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[00:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06European Commission Approves 5-year License Renewal for Glyphosate - 613 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:58] <exec> 08└─So they aren't banning it before they have a replacement? That doesn't sound like the enlightened EU we all know and hate. But France seemed ready to ignore reality... but that has been French history since the Revolution in a one line meme, right? Hate on things all ya want, but everything in scien...
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[00:05:59] <exec> 08└─It's not a safe chemical whatsoever.
[00:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:33] <exec> 08└─Yes, it's environmental conditions and social upbringing that make that shark violent and aggressive, genetics have absolutely nothing to do with it! He only turned to violence to feed himself!
[00:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:34] <exec> 08└─Exactly. Several people I know have adopted feral animals, and while they can adapt to the indoor environment, they are very scratchy and will fuck you up if you try to grab or hold them. The half-wolf dog is also pretty terrifying.
[00:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:36] <exec> 08└─Meddle not in the ways of Octopodia or Philosophers, for their ways are subtle, and they are quick to skewer you.
[00:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:38] <exec> 08└─In the 2016 movie Arrival, humans tried to communicate with giant seven-limbed, octopus like aliens. Only they used a kind of ink to write their complicated language in water.
[00:09:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 1240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:11] <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...
[00:12:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03J_Darnley [5679] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:12:22] <exec> 08└─Why should I care about you or your friends? You are just some text on my screen and your friends are even less than that. I don't lose sleep over the people who die every day. I think most of them are innocent.
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[02:05:55] <exec> 08└─It's not a safe chemical whatsoever.
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[03:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:00] <exec> 08└─Doesn't look very blissful in this particular situation.
[03:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:01] <exec> 08└─This is why wiretapping laws should only require the knowledge of one party. Two party/all party laws are admirable for their protection of privacy; unfortunately, they are too often used to prosecute victims who have no other way to prove that they've been abused. Bonus points for the abusers being...
[03:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:03] <exec> 08└─Sounds like Virginia is a single party consent [dmlp.org] state. I guess they're arguing the daughter didn't (or couldn't) consent?
[03:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:06] <exec> 08└─Happily, the charges have now been dropped [wavy.com] The charges were outrageous, no question. Perhaps this is why the US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet?
[03:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:08] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure what you are talking about. Are you talking about a mother who was concerned about her child's welfare. A child who had professed fear about bullying at he school? Or are you talking about a school administration and/or the law enforcement officials the administration called who failed...
[03:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:10] <exec> 08└─Actually, it is one party consent. The mom was not a party to the conversations she was recording. Clearly there needs to be an exception to allow parents to spy on their kids, since that is in fact sometimes warranted and should not be criminal.
[03:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:12] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about her apparent ignorance of the law. Mostly though I just needed to make a comment on an article to make sure comments were un-hosed again. martyb forgot to turn off his magical QA powers when he was poking at something on the CONFIG page and found a bug older than SN that could hose...
[03:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06European Commission Approves 5-year License Renewal for Glyphosate - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:23] <exec> 08└─That is going to require diesel. I wonder how much. It looks like a lot. It might need more diesel than the alternatives: tilling and burning. (assume the burning mainly uses the chaff as fuel)
[03:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Commission Approves 5-year License Renewal for Glyphosate - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:25] <exec> 08└─No. Clearly red meat and shift work should also be banned.
[03:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:36] <exec> 08└─Understand the HDMI spec.
[03:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:38] <exec> 08└─Tennyson may apply here? Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Understanding HDMI is well above my pay grade.
[03:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:08:06] <exec> 08└─In Arrival, all in all, the aliens were quite inviting to the humans, and mostly vice-versa - also: Hollywood fantasy movie, remarkable parallels to Close Encounters and any other number of alien encounter Hollywood stories.
[03:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:29] <exec> 08└─It would probably have to be verified with sample returns. Even if a DNA sequencer did go into space, the possibility it's merely detecting contamination would be hard to rule out. The context would have to be carefully studied.
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[04:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:00] <exec> 08└─A cool CEO costs, what $25M a year? Compare to basic R&D that costs 100x that. Cut that shit!
[04:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:01] <exec> 08└─It may not be the best choice economically, but they get a sure-thing tax deduction and first dibs on research group work and students. Conversely, running your own research outfit can make the shareholders cranky because that big new breakthrough may not have immediate commercial applicability.
[04:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:04] <exec> 08└─Remembering AT&T Bell Labs, IBM Labs, Xerox PARC, HP Labs, TI, etc. In the current political and economic situation, do you think companies in USA have the will and means to reverse this decline?
[04:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:06] <exec> 08└─Another reason research should be open and shared rather than hidden and duplicated just because...patents. The world doesn't need more patents and lobbying to support them: it needs good, open, shared research LIKE IT USED TO BE! Fucking corporations.
[04:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:08] <exec> 08└─Anyone know what the tax rules were on R&D, "back then"? I suspect the tax incentives for R&D were quite favourable. Also, with on-shore manufacturing, prototype to production could be done in-house, without too much IP leakage. Now, by the time the CAD files have been emailed to China, a rival comp...
[04:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:10] <exec> 08└─They also got to look at the longer term picture when deciding how to spend their money. Any research, even the most trivial stuff, isn't going to see any fruits until at least a quarter or two down the line. For major stuff it might be years. Part of the problem here is that the absurdly low tax ra...
[04:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:13] <exec> 08└─How much corporate research was shared? Bell Labs and Unix seems to be an exception to the rule. No, I don't have any citations to offer, but patents and corporate secrets have been a thing for a almost a century. Corporate espionage didn't spring into existence just in the last quarter century. Eve...
[04:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:26] <exec> 08└─Didn't see any pictures, but is the family black? In America, generally only the black and the poor get the book thrown at them like this.
[04:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:28] <exec> 08└─In California we were part of the Nielsen ratings family, carrying around pager like devices that picked up what TV/radio show you were tuned in to. The public elementary school here wouldn't allow the devices even though Nielsen ratings provided a letter to the schools explaining that it only picks...
[04:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:30] <exec> 08└─Well it's been many decades since I was nine, but as I recall being too young to provide legal consent myself meant that power fell to my mother.
[04:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:32] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately read the actual text and weep. They let her go on discretion, not because the charges weren't sustainable. In fact they assert their was probable cause for this. That's not a positive outcome.
[04:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 4 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:35] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[04:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:37] <exec> 08└─Presumably that's it, but normally in cases where children aren't allowed to consent, the parents are. Regardless of outcome, whatever the ruling is here will have impacts in the future. Although, shame on the schools for not reporting anything back at all. Silence in cases like this is the same thi...
[04:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 594 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:39] <exec> 08└─Parental consent for the child should count for something in this case. State laws can be confusing. If you want/need to record something, you need to check the laws, and maybe even see a lawyer first. This might be useful in her defense: (a) To intercept or access an electronic communication made t...
[04:06:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:41] <exec> 08└─It's not a "good" outcome, no. But at least they aren't going to burn her at the stake. That "discretion" may well mean that SOMEONE in the legal heirarchy has a tiny bit of sense. But, they want to preserve the law so that they can burn someone else who is causing real harm. Mehhh, I dunno . . .
[04:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:44] <exec> 08└─this is the South. they have extreme difficulty with logic and reason, down there. sorry if the truth hurts.
[04:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:46] <exec> 08└─"That "discretion" may well mean that SOMEONE in the legal heirarchy has a tiny bit of sense. But, they want to preserve the law so that they can burn someone else who is causing real harm." And that would indicate someone that shouldn't be involved in law, because they simply don't get it. When you...
[04:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:48] <exec> 08└─I know families like you. But I can't talk about much, or else I will get banned.
[04:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Commission Approves 5-year License Renewal for Glyphosate - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:59] <exec> 08└─The applied glyphosate has itself an energy cost to produce. Google helped: this cost boils down to 195,000BTU/acre/application [extension.org] (scroll down to 'Table 1. Estimated manufacturing energy inputs for various pesticides (BTUs/lb), typical application rates (lbs/A), and energy per unit are...
[04:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Commission Approves 5-year License Renewal for Glyphosate - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:01] <exec> 08└─Dangerous as red meat? Kills bees and other insects. Probably causes cancer (U.N) Is showing up in the water and food. "By 2016 there was a 100-fold increase from the late 1970s in the frequency of applications and volumes of glyphosate-based herbicides (GBHs) applied, with further increases expecte...
[04:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Commission Approves 5-year License Renewal for Glyphosate - 895 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:03] <exec> 08└─The entire toxicity/carcinogen uproar is a smoke screen. The real issue, or what should be the real issue, is endocrine system activity. Glyphosate, after reacting with a few metals in soil, becomes a hormone quite similar to estrogen. (Most people do not realize that we share hormones with plants.)...
[04:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:14] <exec> 08└─UHD or UHD BD = 3840x2160. This cable can deliver on 8K. 8K at 60 Hz without DSC, or 8K at 120 Hz with DSC. Previous 18 Gbps HDMI cable ("Premium") could deliver 2160p60@8bit formatted as RGB. 10-bit color adoption is still ongoing and I haven't seen much 12-bit since HDR is still very new. Even if...
[04:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:16] <exec> 08└─I feel like an old man, but sometimes I plug this stuff in and nothing shows up on the screen. At least with component or even VGA I knew something would make it through. Also, sometimes it seems like the order in which I turn things on matter. I know this can't be true though because that would be...
[04:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:18] <exec> 08└─Did you try unplugging and plugging it in again?
[04:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:59] <exec> 08└─Is that the new measure of an electric car's economy?
[04:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:48] <exec> 08└─> So you're saying I should stop eating fortune cookies? Marvin Minsky had a good reason for swearing off fortune cookies, story here: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] While I doubt there is any connection to the story above, spe...
[04:11:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:11:12] <exec> 08└─There was a race to reach the moon with a manned landing, and the USSR failed there. The U.S. may have had a PR victory in the space race "battle", but it was earned. Since then, what we've done with unmanned probes and space telescopes has been far more interesting. Great exploration of Pluto, Cere...
[04:13:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:13:29] <exec> 08└─you like fish dicks hehehhahahahohohoho
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[05:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:12] <exec> 08└─Go for a job interview, with all those pushy unanaimated insectoid morons. It is no wonder that America is losing the battle, because the big boys are all Pajeet poodoos and Nguet Nguen idiots who don't understand a goddamn thing about English, Go ahead, save your few bucks. You will lose to Apple!
[05:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:14] <exec> 08└─Given how many private contractors there are in NASA basic research, I suspect that companies are spending plenty on basic research, but it's not their money that they're spending.
[05:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:16] <exec> 08└─I've said this before. Being in the dirty dating scene. The women can stand stinky North Africans, they can stand Whites who have a bare minimum of bathing standard. But one thing they can't stand are those stinky, pushy, Indians. Indians are the most obnoxious of assholes. Nobody in the U.S. likes...
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[05:06:18] <exec> 08└─When IBM was drawing letters with individual atoms, that's not the kind of stuff that gets knocked off, but it is the kind of stuff that leads to innovations like their when their magnetic hard drive storage capacity leapfrogged the standard (Moore's law) increases by a factor of 5 one year... do y...
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[05:06:20] <exec> 08└─My first US patent started with the number 5, back around 1992 or 3, I think. I'm pretty sure there are at least twice that many now. So, from the patent act in 1790 until 1990, there were ~5 million patents issued, and in the following 27 years, there were ~5 million MORE patents issued.
[05:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:23] <exec> 08└─Google seems to fund a good amount of basic research on neural networks and quantum computing. How many times can you invent the transistor?
[05:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:25] <exec> 08└─When Bell Labs and company were formed, taxes in the US were still 5 percent for all income brackets, excluding some asset specific levies that were put into place (like the hemp/marijuana tax stamps and a variety of other things.) Back in those days you innovated, or died. Or in some cases exclusiv...
[05:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:27] <exec> 08└─Apple also hires Pajeet and Nguen, thank you very much. Jobs is dead, long live the turtleneck.
[05:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:29] <exec> 08└─ARRRRRRRGH! I AM WOUNDED! THE HEAT! IT BURNS! I WILL HATE YOU UNTIL MY DYING BREATH!
[05:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:31] <exec> 08└─And how many of those were bullshit software patents or patents for existing things that just added on a computer or on the internet?
[05:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:56] <exec> 08└─The village elders decided that I should not be able to speak too much. Well, whatever.
[05:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:58] <exec> 08└─Can I bug my car as a precaution against thieves? Children are property until 18.
[05:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:00] <exec> 08└─The Hampton Roads region is not "the south". Ever been there? It's one huge military base with a nice resort area at one end. Culturally, it has more in common with Baltimore or Newark than Savannah or Raleigh-Durham.
[05:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03martyb [76] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:02] <exec> 08└─martyb forgot to turn off his magical QA powers when he was poking at something on the CONFIG page and found a bug older than SN that could hose posting new comments if you held your mouth precisely right.
[05:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:04] <exec> 08└─"The girl took the recorder out of her backpack and put it on her desk. That’s where the recorder was found." A party to the conversation can record it there. It seems reasonable to say that the girl was operating the recorder and was a party. Which would put mom in the clear.
[05:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:06] <exec> 08└─Of course they said that. They want to make sure she is too afraid to realize that since it's a one party consent state, the charges were bogus and were meant to intimidate her from the start. She could sue for that.
[05:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:35] <exec> 08└─I know this can't be true though because that would be insane.
[05:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:36] <exec> 08└─I think you and others are missing the fact that comment was meant as a joke. Just look at the part about requiring people to buy adapters.
[05:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:38] <exec> 08└─This cable can deliver on 8K. 8K at 60 Hz without DSC, or 8K at 120 Hz with DSC.
[05:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:40] <exec> 08└─Video used to be much simpler when it was analogue. It was all SECAM, PAL, NTSC or 576i. If it was SECAM, it was D-SECAM, MESECAM or French SECAM, depending on where you were. If it was PAL, it was PAL-M, which was like NTSC; PAL-N, which was like NTSC and like PAL-M; PAL-I; PAL-B/G or PAL-60, anoth...
[05:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:43] <exec> 08└─Yea ordering can matter. And it sometimes takes a long time for all of the DRM to lock in. I put in a BD movie and it blanks several times as the menu is coming up. Hit play and it goes through the cycle again, lights blinking on the amp, the TV blinking the new connection notification, etc. It isn'...
[05:09:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:09:13] <exec> 08└─Scoop one up and put it in a tank, great, now you've totally terrorized the creature
[05:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:10:31] <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?
[05:13:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:56] <exec> 08└─San Francisco and New York have redeeming qualities. There's a stronger case with Los Angeles, though it would be a shame to lose the Getty.
[05:13:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:13:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not a war monger, but I'm not a pacifist either. You fight when you must. This is one of those times. North Korea is a real threat the way Iraq and Iran never were. History condemns Neville Chamberlain for appeasing the early ambitions of the Third Reich, because they wanted to avoid a repeat of...
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[06:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:56] <exec> 08└─Fix for Brexit depression in local population? Trying to get some international trade/medicine tourism after they get out EU? /s
[06:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:57] <exec> 08└─Viagra enables rape couture (easy access clothing). British economic /stimulus.
[06:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:05:59] <exec> 08└─Wonder what this will do to the animal population as more of the chemical runs out of the sewer system. Someone made a documentary on what it does to the human population: https://en.wikipedia.org(film) [wikipedia.org]
[06:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:02] <exec> 08└─Fully Engorged Anglo-Saxons, just bleeding running about? Will no one think of the sheep, then? Oh, the Hugh Maaaaaaaaanity.
[06:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:04] <exec> 08└─Groan. Those types of drugs will kill. I told all of you how they worked years ago. But you won't listen.
[06:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:27] <exec> 08└─...except that the new taxs rules count grad student tuition easement as earned income, increasing their tax burden by anywhere from 30% to 400%. The number of PhDs the USA is going to create is going to drop to... well, close to zero, and the only people who'll be grad students are going to be the...
[06:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:29] <exec> 08└─except that the new taxs rules count grad student tuition easement as earned income, increasing their tax burden by anywhere from 30% to 400%. The number of PhDs the USA is going to create is going to drop to... well, close to zero, and the only people who'll be grad students are going to be the obe...
[06:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:00] <exec> 08└─Hmm, thanks. It was the first thing that came in my mind when I read the story.
[06:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:02] <exec> 08└─CNN story has a picture of the mom and her white lawyer. WAVY has a thumbnail for the updated story showing the mother being interviewed by the local news. CNN probably helped this woman by pressuring them to drop charges. CNN Heroes!
[06:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:04] <exec> 08└─We are not a society of lawyers - we are a society of people. I'm all for enforcing laws consistently but; to be honest; this situation should not have come to the attention of the law. That's where "discretion" is applicable. Once it's in the system there are rules that must be followed... but it s...
[06:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 779 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:06] <exec> 08└─"Wiretapping" laws are a fucking joke since everyone is carrying a spy-phone with a hot mike. Oogle, M$, and SpyOS are tapping everyone within an earshot of every spy phone 24/7 across the US. When will they get charged? Welcome to the new reality, where everyone (even many people who hate spy phon...
[06:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:09] <exec> 08└─"Heroes" this time, when they are not threatening to dox people.
[06:07:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:07:58] <exec> 08└─That was core memory. Bubble memory was something else. And core was made by American grannies.
[06:08:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:08:25] <exec> 08└─There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
[06:09:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 1678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:09:16] <exec> 08└─Flamebait? jmorris is dumber than a bag of hammers. So he no longer eats bags of hammers. I fail to see the flamebaitiness of this post. Please, oh anonymous Soylentil who deemed this post to be flamebait, justify your decision. Expose your reasoning to the light of public opinion. Make your insight...
[06:10:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:36] <exec> 08└─No offense taken at all. My comment was firmly in the realm of "wouldn't if be interesting if...". Suspending multiple tons of equipment seems courageous at the best of times, so if this sort of thing ever happened I suspect it would require a complete re-imagining of harvesting automation. Even as...
[06:11:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:44] <exec> 08└─US espionage of Soviet designs may also have been a factor. I have always been curious if the US actually copied any of the technology: https://www.popsci.com [popsci.com]
[06:11:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:46] <exec> 08└─Slate link [slate.com] I posted has this: Unsurprisingly, the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 sent the space program into a freefall. Manpower fled, and infrastructure began to crumble. But the Russians kept their strong foothold in spaceflight by entering into a multinational agreement (led ma...
[06:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:11:48] <exec> 08└─Well life is change. Without change there is not life. Evolutionary change has long been theorized to be on a geological time-scale. Yet we are finding evidence that that may not be the case. Further, I don't see how stating some low value for the "efficiency of photosynthesis" as a proof of anythin...
[06:14:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Latest North Korean Ballistic Missile Launch Puts Washington, D.C. in Range - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:14:06] <exec> 08└─That's unclear. The high lob trajectories they've been using for these tests put high thermal and mechanical stress on the RV. Some of the analysis I've heard predicts that the current RVs would likely survive a more normal ICBM flight path. But, everything in the open source is suspect (and likely...
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[07:06:01] <exec> 08└─Apart from a Time Zone oddity: 1 in 125.04 (for Pacific) and System Font detection, the most uniqueness appears to come from the WebGL & Canvas fingerprint hashes.
[07:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:13] <exec> 08└─Viagra enables rape couture (easy access clothing). British economic /stimulus.
[07:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:15] <exec> 08└─Bloody Red Pillars of Sexual Bliss and Overstimulation. How are you not dead, yet, Ethanol_fueled? Inquiring minds want to know! (Although, really, we do not actually want to know. Just knowing that it is happening, without us actually have to witness the entire penile engorgement explosion. . . ....
[07:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:17] <exec> 08└─NSFW: This is the secret to Ethanol-fueled's survival [amazon.com].
[07:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:43] <exec> 08└─you beautiful lady, EF. Show bobs and vagene.
[07:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:45] <exec> 08└─Has anyone invented cyberpatents yet?
[07:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:47] <exec> 08└─Spending NASA money and doing (private) research may be two different things. Just sayin'
[07:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:49] <exec> 08└─Let's see: BJT, FET, MOSFET, IGBT... quite a number of times, I guess.
[07:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:51] <exec> 08└─Spending NASA money and doing (private) research may be two different things.
[07:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:27] <exec> 08└─I call him the WIRETAPPER IN CHIEF, he bugged every phone in America!
[07:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:29] <exec> 08└─When you get to pick and choose which laws to enforce against whom, that's no longer rule of law, it's rule of men.
[07:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Commission Approves 5-year License Renewal for Glyphosate - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:44] <exec> 08└─(posting this after 5 hours of staying with this comment opened, I wonder how it'll go) and feeds millions who would otherwise starve
[07:12:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 2256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:12:09] <exec> 08└─Certainly change (and thus evolution) is inherent in life as we know it, and I've never heard anyone make the claim that it only happens on geologic timescales - it happens in tiny increments with every birth and every death. But evolution just causes change - on its own it's extremely unlikely to c...
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[08:05:59] <exec> 08└─Test is useless to me, hangs on browser fingerprinting.
[08:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snospar [5366] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Panopticlick 3.0 Launched - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:01] <exec> 08└─Share on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ ...
[08:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:46] <exec> 08└─increasing their tax burden by anywhere from 30% to 400%.
[08:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:06:47] <exec> 08└─The women can stand...But one thing they can't stand are those stinky, pushy, Indians.
[08:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:26] <exec> 08└─I agree with what AC posted about the Hampton Roads area. There ARE a few bits of Virginia that are still "South", but the southeast corner of the state is not. You only hear a very rare southern drawl - you're more likely to hear a NYC accent than an Alabama or Georgia accent.
[08:08:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:08:45] <exec> 08└─They should replace proof-of-work with proof-of-miles. :-)
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[09:05:59] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a backdoor.
[09:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:00] <exec> 08└─No, sounds like a Front door. Heads, roll, Apple, will. I am master of all I survey, or log in as root.
[09:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Panopticlick 3.0 Launched - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:11] <exec> 08└─The millennials are concerned with "tracking"; they use Panopticlick to make sure that, yes, they are indeed unique.
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[10:06:07] <exec> 08└─It's a feature and you're holding it wrong.
[10:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03http [1920] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:05] <exec> 08└─The fact that you can't follow the basic math [washingtonpost.com] makes me doubt your suggestion that you went to university. Or maybe you can, but you don'twant to follow it, maybe it threatens your livelyhood? I'm just guessing at your excuses, I don't know you aside from the shit you post on SN.
[10:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:06] <exec> 08└─Why do research at all when you can spend NASA's money for nothing?
[10:07:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:46] <exec> 08└─His slur is probably better correlated to this region: https://en.wikipedia.org (check the maps) However, in one word, where's that region? South fits quite well.
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[10:08:02] <exec> 08└─Waiting for a replacement is just an excuse. What usually happens after decisions like this is that everybody happily uses it for 5 more years. After that everyone starts complaining that there is no alternative and we need a few more years.
[10:15:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HP Accused of Installing Spyware on Customers' Computers - 460 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:15:07] <exec> 08└─I didn't think this was such a problem these days. The installation image of Windows 10 is freely available from Microsoft, [microsoft.com] so you 'just' have to worry about the activation/licence. On at least some out-of-the-box machines, there's a Windows 10 licence issued against the hardware IDs...
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[11:05:59] <exec> 08└─How WD Plans to Lead Major Changeover to RISC-V Processing [eweek.com] RISC-V Spins into Drives, AI [eetimes.com] Big Tech Players Start To Adopt The RISC-V Chip Architecture [tomshardware.com]
[11:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03LAV8.ORg [6653] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:09] <exec> 08└─is this the stupidest massive security hole ever?
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[11:09:07] <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.
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[12:06:01] <exec> 08└─I read the article a few days ago on a Dutch biology/ecology news site. The "Martian" soil they use is actually desert soil with similar composition as real Martian soil.
[12:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:03] <exec> 08└─What do you think "Mars soil simulant" and "Mars-like soil" mean?
[12:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03sonamchauhan [6546] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:05] <exec> 08└─I remember some news here about perchlorate concentrations in Martian soil. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] http://www.academia.edu [academia.edu]
[12:06:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:07] <exec> 08└─Gen 2 Mars soil simulant kills all life unwanted pests! https://www.sciencealert.com [sciencealert.com] In the future, he wishes to carry out [volkskrant.nl] tests to determine the effect of Mars' high levels of perchlorate on vegetables - a...
[12:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:16] <exec> 08└─Real industry adoption, by a major player, doing mission-critical work in their core products. Great stuff. Here's to a long and varied future of success for RISC-V. [Raises mug]
[12:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:27] <exec> 08└─Before you rush to download the fix beware the official patch breaks file sharing in some circumstances. https://www.macrumors.com [macrumors.com] Your best bet seems to be to activate the root account and give it a strong password. If you have in...
[12:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:28] <exec> 08└─has any systemd dev transitioned to apple recently? my AI wants to know, I am not sure why.
[12:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:30] <exec> 08└─Siri make me a sandwich, make me a sandwich, make me a sandwich..... - Ok.
[12:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 2 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:33] <exec> 08└─
[12:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Panopticlick 3.0 Launched - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:43] <exec> 08└─Cluster analysis is the window to the soul.
[12:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:12] <exec> 08└─?? This kind of thing happens all of the time. Charges are dropped or downgraded, etc... etc... Maybe the prosecutor's office is understaffed relative to its caseload, so they flat out dump many lesser cases. The enforcement of law in the legal system has always been a mix of written word and human...
[12:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:14] <exec> 08└─hose posting new comments if you held your mouth precisely right.
[12:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:09:34] <exec> 08└─??? makes sense to me. 0. Privacy. 1. Consensus safety. 2. Smart Contract Safety. 3. Scalability.
[12:12:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cosmonaut Claims to Have Found Extraterrestrial Bacteria on the Exterior of the ISS - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:12:55] <exec> 08└─Very likely microbes floating about in the atmosphere can be pushed out into orbit ahead of a volcano plume.
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[13:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:04] <exec> 08└─Get yer green lettuce, beautiful green lettuce. grown locally. Will kill you in minutes. Get yer tomatoes..
[13:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimshatt [978] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:05] <exec> 08└─Maybe this? http://www.coffscordials.com.au [coffscordials.com.au]
[13:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:15] <exec> 08└─Can we say "RISCY business"? "RISC-V business"?
[13:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:17] <exec> 08└─So, I'm lazy, but... assuming they are transitioning away from ARM? Watch this space: https://finance.yahoo.com [yahoo.com] for a reaction to the news.
[13:06:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 43 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:27] <exec> 08└─It's a feature and you're holding it wrong.
[13:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:34] <exec> 08└─Absolutely. Also, is this remote exploitable? I suppose it has to be if you do VNC style screen sharing, but... otherwise? If this can be accessed via default-open ports on network interfaces, this is MASSIVE. If you have to be sitting at the keyboard... meh, could just pick up the machine and walk...
[13:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:36] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the heads-up... have considered dd-wrt many times over the years but never taken the plunge. I did discover (a few days ago, after years of installation) that my Linksys router conspired with my PoE camera to have uPnP enabled by default, advertising my camera to the open internet without...
[13:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EFF: Panopticlick 3.0 Launched - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:47] <exec> 08└─you have to enable javascript, which I do for very few sites.
[13:07:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03EventH0rizon [936] 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 172 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:07:46] <exec> 08└─Happily, the charges have now been dropped [wavy.com] The charges were outrageous, no question. Perhaps this is why the US has the highest incarceration rate on the planet?
[13:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:18] <exec> 08└─De minimis non curat lex, [duhaime.org] right?
[13:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zobeid Zuma [6636] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:20] <exec> 08└─You put discretion in quotes as if you don't believe it's a real thing, but it most definitely is an integral part of our criminal justice system in the USA. Law officers have discretion. Prosecutors have discretion. Judges have discretion. Even juries have discretion, in theory, though the courts h...
[13:11:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03t-3 [4907] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:11:53] <exec> 08└─I've got no idea what spectrum PVs do best with, but the "common knowledge" among users of grow lights is that only the ends of the visible spectrum matter (so red- and blue+) and the middle can be ignored. PV absorb a lot of heat though - this can be put to, many uses although it's rarely considere...
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[13:11:54] <exec> 08└─It's an invasive weed in most areas (a big problem in Minnesota IIRC) you don't need to know much. I'd be interested in the fiber and oil/seed producing hemp varieties as well, I've heard that they intercrop well and make great fodder.
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[14:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:01] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, cheaters screw up games like this for everyone else. On the other hand, young teens cheat, that's just life. Suing a 14yo is just begging for the Streisand Effect. On the gripping hand, WTF is so hard about building some actual security into your multiplayer game?
[14:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:03] <exec> 08└─WTF is so hard about building some actual security into your multiplayer game?
[14:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 1008 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:05] <exec> 08└─So from what I can gather, there are two parts to this. First, a video DMCA takedown'd of him cheating. Second, a claim that he developed the cheat. For point one, it is pretty clear to me that the video should count as fair use or even as a new work. I love how the discussion assumes that the compa...
[14:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:17] <exec> 08└─Add a similar life form: lawyers.
[14:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:28] <exec> 08└─"RISQUE Business"?
[14:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:45] <exec> 08└─Sorry - not Linksys - NETGEAR WNR3500L RangeMax Wireless-N Gigabit Router with USB wouldn't be shocked if Linksys does it too... for "feature" parity.
[14:07:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:12] <exec> 08└─The older people voted overwhelmingly to leave. The younger people who voted to remain and have erectile dysfunction should stop drinking soy lattes.
[14:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:07:13] <exec> 08└─Don't worry, It'll just make them taller.
[14:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:33] <exec> 08└─Her child, as well as all classmates are members of the public.
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[15:06:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 1008 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:08] <exec> 08└─So from what I can gather, there are two parts to this. First, a video DMCA takedown'd of him cheating. Second, a claim that he developed the cheat. For point one, it is pretty clear to me that the video should count as fair use or even as a new work. I love how the discussion assumes that the compa...
[15:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:09] <exec> 08└─The worst part is when you're 14 and don't cheat, but get banned because your reflexes are too good so everyone else thinks you're cheating. Aka why I don't play fps anymore (also controllers suck and the multiplayer community is on consoles).
[15:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:12] <exec> 08└─I remember years ago when Modern Warfare had been out for 3-4 months. I suddenly started dieing much more frequently and, watching the kill cams, it was obvious some people were using wall hacks and aimbots. Posted about it on the MW3 message board and got flamed mercilessly. "OMG quit blaming your...
[15:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:14] <exec> 08└─Snotnose is an accurate handle. Zomg cheaters! It's a game, grow up.
[15:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:16] <exec> 08└─Cheaters in competitive gameplay make the game unplayable. Adults don't have time for that. Grow up and stop cheaters.
[15:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:18] <exec> 08└─Now IANAL, but it's my understanding that minors cannot enter into a legally binding contract in the US on their own. If that is true then any terms and conditions stated in the EULA should be null and void, and EPIC should have no standing to bring a case against the minor for any claims rising for...
[15:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:21] <exec> 08└─Watch the last link in the summary.
[15:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:23] <exec> 08└─You do realise that capitalism is basically competitive play, with money to keep track of your score, right?
[15:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:25] <exec> 08└─Mixed? Suing a child because he used cheat codes? What is wrong with you?
[15:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:27] <exec> 08└─Is there a transcript anywhere by chance.
[15:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:30] <exec> 08└─IDDQD
[15:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:32] <exec> 08└─It should be possible to detect cheating on the server, right? It ought to to simple enough to build cheat detection into the matchmaking system to pair cheaters and suspected cheaters together. Then they can go play a different game while the non-cheaters play the game as intended. It works even if...
[15:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:34] <exec> 08└─On the gripping hand, WTF is so hard about building some actual security into your multiplayer game?
[15:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:36] <exec> 08└─That happened with my brother, a hardcore gamer and a very, very good one at that. In college, he and his roommate, a hard core Quake III/Tribes/UT player who was in top tier clans, would play counterstrike and other FPS games together. Their problem? They were repeatedly banned from servers being a...
[15:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:39] <exec> 08└─And people go to jail for cheating in capitalism! ZOMG STOP CHEATING! I understand there is corruption and back dealing and cronyism and all sorts of unsavory stuff going on... Just like in multiplayer games, however there are still quite a few that do get caught and punished. They get their ranking...
[15:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:41] <exec> 08└─The cheaters then enter a meta-gaming game of competitive cheating rather than competitive play. In some ways that would rock, in other ways that would totally suck because competition breeds a better product and that may lead to cheats so good they are EXTREMELY difficult to detect... So the cheati...
[15:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:43] <exec> 08└─LOL! No chance one or more players were in the same room on different machines? I remember playing CS with my brother in the "computer room" where we had both of our PC's. Once killed, you were allowed to flip through the other players cameras or even free fly around the map in "ghost" mode waiting...
[15:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:45] <exec> 08└─I listened to the YouTube lawyer analysis and read many of the YouTube comments and only have this to say. What the fuck is wrong with you gamers? Seriously? It's a GAME! If you don't like cheaters, ban them, but to justify suing a kid because he shows others how to cheat is absolutely insane. I hav...
[15:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:59] <exec> 08└─Why are you hating on earthworms?
[15:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 1835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:00] <exec> 08└─Let's go back to my Navy days. "General quarters, general quarters, all hands man you battle stations. Engineering, boiler room 2 has a simulated battle casualty . . . blah blah blah." Simulated casualties. We're going to walk through a missile (or gun, or mine, or torpedo) hit, and pretend that the...
[15:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:02] <exec> 08└─I'm sorry, I was assuming they were related because one can never be sure if one is dealing with its front or back end.
[15:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:14] <exec> 08└─Eh? Is RISQUE an acronym?
[15:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:15] <exec> 08└─Don't give them ideas - next thing we know we'll have a RISC management engine.
[15:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:34] <exec> 08└─Your camera used UPnP to open up a port forward on the router all on it's own? Holy shit what a nightmare.
[15:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:03] <exec> 08└─Perhaps they'll have a good time.
[15:08:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 206 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:56] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately read the actual text and weep. They let her go on discretion, not because the charges weren't sustainable. In fact they assert their was probable cause for this. That's not a positive outcome.
[15:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:24] <exec> 08└─They do NDAs just like everyone else now.
[15:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:25] <exec> 08└─Well, I mean, I could still post since I have direct access to the db but arguing with myself just isn't as satisfying and who would I troll when the mood strikes me?
[15:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:09:28] <exec> 08└─Anyone you like - you have direct access to the db!
[15:10:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:10:03] <exec> 08└─It was meant to be Funny not Inciteful. I don't think tripping over cables will ever completely disappear. Which brings up another good reason to have locking connectors. When you trip over cables, and it does happen, even if less frequently; tripping over the cable has a non-zero probability of cau...
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[15:10:22] <exec> 08└─Yes, you are correct. I meant that. I can't believe I wrote that wrong without reading it carefully enough.
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[16:05:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:55] <exec> 08└─How does porn make any money? Given that pretty much any porn you could want is available for free, and there are (so I'm told) tens of thousands of videos, how can anyone actually make any money distributing it, let alone filming new stuff?
[16:05:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:57] <exec> 08└─Why does anybody pay for stuff on Patreon, or pay camgirls?
[16:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:59] <exec> 08└─I guess some folks just prefer blatantly unrealistic actors in their porn. Beats the hell out of me why but to each their own.
[16:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:01] <exec> 08└─well this sort of government overreach was completely predictable. macron is an authoritarian piece of shit cloaked in transparent phony social ideals. the slaves that voted for him are ridiculous idiots.
[16:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 3749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:29] <exec> 08└─Well that's pretty interesting. What do we think of that? I have a few problems with this. First, a 14-year-old child can in fact enter into a contract. Now, how enforceable that contract is... sure, children definitely do have different contract rights than adults. But that doesn't mean that a chil...
[16:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:31] <exec> 08└─The worst part is when you're 14 and don't cheat, but get banned because your reflexes are too good so everyone else thinks you're cheating. Aka why I don't play fps anymore (also controllers suck and the multiplayer community is on consoles).
[16:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 3843 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:33] <exec> 08└─Imagine a new type of Triggerbot that is completely external to the OS on which the game is running. An external computer, with computer vision, looking at the gameplay. Perhaps through a webcam. When an opponent enters into view, it is automatically targeted and shot by providing correct mouse / ke...
[16:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:35] <exec> 08└─I generalized my search with a Node, a BreadthFirstSearch>, etc where T extends NodeInterface that provides basics like the child node iterator, examine function, etc.
[16:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:37] <exec> 08└─There are other ways to cheat than achieving "perfection". For example I've personally seen someone use a lag switch [wikipedia.org] to degrade the Internet connection to their Xbox. And of course, there are countless instances of in-game bugs being found and exploited to a player's advantage with n...
[16:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:39] <exec> 08└─Posted about it on the MW3 message board and got flamed mercilessly. "OMG quit blaming your poor play on hackers!" "MW3 is the most secure game ever developed, no way can it be hacked!" etc etc etc. I've been doing multiplayer from the beginning and I know how to spot cheaters. Turns out I was right...
[16:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:56] <exec> 08└─Except, that soil is held at earth temperature, with an earth atmosphere, and earth ambient levels of radiation, at earth gravity.
[16:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:06:58] <exec> 08└─Will edible plants grow in this Mars simulant soil, with earthworms, in a Mars like atmosphere and solar cycle? If so, would they spread and spread to cover the entire planet? Is there enough moisture in the soil on Mars, the planet, for actual plant growth? (Or do we even know?)
[16:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:00] <exec> 08└─Crops have grown in microgravity - yes. But, they haven't germinated, grown, gone to seed, for multiple generations yet. Like, thousand of generations. I'm not saying that they WON'T reproduce properly, but we don't yet know that they WILL. Now, despite the plans, temperature and atmosphere will be...
[16:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:14] <exec> 08└─RISC-V Quality User Experience RISC-V Quality Useful Exceptional
[16:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe we do already and we just don't know it. Or maybe that's what they want you to think. Or maybe Obama's birth certificate was signed using a weak cryptographic key. Or maybe the aliens are behind it.
[16:07:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rob_on_earth [5485] 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 360 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:27] <exec> 08└─Before you rush to download the fix beware the official patch breaks file sharing in some circumstances. https://www.macrumors.com [macrumors.com] Your best bet seems to be to activate the root account and give it a strong password. If you have in...
[16:07:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:35] <exec> 08└─Typical bullshit cover up excuse. Perhaps they hired someone from Equifux that worked on security.
[16:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:37] <exec> 08└─You can't expect people to deal with technical mumbo-jumbo when they bought a shiny new camera to spy on their pets and kids when they are at work.
[16:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:39] <exec> 08└─It's pretty clear. Logic errors give a result opposite of intent.
[16:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 452 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:09] <exec> 08└─I guess it was no longer possible to blackmail people using the drug. There should never be prescription requirements for any drugs except a few. Travel is not so hard, and people will find everything in other countries. Let them have anything they want. Try not to babysit them. It was a political d...
[16:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:08:11] <exec> 08└─Trying to get some international trade/medicine tourism
[16:09:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 4 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:03] <exec> 08└─Yes.
[16:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:34] <exec> 08└─You could troll yourself - multiple personality disorder is fun! No it isn't. Shut up, wasn't asking you. You shut up. You want to take this offline, tough boy? Why yes, c'mon let's go outside.........
[16:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:35] <exec> 08└─And that then gets exploited by parent who wants to wiretap others and doesn't give a fsck that they are using their kid to do it. (Think custody, just for starters.) After all, who thinks the kid will understand?
[16:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:09:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know for sure, but don't they have to assert that lest it give the parent prima facie grounds to sue for false prosecution?
[16:10:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:10:33] <exec> 08└─It didn't start out like this. I was here in the first week or two after SN started and it was much better. SD and SN have both gradually deteriorated over time. All good things must end someday. After enough trying people get tired of it and just resort to "you're an idiot".
[16:11:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:11:04] <exec> 08└─yes, i think there's a good chance that all the zerocash based coins (zcash, zclassic and zencash) are all nsa/mosad honeypots. they are all dependent on the original 6 zcash keys. lots of little fishy things have happened in these projects too. i'll be using eos instead of ethereum.
[16:12:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06U.S. Supreme Court to Hear Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking Case - 581 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:12:12] <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...
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[17:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:58] <exec> 08└─The authors don't expect automation will displace jobs involving managing people, social interactions or applying expertise. Gardeners, plumbers, child and elder-care workers are among those facing less risk from automation. So people who don't like spending all day talking to people and interacting...
[17:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:59] <exec> 08└─Here's how much interaction a plumber needs. Arrive at customer's residence. Hear their (possibly bullshit) explanation. Examine the broken toilet, sink, washing machine, etc. Do the 5-30 minute fix, recommend replacement, etc. Give them the bill and leave. With some basic human interaction mixed in...
[17:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:01] <exec> 08└─Nope. You entirely missed the point. Interpersonal activity won't be automated away because it requires human thought. Ditto plumbing for both social and non-social reasons. If you want job security, learn to do something that requires you use your brain. No, I don't mean white-collar work; I mean a...
[17:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:04] <exec> 08└─Dude, I've been a plumber and you're on the crack. Nothing about plumbing is ever routine. Well, okay, maybe a tenth of the jobs don't have some fucked up aspect to them but they're very much the exception. Until you can convince humanity that it shouldn't have the house it wants but should instead...
[17:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:06] <exec> 08└─I didn't say that robot plumbers were viable. My point is that great social interaction isn't needed. The customer just wants the stuff fixed.
[17:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:08] <exec> 08└─There was a coal miner. The coal mine closed.1 So he got a job as an assembly line worker at an automobile maker. Then his job was replaced by a robot. So he became a truck driver, because those trucks aren't going to drive themselves. No weigh ever. I saw a YouTube video yesterday evening. A diesel...
[17:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:10] <exec> 08└─I mean anything that needs a human around to make a judgment call when shit goes sideways.
[17:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 869 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:13] <exec> 08└─It seems like introverts are going to have a very hard time in the future You don't know what an introvert is. An introvert isn't someone who's antisocial. It's someone who can't deal with social relationships more than a set number of hours per day, and needs time to disconnect and be on their own...
[17:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:24] <exec> 08└─A lot of the time the free stuff uploaded to streaming sites is just clips from the full-length product, which can be rather difficult to dig up from pirates uploading it.
[17:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:25] <exec> 08└─We've had that much technology since the early days of television. As soon as there were two or more channels in an area, people learned to tune in to what they preferred to watch. Or, even to turn the television off. Don't like porn? Don't watch porn. FFS, some people are so damned stupid. I don't...
[17:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:28] <exec> 08└─How does music make any money? Given that pretty much any music you could want is available for free, and there are (so I'm told) tens of thousands of songs, how can anyone actually make any money distributing it, let alone recording new stuff?
[17:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:30] <exec> 08└─Aside from anyone's views of the morality of porn and prostitution, the industry frequently treats young girls as meat, mostly those without any star power. On xvideos, it is not hard to encounter videos where women face raped beyond any reasonable simulation of power dominance sex fantasies into ac...
[17:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:32] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree with that, however not all of your examples are equal. I don't like kiddy porn, I don't watch kiddy porn.
[17:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:34] <exec> 08└─How does porn make any money? Given that pretty much any porn you could want is available for free, and there are (so I'm told) tens of thousands of videos, how can anyone actually make any money distributing it, let alone filming new stuff?
[17:06:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 808 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:37] <exec> 08└─Here's a situation where a government nominally wants to reduce misogyny, but they're willing to tackle free speech to make that happen. Ignore the fact that the nature of the internet makes a lot of censorship efforts moot anyway. So which is more important: mandated equality and fairness toward wo...
[17:06:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03iru [6596] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:39] <exec> 08└─Thats accurate. 90s: "Video games are violent and are making kids violent". Now: "Video games are sexist and are making kids sexist".
[17:06:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:41] <exec> 08└─You're right, but not all that much right. For the purpose of my argument, it matters little how legal the viewing material might be. I did mention bestiality, as well. Beasts aren't recognized as having the capacity to consent to having sex with humans either. I believe that bestiality is illegal e...
[17:06:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:43] <exec> 08└─People pay for things like spotify. Do people really pay for porn? Well I guess they must, after all Trekkie Monster said "In volatile market, only stable investment is porn!" But when people used to pay for porn in the 70s and 80s (with magazines like playboy and videos from seedy shops), it seems...
[17:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:46] <exec> 08└─Animals can consent to sex no matter what the so called justice system says. Animals show clear signs of arousal when they want to have sex with humans. Time to move to Wyoming [wikipedia.org] which had the good sense not to ban it.
[17:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:48] <exec> 08└─I don't think there's a lot of money in the industry. But it's very cheap to make a porn video -- production values are usually rock bottom and it shows.
[17:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:50] <exec> 08└─On xvideos, it is not hard to encounter videos where women face raped beyond any reasonable simulation of power dominance sex fantasies into actual abuse of women with little representation, and frequently, addictions to drugs, or frequently being high on those drugs during 'acting'.
[17:06:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03coolgopher [1157] 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 10 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:58] <exec> 08└─Epic fail.
[17:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:25] <exec> 08└─Haha yaaa, I've never seen people get angry in other hobbies. Pool, cycling, any sports basically. I've seen people get angry in real life when they think they're being cheated. Yup, all heroin addicts!! I will say you should make sure his gaming doesn't interfere with a normal life, but otherwise c...
[17:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:26] <exec> 08└─Is using this tool a cheat?
[17:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:29] <exec> 08└─I don't know if that's "the worst part" or not. How about, you get into a game, only to find that EVERYONE bots? So, you bot, just to keep up. But, you're the one who gets caught, and banned? To add insult to injury, one of the premier scripters is HIRED BY the game maker, because he apparently unde...
[17:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:31] <exec> 08└─I've not known if modding survives commenting here.... I hope it does because you got +1 for me for the Niven and Pournelle reference. Maybe Epic are simply Moties, and must be sealed off from the rest of the Internet for the protection of the Empire of IT.
[17:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:33] <exec> 08└─Thank you. I despise being forced to watch videos when I can read the content in 1/10th of the time.
[17:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:35] <exec> 08└─I dunno, you just don't seem like an ex-navy midwest farm boy. Probably just a ton of troll accounts around here, apropos topic to find that out in.
[17:07:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:38] <exec> 08└─And people go to jail for cheating in capitalism!
[17:07:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 433 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:40] <exec> 08└─If they were smart, they would just ban him and get on with life. Alas, they already showed they're not that smart. So instead parents will learn that letting their kids play Epic games opens them to an unreasonable liability. Meanwhile, since the suit has nothing to do with copyright but Epic claim...
[17:08:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:00] <exec> 08└─Crops have grown in microgravity - yes. But, they haven't germinated, grown, gone to seed, for multiple generations yet. Like, thousand of generations. I'm not saying that they WON'T reproduce properly, but we don't yet know that they WILL.
[17:08:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:01] <exec> 08└─Can drills and simulations prepare you for a real battle? Of course not, not all the way. I've never been in battle either and I'm not going to pretend that I can ever really imagine what it's like. But surely all a battle simulation is is an attempt to transfer the lessons learned by people who HAV...
[17:08:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:18] <exec> 08└─in the third link it said that nvidia will be moving to risk for their GPU microcontrollers. it's going to feel weird moving to all nvidia, assuming they helped more with nouveau...
[17:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:41] <exec> 08└─"Siri make me a shit sandwich, make me a shit sandwich, make me a shit sandwich..... - Ok." There, FTFY.
[17:08:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Panopticlick 3.0 Launched - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:08:54] <exec> 08└─No you don't. It redirects me to a bunch of "blah.tld/something-something-nojs", but if I click "allow" for all redirects, it works. I run the full paranoia suite of NoScript, AdBlock, RequestPolicy, Ghostery, and User Agent spoofing. All but four of the tests give a "no javascript" result.
[17:09:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:49] <exec> 08└─This is has blatantly obvious for a long time now; it's certainly not news in almost-2018, and has been talked about and written about for many years now. In the current political and economic situation, do you think companies in USA have the will and means to reverse this decline? No.
[17:09:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:50] <exec> 08└─I do not believe there is any danger to longevity. It's turtlenecks all the way down.
[17:09:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:53] <exec> 08└─Congrats. That's the winning business plan of the day sir!
[17:09:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 407 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:55] <exec> 08└─On the surface semiconductors seem simple. But after {con | in}sulting YouTube videos, I see that there are a surprising variety of semiconductor devices. All with different applications. We could just talk about variations on a diode [sparkfun.com]. How many and what they are for. Zeners. Light Emi...
[17:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:09:57] <exec> 08└─Before we talk to badly about corporations*, it's not as they aren't investing in innovation. Modern corporations are trying all sorts of unheard of innovations at litigation in the courtroom. Making software patentable. Yes, that actually is a thing now that once was not. Rounded corner rectangles....
[17:10:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Zinho [759] 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 351 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:07] <exec> 08└─This is why wiretapping laws should only require the knowledge of one party. Two party/all party laws are admirable for their protection of privacy; unfortunately, they are too often used to prosecute victims who have no other way to prove that they've been abused. Bonus points for the abusers being...
[17:10:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:50] <exec> 08└─charge her with "attempting to hold agents of The Masters accountable", which is punishable by multiple years in a torture colony, evidently.
[17:12:30] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03xorsyst [1372] 02 - 06 Brilliant Octopus Covers Herself in Shells to Hide from a Hungry Shark - 186 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:12:31] <exec> 08└─Well, if you want to get really picky, you should use octopodes: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com [oxforddictionaries.com]
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[18:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:15] <exec> 08└─You don't know what an introvert is. An introvert isn't someone who's antisocial. It's someone who can't deal with social relationships more than a set number of hours per day, and needs time to disconnect and be on their own the rest of the time. I know full well what an introvert is, and you're ab...
[18:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─I agree that very little interaction is needed for this transaction. Think in the long term. Humanoid robots, sufficiently developed, could step into just about any role that humans currently occupy. Today's humanoid robots are absolutely amazing to anyone in the 80's. Tomorrow's humanoids will be j...
[18:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:19] <exec> 08└─But then, with ever more energy hungry machines on the planet, and the trend for renewable energy, maybe he will get a job at an electricity production treadmill. Solves three problems at once: Fights obesity as people do physical work again, gets people employed, and generates green energy as peopl...
[18:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 2541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:21] <exec> 08└─A diesel truck mechanic describing his belief that he and fellow mechanics will be out of a job in ten to fifteen years if the Tesla truck becomes predominant. No transmission. No oil changes. Nuclear explosion proof windshield. No engine work. No broken cooling hoses. Maybe tire replacements. Possi...
[18:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:23] <exec> 08└─Probably pr0n star jobs are safe from automation, for now. Not necessarily. Total amateurs are buying software packages and models now that are scarily life-like (iRay is one name I hear about). Pretty soon, you'll be able to use software to generate your own movies with virtual actors that look lit...
[18:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:26] <exec> 08└─Others don't feel comfortable spending even 8 hours chatting with people,
[18:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:28] <exec> 08└─Predictions about the future are quite often wrong. If this one is accurate, we cannot know up front.
[18:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:52] <exec> 08└─If you want "mandated equality and fairness toward women", then you allow this. Do you think women are incapable of consenting? Do you want to treat them like children? Plus what about when there are no women involved at all? Do you only want to bad stuff for straight people? Macron's wife might be...
[18:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:53] <exec> 08└─They don't reference the drugs, but they are often high. There are plenty of accounts about this online, and also commonsense. Power dominance porn? I mean the videos that go under extreme facefucking, gag hoes, puke bitches, slap, etc. Sure some of it uses cutshots, makeup, and playacting. But a lo...
[18:06:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:55] <exec> 08└─As long as she was sexy when she was 39, no crime was committed.
[18:06:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:58] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't advocate banning porn. I would regulate it heavily. Its all too common where poor very young women who didn't realize they signed up to get abused by assholes who take her to near suffocation, and on't listen to her cries. You should see how many women break down crying afterward with bru...
[18:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:00] <exec> 08└─She was in a position of authority over him. Teachers, prison guards, superior military officers... all have this issue. She could threaten his grades. She could reward him, causing unfairness to the other students. (unless she went for all of them!) Plus of course age 15... unless maybe France has...
[18:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 932 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:02] <exec> 08└─Considering the filth that is exchanged back and forth in video games. Filth being the language used, I could see a correlation regarding "Video games" making kids sexist / racist. Though, I would say the vast majority of that isn't the Video game itself. It's the other people in those Multiplayer g...
[18:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:45] <exec> 08└─Oh come off it, he did more then that. He posted a video how to use not cheat codes, but cheating applications. Then when it was taken down he contested it. Not only that but he put up another how to video, and bragged about refusing to take them down. With the counter DMCA EPIC has to either give u...
[18:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 939 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:08] <exec> 08└─My smart assed answer popped into my head. I thought, "No, no, calm down - Great Aunti is being serious." But, I thought of my smart assed answer again. And, it's not all that smart assed, really. "The only winning move is not to play." Anyway, that out of the way - the simulations have extremely li...
[18:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:09] <exec> 08└─Since you already poo on the fields, just pee at them, too. :-)
[18:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:11] <exec> 08└─Compared to Earth, we've barely scratched the surface. Even on Earth, we've barely scratched the surface, but we don't generally care too much about what's going on down below, so long as it doesn't kill us. Oh, also, if it could make us a profit. We like profit.
[18:08:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 786 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:50] <exec> 08└─Yep, and UPnP is the default state for most consumer routers. My parents followed the suggestion they saw online of using a three router setup. They called me when their internet stopped working and "tech support" called and said they wouldn't be reconnected until they fixed something or had one of...
[18:09:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Panopticlick 3.0 Launched - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:04] <exec> 08└─You can swap out 4 of those with uMatrix. But if you are going to keep Adblock and Ghostery, at least turn off acceptable ads and Ghostery's tracking.
[18:09:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 466 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:25] <exec> 08└─Why would you include illegal gains in your GDP? Are those included in Central and South American countries? I would hazard a guess that some of those would be "worth" quite a bit more, if those numbers were included. Unless you have drug sellers and prostitutes reporting on their yearly income, the...
[18:10:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 1275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:06] <exec> 08└─Look my view is that we should have less taxes, and grad student stipends are a good thing to not tax. But it's not the end of the world here even should this particular proposal end up in law. This grad student, for example, can move to a region with lower tuition and living costs. The school can...
[18:10:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 361 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:20] <exec> 08└─I'm talking about her apparent ignorance of the law. Mostly though I just needed to make a comment on an article to make sure comments were un-hosed again. martyb forgot to turn off his magical QA powers when he was poking at something on the CONFIG page and found a bug older than SN that could hose...
[18:10:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:10:59] <exec> 08└─I got into fisticuffs with a caltech administrator. The charges were dropped when I agreed to 72 hours in a nuthouse My record gives no details just "Furtherance of justice"
[18:11:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:01] <exec> 08└─Interesting. They went cheap as fuck on me. I got a little tiny book that looked it had been printed in the 50's. Recorded everything by hand, and then mailed it back in. Got a couple of bucks for it.
[18:11:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06HDMI 2.1 Released - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:11:39] <exec> 08└─I bought a bunch of cheap magnetic breakaway cables off of Amazon. They are great for accidental trips, or being around the kids, or when I'm at work or home and need to leave for an appointment. Just close the lid and walk away an I don't have to suffer the fact that you cannot ever seem to plug US...
[18:14:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Agrophotovoltaics Increases Land Use Efficiency by Over 60 Percent - 1448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:14:42] <exec> 08└─I've been wanting to get one of those -- after having gotten stranded with a dead battery more than once. Particularly since every time my battery dies I get it tested and the tests say it's in perfect shape. Automotive electrical systems are garbage. It should not be that hard to tell if a battery...
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[19:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Create a Faster 3D Printer - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:58] <exec> 08└─Pick Two
[19:05:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Create a Faster 3D Printer - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:59] <exec> 08└─Sounds like they've simply borrowed ideas from injection molding, is there anything really new and interesting they thought of?
[19:06:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Create a Faster 3D Printer - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:01] <exec> 08└─Faster, cheaper, better, more primitive technology. Pick three.
[19:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Create a Faster 3D Printer - 3 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:04] <exec> 08└─:-D
[19:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:26] <exec> 08└─I might have seen that movie plot a few times. Two easy ones. Terminator and The Matrix. Anyone else?
[19:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:27] <exec> 08└─2 hours and I'm out :/
[19:06:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:30] <exec> 08└─You guys are thinking nothing but repair jobs. And only the very simple ones at that. Quite a good bit of a plumber's work is social. On new homes, remodels, additions, and the like you have to be ready to find out precisely what the customer wants, explain why they can't or shouldn't have it, give...
[19:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:32] <exec> 08└─Shutting it down? Yeah... fantastic option when water's filling up someone's basement. No, I mean the guy who doesn't do anything but grumble a few colorful words under his breath and adapt to the new circumstances when shit gets atypical. As both a programmer and a plumber, I know there is no way i...
[19:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:34] <exec> 08└─You have a waaaaay higher threshold than I do. I can tolerate the human race for maybe 4 hours a day before I start thinking of frighteningly detailed scenarios involving Chixculub-sized asteroid impacts. Less if I didn't sleep enough.
[19:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:36] <exec> 08└─I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.
[19:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:06] <exec> 08└─Breeder sluts deserve to face the consequences. There should be less regulations not more.
[19:07:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:07] <exec> 08└─What is the "official" view on this from the left? There isn't one. Many feminist organizations are pro-porn. Or, at least, proponents of the idea that women should be free to pursue porn if they wish. I've linked examples on this topic before but not gonna try that search at work!
[19:07:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:10] <exec> 08└─They don't reference the drugs, but they are often high. There are plenty of accounts about this online, and also commonsense.
[19:07:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 640 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:12] <exec> 08└─I suspect that you are judging France by the laws applicable in your own country. You may like your own laws and think they are wonderful - and indeed they might be - but rest assured that not every country agrees with that premise. The age of consent in France is 15 years. Macron's wife did not com...
[19:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:14] <exec> 08└─Having worked at a porn company (network/server security). I can honestly say LOTS of people pay for porn. On avg most of the sites we ran made 80-100K/month. Niche sites would be EVEN more.
[19:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:17] <exec> 08└─Millennials will ruin it, as usual.
[19:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:19] <exec> 08└─Do you speak from experience?
[19:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:21] <exec> 08└─To compare to the U.S., IIRC some U.S. states have an age of consent of 16 but consider it to be 18 if the older party is a teacher or other authority figure.
[19:07:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:23] <exec> 08└─A star of French porn films has challenged President Emmanuel Macron to meet with him and female porn actresses after France's leader aroused his anger
[19:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 1320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:07] <exec> 08└─Security is fine and all, but this is security through obscurity AND oppression. Reminds me of when the FBI picked up Dmitry Skylarov because he showed the Adobe's security was basically a wet paper napkin. A total abuse of power to defend code that could defend no one. I'm all for security in multi...
[19:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:08] <exec> 08└─Thank you!
[19:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:11] <exec> 08└─Never judge humanity based solely on YouTube comments. Or do, and prepare to utterly condemn humanity.
[19:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:13] <exec> 08└─but why play at all like that? yeah people cheat, kids cheat. if everyones cheating that is a different league with a handicap, that is not cheating. pick another league.
[19:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:15] <exec> 08└─you can even be president! not only that, his high score isn't officially published so we have to take his word on what he believes his self-worth is. if only the real donald trump could share with us what he believes right now about this.
[19:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:40] <exec> 08└─A simulant, eh? I think it means he really needs to re-watch Blade Runner!
[19:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:41] <exec> 08└─You're holding it wrong. Oh wait....wrong thread!
[19:08:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:59] <exec> 08└─> birth certificate was signed using a weak cryptographic key New geek idea: The same way that nobles and Chinese people used to seal or sign stuff with custom stamps, I'm gonna get stamps made with the customer's Public Key to sign official papers, checks and letters. Patent pending.
[19:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:00] <exec> 08└─I hope you can fit all 16,384 bits on there.
[19:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.rubberstamps.net/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=WOODSTAMP16 [rubberstamps.net] alternatively: https://tufel.files.wordpress.com [wordpress.com]
[19:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:27] <exec> 08└─> > is this the stupidest massive security hole ever? > Perhaps, but the remote root vuln in DD-WRT's httpd server is stiff competition. People spent a couple decades booting billions of PCs to desktop as root with no password, and therefore Microsoft would like to kindly remind you that their insec...
[19:09:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snospar [5366] 02 - 06EFF: Panopticlick 3.0 Launched - 39 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:36] <exec> 08└─Share on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ ...
[19:09:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06EFF: Panopticlick 3.0 Launched - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:43] <exec> 08└─The Millennials are your bosses by now. We need a new name for the generation of kids that are currently on your lawn.
[19:09:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EFF: Panopticlick 3.0 Launched - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:09:45] <exec> 08└─How about PASHes? Phone-addicted shit heads.
[19:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 632 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:06] <exec> 08└─It is economic activity, after all. Money goes from Peon the bank, recorded. Money goes from bank to Banker, recorded. Money goes from banker to whores and dealers, not recorded. Money goes back to bank from pimp, recorded ... What's the point of leaving a gap in the middle ? Objective assessment of...
[19:10:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:10:48] <exec> 08└─Bell Labs was founded in 1925. [wikipedia.org] The tax rate in 1925 was well above 5% [insidegov.com] Your good-old-days revisionist history is trivially disprovable.
[19:11:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:43] <exec> 08└─From the last paragraph, it appears that she is considering a lawsuit. Typical mealy-mouthed response from the school admin, I see.
[19:12:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03KilroySmith [2113] 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 465 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:12:33] <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,...
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[20:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:00] <exec> 08└─How does this program determine what is a commercial, and what is desired content? As an extreme example, will you be able to record this movie [imdb.com] with that feature enabled?
[20:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:02] <exec> 08└─And, I don't have to pay a subscription fee to use it.
[20:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:04] <exec> 08└─You might laugh but there are enough people who enjoy reading junk mail to keep big companies operating. "Do you know why direct mail offers always say 'BUY NOW! DON'T DELAY!'?" -- Dave Johnson [seeingtheforest.com] "No. Why?" -- Me "Because it works." It's known as a call to action. Business websit...
[20:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:06] <exec> 08└─Let's try … MODERATE THIS POST UP! DON'T DELAY!
[20:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:44] <exec> 08└─Pretty much the entire plot of Glenn Beck's Agenda 21 [amazon.com]. A few lucky folks got jobs tending the children (not the same ones with jobs gestating them).
[20:06:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:46] <exec> 08└─>>> Humanoid robots, sufficiently developed, Your friend Arthur would tend to agree: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." But we will always be chasing "sufficiently". You can't just assume that into existence. Long after we develop something that can crawl down a...
[20:06:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:48] <exec> 08└─The 5 second rule is my limit.
[20:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:50] <exec> 08└─We can't even automate after-meal cleanup in the kitchen, let alone the plumber in the crawl space. The closest we've come is the dishwasher. But we serve it, rather than it serving US.
[20:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:52] <exec> 08└─Lund said. "Yes, work will be automated, [but] there will be enough jobs for everyone in most areas." The authors don't expect automation will displace jobs involving managing people, social interactions or applying expertise. Gardeners, plumbers, child and elder-care workers are among those facing...
[20:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 1115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:54] <exec> 08└─The energy produced by humans on treadmills is less than or equal to the energy they consume from food. Effectively the human becomes a biochemical machine to convert plant (or animal) matter to energy. Even if humans are permitted Big Macs to have some animal food matter, those beefs must be bred,...
[20:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:57] <exec> 08└─Long before we actually went to the moon, there were movies about it. Movies with plots are not necessarily wrong. There are other sci fi things that became reality. Terminator, Matrix or the VIKI of the 2004 movie I Robot are not necessarily wrong just be we don't like the outcome. Not to mention m...
[20:06:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:59] <exec> 08└─The Tesla trucks have a motor per wheel, no gearbox. Ceramic bearings need no lube, don't know if Tesla is using them though.
[20:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 593 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:01] <exec> 08└─You're not thinking long term enough. You're thinking like today's technology is the endpoint of the evolution of technology and it will never improve to things we don't have today. At one point someone getting a job as a truck driver might say: those trucks aren't going to drive themselves. We are...
[20:07:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 640 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:35] <exec> 08└─I suspect that you are judging France by the laws applicable in your own country. You may like your own laws and think they are wonderful - and indeed they might be - but rest assured that not every country agrees with that premise. The age of consent in France is 15 years. Macron's wife did not com...
[20:07:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:41] <exec> 08└─And now we know what kind of porn that sick sadistic bastard watches.
[20:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:07:43] <exec> 08└─Good old Manuel! He KNOWS assfucking, and doesn't want to be on the receiving end (from Macron)!
[20:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:32] <exec> 08└─Thanks, I will.
[20:08:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 1749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:33] <exec> 08└─> I have many high rated friends who refuse to play online because they believe they will be playing computers and not people. I was a professional chess player, made it to class A, but I moved on in large part because computers showed me the hopelessness of the all human approach to improving at th...
[20:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:35] <exec> 08└─He posted a video how to use not cheat codes, but cheating applications. Then when it was taken down he contested it. Not only that but he put up another how to video, and bragged about refusing to take them down. With the counter DMCA EPIC has to either give up, or sue.
[20:08:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:37] <exec> 08└─You can also just read the transcript I transcribed above. But you may be interested in the Tuber's other videos.
[20:08:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:40] <exec> 08└─Oh come off it, he did more then that.
[20:08:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:42] <exec> 08└─Haha yaaa, I've never seen people get angry in other hobbies. Pool, cycling, any sports basically. I've seen people get angry in real life when they think they're being cheated. Yup, all heroin addicts!! I will say you should make sure his gaming doesn't interfere with a normal life, but otherwise c...
[20:09:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:09] <exec> 08└─That simply moves the problem of where the water comes from.
[20:09:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:09:10] <exec> 08└─How much water is contained in a whoosh?
[20:10:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:32] <exec> 08└─Soy isn't dangerous to men, I'm told, so you can stop worrying about your precious bodily fluids, and the dispensers thereof. I, on the other hand, need to be careful, because too much of the phytoestrogens can do bad things to a person's ovaries. It's not the soy lattes that are hurting our menfolk...
[20:11:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:11:15] <exec> 08└─Yes, there may be 5 million MORE patents, but of those half are junk like patenting "swipe to lock/unlock". That's no patent, its just IP protectionism games. USA companies are investing in R&D - OOgle, aceBook .. the WRONG companies, pouring millions into researching how to strengthen themselves as...
[20:12:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:12] <exec> 08└─Yeah, the school administration's response is about as sincere as "your call is very important to us..." after an hour on hold. I'm glad the woman wasn't scared off and I hope her lawsuit goes through, especially against the prosecutor's office.
[20:12:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06European Commission Approves 5-year License Renewal for Glyphosate - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:29] <exec> 08└─Makes me a monster jmorris to even suggest discussing such a thing but whatever.
[20:13:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03fakefuck39 [6620] (Score: -1) 02 - 06Great Balls of Graphene: New Samsung Tech Could Charge Phones Five Times Faster - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:10] <exec> 08└─Maybe read before replying. My comment was not about how idiots like you mod things. It was about how a site that has a lack of users and comment content should not aggressively block comments, and how doing that is shooting themselves in the tiny crotch. Do learn to read fucktard.
[20:13:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ethereum Lays Out Plans for Next-Generation Blockchain - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:13:42] <exec> 08└─So, naming the revision to fix all issues really a casting problem: b10 == 2.0
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[21:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:02] <exec> 08└─A generation of teenagers will learn how to set up VPNs, a valuable life skill
[21:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:04] <exec> 08└─> If selected, Britons could be dealing with AgeID as the principal gate Change title to Private National Porn Habits Database. Who's gonna buy Mindgeek first? Google or Facebook?
[21:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:06] <exec> 08└─Britain is a place that to me is too stupid to survive. Guns bad: Ban Guns Now Knives Bad: Ban Knives Now Spoons Bad: Ban Spoons Now Muslim Bad: RELIGION OF PEACE YOU ISLAMOPHOBE!
[21:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:08] <exec> 08└─Well, the best thing to do is to get a hold of the cabinet members' IDs and use the exclusively for porn site IDs (*) It is data noise when you limit the number of IDs used and it would be simple to use one single IDs for all those accesses for everyone. If it is blocked, then you simply take the ne...
[21:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:11] <exec> 08└─Who's gonna buy Mindgeek first? Google or Facebook? Disney
[21:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:13] <exec> 08└─Spoons aren't banned, neither are knives (for adults) There's an argument Weatherspoons should be banned for crimes against beer, but that's about as serious as nationalising greggs.
[21:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:15] <exec> 08└─lolwut [bbc.com]
[21:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:25] <exec> 08└─More than a decade ago. And it worked nearly perfectly. The irony is there's nothing really new on TV in the last decade so I've mostly stopped watching. My wife still watches Survivor and The Amazing Race.
[21:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:27] <exec> 08└─I was expecting something more like http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com] but then you've got abstract issues like http://www.imdb.com [imdb.com] A semi serious answer is more than a decade ago mythtv relied on commercials being exactly 30 seconds long in a big bunch with...
[21:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:29] <exec> 08└─Modded down because I'm one of those people who will do the opposite of what advertisers and pressure groups say :D Not a dig at you personally.
[21:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:31] <exec> 08└─Stop watching TV. Admit it, there isn't anything on. You use it to burn away time because you're too unmotivated or tired to do anything else. Watch a youtube instructional or technology video instead. Metal working, gardening, flowers and nature, a yoga video, anything. Removing TV is a lot like re...
[21:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:34] <exec> 08└─HOLY CRAP! IT WORKED!
[21:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:36] <exec> 08└─Aw, not you [theonion.com] again.
[21:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 490 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:38] <exec> 08└─I was never bold enough to enable it, especially in the UK where it may not detect as well as in the US, however one feature I always used was "skip forwards 120 seconds" and "skip back 5 seconds". Adverts were almost exactly 240 seconds long, so "next next back" was fine for me. I haven't watched a...
[21:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Create a Faster 3D Printer - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:48] <exec> 08└─It's MIT, so no.
[21:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Create a Faster 3D Printer - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:50] <exec> 08└─Which is itself a valuable invention.
[21:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Create a Faster 3D Printer - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:52] <exec> 08└─Applying existing methods for very similar processes to another process isn't really an invention, it's common sense. Injection molding machines have had screw feeds since their inception. Lasers are new (I think at least, I've been out of field for a few years), but are they capable of doing high-v...
[21:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:29] <exec> 08└─Damn that Cotton gin! It put so many slaves out of work!
[21:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:30] <exec> 08└─Interesting; I'm only familiar with the mechanicals of their cars, not the trucks that are still in the prototype stage. Wheel motors have been proposed for a long time for electric cars, but real-world cars don't use them because they're a terrible idea: they're really heavy, and the last thing you...
[21:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:12] <exec> 08└─Why does anybody pay for stuff on Patreon, or pay camgirls?
[21:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:14] <exec> 08└─I noticed something. You are an asshole. Also, you don't address the main point. But, I get it. You are an asshole.
[21:09:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:11] <exec> 08└─Maybe not jail, I do believe MANY should have gone to jail, however money was confiscated http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com] https://www.cnbc.com
[21:09:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:12] <exec> 08└─go outside and get a fucking job
[21:09:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:14] <exec> 08└─They did ban him, multiple times. He opened new accounts and kept on trolling.
[21:10:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 850 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:03] <exec> 08└─The sanctums proposal satisfies remote computing and DRM: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] There are recent attempts at formal verification: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu [berkeley.edu] It's basically a cleaned up SGX that could allow a p...
[21:10:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:28] <exec> 08└─You misspelled sudo.
[21:10:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03ElizabethGreene [6748] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:29] <exec> 08└─Can we blame it on systemd?
[21:10:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Apple Creates Ridiculous Security Hole in MacOS High Sierra; Patch is Available - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:10:32] <exec> 08└─No, because MacOS is based on BSD, not Linux, so it's systemd-free.
[21:11:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Viagra to be Sold Over-the-Counter in the UK - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:11:10] <exec> 08└─Why would you include illegal gains in your GDP?
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[22:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:12] <exec> 08└─I absolutely love this idea. Enough that I'm going to start using a VPN endpoint in the UK for all my porn browsing needs.
[22:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:13] <exec> 08└─I boycott Wetherspoon's because they supported Brexit. I boycott Amazon because they abuse their staff, and I've never used Uber.
[22:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:15] <exec> 08└─So this is the wedge they will use to make mandatory online identification a reality. UK is lost.
[22:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:18] <exec> 08└─Bad news. Too many people start using VPNs they'll soon go the way of net neutrality.
[22:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:20] <exec> 08└─So this is the wedge they will use to make mandatory online identification a reality.
[22:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:22] <exec> 08└─Good luck. I've never logged into any porn site, or paid one, ever. I come from an older generation that had to fight for porn. If you were 10 years old and had a page torn out of a Playboy/Hustler, it was akin to searching for gold and finding it. Paying some place for it? Honestly, going into one...
[22:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:24] <exec> 08└─> First they came for the wankers... Doesn't work. Everybody's a wanker, health permitting.
[22:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:26] <exec> 08└─A lot of wasted effort if they stop halfway. Absolutely no reason for the progression to be interrupted.
[22:06:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:29] <exec> 08└─- UK men will get Viagra over the counter - UK people will lose anonymous porn Just when: - Women all around the world are speaking up about sexual harassment. What could possibly go wrong?
[22:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:31] <exec> 08└─Indeed... Disney already owns the largest porn studio company in the US. They bought them in about 2012, IIRC.
[22:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03isostatic [365] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:49] <exec> 08└─Interesting=2, Overrated=3, Total=5 Turns out you're not the only one. Poor chap.
[22:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:50] <exec> 08└─Admit it, there isn't anything on. Yes, there is. Game of Thrones is excellent and well worth watching. However, it doesn't have any commercials..... (However, it requires a subscription to HBO, so I recommend finding "alternative sources" to view it.) Watch a youtube instructional or technology vid...
[22:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:52] <exec> 08└─So I cut the cord a couple years back. Some of our media is on my NAS, some on netflix etc. On Turkey Day I switched over to one of my OTA stations so the kids could see the parade. When they cut to commercial break my oldest kid (~3.5 years) said "Daddy - I don't like this show, change it back." If...
[22:07:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 4614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:44] <exec> 08└─The best analogy I read was look at how the Star Trek series over the past fifty years has portrayed how computers will be in the future. They get some things semi-accurate (Tablets instead of PADDs.) But for the most part they're actually wrong. I wish I had the citation where I first read that, bu...
[22:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:46] <exec> 08└─Managerial jobs usually do, and those were specifically mentioned. Most customer-service jobs do too, depending on how busy the establishment is. Honestly, all the jobs that are most likely to be automated away that I can think of are the ones that are best-suited to introverts, or don't require tha...
[22:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:29] <exec> 08└─She was his teacher. She was grading his tests and homework. She could demand sex for a good grade. That improperly influences him, and it is unfair to the other students. Is that really OK in France? What about superior officers in the military? What about prison guards? What about a judge hearing...
[22:08:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:31] <exec> 08└─That's because I'm not arguing your main point; I'm arguing that the evidence you claim to present for it doesn't exist where you says it does. You can find porn that goes too far anywhere. You saying it's "not hard to find on xvideos" is incorrect in my experience. But maybe I'm just not trying har...
[22:08:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:33] <exec> 08└─Surely you're not surprised that I'm not buying a single Anonymous Coward's handwavy "everybody knows" evidence?
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:33] <exec> 08└─Zomg cheaters! It's a game, grow up.
[22:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:34] <exec> 08└─They're just playing a different game than you. Or the same game by slightly different rules. Whatever. In any case they are better at it than you. Stop complaining like a baby. Get good and play the game by the new rules or go find another game.
[22:09:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─There is no guarantee that any business model must be profitable. If online competitive gaming isn't profitable it doesn't become an existential crisis for our society or even our economy. If we try to force it to be so through sacrificing our freedom, then I would say we have clearly failed to do t...
[22:10:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earthworms Reproduce in Mars Soil Simulant - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:06] <exec> 08└─Probably enough water to be worth ten million dollars on Mars.
[22:10:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Western Digital to Transition Consumption of Over One Billion Cores Per Year to RISC-V - 880 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:28] <exec> 08└─We can be happy every time such a libre solution scores a design win and gets a bit more entrenched. I'm wondering what strings have been pulled behind the scenes. I've been dabbling in the world of DLX-descendents, particularly with a bit of work on the Microblaze Linux port for a vertical market c...
[22:11:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06US Companies are Investing Less in Science - 374 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:11:52] <exec> 08└─When IBM was drawing letters with individual atoms, that's not the kind of stuff that gets knocked off, but it is the kind of stuff that leads to innovations like their when their magnetic hard drive storage capacity leapfrogged the standard (Moore's law) increases by a factor of 5 one year... do y...
[22:13:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:05] <exec> 08└─You could troll yourself - multiple personality disorder is fun! No it isn't. Shut up, wasn't asking you. You shut up. You want to take this offline, tough boy? Why yes, c'mon let's go outside.........
[22:13:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:13:14] <exec> 08└─The fundamental problem being that the writing of laws is a mix of written word and intent. While that's true everywhere, the US Special Blend of Cronyism, legal bribery, stash of contradicting case law, and need to find standing before you can start the extra-long process of getting even a blatantl...
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[23:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Reusable Rockets Could End EU's Arianespace, and Other News - 791 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:02] <exec> 08└─SpaceX can save even more money if they just follow the Rat Rod [tumblr.com] crowd, and forget about repainting everything every time, and just paint what has to be painted for metal protection. (Some paints are ablative or corrosion protection and serve a purpose other than looking good). Probably...
[23:06:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX's Reusable Rockets Could End EU's Arianespace, and Other News - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:04] <exec> 08└─They says it is not a technical issue. It is an economic issue and the break even point is at least 10 reuses. Seems like ULA is scrambling. The real story may be that reuse may result in more reliability with tested vehicles and the break even point may not matter if the reusable is cheaper on the...
[23:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX's Reusable Rockets Could End EU's Arianespace, and Other News - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:06] <exec> 08└─Considering the weight added by painting such a big surface, I would bet the paint has a good reason the be there. With RTLS, they may save a bit on the corrosion compared to the barges, but they're still right on the ocean, loading super-cold stuff under bright southern sun. The refurbishment bill...
[23:06:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:30] <exec> 08└─research shows that exposing kids to porn can be damaging
[23:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:31] <exec> 08└─What about all those kids with glasses?
[23:06:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:34] <exec> 08└─Those who haven't yet reached puberty aren't.
[23:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:36] <exec> 08└─Linky please.
[23:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:38] <exec> 08└─You should take up farming, because you can find a reason to boycott any and every company on earth. Soon you will have nothing to eat, wear, drive, ride, drink, sleep in, watch, or listen to.
[23:06:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UK Age Verification Could Lead to a National Porn Habits Database - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:40] <exec> 08└─Pass a law requiring all porn sites to identify themselves with a special HTTP header (X-XXX-Content?) or an analog for non-HTTP distribution. Then let the private sector sell parents filtering software that uses this identification. Public spaces can install these filters as a matter of course, and...
[23:07:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:01] <exec> 08└─BeyondTV used to do it back in the day as well. I guess everything old is new again.
[23:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:02] <exec> 08└─but YouTube has commercials too
[23:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Forget Fast-Forwarding, Plex DVR Can Now Remove Commercials for You - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:05] <exec> 08└─Stop watching TV.
[23:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Create a Faster 3D Printer - 3265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:18] <exec> 08└─The laser is the part I have questions about in this rig; neither filament feed rate nor linear travel present a serious limit to how fast you can lay down material. The real bottleneck these days seems to be heating capacity on the print head. If you're feeding Xmm of filament per second and the fi...
[23:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Create a Faster 3D Printer - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:20] <exec> 08└─I think I need to finally get around to building a 3D printer.
[23:07:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Zinho [759] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Engineers Create a Faster 3D Printer - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:22] <exec> 08└─This isn't the kind of screw you're thinking of; they're using filament that has a threaded profile on the diameter, then spinning a barrel nut around it to drive the filament. Their logic was that the traditional drive wheels didn't have enough engagement with the filament, so they figured out a wa...
[23:08:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:04] <exec> 08└─There's a large (single-owner, it seems) plumbing operation in SoCal. Their trucks (full-on rolling advertisements) are fully outfitted and ready to do most jobs. He calls his operation The Smell Good Plumber. [google.com] He doesn't seem to have a problem keeping all of his trucks manned. In his co...
[23:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:05] <exec> 08└─why is it too difficult to conceive of automated [...] plumbers? As Buzzard already noted, the installed base was put in by humans and no 2 of those are alike. Similar deal for homeowners. a scripted demo of Asimo You'll need a script for every plumbing permutation in existence. Good luck with that....
[23:08:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 1574 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:07] <exec> 08└─The dishwasher saves you from having to manually scrub and rinse every individual dish. It doesn't save on moving the dishes between the eating table and the kitchen, or putting the clean ones back in the cupboard. Eventually we'll have robots (humanoid ones) that can do those simple tasks, but it'l...
[23:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:09] <exec> 08└─Definitions: Social: You are invited and you go to the party Asocial (like asynchronous or asymmetrical): You are invited to the party but you don't go Anti-social: You are NOT invited to the party but you crash it anyway and spoil everyone's fun Really Anti-social: You go to the party and try to ki...
[23:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:12] <exec> 08└─"Human" is NOT a race. The races are Negroid, Caucasoid, Mongoloid, and Australoid. Human is a species. On top of this, race is a pseudoscientific thing. Though Abel and Baker may appear to be of the same race, Abel's genome could easily be closer to Charlie's--even though Charlie appears to be of a...
[23:08:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report Claims That Automation Will Displace Hundreds of Millions of Jobs by 2030 - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:14] <exec> 08└─We're going to end up with neural links. The basics of that tech already works in labs and you can DIY a crude hack to both control and sense things you normally can't. No one will need paper, tablets, or computers (I'm sure many people will want to keep them around for a few generations). Everythin...
[23:09:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:00] <exec> 08└─I have to say, I like Canadian feminist Wendy McElroy [wendymcelroy.com]'s overview and opinion on the issue. In general, I believe there's a way to do porn that respects the rights of performers. There's also porn that doesn't do that. And what laws that exist regarding porn should focus on that, n...
[23:09:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Entropy [4228] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:02] <exec> 08└─Violence against women from porn? How about rape gangs from "urban youths": http://www.digitaljournal.com [digitaljournal.com] http://www.frontpagemag.com [frontpagemag.com] ..There's literally a ton of resu...
[23:09:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:04] <exec> 08└─I remember when The Bugs Bunny Road Runner show was "the most violent show on TV" . What. A. Laugh. Kids who didn't know you'd die if you jumped off a cliff are probably dead from something else.
[23:09:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03idetuxs [2990] (Score: 1) 02 - 06French Porn Star Hits Back at President Emmanuel Macron's Plans to Censor Online Porn - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:06] <exec> 08└─Obviously through real life concerts, shows and branding. That's about it. The streaming industry have its share but it's not significant to the artists. You can relate this to a sports player, say Mayweather, Lio Messi, etc. People show up to watch them and companies pay them to appear alongside th...
[23:10:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:09] <exec> 08└─I haven't seen that anywhere. But nevertheless, Epic has still made it clear that the most rational parental decision is to ban all Epic games until they become less sue happy.
[23:10:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Epic Games Sues 14-Year-Old after He Files a DMCA Counterclaim for a How-to-Cheat Video - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:10:11] <exec> 08└─The solution is to play for the fun of the game and not the need to have the highest score.
[23:13:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Virginia Parent Charged After Putting Digital Recorder in Daughter's Backpack to Catch Bullies - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:13:48] <exec> 08└─Discretion is a real thing but it's NOT what happened here. Discretion is to come into play after a criminal act has been committed. What criminal act was committed here? By the lady in question, I mean, not by the police or school administration.
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