13:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:29] <exec> 08└─So lets eliminate everything else that people can use, and only leave opiates...Then be surprised when people want opiates. Idiots.
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[14:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:52] <exec> 08└─The peasants already practice organic farming and always have. GMOs have been rather the province of agro-business. Unless agro-business is pushing those peasants out of business, why would they choose to abandon the techniques they've always used?
[14:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:54] <exec> 08└─Write laws that allow farmers to control all seeds and require GMO-containing products to be labeled if you must. But there's no need to peddle anti-GMO scaremongering.
[14:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:56] <exec> 08└─GMO (or any roughly monoculture) crops are not designed to make large profits for small numbers of people, they are not designed to benefit mankind as a whole. The goal is to maximize yield of a commodity, or more specifically: minimize cost per unit delivered to market. Quality of said unit of prod...
[14:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:58] <exec> 08└─I'm not peddling anything. I have no GMO axe to grind. At most I prefer organic produce I can get at a green market or that I grow myself because it tastes much better. I got my last round of seed at an organic seed bank in Petaluma, CA, [yelp.com] and I'd recommend it to gardeners and others who li...
[14:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:00] <exec> 08└─Oops, "GMO crops ARE designed to make large profits for small numbers of people,..." Would be nice if Soylent left comments open for editing, at least during the "Slow Down Cowboy!" time period.
[14:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:03] <exec> 08└─Release of difficult to prove pests/diseases the known 'organic' strains aren't repellent/immune to, in order to force the farming communities to switch to GMO. There are lots of reasons and ways this is going to happen. Pray you are not on the recieving end of them.
[14:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:05] <exec> 08└─I was talking about the author, who links cross-species GMOs to nebulous health risks, among other BS.
[14:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, and no - peasants still produce "local honey" all over... but the treatments they use for varroa mites and other challenges are basically whatever they can get their hands on (as peasants always have), and peasants can afford some mightily non-organic pesticides these days - ordered via interne...
[14:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:18] <exec> 08└─Some fools got quite rich with this sort of foolishness. What would really be foolish would be to put money in it that you cannot afford to lose. It's like everywhere: High profit comes with high risk.
[14:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:20] <exec> 08└─There are winners and losers in life. Which group dominates SoylentNews?
[14:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:22] <exec> 08└─And buying Pizzas!!! Don't forget 14.000 BTC pizzas!
[14:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:24] <exec> 08└─*hides it behind his back and whistles innocently until someone's forehead is withing range and their attention diverted.*
[14:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:26] <exec> 08└─I think most people get the speculative risk. What I find inacceptible is the risk from fraud and technical glitches. There is nobody to turn to if some of your bitcoins simply go *poof*!
[14:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:29] <exec> 08└─Correct myself: "unacceptable"
[14:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:49] <exec> 08└─if you piss they (we) them (us) off
[14:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:51] <exec> 08└─We don't use browsers to simply download/display files. Shortly after their invention, HTML forms were added and browsers became a terminal interface with a GUI starting from that point forward. We really needed a universal, network-aware client GUI interface since xterms don't cut it in the 21st ce...
[14:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:53] <exec> 08└─"What's FTP? Fuck The Police?"
[14:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:55] <exec> 08└─Firefox has only themselves to blame. Here should have been their priorities: Job #1: make a performant, standards compliant browser Job #2: there is no job 2
[14:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:57] <exec> 08└─If uBlock has migrated, odds are that uMatrix has as well, and in my opinion, it's superior to NoScript.
[14:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:00] <exec> 08└─uBlock is for scrubs, uMatrix is for PROs.
[14:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03StupendousMan [103] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross 128b: A Newly Discovered "Earth-Like" Exoplanet Orbiting a Less Active Red Dwarf - 758 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:09] <exec> 08└─The authors of the paper use measurements of the host star's optical spectrum to infer that it doesn't produce a lot of UV emission, and note that it doesn't have frequent optical flares. That's good news for the habitability of the planet around it, as they point out. However, they apparently did n...
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[14:07:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/science/planet-ross-128.html [nytimes.com] Vladimir Airapetian, an astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., questioned whether Ross 128 would be such a benign star. “Even being quiet, its X-ray to extreme U.V. emission can be 10 t...
[14:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:26] <exec> 08└─Can't be done. Fatso would be compelled to immediately try heroin and PCP [reason.com] after taking the first puff, and Jeff might have to kill his dealer [theconversation.com].
[14:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:28] <exec> 08└─That fat fuck is a self dick sucking pig. Has anyone ever been able to overdose on a joint no matter what potency the weed is? No, you get too high to take another puff. Abuse what? It reduces my pain better than fentanyl without the fentanyl side effects like... severe constipation then diarrhea, l...
[14:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:44] <exec> 08└─I asume jimshatt meant: electrolysis *at home in the garage*.
[14:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:45] <exec> 08└─I saw a Discovery channel program once where a retired engineer did that. He had an array of solar panels that drove the electrolysis, and tanks in his yard to store the hydrogen. He ran his car on it and occasionally through a fuel cell in his house as a backup in case the solar panels weren't meet...
[14:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:48] <exec> 08└─How much trunk/bonnet space do you give up for hydrogen tankage and generator?
[14:08:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:24] <exec> 08└─Wasn't there a story a while back about a guy who bio-engineered yeast to produce opiates? That seems like the way you'd really want to do it. Yeast is ubiquitous. You can make really excellent sourdough by mixing equal parts flour and water and letting it sit out for a couple days to capture the wi...
[14:11:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:19] <exec> 08└─The announcement is date 7 nov. Which means the award has been given likely the 6 nov. Not the remember remember fifth of november, by one friggin day. Is this the way to say thanks for the V for vendetta depicting of high ranking prelates? Very disappointing.
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[15:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:58] <exec> 08└─The labelling is mandatory in Europe. Allowing "farmers to control all seeds" is a bit more difficult. In principal a farmer could keep a part their seeds and use them for replanting the next year, but could run into problems. Commercial agricultural seeds are most of the times F1 hybrids (let's say...
[15:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:59] <exec> 08└─GMOs can be designed by universities or charities [wikipedia.org], if not individual farmers in Uganda. The seeds can be freely shared, and if there is a problem with big corporations patenting or restricting seed use, that could be addressed with legislation (much like how India ignores most drug i...
[15:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:02] <exec> 08└─GMO (or any roughly monoculture) crops are not designed to make large profits for small numbers of people, they are not designed to benefit mankind as a whole.
[15:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:04] <exec> 08└─It's not GMO, it's GNOME. I prefer KDE on Ubuntu.
[15:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:06] <exec> 08└─No systemd comment yet? Fine, I'll post one. I had originally been a proponent of GMOs. After all, humans have been engaging in artificial selection and gene manipulation since agriculture was invented. Now we simply have a way to speed up the process. However, this news is unsettling to me. I am re...
[15:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:08] <exec> 08└─Motive in this case shapes outcome. The motive of profit itself is not inherently evil. The focusing of profit into a small number of hands from a large number of people falls under the idiom: power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. The board of directors of Monsanto and other massively...
[15:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 771 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:10] <exec> 08└─i would assume that with the assassination and flag panting on the (so far ultimate triangulation and honest point_ of the apollo moon boot( president), that the diverted third world war still didn't convince the crazy-gen of superior Darwinism to die, that we are prone to devolve to ape like states...
[15:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:13] <exec> 08└─Back in the day when you never encountered a display >1920x1080 resolution, I preferred KDE as well. Today, it feels seedy, out of sync with modern equipment. Not sure what's a good alternative really, GNOME reminds me too much of cave dwelling.
[15:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 824 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:15] <exec> 08└─Could be. Mostly aren't. Most of the development and lobbying/bribery money is in the hands of Monsanto and friends. And wealth is apparently the most powerful force in modern politics. Personally, I think we should eliminate all GMO patents and related protections - remove at least the direct profi...
[15:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:32] <exec> 08└─A very important question, with a fairly obvious answer. This little vid says pretty much the same thing, but with cute graphics: https://youtu.be . And that might refer to BTC, but I see very little reason to draw a distinction between the 5 - or is it 6 now? - cryptocurrencies with Bit...
[15:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:34] <exec> 08└─Pretty shitty way to launder money i would say... Risky, and too complicated. Set up a fake gas pump with over-inflated gas prices instead. And you get free gas for your illecit business too!
[15:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:36] <exec> 08└─That's not what's driven its value up, though. There might be a positive correlation between such use and value presently, but when the inevitable crash occurs, they'll probably completely decorrelate (and might even become negatively correlated), as the property that makes them useful is almost ort...
[15:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:38] <exec> 08└─Do they come with a 5.000 BTC milkshake?
[15:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:41] <exec> 08└─I imagine the fact that the blockchain is not anonymous and records all transactions for all to see may introduce some complications. I only have a few thousand Doge, though, so I've no practical experience.
[15:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:43] <exec> 08└─How much you want to bet that the NSA or CIA triggered whatever happened that locked up all those ETH? However, the fact that something like that could happen should be a big red flag for anybody else. Personally, I do not think "smart contracts" are a good idea despite the compelling advantages of...
[15:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:45] <exec> 08└─And they don't put bourbon in it or nothing?
[15:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:47] <exec> 08└─Are these the kinds of things one wants to hear from the people behind a digital currency (and platform) that one is supposed to trust? They will "find ways" to "collude" against anyone they dislike?
[15:06:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 129 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:56] <exec> 08└─We are indeed in the era of quantum browsing, where the page has been parsed and not parsed at the same time. Thanks, javascript.
[15:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 1316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:15] <exec> 08└─Indeed, it has migrated. Not much of a surprise, as it was already working in chrome. It probably needed few, if any, changes, to run in firefox. As to which is better, that is a matter of preference. With noscript, I have enabled "Temporarily allow top-level sites by default / Base 2nd level Domain...
[15:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03srobert [4803] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:16] <exec> 08└─... are all broken. Vimium-FF or Saka-Key, Print Edit WE, are mediocre substitutes for the first 2. I haven't found a plugin for the 3rd.
[15:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:18] <exec> 08└─I just spent a couple of hours to finally switch from FF to Chromium, because this time FF broke my start page (netvibes.com), which now works fine in Chromium with exactly the same extensions enabled. But I hate Chrome(ium) because there's no "always open in a new window" option. I hate tabs from t...
[15:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:21] <exec> 08└─I often open in new windows. Mostly, I use separate windows rather than tabs, and so I find the Hide Tab Bar With One Tab add on fairly important. That used to be an option in Firefox itself, then they removed it and told everyone who wanted it to use that extension instead, and now they've broken t...
[15:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 1557 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:46] <exec> 08└─is that the number of criminal dope dealers does not scale down when part of their product line becomes legal. So what you have is (from their perspective) a product line that is now no longer marketable, and so they are moving into other markets. Specifically opiods. Drug dealing is the same as any...
[15:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:22] <exec> 08└─Some revolutionary math: The FDA is aware of reports of 36 deaths associated with the use of kratom-containing products.
[15:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:45] <exec> 08└─To play devil's advocate for a moment, there is a utility to this that has nothing to do with making patients more compliant. Doctors do need to know how compliant the patient is in order to know if the drug is working properly. Forgetful patients won't know exactly how frequently they managed to ta...
[15:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:36] <exec> 08└─Familiarity and ubiquity. Not mentioned is you're supposed to start troubleshooting on your own individual board to get the code running at all, then try working code on the 3000 core monster. And its not just troubleshooting your project's code, but all the support stuff and libraries and compilers...
[15:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Los Alamos National Laboratory is Using a 750-Node Raspberry Pi Supercomputer - 799 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:38] <exec> 08└─Also rapid development and portability and marketing (but not marketing like you'd think) I was motivated enough to visit their website... WRT marketing, I've seen bigger more power hungry things shipped to trade shows. Its only 6U rack high, but looks very deep or weirdly photoshopped. I could see...
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[16:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:53] <exec> 08└─Hello? The Leonids are peaking right now... http://earthsky.org [earthsky.org]
[16:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03r1348 [5988] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:55] <exec> 08└─So it begins...
[16:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:57] <exec> 08└─Hopefully these are just early fragments from a giant planet-killer asteroid that's about to hit us and put us out of our misery. Most likely, some advanced alien race has determined that we're unfit as a species and must be eliminated, and they've redirected a large asteroid to do the job for them.
[16:06:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 1173 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:07] <exec> 08└─GMO (or any roughly monoculture) crops are not designed to make large profits for small numbers of people, they are not designed to benefit mankind as a whole. The goal is to maximize yield of a commodity, or more specifically: minimize cost per unit delivered to market. Quality of said unit of prod...
[16:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:22] <exec> 08└─I'm just seeing hate in your post. When "agri-business" has essentially eliminated hunger, to the extent production can vs problems with distribution, etc., while employing the fewest people and resources ever recorded to do it all you can do muster is spite, envy and hate. BernieBro? If farmers wan...
[16:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:48] <exec> 08└─no we want to hear that making uselss calculation to proof who is richer will ultimately improve the soils pH value to a human livable value that is not acidic and not ... well whatever the word is for the opposite. there's NOT REASON to get upset about any transistor based and electricity feed phon...
[16:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:50] <exec> 08└─Let's face it: all currencies are susceptible to such manipulation. Even Bitcoin, which is becoming increasingly controlled by a smaller number of large stakeholders in a way that threatens the statistical assumptions that are supposed to keep validations fair. It may not be good for Ethereum's adop...
[16:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:52] <exec> 08└─I might add that there's plenty of countries whose tax collection agencies don't have the resources or reach of the IRS.
[16:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:54] <exec> 08└─I imagine the fact that the blockchain is not anonymous and records all transactions for all to see may introduce some complications.
[16:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:56] <exec> 08└─That matters when you use the same wallet (like a normal person). They can link all the transactions up and follow the money. But there is nothing stopping you from using one-time accounts. Other than laziness, hah : P
[16:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:59] <exec> 08└─People have found a use for it: getting cash past borders.
[16:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:30] <exec> 08└─I just found an extension that opens everything in a new window instead of tabs: Tab-less. Works great, now looking for an extension that will hide the useless tab bar.
[16:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:31] <exec> 08└─Firefox is an ok operating system, but what it really needs is a decent browser.
[16:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:34] <exec> 08└─I've been forced to downgrade after FF forced the lastest version on me
[16:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:01] <exec> 08└─Nope, that would make them even more opposed to it - who needs competition from an organically grown weed? Case in point - how are opium poppies doing in the U.S.?
[16:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 1180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:02] <exec> 08└─Umm, no. Dealers sell what the market is buying. They may try to convince you to buy more profitable drugs - but to do that they need to talk to you. And if you're buying your weed legally, they never get that opportunity. Meanwhile, almost everywhere marijuana is legalized we're seeing a decline in...
[16:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:04] <exec> 08└─Jeez, I was going for funny here. Tough audience. :-P
[16:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:24] <exec> 08└─Yup. Gasoline and internal combustion Just Work and everything is in place to use them. Makes for one hell of a barrier to entry for transportation. Economic forces, particularly the common shortsighted version, will not support building a replacement.
[16:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 822 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:25] <exec> 08└─One of the greatest benefits of EVs is that they decouple the power source from the motive force. Generating electricity is the default goal of most alternative energy sources, and there's lots of well-understood ways to do it. Whether you're talking a hydrogen fuel cell, a biodiesel generator, or a...
[16:08:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Dutch Gas Company Adds Hydrogen Power to a Tesla - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:28] <exec> 08└─Actually, *more* energy than you would use to move the car - the laws of thermodynamics demand efficiency losses at every stage. On the other hand there are *already* a number of not-so-exotic hydrogen-producing techniques out there - from bioreactors to solar-electrolysis catalyst panels. And more...
[16:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:04] <exec> 08└─If "legal" retail prices for cannabis drop, maybe these will be packed with heroin or cocaine instead.
[16:09:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03WillR [2012] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:22] <exec> 08└─TSMC is Taiwanese
[16:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 535 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:50] <exec> 08└─drug usage is mostly attributed to hunger. in the case of non-chemical drugs that naturally grows it is a sign of a lazy farmer or overworked farmer that has lost sight of the cause of his profession. growning natural drugs is easy. nobody would do it, but every CAN do it. these drus are a big bang...
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[17:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:10] <exec> 08└─... except that in a great moment of international cooperation, the nations of the world somehow manage to send Bruce Willis to blow it up. And then follow that up by forming a world government that gives no rights to anybody who does not serve in the military, and figures out a way to send people a...
[17:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:12] <exec> 08└─From the article Garvie said the meteor wasn't related to the Leonids meteor shower, an annual event that peaks this year on Friday night.
[17:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:14] <exec> 08└─You missed an epic chance! https://www.xkcd.com [xkcd.com]
[17:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:16] <exec> 08└─Starship Troopers - basic plot line. Aliens try to take us out. We shoot stuff. Also, great satire. Methinks, Jonathan Swift would agree.
[17:06:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 595 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:35] <exec> 08└─Motive in this case shapes outcome. The motive of profit itself is not inherently evil. The focusing of profit into a small number of hands from a large number of people falls under the idiom: power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. The board of directors of Monsanto and other massively...
[17:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 1713 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:41] <exec> 08└─I think you're being too hard on the author. He made a couple mistakes, but he also started his article with a preface about the difficulty of increased specialization of knowledge. Yes, it's problematic if he accidentally spreads misinformation, but in my opinion at least he lands at the right conc...
[17:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:43] <exec> 08└─Motive in this case shapes outcome.
[17:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:45] <exec> 08└─You're an idiot that doesn't actually understand the problems. As usual more of your rah rah go corporate murrica!! I'm ashamed to live in the same country as you.
[17:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:17] <exec> 08└─And how does money get from your open accounts in trad banking into that one time wallet? Through a traceable transaction. If somebody expends some effort (say the government with its vast compute farms) they can follow every BC transaction from conversion from USD to illegal product bought at one o...
[17:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:19] <exec> 08└─Through a traceable transaction.
[17:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:21] <exec> 08└─He doesn't work there any more. This is a nothingburger.
[17:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:23] <exec> 08└─If he's a communist, and he wants to liberate currency from the grip of fat capitalist pigs, I support him. He fights for what he and I both believe in, and that's far more important than a petty critique of his way of doing things.
[17:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:25] <exec> 08└─"The phase you are looking for is "money laundering."" A loaded term by and for the totalitarians, I'm shocked you've fallen for it. Sure, criminals use currency - just as criminals use encryption. That doesn't mean encryption should be 'controlled' and it certainly doesn't mean currency should be '...
[17:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:28] <exec> 08└─no we want to hear that making uselss calculation to proof who is richer will ultimately improve the soils pH value to a human livable value that is not acidic and not ... well whatever the word is for the opposite.
[17:07:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 479 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:44] <exec> 08└─I beg to disagree. We have almost come around full circle in that a browser is (almost) an operation system. This is the only chance for this generation to get true cross-platform applications. So far, it has allowed Linux users to easily keep up with other platforms as so much has moved to the web....
[17:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:02] <exec> 08└─Frankly the Firefox kicks ass, and if you care at all about privacy, then Firefox is the way to go.
[17:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:03] <exec> 08└─I used to recommend FileZilla but the installer deceptively includes unwanted 3rd party crap now.
[17:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:05] <exec> 08└─uBlock is for scrubs, uMatrix is for PROs.
[17:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:08] <exec> 08└─Have you tried Vivaldi?
[17:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:10] <exec> 08└─The real problem, of course, is that browsers have tabs at all. Window managing should be left to the window manager, and any decent window manager will provide options for the user to group them (likewise we have finally moved away from the MDI [wikipedia.org] abomination). Process spawning should...
[17:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03lgsoynews [1235] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:12] <exec> 08└─I'm on Linux. But it does not matter, before the 57 appeared, I had no reason to NOT update automatically. Also, what I criticize is the lack of warning before a KNOWN breaking change. Also, I don't use the regular version, I use the Dev Edition, which is updated earlier. And it's a pain to disable...
[17:08:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:32] <exec> 08└─Chris Christie: Does he have ties to the mob? Would his hypothetical mob friends prefer to see cannabis stay illegal? Do any of the Commission members have ties to the cartels? By the time we figure it out, a lot more people will have died.
[17:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:42] <exec> 08└─Funny? You think getting Chris Christie high is a fucking joke? There arent enough buffets in Trenton to keep him from turning on people.
[17:09:16] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Whoever [4524] 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:16] <exec> 08└─"Drug potato cannon". Seriously, using the word bazooka just isn't appropriate here. It's much closer to a potato cannon.
[17:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─Sounds... dangerous. Some housewife tries to make herself a sourdough starter and ends up ODing on morphine loaf.
[17:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:43] <exec> 08└─If we're going to have animal defenders in a moat, all I ask for is that they be sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads. 🦈🦈🦈🦈
[17:10:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 979 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:20] <exec> 08└─Except there are other functions of government involved here which do not interfere with the ability of the individual to do what they wish with their body. First, fraud. It is not a violation of the autonomy of the individual to stop those who would lie to him, take his money, and disappear. Which...
[17:11:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03SunTzuWarmaster [3971] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:29] <exec> 08└─That's a toughie. I propose that we should find someone who is a good JUDGE of moral, ethical, and legal boundaries to figure it out. However, that person should really consult with a good LAW-abiding pERson before making a decision.
[17:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:53] <exec> 08└─OK, I know how to take oral medicine, and how to take rectal medicine. But how would I take a digital pill? Cut my fingers open and insert?
[17:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:54] <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.
[17:12:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06IBM Announces Working Prototype of a 50-Qubit Quantum Computer - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:15] <exec> 08└─a machine that in principle is able to run arbitrary code
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[18:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:07] <exec> 08└─Dude, I've just been hoping for the asteroid.
[18:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:08] <exec> 08└─This talk sounds kind of alarming. I'm not sure I want to be "eliminated". So what would we need to do to become fit for survival?
[18:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:10] <exec> 08└─Stop threatening to irradiate the surface of a perfectly good class M world. Those things are rare! They make really good vacation destinations.
[18:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:12] <exec> 08└─Amen!
[18:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:15] <exec> 08└─Stop threatening to irradiate the surface of a perfectly good class M world.
[18:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─We have a war to start, people. I'm sure Kim's official biography says something about him controlling the heavens and the stars, so it must be his fault that there was stuff up where the sun didn't shine.
[18:06:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Immerman [3985] 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 824 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:40] <exec> 08└─Could be. Mostly aren't. Most of the development and lobbying/bribery money is in the hands of Monsanto and friends. And wealth is apparently the most powerful force in modern politics. Personally, I think we should eliminate all GMO patents and related protections - remove at least the direct profi...
[18:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:45] <exec> 08└─And when the GMO seeds contaminate the poor farmer's crops and Monsanto comes to collect its royalties, then what?
[18:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 914 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:48] <exec> 08└─I prefer to keep my evil people with unseemly motives at the bottom of the power pyramid, when possible. And, since that's not always possible, then keeping the pyramids smaller means that one evil capstone will have smaller effects on society as a whole, and as long as we maintain a level of "freed...
[18:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 1562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:50] <exec> 08└─Ever spent time with farmers? Farmers who are trying to replant their own seeds, but are being sued by big agro because GMO pollen has blown into their field and now their seed tests positive for IP protected genes? Farmers who are constantly on the verge of quitting the business because they don't...
[18:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:52] <exec> 08└─The university IP departments I have had intimate contact with are little better than mega corporations... they certainly seem to be aspiring to become mega corporations themselves, just haven't gotten there yet, so the terms they offer are a little more inventor friendly / less capital intensive fo...
[18:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:30] <exec> 08└─Look up a couple of posts. takyon found that phrase.
[18:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:32] <exec> 08└─I'm so sick of everyone writing "full disclosure" on every missive they bang out. You're not in congress. No one cares. Just stop.
[18:07:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KritonK [465] 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 1028 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:43] <exec> 08└─Noscript is still being worked on. It should become available any day now, but it is not ready yet. Ublock origin is already available, but with some minor problems regarding <noscript> tags, which is unknown if they will be fixed: from what I understand, uBlock origin's developer has requested addi...
[18:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:13] <exec> 08└─This is the only chance for this generation to get true cross-platform applications. So far, it has allowed Linux users to easily keep up with other platforms as so much has moved to the web. I remember times, when encyclopedias, video applications, and especially interacting with companies (create...
[18:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:15] <exec> 08└─Also, I don't use the regular version, I use the Dev Edition, which is updated earlier.
[18:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:17] <exec> 08└─Such a great workd we live in, where we can install a free operating system so we can run proprietary javascript applications on it.
[18:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:49] <exec> 08└─Blood sausage, specifically.
[18:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:50] <exec> 08└─He was onlynone rung up the ladder from average joe college-kid pot dealer.
[18:09:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:52] <exec> 08└─You'd need to culture it at much greater quantities. Making sourdough starter would at most mellow you out, I'd think.
[18:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:54] <exec> 08└─I call sausage water pee.
[18:10:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qualcomm Announces 48-Core Centriq ARM Server Chip - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:13] <exec> 08└─That Mandarin- and Taiwanese-speaking Taiwanese nationalist is very disappointed, though not entirely surprised, at your ignorance.
[18:10:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ilsa [6082] 02 - 06Companies Using War Games to Filter Cybersecurity Talent - 124 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:55] <exec> 08└─Greetings, Starfighter. You have been recruited by the Star League to defend the frontier against Xur and the Ko-Dan armada.
[18:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:12:08] <exec> 08└─In layperson's terms, it's like a potato battery but with stomach acid instead of the potato.
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[19:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:55] <exec> 08└─Those who are crying need to shut the fuck up. If anybody needs a herpes vaccine, it's the Caribbean.
[19:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:56] <exec> 08└─and researchers rejected the data from publication, calling the handling of safety issues "reckless."
[19:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 903 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:59] <exec> 08└─That's all well and good. But, ethics remain an important issue. If you don't have the time, or the compassion, to ensure that your test subjects don't drop dead from your tests, then you don't need to be testing medical stuff at all. Can't bear the thought of any kind of ethical oversight? You need...
[19:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:01] <exec> 08└─And nobody needs Peter Thiel either.
[19:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:03] <exec> 08└─I believe in using good ethics to practice safe experimentation. On the other hand, I don't see a problem with someone knowingly signing up for a treatment that may / may not be safe. The issue is the skirting around the Official process put in place to ensure the entire process is being done in wha...
[19:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:05] <exec> 08└─Found the next volunteer :D I think this manly man would also like to test every other experimental treatment available as well, perhaps his body will develop anitbodies for super-aids. Just put it waaaay up in his butt.
[19:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:07] <exec> 08└─I think the deciding factor is that herpes is no big deal. Sure, we all (er, 2/3rds of us) would like to not have to worry about it, but it's a manageable cosmetic issue.
[19:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:10] <exec> 08└─That issue you mention is exactly why it can't generally be allowed. Unsafe experimental treatments should be extreme outliers with lots of scrutiny, otherwise we'll see people doing their research in backwater villages where scientific education is zilch and it is easy to convince sick people that...
[19:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 1037 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:12] <exec> 08└─It's pretty bogus to portray this as an ethical concern. This was a deliberate challenge to the current bureaucracy surrounding medical research. The vaccine—a live but weakened herpes virus—was first tested in a 17-person trial on the Caribbean Island of St. Kitts without federal oversight or t...
[19:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 1544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:14] <exec> 08└─A thoroughly shitty article, made to assault and sully Peter Thiel. The article does not even list the strain this vaccine is made from, or is meant to work against. It leaves this out so everyone automatically assumes it's for genital herpes. Is it? I don't fucking know, it was not in the fucking a...
[19:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:16] <exec> 08└─It would be bad to create an incentive to do unethical science. If "data is data" then strip all names (and credit) from the data.
[19:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:19] <exec> 08└─Fuck this article, and fuck that shitty website.
[19:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:21] <exec> 08└─I was wondering about the rejection of the manuscript too, so I read the reasons given by the reviewers. It looks like the paper was primarily rejected for lack of data on whatever the authors were claiming. Take into account this before going off on a rage. The paper itself appears to have been inv...
[19:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:23] <exec> 08└─Oh ho, finally you see why some things should not be for profit enterprises! As for why we need ethics boards: Medical War Crimes [wikipedia.org]
[19:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:25] <exec> 08└─see, this is why i don't mind runaway. he's principled even if he does lean quite rightward. conservatives do not have to be 100% profit and revenue maximizng at the expense of the actual customers they depend on. the very fact that the topic had '"unethical" in quotes led me to believe we'd be bias...
[19:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:28] <exec> 08└─Sorry, but a good herpes vaccine would be very important. You'll probably need to take it as a young child to get full benefit. And that means careful research ahead of time is mandatory. I agree with you about Mr. Thiel, though.
[19:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:35] <exec> 08└─Even, if this made it 50 degrees colder. At a certain point. It almost doesn't matter just how cold it is, because it's way too cold. For me that starts about 30 degrees Fahrenheit. It's just too cold to go out after that.
[19:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:55] <exec> 08└─Are you purposely dense? Maybe you've been trolling SN all this time like EF.
[19:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 736 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:56] <exec> 08└─Nah, the problem isn't humanity in general. The real problem is the socio-economic systems we have yet to grow out of. It is a long standing tradition for the wealthy to start wars for profit, and without the propaganda of those assholes the general populace would not have such bloodlust. So basical...
[19:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:29] <exec> 08└─It's time to lay off the drugs, your post is barely intelligible. Or conversely get ON the drugs if you're 100% sober, something ain't right.
[19:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:30] <exec> 08└─Unless agro-business is pushing those peasants out of business, why would they choose to abandon the techniques they've always used?
[19:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:32] <exec> 08└─GMO is more useful for producing monopolies and "lock-in". GMO isn't even necessary to produce high yields whether in Netherlands: https://www.nationalgeographic.com [nationalgeographic.com] By contrast, the latest achievements in the venerab...
[19:07:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 16 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:41] <exec> 08└─real application
[19:07:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 199 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:45] <exec> 08└─The Bitcoin market cap is over $125 billion currently. It didn't get to that level through drug deals and magic blockchain fairy dust alone. People have found a use for it: getting cash past borders.
[19:08:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 493 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:01] <exec> 08└─Let's face it: all currencies are susceptible to such manipulation. Even Bitcoin, which is becoming increasingly controlled by a smaller number of large stakeholders in a way that threatens the statistical assumptions that are supposed to keep validations fair. It may not be good for Ethereum's adop...
[19:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:14] <exec> 08└─> It's just one more way in which they'll squeeze every last bit of life Statistically, non-democratic regimes have controlled well over 99.99% of all human lifespans, with a proven track record at population growth > if permitted. As if your opinion was requested.
[19:08:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:22] <exec> 08└─Though a few have updated. I believe no-script, mublock origin, and https everywhere exist now in usable form for the new firefox.
[19:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:58] <exec> 08└─Playing around with "It's All Text" right now...this is baller.
[19:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:00] <exec> 08└─Crapware could only come with FileZilla for Windows. I thought the big download sites adding wares to downloads was a story from 2-3 years ago. Are they at it again? I kicked MicroVirus years ago so it does not affect me. As for FTP - Fire Trap Protocol... er, I mean File Transfer Protocol. Use it a...
[19:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ross 128b: A Newly Discovered "Earth-Like" Exoplanet Orbiting a Less Active Red Dwarf - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:10] <exec> 08└─> That amount of radiation might be enough to destroy the planet’s atmosphere. or just mean a different kind of atmosphere from what our narrow-minded models think possible. Aliens are gray with black eyes because they photosynthesize and see in the X-ray range.
[19:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:33] <exec> 08└─> Lack of data about marijuana is due to government restrictions on medical research. The people in government were in the right age range in the sixties. It would be surprising to hear that they all didn't inhale. Are they all addicts now? I thought those religious guys always pushed their personal...
[19:11:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FDA Blocks More Imports of Kratom, Warns Against Use as a Treatment for Opioid Withdrawal - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:25] <exec> 08└─There need not be an imposed monopoly for the services you list.
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[20:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:52] <exec> 08└─FCC rolls back media regulations in move that critics say benefits Sinclair [thehill.com] Seems to have happened in the last hour. Follow-up to this [soylentnews.org]. Maybe you can guess how the net neutrality vote will go based on this?
[20:05:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:54] <exec> 08└─... is not to impose Net Neutrality. Rather, the right way is to pass a federal law (based on the Commerce Clause) to forbid localities (e.g., cities) from creating government-sponsored monopolies; that is, the right way is to restrict government from infringing the right of the people to compete in...
[20:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:56] <exec> 08└─Where's the "-1 clueless" mod ? "0 disagree" doesn't convey the "your fantasy world does not intersect our reality" message.
[20:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:58] <exec> 08└─Net Neutrality is the way the net started out. It is how things should be. Rules to 'impose' it are simply to insure that everyone's network traffic is treated equally. Regardless or where it originates or terminates, or what kind of content it carries. Net neutrality is the reason that the Internet...
[20:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:01] <exec> 08└─You're saying that by default, the OP's comment shouldn't even appear as part of the discussion.
[20:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:03] <exec> 08└─The Internet should be kept in a Free Market, not pigeon-holed into a particular form by some bureaucrat's misguided attempt at imposing good intentions. Not every byte is equal; the market should be able to account for that fact.
[20:06:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 903 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:13] <exec> 08└─That's all well and good. But, ethics remain an important issue. If you don't have the time, or the compassion, to ensure that your test subjects don't drop dead from your tests, then you don't need to be testing medical stuff at all. Can't bear the thought of any kind of ethical oversight? You need...
[20:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:27] <exec> 08└─Do you trust data from "reckless" scientists?
[20:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 698 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:28] <exec> 08└─Right, the entire point is to criticize one of your homeboys. You realize that moronic reactions like yours are why conservatives and their offshoots have developed reputations for being ignorant and harmful to modern society right? When the actual government of St. Kitts does an investigation (in c...
[20:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:31] <exec> 08└─Fuck that. Get rid of it, now. It's disgusting and rancid.
[20:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:33] <exec> 08└─Sounds like a classic RTFA moment then.
[20:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:35] <exec> 08└─Herpes is, or appears to frequently be, a factor tending to lead to cancer. I wouldn't say it's "no big thing". That said, IIUC it hides inside neurons sometimes for decades before emerging. And, of course, it comes in multiple varieties. *Some* of them probably actually are "no big thing". Others a...
[20:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:37] <exec> 08└─Not really.
[20:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:39] <exec> 08└─Treatments don't become widely used after a single human trial on some Caribbean island. Well, maybe that is set to change.
[20:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:42] <exec> 08└─Also, if this is like some similar cases, the data itself is suspect. Just because someone hands you some data doesn't mean you should believe it if the provenance is dubious.
[20:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:44] <exec> 08└─In science, data is data, surely? No. There's a such thing as "bad data": data that's been tampered with or just plain made-up. If you could somehow guarantee that data obtained unethically was actually accurate, then your point would be sound. But if the accuracy of the data is highly questionable...
[20:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:46] <exec> 08└─The problem I see here is that the US FDA is not the global authority on what drugs are safe and can be allowed. There's many other nations out there, many of them quite advanced, that drug testing could be performed in. If the FDA was getting in their way, why didn't they just go to some other coun...
[20:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03sbgen [1302] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:48] <exec> 08└─To be fair to you, the link was within another link. Fortunately I do this all day :-)) Also, it is unlikely that a scientific paper will be flatly rejected *just* for ethics reason or for being of a particular political belief.
[20:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:51] <exec> 08└─If actual harm IS done, then be sure that names and credit for the harm IS or BECOMES associated with the data set.
[20:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:53] <exec> 08└─Sanity check - it's a starter data set. If it gives you an idea that it works or not, it can inform another trial. Does a rigorous trial actually require an institutional review board? Do these boards check to make sure the data wasn't "massaged" in "ethical" trials?
[20:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:55] <exec> 08└─I don't see a problem with someone knowingly signing up for a treatment that may / may not be safe.
[20:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:57] <exec> 08└─Those who are crying need to shut the fuck up. If anybody needs a herpes vaccine, it's the Caribbean.
[20:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:00] <exec> 08└─> For all I know Peter Thiel suffers from benign herpes also, ... In that case, he should volunteer for the experimental treatment himself. There is a long history of self-experimentation in medicine.
[20:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:02] <exec> 08└─Than how about you take it fucker? Why does that massive piece of shit Thiel get to live like an emperor with the best medical? Oh, yeah, that's right... it's because he has no respect for ethics, no respect for the law, no respect for the lives of other people, and just sees people like human lab r...
[20:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:04] <exec> 08└─It's pretty bogus to portray this as an ethical concern. This was a deliberate challenge to the current bureaucracy surrounding medical research.
[20:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:06] <exec> 08└─He could volunteer for experimental lobotomy to see if it reduces sociopathic tendencies. It would be a scientific study. With all the rigor and ethics that he practices on other human subjects.
[20:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:09] <exec> 08└─Did the Nazis pay the people they experimented on? Did they give any of them treatments with the expectation that they would be cured? Than how about you take it fucker?
[20:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:17] <exec> 08└─You're ready to move to Pluto.
[20:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:19] <exec> 08└─gah!
[20:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:22] <exec> 08└─I read "-337, 50 degrees cooler than expected", and a couple neurons fired up to say "should -337 be 60 degrees cooler than, well, anything?" Didn't expect a non-metric temp when talking about space, and such extreme values that it doesn't matter if you convert to try to give people their favorite u...
[20:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:24] <exec> 08└─Just say that it was 3x a hot summer day in Phoenix, but in reverse. Anybody from Phoenix will understand that means extremely fucking cold. The weather people out there have basically giving up and started describing the heat in the same terms you describe hell. If we wanted a unit that allowed us...
[20:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:26] <exec> 08└─average dick gets frostbite
[20:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:48] <exec> 08└─I never said I agreed with the aliens. I agree, class M worlds should be preserved, as they're rare and make good vacation destinations. This one could easily be cleaned up and made into an excellent vacation world for shore leave and also biological research as soon as the dominant lifeform is erad...
[20:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:49] <exec> 08└─It was only Gubner Cristy smoking a fat joint.
[20:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:05] <exec> 08└─The point of the phrase is to indicate that they're adding information to put their opinion into perspective. "I think this product is amazing! Full disclosure, I do work for the company that makes it." That is called honesty, of all the things to get annoyed about that seems like the worst choice.
[20:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:52] <exec> 08└─It's proprietary trash.
[20:09:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:53] <exec> 08└─The mere existence of proprietary software is an abomination, and people who write it are abusing those who use it, which are mostly ignorant people. Why are you okay with others being abused?
[20:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:55] <exec> 08└─and my addons are broken. Well done Mozilla! The RAM usage improvements are welcome but... meh!
[20:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:58] <exec> 08└─1. You can use the sync feature to sync setting between computers or just export the rules in the dashboard for bot uMatrix and uBlock. 2. You can set uBlock to "I am an advanced user" and then it adds a clickable field like uMatrix, but not quite as detailed. See: https://github.com
[20:10:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 1055 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:18] <exec> 08└─This commission knowingly and willingly failed to act in the best interests of the US population, and for that, they should be held accountable. They have spread dangerous misinformation. They are attempting to block a benign medication in favor of, quite frankly, extremely dangerous opioid painkill...
[20:10:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 137 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:29] <exec> 08└─Funny? You think getting Chris Christie high is a fucking joke? There arent enough buffets in Trenton to keep him from turning on people.
[20:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:31] <exec> 08└─that's right -- when the summary had the line 'Christie wrote in the letter" that told me right away that it was written by the pharmaceutical industry. synthetic opoids have various patent protections and a giant industry to vouch for their use. Marijuana... it's a weed.. various potency. wild and...
[20:11:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:36] <exec> 08└─At last check, hippos were still the best at quickly killing humans on foot, but if the smugglers use cars, deer leap ahead.
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[21:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:59] <exec> 08└─Erm... proper network management reasons were loopholed from the beginning. Your argument is invalid.
[21:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:01] <exec> 08└─Fiber runs over land which must be seized by the government using eminent domain. Without seizing property, at least partially (easements), it is not realistic to run fiber. Somebody would refuse to sell, or would demand a silly price. Spending a $billion to get property from 100,000 people is going...
[21:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:03] <exec> 08└─Yes, that is what we are saying. And thank goodness, net neutrality has been neutralized, so now there are no obstacles to us just denying free-market-fanbois libertariantards access to the discussion. Unless they want to pay, and pay lots.
[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:05] <exec> 08└─The form that is "proper" must be found through the mechanisms of the market. It's the classic mistake of the central planner: Defining what is proper at one point in time, rather than finding it continuously.
[21:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:07] <exec> 08└─Interesting but mostly relevant to broadcast stations and newspapers - ie. the old mediums. They're still players but their impact is shrinking, particularly newspapers. The specific merger may give them access to 72% of the broadcast market, but that's hardly 72% of all viewers nowadays.
[21:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─You're missing some detail about how voluntary contracts and multiple enforcement agencies would work here. I'm coining a new word for people like you, "evolutiotard": people who have a narrow understanding of evolution, generalizing with "survival of the fittest", and apply such concepts to every a...
[21:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:12] <exec> 08└─No. There is zero justification for legalizing extortion. Ever.
[21:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:14] <exec> 08└─If your solution is "Get the men with guns to say what's what!", then I submit your solution is probably a very bad one; if you have a good solution, then it should be anti-fragile enough to work around obstinate property owners, if not convince them to participate willingly. On a similar note, the...
[21:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:16] <exec> 08└─I think we have the votes. We have three guys on the commission, all controlled by lobbyists and special interests -- and donors, people like me from previous months -- total control. Believe me, Ajit is no dummy. He wouldn't hold a vote he was going to lose.
[21:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:18] <exec> 08└─It is YOUR implication that there must be an Intelligent Designer—you know, at least to get things started with a single cell or something. That is what sounds like the conclusion of someone who has a narrow understanding.
[21:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:21] <exec> 08└─Or we could just allow any ISP to make use of the existing lines instead of allowing towns and cities to grant monopolies to specific ISPs. And allow municipal ISPs, of course.
[21:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:23] <exec> 08└─When is something extortion? It doesn't matter whether the legislature limits the price of bread to $5/loaf. If there ain't enough flour, you're going to have to pay a lot more for it—and it might be better that you starve to death so that the community's medical doctor might live instead.
[21:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:25] <exec> 08└─Trump! Trump! Trump!
[21:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:28] <exec> 08└─Somebody would refuse to sell, or would demand a silly price.
[21:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:30] <exec> 08└─At the very least, a municipal ISP would be a company that receives income by decree, rather than by agreement with customers.
[21:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:32] <exec> 08└─So, I guess it will all work out.
[21:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:15] <exec> 08└─I totally agree. I even had to mod Runaway up. It hurt, but I did it anyway, because he's right. For once.
[21:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 1700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it's not bogus at all. It's absolutely a concern over ethics, and you just proved our point by showing a rather stark lack of ethics and a for-profit infection in the bureaucracy we have. Already know that, tell us something new. But we do appreciate you posting it. Investors always challenge...
[21:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:19] <exec> 08└─More than likely the motivation he has in this is a totally different kind of self-experimentation, medically speaking. Pete's a well-know vampire. He believes in "young blood" transfusions staving off aging. So who else besides vampires would have a sincere, if self, interest in cleaning up the bl...
[21:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:21] <exec> 08└─I think the herpes link may have been discredited - your pubmed paper is from 1973, and everything more recent I found with a quick search says there is no such link. HPV on the other hand has a solidly confirmed link to cancer.
[21:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:23] <exec> 08└─Weren't we all cheering those sidestepping bureaucratic FDA regulations a couple of years ago? Is it only cool when characters played by Matthew McConaughey do it, not right-wing billionaires?
[21:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:25] <exec> 08└─Thiel has also been interested in sea-steading. Last I read, he had given up the idea due to economic infeasibility. I've always felt like a no-holds-barred medical testing ground might be one of the easiest ways to recoup costs on such a project. Bonus anarchy-points if you're willing to do organ (...
[21:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:38] <exec> 08└─People don't ask that question, but what about the Earth? If we take the haze out of the air, does that make it hotter? And when we make more haze, does that make it cold? Total control. Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing. You know what that is, right?
[21:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:40] <exec> 08└─How tall is EF?
[21:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Type44Q [4347] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:04] <exec> 08└─This is pretty stupid
[21:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:23] <exec> 08└─That's our jmorris! Commies ain't smart. But that is the big reason I haven't went dark yet, not wanting to make a half assed effort at it means I need a way to fund an alt-identity and there isn't a foolproof way that isn't a hell of a lot of work.
[21:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:25] <exec> 08└─Any examples of places I could buy/sell bitcoins for cash without showing ID? And, preferably, without running the risk of being robbed at gunpoint immediately (and completely coincidentally, heh) after I walk out of the location the transaction took place? Thanks!
[21:09:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:41] <exec> 08└─Browsers should not be second-tier operating systems. Javascript was a mistake. ActiveX was a mistake, Flash was a mistake, javashit is just as big a mistake. The perversion of the web has made video playback (for example) included within the browser. Which is insane. Every website "developer" team...
[21:10:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:15] <exec> 08└─This is the only chance for this generation to get true cross-platform applications.
[21:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:16] <exec> 08└─Fine, scrubs whatever. Do I have the TIME to clickify everything? That is where NoScript operates so easily. With FF57, what add-ons should I add. Is uMatrix a superset of uOrigin, so no need for the latter, or totally different? What else should I add in? Not trying to be funny here, but there are...
[21:10:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 315 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:52] <exec> 08└─More likely Christie has ties to the pharmaceutical companies that make Oxycontin and the like. What has been reported in states that have legalized Cannabis is a drop in opioid addiction/use so big pharma would not want Cannabis legalized at the Federal level since it would really start to cut into...
[21:10:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:53] <exec> 08└─To the best of my knowledge there has only been one death that was claimed to be from an overdose of Cannabis, Bob Marley. And that claim has been challenged by other doctors. In the entire history of Cannabis use there have been no other deaths attributed to the use/over use of the substance. Death...
[21:11:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:59] <exec> 08└─...from the next yard in a lawn chair with a can of Bud.
[21:12:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"Drug Bazooka" Seized Near the U.S.-Mexican Border - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:01] <exec> 08└─"Drug Bazooka" would be a great name for a band, though.
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[22:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:54] <exec> 08└─Train these suckers to open up cars and then rescue crews won't need to carry around those heavy jaws of life gadgets.
[22:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:55] <exec> 08└─Those looks like they would make great pets, especially around Halloween time.
[22:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:25] <exec> 08└─And when we eliminate net neutrality, the other shoe drops. We can start to close that Internet up. And get the Fake News under control. Very much under control.
[22:06:26] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 308 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:27] <exec> 08└─When you say "Nice content you got there. Be a shame if nobody could consume it." it is extortion. When both consumer and site have already paid their ISPs for the bandwidth they require and peering agreements have covered inter-network communication costs nobody has a legitimate excuse to throttle...
[22:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:29] <exec> 08└─This is so perfectly antithetical to this site's typical response to such things I can only think AC is taking this xkcd [xkcd.com] to heart.
[22:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tizan [3245] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 874 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:31] <exec> 08└─Aye Caramba ! The net neutrality has nothing to with the fact that there are no competition... It is the fact that depending on what website you go to do you may be served better or worse. E.g some companies on LTE gives you free bandwith for watching netflix but not if you watch acorn.tv or somethi...
[22:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:33] <exec> 08└─Except that in this case, the supermarket set the price of bread at $5/loaf, the legislature paid the supermarket billions for infrastructure buildout to ensure there would be enough flour for everybody. Demand for bread rose, but the supermarket doesn't want to use the government's money to actuall...
[22:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:35] <exec> 08└─This isn't about price. This is about you buying flour. The clerk is too far away to hand you the bag so he has to hand it to someone else who then hands it to you. You find your flour now has coupons mixed in and some kind of tracking device. The clerk says "weird, when i measured out the flour it...
[22:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 2888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:38] <exec> 08└─Yes, a good monopoly. Meaning, that the monopoly *could* be run by the state in a non-profit fashion. That can be muddied up a bit with providing private companies contracts to provide these monopoly services, but that is a different problem. At this point, sending a packet is an important as a tele...
[22:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:40] <exec> 08└─Coming into someone else's grocery store and demanding "protection money" is different. Your analogy doesn't apply.
[22:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:42] <exec> 08└─You do realize the greatest percentage of US GDP comes from California right? We'll just adjust prices accordingly! Just keep deluding yourself that conservatives / libertarians are the backbone of the US, it makes you easy to manipulate.
[22:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:44] <exec> 08└─It looks like the problem in this scenario is your government; stupid things happen when an organization ("government") gets to demand income by decree, and thereby spend other people's hard-earned resources.
[22:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:47] <exec> 08└─Most big wig entrepreneurs in California didn't come from California.
[22:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:49] <exec> 08└─There's no reason to suspect that a monopoly (especially one founded on income-by-decree and political whim) will perform well in the long run.
[22:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:51] <exec> 08└─You failed to even attempt to refute my explanation before claiming it refuted. Try again if you like.
[22:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:53] <exec> 08└─Just when you think I couldn't "WTF??" any harder you chime in and prove me wrong. My point had nothing to do with religious beliefs or any other kind of "intelligent design". I'll be kind enough to explain: some people view evolution as "survival of the fittest" and take only the competition / meri...
[22:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:56] <exec> 08└─FYI: There's actually laws preventing someone from doing what you describe in your analogy. The Common Carrier laws forbid, for example, the shipping company from modifying or substituting the product.
[22:07:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03acid andy [1683] 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 101 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:05] <exec> 08└─and researchers rejected the data from publication, calling the handling of safety issues "reckless."
[22:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:46] <exec> 08└─Premise: The processes in place fail at their purpose (ensuring research is ethical and methodologically sound) because of institutional corruption. Peter Thiel's response: Burn it all down, those processes don't need to exist anyway. If the premise is correct, the response makes things better. But...
[22:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:47] <exec> 08└─The head transplant is still up in the air: https://themerkle.com [themerkle.com]
[22:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:49] <exec> 08└─Older articles: http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com] http://www.newsweek.com [newsweek.com]
[22:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:52] <exec> 08└─i would hazard to suggest that it was HPV back then that caused the cancer, but herpes is what was blamed. HPV had only recently been discovered as both an STD and known causation of cancer in people. More populary, such cancers were attributed to different lifestyle choices--but choices that sadly...
[22:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:54] <exec> 08└─got your mod points back, eh?
[22:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:56] <exec> 08└─Hence the question mark. It might become reality sooner with some sketchy testing on impoverished people, though!
[22:07:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:58] <exec> 08└─@RealDonaldTrump, did you forget to log out of your sockpuppet account before posting?
[22:07:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 796 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:01] <exec> 08└─When conducting a clinical trial, whose laws should apply? The US has the most strict laws around this, with Europe and Japan being much lighter, and Africa and South America being far less stringent. The US is also the most expensive place to perform a trial since it has a high cost of living. So i...
[22:09:17] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 1562 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:18] <exec> 08└─Ever spent time with farmers? Farmers who are trying to replant their own seeds, but are being sued by big agro because GMO pollen has blown into their field and now their seed tests positive for IP protected genes? Farmers who are constantly on the verge of quitting the business because they don't...
[22:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:23] <exec> 08└─Looks to me like a case of one too many trips through the subspace mycelium. This is why slingshot around the sun is the preferred method of time travel. Using subspace mycelium has too much of a risk of experiencing each of the 4 simultaneous 24 hour days... simultaneously!
[22:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:25] <exec> 08└─Would it be better if someone killed billions of people in a misguided effort to do good, than if they did the same for profit?
[22:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06With GMOs, There is No Ubuntu - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:27] <exec> 08└─LXDE for the win.
[22:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:03] <exec> 08└─Awesome, very informative, thank you! My typical brute-force mode is to just copy the extension's whole sub-directory.
[22:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:04] <exec> 08└─Pale Moon.
[22:11:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Opioid Commission Drops the Ball, Demonizes Cannabis - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:41] <exec> 08└─From what i can gather this is not liked. Probably the mix is important no cbd or any of the other (variable) components.
[22:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves "Digital" Pill - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:15:04] <exec> 08└─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.
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[23:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:59] <exec> 08└─This one, got a princely racket That's what I said, now Got some big seal upon his jacket Ain't in his head, now
[23:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:00] <exec> 08└─Hmmm. Ok.
[23:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:03] <exec> 08└─I was born in the US and I live there. I've visited the UK many times and even spent some time there studying abroad. But I'm not British and I don't understand this. So for you Brits, why do you put up with the monarchy? I don't see how they contribute to your country but they appear to leech a ton...
[23:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:05] <exec> 08└─They forgot to kill their monarchy, now they're stuck with them.
[23:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Princes William and Harry Play Stormtroopers in 'Last Jedi' - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:07] <exec> 08└─Also a yank. Everything I have ever read they actually cost shockingly little. Especially compared to our current crop of executive VIPs in the US. As I understand it the royal family is primarily financed by a portion of the income from their land holdings, has independent income beside.
[23:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:17] <exec> 08└─Damn Nature U SCAREY
[23:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:19] <exec> 08└─We need to genetically engineer them to make them about 10-20 times larger.
[23:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Coconut Crab Filmed Hunting a Seabird - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:21] <exec> 08└─Coconut Crab to Giant Enemy Crab.
[23:06:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 850 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:31] <exec> 08└─Net Neutrality is the way the net started out. It is how things should be. Rules to 'impose' it are simply to insure that everyone's network traffic is treated equally. Regardless or where it originates or terminates, or what kind of content it carries. Net neutrality is the reason that the Internet...
[23:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:06] <exec> 08└─Ok that's it, the intertubes need to become a public infrastructure that gets leased by ISPs. We gotta shut up these morons who think it is OK to extort as much money as people will suffer to give. Also, we need single payer healthcare but it should be tied to a database. Anyone who doesn't want to...
[23:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:07] <exec> 08└─Your delusion is cute. Oh wait, I meant ugly. Like "you'd be better off walking upside down and backwards" ugly.
[23:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:09] <exec> 08└─Lol, cause I sure LOVE all the innovation my current choice of ISPs give me. Ancient DSL or ancient cable, wheeee. Oh, and what about the billions we gave telecoms to put down fiber? Riiiiight, long live the private corps! *cough* I mean HAIL HYDRA!
[23:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:12] <exec> 08└─And part of what this vote is doing, along with some previous regulatory changes, is removing any kind of common carrier obligations from ISPs. They've already been working towards getting rid of those obligations [federalregister.gov].
[23:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:14] <exec> 08└─Now, try again.
[23:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:16] <exec> 08└─By making a municipal ISP, you're removing even the fantasy of some kind of responsibility to the market.
[23:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:18] <exec> 08└─Even better would be a law that requires ISPs to not be limited to transmission, and forbidden from creating or profiting from content.
[23:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:20] <exec> 08└─Or one joker demands an exorbitant price, the government says, "Well, that exceeds our budget so I guess the whole project is dead." Then they should post the name and address of said joker at town hall or something and gently encourage people to take it up with him. Perhaps recommend a good local h...
[23:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:23] <exec> 08└─libertariantards
[23:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 1022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:25] <exec> 08└─Do you actually realize what that poster is saying at all? I personally might not agree with them, but their argument isn't invalidated simply because you don't like it. His argument is that if the government didn't restrict and regulate the ISP market so much, there wouldn't be much of a problem wi...
[23:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:27] <exec> 08└─Net Neutrality was how the net started out. Net Neutrality is something to be defended. Like clean air and clean water. The whole subject of Net Neutrality would never have come up if ISPs weren't 'polluting' the internet with packet discrimination and even alteration. Like with air and water pollut...
[23:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 1583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:29] <exec> 08└─Then abolish property laws while you're at it. Policing is a government-sponsored monopoly. The market will correct itself towards rich people with lots of property paying more to field private police to guard it while everyone else will pay for the nice kids standing on the street corner to watch o...
[23:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:31] <exec> 08└─You don't like the solution of men with guns. OK, so if my company bulldozes a path across your property for trucks and then digs a trench to lay fiber, you won't expect the government to help you? Good to know! We'll be glad to do this without guns. Or, if you were going to bring your own non-gover...
[23:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Plans December Vote to Kill Net Neutrality Rules - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:34] <exec> 08└─In a normal town, most poles are owned by the electric power company. The phone company and cable company both get to run lines below that. You want to "allow any ISP to make use of the existing lines instead of allowing towns and cities to grant monopolies to specific ISPs", but there are no lines...
[23:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:32] <exec> 08└─Did the Nazis pay the people they experimented on? Did they give any of them treatments with the expectation that they would be cured?
[23:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:33] <exec> 08└─Expect further denials from DannyB.
[23:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:35] <exec> 08└─Not I. Bureaucracy can be annoying but it is a necessary burden. When it turns evil we simply need to update our laws / policies / regulations.
[23:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:37] <exec> 08└─Yep. I can only dream of having thought up the @realDonalTrump login first. But I didn't.
[23:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:40] <exec> 08└─As if one person on the internet has a monopoly on impersonating an inarticulate President. Again, I don't even think DannyB's writing is that similar to realDonaldTrump's given that they're mocking the same character.
[23:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks for that mental image.
[23:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:44] <exec> 08└─The story seems to be saying that a company is developing a drug in the Caribbean , that would greatly help the Caribbean, while following all Caribbean guidelines and requirements. I don't see what concern it is to us what laws and regulations the Caribbean decides are necessary to restrict life sa...
[23:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06University Could Lose Millions From “Unethical” Research Backed by Peter Thiel - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:46] <exec> 08└─It involves Peter Thiel! Hate!
[23:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pluto's Hydrocarbon Haze Makes it Even Colder - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:01] <exec> 08└─We must immediately invade Pluto. Don't worry about the coldness. We have plenty experience in making a planet hotter, especially if it has hydrocarbons. :-)
[23:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meteors Seen Over Arizona, Ohio, Germany, and France - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:27] <exec> 08└─Are you sure it's not a missing space in "damn it"?
[23:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum's Foot-In-Mouth Disease - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:50] <exec> 08└─You do not speak for all, I would not mourn the loss of his current level of ignorance one bit. I suggest he take a hint from old marketing trends and eventually create e-jmorris. Like that will happen though, he seems like the type that will dig in his heels instead of learning.
[23:11:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 80 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:23] <exec> 08└─Firefox is an ok operating system, but what it really needs is a decent browser.
[23:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:44] <exec> 08└─Waterfox.
[23:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Firefox "Quantum" Halves Loading Times, Reduces RAM Use by 30% - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:11:46] <exec> 08└─Or Brave if you're not really into fine-grained control. It's a pretty good tablet/phone browser substitute, too. I would use Pale Moon for all my browsing if there was an effective substitute for Random Agent Spoofer. I can use a generic user agent spoofer and manually switch from time to time, bu...
[23:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:15:18] <exec> 08└─This guy was a contractor. He is no longer employed because... his contract ended.
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