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[00:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:13] <exec> 08└─Because serving ads isn't as simple (anymore) as simply including a banner from your sponsor.
[00:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:15] <exec> 08└─And yet I have no doubt at some point it will end up in a court in the US.
[00:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:17] <exec> 08└─Behold: http://winhelp2002.mvps.org [mvps.org] This is a good list that I load to my firewall and block on all machines.
[00:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:19] <exec> 08└─With that logic, writing in a book that I own would be illegal. If I allow and adblocker on my computer to later a webpage that I am viewing, that is my business and none of anyone elses. Is this app illegal? https://kickassapp.com [kickassapp.com]
[00:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:21] <exec> 08└─Exactly, if I can't figure out which set of third party scripts to allow without allowing all scripts, I usually decide I am not terribly interested in the content on that page. Once they start serving ads out of their content delivery networks, I am going to have some problems.
[00:18:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 55 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:29] <exec> 08└─I mean 100 80 70 64 50 90 72 66 BTC is really generous!
[00:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03nitehawk214 [1304] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe that is his plan. Have someone try to cash out a bunch of bitcoins at once and cause a crash in the market?
[00:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A New Strategy For Efficient Hydrogen Production - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:18:50] <exec> 08└─I shared a student flat with a PhD student working on this (specifically, working on developing new catalysts). To get funding, the story was "to generate hydrogen, which could be used as an alternative fuel". When I heard he was using temperatures well over 1000C, I asked how efficient the process...
[00:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:19:48] <exec> 08└─Lucky ars isn't full of IT people then. It's all tech illiterate hipsters and shills.
[00:24:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:56] <exec> 08└─You know, I've had really bad luck with bi chicks as well. In this case that means I've been unlucky enough to spend longer than is strictly necessary to recognize the crazy train coming my way and run screaming. Maybe it's a thing, maybe it's not, but it's damned sure not worth it to me to find out...
[00:24:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:24:57] <exec> 08└─The lazy is strong in this one. LMGTFY [lmgtfy.com].
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[01:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:17:52] <exec> 08└─There's one of the Red Boxes at our local market. I'm there several times a week (lately I've been shopping for a shut-in relative) and never see anyone buying anything, and only occasionally is there anyone even looking at it.
[01:18:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03julian [6003] 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:14] <exec> 08└─Once your computer (server) sends me some data it's mine to do whatever I want with it as long as I don't redistribute it to anyone else in an unauthorized way. I have no obligation to run every piece of code that every site I visit sends to my browser.
[01:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Geezer [511] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:29] <exec> 08└─You win the internet today.
[01:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:31] <exec> 08└─the average user is savvy enough to know when something essential went missing.
[01:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can see how the distractions introduced by enabling signatures could compromise your efficacy to make hay whilst the intervening mass is insufficient to inhibit the perceived intensity of incoming solar radiation. ;)
[01:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:35] <exec> 08└─APK, is that you?
[01:18:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 1309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:37] <exec> 08└─Ditto here. I did, at times, disable adblocking and/or enable scripts to see a page. I don't do that anymore. If the page is designed to hide stuff from me, I just move on, looking for the same content elsewhere. By "same content" I don't necessarily mean the same words, written by the same author....
[01:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:40] <exec> 08└─They probably aren't even serving their textual content from their own servers, let alone their image content.
[01:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03wisnoskij [5149] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:18:54] <exec> 08└─The problem with Wallstreet crashes is it is not Wallstreet which suffers, it makes money on every transaction, it is the guy that took out a second mortgage to buy 10 BTC.
[01:19:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Strategy For Efficient Hydrogen Production - 784 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:08] <exec> 08└─I'm of mixed opinions about this. On one hand, if he's trying to use fraud or something else to trick money from others, it's shameful and they should be shamed. On the other hand, most basic research doesn't have very much obvious immediate practical use, and I think basic research is substantially...
[01:19:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Coolest Chip Runs at Near Absolute Zero - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:19:46] <exec> 08└─Can it run Linux?
[01:20:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 475 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:20:29] <exec> 08└─It's really curious that they decided to do this during a presidency that communicates to the public largely via Twitter. Is this intended to provide an historical smokescreen against public reaction to Trump's tweets? Or is that just incidental? I'd really like to see some rules about this selectio...
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[01:21:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:30] <exec> 08└─They could also be on a moon around Planet Nine, or on a Mars-sized Planet Ten. Or on any number of Kuiper belt/Oort cloud dwarf planets, the outer solar system centaurs [wikipedia.org], and asteroids, most of which we have shit imagery of. Many gaps to look at.
[01:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:31] <exec> 08└─Just gimme some Scully!
[01:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 927 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:34] <exec> 08└─In this context the "U" actually means "undefunded", which is why this stuff is in the news. It's only received $22 million in the last few years and we all know that you can accomplish anything meaningful with only $22 million. Huh? "Defunded" means that something had funding, and that funding was...
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[01:21:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:21:37] <exec> 08└─You obviously jest, but I'll bet a fair number of Soylent readers believe in some religion, which has far less factual evidence supporting it, and makes even wilder and more ridiculous and absurd claims. Evidence for UFOs: poor-quality videos and photographs, plus contemporaneous eyewitness testimon...
[01:22:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:06] <exec> 08└─Never heard ECAD, but MCAD, a hanful times. Mechanical computer-aided design.
[01:22:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A Tool to Export EAGLE Projects for Use With FOSS ECADs - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:22:07] <exec> 08└─The interface with the mouse was an afterthought. You could just use the mouse to draw lines, but it was near impossible to draw nicely aligned lines. Had to dig into the interface to find "grid" and "snap", then the mouse was more usable. AutoCAD was obviously keyboard oriented.
[01:25:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:25:27] <exec> 08└─Okay, I over simplified: men, for the most part, especially when young, want sex more than, generally, women. That doesn't leave out an emotional response or foreplay or love: I'm just saying men GENERALLY want more sex than women and women are GENERALLY more willing to accept an emotional relations...
[01:26:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Free Software Movement is Barking Up the Wrong Tree - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:26:46] <exec> 08└─Oh, man. Now we have to make all our stuff rhyme and have meter?? [google.com] 8-D ...and, yeah. I liked it better before USA signed on to the Bern Convention (back before things got automatic copyright, without an application). -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
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[02:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:53] <exec> 08└─Tom Cruise uses Redbox, so they have to stay in business.
[02:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:17:55] <exec> 08└─Maybe its where you live. Where I am, a rural area of flyover country with cruddy expensive internet, I've never seen a box unused for more than 15 minutes and usually I have to either wait in line or have someone queue up behind me before I'm done.
[02:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:18:37] <exec> 08└─Believe it or not, the idea is not original. There are a couple of movies even: Human Centipede [wikipedia.org]
[02:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:19:32] <exec> 08└─Now, which has more value?
[02:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:32] <exec> 08└─Uh, why? Are we litigating UFOs or investigating them?
[02:21:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:34] <exec> 08└─People say the Sun exists, but I'm skeptical.
[02:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:21:36] <exec> 08└─The truth is classified.
[02:22:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03snufu [5855] (Score: 2) 02 - 06'Blade Runner 2049' VFX Reel Shows CG Tricks Behind Bleak Landscapes - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:22:20] <exec> 08└─It's a shame this CG technology was not available in 1982, the original might have been visually interesting.
[02:23:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 795 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:50] <exec> 08└─If someone has the "choice" between doing a specific job for someone else, or starving, then that is akin to slavery. It's not a choice if the only alternative is death. You can say the exact same thing about MANY jobs out there. Banning the job isn't the answer, the solution is to institute Univers...
[02:23:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 794 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:51] <exec> 08└─He's making no such claim, just like he isn't claiming that simply being male is causative to sexism or misogyny. Tech workers aren't the only introverts in the world, you know; introverts comprise (IIRC) roughly 30% of the population. And plenty of introverts have no trouble getting dates, are outg...
[02:23:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:23:53] <exec> 08└─In this case, male dominated tech industry. Put a bunch of girls in it and productivity will plummet. Personally I think that's bullshit, but even if it isn't, what's the problem? What is the tech industry doing these days that's so great anyway? Making a bunch of stupid, useless cellphone apps and...
[02:24:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:35] <exec> 08└─No, it's not that hard. It's called "eminent domain": if century-old crap is in the way, you exercise eminent domain, buy up the properties, bulldoze them, and build a new road. It happens all the time in various jurisdictions, even here in the US. Not using this tool when it's appropriate is a fail...
[02:24:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:24:36] <exec> 08└─What country was all this in? Even here in the US, you don't need a 4x4 in the city; traffic calming measures aren't that bad.
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[03:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:50] <exec> 08└─so, can you over-drive these? "Free charging and cooking"
[03:17:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:17:51] <exec> 08└─I don't think the FCC would approve of that.
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[03:18:02] <exec> 08└─That explains a lot, thanks. Internet here (great lakes area) is fairly good. Some neighborhoods (but not mine yet) have a choice of Spectrum (Time Warner) Cable internet or Verizon FiOS, so there is at least the appearance of some competition. Given the difference in the amount of business, I'm sur...
[03:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:03] <exec> 08└─Blockbuster [wikipedia.org] and RadioShack [wikipedia.org] didn't burn in a day. In fact, they still have 10 and 425 locations respectively.
[03:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:05] <exec> 08└─amazing, and news to me! Redbox, however , seems to be everywhere you can by food and/or beer. Perhaps, that's the difference ;-)
[03:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How T-Cells Navigate The Rough-And-Tumble Environment Of The Bloodstream - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:18:13] <exec> 08└─Are you suggesting T cells migrate?
[03:19:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:19:05] <exec> 08└─Not in the least. A wealth redistribution story set in cyberspace..
[03:20:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06War Stories | Ultima Online: The Virtual Ecology - 453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:20:20] <exec> 08└─I, too, think they could have rebalanced with a few tweaks - like maybe an evolutionary thing: animals are afraid of players to varying degrees, initially a random distribution, but later generations would inherit that (and other) characteristics from their parents. Another trait for stealth/camoufl...
[03:21:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:50] <exec> 08└─There is a lot of Hubris from scientists who think that they are certain that faster than light travel or anti-gravity are impossible with absolute certainty, given that the theories which say it is impossible come from a limited set of observations of the behaviour of forces under a limited set of...
[03:21:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 912 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:21:51] <exec> 08└─The Alcubierre (warp) drive [wikipedia.org] would not violate general/special relativity. Of course, the apparent exotic matter requirement is a big problem. I would come back to fusion in 10-20 years after we see if any of the small-scale non-Tokamak [nextbigfuture.com] designs from the likes of [n...
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[04:17:51] <exec> 08└─It's yours! Not possible luv. I use WattUp.
[04:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 924 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:04] <exec> 08└─They got popular about the time libraries bet big on stocking DVDs and Blu-Ray. I quickly found the only differences between the two was A) I had no idea when a DVD would arrive from the library; B) The library gives me 7 days to watch the movie (even though I occasionally get 3-4 movies in a single...
[04:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:06] <exec> 08└─I've seen a number of films stocked at a library close to me. Probably a good selection, but it doesn't look comprehensive. Are you saying you can "order" (request or suggest?) any/most films to be added to your library? There's another alternative: random streaming sites like hdonline.is. Almost ce...
[04:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:18:50] <exec> 08└─The problem is that good-at-ads also likes to bag and tag people like wild bears and often isn't all that good at not serving up malware that joins your computer to a botnet. Since those things keep happening, good-at-ads has poisoned the well and salted the earth. So they'll just have to take what...
[04:19:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Some call me Tim [5819] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:19:48] <exec> 08└─You know that place in Utah where they bolt down solid motors for testing? Yeah, they need to point them in the opposite direction to speed us back up..
[04:25:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:48] <exec> 08└─I can't imagine you ever having had luck with any woman of any description. You strike me as the kind of person whose hand would develop five spontaneous headaches, one per finger, out of pure self-defense when the idea of beating off crossed your mind.
[04:25:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Study Concludes That Gay And Lesbian Couples Are Happier Compared To Straight Couples - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:25:49] <exec> 08└─You know...when we all told you to go fuck yourself, it was a figure of speech. Put the null modem cable down.
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[05:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:58] <exec> 08└─Once the chassis is designed, the rest is pretty much a cookie cutter by now I would think. The truck would seem to have a lot more room for batteries but less room for rear the motor, especially if you want to keep it out of the wet. The big problem is people do stupid stuff with a truck and expect...
[05:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:17:59] <exec> 08└─I can have a diesel generator on the back - a big mother one. No, wait, let's make it coal.
[05:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobmorning [6045] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:01] <exec> 08└─I love his SpaceX but Tesla is just a big fricking hole that is eating up billions and he is losing more money than a sailor on shore leave. I have shorted the stock via put options and have my asses handed to me each time. WTF.
[05:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:12] <exec> 08└─People claiming sensitivity to Wifi are really going to hate all over this stuff. More Drama. [sciencebasedmedicine.org]
[05:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:14] <exec> 08└─Did anyone see any reference to the actual power output of these things? I read/skimmed two fine articles without seeing any mention of that piece of information...
[05:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:28] <exec> 08└─This could be location centric. I live in San Diego and I've noticed that movies that don't show up at the library also don't show up at Redbox. I like weird films, maybe 10-20% of my wanna watches don't show up on either.
[05:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:30] <exec> 08└─Seriously, I have no comment to make on this. Please don't spam mod me, bro!
[05:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:32] <exec> 08└─You should stake it out 24/7 for a month so you have a more valid data set and come back and update us on your findings.
[05:18:48] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 155 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:48] <exec> 08└─It's only infringement if you redistribute. And patches are generally not considered derivative works unless they contain context from the original source.
[05:18:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 169 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:18:56] <exec> 08└─It's one thing to selectively not load part of the content (legal adblocking), but quite another to modify that content or alter it. The latter is copyright infringement
[05:19:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:17] <exec> 08└─His excited eyes from within the dark interior glazed Watered in appreciation of his thoughtful preparation . . . Uh man, it's so heavy
[05:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:18] <exec> 08└─What happened in the future? Why is everything "heavy"?
[05:19:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:19:20] <exec> 08└─I dunno, it seems HIGHLY unlikely that OP was using that as material reference. Highly. Like no way in hell they would be referencing it. At all.
[05:20:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:20:18] <exec> 08└─Someone needs to science harder. In case you haven't paid close enough attention to all the commentary when "but its colder over here/there" is brought up. One possible outcome is all the heat will cause massive evaporation and thus cloud cover, clouds reflect a lot of light, thus reducing the incom...
[05:25:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Navigation Apps are Turning Quiet Neighborhoods into Traffic Nightmares - 3176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:25:22] <exec> 08└─Quick reality check: It's quite possible in most large (and even medium) cities to do a lot of moving around with mass transit. I've lived in multiple cities in the USA that had rail, light rail, buses and so on (depending on local geographic realities). So, if you have lots of time, not much to mov...
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[06:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 1161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:17:59] <exec> 08└─Probably soon. Time to Bash Tesla Model 3 [soylentnews.org] Tesla Fires Hundreds of Employees [soylentnews.org] Tesla Burns More Cash, Fails to Meet Production Targets [soylentnews.org] Tesla Sued Over Alleged Racism; Deliveries Pushed Back; Semi Truck to be Unveiled [soylentnews.org] Tesla's make-o...
[06:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:01] <exec> 08└─Just like buttcoins, you don't know when the crash will come. If you're betting on the misfortunes of a company, you better have staying power. Because even if you have perfect insight to why X is a bad business, it can take a while until the thundering herds of other investors turn around.
[06:18:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:30] <exec> 08└─Alright, let me explain. No Comment is actually a comment. It is a comment on how this article, fine though it may be in its own way, is innocuous, trivial, and not worth commenting upon. That is the comment of no-comment, which does sound suspiciously like Takuan's teaching of the "sword of no-swor...
[06:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:18:32] <exec> 08└─OK, redundant, fair enough. And here I am replying to myself, also redundant. Oh, this is not a good trajectory. . . Go ahead, mod me down again, and you and I will spiral down the vortex of an infinite regression, where we will have to await a Jedi natural like Rey, . . . wait, that is just totally...
[06:19:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:19:37] <exec> 08└─They form an elaborate network based on algorithms.
[06:21:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Library of Congress Will No Longer Archive All Tweets - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:21:28] <exec> 08└─I am a government official... Now be sure to send me a money order made out to "CASH" to pay your back taxes and penalties
[06:22:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:28] <exec> 08└─Yoda might say, "Classified, is truth."
[06:22:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 1395 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:29] <exec> 08└─To expand on what I was saying, the guy has seen whatever evidence he claims to have seen from military aircraft videos, radar, etc. The videos that were released (don't forget, in response to a FOIA request rather than voluntarily) were edited down, and the Pentagon gave no location + date for one...
[06:22:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 456 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:31] <exec> 08└─From the source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk [telegraph.co.uk] Earth may well have been visited by objects from outer space, the former head of a secret US government programme has told The Telegraph. Luis Elizondo sa...
[06:22:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:33] <exec> 08└─http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/23/existence-ufos-proved-beyond-reasonable-doubt-says-former-pentagon/ [telegraph.co.uk] Earth may well have been visited by objects from outer space, the former head of a secret US government programme has told The Telegraph. Luis Elizondo said the existence...
[06:22:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:22:36] <exec> 08└─Earth may well have been visited by objects from outer space, the former head of a secret US government programme has told The Telegraph. Luis Elizondo said the existence of supremely advanced unidentified aircraft, using technology that did not belong to any nation, had been "proved beyond reasonab...
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[07:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Nintendo Sells at Least 10 Million Switch Consoles in 2017, 64 GB Game Cards Delayed to 2019 - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:53] <exec> 08└─Nintendo Switch my black ass.
[07:17:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Nintendo Sells at Least 10 Million Switch Consoles in 2017, 64 GB Game Cards Delayed to 2019 - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:55] <exec> 08└─Stupid SoylentNews!
[07:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Sells at Least 10 Million Switch Consoles in 2017, 64 GB Game Cards Delayed to 2019 - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:57] <exec> 08└─Another takyon submission? Boring!
[07:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Sells at Least 10 Million Switch Consoles in 2017, 64 GB Game Cards Delayed to 2019 - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:17:59] <exec> 08└─takyon has no life
[07:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Sells at Least 10 Million Switch Consoles in 2017, 64 GB Game Cards Delayed to 2019 - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:01] <exec> 08└─Who approves this takyon shit? Don't tell me it is takyon his own self! SoylentNews is incest!
[07:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Sells at Least 10 Million Switch Consoles in 2017, 64 GB Game Cards Delayed to 2019 - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:04] <exec> 08└─One time when my dick was positioned just right, I thrust my hips so that I penetrated her a couple of inches. I gasped as I felt the delicious warmth of her pussy squeezing on my knob. Mom said, "Oh no, son. That wouldn't be right. We can massage each other, but that would be `incest`." She then sl...
[07:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 837 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:45] <exec> 08└─So, let's take a look at it, shall we? Mainpage 12/28 11:07 Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse takyon Mainpage 12/28 09:34 Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation takyon Mainpage 12/28 08:01 MIT Research...
[07:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 494 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:47] <exec> 08└─Ahh, finally got your question regarding my stupid comment on it. I live in San Diego, I can order DVDs/books/whatever from any of the 20 some libraries in the county. I can also order stuff from the City libraries, and if I want to keep searching from any library in the state. It's kind of awesome....
[07:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:49] <exec> 08└─Only on SoylentNews could a "no comment" get this much down modding. Do you think The Donald would have to put up with this? That is, if he could actually say just "no comment".
[07:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:18:51] <exec> 08└─It is simple. In order for all these unconnected males, discarded boys, to have something to masturbate to, there must be a Red Box for their Red Pillar. Else all for nought would it be, so you see.
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[08:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:49] <exec> 08└─Laid off from a manufacturing job? Might as well be dead. Once unemployed, always unemployed. Don't even bother applying. It's an employers' market and the powerful-employers-that-be will import immigrants before they train jobless turds. Not currently working? Fucking die and reduce the unsightly h...
[08:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 1519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:51] <exec> 08└─She says they have a 3 year no-rehire policy on the only two manufacturing jobs in the town of ~40k. They are basically wage frozen, and their hours are subject to corporate whim. In order to find alternative work you would have to commute multiple hours each direction, and unlike here in California...
[08:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:17:53] <exec> 08└─Who could have ever guessed that rampant credentialism would lead to a 'shortage' of skilled workers? You can't flip that burger without a high school degree, after all. High school degrees are known to be very prestigious.
[08:18:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:27] <exec> 08└─I don't think the FCC would approve of that.
[08:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:18:28] <exec> 08└─I'm reminded of James Randi's challenges. For instance, he offered cash to anyone who could find water by "dowsing". [google.com] (Nobody got the prize.) There was also the case of the new RF installation where the local folks bitched about the radiation (and the thing hadn't been powered up yet.) T...
[08:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How T-Cells Navigate The Rough-And-Tumble Environment Of The Bloodstream - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:00] <exec> 08└─Wow, these things are vicious looking. It's nice thing these things are the police in our bodies and not attacking.
[08:19:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03TGV [2838] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How T-Cells Navigate The Rough-And-Tumble Environment Of The Bloodstream - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:19:01] <exec> 08└─That would be an auto-immune disease, like AIDS or something as simple as psoriasis.
[08:20:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Strategy For Efficient Hydrogen Production - 804 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:20:14] <exec> 08└─Immediate and efficient use of high temperature chemistry is a good source for laughs, but if you hope that politicians will allow the build of new nuclear into 2035 then it makes sense for researchers to cover it - some nuclear designs allow for output heat well into this region (and up to about 75...
[08:25:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Amazon and Microsoft Employees Caught Up in Sex Trafficking Sting - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:25:11] <exec> 08└─Note how vices snuggle up to high-tech and capital cities - DC has a thriving "industry", Wellington NZ is home to the richest whoremasters (ex-China). It all has to do with industrial and political espionage and leverage. The "marks" get entangled and ensnared one way or another. Resistance is futi...
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[09:17:53] <exec> 08└─You don't need a degree to be a coder. GitHub is free. Create your account today and just start coding. If you're lucky, you'll make your big break and be a rockstar and get a million dollar salary at a top tech company. If you're unlucky, you'll write code that nobody will ever see or use. Let's be...
[09:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Nintendo Sells at Least 10 Million Switch Consoles in 2017, 64 GB Game Cards Delayed to 2019 - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:07] <exec> 08└─Whoa. PC-Engine hucards are back? How did I not hear about this sooner? I haven't bought a games console in ages but now I'm intrigued. I wonder if there are any decent single player games for this thing. I could just buy a game card and plug it in, and play something. Without online shit. Like the...
[09:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:32] <exec> 08└─I would also be interested in the power transfer ratio.... how many joules do I have to feed the thing to get a joule out at the charger and into the battery?
[09:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:18:34] <exec> 08└─"“Electromagnetic hypersensitivity” and “wifi allergies” are two names given to a nonexistent medical condition [...]. This is a story in which the parents’ insistence that their teenage daughter, who had posted threats to commit suicide on social media, had this condition appears to have...
[09:19:24] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:19:24] <exec> 08└─Why don't they just serve ads from their own servers?
[09:20:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but that benefits the guy who a couple of years later wants to pick up a cheap reposession.
[09:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A New Strategy For Efficient Hydrogen Production - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:21] <exec> 08└─And that is why I like Soylent News. I consider myself a pro-nuclear environmentalist, but was unaware of yet more reasons to move towards nuclear. Thanks.
[09:20:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 2214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:20:51] <exec> 08└─I typed my earlier reply on the phone... and I had to be brief because it takes forever and a day to post that way. The point I was trying to make was that report was behind a paywall, and some people will pay to see it. Frojack posted his quite insightful reply, for free, on this forum... bringing...
[09:22:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03ataradov [4776] 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:08] <exec> 08└─I just looked out of the window and saw something, I could not identify - an UFO. Now gimme $$$$ to investigate this.
[09:22:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 167 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:22:31] <exec> 08└─U means "unidentified". It doesn't mean "space aliens". Lots of people have seen things and can't figure out what they are, and some of those things are up in the sky.
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[10:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 2772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:01] <exec> 08└─My employer likes technical skills and technical training. So, what do they hire? I see a lot of people who have gone to the community college, or a vo-tech, to get some kind of certificate. You might think that these people are motivated, or bright, or just hard working. That is not the case - at l...
[10:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:02] <exec> 08└─It seems companies no longer want to spend any time or money training people to be able to get the skills to do their jobs. Either they expect Universities' to do their work for them or they just hire someone from abroad who has been educated and trained at someone else's expense. That might work fo...
[10:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:05] <exec> 08└─I almost missed this: The position has now been empty for months as the company tries to recruit someone new.
[10:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:07] <exec> 08└─And your code will always compost?
[10:18:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Sells at Least 10 Million Switch Consoles in 2017, 64 GB Game Cards Delayed to 2019 - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:20] <exec> 08└─Depends on the game. Some third-party games are on cartridge and still need a download. Nintendo currently has cards up to 32GB, but the publisher didn't want to pay for more than 16GB, so they put the rest as a download/patch. NBA2K18 is the worst - a 24 gig patch to play at all. Doom isn't so bad...
[10:18:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:18:47] <exec> 08└─Indeed. And they were throwing around both "directional" and "can charge multiple devices simultaneously", so knowing just how many beams they can form would also be useful. Oh, and do the charge beams track moving devices?
[10:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03r_a_trip [5276] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:20:01] <exec> 08└─You don't understand copyright. The only thing copyright does is prohibit duplication and further distribution of those copies for a specified time on a work. Altering a work for personal use after the sale has no bearing on copyright. As long as that work is not multiplied and sold on, copyright ha...
[10:21:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:21:05] <exec> 08└─You just summed up why open source / free software can be such a hard sell in large companies. +1 Pony
[10:23:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yog-Yogguth [1862] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 2810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:23:18] <exec> 08└─It's a lighthearted television/entertainment show but for professional daylight HD capture of a claimed UFO try to find and watch the "talking about the episode" discussion thing for the the third and final part of the (Travel Channel) Expedition Unknown UFO special where they show HD video of an Un...
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[11:18:11] <exec> 08└─some of the policies in place seem intended to push out american workers under the no-rehire policy in order to make room for the immigrants (the hiring of whom apparently provides tax breaks to the company.)
[11:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 560 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:18:52] <exec> 08└─Here is a link to a semiconductor company producing actual WattUp products [dialog-semiconductor.com]. However, the available documents are pretty light on details. From the "product brief" the transmitter supports 1-4 antennas. Receiving antennas can be as small as 2mmx3mm (intended for hearing aid...
[11:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:07] <exec> 08└─"Making "differentially powered" adblockers that erase anything that might benefit anyone anywhere in the sense that advertising might, is not, repeat, not a good, noble, worthy goal." Advertising is entirely geared towards deception and pretty pics. As such it has nearly no benefits whilst making u...
[11:20:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:20:08] <exec> 08└─Unless you look at legal precedent. Simply making a request and accepting what's sent back by the server has been proved to be illegal in some cases. Clearly the law's an ass, but the law's the law.
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[12:17:54] <exec> 08└─It's another Trump hit piece pushing the absurd idea that Trump is Putin's puppet. Some people really want to believe this. So far, 100% of the recent proven misdeeds involving Russia and US politicians have been about Trump opponents. We had a sitting president assist in the creation of nonsense in...
[12:18:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bootsy [3440] 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 532 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:18:12] <exec> 08└─It seems companies no longer want to spend any time or money training people to be able to get the skills to do their jobs. Either they expect Universities' to do their work for them or they just hire someone from abroad who has been educated and trained at someone else's expense. That might work fo...
[12:21:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:21:18] <exec> 08└─Time to invest in rubber bricks and rubber mortar stocks.
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[13:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:55] <exec> 08└─So they'd like us to believe. NK's bad, m'kay? SK's overlord good. Cartman go stand in the corner. I. Just. Don't. Trust. America. Anymore. I want to believe....I just don't.
[13:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:17:56] <exec> 08└─What signs did they use to pinpoint the date of exposure?
[13:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 853 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:05] <exec> 08└─Secret KGB Manual ... sure. Problem is that unless you actually read russian you are sort of out of luck. There is no proper english translation. Which isn't all that odd, they are not part of the whole block of the world that care about translations -- certainly not documents of that kind. But it i...
[13:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:07] <exec> 08└─So far, 100% of the recent proven misdeeds involving Russia and US politicians have been about Trump opponents.
[13:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:10] <exec> 08└─pretty strong indication
[13:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:12] <exec> 08└─pretty strong indication
[13:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:14] <exec> 08└─illegal dealings
[13:18:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 109 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:33] <exec> 08└─I almost missed this: The position has now been empty for months as the company tries to recruit someone new.
[13:18:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Nintendo Sells at Least 10 Million Switch Consoles in 2017, 64 GB Game Cards Delayed to 2019 - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:18:50] <exec> 08└─Before launch it was known this would support the "game card" and microSD alongside the internal storage. https://www.quora.com [quora.com] One problem is that they'll have released patches for the games as well as the console it...
[13:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:19] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's coming back? California Issues Warning Over Cellphones; Study Links Non-Ionizing Radiation to Miscarriage [soylentnews.org]
[13:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:44] <exec> 08└─Aristarchus, seriously, I say this with love: go outside and play. Running a multi-installment Offtopic sub-thread by yourself is not healthy.
[13:19:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:19:45] <exec> 08└─That sounds plausible to me. I have only seen Redbox in Speculator, NY, in the middle of the Adirondack State Forest, and close to Bar Harbor, Maine, next to Acadia National Park. Those essentially qualify as fly-over country. They can't have fat broadband pipes there.
[13:20:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:20:39] <exec> 08└─Dafuq's that supposed to mean? OP says ~ "why don't they host the stuff they have very little interest in the content of?" I reply ~ "they don't even host the stuff they have lots of interest in the content of?" Why would they do the former if they don't even do the latter?
[13:21:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:21:47] <exec> 08└─Thermal expansion of the oceans is a factor.
[13:23:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 706 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:23:59] <exec> 08└─I'll note here that the 19th Century wouldn't beckon so for your fellow citizens in the UK, if it weren't for the ability of a single country (that would be Greece in present circumstances) to let in a huge number of immigrants for the entire EU. Broken systems often result in such problems. And wh...
[13:24:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:01] <exec> 08└─Find these wormholes first before pooh-poohing modern science. We aren't as ignorant as medieval serfs. Don't forget, your understanding of physics comes from a species that hasn't even gotten their shit together enough to build interstellar probes, and haven't really left their own star system, and...
[13:24:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, that's the problem with warp drives, finding the magic stuff to make the stress-engergy tensor negative. Wormholes are even worse. How would you get the "other end" in the right (ie a useful) place?
[13:24:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:06] <exec> 08└─Luis Elizondo said the existence of supremely advanced unidentified aircraft, using technology that did not belong to any nation, had been "proved beyond reasonable doubt".
[13:24:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt': Former Head Of Pentagon Program - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:24:08] <exec> 08└─Elizondo also has a new job: https://www.nytimes.com [nytimes.com] Mr. Elizondo has now joined Mr. Puthoff and another former Defense Department official, Christopher K. Mellon, who was a deputy assistant secretary of defense for intelligen...
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[14:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:58] <exec> 08└─None of the people from the nuclear test site were irradiated, meaning it could have been unprotected industrial refinement of radioactive elements, some sort of particle accelerator generation loads of unshielded particles, or radiation from secondary sources, as well as the possibility of fallout...
[14:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:17:59] <exec> 08└─I want to believe
[14:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03ACE209 [4762] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:01] <exec> 08└─So their nuclear test site is in Kilju county? How fitting.
[14:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:14] <exec> 08└─> Trump is Putin's puppet My AI is not convinced, positing that Putin should have outbid a lot of people to become the puppet master. It's more likely some kind of shared property like the ones before him.
[14:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:15] <exec> 08└─> the absurd idea that Trump is Putin's puppet Very few believe he's a "puppet", despite your paranoia. Most believe he's a "useful idiot". Here, kid, go larn yerself something about the real world of international relations: https://www.youtube.com Notice how far we've "progress...
[14:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:17] <exec> 08└─of modern science, you need Russia, Chinese, Japanese, English (possibly both English and American dialects due to inconsistencies), German, Latin, and possibly one or more of the Romance languages on top of all this. And that is ignoring that other bodies of work may be in Polish, Hungarian, Korean...
[14:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:20] <exec> 08└─The old board was full of crazy nuts, the new board is full of crazy nuts.
[14:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:22] <exec> 08└─Let me paraphrase: Step 1) Give moneys Step 2) Give sex Step 3) ???? Step 4) прибыль
[14:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03VanessaE [3396] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Planetary Resources' Arkyd-6 Ready for Launch - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:29] <exec> 08└─"10 by 20 by 30 centimeters" Aw, come on guys, you couldn't have made it 10 by 40 by 90 ?
[14:18:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:45] <exec> 08└─And your code will always compost?
[14:18:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:18:46] <exec> 08└─Thanks, your observations match my observations of the world. Though you do get a mix at the good ole Community College. Some people are truly great, just have too much brains to splurge $50K a year. And of course lot of people at CC should never be in college, but what you gonna do? Too many libera...
[14:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:14] <exec> 08└─Wait a minute, I thought we all wanted electric everything because it's going to save the world. What's with all the bashing? Get out there and buy his overpriced electric toys, and tell all your friends and neighbors to do the same.
[14:19:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:33] <exec> 08└─The FCC docs show it uses 4W at 913 MHz. There's also a 'stay out' zone within 20cm that is monitored for movement - the RF is shut off if movement is detected.
[14:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:19:35] <exec> 08└─What about 10 of these pointed to the same area in a conference room. Walk in to a presentation, walk out with cancer.
[14:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How T-Cells Navigate The Rough-And-Tumble Environment Of The Bloodstream - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:10] <exec> 08└─Is there a directly downloadable video? Neither of the links in the story work for me due to my browser choice/settings. I alas skipped a lot of biology due to other subject choices, so I'm often in a state of wonderment when some of the mechanisms that have evolved are explained in more than superf...
[14:20:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 749 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:20:56] <exec> 08└─> Advertising is entirely geared towards deception That's going to far; much advertising is, but not all. It's all entirely geared towards persuasion, but not all of the persuasion involves falsity, which I assert is necessary for it to be called deception. My company copy-edits adverts sometimes, a...
[14:21:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03FatPhil [863] 02 - 06The Pineapple Fund Gives $1M in Bitcoin to the Internet Archive - 238 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:21:09] <exec> 08└─The problem with wall street crashes is that the idiots in the financial institutions don't remove themselves from the gene pool for the benefit of mankind, instead they simply get bailed out from taxpayers wallets by corrupt governments.
[14:22:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03dak664 [2433] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World's Coolest Chip Runs at Near Absolute Zero - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:22:16] <exec> 08└─Since below zero K is routinely achieved. But (correctly) they only want to reach the coldest possible temperature of zero K. See e.g. http://www.physicscentral.com [physicscentral.com]
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[15:17:56] <exec> 08└─If this is audible frequencies like a car alarm, hearing protection should be at least somewhat effective. Adding some foam ear plugs (or equal) to the standard "riot aid kit" costs almost nothing. Industrial hearing protection (over ear) works better, but also more obvious. The riot aid kit used to...
[15:17:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:17:58] <exec> 08└─Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances unless we disagree with you.
[15:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:00] <exec> 08└─Or, mangling Pink, "So so what?" That an LRAD *can* be used as an acoustic weapon doesn't mean that it *was* used that way. This reads more like it was used as a super-PA system. Or am I reading that wrong / that's their spin on it? Was there possibility for injury from its use? And even if it was u...
[15:18:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:02] <exec> 08└─The LRAD is not just a weapon. It can transmit voice like a loud speaker. That sounds like how it was used here. It was used to transmit voice to instruct a crowd of people on which direction to move. "CDU performed well and utilized appropriate tactics when called upon to effectively manage the cro...
[15:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03lx [1915] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:04] <exec> 08└─Sure, and phosphor grenades don't have to be used to burn people, they can also be used as flares. That way the harm done is classified as collatoral damage. It's a semantic trick well known in official circles.
[15:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:16] <exec> 08└─Japan have had its (radiated) days, Korea is where it's at now. I for one welcome our new Kozilla overlord. Long live the radiated ... radiance.
[15:18:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kromagv0 [1825] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 707 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:34] <exec> 08└─Actually the US had at one point a fairly extensive program to translate scientific papers professionally out of eastern block countries. I don't know if it is still going on but I would imagine that it likely is. I know this because my father-in-law use to do this work on the side in the late 70s a...
[15:18:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 1877 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:18:59] <exec> 08└─<sarcasm> Woah there friend. You can't go around putting lowly plebs in positions reserved for the friends and family of management. </sarcasm> Seriously though, I bet a lot of it has to do with elitism. For example : my boss enforces a dress code which includes a company provided black shirt with l...
[15:19:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 1356 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:19:00] <exec> 08└─Overall, what happened to training is increasing worker mobility. A couple generations ago, families mostly grew up and stayed in a town or even the same neighborhood in a city. They'd get a job and work at the same place for 40 years. Companies invested in workers with training and promoting from w...
[15:20:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 574 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:20:47] <exec> 08└─Because that's not at all compatible with how internet advertising auctions and targeting work. Imagine a human centipede of marketing companies 100 deep all shitting in each others mouths until finally shitting all over your browser. It's insanely obfuscated by design, because if anyone ever truly...
[15:21:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 1637 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:09] <exec> 08└─Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure. ;) Seriously though, ad blocking through browser plugins is a pretty poor solution IMO. I'm not blocking ads because I don't like looking at them; I'm blocking ads because they are a *threat* to my privacy and security. Now, if Google is actively try...
[15:21:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:21:11] <exec> 08└─Lets not confuse CFAA with copyright shall we?
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[16:18:00] <exec> 08└─Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances unless we disagree with you.
[16:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 510 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:05] <exec> 08└─I live in DC and was there at the Gallery Place Metro station during the crush time and I don’t recall any noticeably extraordinary measures being used, not even for public address. They may have deployed an LRAD, they may even have used it, but there were no overt signs of any negative impact or...
[16:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03BsAtHome [889] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 777 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:07] <exec> 08└─FWIW, congress did not make a law in conflict with this constitutional amendment. The executive branch only "instructed" the enforcement branch to look the other way regarding these rights. You know, terrorism and other straw-men for a good excuse. It is all for the sake of <fill-in-current-excuse>....
[16:18:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:09] <exec> 08└─Cool, and there's no downside to police simply *threatening* peaceful demonstrators ... that's how free countries work right? Chilling effects are such bullshit.
[16:18:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:11] <exec> 08└─What you need is a charismatic moderator. A real moderator who is able to bridge sides
[16:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:14] <exec> 08└─The jackboot is a lovely footwear.
[16:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 247 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:18:44] <exec> 08└─Well, such as: “The Foreign Ministry, the Ministry for Foreign Economic Ties, the State Education Committee, the Ministry of Culture, the Peace Committee, the Academy of Science, etc. can be used as well as theatre, art shows, cinema, tourism…
[16:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 2688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:11] <exec> 08└─So then yes, as a business insider that has heard this argument before across many industries, I can tell you that those two jobs have skills in high demand, and for some reason they are unable to fill them. The corporate executive advice consultant will use this information and provide a viable sol...
[16:19:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:13] <exec> 08└─hey it's almost like I worked for your place. my boss also was into red shirts. wanted everyone to syncronize their outfits so that he could stand out as the boss. but that happened because a suborinate wore something nice one day and acted educated and polite...and the potential customer thought th...
[16:19:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:15] <exec> 08└─PROMOTE THAT PERSON INTO THE POSITION
[16:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:17] <exec> 08└─And I'm sure there are those who won't promote because they don't like the person for whatever reason, even if they are PERFECT for the job. Maybe the person has a funny walk, bald, bad teeth/breath, listens to michael bolton, brown/black, speaks a certain way (accent/lisp/dialect), cubs fan, woman,...
[16:19:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03JustNiz [1573] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:19:44] <exec> 08└─What is the deal with these electric cars that they have to be so damn ugly? That truck rendering is truly up there as the most ugly vehicle I've ever seen. I'd honestly rather own an Aztek. How is it that someone at Tesla can draw this and apparently no-one else at the whole company has enough tast...
[16:20:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:06] <exec> 08└─was she hot? losing a hot girl is a tragedy. losing an ugly one is a statistic.
[16:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:20:07] <exec> 08└─James Randi is pretty much an asshole and nobody with any actual skills is going to bother with him. Skeptics are the only people more annoying and generally less useful than the true believers they try to debunk. The sad thing is, that they don't realize that their attempts to dismiss things that c...
[16:21:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 592 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:32] <exec> 08└─how does it make no sense? Oh i understand--you're ignorant of the message. He is saying that if you add his signature to a DNS host file, a DNS server zone, or as a manual entry into your adblocker of choice, you can prevent a lot of problems that result from the profiting of those 1x1 sized pixel...
[16:21:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:21:33] <exec> 08└─In the same way that after the web server sends me the data, I am free to do with it what I want. They're just complaining that I have a program to do it automatically for me before I see the original version.
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[17:17:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:49] <exec> 08└─I don't always test my code, but when I do it's in production.
[17:17:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:51] <exec> 08└─while my thinking's impaired* . . . . . *Shut up.
[17:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mechanicjay [7] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:17:53] <exec> 08└─Everybody has a testing environment. Some people are lucky enough enough to have a totally separate environment to run production in.
[17:18:08] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03lx [1915] 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 211 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:09] <exec> 08└─Sure, and phosphor grenades don't have to be used to burn people, they can also be used as flares. That way the harm done is classified as collatoral damage. It's a semantic trick well known in official circles.
[17:18:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:15] <exec> 08└─I know it is cliche, but you get what you vote for. Hilary Clinton won with over 3 million more votes than Donald Trump. We didn't get what we voted for. We got who Putin, Assange, and their minions skewed the election for, by exploiting flaws in our aging electoral system, in particular the absurdi...
[17:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:17] <exec> 08└─Then maybe you should have worked on fixing the aging electoral system. When have the Democrats *ever* tried to do that, even when they controlled both Congress and the White House? As I always say in these threads, "every nation gets the government it deserves". We're getting exactly what we deserv...
[17:18:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:18:48] <exec> 08└─Well, the biggest donor to Clinton foundation was Ukraine http://theduran.com [theduran.com]
[17:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:19] <exec> 08└─Ah yes. Egos. I was giving a presentation the other day at the companies weekly manager meeting when the sales manager, yup, the fucking sales manager, interrupted me to try and argue technical semantics of which he has no authority on. He was feeling dumb and had to put an end to it. Can't have one...
[17:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:19:49] <exec> 08└─The article states "artist's rendering above", not a proposed design by Tesla engineers. Someone likely just drew something he/she thought looked aerodynamic. "I'd honestly rather own an Aztek." I'd rather have a pony.
[17:20:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03halcyon1234 [1082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:20:37] <exec> 08└─Good job, Universal! Now all you have to do is rewind time to 2006, when physical media rentals was at its peak, and having first-runs available would have mattered to more than 10 people. Everyone else now VOD, buys, gets from library, or has their own timetable and doesn't care about setting a mov...
[17:21:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:39] <exec> 08└─My IP was banned for posting that exact link in response to another story and the admins did nothing to fix it. Now I use a VPN and post AC, fuck you SN...
[17:21:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 2764 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:40] <exec> 08└─It depends. Did you pay for a license to the newspaper? Did you buy a physical copy that can even be used to line a bird cage or potty train the dog? Or to be used as packaging material when shipping stuff? Or even a gag gift wrap for presents? There is a difference between what the old media let yo...
[17:21:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:21:42] <exec> 08└─this ad-blocker should be based on a decentralize network. it works, by presenting the ads BUT with a selection button .. "do you like this ad?" yes/no. the reports are collected and then sent out to all other ad-block users. this way we can cheaply nuke companies that heavy-load our connection with...
[17:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart [2844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:22:49] <exec> 08└─If you want some non-sensation seeking thoughts on the phenomenon: Earth's Rotation IS Slowing Down. But More Earthquakes? That's A Hypothesis, Not A Fact [forbes.com]
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[18:18:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:03] <exec> 08└─Get those fleas under control! http://www.businessinsider.com [businessinsider.com]
[18:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jshmlr [6606] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:04] <exec> 08└─Feel better and thank you for all of your hard work!
[18:18:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:07] <exec> 08└─Yeah, get well BuzzMeister.
[18:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Researchers Improve Time-of-Flight Imaging Depth Resolution by 1,000-Fold - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:14] <exec> 08└─If they're demonstrating this in fiber optic fiber simulations of the real world, great. Call me when they've at least taken it out the back door of the lab and demonstrated range measurement accuracy "in the field."
[18:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Researchers Improve Time-of-Flight Imaging Depth Resolution by 1,000-Fold - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:16] <exec> 08└─Maybe I'm a bit ignorant, but... uhh... what is this and what does it mean? In reading the summary it sounds like they figured out a way to make cameras for self-driving cars more accurate and longer ranges. However, I can't reconcile that with Time of Flight [wikipedia.org], which sounds like a mea...
[18:18:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06MIT Researchers Improve Time-of-Flight Imaging Depth Resolution by 1,000-Fold - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:19] <exec> 08└─They are measuring distance by measuring the 'time of flight' for an energy pulse (flash of light or RF) round trip out to a target and back to the receiver.
[18:18:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:37] <exec> 08└─Duh. The DC police have a crowd control tool that they appear to have used correctly. Citizens can own firearms even though they can be used for murder. Pressure cookers can become weapons. Can we move on? Are you big on thought crime? The only issue i could see here is police often get away with ab...
[18:18:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:39] <exec> 08└─Why should that part of the electoral system change? The current system is based on approval of the states, not of the large populations in a handful of states. And funny how there's never an attempt to negotiate for fixing these perceived problems. What's in it for the small states that would becom...
[18:18:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 859 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:52] <exec> 08└─The US Government lies, engages in illegal activities, and frequently fails to live up to the ideals it espouses. But do you really believe that North Korea is a better place to live than South Korea? Really? It's easy to talk safe in your warm home, with a reliable food source, clean water to drink...
[18:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:18:53] <exec> 08└─If you really think that North Korea is a good place to live, I question your source of news, your judgement, or both.
[18:19:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03ataradov [4776] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:15] <exec> 08└─Is there a link to a PDF or any other format, I can read without tilting my head sideways? What's the point of including the whole test of a document in a way that is impossible to read?
[18:19:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:16] <exec> 08└─when he retired because retired KGB agents didn't receive pensions. The soviets were far more afraid of us than we were of them. This lead them to use every ruble in self-defense
[18:19:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 2772 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:34] <exec> 08└─My employer likes technical skills and technical training. So, what do they hire? I see a lot of people who have gone to the community college, or a vo-tech, to get some kind of certificate. You might think that these people are motivated, or bright, or just hard working. That is not the case - at l...
[18:19:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bootsy [3440] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 1216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:49] <exec> 08└─I agree with your points but in these days of 3 years staying in a job being a good stint it is interesting that HR departments have stronge evidence that training people actually causes some job stickiness and they stay longer. Offering yearly training is now considered best practice if you want to...
[18:19:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:19:50] <exec> 08└─The answer to this is simple - retirement packages with lifetime employment. It used to be that most S&P500 companies would offer a retirement package that would allow workers to retire in 20 years. The retirees - in their late 40s - would spend the last 3-5 years training their replacement. Nowaday...
[18:20:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 1231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:20:21] <exec> 08└─The really critical thing Elon Musk and Tesla Motors has done is kickstart electric car investment in the other automakers. I won't be too upset if Tesla folds. I can buy a Chevrolet with four seats and a 200 mile battery range (the Bolt), or another Chevrolet with a 40 mile battery range and an onb...
[18:22:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A New Strategy For Efficient Hydrogen Production - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:22:49] <exec> 08└─maybe if you can trick something into thinking that it swallowed a proton but in reality it didn't so you get to keep the proton but the something that thought that it did, reacts by emitting something heavy that also happens to be a conglomerate of neutrons and (more) protons? i don't yet know were...
[18:23:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World's Coolest Chip Runs at Near Absolute Zero - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:23:36] <exec> 08└─ah so. now i know why i have milli-second blackouts. strangely enough i can still remember them...
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[19:17:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation - 2536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:17:59] <exec> 08└─This strategy, basically "Say dumb things and see what happens," works really well for things like language learning, which it could be argued that the machines are doing. People who are "afraid to make mistakes" (that's most of them) and want everything they say to be "perfect" in the sense that th...
[19:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation - 690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:00] <exec> 08└─We've seen a few AIs doing stuff like this lately, especially on Twitter. And as it turns out, it's very easy to insert bigoted ideology into the AI. I sure hope these researchers have considered the consequences of letting its AI learn new things from the people it interacts with. Not that learning...
[19:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:03] <exec> 08└─Are you implying that Tay [theverge.com] the chatbot was bigoted rather than redpilled?
[19:18:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:05] <exec> 08└─Recent example? Didn't get my phone bill on time (2 weeks late) so called Verizon to request a duplicate bill. Talked to their voice response system and got what I wanted in about the same time that it would have taken with a human operator. I suppose this is a common request, but I was impressed wh...
[19:18:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:18] <exec> 08└─If it is the plague or a cold the ancient remedy is the same: straight tequila and some lime wedges! And above all, the cure is quite enjoyable. P.S. Don't believe those recommending mezcal instead of tequila, they know not what the speak about.
[19:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:19] <exec> 08└─... you both survive...
[19:18:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06MIT Researchers Improve Time-of-Flight Imaging Depth Resolution by 1,000-Fold - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:30] <exec> 08└─In reading the summary it sounds like they figured out a way to make cameras for self-driving cars more accurate and longer ranges. However, I can't reconcile that with Time of Flight [wikipedia.org], which sounds like a measurement of time rather than of distance or precision.
[19:18:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06MIT Researchers Improve Time-of-Flight Imaging Depth Resolution by 1,000-Fold - 1213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:31] <exec> 08└─I'm thinking along those lines myself. The first thing that occurred to me was, that they are using visible light. It's well known that fog eats visible light. Well, scatters it so badly, that it might as well be eaten. Then they introduced the idea of high frequency light? Is it still visible light...
[19:18:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Nerdfest [80] 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 161 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:45] <exec> 08└─Cool, and there's no downside to police simply *threatening* peaceful demonstrators ... that's how free countries work right? Chilling effects are such bullshit.
[19:18:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:53] <exec> 08└─I don’t recall anyone, anywhere, at any time during the Women’s March protest expressing any feeling of being threatened by the DCMPD. That’s simply not much of “thing.” You want creeping fascism in policing, you really need to look elsewhere. Not that you need look far, but this ain’t i...
[19:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:18:55] <exec> 08└─Supposedly, a bunch of diplomatic folks in Cuba may have been subjected to a sonic weapon. And some more in central Asia. Causing physical and possibly cognitive problems. I'm to lazy to get the link. Google it. Supposedly, we aren't aware of any type of device that could do that. But... It sure...
[19:19:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:09] <exec> 08└─So they'd like us to believe.
[19:19:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:19:11] <exec> 08└─So, no one in amurica goes around hungry? everyone has CLEAN water to drink?EVERYONE has fast internet and stable electricity? BULLSHIT! Don't get your panties messed up over this. I did not say it was a great place to live: i said i don't trust what the government tells us about North Korea. TIME T...
[19:20:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 996 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:07] <exec> 08└─IMHO, this is a direct consequence of malformed teachings by American business schools. BA majors for the last 50 years have been indoctrinated with concepts such as the "cost center"* and the even more idiotic delusion that egomaniacs screaming in a trading pit actually create all value. Everything...
[19:20:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:09] <exec> 08└─the hardest-to-fill jobs are those that involve technical skills that command top pay.
[19:20:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:11] <exec> 08└─That might work for their immediate bottom line but it doesn't work for society as a whole and in the future companies will lose out as skills become rarer.
[19:20:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:41] <exec> 08└─> I have three quarters of my pathetically small retirement savings in cash equivalents in anticipation of another recession or worse. Maybe I'll just be kicking myself for stupidity in twenty years. Well, you are not alone, I've done essentially the same thing with my retirement funds. Where do you...
[19:20:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:20:43] <exec> 08└─Out by one of the dumpsters in Portland?
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[20:17:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:53] <exec> 08└─Federal Agents Found Preserved Babies During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse, and someone should hang for murder Call them what they are!
[20:17:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:54] <exec> 08└─It depends on how the babies were acquired. You're automatically jumping to a "routine abortion", when it could have been an abortion due to medical issues, or some other thing, like the mother died. Since Abortion also, isn't against the law in many places, there would be no murder charges. We don'...
[20:17:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:57] <exec> 08└─This story is part of a multi-week series Reuters has been doing about the body parts trade. Most of the series is fascinating as an outsider, but I suspect they are hoping to make it into a big social deal or elicit clickbait-like behavior with it. A lot of the articles focus on "shocking" details...
[20:17:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:17:59] <exec> 08└─Blackburn recoiled when a Reuters reporter showed her some of the photographs, taken by government officials involved in the raid.
[20:18:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:01] <exec> 08└─Appeal to emotion? They already got that covered when they threw the slightly pixellated photographs in there.
[20:18:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:03] <exec> 08└─Fetuses is more specific.
[20:18:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:05] <exec> 08└─And you've lept to your conclusions and eliminated the possibility that these were stillborn, or dead fetuses from deceased pregnant women how? Or perhaps they're not from humans at all and have yet to be properly identified?
[20:18:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:08] <exec> 08└─Link added, thanks.
[20:18:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:10] <exec> 08└─Or perhaps they're not from humans at all and have yet to be properly identified?
[20:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:12] <exec> 08└─Federal Agents Found Preserved Babies During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse, and someone should hang for murder Call them what they are!
[20:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:14] <exec> 08└─Wow Takyon just wow, you dare imply that the normal reaction to seeing a CLUMP OF CELLS pickled in a jar of brain juice is to recoil from it? Soylent should put on a series of diversity classes for the editors
[20:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:17] <exec> 08└─We demand the uncensored photographs!!!
[20:18:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 62 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:32] <exec> 08└─I don't always test my code, but when I do it's in production.
[20:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:41] <exec> 08└─I hope you feel better soon. I offer the suggestion that you eat, drink and do comforting things. Probably not including reading Soylent, lol.
[20:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:43] <exec> 08└─Probably not including reading Soylent, lol.
[20:18:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06MIT Researchers Improve Time-of-Flight Imaging Depth Resolution by 1,000-Fold - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:18:54] <exec> 08└─Original poster here. So basically, in very artificial environment they were able to better measure time the "go out and come back" time, making their LIDAR more precise at longer ranges. Makes sense. Thanks for the explanation.
[20:19:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 302 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:12] <exec> 08└─Then maybe you should have worked on fixing the aging electoral system. When have the Democrats *ever* tried to do that, even when they controlled both Congress and the White House? As I always say in these threads, "every nation gets the government it deserves". We're getting exactly what we deserv...
[20:19:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:18] <exec> 08└─I know it is cliche, but you get what you vote for.
[20:19:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:20] <exec> 08└─So what you're telling us (correctly) is that the system treats the entity of a state as more important than the people in the states. This is manifest in that a voter's power in one state is not equal to a voter's power in another state. Non-proportional voting power. I don't actually think that's...
[20:19:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:19:59] <exec> 08└─People who worked for the Trump campaign got indicted for stuff that happened in 2014, long before the Trump campaign existed. What do you think this is, some sort of contagious original sin? Hiring a person who previously committed a crime somehow makes you a criminal, even if they haven't yet been...
[20:20:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:01] <exec> 08└─Is there a link to a PDF or any other format, I can read without tilting my head sideways?
[20:20:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 682 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:38] <exec> 08└─I don't know why so many people do foolish, short-sighted things, but they do. It's similar to how many employers won't hire people without a degree, even though, in most cases, degrees get handed out like candy and having one is not very impressive. Many people (and there seemingly is plenty of ove...
[20:20:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Skilled Manufacturing Workers in Demand in the U.S. - 1428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:20:40] <exec> 08└─This is why we need to kill the entire H1B program. Do this and the corporations will find ways to train Americans to do the work. Just watch. The entire H1B program is a scam because Americans can be trained to do these jobs. This is all about bringing in cheap foreign labor to increase corporate p...
[20:21:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:36] <exec> 08└─Seems like this could cause death fast.
[20:21:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Approves "WattUp" Wireless Power Transmission - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:21:37] <exec> 08└─Oh, you think suicide is funny? I think I see someone else who could use mental health services. Perhaps even a few more bad genes in the genepool -- sociopathic ones.
[20:23:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Measuring And Disrupting Anti-Adblockers Using Differential Execution Analysis - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:23:08] <exec> 08└─Seriously though, ad blocking through browser plugins is a pretty poor solution IMO.
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[21:17:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03mendax [2840] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pulsars Could Host "Habitable" Exoplanets With Thick Atmospheres - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:17:52] <exec> 08└─The planets may be habitable, but wouldn't light be a problem? I suppose a species could evolve that uses some other sensing mechanism such as echo location or infrared.
[21:18:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:11] <exec> 08└─A fetus need not be homo sapiens. It could be Bos indicus, Bos taurus, Heterocephalus glaber, Giraffa camelopardalis... The usage of "fetus" is purely to dehumanize the baby. You aren't supposed to feel emotion for the abused children, so their humanity must be swept away.
[21:18:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:13] <exec> 08└─like that weird Japanese porn pixellation - really annoying to see some guy's schlong going in and out of some monster from 8-bit Theatre.
[21:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:15] <exec> 08└─Could mean an antelope, or pig, or an ape [enchantedlearning.com].
[21:18:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:17] <exec> 08└─Yeah let's go with the 0.1% probability answer and stick our heads back in the sand.
[21:18:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:20] <exec> 08└─This isn't the type of writing one should expect from a professional reporter.
[21:18:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:22] <exec> 08└─re: lax enforcement: the "authorities" don't enforce anything that has to do with actual violation of rights. they're too busy getting in on the action for that.
[21:18:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation - 1295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:18:33] <exec> 08└─I think he is implying that only correct think is allowed. Neg-speech is not allowed and should be shunned and the person sent back to re-evaluation camp. /sarc Chatbots that 'learn' are subject to being manipulated. 4chan is bored and will do so to their whim. Instead of seeing it as an attack vect...
[21:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:27] <exec> 08└─is that the system treats the entity of a state as more important than the people in the states.
[21:19:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:28] <exec> 08└─Oh fuck you, if it had been the other way around you'd be wetting yourself twice daily on here over it. Do you think we can't tell? You're only sanguine about this because "your guy" "won."
[21:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:31] <exec> 08└─The LRAD was used "to assist in instructing the crowd flows on continuing to flow away from the entrances of the stations."
[21:19:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:33] <exec> 08└─If they used it without being under *direct* attack, they abused it in my opinion.
[21:19:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 733 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:35] <exec> 08└─The main problem is the voting system, which forces a two-party system. No one in either party has done a damn thing to fix the voting system in any way whatsoever, be it the first-past-the-post system, or the Electoral College, or anything else. The EC is wrong because it makes votes in some states...
[21:19:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:19:51] <exec> 08└─It's not that hard to measure radiation in tissue.
[21:20:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:20:17] <exec> 08└─You're starting to ramble again, Grandpa...no one cares.
[21:21:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:29] <exec> 08└─I have shorted the stock via put options and have my asses handed to me each time. WTF.
[21:21:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:21:31] <exec> 08└─The two of you might be proved right: https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com]
[21:22:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Redbox Deal With Universal Eliminates Rental Window Delay - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:22:23] <exec> 08└─Point taken, Phoenix. Thanks.
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[22:17:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pulsars Could Host "Habitable" Exoplanets With Thick Atmospheres - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:45] <exec> 08└─Life had been thriving on Earth for hundreds of millions of years before the first, water-dwelling, organisms evolved photosensitivity - and it was likely used to flee the dangerous UV radiation from daylight. Even rudimentry pit eyes only evolved about 600 million years ago, leaving billions of yea...
[22:17:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pulsars Could Host "Habitable" Exoplanets With Thick Atmospheres - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:17:47] <exec> 08└─Well, it's not like they can't be bright. Brightest Pulsar Ever Discovered Is 10 Million Times More Luminous Than Our Sun [iflscience.com] I'm more worried about that thicc atmosphere.
[22:18:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:12] <exec> 08└─You can blame the Americans of the just-after-WWII era for that little bit of idiocy.
[22:18:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 737 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:14] <exec> 08└─...and the fetuses are intact. If they were the result of a surgical abortion, they'd be in pieces. What occurred to me first is miscarriage (underdeveloped and stillborn). N.B. Miscarriage is generally accepted as being the woman's body recognizing that the fetus is not viable and expelling it. Now...
[22:18:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:26] <exec> 08└─One person's bigoted ideology is another man's beloved culture.
[22:18:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:43] <exec> 08└─OTOH, each bottle of Mezcal has proven that it can kill a worm. [google.com] Little bitty microbes should be a walk in the park for that stuff. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[22:18:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta: Site Update Update - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:18:44] <exec> 08└─Everybody has a testing environment; some are lucky enough to have a separate production environment.
[22:19:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:28] <exec> 08└─We need a better election system Everybody keeps saying that over and over. Nobody says how to do it.
[22:19:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 587 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:29] <exec> 08└─While they have a right to enter the stations, unless they have a need to enter the station, it is surely better to keep the crowds away from the station entrances. From a public safety perspective, it is the right thing for the police to do. Whether there was a threat or not depends entirely how th...
[22:19:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06DC Police Used Sonic Cannon To Direct Crowd Flow During Women's March - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:19:31] <exec> 08└─Huh? That's not true at all. Getting rid of the Electoral College system would require a Constitutional Amendment, and the process for that is certainly well-understood, and has been done many times, though none that recently. But just fixing the election system (getting rid of First Past The Post)...
[22:21:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Knowledge Troll [5948] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:21:27] <exec> 08└─Eeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww you were not kidding, that thing is fucking hideous. I really hope that didn't come from Tesla internally; they made the Model S look so good.
[22:24:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Earth's Slowing Rotation Could Cause Huge Earthquakes in 2018 - 493 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:24:33] <exec> 08└─their building shook them and their belonging around like a bounce house in a tornado. Oh, please have a camera rolling! The buildings, however, survived and are expected to have plenty of office space and apartments available as soon as the blood is all cleaned up. Infrastructure is costly to rebui...
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[23:18:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Federal Agents Found Preserved Fetuses During 2013 Raid of a Detroit Body Broker's Warehouse - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:28] <exec> 08└─But if he doesn't whine and moan about abortion AND birth control, how's he going to whine about poor people having babies and liberals actually trying to implement the policies suggested by the Bible?
[23:18:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:41] <exec> 08└─Some people are more bigoted than other people. Look deeper than word choices. For example, Nina Burleigh of Newsweek is definitely bigoted.
[23:18:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chatbots Could "Learn" About Words Using Implicit Confirmation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:18:42] <exec> 08└─I think you are blowing this out of proportion. Heil Hitler!
[23:20:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Handful of North Korean Defectors Show Signs of Radiation Exposure - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:02] <exec> 08└─So don't trust any of them.
[23:20:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03looorg [578] 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 853 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:11] <exec> 08└─Secret KGB Manual ... sure. Problem is that unless you actually read russian you are sort of out of luck. There is no proper english translation. Which isn't all that odd, they are not part of the whole block of the world that care about translations -- certainly not documents of that kind. But it i...
[23:20:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Secret KGB Manual for Recruiting Spies - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:20:29] <exec> 08└─that's because "we" are the aggressor.
[23:21:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:44] <exec> 08└─You say they're overpriced. Can you show me an all-electric AWD, cheaper than Model 3 pre-orders (which are currently around $40k in the AWD model)? I'm not asking rhetorically. I'm looking to buy an electric AWD and can't find a better choice. You speak as if you know examples.
[23:21:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Elon Musk Vows to Build Tesla Pickup Truck 'Right After' Model Y - 616 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:21:46] <exec> 08└─Just because they are the only one who sells it doesn't mean it's not overpriced. Do you need all wheel drive? https://www.greencarreports.com [greencarreports.com] https://www.greencarreports.com
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