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[00:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:02] <exec> 08└─back around 2009 or so, a Chinese sub crept into the middle of a US carrier group, approached a vessel within torpedo range, ascended to periscope depth than snapped a Pulitzer Prize-winning closeup shot of that vessel as well as other ships farther away. It then descended, crept back to China then...
[00:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:41] <exec> 08└─Don't forget that Mentally Ill people are way more likely to be shot by police. https://www.usatoday.com [usatoday.com]
[00:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:42] <exec> 08└─"You don't seem to have a Facebook account. Are you okay?"
[00:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Deg7VrpHbM [youtube.com]
[00:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:46] <exec> 08└─Ooo yea help me Michael Jordan realdoll. Suck my cock! Yes yes yes!!1
[00:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:48] <exec> 08└─I guess I'm too cynical
[00:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:51] <exec> 08└─Volunteering? You must be joking. Non-profits always say they want volunteers and they're always lying. All they ever want is donations. Money. Lots and lots of money. Spend any time around non-profits and you lose all faith in humanity and end up killing yourself.
[00:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:53] <exec> 08└─If Clippy just wants to help you, regardless of what you are trying to do and FaceBorg wants to send people to break down your door if it thinks you are trying to off yourself, which one do you prefer?
[00:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:10] <exec> 08└─Because you can duck a duck.
[00:07:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:33] <exec> 08└─voted for. That is the sleazy cornerstone of American politics. Tyranny by the largest minority. If this was a law actually voted in by 51 to 66 percent of the populace I would agree with you. But the way elected officials are voted in *DOES NOT* require a majority, which is why such horrible things...
[00:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:18] <exec> 08└─Yeah, because Trump definitely won't sell out the future of the US. Oh, wait, he appointed countless establishment warmongering hacks and Goldman Sachs goons into his administration and is generally doing things that favor large corporations and the rich. He also has most of the same problems as Cli...
[00:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:20] <exec> 08└─The profit margins for these established ISPs are something like 90%+, if I remember correctly. 100GB a month would be far too low a limit. We need to break up these shitty monopolies and have Internet that at least approaches the quality and price of many other first world countries.
[00:08:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:08:44] <exec> 08└─What?
[00:12:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 382 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:04] <exec> 08└─I'm glad you said "almost zero". I bitch about them both. But, it does seem to be a partisan thing. When the Cock brothers are doing the same thing Soros does, the right is content, and the left is largely happy with Soros. But, each cries and whines when it's the OTHER ONE doing it. And, all of tho...
[00:13:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Office Available for Chromebooks - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:13:01] <exec> 08└─Our Cobol instructor at Solano Community College advised us to use a felt-tip pen to draw a diagonal line across one end of our decks. But replacing some buggy code totally dephlogisticated my deck's Feng Shui. By the time I turned in the line printer hardcopies of my code and its output, there were...
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[01:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Watchdog Will Recommend That the NHS Ban Vaginal Mesh Operations - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:59] <exec> 08└─I get so sick of certain commercials showing up in every commercial break, sometimes twice in a break. Take your get rich quick scheme somewhere else.
[01:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Health Watchdog Will Recommend That the NHS Ban Vaginal Mesh Operations - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:00] <exec> 08└─What's that "commercial break" you're talking about? If you see them, there's your problem. There's no such thing as "acceptable ad".
[01:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:12] <exec> 08└─I didn't read your whole warplife piece, but I searched the page for some relevant keywords ("sub", "periscope", "china", "chinese") and none of them were in the text. After some googling, I think you might be conflating two or more events. It seems like Chinese subs have snuck up on US carriers in...
[01:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03PinkyGigglebrain [4458] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:13] <exec> 08└─This might be the incident your remembering only the Chinese sub did not take a picture of the US carrier, it just surfaced inside the carrier group and more embarrassingly for the USA, well inside torpedo range of the carrier. None of the advanced and expensive sub detection tech that was supposed...
[01:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 675 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:15] <exec> 08└─What you can do varies with your platform: * a large array of cryogenic sensors * an affordable sensor in the seeker of a small-diameter air-to-air missile * a supercomputer and with antennas spread from horizon to horizon * a guided artillery shell Your success could be: * a brief detection * conti...
[01:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sabriel [6522] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:17] <exec> 08└─As far as I can determine the incident happened in October 2006, and none of the many articles I've found even mention such a photo. https://www.warhistoryonline.com [warhistoryonline.com]
[01:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyper [1525] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:01] <exec> 08└─Great. Thanks. Next up: Facebook scans other social media sites too. "Are you OK?!?" -sig of the year 2017
[01:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:20] <exec> 08└─And you can't fly a fly.
[01:08:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:30] <exec> 08└─Established, monopolistic ISPs are sitting on piles of cash, though. Their profit margins at this point are insane. Not so for new players, of course. And they also receive massive amounts of taxpayer subsidies, which they usually receive, waste, and then don't suffer any consequences for doing so....
[01:11:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 1261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:28] <exec> 08└─Having actually managed and bought this sort of software before. Most of the cost is not the end user software. It is maintaining it. Getting a 'windows admin' is dead easy. In fact it is pretty cheap. Getting a linux admin who knows what they are doing? That takes care and work. Then on top of that...
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[02:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Watchdog Will Recommend That the NHS Ban Vaginal Mesh Operations - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:01] <exec> 08└─What's that "commercial break" you're talking about?
[02:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Watchdog Will Recommend That the NHS Ban Vaginal Mesh Operations - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:02] <exec> 08└─I get so sick of certain commercials showing up in every commercial break, sometimes twice in a break.
[02:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Watchdog Will Recommend That the NHS Ban Vaginal Mesh Operations - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:04] <exec> 08└─I see your grin, and acknowledge I don't have tens of thousands of $$$ to persuade my local "representative" to do any more than switch from Charmin to Great Northern to wipe my opinion off his ass.
[02:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:19] <exec> 08└─I did RTFA (sorry), but I don't' get how they get to claim to see everything through everything, in front of everything or against everything. If they do, great. But if it's really impossible to defeat, and they know they opponents know about it, then they should be a bit more precise about why it w...
[02:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 715 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:20] <exec> 08└─And I'm dead certain it was a Chinese sub. The Communist Party was quite proud to describe its underwater force projection efforts to the press. I don't have all of Solving the Software Problem online. I lost the original domain because I was in an insane asylum. It's now hosted at warplane.com but...
[02:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:23] <exec> 08└─The position of the camera was obviously quite close to the water. Also the photo had fiduciary marks in it. Fiduciary marks are only used when it's important to make a measurement of what you're looking at. That's one of the differences between a gun sight and a spotting telescope.
[02:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:25] <exec> 08└─The US Navy was unaware that the Chinese sub had been there until the photo showed up in the evening newspaper.
[02:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:10] <exec> 08└─Then they came for the psychological consultants—and there was no desperate straight women for me to date.
[02:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:12] <exec> 08└─They didn't roll this out years ago. Before I junked FaceFuck, there were a bunch of times people mistook posted song lyrics as a cry for help from me. And those posts were just filled with comments like "It will be okay" and "Are you all right? You know I love you." and the like. I think I'd have h...
[02:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:09:27] <exec> 08└─They began to operate what they called 'The Operation'... They would select a victim and then threaten to render his website inoperable if he paid the so-called protection money. Four months later they started another operation which the called 'The Other Operation'. In this racket they selected ano...
[02:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:10:32] <exec> 08└─There are real conspiracies being hatched to deceive and enslave the public. Some conspiracy 'theories' are published by government agencies to add to the 'theories' out there, some so bizarre that no one should believe them; others so in-your-face that you cannot deny them. That is done to discredi...
[02:11:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 1890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:39] <exec> 08└─Getting a linux admin who knows what they are doing? That takes care and work. ...and once you've got a guy who has been doing things via scripts his whole career, he's WAY more productive than the "cheap" Windoze admins who need a GUI to do things (40 point&click operations; rinse and repeat for th...
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[03:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 1121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:00] <exec> 08└─4-5 years ago my car CD player died. I replaced it with an aftermarket unit that let me plug a USB drive into it. I love it. Except for the UI. I't's a maddenly difficult UI to figure out, even though on the surface it seems easy. Example? The USB stick has 12 albums and 16 CDs on it. Search for a C...
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[03:06:01] <exec> 08└─It's like having to operate the UI on a Staples or FedEx print center do-it-yourself printer. Why not use the printer you got, you all ask? Because even plain black cartridges are 50 bucks and now that school's over it's well worth the trip and cost-savings when something actually has to be printed....
[03:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03black6host [3827] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 1078 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:03] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I'm "get off my lawn" old, but I miss the simpler days. I have a 2014 vehicle now and it's all I can do to manage cruise control, which my '99 Jeep Wrangler had. Answer the phone, change Sirius channels or change radio stations, how many miles I've traveled on trip 1, on trip 2, gas mileage fi...
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[03:06:06] <exec> 08└─- buttons. I'm about to get paid. I may buy a car. But not with a touchscreen: I want a car that I can drive while blindfolded.
[03:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:08] <exec> 08└─- top of her steering column, so she can stare at Google Maps as she drives. Me? I don't need no stinking maps. In the words of the immortal Michael J. Roberts [tads.org] I just "go there". "Just going there" _never_ fails me.
[03:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:38] <exec> 08└─From The Washington Free Beacon: [freebeacon.com] A Chinese attack submarine stalked the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan near Japan last month in the closest encounter between a carrier and a People’s Liberation Army Navy submarine since 2006, according to American defense officials.
[03:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:54] <exec> 08└─Your entire post comes from the belief that it's not fair to ISPs for every bit to be treated equally due to some services generating higher demand.
[03:08:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:55] <exec> 08└─How is $6 per 10 GB ugly? In Cambridge, MA I pay $75/month, but use only 50 GB. I'd prefer Portugal's arrangement and pay $30/month.
[03:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 845 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:56] <exec> 08└─they were terribly misformatted You can get that while simply using a different release of M$Orifice than the creator of the document. You can get that by using the SAME version of M$'s crap but having a different printer. "M$ Word format" is NOT a standard by any stretch of the imagination. Anyone...
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[04:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 2149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:58] <exec> 08└─That is exactly what prompted the wife and I to learn to build our own machines. Preinstalled crapware convinced us that we can't trust a manufacturer to build a decent machine, so we learned to build our own. Determine your desired specs, go to Newegg (or TigerDirect, or whatever) and start buildin...
[04:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Prune [4334] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:40] <exec> 08└─How it works is described at the most obvious place, had you bothered to check: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[04:08:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:57] <exec> 08└─What we have here is the anti-government flavor, which can be applied to basically any argument against government action even when the government is working directly in the follower's best interests.
[04:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:59] <exec> 08└─That worked pretty well back in the days of dialup. ...now, with every corporation stringing its own cables... Ever see a photo of how things looked in the early days of telephones? [google.com] I like the notion of public infrastructure for utilities. I have no problem with then allow privately-own...
[04:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:24] <exec> 08└─> He has likely already suffered enough distress to make sure he won't do it again. [...] It seems likely that the legitimate goal of discouraging further infractions has already been met. That's a legitimate goal in Europe, but it's not the idea under which the USA legal system operates. The USAian...
[04:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:09:26] <exec> 08└─99 year prison sentence for ... stealing data from United States Government computers including the US Army, Missile Defense Agency, and NASA via computer intrusion. He attacked and compromised military assets. That's all he did.
[04:10:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 114 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:14] <exec> 08└─He gets to claim out loud it is part of the "conspiracy" while to himself he says "Whew! Saved by the government!"
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[05:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:58] <exec> 08└─Why isn't Japan shooting these goddamn things down??!! They certainly have every right! Is self defense such a bad thing now??!! Dammit! I wish people weren't so goddamn submissive!! If these assholes wanna play with missiles, let's show 'em what happens when one lands on their fucking heads!! We ha...
[05:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ixtl [6508] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:59] <exec> 08└─If we shoot down one, we have to shoot down all of the subsequent ones. If we screw up, it would just reveal the weaknesses in our missile defense. They’re probably thinking it’s best to save it for the armed missiles.
[05:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:01] <exec> 08└─Any chance it can deliver a bag of flaming dog poop to the White House porch......PLEASE?
[05:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:03] <exec> 08└─... when there's a smoldering city.
[05:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:05] <exec> 08└─All bullshit. This is what crybaby does everytime he needs new things.
[05:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:08] <exec> 08└─Well, I did always like the style of Donald Trump. But those idiots arent going to give us the false flags we wanted to start a war. Big Baby wants us to may more attention to him and give him more grain to feed his people. We traditionally did. Now, let his own people feed him.
[05:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:10] <exec> 08└─Are you talking about the great orange one? He won't give a shit until No Korea can hit Mar-a-Lago.
[05:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:12] <exec> 08└─It's the same thing that happens every time. We're not gonna nuke them. They're crying for more grain. Perhaps China should feed them that grain. One of their missiles may actually hit Japan, or Korea. We know they're not. They're crying out for food. China needs to feed them their food.
[05:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:15] <exec> 08└─Because intercepting a ballistic missile while it is accelerating from its own power is hard. Rocket science hard. And shooting down a ballistic missile when it is not travelling under its own power is most likely too late, because the payload is on a ballistic trajectory towards its target.
[05:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:17] <exec> 08└─Now, China, let's feed baby his grain and let him be a useful idiot to both ourselves and China, because it's gonna be one of us who takes him out - You? Or US.
[05:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:19] <exec> 08└─" Ethanol-fueled saves the world from WWIII, nuclear war. "
[05:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:21] <exec> 08└─You must be experiencing anxiety to reply to yourself that many times. Just remember your spare gas can for when the car runs out of fuel on the side of the road.
[05:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:24] <exec> 08└─That's why you bomb them before they launch! What the fuck are we waiting for?? China can't do a damn thing, and they won't anyway. They hate Korea too. They only needed the buffer zone to protect them from Japan a long time ago. If the Koreans are exterminated, nobody is going to give a shit. Give...
[05:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:26] <exec> 08└─Absolutely not. What I am suggesting is that China give them their grain, become their problem. Nobody wants war. But it's time for the Eastern nations to handle them as their own problem.
[05:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:35] <exec> 08└─Gee, my Lenovo laptop has no adware on it. Of course, I installed Mint, and Maui, and some third linux distro I can't remember right now because I have not booted it in a while. But no adware, spamware, bloatware, or malware. Well, other than systemd on a couple of the installed systems.
[05:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:37] <exec> 08└─3.5 million is peanuts, just the cost of doing business, which is spying on computer renters, the poor suckers who are deluded into thinking they are buying, because they are paying the price of manufacturing. The resulting data products are then sold high and low, so unless these fines go up x10 ti...
[05:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:48] <exec> 08└─"here, hold my beer while I read this sms." While modern cars have too many buttons, or too many menus, or too many functions (often hidden), users don't need to and shouldn't be using any of it while driving. Map - learn the route (look at a map, even googlemaps, and learn it) Radio - most cars hav...
[05:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:20] <exec> 08└─> Even if the enemy somehow equips well enough to detect you perfectly in every way, probably violating the laws of physics, at least you made them spend the money on that instead of on more ammo. Of course you've also inflicted a similarly resource-wasting cost upon yourself in order to develop and...
[05:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:41] <exec> 08└─An example of government regulation that actually improved things would be nice to buttress you argument.
[05:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:42] <exec> 08└─innovation The sensible world ended the day business models became patentable. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:44] <exec> 08└─One model would be a "cooperative". [google.com] (I'm seeing a lot of things that appear to be something else but which registered a .coop domain.) 8-( N.B. I know that there are a bunch of legit electricity cooperatives in rural areas. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:09:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 2573 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:46] <exec> 08└─I did read your first comment, I wasn't convinced, and nothing in it touched the point you responded to. In response to your first paragraph I thought your points were not entirely unreasonable, with the exception of bandwidth caps which I believe to be an entirely separate discussion. The second pa...
[05:13:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Robby the Robot Sells for $5.3 Million – Second Most Valuable Movie Prop in History - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:04] <exec> 08└─...but, in light of this consumption, you're clearly not thinking of the workers who were paid to build that thing in... Oh, wait. You may have a point. Now you have me thinking about how much of a fiscal multiplier effect $5.3M would have if it was spread around a lot more, buying recently-produced...
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[06:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:18] <exec> 08└─Better idea, we ship you over there so you can explain things to their great leader. I'm sure you'll do well, don't worry you have our support!
[06:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:19] <exec> 08└─Nah, I think Trump's massive failure is causing your psyche to crumble.
[06:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:22] <exec> 08└─I'd be willing to bet that no part of the US (probably not even Guam/N Marianas) is within range of anything NKean and probably won't be for years. Attaching functional nukes to these "probably can't hit the US" missiles is likely decades away. Not sure why the media is hellbent on portraying NK as...
[06:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:24] <exec> 08└─You are misguided. We don't want total war, either do you. We just want idiot-boy to shut up! He hates us for historical reasons, and he hates you less. So help us out here. Let's help this fucker out! Lots of potential, here. Let's not fuck it up!
[06:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:26] <exec> 08└─You're really far gone, maybe time to sober up.
[06:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 1199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:28] <exec> 08└─These are crap missiles. They are liquid fuel, and thus physically weak. Shooting them down isn't terribly hard for the USA, Israel, and Russia. The job can probably be done, perhaps with a bit of research effort, by many more nations: France, Japan, China, India... maybe even Poland. There are many...
[06:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:30] <exec> 08└─Maybe because the technology for truly effective ballistic missile defence plain doesn't exist yet?
[06:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:33] <exec> 08└─Kim, we like you! We want you too understand our people! But should you resist, we will destroy you. Too bad, buddy. We rather liked you. Now you will be destroyed. Good night, Kim.
[06:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:35] <exec> 08└─Niggers! https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[06:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:37] <exec> 08└─Unlikely. I suspect Guam is just theoretically doable, and their recent efforts are focused on making it more practical though.
[06:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:39] <exec> 08└─Spoken like a true sociopath. You really are a trumpette.
[06:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:41] <exec> 08└─We could supply grain containing birth control. After 40 years of that, there wouldn't be much of a military.
[06:09:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 997 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:57] <exec> 08└─[Begin net-neutral encryption] Elite Social Justice Warrior Team Six, Special jmorris squad, 2nd Lieutentant "Boogers" reporting: jmorris seems to be on the move. He is defending the republican abolition of net neutrality with a venagenace. We have pulled his contract with Comcast, and we have to s...
[06:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:25] <exec> 08└─Between 'A Brave New World', '1984', and 'Animal Farm', it seems like no-one has learned from their parables the dangers that exist in technology and centralization of power.
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[07:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Key Distribution Sped Up - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:57] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you about quantum stuff. A flight full of Freescale Semiconductor people who were researching quantum stuff was disappeared outside of a Chinese flight. Whether or not their disappearance has anything or not to do with Chinese evilness, we may never know. But after that disappearance too...
[07:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Key Distribution Sped Up - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:58] <exec> 08└─MH 370. The details are too stinky to overlook.
[07:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:38] <exec> 08└─You are true gay. Homo, to be exact. Now, we like to save the gay whales, like in Star Trek 4. But will you help us save the gay whales? the fulcrum of humanity's win or defeat rests upon your shoulders! So I ask you again, brother...will you save the gay whales?
[07:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:40] <exec> 08└─Ethanol_fueled! Stop! Please re-cork the bottle, and fall into your usual stupor. You are contributing nothing, you are nothing. Your comments are not making anything better. Please stop. Ethanol_fueled, log out now. We have arranged for a donkey to arrive in the alley behind your residence in five...
[07:12:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Orion Blastar [5270] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:59] <exec> 08└─I am asexual with no interest in sex.
[07:13:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Orion Blastar [5270] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 1455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:13:01] <exec> 08└─Sure the major news companies did not cover it. It is something called Elsagate: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] https://www.westernjournalism.com [westernjournalism.com] It is really nothing new: https://en.wikipedia.org
[07:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Orion Blastar [5270] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Time Inc. Acquired by Meredith Corporation - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:14:15] <exec> 08└─We got an interview with a liberal professor in Reddit who gave us information about it during a debate so it is original research from an anonymous source. We quoted him to show what he claims is going on. I am searching to find debate scripts to use on the Internet that they hand out to students,...
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[08:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Key Distribution Sped Up - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:59] <exec> 08└─was disappeared outside of a Chinese flight.
[08:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:40] <exec> 08└─You can bring a donkey to my alley...but you cannot explain the disappearance of the quantum experts from Freescale Conductor on MH370. So how about that donkey?
[08:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:42] <exec> 08└─pump a mixture of tritium and deuterium into the middle of the plutonium pit of an implosion device. Not to add power due to fusion, but to supply lots of tasty neutrons to get that cascade going NK-nuking good.
[08:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:44] <exec> 08└─all of their test "warheads" - probably a few hundred points of nightsoil - burn up. It's not just the heat shield you have to keep the heat shield pointed in the direction of motion, as that direction starts out horizontal then gradually evolves to straight down. That's why John Glenn was such a he...
[08:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:46] <exec> 08└─FTFY Seoul is about 35 miles from the DMV. Just on the other side of the DMV is a vast quantity of short-range missiles. Should war break out Seoul will be transformed into a lake of fire. For extra credit, NK has VX. It's an "area denial weapon" because it is an oily liquid. Inhale its vapor or get...
[08:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:48] <exec> 08└─China has made that quite clear to all sides. The only way the US could avoid CHINESE ICBMs would be for the DPRK to attack first. China also made quite clear that NK would be on its own if it initiates the war. It's only two and a half minutes to midnight. Dear me, I'm about to turn into a pumpkin!
[08:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:51] <exec> 08└─A city in the middle of an ocean, oh Great Armchair General? Those are ballistic missiles. It's easy to calculate their trajectories, then (attempt to) shoot down those that are aiming for a city, and ignore those that are obviously not a threat. Trying to shoot down each and every one of them just...
[08:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:53] <exec> 08└─Mao is not running the country anymore. People in China are no longer isolated from the rest of the world; they travel all over. The cultural revolution is past. China no longer fears that ordinary Chinese people will become aware of capitalist wealth. North Korea was once a buffer country with a si...
[08:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:55] <exec> 08└─Sorry, the best we could do was . . . squirrel!!
[08:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:57] <exec> 08└─The Chinks will get stomped. They stole all of our blueprints, specifications, plans; from all of those "Chinese engineers" who started from "academic solicitation" in our country who somehow managed to get security clearances and went on to work for Boeing and Lockheed-Martin...they are in places t...
[08:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:50] <exec> 08└─I don't clearly remember when I saw that photo. But I did see it at an online news site. The wayback machine would have it but then I'd need to know the original URL of one of that articles that included the photo.
[08:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:52] <exec> 08└─It was made out of wood, with the leading edges of the wings made out of graphite. I never heard about it until after the US stealth fighter was public knowledge. I figure the US kept that wooden fighter jet a secret so as to maintain their tastes great less filling government tit. Look man wood wor...
[08:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:54] <exec> 08└─Only three were made and the only recovered version was incomplete. The US actually had a flying wing design developed before it, and in fact it was the predecessor of the B-2 bomber and was proven in the past 5-10 years to have had a radar cross section that would have been essentially invisible ag...
[08:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:41] <exec> 08└─What do you mean "develop"?
[08:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:43] <exec> 08└─User: My life is shit, not worth living, every day is more painful than the last...think I might off myself... Facebook: Hey, we noticed you might off yourself and have sent the police to really fuck your shit up save you... User: WTF? NO!!! I can't take another day! Facebook: No problem-o! Save 15%...
[08:10:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:10:21] <exec> 08└─We, the people, have to live with whatever the Congressmen vote in for us. However The Congressmen do not need to worry about the People voting in whatever salary, benefits, or health plan the People think they deserve.
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[09:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amazon Launching Preview Version of "Sumerian", a VR/AR Tool - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:01] <exec> 08└─It's Unity with night-mode theme and integration with Alexa! " Alexa! Tell me about the Jews! "
[09:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Quantum Key Distribution Sped Up - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:12] <exec> 08└─They used the same method the Jews used to hijack the Global Hawks...er...the 747's...and fly them into the twin towers (a Global Hawk was flown into the Pentagon.) Remote control redirecting. Those 14 or so quantum experts from Freescale were far too valuable to fly back into American hands. They w...
[09:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Key Distribution Sped Up - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:13] <exec> 08└─Except that the 20 freescale semi people disappeared were 12 Malaysians and 8 Chinese [theregister.co.uk], heading towards Beijing. It would have made a lot more sense for the Chinese to let the flight land and disappear them inside the airport or the cars carrying them from there. It you really lik...
[09:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Amputees Can Learn to Control a Robotic Arm With Their Minds - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:21] <exec> 08└─Monkey amputees, fed copiously with juice, can learn to control a robotic arm with their minds. There are doubts that some humans will react the same way; eg I really doubt that sticking nails in his head and feeding him juice will show any learning outcome on Ethanol-fueled. (grin)
[09:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:06] <exec> 08└─The Chinks did a good enough job of that with their "one child" policy. They kill or otherwise relagate the girls into orphanges. You think the American neckbeards are sexually frustrated? The Chinese ain't seen nothin' yet.
[09:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 422 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:07] <exec> 08└─That scares nobody. The Americans can do it, the Russkies can do it. So can the French, Brits, Kikes, Chinks, and even at one time the South Africans. All the Norks have is A.Q. Khan and the crosshairs pointed at their foreheads. Pakistan also has the crosshairs pointed at their foreheads. Let's hop...
[09:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:09] <exec> 08└─That's exactly what Kim is trying to get Trump to do. And vice versa. China was their friend for many years. At the moment, China is mostly neutral, they don't exactly like what NK is doing, but they are not pissed off enough to actually do anything about it. The whole battle of words between Kim an...
[09:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:12] <exec> 08└─Seoul is about 35 miles from the DMV.
[09:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:14] <exec> 08└─Hmmm, I guess he is busy: http://www.magapill.com [magapill.com]
[09:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:16] <exec> 08└─They’re probably thinking it’s best to save it for the armed missiles.
[09:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:38] <exec> 08└─Sure, but we really don't want you driving while blindfolded!
[09:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:07:39] <exec> 08└─It's not gadgets we are talking about, it's replacing the buttons on the dashboard with a touch screen. That should fall under the same rules as texting while driving (as in, if you are caught with the touch screen in your Tesla on, bye bye drivers license). As for maps, a GPS - when used correctly...
[09:08:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 443 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:16] <exec> 08└─If you know the approx date and it was in the newspaper (presumably you know _which_ newspaper) then it, or the redacted pages, should be findable by searching newspaper archives. A lot of these are now digital but timeframe for switchover may be after the date you want. So the bad thing is, you may...
[09:09:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:09:06] <exec> 08└─this comes too late for Francis. If only we had felt his pain. Or fathered his child. Or used Microsoft Windows. All these, facebook now sees, were just cries for help.
[09:10:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:46] <exec> 08└─these arrangements are allowed under provisions giving national regulators some flexibility.
[09:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:10:48] <exec> 08└─You seem to not understand the quote ("Every nation gets the government it deserves"), which has been around a lot longer than I have and dates to the 1800s.
[09:11:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:11:17] <exec> 08└─Just like the west turns a blind eyes to crimes committed against prophets in the middle east.
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[10:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:00] <exec> 08└─What, did you think life just developed on Earth by itself?
[10:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03gringer [962] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Amputees Can Learn to Control a Robotic Arm With Their Minds - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:26] <exec> 08└─Just in case you didn't know, our entire body is filled with a neural network that learns things. The brain is a concentrated cluster of neurons, but we've got plenty of neurons elsewhere in our body that should be sufficient for training simple motor movements, in places that are less likely to red...
[10:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Amputees Can Learn to Control a Robotic Arm With Their Minds - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:27] <exec> 08└─Prosthetics might be fine, but I don't think you can realize the greatest benefits the technology can offer without making well-understood brain-computer interfaces embedded in the brain. For example, allowing a person to perform complex calculations, Google searches, offline database searches, etc....
[10:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:19] <exec> 08└─DC is a good target, but I'd prefer Chicago take the first hit.
[10:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 1478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:20] <exec> 08└─So basically everyone in the world is now a sitting duck because none of them wanted to do the necessary. Yes, North Korea has a lot of artillery they can fire at South Korea. That's rough. Now they have that artillery, and nuclear armed ICBMs. Super improvement of the situation, there, guys. And th...
[10:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:22] <exec> 08└─No, it exists. But it isn't perfect. Have you noticed how great a success it is for Kim Jong Un every time one of these launches are successful? You know what would be a much greater success? The US (or any ally with US hardware) trying to shoot it down and missing. Even once.
[10:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:24] <exec> 08└─We have no deployed rail guns. We don't have any deployed Laser planes. Russian and Chinese systems aren't for sale, and are not in position to defend the US or Japan. THAAD is a short range weapon designed to protect a target, you need them everywhere. Having them in Japan won't help us. Its not de...
[10:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:27] <exec> 08└─The claim was essentially that stopping an ICBM is close to impossible. Clearly it isn't. We have stuff, not so great, deployed right now and publicly acknowledged. We have more that can be deployed in the near future, and likely more that is not public. There are numerous other solutions that could...
[10:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 5681 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:29] <exec> 08└─It seems that people are in rather ardent denial at this point. North Korea is extremely rapidly getting stronger. Probably with more than a little help from China, but even if not, it's irrelevant. If you'd said that North Korea would have anywhere near these capabilities two years ago, people woul...
[10:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 816 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:40] <exec> 08└─I agree, $3.5m is a slap on the wrist for lenovo. More than likely it is less than what money lenovo received from the 3rd parties for installing the spyware to begin with. Until these fines become damaging to the company, they will never stop these shady deals. Hit them with fines that removes all...
[10:07:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:55] <exec> 08└─There were a number of kickstarters a few years ago that promised a HUD(Heads-Up Display) on the bottom part of your windscreen. No more looking at the dash... Still waiting. Sounds like the perfect solution, maybe the math was hard . I though some of the high-end manufactures had already demoed HUD...
[10:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Health Watchdog Will Recommend That the NHS Ban Vaginal Mesh Operations - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:08:07] <exec> 08└─Are you sure? Vaginal mesh sounds like an operation that would Make America Grate Again!!!! (Ow, ow, ouch, ow, Red Pillar!!!)
[10:09:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:24] <exec> 08└─Exactly. If you haven't posted on Facebook or even logged in in a very long time, you clearly have no contact with friends and family and must be depressed. Wait until they get a law passed that says they can commit you to a facility for monitoring on suicide watch if you don't regularly post on Fac...
[10:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:25] <exec> 08└─He has already been reincarnated. In the last life he was literally Hitler.
[10:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:09:27] <exec> 08└─The two words in that phrase do not contradict each other (quite how "too" can contradict any other single word it's juxtaposed with, I cannot imagine). For cynical to be part of an oxymoron is even trickier, it would need to be something more like "charitably/forgivingly cynical" (to have "charitab...
[10:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:37] <exec> 08└─For example, sometimes they'll require that the government agree to not seek or use the death penalty in cases of murder in order to get the suspect extradited.
[10:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:11:39] <exec> 08└─No, he showed that the US military is severely lacking in IT security. He was looking for UFOs FFS, not for military assets. He shouldn't be able to stumble on military assets when looking for UFOs. If he did, someone in the military screwed up big time. But more likely, he didn't, and it's just an...
[10:14:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Munich Switching From Linux to Windows 10 - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:14:19] <exec> 08└─Indeed, hardware "just works". I haven't had to compile a kernel or even run modprobe for over a decade. Software to use that hardware, yes you have to look in apt, but the days of device manager and yellow exclamation marks vanished around the same time as geocities. I use Linux because my time isn...
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[11:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:00] <exec> 08└─Well it had to start *somewhere*. And this is a pretty hospitable rock after all.
[11:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:01] <exec> 08└─If these interstellar transport mechanisms are being oversold, then yes, it probably had to develop on Earth by itself. It could also be microbes that were ejected from Earth but stayed in the vicinity/orbit of Earth.
[11:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:03] <exec> 08└─How about a dedicated sterilized satellite in Earth orbit, intended solely to collect and analyze anything that hits it.
[11:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:05] <exec> 08└─From the Earthian Prison Niggers. They not only reproduce through rape, but also asexually through spores.
[11:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03ledow [5567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 1817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:08] <exec> 08└─Life, that thing we think started somewhere other than Earth, is capable of escaping the Earth and going elsewhere. Is that a shock? We know that there are all kinds of insects that can reach amazing heights - bumblebees over Mount Everest and all sorts. When you then dial down to any kind of micros...
[11:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:10] <exec> 08└─If these interstellar transport mechanisms are being oversold, then yes, it probably had to develop on Earth by itself.
[11:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:12] <exec> 08└─The point is that you can never be sure that the thing is 100% sterile. This news makes me as a biologist very sceptical. The fact that you found bacteria on the exterior of the ISS, which weren't present during launch, isn't proof on itself. There could be dozens of ways for the bacteria to get the...
[11:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:14] <exec> 08└─I would be much more inclined to blame stuff we've sent to the ISS or the ISS itself rather than some magic space dust
[11:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Launching Preview Version of "Sumerian", a VR/AR Tool - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:23] <exec> 08└─If all it takes to stop the Muslims and Jews being a concern for the today's world is 6 million Muslims to kill Ethanol-Fueled, I'm afraid I'd be quite tempted to say "By all means, go ahead".
[11:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:40] <exec> 08└─I want to suggest San Francisco first.
[11:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:41] <exec> 08└─No, you don't understand their strategy. They're going to arm this thing with the Golfball of Doom, and loft it over to the US so it drops on any golf course there. Then when Trump turns up to play golf, grips the golf bat in his tiny hands, and gives it a good whack, it blows up in his face, killin...
[11:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 833 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:43] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't include artificial wombs in your list. A proof of concept has already been demoed [soylentnews.org] and it's probably only a matter of single digit years before the process is perfected and can be used routinely for animals we don't care about (everything except for humans). Fusion power...
[11:08:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03mhajicek [51] 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 130 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:27] <exec> 08└─Boy am I glad we sunk all that money into stealth tech! Now we'll have planes that can't fight, can't run, and can't even stealth.
[11:08:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:08:47] <exec> 08└─It's OK, we have anti-quantum voodoo vampire technology that deals with the Chinese quantum ghost imaging. However, it's the Russian neo-quantum zombie ghoul sensors that I'm worried about. That and the fact that the Chinese may put silver garlic-coated crosses on their gear.
[11:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:41] <exec> 08└─Not seen that one (it sounded trashy), but here's a (possibly, not haveing seen both, I can't be sure) similar idea, 6 years earlier: http://www.imdb.com
[11:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:42] <exec> 08└─It's Facebook that is driving a lot of these people to suicidal thoughts in the first place. A better way to save lives would be to close Facebook down completely, drop it into the bottom of a swamp, then nuke the swamp from orbit.
[11:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:09:45] <exec> 08└─I take it FB's algorithms are smart enough by now to differentiate use of language by age demographic. When someone over 35 says 'I literally want to kill myself', it means they are contemplating suicide. When someone under 35 says it, it means they have just seen something on their Facebook feed th...
[11:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:56] <exec> 08└─"If you don't come to Lagardère, Lagardère will come to you!"
[11:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Lauri Love's Appeal Will be Heard in the UK on November 28th and 29th - 582 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:11:57] <exec> 08└─He's a dual citizen of the UK and Finland, but neither country is standing up for him on those grounds or any other. So his defense team has been lately playing up the Asperger's syndrome to mean because of that he is too defective to be extradited. I can't see how that can be done without making li...
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[12:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:01] <exec> 08└─> Why not cover parking lots with solar panels instead? Parked cars do not need to perform photosynthesis. They do. I've seen many of them round the hotter parts of Europe. They cover roofs of buildings as well, and it usually is at least break even on the power generated vs deployment cost. This is...
[12:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:03] <exec> 08└─Are these meant for crops grown in partial shade? How can a yield loss of 18% be considered a good thing?
[12:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:19] <exec> 08└─I for one, welcome our new bacterial overlords and will gladly point them to purveyors of anti-biotics so they may be summarily rounded up into their internment camps.
[12:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:21] <exec> 08└─That little quote, at the bottom of Soylent pages? This time, it says, Why don't you fix your little problem... and light this candle? -- Alan Shepherd, the first man into space, Gemini program
[12:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:23] <exec> 08└─Just import your alien life forms from Mexico. Why you gotta make thing so complicated?
[12:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:25] <exec> 08└─WTF happened to Gagarin?
[12:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:27] <exec> 08└─Does its DNA match any earthly bacteria? Maybe give a hint as if it came from US?
[12:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 962 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:30] <exec> 08└─Next they will tell us Aliens do exist and the universe is teeming with intelligent life. Not necessarily material in nature, but life. "Finding" bacteria is the first step. The trivial issues we are told about are just cover for what happens behind closed doors. There is 100% cooperation between U....
[12:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:32] <exec> 08└─Those are attracted to bait cars, not ISS missions.
[12:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 1046 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:34] <exec> 08└─"More recently, fullerenes (or "buckyballs"), have been detected in other nebulae.[81] Fullerenes are also implicated in the origin of life; according to astronomer Letizia Stanghellini, "It's possible that buckyballs from outer space provided seeds for life on Earth."[82] In September 2012, NASA sc...
[12:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Amputees Can Learn to Control a Robotic Arm With Their Minds - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:03] <exec> 08└─What if you're not an amputee and just want extra limbs?
[12:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:03] <exec> 08└─You fail to take (at least) one thing into account: ballistic missiles need to be taken down on their way up during the boost-phase. Since they are ballistic, after the boost-phase, they just follow their ballistic trajectory down - and in that part, they may jettison chaff to circumvent your fancy...
[12:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:04] <exec> 08└─If you'd said that North Korea would have anywhere near these capabilities two years ago, people would have said that NK is decades from getting it. Four years ago these people would have said NK is decades away from getting a nuclear weapon, let alone a thermonuclear weapon. These same people now s...
[12:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:15] <exec> 08└─Moreover. It hasn't been punished by consumers. No serious fines, no backslash from consumers. Let's do it again!! Look at Lenovo!! No serious fines, no backslash from consumers. Let's do it too!!
[12:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:17] <exec> 08└─Despite it being a minor hassle to unpack, layout, and assemble everything, then install an OS, you are assured that there is no spyware, no bloat, no crap, unless and until YOU INSTALL IT YOURSELF!
[12:11:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:11:46] <exec> 08└─rather than the dozens of dissenting viewpoints and candidates it should.
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[13:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber v. Waymo Trial Delayed Because Uber Withheld Evidence - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:02] <exec> 08└─Who needs consumer protections? Poor little Uber and Wall Street have been devastated. Where is our orange knight come to save them?
[13:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:12] <exec> 08└─Are these meant for crops grown in partial shade? How can a yield loss of 18% be considered a good thing?
[13:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:14] <exec> 08└─Turn the PV installation into rail scaffolding that a new model of combine harvester can hang from, and watch it zip up and down fully powered by the panels above?
[13:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 1625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:38] <exec> 08└─The 1%'ers ( the banking elite ) could crash the entire system, sans them, anytime they want to right now. They've got everyone in debt. Just call the debt. Instant civil war between the middle class and lower class, with the upper class absconding to underground shelter to wait out the melee. Prob...
[13:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:39] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the introduction to The Blob (the good one, not the horrible remakes), without the meteorite and it hasn't started to devour cosmonauts (yet).
[13:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 1813 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:41] <exec> 08└─I would prefer for this scenario to be true, because it would likely (not necessarily) mean that faster-than-light travel is real, and it would mean that we have usable alien technological advances in our grasp that could solve a lot of problems and make colonizing every rock in the solar system a c...
[13:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03AnonTechie [2275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:43] <exec> 08└─We are basically positive that the Russians did not find alien bacteria in space It will be a glorious day when we finally get definitive proof of alien life. It’s going to be absolutely amazing, whether we make contact with a species that rivals or exceeds us in intelligence or we accidentally sq...
[13:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:46] <exec> 08└─[The study] suggests that life on Earth may have begun when fast-moving streams of space dust carried microscopic organisms to our planet.
[13:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Amputees Can Learn to Control a Robotic Arm With Their Minds - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:14] <exec> 08└─What if you're not an amputee and just want extra limbs?
[13:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:17] <exec> 08└─Just. Get. A. Room!, you two! Slam it out with your bones! ;)
[13:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:18] <exec> 08└─Talking about golf, and here you are...driverless... :)
[13:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:20] <exec> 08└─That's a reference to the lack of Linux driver support for my laptop, you insensitive clod!
[13:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:22] <exec> 08└─And a donkey.
[13:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 1481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:50] <exec> 08└─Even HUDs are still distracting, https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com] This spring got a 2017 Chrysler Pacifica minivan (family of six) with the forward collision detection and automatic braking package. Statistically speaking, veh...
[13:08:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:51] <exec> 08└─Try going in and relabelling AAAAALLLLLLLL of the classic Doctor Who episodes so it properly shows up in something like Plex. All , what, 800ish episodes, 250ish GB, serials with sub-episodes.....Ugh!! A bulk renamer only helps somewhat....the rest is manual labour. But... Just go into the USB and r...
[13:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:54] <exec> 08└─You just need voice control: "Turn left" becomes "Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all" and then the car crashes.
[13:12:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:12:10] <exec> 08└─You can't universally cache Netflix's DRMed streams
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[14:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:25] <exec> 08└─> Why not cover parking lots with solar panels instead? Parked cars do not need to perform photosynthesis. They do.
[14:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:27] <exec> 08└─Because a loss of 18% is obviously a lot better than the original assumed loss of 100% from installing the PV.
[14:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:31] <exec> 08└─Only if they have exhausted the amount of unused land or rooftops they can slap PVs on.
[14:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:00] <exec> 08└─...Alan Shepherd, the first man into space, Gemini program... ...Gagarin?
[14:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:01] <exec> 08└─Well, no danger that we can think of right now....
[14:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:04] <exec> 08└─For dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return (genesis 3:19)
[14:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:06] <exec> 08└─I occasionally mumble that US lost the space race for exactly this reason. But US PR is better.
[14:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:08] <exec> 08└─The U.S. actually won the space race (so far) because we won the Cold War. The space race improved STEM education in both countries. It hastened the development of spy satellites and other useful technologies. The U.S. achieved the sexier milestone of putting a man on the moon first, but didn't do a...
[14:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:10] <exec> 08└─Offtopic, sure. Calling the debt but without enforcement of the call means no one will give back anything. All debts will go to zero all of a sudden and we can all start fresh. If some rat-faced banker shows up wanting his money back, he will be hanged from the nearest tree. Humans when left to thei...
[14:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Launching Preview Version of "Sumerian", a VR/AR Tool - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:20] <exec> 08└─Is that name another reference to Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash? I can't see why they would think "Sumerian" would describe this thing otherwise.
[14:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:51] <exec> 08└─Please stop and think about what you just wrote. I've got friends in both Chicago and DC who are not causing any problems for the world, they are simply keeping their heads down and making a positive contribution. Is your hatred of some individuals or group(s) so strong that you can rationalize the...
[14:08:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:52] <exec> 08└─so what's your solution? send the US army over there, whatever the consequences? how would you then explain the destruction of seoul and a bunch of other stuff to the world? how would you explain the thousands/tens of thousands of US casualties to US voters? US citizens believe in "innocent until pr...
[14:08:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:54] <exec> 08└─Most comments made here and in other places on this "crisis" are nothing but propaganda. They are beating the war drums. Some of the above comments seem to have taken a while to come up with and write. Clearly well-written, taking into account all possible 'scenarios' (if China helps them then "we"...
[14:08:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:56] <exec> 08└─It's rather a Sodom and Gomorrah issue, there. The presence of a few righteous men does not redeem a wicked city. DC and Chicago are quite wicked, so it's on the righteous to depart as it was on Lot to depart.
[14:08:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:59] <exec> 08└─Now we know that North Korea was Mad Mike Hughes' target all along. The USA was using him in his rocket to get past their defences by saying it only had a dummy warhead.
[14:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:09:12] <exec> 08└─Just like Obama spied on his own people. Obama's gone, Meg's gone, now the TRUTH comes out!
[14:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:10:12] <exec> 08└─You mean the article that contains the sentence "A simple example clarifies the basic principle of ghost imaging.", and then doesn't actually contain a simple example (which would be visual), instead asking you to imagine such an example. "A simple example clarifies the basic principle of origami. I...
[14:11:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:09] <exec> 08└─Facebook will also have more humans looking at posts flagged by its algorithms.
[14:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nuke [3162] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:11] <exec> 08└─Is this how Mad Mike Hughes was stopped from his rocket attempt over the weekend?
[14:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:13] <exec> 08└─Wait until they get a law passed that says they can commit you to a facility for monitoring on suicide watch if you don't regularly post on Facebook.
[14:11:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:11:32] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our car-lifting duck overlords.
[14:12:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:12:58] <exec> 08└─Yup, it's already happening here in Britain. [three.co.uk]
[14:15:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Government Denies Permission for Flat Earth Researcher's Rocket Launch - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:15:00] <exec> 08└─...to Burning Man.
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[15:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:19] <exec> 08└─Look at the photo in TFA. Solar panels only cover a small fraction of the installation area. It's a mistake to start with 100 % assumed loss. You could shrink the farm area by 20 %, put solar cells next to the field, and get similar results.
[15:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:55] <exec> 08└─At what point do we ever believe life that we discover did not originate from Earth? Maybe we find bacterial life on Mars - did it come from Earth? It's possible. Or maybe it came from whatever seeded Earth with life (if that's the case). Seems the only irrefutable evidence would be to find life tha...
[15:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:56] <exec> 08└─The people of this world do not need to work to be fed. They are made to think that no work means no food and that we all need to secure employment otherwise we won't be able to afford food. Machines make building stuff easier, but in the wrong hands (as now), machines can be harmful. A killer robot...
[15:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:59] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the Andromeda Strain. Didn't it begin a little like this, it's been a while? Of course everyone on the ISS would be dead by now...
[15:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:02] <exec> 08└─Obviously, it started on the planet of the first race: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com [wikia.com]
[15:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Amputees Can Learn to Control a Robotic Arm With Their Minds - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:32] <exec> 08└─Nah, information access is good enough as is, that will happen but the real gains would be interfaces for controlling robotic appendages. Human control obviates the need for advanced ai, and vastly increase production.
[15:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Amputees Can Learn to Control a Robotic Arm With Their Minds - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:34] <exec> 08└─The monkeys were then trained (with generous helpings of juice) to move a robotic arm
[15:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Amputees Can Learn to Control a Robotic Arm With Their Minds - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:36] <exec> 08└─The lack of dexterity of robot arms might make them a cure for masturbators and thus eligible as a free treatment under the current administration's health care plans. Maybe robot arms could be made universally mandatory. Think of how this would be a big kick start that would lead to rapid improveme...
[15:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 1457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:59] <exec> 08└─As a matter of fact, there are obstacles to installing a fresh copy of Windows onto some machines. We've all heard about machines that are shipped without an installation disk. Your machine gets corrupted, you can find directions to restore your machine to factory conditions, ie, to "reinstall" from...
[15:10:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but according to the TFA, signs of empathy like that are also signs of suicidal thoughts and intentions.
[15:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:59] <exec> 08└─A choice between only Clippy and FaceBorg is like having only a choice between hypothetical candidates like Killary and Rump. Maybe that 'choice' is not your only choice. Oh, wait. Nevermind. It is.
[15:11:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:01] <exec> 08└─Everybody prepare to be manslaughtered.
[15:11:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:03] <exec> 08└─Suicide Prevention Bot will friend all the undesirable people who can't make real friends.
[15:11:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:06] <exec> 08└─Clippy: It looks like you're trying to write a suicide note. Can I help?
[15:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:11:14] <exec> 08└─Well, maybe it's just an impossible oxymoron.
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[16:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:21] <exec> 08└─Photovoltaics on a car are only just barely viable - a car 100% covered in solar panels that spends all day in direct sunlight, will get you enough charge to travel 10-20 miles. Sounds like the Prius mentioned at the top gets all of 3 miles of range extension. Basically, for probably 95% of the popu...
[16:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:22] <exec> 08└─>How can a yield loss of 18% be considered a good thing? Easy - it can be tied to a profit gain of at least 19% from selling generated electricity.
[16:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 723 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:24] <exec> 08└─The solar cells to steal sunlight from the plants, reducing crop yield. Because the solar cells cannot steal too much light, they are widely distributed, and raised above the crops on steel scaffolding. So the cells are spread across a large area, requiring lots of scaffolding and lots of wiring. Mo...
[16:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:27] <exec> 08└─But then, except as a hedge against crop failure, this only makes any sense if the net value of the solar energy is worth more than the net value of 20% of your crop, right?
[16:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:29] <exec> 08└─Maybe they should import the crops and collect sunlight instead.
[16:06:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 81 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:38] <exec> 08└─Well it had to start *somewhere*. And this is a pretty hospitable rock after all.
[16:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 1504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:09] <exec> 08└─"faster-than-light travel is real . . . colonizing every rock in the solar system" Seriously, Takyon? FTL, and colonizing shitty rocks that won't support life without a LOT of time and effort expended? Tell ya what - I'll take the FTL, you can have all of the solar system's rocks. ONE of the rocks w...
[16:07:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:10] <exec> 08└─Or in your case, bots are silicon based, made of sand.
[16:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 1185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:13] <exec> 08└─I am not sure if the cold war allowed us to win; I think it had something to do with financial viability. Even the US concluded it cost too much to keep chest pounding in space. After that last moon landing they shelved the rest of the plans related to it and here we are today. Still not any farther...
[16:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 313 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:15] <exec> 08└─That PARENTHETICAL and COMMA are there for a REASON. because it would likely (not necessarily) mean that faster-than-light travel is real, and it would mean that we have usable alien technological advances in our grasp that could solve a lot of problems and make colonizing every rock in the solar sy...
[16:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:59] <exec> 08└─They seem to be intercepting descending ballistic missiles in the Middle East [bbc.com]. It's a million times better for nuclear debris to hit a city than a working atomic bomb.
[16:09:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:01] <exec> 08└─The Volcano H-2 is a member of the Scud family.[9] Analysts identify it as being based on the Iranian Qiam 1/Scud-C,[10][11] Iranian Shahab-2/Scud-C,[10] or Scud-D[12] missile.
[16:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:17] <exec> 08└─MicroSoft have been doing this for years, as I think we all know, especially with Windows 10. https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] Personally I find this spying, data collection, "telemetry", etc., deplorable and should be criminal. USA have some consumer protect...
[16:09:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:18] <exec> 08└─yeah! we can get ahead of these corrupt companies by rolling back net neutrality, and the consumers can win and ensure at least their network traffic remains private too! then cut their taxes so they can invest in cost savings that will trickle down to the slow lanes we can't afford!! wait
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:37] <exec> 08└─My family had a 1992 Pontiac Bonneville which in my opinion had the perfect "HUD" Showed you your speed and a fuel gauge in digital form on the bottom of your windshield. It was perfect because it was just enough and not more than that.
[16:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:23] <exec> 08└─We're really in trouble when the auto-medication drones show up. Remember that Doctor Who episode where Amy is hiding from the robots that are determinedly trying to give her a shot that's lethal to humans?
[16:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Origami-Like Soft Robot Can Lift a Thousand Times its Own Weight - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:44] <exec> 08└─Get artificial muscles, they said. You will have better jobs, they said.
[16:13:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:11] <exec> 08└─It was written (in French: "Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.") by Joseph de Maistre [wikiquote.org] in 1811. Whoever this Errol guy is, he was just quoting de Maistre. As Wikipedia notes, "The quote is popularly misattributed to better-known commentators such as Alexis de Tocqueville...
[16:13:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:13:13] <exec> 08└─The anti-government argument that isn't disingenuous bullshit should be that municipal exclusivity agreements are anti-competition, monopolistic regulation that props up a handful of corporations What you're spouting is pro-government: pro-local government. True anti-government people are opposed t...
[16:14:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Comcast Hints at Plans for Paid Fast Lanes after Net Neutrality Repeal - 1505 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:14:11] <exec> 08└─At what point does the shit being pulled by the corporations be worse than that which the government can pull? There are pros and cons to having the government take over and the other way around as well. When it comes to not handing our data over to the government, the corporations have been pretty...
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[17:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:01] <exec> 08└─Is that how Hank became a septapus?
[17:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:02] <exec> 08└─I have no doubt that an octopus is clever enough to learn sign language, if it wanted to. The trick is in finding a common ground that would encourage the octopus to try. Scoop one up and put it in a tank, great, now you've totally terrorized the creature - think how cooperative you would be if some...
[17:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:04] <exec> 08└─For those who might like to see the video, but live in an area the BBC considers unfit for said viewing, here's another site that works at least for me here in the orange-stained U.S. https://www.thesun.co.uk
[17:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─Ladies, meet Henry the Hexapus. That's not virtue signalling; Henry gave an arm and a leg to help the poor. Henry is a quality mate and you know you want his hectocotylus inside you.
[17:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:09] <exec> 08└─"Maybe we should try teaching octopi sign language" but it would talk too fast for anyone to be able to converse with it.
[17:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03xorsyst [1372] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:11] <exec> 08└─Well, if you want to get really picky, you should use octopodes: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com [oxforddictionaries.com]
[17:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:13] <exec> 08└─Send a robotic octopus avatar to chat with the octopus in its native environment.
[17:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:21] <exec> 08└─If there is not warrant required, can private companies pay cell companies for the same information? Can PI's obtain the same information? If not, why not?
[17:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:48] <exec> 08└─The terms "yield loss>5%" and "sold for a profit" are mutually exclusive. Did this team include, or even talk with, an ag-economist or a farmer? Or does this result just happen to reflect the name of the organization and the project: Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and "project man...
[17:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:50] <exec> 08└─Great, more places to put PV cells. The thing is, farmland is better served by windmills than PV cells, because it's a nice wide-open space that wind will just blow right through, and you can plant crops under a windmill without any difficulty provided the blades go no lower than the height of your...
[17:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:52] <exec> 08└─No, they don't need PVs on cars. PVs on cars is an utterly stupid idea. There simply isn't enough area on top of a car for a decent number of PV cells, and with the shape of cars, most aren't going to be oriented in an optimal direction. Worse, PVs are somewhat delicate and aren't that great for out...
[17:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:54] <exec> 08└─The crops might not need all the sunlight that they'd get without solar panels in the way. This is surely dependent on the location and the particular crop.
[17:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 775 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:56] <exec> 08└─One can do even better than that. Put up 100% coverage by solar power and light the crops with LED plant lights. Plants are notoriously inefficient at absorbing solar light, much more so than solar panels. But LED plant lights emit at the narrow spectrum ranges where plants have peak absorbing capab...
[17:07:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 73 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:26] <exec> 08└─...Alan Shepherd, the first man into space, Gemini program... ...Gagarin?
[17:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:42] <exec> 08└─The key to ruling out an Earthly origin would be unrecognizable DNA and perhaps chemistry that doesn't match known organisms. Being on the outside of the ISS is not evidence of non-Terran life by itself. It's also possible it came from another planet but still has DNA and chemistry similar to Terran...
[17:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:43] <exec> 08└─It doesnt seem reasonable that they're afraid to contaminate the moons when flying through gaps in a debris ring is considered less risky; one impact of something too small to see on camera would have blown that thing to smitheereens and sent whatever was growing in it in every direction and become...
[17:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 1511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:45] <exec> 08└─Any life that arose independently from that on Earth would almost certainly be composed of different amino acids (since there doesn't appear to be any particular advantage to the ones we utilize). To say nothing of having evolved different information-storing molecules, organelles, etc. Life is actu...
[17:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:47] <exec> 08└─If it has DNA as it's information storing molecule, we almost certainly share a common ancestor...
[17:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:50] <exec> 08└─How about this: take an assortment of well-known Earth bacteria, paint them on Petri dishes, mount them on the outside of the ISS. Monitor them for survival certainly but also for changes in DNA and chemistry as they get mauled by the various energies out there. I wonder if any would be recognizable...
[17:07:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:52] <exec> 08└─I don't think any space mission has added or integrated a DNA sequencer yet. The technology has gotten cheaper and more compact in recent years but you haven't seen a miniature life detection + genome sequencing instrument on a Mars rover or flown into the geysers of Enceladus or whatever.
[17:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 841 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:54] <exec> 08└─https://phys.org/news/2010-08-microbes-survive-year-space.html [phys.org] Bacteria collected from rocks taken from the cliffs at the tiny English fishing village of Beer in Devon, have survived on the outside surface of the International Space Station for 553 days. The bacteria, known as OU-20, rese...
[17:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:40] <exec> 08└─Bit SN is too small to be targeted!! Haha. Haaa. Some of the shills are probably regular people just eating up the FUD.
[17:09:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:41] <exec> 08└─If you are going to use slurs, then slur everybody in that list. What's the USA slur? Yankees? Rednecks? Cowboys? And the french? "Flauffers"?
[17:09:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:44] <exec> 08└─Nope. But it's a fair bet that they didn't bother loading a warhead on a missile aimed at the middle of the ocean. And if they did - so what?
[17:09:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:46] <exec> 08└─And why couldn't they deploy their hypothetical chaff on the way up as well? Meanwhile, nuclear debris really is a non-issue - the preferred isotopes for making a fission bomb are U235, with a half-life of 700 million years, and Pu239, with a half-life of 24,000 years. Which is to say that neither i...
[17:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:48] <exec> 08└─Too late. Putin already put one in the Oval Office.
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 1027 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─The only reason you really care about a destroyed bomb hitting the target is if it's a contagious bioweapon that you're not certain you've completely killed. The fissile material used in a fission bomb isn't appreciably radioactive, only the fission byproducts are, and the bomb need to explode as in...
[17:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Health Watchdog Will Recommend That the NHS Ban Vaginal Mesh Operations - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:38] <exec> 08└─I don't even own a TV and I have seen and heard what he's talking about on the TVs in restaurants and other public places. they are on during the day often in the late morning and early afternoon, as if their target audience is stay at home women who have free time between the hours of 10am and 3pm....
[17:11:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:11:07] <exec> 08└─and watch out for those super stealth fishing boats/freighters too.
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[18:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:00] <exec> 08└─Why is SN still begging for donations instead of being self-sufficient by conjuring free-money vapor-coins out of nothing.
[18:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:02] <exec> 08└─We don't use GPUs.
[18:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:04] <exec> 08└─Please reply back with where you are and how to get free electricity like you are doing. Don't reply if you're posting from mom's basement.
[18:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:06] <exec> 08└─According to Buterin, there are currently three major problems that need to be solved to push the Ethereum network to the next level: privacy, consensus safety, smart contract safety, and perhaps the biggest of them all: scalability.
[18:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:22] <exec> 08└─Octopus Researcher: should we try to teach humans our sign language? Octopus Student: do you really believe they are intelligent enough to have language skills? Octopus Researcher: Oh yes, definitely. Signs of intelligence have been observed in humans. Octopus Student: there is one problem then. Oct...
[18:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:24] <exec> 08└─Wouldn't that be almost as terrifying? A strange alien machine whose intentions are unknown.
[18:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:26] <exec> 08└─How about a virtual octopus on a flat screen? Question: how would an octopus react to a mirror? What about a flat screen virtual octopus with an adjacent mirror for the real octopus to see itself? What if you provided a superior weapon of some type for the octopus to use against sharks, and the virt...
[18:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:35] <exec> 08└─Bless the ACLU for their good intentions, but legalities have never prevented LEO's and prosecutors from using any and all means to gather the information they desire. J. Edgar Hoover's illegal wiretaps come to mind as an example. Nowadays, in cases like this, the fuzz can always petition the feds f...
[18:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:37] <exec> 08└─There perhaps once was, and there ought to be, but nowadays is there really a reasonable expectation of privacy? Only a fool expects their location and phone calls to be private while using a cell.
[18:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:00] <exec> 08└─I was thinking Andromeda Strain. But Blob too I guess, yeah.
[18:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:02] <exec> 08└─Once you've got the habitat, then all you need is raw materials. Dead rocks will offer that just as well as a living world. Not nearly as exciting, but if you're going to wander between stars without already having a good idea as to whether there's anything interesting there, then even with FTL you'...
[18:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:04] <exec> 08└─Considering that they have divided the Earth-native bacteria into separate kingdoms which branched apart during the Cambrian (the Precambrian?), I would expect that a genetic analysis of any alien bacteria to reveal at minimum that they weren't a member of any existing kingdom of life. This might no...
[18:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 977 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:06] <exec> 08└─The thing is, there's no possibility of globally irrefutable evidence. All you can do is estimate probabilities. And that's true for everything. E.g. a flat-earther was in the news yesterday. To me that's a joke, but he appears to seriously disbelieve the evidence that they earth is not flat. What e...
[18:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 605 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:08] <exec> 08└─DNA wouldn't be quite sufficient to convince me of that. A genetic code with different nucleotides would convince me it was alien (unless it used RNA, of course). But DNA is one of the few things we know whose components exist in clouds of space dust. Of course, this could just be finding what we ar...
[18:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon Launching Preview Version of "Sumerian", a VR/AR Tool - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:19] <exec> 08└─webgl and javascript to load models. second life "on the webs". how long before we have hardware drivers being recreated "in the browser"? after all, how best to get 1000Hz position information into your time-critical, real-time javascript browser app? Or has this already been done? That's it. I'm o...
[18:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Launching Preview Version of "Sumerian", a VR/AR Tool - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:21] <exec> 08└─The whole universe was a mistake.
[18:10:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:04] <exec> 08└─What's the USA slur?
[18:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:06] <exec> 08└─if you have an Atapen you could just walk away from the attack
[18:11:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Quantum Ghost Imaging Spy Satellites - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:23] <exec> 08└─Two problems: - "Hey this great tech will be so much better than everything else, but let's not explain to you how it works" journalism is bad. I don't expect a journalist to define a car before using the word. But if they are talking about a new tech, they should describe it. - Wiki and other...
[18:14:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:18] <exec> 08└─You mean you don't use lynx? Or turn off graphics on stupid shit where you want to see text? Takes all sorts, I guess.
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[19:06:05] <exec> 08└─Better ways of raising money could be had, I wholeheartedly agree. But you must understand these Ethereum guys (yes, I assumed their gender) also thought it was "easy" and now need version 2.0 to fix all the problems they "didn't foresee" while making 1.0. Hubris is the currency of fools, not Bitcoi...
[19:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:06] <exec> 08└─well it's 3 if you categroize them: 1. Privacy 2. Safety 3. Scalability So some of the most important cornerstones of a functioning society are totally absent from the platform.
[19:06:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:08] <exec> 08└─We no longer have privacy, and safety has come at the loss of important rights. Not sure about scalability, but I'm thinking we no longer live in a functioning society.
[19:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:11] <exec> 08└─Is Zcash actually going to solve the privacy problem? Or will the NSA just become the sole tracker of transactions? Drug markets want to know.
[19:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:13] <exec> 08└─Tesla Owners Are Mining Bitcoins With Free Power From Charging Stations [slashdot.org]
[19:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:15] <exec> 08└─Look just because basic addition is beyond him doesn't mean he can't do incredibly complex math, why do you hate capitalism!
[19:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:17] <exec> 08└─Hubris is the currency of fools
[19:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:20] <exec> 08└─It also looks like a derivatives platform and we all know how well they have worked out in the past
[19:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:22] <exec> 08└─Don't worry! They will get all of the problems with digital currency worked out. Just as Microsoft got all of the problems worked out with Windows 10! Oh, wait.
[19:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:24] <exec> 08└─Look since it is totally possible to pay for things just using my completely secure bank card on the internet I am certain this won't be broken by design
[19:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:43] <exec> 08└─Even the Septopods cannot communicate in the complex language of Octopuses.
[19:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:44] <exec> 08└─Octopus experts have come to agreement that eight highly versatile limbs is a prerequisite for the development of intelligence. Thus they make no effort to communicate with lower limbed life forms such as humans. Because they reason there is no possibility of intelligence. And their observations mig...
[19:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:46] <exec> 08└─I prefer octopussys, but then I'm a pervert
[19:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:57] <exec> 08└─But when you have legal precedent all their nefarious efforts go to waste. Sure they still do covert surveillance on citizens, and they should be put away until they learn to play nice, but at least in the courts their shady tactics backfire and get the DAs all pissed off!
[19:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:00] <exec> 08└─See that is the problem. We need to start fixing it so that people can have an expectation of privacy. At the VERY least we should be drafting laws to punish the crap out of privacy violators. For law enforcement activities we have these great things called "warrants" which give them a lot of leeway...
[19:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:02] <exec> 08└─claiming some bogus link to terrorism
[19:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:04] <exec> 08└─Yes. That. Exactly. Fixing problems is why we have amendments such as the 1st, 4th, 5th, etc. Now those protections are being undermined because technology is new. It needs to be fixed.
[19:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber v. Waymo Trial Delayed Because Uber Withheld Evidence - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:14] <exec> 08└─The story at Ars has more recent developments about the Uber attorney testifying. I hope judge Alsup sanctions Uber in a way that undoes the damage of Uber's cover up and withholding of evidence.
[19:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:39] <exec> 08└─I suppose if you could create an environment where the planets got sunlight longer (not sure if they need to have downtime) then you could grow more food with same infrastructure.
[19:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:36] <exec> 08└─That depends on how organized you thing the delivered components were. Fairly complex chemicals have been detected in dust clouds out in space, and the larger chemicals are more difficult to detect. So large organic molecules could well have arrived as the planet finished being built. (Earlier it ma...
[19:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:37] <exec> 08└─It could also be microbes that were ejected from Earth but stayed in the vicinity/orbit of Earth.
[19:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:39] <exec> 08└─https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=22816&page=1&cid=602924#commentwrap [soylentnews.org] For this swab, maybe, if they don't contaminate it on accident. Maybe it could be a little difficult to distinguish between Earth microbial DNA and Alpha/Proxima Centauri microbial DNA. Especiall...
[19:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Quantum Key Distribution Sped Up - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:02] <exec> 08└─Clearly your drinking is destroying what little ability you have to reason, eth. The real story here is: Research from Duke University's Nurul Taimur Islam, with collaborators from Ohio State University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the National University of Singapore
[19:10:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:38] <exec> 08└─Any chance it can deliver a bag of flaming dog poop to the White House porch......PLEASE?
[19:10:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:40] <exec> 08└─... maybe even Poland.
[19:10:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:42] <exec> 08└─And I'm proud
[19:10:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:44] <exec> 08└─Knowing the North Koreans and their level of technology, the payload probably is a bag of flaming human shit because they ate all the dogs.
[19:10:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:46] <exec> 08└─Having had many unpleasant dealing at the DMV I'm pretty sure NK isn't much different.
[19:11:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:03] <exec> 08└─With the current administration dismantling all consumer and environmental protections don't expect anything to happen to HP, even if they explicitly admit wrongdoing. The EU may make them pay for this, but here in the US it's just another privacy violation that will have to be stomached.
[19:11:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Health Watchdog Will Recommend That the NHS Ban Vaginal Mesh Operations - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:37] <exec> 08└─There's not exactly a dearth of restaurants: you can vote with your wallet and use restaurants that either don't have TVs with volume cranked up to 11, or display something with no ads.
[19:15:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:15:04] <exec> 08└─Ah, thanks, Grish. I think I got Harris's version from Gene Sharp in his work on the Politics of Non-violent Action. Harris said something more along the lines of "every government is based on the consent of the governed", which implies every nation gets the government it deserves. Poor Americans!...
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[20:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:01] <exec> 08└─This like the 10th article I've seen about improvement in lithium battery capabilities that simply disappear into the background noise. Better electrodes, tweaked lithium mixtures, different electrolytes and now buckyballs on the electrodes. Why do these things disappear and never come to market? Wh...
[20:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:23] <exec> 08└─There... Are... Four... Problems!!! [youtube.com]
[20:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:45] <exec> 08└─Sure but how do you think the first cat felt when it was picked up and we loved them and squeezed them .. and that turned out ok
[20:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:46] <exec> 08└─CRISPR can fix this problem
[20:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:49] <exec> 08└─Thanks!
[20:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:02] <exec> 08└─A lot of such evidence is inadmissible at trial, of course,
[20:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber v. Waymo Trial Delayed Because Uber Withheld Evidence - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:11] <exec> 08└─In all seriousness, at some point you just need to close the company up after jailing half of the executives. Pretty much the entire time Uber talked a good game about "not being evil", and they hit all the marketing points for trust and integrity. Yet, as we see here, they have none. It's a company...
[20:07:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 163 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:22] <exec> 08└─Turn the PV installation into rail scaffolding that a new model of combine harvester can hang from, and watch it zip up and down fully powered by the panels above?
[20:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:38] <exec> 08└─Use the PV panels covering the parking lot to run free chargers. It would be orders of magnitude more effective.
[20:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:40] <exec> 08└─Energy is clearly worth more. Would you rather give up your cell phone or eating? Case closed.
[20:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:42] <exec> 08└─Maybe that PV scaffolding over the crops could also carry some irrigation? And pesticides. We need way more pesticides dang it! Modern microcontrollers could induce some kind of sound, motion or brief sprays of irrigation to frighten away birds that eat crops.
[20:07:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:44] <exec> 08└─I like the scalability. All farm land on the entire planet could collect sunlight and import crops from elsewhere. Getting rid of government crop subsidies would also do nice things for the budget.
[20:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:46] <exec> 08└─Getting rid of government crop subsidies would also do nice things for the budget.
[20:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:49] <exec> 08└─enough charge to travel 10-20 miles
[20:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:51] <exec> 08└─Hey, we agree on something! There are some good projects underway researching new greenhouse systems, with LED lights and sensors. One interesting semi-related project on a much smaller scale is the locally-produced Grobo [grobo.io]. But, greenhouses are getting into this sort of thing too, just not...
[20:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03J053 [3532] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:50] <exec> 08└─And besides which, Alan Shepherd was a Mercury Program astronaut, not Gemini. The Mercury program had single astronauts, while Gemini was a (duh) 2-man capsule. Kids these days...
[20:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:55] <exec> 08└─He'll run out of steam before he gets there.
[20:15:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:13] <exec> 08└─There's probably been a bunch of variations of the same theme. It's pretty funny to see people try to refute it too. The only place where it really isn't valid is if a nation is invaded and forcibly occupied by another, more powerful nation, but otherwise, in general it's always true.
[20:15:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:14] <exec> 08└─Did you even read my original post? We have "Network Neutrality regs now and censorship is rampant. You might want to actually hear Pai's side [multichannel.com] of the story.
[20:15:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:17] <exec> 08└─How is $6 per 10 GB ugly? In Cambridge, MA I pay $75/month, but use only 50 GB. I'd prefer Portugal's arrangement and pay $30/month.
[20:15:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:19] <exec> 08└─Netflix Open Connect is not a universal cache. It works specifically with Netflix streams. If these streams were universally cacheable, Open Connect would not exist. But Netflix streams never could be universally cacheable, because that would require them to be universally copyable. The owners that...
[20:15:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:15:21] <exec> 08└─The phone company, the FBI, and all of the internet companies that arose from nothing since phreaking days all got wise. Almost nobody leaves the equivalent of unsecured TELNET just lying around anymore like in the movie Wargames. You need madder skills these days, and probably a botnet and some soc...
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[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03ese002 [5306] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:04] <exec> 08└─As it is, applying graphene often makes for impressive research results but not manufacturable products. Graphene has wonderful properties it is too difficult and expensive to produce. But maybe there is hope [futurism.com].
[21:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 485 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:05] <exec> 08└─it's like the 10th friend i have who gets voted down by people disagreeing with him, being limited to like 1 post per day, then just never visiting this site again, because lets face it - we come for actual discussion, not a 10 comment per article discussion. boy you soylent guys are schmart. you sh...
[21:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:07] <exec> 08└─:^)
[21:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─I don't disagree. But there will be gradual improvements. If not this, then something else. Just as internal combustion engines have been improved over decades to be far better than they started out. Over time EVs will get better. Even small gains will matter in each model year. Especially as fossil...
[21:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:31] <exec> 08└─Wow, really? They'll pay off those upfront costs, like the cost for a Tesla, in just no time at all. I think a Tesla gets something like 2 cryptocoins for every 100 miles right?
[21:06:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 809 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:42] <exec> 08└─I have no doubt that an octopus is clever enough to learn sign language, if it wanted to. The trick is in finding a common ground that would encourage the octopus to try. Scoop one up and put it in a tank, great, now you've totally terrorized the creature - think how cooperative you would be if some...
[21:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:58] <exec> 08└─Donate a tentacle Sounds like cross-species altruism to me. Here's Socialism: The collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[21:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:59] <exec> 08└─I have no doubt that an octopus is clever enough to learn sign language, if it wanted to. The trick is in finding a common ground that would encourage the octopus to try.
[21:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:01] <exec> 08└─Wild adult cats generally fear humans and would not want to be picked up and "loved" by one. Trying this probably will not turn out "ok" for the human. The reason pet cats like it is because they've been conditioned from birth to be around humans.
[21:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:03] <exec> 08└─And in some cases [telegraph.co.uk], even the purportedly eight-limbed specimens are not considered their brightest examples.
[21:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:05] <exec> 08└─Humans most certainly are intelligent, just like almost all animals. If an animal can learn, it's intelligent. Mice, rats, cats, horses, etc., are all intelligent to some degree. The question is whether something is intelligent enough to bother trying to communicate cross-species, which is another l...
[21:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:08] <exec> 08└─ὀκτώποδ-ες; Sing. ὀκτάπους. Then there is χταπόδι στη σχάρα, but it is a general rule of dietary ethics that one should never eat anything smarter than self.
[21:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:10] <exec> 08└─Same point could be made for the Avatars in James Cameron's movie - demons in false bodies.
[21:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:12] <exec> 08└─Humans communicate with pet species like dogs and cats. Even that just barely qualifies1 as communication. The semantic meaning is little more than "time to eat", "time to go outside", "bad doggie", "good doggie", "those chewy shoes are not for eating", etc. I'm not sure how high level human to othe...
[21:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:15] <exec> 08└─http://lolthulhu.com/2007/12/08/i-can-has-your-soul/ [lolthulhu.com] Careful what your technology can achieve!
[21:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:17] <exec> 08└─Why even try anymore? People just want their private ownership so they can Lord It Up. Finally their brilliant vision can be realized, and they can retire knowing they can live off the work of others cause they DESERVE it! /s
[21:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:32] <exec> 08└─Four months and nearly 13,000 calls, to be precise.
[21:07:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:33] <exec> 08└─Only a fool expects their location and phone calls to be private while using a cell.
[21:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:35] <exec> 08└─Agreed. A plea bargain never ends with you being not guilty. It always ends in you being less guilty but still guilty, and in the system, and forever on record, and the record widely shared, hindering your employment, loans, access to housing. Offering a plea deal is an act that should itself be ill...
[21:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Uber v. Waymo Trial Delayed Because Uber Withheld Evidence - 533 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:46] <exec> 08└─Very likely that Uber will get a pass under the current administration. I remember when Microsoft was convicted and there was going to be a penalty. Of course, the judge partly screwed that up himself by talking to reporters prior to rendering his verdict formally. But the real waste was when the Ge...
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[21:08:19] <exec> 08└─Hey, we agree on something! There are some good projects underway researching new greenhouse systems, with LED lights and sensors. One interesting semi-related project on a much smaller scale is the locally-produced Grobo [grobo.io]. But, greenhouses are getting into this sort of thing too, just not...
[21:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:20] <exec> 08└─In theory, yes, but in reality you're gonna spend your day replacing microcontrollers.
[21:08:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:23] <exec> 08└─A very valid objection (and I've modded you up), but do keep in mind that a "traditional" PV farm will not cover 100% of the ground area, either. (Typical values guestimated at between 66% and 50% from glancing at the first page of results of an image search). So 18% "loss" in crop yield would still...
[21:08:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 576 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:25] <exec> 08└─Taking another poster's number of 10 to 20 miles... yeah, that'd do. My car is always outside in Florida, totally unshaded. My commute is a mile. The store is 3 miles away, and church is 4 miles away. Assuming 2 grocery trips, that is 30 miles per week. I'm allowed 70 to 140, so I'm well within the...
[21:08:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:27] <exec> 08└─I suppose if you could create an environment where the planets got sunlight longer
[21:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:29] <exec> 08└─When you get back from a long trip, you may find your car battery dead. The doors won't unlock normally. You can't roll down the windows. The radio settings are gone. The transmission has lost memory too, so shifting will be rough. When you park in the Sun, the car gets hot. You can't have a fan run...
[21:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 1329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:32] <exec> 08└─Heck, 10-20 miles would do me pretty well too. The problem is it's all but impossible to reach even those numbers in any sort of cost-effective manner. The Prius's 3 miles from a roof-mounted panel is a lot more realistic. The problem is that it's difficult and expensive to make them conform to the...
[21:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:34] <exec> 08└─The real trick is covering your car 100% with solar panels (windows included) to get that kind of range, and then always parking in full direct sunlight. Like I said above, 10-20 miles is the best-case scenario in a very expensive concept car. 3 miles is more realistic.
[21:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 893 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:35] <exec> 08└─Life is actually extremely efficient. Birds can evolve so fast that scientists can watch it happen [www.cbc.ca] Technology & Science - CBC News A new paper published today shows endangered birds of prey called snail kites in Florida have grown measurably bigger beaks in the past decade as they consu...
[21:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:36] <exec> 08└─This, exactly! Did they try to sequence the DNA? The article doesn't say. Nothing about what form they were in either. As for tardigrades, I vote alien.
[21:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:38] <exec> 08└─What does speed of evolution have to do with the efficiency of the results? Some things (body shapes and surfaces of swimming animals) are relatively easily optimized. Many others, like photosynthesis, are prone to local maximums - most plant photosynthesis is between 0.1% and 2% efficient at conver...
[21:09:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:40] <exec> 08└─Like our own galactic core ... that we can't even see much of, apart from some stars [nasa.gov] and artist's conceptions [space.com].
[21:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:45] <exec> 08└─US citizens believe in "innocent until proven guilty".
[21:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 970 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:03] <exec> 08└─So, you get hold of an alternative intallation media, and install. Problem now is, you don't have the "proper" activation code for this machine. If you want to be all legal and proper, reinstallation requires the purchase of another Windows isntallation disk. I haven't kept up with Windows, but with...
[21:12:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 926 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:12:05] <exec> 08└─I could see doing this just to avoid the built in NIC, WiFi, and Bios. Intel and AMD are both compromised in the hardware straight out of the box. The only way to correct that is to buy a MB that has no NIC, and put a third party NIC cards in it, and install Coreboot. Haven't done this yet, but will...
[21:14:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Starts Global Rollout of its AI Suicide Prevention Tools - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:14:15] <exec> 08└─No, he wasn't. Hitler is still in Hell and will likely be there long after the human race goes extinct.
[21:16:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 3084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:12] <exec> 08└─How about the Clean Air Acts [wikipedia.org]? Ignore carbon for a moment and think about soot and acid rain. We don't have those problems anymore, because the Clean Air Acts effectively eliminated industrial pollution from the air. Go to Shanghai and see what life used to be like without these gover...
[21:16:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Portugal's Internet Shows us a World Without Net Neutrality -- It's Ugly - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:16:13] <exec> 08└─No, the real problem is that the government works "good enough" for most people, and working to make even small changes is perceived to be too complicated for mere mortals. We have electoral processes (primaries, local elections, and direct access to representatives) that have worked for over 200 ye...
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[22:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:00] <exec> 08└─Short version, this is why they are dumping "Ultra Def" TVs everywhere. Because none of them are. Now we finally have a connector and cable that can deliver the promise of UHD, 2160p60@12bit formatted as RGB so in another year or two we will see affordable gear implementing it. Everything out there...
[22:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:13] <exec> 08└─>>>Why do these things disappear and never come to market? >>>Why wouldn't Tesla be all over this like yesterday? As Elon Musk once noted: “My top advice really for anyone who says they’ve got some breakthrough battery technology is please send us a sample cell, okay. Don’t send us PowerPoint,...
[22:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:14] <exec> 08└─Maybe you're going about posting the wrong way? There's a fair number of people around here who abuse the mod categories, admittedly. Personally, if a post has a direct insult at another poster, it will almost always get modded down by me unless the rest of the post is very worthwhile. SN has unfort...
[22:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:38] <exec> 08└─Wait two more weeks, and you'll even have a cryptocurrency futures market (viz. bitcoin).
[22:06:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 319 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:50] <exec> 08└─For those who might like to see the video, but live in an area the BBC considers unfit for said viewing, here's another site that works at least for me here in the orange-stained U.S. https://www.thesun.co.uk
[22:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:14] <exec> 08└─Interesting tidbit (that I think I'm remembering correctly) - Optopuses were long thought to be uninterested in others because such video tests utterly failed to engage them. Turns out that the problem was actually that their visual systems are faster than ours, so they perceived traditional video a...
[22:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 909 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:16] <exec> 08└─How about "where would you like me to put your food dish", etc.? I talk with my cat all the time, and we understand each other well enough to often get frustrated when we can't get our point across. The biggest stumbling blocks to communicating is developing a shared vocabulary: most pets have spoke...
[22:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:18] <exec> 08└─Apparently some species of octopus, the 8th arm of males is also the penis and it is located in the head - 7 armed dickheads.
[22:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:20] <exec> 08└─One could say that the use of a "c", which would have been a kappa in greek, means that we're not trying to pretend the word's greek and should be declined in a way that follows greek rules - and therefore so doing would be a hypercorrection. It's an english word, and we can use english rules.
[22:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:38] <exec> 08└─Bbbbb but this is the world now! Everything is different! Down with democracy and rule of law! Series of contracts for everybody! Sorry, so annoyed at the online trolls trying to undermine society. At least the contracts guy is supposedly working for a better future.
[22:07:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:40] <exec> 08└─The New York Times has an article [nytimes.com] about the comments made by the justices. Interesting reading. Their take is that the judges will side with Carpenter, the plaintiff.
[22:08:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 444 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:12] <exec> 08└─Great, more places to put PV cells. The thing is, farmland is better served by windmills than PV cells, because it's a nice wide-open space that wind will just blow right through, and you can plant crops under a windmill without any difficulty provided the blades go no lower than the height of your...
[22:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:31] <exec> 08└─That's no job for a solar powered car though, that's just a trickle charger to counteract self-discharge. You can get them for like $50 that sit on the dash and plug into you lighter socket. For a couple hundred manufacturers could integrate it into the roof, which may well be a nice idea. Solar fan...
[22:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:33] <exec> 08└─Good only for growing clover. (Cattle feed). The results from the first harvest were, for the most part, promising. "The crop yield of clover grass under the PV array was only 5.3 percent less than the reference plot," reports Prof. Petera Högy, agricultural expert at the University of Hohenheim. T...
[22:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:35] <exec> 08└─so the power is being generated far away from where it will be consumed.
[22:08:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:37] <exec> 08└─The bored kid next farm over will be using them for Bitcoin mining. Sigh... I miss the days of Beowulf Custer jokes.
[22:08:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:39] <exec> 08└─Meh, just run a grow-opp in the barn with all that juice, you'll do well.
[22:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:41] <exec> 08└─Been thinking about that too, since it will be legal next year. But I doubt I'll get into that, as I really don't know anything about growing cannabis. No, honestly, I really don't.
[22:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:44] <exec> 08└─The terms "yield loss>5%" and "sold for a profit" are mutually exclusive. No, they aren't.
[22:08:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 120 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:54] <exec> 08└─How about a dedicated sterilized satellite in Earth orbit, intended solely to collect and analyze anything that hits it.
[22:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon Launching Preview Version of "Sumerian", a VR/AR Tool - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:59] <exec> 08└─Tempted? TEMPTED? I know we all like to believe in our moral superiority and test it with ridiculous hypotheticals like the Trolley Problem, but come ON! That is some guilt I think we can all live with. It will probably prevent another mass shooting in the US too, bonus effect.
[22:11:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 37 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:15] <exec> 08└─Seoul is about 35 miles from the DMV.
[22:11:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:55] <exec> 08└─Anyone calling for a war with anyone is either out of their mind (most likely) or is a paid government propagandist.
[22:11:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:57] <exec> 08└─so what's your solution? send the US army over there, whatever the consequences? how would you then explain the destruction of seoul and a bunch of other stuff to the world? how would you explain the thousands/tens of thousands of US casualties to US voters?
[22:12:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 1311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:17] <exec> 08└─Good luck getting that install media. I burned a copy for my dad when I set up his Acer using their preinstalled software (they didn't actually provide a disk in the box). A few years later, the disk is toast. I swap the disk and ask him for the install disks. Doesn't have them. Ok, he upgraded to W...
[22:12:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Is Technology More Distracting Than Helpful On the Road? New Study Says, Yes. - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:12:38] <exec> 08└─My family had a 1992 Pontiac Bonneville which in my opinion had the perfect "HUD" Showed you your speed and a fuel gauge in digital form on the bottom of your windshield. It was perfect because it was just enough and not more than that.
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[23:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Commission Approves 5-year License Renewal for Glyphosate - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:59] <exec> 08└─So who got paid for their votes? It's not a safe chemical whatsoever.
[23:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:07] <exec> 08└─HDMI still has no locking connector. Doesn't the HDMI forum understand how important it is to create a new incompatible connector so that millions of adapters can be sold?
[23:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:10] <exec> 08└─Why is that a big deal? Seriously, the mechanism of "locking connector" is obvious but why add the additional complexity? Tripping over cables is a thing of the past unless you're white trash like me running extension cords and audio cables under your living room rug.
[23:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:24] <exec> 08└─6. Producibility - They have to be able to build them fast, with high yield.
[23:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:25] <exec> 08└─It can't be like 1960 magnetic bubble memory that is extremely labor intensive for asian girls to thread tiny wires through tiny cores forming a fabric of woven cores.
[23:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:27] <exec> 08└─SN was the refuge for angry people, thus we get a lot of opinion and a serious lack of discussion. Valid points are often ignored, and after enough time on this site it becomes evident that a certain group with a certain political slant are here only to stir shit up and not engage in any discussion....
[23:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:51] <exec> 08└─The lesson of last bubble is that there will be another bubble.
[23:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:31] <exec> 08└─it is a general rule of dietary ethics that one should never eat anything smarter than self.
[23:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:32] <exec> 08└─It's a LOCAL language, for LOCAL people!! [youtube.com]
[23:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:34] <exec> 08└─So you're saying I should stop eating fortune cookies?
[23:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:37] <exec> 08└─In that case, you're in danger of starvation as your average potato has more brain power.
[23:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Uber v. Waymo Trial Delayed Because Uber Withheld Evidence - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:06] <exec> 08└─Cheeto Benito can't touch this, it involves tech and the west coast. Being pro business here would alienate his few remaining supporters. I bet he can't go much past the Mississippi without losing a few points. Texas is OK since it is the frontline of our immigration "problem".
[23:09:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:59] <exec> 08└─The U.S. actually won the space race (so far) because we won the Cold War.
[23:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:09] <exec> 08└─We were already there, enforcing no-fly zones. Saddam had been killing Kurds in the north and Marsh Arabs in the south. So, is that supposed to continue forever? Are we supposed to abandon those people? Not that I personally mind them killing each other, but it looks bad. Some people have an issue w...
[23:12:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:10] <exec> 08└─The long con finally revealed. Start WW3 or your puppy gets it! I highly doubt your "archetypal baddies" argument. NK has lots of problems, and a megalomaniac dictator, but I think it is pretty clear why they want nukes. For protection! Korea already got invaded, then split in two, and nukes are abo...
[23:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:12] <exec> 08└─I guess time will tell, but if you think they are going to nuke the US just because they can then you have lost all sense. Never figured you for a war monger, preemptive invasion will 100% start WW3 and will result in a lot worse destruction than even a few ICBMs.
[23:12:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:14] <exec> 08└─"Frog" is the go-to for French slurs. Like many slurs with old origins, nobody knows exactly where it came from. Some people say it's because they eat frogs, others because one of the French flags had a frog on it. I think it's because they they sound and smell like frogs. So, frogs, is the default...
[23:12:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:17] <exec> 08└─As a Californian I agree -- though I'd like to see San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City get nuked. I would nut my pants if that happened.
[23:12:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:19] <exec> 08└─But on a flat earth is korea to the east or west?
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