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[00:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:14] <exec> 08└─Let's just leave it at "extra-terrestial", OK?
[00:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:15] <exec> 08└─You sound like you don't think our brothers in space didn't send those meteorites into specific places at specific times to help the needy.
[00:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:17] <exec> 08└─Come on Snotnose your anonymity is here is done, you are clearly Giorgio A. Tsoukalos.
[00:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:20] <exec> 08└─That would be because I do not. If you have been around to see as many religions rise and fall, some rather nastily, as I have, you would come to realize that for any particular phenomenon, there are near infinite possible theoretical explanations, and of those at least one with involve a deity, and...
[00:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:22] <exec> 08└─Reminds me of the story of the Eskimos that had an iron meteorite and mediated access to it for important tools. Then the Europeans came and stole it from them.
[00:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:24] <exec> 08└─If you have been around to see as many religions rise and fall, some rather nastily, as I have
[00:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:26] <exec> 08└─"Out there where the huskies go, don't you eat that yellow snow." (much thanks for Frank Zappa!)
[00:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Google Research Proposes New Foveated Rendering Techniques for VR - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:40] <exec> 08└─There is a lamp in there ?
[00:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rts008 [3001] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Research Proposes New Foveated Rendering Techniques for VR - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:47:42] <exec> 08└─...like the lamp in the background that would only lower your "FPS".
[00:48:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Accused Downloader Points Out Company Sold Away Rights - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:48:14] <exec> 08└─From TFA: Interestingly, an undated addendum to the licensing agreement, allegedly created after the lawsuit was started, states that the filmmakers would keep their “anti-piracy” rights, as can be seen below.
[00:49:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canola Oil Linked To Worsened Memory And Learning Ability In Alzheimer's - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:24] <exec> 08└─> Remember how margarine was supposed to be better for you than butter? Sure, it would be nice to have some real research on foods like the ones mentioned in this article https://www.rodalesorganiclife.com [rodalesorganiclife.com] The article is based on interview...
[00:49:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A Spectator Who Threw A Wrench In The Waymo/Uber Lawsuit - 1158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:49:46] <exec> 08└─I believe a large part of the reason for this is that the patent office is not sufficiently adversarial. Put yourself in the shoes of an examiner for a moment. You are tasked with reviewing a patent that has a questionable level of inventiveness, submitted by superbigco. If you decide to reject the...
[00:50:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snotnose [1623] 02 - 06LA Weekly Bought; Staff Fired - 520 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:50:09] <exec> 08└─I lost my house in the divorce 10 years ago, my rent has increased some 60% in the last 3 years. Not to mention they fired the on-site janitor, so the place is junkier, and they cut down on watering, so the landscape is on life support. The cost of living in Southern California is getting ridiculous...
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[00:52:49] <exec> 08└─https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Atheregister.co.uk+lily+cole [google.com]
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[01:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:11] <exec> 08└─"Pentagon" refers to the building but is also the nick name for DoD.
[01:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:47:28] <exec> 08└─Which of those are from ET rocks? Don't leave us hanging.
[01:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Accused Downloader Points Out Company Sold Away Rights - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:48:17] <exec> 08└─I don't know, khallow, I just don't know!
[01:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canola Oil Linked To Worsened Memory And Learning Ability In Alzheimer's - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:49:28] <exec> 08└─we now have the media concentration required to block out that anti-profit cancer messaging It's important to note that the populace still owns the broadcast spectrum. What is required to get things back to where they were before Reagan: 1) Elect a president who appoints an FCC that represents The P...
[01:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06LA Weekly Bought; Staff Fired - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:50:30] <exec> 08└─When dad dies I'm out of here. Till then i'm stuck. He's 89, not doing well, someone needs to take care of him. Sucks that I've lived here since '63 and am being forced to leave the area I grew up in, plus the friends I made 40+ years ago.
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[02:47:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:11] <exec> 08└─The audit passed.
[02:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:13] <exec> 08└─So it's an audit, usually considered a good thing. This is what happens when you elect a businessman over a bureaucrat.
[02:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:15] <exec> 08└─September 10th 2001 Secretary of Defense of the USA declared war on the Pentagon bureaucracy over an alleged $2.3 trillion in unaccounted for funds on expenses. Obviously this kinda got forgotten...
[02:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 751 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:17] <exec> 08└─> ...what happens when you elect a businessman over a bureaucrat. The fine article does not support your opinion: For the Pentagon to get to this point, it has been, as they say, a process. The U.S. government established requirements for each agency to present financial statements back in the 1990s...
[02:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:19] <exec> 08└─Odd way to poo it
[02:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:22] <exec> 08└─including Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz including Democratic nominee geriatric criminal and Republican Sen. Ted Cruz robot human like guy. If you are going to go insulting go all in. FFS...
[02:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Research Proposes New Foveated Rendering Techniques for VR - 555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:54] <exec> 08└─So in 20 years we can use these techniques ourselves. Personally I just need regular (and cheap!) VR headsets, supporting basic tracking and at least 2160p per eye (ideally with quality scaling/sampling features so I can run it at lower resolution with older hardware.) I mostly want them for johnny...
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[02:47:55] <exec> 08└─That was maybe 5 years ago. Now? He does cyberwar. It's more patriotic and the employment is more reliable. Actually, I know several game developers doing cyberwar, including one that is Wikipedia-famous. It could have something to do with game developer supply and demand.
[02:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Research Proposes New Foveated Rendering Techniques for VR - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:47:57] <exec> 08└─So in 20 years we can use these techniques ourselves.
[02:48:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:18] <exec> 08└─When women ovulate, they are attracted to manly men. They are less interested in metrosexual types. They tend to avoid their fathers. When women are on birth control, it goes the other way. Consider how this can ruin a relationship. A women goes for a man she likes. She then goes on birth control an...
[02:48:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:20] <exec> 08└─On one hand, it might accelerate progress on the male pill to help get women off theirs. On the other hand, the thought that taking this new pill might increase cancer risk for men might make them leery of it. One thing's for certain - abstinence will continue to be as (in)effective as ever.
[02:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:48:22] <exec> 08└─One thing's for certain - abstinence will continue to be as (in)effective as ever.
[02:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canola Oil Linked To Worsened Memory And Learning Ability In Alzheimer's - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:49:47] <exec> 08└─My first thought was... probably due to thyroid-inhibitory effects of phytoestrogen (tho offhand I couldn't find good numbers for rapeseed). Which wold explain why "weight gain" is one of the effects.
[02:54:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goddess Savitri Devi [6815] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Same-Sex Marriage Legalized in Austr(al)ia - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:54:04] <exec> 08└─That's not true. And if you're a Christian, you should note there's nothing about lesbians being an abomination; only gay dudes. Lesbians are as natural as the sun. I don't even know what that means.
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[03:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:19] <exec> 08└─No, it just tells us who won that war.
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[03:47:21] <exec> 08└─Augean Stables.
[03:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:39] <exec> 08└─In many religions gods are aliens too.
[03:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:40] <exec> 08└─I think he means the ancient black Egyptians from Ethiopia who spread agriculture, iron tools, quantum mechanics, and astrophysics all over the world. Oh, wait...
[03:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03rylyeh [6726] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:47:42] <exec> 08└─Obviously, Excalibur was made from an iron meteoroid!
[03:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:24] <exec> 08└─Just let the contraceptive aside and you'll have both kinds** --- ** Limits and conditions apply. E.g. boobs - limited to only two per person. Lately, the menist movement registered a leap ahead in physical (boobs) equality.
[03:48:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:26] <exec> 08└─An ex of mine went on the pill while we were together and she almost immediately began getting yeast infections pretty regularly. As soon as she stopped using birth control pills, the yeast infections stopped. And since most of you are men, and many of you are men who rarely see pussy, let me tell y...
[03:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Goddess Savitri Devi [6815] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:48:28] <exec> 08└─Aryan women should never use birth control as their purpose is to have as many Aryan babies as possible. Mongrel women and filthy jew cows should have hysterectomies as children. Mongrel men and jews should just be castrated at birth. If we take these important and necessary steps, we can rid the wo...
[03:51:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Trump's Foreign Aid Rule on Abortion: "Women and Girls Will Die" - 507 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:20] <exec> 08└─The US should never have stirred the pot, agitating Japan to attack us thereby "forcing" us into World War 2. But we are still stirring every pot we can find, in countries where we have no business even being. There may be a difference between how the world has worked and how the world should work....
[03:51:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Trump's Foreign Aid Rule on Abortion: "Women and Girls Will Die" - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:51:27] <exec> 08└─But is this a case of the donor wanting to influence a law that has been passed by a democratically elected government?
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[04:47:10] <exec> 08└─-icense. Someone is going to code up The Wrath Of God then wield this terrible weapon to smite those who have done him wrong.
[04:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:26] <exec> 08└─Now that the DoD has sophisticated auditing procedures in place we should get a better handle on the screws, toilet seats, and hammers that make up the procurement side of the military. But we shouldn't expect miracles. Some minor items, like $400 billion jet fighter programs, will probably still fl...
[04:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:27] <exec> 08└─You know what this means? Audit? Ethanol_fueled will be forced to find a real job! And in the mean time, while he is soaking in that wonderful Socialist Republic of Californication Unemployment Insurance, we will have to put up with his crap even more than currently! Will no one think of the childre...
[04:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:47:48] <exec> 08└─That's theological efficiency.
[04:48:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Research Proposes New Foveated Rendering Techniques for VR - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:07] <exec> 08└─and it's still in widespread use. So is the transistor. Perhaps you're familiar with it.
[04:48:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:35] <exec> 08└─Of perhaps, just perhaps, the lifestyles of the people who choose to be on birth control pills is different in ways that increase their risk of breast cancer? No, how could THAT possibly be, it must be the pills. Sigh
[04:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:37] <exec> 08└─this is basically yet-another big-pharma scam
[04:48:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:48:39] <exec> 08└─Challenge accepted (from the male's point of view)!
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[04:48:41] <exec> 08└─Stopped cottage cheese after that.
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[04:48:44] <exec> 08└─It's a complex thing to weigh the risk. On the one had, you have a small increase in breast cancer, but an unplanned pregnancy has a lot more risks in several kinds of wellbeing, not just physical health. The pill has the advantage of being always on, unlike some other methods that have to be applie...
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[04:48:52] <exec> 08└─The really odd part is that the plaintiff claims there is some sort of bare right to sue, essentially some sort of fictional right to treat the courts as a settlement mine for profit. Defendant notes that even should such a crazy thing exist, plaintiff is not the party that supposedly retained it. T...
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[05:47:10] <exec> 08└─They already did. We call it perl.
[05:47:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:28] <exec> 08└─For $400b they'd better be able to fly under the radar.
[05:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:47:29] <exec> 08└─send in the ghosts [soylentnews.org]
[05:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Research Proposes New Foveated Rendering Techniques for VR - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:48:10] <exec> 08└─Why control Predator drones with multiple monitors when you can use a VR headset?
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[05:53:30] <exec> 08└─Do you not consider what Tarn Adams does a "real job"?
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[06:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:47:37] <exec> 08└─Shameful, really. The entire government should be required to follow precisely the same rules as every company. If companies manage to file a full set of audited accounts every year, with updates every quarter, the government should do the same. If some rules are just too onerous to be useful, well....
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[06:47:39] <exec> 08└─Erf, yes, well... I'm all for government transparency, but I wish these facile examples of waste would just die. They essentially all stem from the same source: Takes some contract for, say, 3 airplanes and 5 replacement toilet seats. Total cost $X billion, with allowed overhead expenses of $Y milli...
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[06:48:00] <exec> 08└─Isn't religious efficiency accepting direct debit?
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[07:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:38] <exec> 08└─Or maybe the toilet seat budget is paying for the photocopying budget on some black op or spy satellite project. Aside from the direct corruption, I figure the black budget (or rather, lazy accounting involving the black budget, to go with your theme) is the main other reason why it's taken so long...
[07:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:39] <exec> 08└─Given that you could potentially be E-F as well, it could also mean more posts by you. That's dire portents indeed! I must retire to my fainting couch.
[07:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:47:41] <exec> 08└─No, no need, my dear fluffy khallow! You are paid by the Department of Agriculture, also know as the Department of the Interior, blessings be upon Zinke and his transportation expense account! So I am not worried about you! Well, I am worried about your mental health and level of education, but at...
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[07:48:24] <exec> 08└─So is the transistor. Perhaps you're familiar with it.
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[07:48:57] <exec> 08└─I'm guessing he meant that the reformulation of the pills is a scam.
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[07:48:59] <exec> 08└─An association with breast cancer was [americanthinker.com] already known [slate.com].
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[08:47:40] <exec> 08└─No, you're misinformed. The audit failed, and because of this The President has decided to simply shutter the whole shop - "You're all fired!". All employees will be discharged in an accelerated process (it was discovered that there actually are no funds left to fly them all back to the US) and most...
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[09:47:10] <exec> 08└─from the story: Daniel Su, Two Six Labs' research engineer, told Ars he doesn't believe the bug can be fixed in existing safes. That assessment, he said, is based on the fact that the flaw resides in the firmware that runs on the safe. "We have not seen any evidence of there being a firmware update...
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[09:47:11] <exec> 08└─A Safe, with a firmware update mechanism: not a safe. So this one, with promiscuous bluetooth and properly no way to hack the firmware to open the safe, which is already open, is not actually a safe, then. Let us just consider it to be a large metal box that some keep their manhood inside of. Fai...
[09:47:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 1540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:47:13] <exec> 08└─Electronic safes...aren't. We could rage on this specific product (and it is a stupid product, on a lot of different levels). Which makes the consumers who bought it... Anyway, this happens at all levels. A bank in our small town installed a fingerprint reader on their main safe, so they didn't have...
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[09:47:27] <exec> 08└─Taykon, thank you for the submission, an interesting read. Google for the moment, seems to be a one-trick-pony. The problem at hand is related to text data, i.e. DNA sequences, yet the engineers translate it to an imaging problem by creating images that contain the sequences in graphical form (the a...
[09:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bitcoin Forks and How to Split Them - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:49:38] <exec> 08└─They actually seem to be designed to discredit the Bitcoin Cash fork by association. Several of the forks have been scammy: including linking to Bitcoin stealing wallets on their website. https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com
[09:50:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canola Oil Linked To Worsened Memory And Learning Ability In Alzheimer's - 878 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:50:33] <exec> 08└─Canola is the number two Frankenstein crop, perhaps only surpassed by wheat. The pretext is that nothing is done that nature doesn't do anyway. The reality is that nature does it very slowly and the surrounding ecosystem can adapt in turn. We are eating stuff that we may yet need to adapt to, and we...
[09:51:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03hman [2656] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Spring-Loaded Sensor For Cholesterol In Cells - 709 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:51:44] <exec> 08└─There are lots of documented side effects to statins. Some are well documented (Rhabdomyolysis and others). Some are controversial but discussions are (finally!!) mounting. So finally something is moving in this area, but yes there could be a major factor of patents playing into the status quo. Her...
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[10:47:15] <exec> 08└─Which makes the consumers who bought it...
[10:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 627 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:17] <exec> 08└─I don't entirely agree with your assessment. A lot of places use electronic locks because they're more secure than physical ones: the reader just has to do an RSA or similar signature verification check, most of which is in hardware and the rest is a few dozen lines of code. It's pretty hard to get...
[10:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:19] <exec> 08└─The safe is also the most expensive of the top 20 bestsellers on amazon, by a large margin, so lots of people seem to equate "expensive" with "effective" https://www.amazon.com [amazon.com]
[10:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:21] <exec> 08└─> so lots of people seem to equate "expensive" with "effective" Not necessarily stupid equation to make. There is probably a correlation at least.
[10:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 630 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:23] <exec> 08└─Actually the bluetooth stack doesn't need to be the weak part either, as in principle all it should do is to deliver the key to the lock. So if done correctly (which means using encryption between the lock and whatever provides the key, so the actual key is never seen by the Bluetooth module), the w...
[10:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Goes From Sorting Cat Pics to Analyzing DNA - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:47:39] <exec> 08└─So they use visualization in order to make the data better consumable to their AI? Seems their AI is indeed very human-like. ;-)
[10:48:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:48:05] <exec> 08└─You call that insulting? "That orange guy"? Compared to all the things one COULD call Donald Trump, I'd say referring to him as "that orange guy" is practically dripping with praise.
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[11:47:23] <exec> 08└─Hmm https://cars.usnews.com [usnews.com] https://www.caranddriver.com [caranddriver.com] $23,000 vs $420,000 (US pricing - in Australia, $24,000 vs $855,000) Eighteen times better? Thirty-four times? I know, cars have more Marketing and "branding" and crap...
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[11:48:27] <exec> 08└─Bronze age != Arthurian period.
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[12:47:12] <exec> 08└─And sent with them were claims that gene-drive researchers and funders were working with a public-relations company to unduly influence how the UN biodiversity treaty tackles the technology.
[12:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:29] <exec> 08└─Most of those are about equally as useless as well. The quality of locks that most manufacturers use on "gun safes" is appalling.
[12:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:30] <exec> 08└─There is probably a correlation at least.
[12:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03theluggage [1797] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:33] <exec> 08└─The quality of locks that most manufacturers use on "gun safes" is appalling.
[12:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:35] <exec> 08└─Gun safes...aren't.
[12:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:37] <exec> 08└─Or to keep industrious teens with access to youtube out, which many of the locks out there would fail at.
[12:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03CoolHand [438] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:39] <exec> 08└─If someone sells a gun-safe, it should be fit-for-purpose. If it's not, it's a moral crime on the part of the designer.
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[12:47:42] <exec> 08└─executive prison stint
[12:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:44] <exec> 08└─Depends on the reason for having guns in the first place. If you're a recreational hunter with kids in the house, a gun safe is the sane thing to do (in addition to teaching your kids to respects guns, of course). If your primary use case is defense against home invasion, then obviously you might be...
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[12:47:46] <exec> 08└─I'll grant you that last one. The first should be taken care of by putting the necessary educational effort into assuring your descendants do not receive a Darwin Award once they're old enough and by taking advantage of height differential until then.
[12:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algae Could Feed And Fuel Planet With Aid Of New High-Tech Tool - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:47:54] <exec> 08└─So, they managed to get one technique, which has been used in a dozen organisms for the past few years, now working in algae. Put in some non-fundamental promise of this being "the next big thing". But, seriously, how novel is this? Yeast had the same promise, like 20 years ago, some of it delivered...
[12:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:48:31] <exec> 08└─In Soviet Russia the dod audits you!
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[13:47:14] <exec> 08└─Musk is all sizzle and no steak, hops from one headline grabbing project announcement to the next. But when it comes to delivering he falls pretty short. And that is when their idea is plausible.
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[13:47:22] <exec> 08└─"The 2009 hack that Nature mentions was terrible for scientists—climate scientists, in particular. When an email server at University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit was breached, as part of a climate change denier campaign, emails were dishonestly misrepresented to suggest a conspiracy wa...
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[13:47:47] <exec> 08└─Honda vs Roll Royce? Come on, stop the rhetoric, it's unbecoming for a cynic. You know very well Roll Royce is not about such a mundane reason as "get you to work and back".
[13:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Algae Could Feed And Fuel Planet With Aid Of New High-Tech Tool - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:47:55] <exec> 08└─But, seriously, how novel is this?
[13:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Goes From Sorting Cat Pics to Analyzing DNA - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:06] <exec> 08└─Someone is going to code up The Wrath Of God then wield this terrible weapon to smite those who have done him wrong.
[13:48:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:48:35] <exec> 08└─Augean Stables.
[13:50:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Emergency Update: Malware Engine Needs, Erm, Malware Protection - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:50:46] <exec> 08└─Real professional work M$! Worse security than nothing. And this shit is getting old MSE Bug Crashes Windows XP [soylentnews.org] 'Crazy Bad' Bug in Microsoft's Windows Malware Scanner Can be Used to Install Malware [soylentnews.org]
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[14:47:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03petecox [3228] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:14] <exec> 08└─If they slingshot around the sun they'll end up 300 years in the past and have plenty of time to surpass Elon!
[14:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:16] <exec> 08└─I would have my money on boeing.
[14:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:18] <exec> 08└─Right now Musk is ahead. Dragon on Falcon-9 is real and has flown multiple times. Its not the human rated version, but pretty close. Falcon heavy is supposed to launch in a month or so... The track record for NASA and manned spaceflight is actually bad when it comes to plausability. The last plan th...
[14:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:20] <exec> 08└─Sling-shot around the Sun to reach Mars? Not gonna work, the grav assist manoeuvre requires the gravitation of a large body in motion. At the best, one can try an Oberth manoeuvre [wikipedia.org] and deliver crispy humans to Mars.
[14:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:47:22] <exec> 08└─Computer! Computer! How quaint...
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[14:47:56] <exec> 08└─never rely on the height difference, if you care about the kid involved. my son started stacking stuff when he was around two. in the sense of a kid chair on top of a bag of megablocks (kind of like legos, but bigger), etc. much safer to have a locked door that he can pull/kick and bite ineffectivel...
[14:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:48:44] <exec> 08└─"The entire government should be required to follow precisely the same rules as every company." Might want to be careful of what you wish for, as wishes love to twist and distort themselves. If you got what you wanted, odds are it'd be in the form of most of the rules companies following being revok...
[14:50:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bitcoin Forks and How to Split Them - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:50:35] <exec> 08└─> The only things these forks will do is pull money out of clueless people ... It also seems as if they will inflate the money supply. Bitcoin's limited in issue, it was defined to be anti-inflationary, so how do those with influence get around that - they simply create alternatives, and persuade pe...
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[15:47:21] <exec> 08└─Boeing might get to Mars with their spacecraft, but it will likely be put into Earth orbit on a SpaceX milk run. OTOH, Voyager just fired an engine after 37 years and it just worked. That is serious overkill for LEO, but might be nice to have far from home. Deep space may require two mindsets, that...
[15:47:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:22] <exec> 08└─SpaceX ties ULA’s annual launch record with 16th launch this year [spacenews.com] They are doing well even before you consider the effects of reusable rockets.
[15:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:24] <exec> 08└─Did Boeing specify what condition the humans would be in when they arrived at mars? Or even if they would be alive when launched from Earth? Does Boeing understand the difference between innovation and sucking at the government teat while trying to come up with innovating new ways to suck even more...
[15:47:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:27] <exec> 08└─It is a theory that SpaceX does not have a bead on making the serious overkill Voyager like stuff. They have never really tried. But also, it may be less important.
[15:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:47:36] <exec> 08└─The algorithms need to be published... It isn't, and that's why many of us do not believe what their models predict
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[15:48:03] <exec> 08└─This illustrates one reason that legal standards need to better track reality; the mere appearance of safety causes an appalling risk for those who get the impression that their safety measures are actually good enough. I realize some things take time, but what's going to happen when cryptocurrency...
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[15:48:05] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately it probably discriminates against small companies in the lock business (Wootery's Innovative Lock Company won't be on the whitelist)
[15:48:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Goes From Sorting Cat Pics to Analyzing DNA - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:24] <exec> 08└─Google for the moment, seems to be a one-trick-pony.
[15:48:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:48:55] <exec> 08└─Poster was just trying to find a way to call hillary a crook one more time.
[15:49:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:49:18] <exec> 08└─I thought they would have direct deposit these days :D
[15:50:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:14] <exec> 08└─That's why the FDA demands smaller controlled trials be done before licences are issued for a drug. There are strong arguments for having drugs which look like they have potential being pushed out onto the public quicker than they historically were, as generally the benefits (0 babies/abortions rath...
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[15:50:15] <exec> 08└─Stopped cottage cheese after that.
[15:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Accused Downloader Points Out Company Sold Away Rights - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:50:30] <exec> 08└─If the plaintiff sold off the right that was allegedly infringed, then it seems to me that the defendant is really claiming that the plaintiff has no standing to bring the suit. Thus, while the defendant claims NOT to have downloaded an infringing file, he also is claiming that even if he did that t...
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[15:50:51] <exec> 08└─Oooh, just listening to Peter Schiff,and I notice he makes the same point: https://www.silverdoctors.com
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[16:47:18] <exec> 08└─This discovery is “exciting.”
[16:47:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:19] <exec> 08└─I thought it might have been the discovery of whatever substance it is that seems to cause all those (usually) blonde sorority girls (you know, like you see in the movies) to have such high-pitched voices and an overabundance of bubbly energy overflow... Excitonium! :)
[16:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:21] <exec> 08└─My dick is made of solid excitonium. Shit! It just phase shifted out of existence.
[16:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:23] <exec> 08└─It didn't shift out of existence, it's just so small that you need an electron microscope to find it.
[16:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:26] <exec> 08└─TFS doesn't say what research lab has made this breakthrough but, based on the name the researchers gave it, I can only imagine that this amazing new form of matter was discovered by the physicists at Marvel Comics. From this initial assumption I surmise that Excitonium has the power to grant people...
[16:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 1067 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:43] <exec> 08└─Personally, I don't see Boeing beating SpaceX. But, I have zero inside information. I can only base my presumption on the fact that SpaceX has come out of nowhere, and accomplished as much as they have, in just a decade. Boeing has been at their business of bilking the government out of big bucks fo...
[16:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:45] <exec> 08└─Musk is all sizzle and no steak
[16:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:47] <exec> 08└─NASA certainly gets some credit for setting up a situation that got us to having 2 paths to this goal.
[16:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:49] <exec> 08└─Remember when he started SpaceX? People (Including me) laughed. Then he made it into orbit. Then he accomplished the most amazing thing I have ever seen -- landing a 10 story rocket on it's ass. On a floating barge. SpaceX has already accomplished the impossible. They have made space exciting again.
[16:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 1465 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:51] <exec> 08└─I've looked into that. China is ramping up their space program, but their big spend in the near term is going to be on their own space station [wikipedia.org] (originally called Tiangong-3). It may come with a better-than-Hubble space telescope [popsci.com]. Which should be considered a good thing f...
[16:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:53] <exec> 08└─Well, one way they can get to Mars faster and easier is to eliminate the need for a landing craft, and also for any rocket propellant for slowing the ship to enter Mars orbit. Just aim the craft with humans at Mars and go full speed; at the end of the trip, there will be humans on Mars.
[16:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 756 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:47:56] <exec> 08└─At the least, why didn't they make a better space shuttle, after we lost a couple of them? Boeing isn't really serious about going to Mars. SpaceX is. To be fair, they surely didn't make a better space shuttle because the government wasn't willing to pay them to do so. They'd have been happy to buil...
[16:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 1441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:07] <exec> 08└─Yes, some are available. However, since TFA was talking about those hacked emails, I was also thinking back to that period. That data - an important global data set - has been lost forever. We only have the modified version, with no clear record as to how it was modified. [theregister.co.uk] GISS -...
[16:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:09] <exec> 08└─Because I'm sure one group of scientists using one Top500 supercomputer to validate a model of another group will trigger "but it's a conspiracy" reaction from you. But if you insist, have a couple of places with software and datasets; I trust you'll validate them over the holidays and come with a...
[16:48:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Wootery [2341] 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:20] <exec> 08└─Which makes the consumers who bought it...
[16:48:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03TheRaven [270] 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 627 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:22] <exec> 08└─I don't entirely agree with your assessment. A lot of places use electronic locks because they're more secure than physical ones: the reader just has to do an RSA or similar signature verification check, most of which is in hardware and the rest is a few dozen lines of code. It's pretty hard to get...
[16:48:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:40] <exec> 08└─Haven't driven a new Rolls in years, but 30+ years ago we had one on loan for a short project. It wasn't better by the price multiple, but it was a very nice touring car in nearly every respect (not around town, too big to park easily). As well as paying for the name, there is something to be said a...
[16:48:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03schad [2398] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:41] <exec> 08└─The security onion. I use it on my computer. I also use it on firearms, which can, unlike my computer, be used -- by a malicious or ignorant user -- to cause permanent harm. Don't underestimate the ingenuity of small humans, the majority of whom are literally incapable of gun safety until four or fi...
[16:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:43] <exec> 08└─Too big a dose of reality for TMB's personal responsibility routine. Can't we just label people idiots every time something bad happens?
[16:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:45] <exec> 08└─Maybe a good electronic could be secure. If it was also physically secure in every way that matters. But the very act of installing an electrically-activated unlock mechanism makes it susceptible to electromagnetic perturbances, which can be very difficult to secure against. Do you encase the thing...
[16:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:48:48] <exec> 08└─Going to repeat this. In general anyone dedicated will find a way into a safe or find a way to steal it and crack it later. I typically keep all my guns in a safe except one in the bedroom and never store ammo with firearms, but where I live the problem is not crime its three year olds.
[16:49:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:38] <exec> 08└─You're right. They won't clean them. They'll just re-arrange them and rename them.
[16:49:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 527 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:49:40] <exec> 08└─There was an audit about a year ago by the Inspector General's office for the DoD, that revealed $6.5 trillion worth of accounting problems [warisboring.com]. So the idea that this is somehow unprecedented is just plain wrong. That there's something very rotten in Pentagon spending, though, doesn't...
[16:50:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:05] <exec> 08└─I thought I had read that ALL iron on the Earth's crust was meteoric in origin. Iron that's a product of the planet's formation sank to the core ages ago, and iron and other heavy elements in the crust, over eons, do the same, so everything on the crust that's valuable and relatively heavy is meteor...
[16:50:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:06] <exec> 08└─Honestly, that idea makes more sense than the tenets of the religions where gods *aren't* aliens. Seriously, which is more believable: 1) There's a supernatural, non-corporeal being that created the whole universe, it cares about what individual primitive humans are up to, and it sets a bush on fire...
[16:50:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:50:08] <exec> 08└─There are two sources of iron: ore and metal. Ore is rock from which iron can be extracted by smelting, a process that requires some know-how and work; metallic iron comes pre-smelted (thanks, universe) and is much easier to work. That's important because metallic iron was available as a material to...
[16:51:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Taibhsear [1464] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:07] <exec> 08└─Best contraceptive - aspirin. Just keep a pill between your knees and don't let it go.
[16:51:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:08] <exec> 08└─Maybe you should clean your dick better...
[16:51:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:51:10] <exec> 08└─Oh please, there were surely other reasons to reformulate the pills besides the breast cancer risk.
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[17:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:15] <exec> 08└─Buy into an ecosystem where the manufacturer has absolute control, and this is the kind of thing you get. It's not like they're going to show up at your house and seize your physical cards; it is much easier for them to deny access to a central platform. When everything is centralized, the owner is...
[17:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:16] <exec> 08└─If Microsoft disabled Windows 10 on people who curse the OS... there would be a helluva lot of happy people installing Linux.
[17:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:18] <exec> 08└─Good points. This sort of player abuse is virtually guaranteed in any ecosystem where the software is nonfree (and especially when closed source), and so designed from the ground up to exploit and subjugate the user. As far as virtual items go, it would be interesting to see a game with its own cry...
[17:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:30] <exec> 08└─Somebody please translate this to layman English?
[17:47:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:31] <exec> 08└─It's exciting. Give them more funding.
[17:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:33] <exec> 08└─Marvel ? They wouldn't go for such an obvious name ... DC, maybe (ducks) My money would be on San Fernando Valley scientists, and the availability of many documentaries on the human effects of Excitonium on barely legal teens.
[17:47:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:58] <exec> 08└─So you're saying Boeing makes Klingon spaceships? I mean, that would explain a few things ...
[17:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:47:59] <exec> 08└─Great! NASA, SpaceX, all the various nation-projects (european, india, japan, russia, china etc) etc can use all the competition they can find. The more that wants to build colonies on X, travel to Y etc the better. It might be a prestige thing about whom gets there first and such but then it's not...
[17:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 972 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:01] <exec> 08└─Let's say you're a boss at an entrenched government contractor, one that has substantial relation$hips with all of the relevant politicians and bureaucrats. Now, a contract job comes in, and you have two options: A. Work all-out to complete the job as quickly and efficiently as possible. B. Make it...
[17:48:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 115 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:11] <exec> 08└─The algorithms need to be published... It isn't, and that's why many of us do not believe what their models predict
[17:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:47] <exec> 08└─"Hey, Google/Alexa, open the gun safe."
[17:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:49] <exec> 08└─Once again: You cannot control the training level of every child (and adult) in the world, and reasonable people will not want to exclude guests from visiting their home merely because they failed to meet a firearms training level. Thus, any weapons not under your direct control should be stored in...
[17:48:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:51] <exec> 08└─The physical lock also still works when the power gets cut off at the beginning of the Alien Zombie Apocalypse. The guy who hid his physical backup safe key 3 years ago may have a problem at bug-out time. What do you mean by "it's a corner case with low probability"? Aren't people overly sensitive t...
[17:48:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:48:53] <exec> 08└─Something like that would make sense... Too much sense for a world where the rules are generally controlled by the biggest corporations with the most money. That kind of testing requirement and fee structure would never actually be implemented in the current environment. It will be designed to creat...
[17:49:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:31] <exec> 08└─For $400b they'd better be able to fly under the radar.
[17:49:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 463 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:33] <exec> 08└─Shameful, really. The entire government should be required to follow precisely the same rules as every company. If companies manage to file a full set of audited accounts every year, with updates every quarter, the government should do the same. If some rules are just too onerous to be useful, well....
[17:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 890 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:49:47] <exec> 08└─I presume you mean the audit team will be fired. That's the most likely outcome under this president. Audit team fired, new 3 letter spy agency created that reports only to the president "to ensure proper use of funding". Oops looks like we're already getting on of those. https://trofire.com
[17:51:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:15] <exec> 08└─Just because you find something wacky on the internet somewhere doesn't mean that a lot of people believe it. If I do a few minutes of Googling, I'm sure I can find a blog where people talk very seriously about the Earth being flat, or some new-age bullshit about "ascended masters", or the "deep sta...
[17:51:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:16] <exec> 08└─It has a 10% failure rate? That's actually horrifically high.
[17:51:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:51:18] <exec> 08└─We don't need a male pill. Men have far simpler reproductive systems, and there's already a form of contraceptive that's been developed, and is currently testing, where a material is injected into the seminal ducts to block them. So it's like a vasectomy, except even easier (just an injection), and...
[17:52:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Emergency Update: Malware Engine Needs, Erm, Malware Protection - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:52:16] <exec> 08└─The MS Malware Protection engine has never worked at all: for it to actually work, it needs to block Windows.
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[18:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Virindi [3484] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:20] <exec> 08└─Rules ahead of time could even solve this problem. If the company made a strong public guarantee, included in the user agreement, that "virtual items" were immutable, it could be enough. Instead though we get weasel talk and "all rights to do anything we want for any reason". And people don't mind t...
[18:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:21] <exec> 08└─Or Google making you sit in the dark if you use Bing.
[18:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ingar [801] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:24] <exec> 08└─Just buy physical cards. They're safer.
[18:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:26] <exec> 08└─Boo-hoo-hoo. Gamer gets boot for Social Media posts. Rewind to 1980 or so - people were quite adept at surviving without SM or 24/7 gaming. Happier times. Remember going OUTSIDE? Walking in a park, enjoying the sunshine and the rain, TALKING with friends, WRITING a letter and the joy of getting one...
[18:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:28] <exec> 08└─I haven't played this, or even read the white paper: https://novablitz.com [novablitz.com] In online card games, players want to trade and sell their cards, and they cannot. Players want their cards to grow in value, and they cannot. Even worse, your cards are not your own - they are licensed from t...
[18:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:30] <exec> 08└─There are chilling overtones to this that can't be hand waved away by a crabby Luddite. We need privacy laws!! No opinion on the specific event, but in general this is like anyone being able to run full background checks on someone checking out in the grocery store, or going to a movie theater. It i...
[18:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:33] <exec> 08└─Exactly, I don't see the problem here. If you don't want some company to ban you from an online game or from your own garage, don't buy their internet-connected products or services. Don't hand over control of your life to some company that can restrict you at any time in the future on a mere whim.
[18:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:35] <exec> 08└─Agree 100%. Actions have consequences. Perhaps this person learned something valuable here.
[18:47:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:37] <exec> 08└─And again we see the Impossibility of SJW Convergence demonstrated. Hasbro has been infected, a company devoted to building a big profitable business would never consider banning high value customers and risking a stampede of the rest. It is because they have allowed SJWs to worm their way into deci...
[18:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:39] <exec> 08└─Meh. Snail mail died with Fidonet and RFC822 mail. Get over it. I admit that postcards are still fun. What this does mean, however, is that one should assume that posting in the Corporate Centralized Sheep Corral includes an implied CC to anybody you can imagine. This is what a centralized service w...
[18:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:42] <exec> 08└─He agreed to the Terms of Service [wizards.com] (last updated in 2014). Those terms include: 15. Termination; Survival. You may cease using the Website and Services, as well as terminate your account, at any time. Wizards may, at any time, for any reason, and at its sole discretion, deactivate your...
[18:47:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:47:57] <exec> 08└─After the electron is knocked off the atom it hangs around a bit before recombining with the spot it was knocked off from. Since they're calling it "excitronium" I'm going to guess they managed to knock off a whole bunch of electrons without using a heavy enough hammer to move them far enough away t...
[18:48:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pe1rxq [844] 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 428 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:08] <exec> 08└─Right now Musk is ahead. Dragon on Falcon-9 is real and has flown multiple times. Its not the human rated version, but pretty close. Falcon heavy is supposed to launch in a month or so... The track record for NASA and manned spaceflight is actually bad when it comes to plausability. The last plan th...
[18:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:25] <exec> 08└─And you will find volunteers for that. Which is no way, shape or form, a comment on what they would leave behind...
[18:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:27] <exec> 08└─Read my comment above. NASA is not currently planning to land on Mars in the mid-2030s. Instead they want to do an orbital station. Russia and China have no plans yet. SpaceX wants to do it by 2024.
[18:48:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:29] <exec> 08└─> The track record for NASA and manned spaceflight is actually bad when it comes to plausability. The last plan that was actually > (partially) executed was the space shuttle and that plan was from 1969. Every plan since then ended up in limbo. To be fair, they do what Congress tells them to, and Co...
[18:48:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:48:31] <exec> 08└─What I wonder is why it's like this, because in decades past it wasn't (or at least not nearly as bad). The US used to get projects done quickly, and for not that much money (inflation-adjusted). Look at all the bridges and highways that were built from 100 to 50 years ago, using the technology of t...
[18:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03drussell [2678] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:49:20] <exec> 08└─They have already stated that they have fixed the issue in current production and are rolling out a program to service the units for existing customers, since it seems that they do not have any easy way to do some kind of user-applyable update in the field, it will be some kind of exchange or warran...
[18:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:50:15] <exec> 08└─The guys at the Onion are jealous they didn't write it first.
[18:51:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:46] <exec> 08└─Far worse than that. It's time I admitted it: I'm "hip acronym" challenged. I'm so clueless it took me a good while to figure out what PIV was referring to here and that it was not some STD or other medical condition. So, I'm terminally oblivious and since I've not even aware of the problem, I must...
[18:51:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:51:47] <exec> 08└─The uncertainty in cause and effect is part of the risk benefit weighing. It's possible there is a confounding lifestyle factor and the low dose pills aren't the cause, but that's just another probability to figure in.
[18:52:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Accused Downloader Points Out Company Sold Away Rights - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:04] <exec> 08└─It's the modern priesthood class.
[18:52:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Emergency Update: Malware Engine Needs, Erm, Malware Protection - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:52:48] <exec> 08└─Blocking Windows would just create a paradox. Would need to do something useful, like trade the core for Unix / Linux. Then we could finally get the answer to that "Linux is only secure, because it's not used enough" argument I've heard thrown around a few times.
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[19:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Showing Promise for Hemophilia B - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:16] <exec> 08└─Our bleeder has some kind of blessed/cursed thing going on. He'll bleed with little or no reason - he's been shot, stabbed, slashed, car wrecks, trees fallen on him. No one knows HOW in hell he's lived into his seventies. A freaking BLEEDER, FFS, with more trauma behind him than most non-bleeders wi...
[19:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:37] <exec> 08└─Every online game is full of them, just like the average urban bus station is mostly populated by everyday travellers but also full of bums, bible thumpers, hookers, addicts, and boosters. Games imitate life. Being businesses, game companies have a need to protect and manage their brand. No mystery...
[19:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:39] <exec> 08└─He has every right to raise a stink about it and start a petition. Whether that will gain enough traction to cause Wizards/Hasbro to change course is another story. 10,000 signatures is not a million.
[19:47:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:41] <exec> 08└─lawl, flamebait for crabby luddite? It is a 100% accurate description backed up by their "get off my lawn" comment. While I agree with minimizing social media etc. prohibition has repeatedly been shown to be a bad solution to problems and should be used as a last resort. I prefer to address these ne...
[19:47:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:43] <exec> 08└─He has every right to raise a stink about it and start a petition. Whether that will gain enough traction to cause Wizards/Hasbro to change course is another story. 10,000 signatures is not a million.
[19:47:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:46] <exec> 08└─Someone said it best [youtube.com].
[19:47:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 685 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:48] <exec> 08└─JMcCarthy is right! We must ignore the common sense of corporate PR distancing itself from possibly controversial personalities and instead blame a giant conspiracy! The jews are coming for you jmac! I do find the precedent this sets rather alarming and I do not like the idea of combing through peop...
[19:47:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:50] <exec> 08└─Thanks mod troll, you're doing god's work!
[19:47:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:47:52] <exec> 08└─> Buy into an ecosystem where the manufacturer has absolute control, ... Are you talking about the game here or the social media? Maybe both? Someone who spends a great deal of time gaming AND on social media couldn't have any time left for any meaningful contributions to society. Why should we get...
[19:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:08] <exec> 08└─Somebody please translate this to layman English?
[19:48:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:09] <exec> 08└─Mix it with boron to neutralize the excitability if it creates lab risk.
[19:48:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:27] <exec> 08└─It is a theory that SpaceX does not have a bead on making the serious overkill Voyager like stuff. They have never really tried. But also, it may be less important.
[19:48:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Snow [1601] 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 300 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:31] <exec> 08└─Remember when he started SpaceX? People (Including me) laughed. Then he made it into orbit. Then he accomplished the most amazing thing I have ever seen -- landing a 10 story rocket on it's ass. On a floating barge. SpaceX has already accomplished the impossible. They have made space exciting again.
[19:48:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:42] <exec> 08└─It was about a year ago that Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg first began saying his company would beat SpaceX to Mars.
[19:48:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:48:44] <exec> 08└─And it appears they've motivated Boeing to get off it's lazy ass as well. Competition is good....
[19:49:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 1540 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:05] <exec> 08└─Electronic safes...aren't. We could rage on this specific product (and it is a stupid product, on a lot of different levels). Which makes the consumers who bought it... Anyway, this happens at all levels. A bank in our small town installed a fingerprint reader on their main safe, so they didn't have...
[19:49:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Goes From Sorting Cat Pics to Analyzing DNA - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:49:54] <exec> 08└─I for one welcome our piano-playing cat overlords.
[19:50:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:31] <exec> 08└─They'll just ask the NSA for the proper way to redefine "compliance" and "assets".
[19:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bronze Age Artifacts Contain Meteoric Iron - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:50:58] <exec> 08└─Bronze age != Arthurian period.
[19:52:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:05] <exec> 08└─Commercially, reformulation extended their patent protections while the dosage reduction lowered the price of manufacturing. Medically, estrogen, progesterone and progestin bind to different receptor sites and raise or lower the risks for a whole list of conditions in different ways. They even inter...
[19:52:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Accused Downloader Points Out Company Sold Away Rights - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:52:23] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure throwing lawsuits out due to lack of standing is lawyerin' 101, as well. This isn't the novel legal tactic the summary seems to be implying.
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[20:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 650 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:17] <exec> 08└─He is quite right about how gullible smart people can be. They think they're too intelligent to be taken in by manipulation. The manipulation is conducted on a deep emotional, almost limbic, level, though, and so is not communicated in a way that they're equipped to respond to. Facebook and social m...
[20:47:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 408 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:45] <exec> 08└─He agreed to the Terms of Service [wizards.com] (last updated in 2014). Those terms include: 15. Termination; Survival. You may cease using the Website and Services, as well as terminate your account, at any time. Wizards may, at any time, for any reason, and at its sole discretion, deactivate your...
[20:47:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:47] <exec> 08└─He has every right to raise a stink about it and start a petition. Whether that will gain enough traction to cause Wizards/Hasbro to change course is another story. 10,000 signatures is not a million.
[20:47:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:50] <exec> 08└─He has every right to raise a stink about it and start a petition. Whether that will gain enough traction to cause Wizards/Hasbro to change course is another story. 10,000 signatures is not a million.
[20:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 2298 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:56] <exec> 08└─I don't know this guy, I don't know a lot about the wider MTG community outside my local environment, so bear with me. MTGO (Magic The Gathering Online) is a mess. It's just terrible. The interface is bad. The features are bad. I'm not even talking about the potential usual "the man controls me" top...
[20:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:47:58] <exec> 08└─While the contract had a *cover all foreseeable problems* clause, that doesn't make it right. What he was doing was possibly not right either, but we can't know without some amount of proof. Assuming, he was persistently harassing the individual(s). There are legal means to correct said behavior. Ot...
[20:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:00] <exec> 08└─But that term doesn't state he's not entitled to part of the money he paid, as he didn't get what he paid for. Note that it also says that he is entitled to terminate his account at any time; I strongly doubt that if he did so at a time when he still owed them money, this would invalidate their mone...
[20:48:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:03] <exec> 08└─"Assuming, he was persistently harassing the individual(s)" He made some pointed criticisms, not so much of her really as of her business model and 'customers' (people who send her money.) It wasn't diplomatically phrased and I wouldn't blame her for taking offense really, but after all the talk of...
[20:48:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:05] <exec> 08└─the common sense of corporate PR
[20:48:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:07] <exec> 08└─But that doesn't invalidate the *contract* whose terms to which he *explicitly* agreed.
[20:48:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 492 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:09] <exec> 08└─No doublethink here. Corporate PR is as predictable and dumb as a slime mold. That's what common sense is about: predictability over correctness. In this case, distancing itself from controversy is the most predictable response possible. Whether or not it is the correct response depends on whether t...
[20:48:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:12] <exec> 08└─This is one of those weird situations where everybody is correct. It just matters how you look at it, and what people decide is more important. 1) User has a right to be a jerk. 2) Hasboro has a right to kick the jerk off the network. 3) User has a right to complain about it and publicize being kick...
[20:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:14] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, but let's say we bury all such information in the middle of a pile of Perl regex's. You're certain to sift through all that to get to and understand the terms of the thing you are agreeing to, right? That's effectively what all this legalese is for nearly all regular humans, a pile of i...
[20:48:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:16] <exec> 08└─This. I played MtG for several years. I dipped a toe into the cutthroat tournament scene a few times, but went no further. Stuck with the physical cards, and never went online. Mostly I played with friends, for fun. We were always trying weird stuff that would never work in a tournament because it w...
[20:48:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheReaperD [5556] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:18] <exec> 08└─Even 10+ years ago when I was involved the the gaming industry, we always referred to WotC as "Whip out the Cash" because every action they took was solely based on money generation and nothing else and their purchase by Hasbro has done nothing to improve this fact. I even said it right to their rep...
[20:48:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:48:36] <exec> 08└─"Pumped lasers" huh? "Honestly its not mine baby!"
[20:49:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 523 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:49:10] <exec> 08└─My take is that the US went through a phase change in the early decades of the Cold War that created a fertile environment for such corruption: 1) huge increase in federal spending, 2) huge increase in complexity and opacity of federal government, and 3) a resulting huge disconnect between spending...
[20:50:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:01] <exec> 08└─Oh, and I'll add another use case: not having your weapons stolen when someone does break into your place when you're not around to defend it.
[20:50:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Goes From Sorting Cat Pics to Analyzing DNA - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:24] <exec> 08└─You kiddin' me? Perl... of divine origin?
[20:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Goes From Sorting Cat Pics to Analyzing DNA - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:25] <exec> 08└─To clarify: I meant their deep learning efforts. DeepMind is a recent purchase, which indeed does something beside image analysis, however, they also have not changed their basic architecture since AlphaGo. I remember another reinforcement paper from Google about learning to play retro-games (I thin...
[20:50:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 15 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:50:54] <exec> 08└─Augean Stables.
[20:51:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:51:02] <exec> 08└─transcript of Rumsfeld's speech [archive.org]
[20:52:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03RickDangerous [6816] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:52:37] <exec> 08└─That's the long term chronic testicular pain rate from vasectomy. Failure rate for sterilisation as a contraceptive method is really low. I bought the t-shirt on the chronic pain unfortunately. Condoms / copper IUD for the win.
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[21:47:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:15] <exec> 08└─Translation: This is to protect my golden parachute. If I leave this out I'd have to go back to working for a living.
[21:47:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03BananaPhone [2488] (Score: 3, Disagree) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:17] <exec> 08└─When someone sets up a meeting time and doesn't show up or excuse themselves for it: Facebook manners When someone just stops answering your messages while on text/Chat/etc. : it's Facebook manners Thank you Facebook for making people shitty.
[21:47:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:19] <exec> 08└─I was thinking something similar: it would seem quite twisted to vehemently disallow your kids from participating in something that "overwhelmingly does good in the world."
[21:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:21] <exec> 08└─Those are poor manners, but do they map to Facebook? When i was young adults blamed poor manners on tv and rock and roll. Later they switched to blaming dungeons & dragons and video games. Specifically, trailing off in mid-chat is something people started doing the moment chat was invented. Thus was...
[21:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:23] <exec> 08└─Facebook does a lot of good for its customers* *SPOILER* (click to show) *SPOILER* (click to hide) *advertisers
[21:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:26] <exec> 08└─I loved Zuckerberg's virtual tour of hurricane damage in Puerto Rico. Cleared that situation right up.
[21:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:28] <exec> 08└─James Randi always said something similar about educated people, but a bit more direct and without all the dime store psychobabble.
[21:47:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 793 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:30] <exec> 08└─Boo hoo for him. So he feels bad. Well, bully for him. Ten years or so ago I read an article on the guy who was behind the algorithmicization of the radio industry; the guy who is responsible for the fact that most of commercial radio only ever plays, like, 50 songs. He felt bad about the state of...
[21:47:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Showing Promise for Hemophilia B - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:39] <exec> 08└─When I was in elementary school, I would start bleeding from my nose, just like Eleven does on Stranger Things. I didn't have any magical powers though. Just a nose picking problem.
[21:47:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Virindi [3484] 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1337 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:47:48] <exec> 08└─Buy into an ecosystem where the manufacturer has absolute control, and this is the kind of thing you get. It's not like they're going to show up at your house and seize your physical cards; it is much easier for them to deny access to a central platform. When everything is centralized, the owner is...
[21:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:21] <exec> 08└─This. I played MtG for several years. I dipped a toe into the cutthroat tournament scene a few times, but went no further. Stuck with the physical cards, and never went online. Mostly I played with friends, for fun. We were always trying weird stuff that would never work in a tournament because it w...
[21:48:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:22] <exec> 08└─Reddit (/r/magicTCG/) has been on fire for the last two weeks with people starting threads, outside people coming in and downvoting everyone not saluting hard enough, then the mods lock the threads and permaban people. I got banned, not even for disagreeing with the right viewpoint, but for not agre...
[21:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:24] <exec> 08└─Even 10+ years ago when I was involved the the gaming industry, we always referred to WotC as "Whip out the Cash" because every action they took was solely based on money generation and nothing else and their purchase by Hasbro has done nothing to improve this fact.
[21:48:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 49 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:40] <exec> 08└─Somebody please translate this to layman English?
[21:48:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:43] <exec> 08└─Hello Richard. Oh, you're away now?
[21:48:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:46] <exec> 08└─Now by adding energy, you can excite an electron, that is, move it into a higher-energy state. If you do so, the state previously occupied by the electron is now free; this is referred to as a hole. Now it turns out that those holes behave very much as if they were particles of the opposite charge....
[21:48:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:48] <exec> 08└─this was the last post on this topic when I read. I was searching for basically exactly this - an interim stage between my knowledge and domain expertise - and you provided it very well. Thank you so much, Maxwell Demon! I don't know how many others will be in the same boat, but I really appreciate...
[21:48:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:48:50] <exec> 08└─PS - your last, dry line? very good :)
[21:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:24] <exec> 08└─> SpaceX has already accomplished the impossible. They have made space exciting again. Actually, the real success is that they've made it boring (as he predicted). I no longer bother to look for SpaceX launches in the news, or watch the videos - oh look, another rocket landed on it's arse, again, wh...
[21:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:49:26] <exec> 08└─Perhaps some loony billionaires would pay to be buried on Mars, or at least be dropped upon it in their coffins having already died?
[21:50:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 2763 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:18] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the insurance rider game. Every insurance plan and state law is different but if I wanted an insurance rider I'd have to pay something like $5/mo for anywhere from $2500 up to like a million dollar collection (less than $2500 of guns is mere generic household property). So at the low en...
[21:50:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:19] <exec> 08└─A Safe, with a firmware update mechanism: not a safe.
[21:50:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:21] <exec> 08└─FaceBook(TM) connected gun safe
[21:50:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:24] <exec> 08└─Heh [amazon.com]
[21:50:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 564 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:26] <exec> 08└─Reminds of garage door consoles you can install. I've seen keyed ones, and keypads. All of them though connect the same exact way to the garage door itself, and that's two wires that directly act like a wall mounted momentary switch next to the entry door to the house. The keyed one was really funny...
[21:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Algorithm Goes From Sorting Cat Pics to Analyzing DNA - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:50:49] <exec> 08└─AlphaGo is a bit of a sideshow. Google has "silently" integrated machine learning and TPU hardware into their core products (search, translate, photos, more?): The Great A.I. Awakening [nytimes.com] Build and train machine learning models on our new Google Cloud TPUs [www.blog.google] They got about...
[21:51:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:51:27] <exec> 08└─CBS News Eye on America report from circa 2002 [youtube.com]
[21:53:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:03] <exec> 08└─Indeed, I have a sister-in-law who claims to have defeated the aspirin method as a fun challenge one night. She said it was kinda kinky, but not very difficult. /me double-checks that "post anonymously" is checked before submitting... Coward indeed.
[21:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:04] <exec> 08└─Oh, I see. I skimmed the line about "long term ball pain", I guess I subconsciously omitted the "ball" part of that, and thought the OP was talking about getting stuck raising a kid or paying child support for a couple decades.
[21:53:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:53:06] <exec> 08└─Tons of Christian conservatives are exactly the same: they ask female rape victims "why didn't you just keep your legs together?" There's been plenty of incidences of Christian judges asking women this. Again, obviously not very knowledgeable about female anatomy.
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[22:47:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:20] <exec> 08└─I'd go with another option: grow my own.
[22:47:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:22] <exec> 08└─what's new with that? Yes some populations adapted to survive the deprivation [cornell.edu] but europeans did [couriermail.com.au] not [blogspot.com].
[22:47:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:24] <exec> 08└─Oh, yes, I still have 4 canines and a whole set of tastebuds. Meat is already expensive, but there's a nice piece of steak waiting at home. I've got low electric and gas bills, I drive a very sober car, I earn the right to my dead cows!
[22:47:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:26] <exec> 08└─We can graze cattle, sheep, and goats on land that is unsuitable for farming. We often instead feed them soybeans and corn. Only one of those ought to be taxed. Instead of taxing all meat based on antibiotic use, just tax the meat produced that way... or ban it. I expect the concept of "animal cruel...
[22:47:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:28] <exec> 08└─They tax my paycheck, they tax again on whatever's remaining when I buy something, they tax my water, then they tax what goes down the sewer after drinking my taxed water. They probably taxed me when I was born, and they'll probably tax me when I die. Tax tax tax fucking tax tax. OK, I'm done, time...
[22:47:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03caffeine [249] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:30] <exec> 08└─What is the bet that the Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return (Fairr) plans to made a tidy profit from taxing guilt. I think the finance sector is having a negative impact on society. We should set up an investor network to promote a tax on the finance sector.
[22:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:33] <exec> 08└─Hunt and fish, too. towards a sin tax, a levy on harmful products to cut consumption
[22:47:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 2356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:35] <exec> 08└─We tax the hell out of booze - so people make their own. Meat is surprisingly easy to produce if you're at all a creative sort. Rabbits? Chickens? Even the humble guinea pig? And let's not forget aquarium fish. And if you think that people are motivated for booze, just wait until you start cutting a...
[22:47:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 650 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:43] <exec> 08└─He is quite right about how gullible smart people can be. They think they're too intelligent to be taken in by manipulation. The manipulation is conducted on a deep emotional, almost limbic, level, though, and so is not communicated in a way that they're equipped to respond to. Facebook and social m...
[22:47:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 462 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:53] <exec> 08└─I go back and forth myself about how much to blame execs. Sometimes they are scum, sometimes they pursue something and only realize how bad it was in hindsight. At the very least kudos to him for speaking out, it certainly won't help his career because who wants a tattle-tale?? Any info we can use t...
[22:47:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 628 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:55] <exec> 08└─Ideally they should dump their wealth into a foundation dedicated to undoing whatever it is they're feeling regretful over. That's something that might approach repentance. It would be good to have a foundation dedicated to decentralized social. Revive XMPP (yes, I know, it lost and I can't get over...
[22:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:47:58] <exec> 08└─Well this is awkward. You see Jeremy, how shall I put this? We try to be polite but -and I wish that there was a nicer way to say this- Your messages are so boring that we often fall asleep mid-chat. There I said it. It feels like a weight has been lifted from my shoulders.
[22:47:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 1800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:00] <exec> 08└─Compared to chatting on the phone, text based chat allowed me to dramatically shorten many conversations I would otherwise have over the phone since I could type and others could read faster than we could speak/listen/reply. Furthermore it allowed me to multitask multiple overlapping conversations w...
[22:48:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:02] <exec> 08└─In fact intellectuals are more susceptible to manipulation than the average bear because emotional and social insecurity are practically a by-product of the focus and effort it takes to hone their intellect.
[22:48:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:04] <exec> 08└─I didn't see Facebook as cult-like: to me it was just stupid. "My chef baked too many cookies, so i'm sending you 100 cookies." "I just had a poo and now i'm going to my shitty job" Thanks, but no thanks, i got better things to do with my time! Went on fb to be involved with my daughters life and le...
[22:48:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Therapy Showing Promise for Hemophilia B - 549 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:14] <exec> 08└─You bleed out faster if your body is pumping faster, so that could be part of it. If you don't have any brain defects that result in a brain bleed or aneurism, having blood that doesn't clot as much could be beneficial, since it can avoid clotting related plaque buildup in your veins and arteries th...
[22:48:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 439 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:43] <exec> 08└─> Buy into an ecosystem where the manufacturer has absolute control, ... Are you talking about the game here or the social media? Maybe both? Someone who spends a great deal of time gaming AND on social media couldn't have any time left for any meaningful contributions to society. Why should we get...
[22:48:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1763 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:53] <exec> 08└─This. I played MtG for several years. I dipped a toe into the cutthroat tournament scene a few times, but went no further. Stuck with the physical cards, and never went online. Mostly I played with friends, for fun. We were always trying weird stuff that would never work in a tournament because it w...
[22:48:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:48:58] <exec> 08└─Drink the koolaid..
[22:49:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03curunir_wolf [4772] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:01] <exec> 08└─Yea, there's a bit more to creating a valid, legally enforceable contract than just writing down a bunch of stuff you say you will be allowed to do, and getting somebody to click "Agree." Generally, any contract requires a "meeting of the minds" to actually exist, and there must be some "considerati...
[22:49:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:03] <exec> 08└─While the contract had a *cover all foreseeable problems* clause, that doesn't make it right. What he was doing was possibly not right either, but we can't know without some amount of proof.
[22:49:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:05] <exec> 08└─But that doesn't invalidate the *contract* whose terms to which he *explicitly* agreed.
[22:49:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:07] <exec> 08└─From the summary, with my emphasis: As a consequence, he immediately lost access to all the virtual items he's previously purchased while receiving no refund, and he may no longer play online, partake in tournaments, or cover events on his YouTube channel
[22:49:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:09] <exec> 08└─> Polygon and Kotaku ... neither present any actual evidence Of course not. What did you expect, games journalists to do any actual journalism?
[22:49:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:12] <exec> 08└─But that term doesn't state he's not entitled to part of the money he paid, as he didn't get what he paid for. Note that it also says that he is entitled to terminate his account at any time; I strongly doubt that if he did so at a time when he still owed them money, this would invalidate their mone...
[22:49:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 817 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:14] <exec> 08└─This is one of those weird situations where everybody is correct. It just matters how you look at it, and what people decide is more important. 1) User has a right to be a jerk. 2) Hasboro has a right to kick the jerk off the network. 3) User has a right to complain about it and publicize being kick...
[22:49:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:16] <exec> 08└─For those who bring in the whole "but, but muh free speech!" should remember that this isn't a public (government run/funded) forum.
[22:49:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:18] <exec> 08└─That said, if we (as a society) don't want abusive or really one-sided contracts to be the norm, we shouldn't sign such contracts -- businesses will respond (if they want to survive) with less abusive contracts.
[22:49:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 963 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:21] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, but let's say we bury all such information in the middle of a pile of Perl regex's. You're certain to sift through all that to get to and understand the terms of the thing you are agreeing to, right? That's effectively what all this legalese is for nearly all regular humans, a pile of i...
[22:49:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DBCubix [553] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:23] <exec> 08└─Please help me because I am really not understanding this. If Hasbro were instead General Motors (GM) and GM was trolling through social media and saw a post that said "Chevy Trailblazers suck," then using the same logic they could use OnStar and disable your vehicle? Is this the right analogy? I me...
[22:49:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:25] <exec> 08└─Rewind to 1980 or so - people were quite adept at surviving without SM or 24/7 gaming.
[22:49:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:27] <exec> 08└─Yea, there's a bit more to creating a valid, legally enforceable contract than just writing down a bunch of stuff you say you will be allowed to do, and getting somebody to click "Agree." Generally, any contract requires a "meeting of the minds" to actually exist, and there must be some "considerati...
[22:49:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:29] <exec> 08└─It's just more bullshit we let corporations get away with. We need to draft a law to prevent this kind of abuse and lobby for it.
[22:49:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:32] <exec> 08└─I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that if he paid real money for the items the part of the contract that made them able to cancel his account at any time was illegal and therefore he is entitled to a refund. But it depends on what state he's in, since contracts vary by state.
[22:49:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:34] <exec> 08└─For those who bring in the whole "but, but muh free speech!" should remember that this isn't a public (government run/funded) forum.
[22:49:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:36] <exec> 08└─^ yup, not double think, just acknowledging how corporations work. Perhaps a few employees are overly zealous about pursuing their personal idea of "social justice" but the general trend is pure corporate PR looking after its own best interests. This is a scary aspect to the world, where the smalles...
[22:49:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:38] <exec> 08└─there doesn't seem to be anything here
[22:49:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:40] <exec> 08└─That said, if we (as a society) don't want abusive or really one-sided contracts to be the norm, we shouldn't sign such contracts -- businesses will respond (if they want to survive) with less abusive contracts.
[22:49:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:43] <exec> 08└─In my family, we play Catan: the Gathering, lol. Catan is just too much fun.
[22:49:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:45] <exec> 08└─I read this as ESPECIALLY Microsoft and Apple. but is it just me? :|
[22:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:47] <exec> 08└─Well I assume that they could stop him from attending them. But if he gets the footage from other people, there's nothing they can do.
[22:49:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:49:49] <exec> 08└─""I said in my haste, All men are liars." Psalm 116:11" Was he lying when he said this? (Not religious,,,don't know the context)
[22:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:12] <exec> 08└─It is like a big ball of wibbily wobbly timey wimey...stuff
[22:50:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 972 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:39] <exec> 08└─Let's say you're a boss at an entrenched government contractor, one that has substantial relation$hips with all of the relevant politicians and bureaucrats. Now, a contract job comes in, and you have two options: A. Work all-out to complete the job as quickly and efficiently as possible. B. Make it...
[22:50:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:50] <exec> 08└─"Here is the launch container - you lie in this moulded foam" "Where are the breathing apparatus and controls?" "There is enough air for the mission" "..and the controls?" "You will not need any controls, the computer will ensure you arrive."
[22:50:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:51] <exec> 08└─It is utterly unacceptable that Russia has been leading with a score of 3. I demand that we find 4 Proud Americans ready to die in space !
[22:50:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:50:53] <exec> 08└─Don't forget "out sourcing", as opposed to the 40s/50s/even 60s style "partnering". It usedto be private companies and government worked together, with private and public money mixed, so a government project would have government and private employees working along side each other, possibly in a gov...
[22:51:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:50] <exec> 08└─Maybe the insurance companies fall for the same crap; if it is sold as a gun safe, it must be better than a safe sold as a safe - why would they sell it as a gun safe, otherwise?
[22:51:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:51:51] <exec> 08└─Weirdly enough this whole idea got started at a former employer where I/we began with the idea of a social media connected fridge lock for weight loss where you need permission to open the fridge from your FB friends. Which led to a discussion of liking Trump memes will cause family starvation if th...
[22:54:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:32] <exec> 08└─Don't want to block the semen, just the sperm. How can you give your girl perl necklaces without the (diet) baby batter?
[22:54:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:33] <exec> 08└─I guess that's one way to get more people running eunuchs on their desktops.
[22:54:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:36] <exec> 08└─This was marked as troll, but there are some women who use birth control to temper their mood swings, heavy flow and other issues caused by hormone imbalance.
[22:54:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 495 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:38] <exec> 08└─Just because you find something wacky on the internet somewhere doesn't mean that a lot of people believe it. If I do a few minutes of Googling, I'm sure I can find a blog where people talk very seriously about the Earth being flat, or some new-age bullshit about "ascended masters", or the "deep sta...
[22:54:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hormonal Birth Control Linked to Increased Risk of Breast Cancer - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:54:40] <exec> 08└─Far worse than that. It's time I admitted it: I'm "hip acronym" challenged. I'm so clueless it took me a good while to figure out what PIV was referring to here and that it was not some STD or other medical condition. So, I'm terminally oblivious and since I've not even aware of the problem, I must...
[22:56:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Reziac [2489] 02 - 06Canola Oil Linked To Worsened Memory And Learning Ability In Alzheimer's - 200 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:56:14] <exec> 08└─My first thought was... probably due to thyroid-inhibitory effects of phytoestrogen (tho offhand I couldn't find good numbers for rapeseed). Which wold explain why "weight gain" is one of the effects.
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[23:47:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bacteria Development Marks New Era in Cellular Design - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:16] <exec> 08└─those tubes can be filled and if they are filled...
[23:47:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:23] <exec> 08└─I'd go with another option: grow my own.
[23:47:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:33] <exec> 08└─Crazy is as VLM does.
[23:47:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:35] <exec> 08└─The solution to one of those taxes is pee-cycling!
[23:47:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:38] <exec> 08└─I doubt the republicans are that stupid.
[23:47:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:40] <exec> 08└─I'd like to see a tax on junk food, used to bring down the price of raw fruits and veggies. 'Real' food is more expensive than junk food, and this is wrong. It makes eating junk the food of the poor. Pricing junk up above veggies would make it more cost effective to feed your family decent food. #Tw...
[23:47:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:42] <exec> 08└─Eating meat in moderation is good for you. Taxing will only line someone's pockets and not much else. Look how much tax is on liquor and people still drink plenty of it. But if they're going to consider some eating habit a "sin", why don't they add a fast food tax. It will save the health system a l...
[23:47:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:44] <exec> 08└─grow my own.
[23:47:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:47] <exec> 08└─Good point. Rephrase: I doubt the republicans are unaware of which side their bread is buttered on this topic.
[23:47:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:49] <exec> 08└─> Are they going to give tax breaks to the poor for staving off diseases of malnutrition? This is the US. The poor die because they are lazy people who make bad choices. Cut my taxes, and I may give some money to my church, so after its brand new high-tech building is done, what's left may help feed...
[23:47:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:51] <exec> 08└─A (potentially) interesting thought experiment I did the other day: calculate how much citrus acreage my family personally consumes. We buy and drink a lot of orange juice, maybe 2 gallons a week on average. So, ~100 gallons a year, and how many oranges does it take to make ~100 gallons of juice? It...
[23:47:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:53] <exec> 08└─Even if this were a good policy, which it isn't, and the assumptions were true, which they aren't, it's something that appeals to absolutely no one. Even self righteous hippies eat meat, or most of them do.
[23:47:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 670 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:56] <exec> 08└─Its really the vegans at work, they've slowly working toward this for some time. Cattle are no worse than the large herds that used to roam the planes of many continents. But they do offend the vegans. Besides, with the recent discovery of massive natural gas leaks that have been going on for centur...
[23:47:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spook brat [775] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meat Tax Proposed for Sake of Human and Environmental Health. - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:47:58] <exec> 08└─The solution to one of those taxes is pee-cycling!
[23:48:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:20] <exec> 08└─So you're immune, please pat yourself in your back for me. However the problem is real and still exists. Kids are abandoning fb for _other_ apps/products but with the same base concepts. I don't see how you can call addiction stupid. It is a different form - this method preys on the emotional side o...
[23:48:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:21] <exec> 08└─don't think, yeah, not me, I'm a genius, I'm at Stanford. You're probably the most likely to fall for it. Because you are check-boxing your whole damn life. No offense, guys.
[23:48:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 598 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:23] <exec> 08└─Sigh. It's NOT addiction, it's stupidity. Just. Drop. It. Delete your account and go do something else! Simple. Im an alcoholic. I stopped cold turkey. (How you ask?) I don't buy booze. If you don't buy booze, you can't drink it. Simple. I don't go to bars. If you don't buy booze, you can't drink it...
[23:48:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:26] <exec> 08└─Later they switched to blaming dungeons & dragons
[23:48:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Another Former Facebook Exec Speaks Out - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:48:28] <exec> 08└─Not disagreeing with any of it but an interesting alternative tack to intellectuals are more susceptible to manipulation than the average bear because
[23:49:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:46] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, the public isn't usually very good at making the correct decisions. But sometimes they do--one example that just popped into my head is the old "DIVX" rental-movie business, which totally flopped after Circuit Shitty spent billions on it. But two counter-examples are Twitter and Faceb...
[23:49:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Social Media Posts may Cost You Your Games - 1010 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:49:48] <exec> 08└─One of the things required to constitute a contract is consideration, or something of value that changes hands. Without that, the contract could be considered invalid. In this case, the guy apparently paid more than zero in order to use some virtual items in the online game. If Wizards decided that...
[23:50:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:12] <exec> 08└─Is it a good food additive?
[23:50:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:13] <exec> 08└─Me too. It only made sense to me after reading his remark about energy states. Uhh instantly became duh.
[23:50:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Discover "Excitonium" - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:15] <exec> 08└─Better yet... How is it in a bong, and should I use water or strawberry Kool-Aid?
[23:50:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:55] <exec> 08└─Congress passes a funding regulation that says Boeing will provide the legs of the lander and SpaceX will do the other 99.8% Muilenberg wins
[23:50:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:57] <exec> 08└─Have we just scripted "Weekend at Bernie's 3"?
[23:50:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 1575 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:50:59] <exec> 08└─Three reasons I can think of: 1.They received substantially more funding, so even if a substantial portion was swallowed up in corruption there's still more work actually being done. It also means more effort could be put into oversight and administration. 2. Decades ago, the major works projects we...
[23:51:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Boeing CEO Says His Company Will Carry Humans to Mars Before SpaceX - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:01] <exec> 08└─Elon's team engineers space-rated spaceX stickers to put under the lander's feet and explorers' shoes at the last second. They leave a logo imprint when the first-step-on-Mars picture is taken.
[23:51:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06'Nature' Editorial Juxtaposes FOIA Email Release With Illegal Hacking - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:51:13] <exec> 08└─The very first model I looked up has a very detailed description [wiley.com] for one to dig into, but you better be comfortable with finite element models. I won't do an exhaustive search, but I would wager every one of those models are described in great detail in journal publications because that'...
[23:52:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Top-Selling Handgun Safe Can be Remotely Opened in Seconds—No PIN Needed - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:52:01] <exec> 08└─social media connected fridge lock for weight loss
[23:53:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pentagon to Audit the Department of Defense - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:53:04] <exec> 08└─Parent has the nugget in this (meta)thread. ...and anyone who thinks it was lone nut with a crappy Italian surplus rifle Lee Harvey Oswald [google.com] who murdered JFK is simply naive. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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