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[00:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:54] <exec> 08└─Keep It Simple Stupid. Forbid caller ID spoofing in the hardware. Come up with a way around it for those who need it, but be aware that this is a backdoor.
[00:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:11] <exec> 08└─It seems that right-wingers everywhere excel at eating their seed corn.
[00:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:36] <exec> 08└─1. We don't know the real odds before it launches. 2. It won't launch often enough for us to determine the real odds. Space Launch System has 12 planned launches [wikipedia.org] over a 14 year period. Only 7 of them will be crewed, and three of the launches will be on the second main variant of the...
[00:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liver-Branding Surgeon Fined and Ordered to do Community Service - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:56] <exec> 08└─Could read and write but used it for criminal acts only. The most words about crime and wrongdoing come from Hebrew. Before Germanic tribes? One could be speaking of Egyptians, Mayans, ... who possessed knowledge to do good and live in harmony with nature. Jews only destroyed our planet and continue...
[00:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:11] <exec> 08└─He put his car factory, his rocket factory, and now his roof factory in states with some serious problems. He faces hostile unions (already bitching) and stupidly high taxes. He at least put a battery factory in Nevada and a rocket launch site in Texas. Those were sane choices, though the inventory...
[00:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:55] <exec> 08└─I love Twitter, it's so easy to tweet! I tweet from my phone, it's so easy to carry my phone. For our nuclear arsenal, there's a suitcase, they call it a football but it's a suitcase. You wouldn't want to play football with it, it's very heavy (the guys in our NFL don't want to play football anyway)...
[00:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:56] <exec> 08└─They want the cold war back. It's been too many years without the constant fear of painful death (your own and your loved ones') any time that the ETs running our world want an end to it. Fear gives them power over us. Lack of fear from the humans (normal response) makes them weaker. So they manipul...
[00:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:58] <exec> 08└─I know what you mean. Nine months later, out comes a leak of the movie Sony Pictures was making about the alert. Believe me, we're doing everything we can to stop that from happening.
[00:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I can confirm this. Although I grew up there during the 70s and 80s we knew we had multiple warheads pointed at us. And yet we had the cycle of lives to live.
[00:03:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:03] <exec> 08└─I hate to say it, but North Korea is far more prepared (with daily drills) than South Korea or Hawaii!
[00:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:07] <exec> 08└─You moved out of your mother's basement when you buried her in the basement and you moved into your dead mother's room.
[00:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:08] <exec> 08└─Because jews want us to drive drab, very uncreative and similar looking cars. Being non-humans themselves, they don't care about looks. They live for generations in the same dirty and bug-ridden dwellings and show a remarkable inability to civilize. After so much progress in vehicle technology, we a...
[00:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:10] <exec> 08└─It's not as if the total amount of light would need to change. Tiny lights case star-like sparkles in the eye, particularly for people who have had corrective eye surgery. Going bigger allows reducing the brightness of individual points. It even allows a softened edge if you like, with dimmer LEDs n...
[00:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:13] <exec> 08└─You should write movie scripts. Oh, wait. [wikipedia.org] Mom's still on this side of the grass, on the other end of the country. Her folks lived into their late 80s and she's passed their marks. Wouldn't be surprised if she outlived us all. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[00:04:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Canadian Whisky's Long-Awaited Comeback - 447 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:44] <exec> 08└─Not all whisky is "properly distilled". Where fractionating columns are used, the distillate is almost flavourless - but many types of whisky rely on having significant components of the fermentation come through. To this day, many whisky manufacturers continue to use the simple and relatively imper...
[00:04:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] 02 - 06Canadian Navy Ends "Draconian" Ban on Warship WiFi. - 176 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:54] <exec> 08└─Expect a lot more fucking off and a lot less unit cohesion with this change. No more gathering in a room to watch a movie, no more playing cards, no more talking to each other.
[00:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Navy Ends "Draconian" Ban on Warship WiFi. - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:16] <exec> 08└─Not to mention the gaping security violations from both chatty sailors and potential enemy hacking. The military doesn't deprive you of things you like because they are meanieheads, they have legitimate reasons for reducing their surface area of vulnerability. The more shit like this I read, the saf...
[00:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ecuador Grants Citizenship to Julian Assange - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:23] <exec> 08└─Wasn't he supposed to be the millionaire ladies man? I somehow doubt being a smelly slob was his normal MO prior to his exile.. sounds more like depression, but I do contest it could be a show given he's a showman, but a natural slob would be unlikely.
[00:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears of Nuclear War Lead to Increased Sales of Potassium Iodide - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:07:47] <exec> 08└─The building code requires that all residential housing has a shelter that can withstand a 12 megaton weapon at 700 meters. That is about 0.44 miles or 2310 feet. Modern nuclear weapons are normally much smaller. The 12 megaton ones were used back when guidance systems were more primitive.
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[01:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 397 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:52] <exec> 08└─There is no consistent public pressure to put an end to swattings. For that reason nothing will be done. Lots and lots of new swattings will be accomplished over the Internet; movies and games will provide plenty of very realistic "evidence." Maybe after losing a few thousand model citizens to swat...
[01:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:54] <exec> 08└─Keeping it simple is why making a call to an easy to remember number has been the emergency system almost everywhere since Adam played fullback for the disciples. When my wife broke her ankle, I phoned 111 (which is our emergency number) and said to the nice lady "I think my wife has broken her ank...
[01:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 4191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:56] <exec> 08└─I see it, I see it! I'm the Assteller. I can see the future of your ass! You're walking down a sidewalk, and you see a group of people wearing lab coats looking in your direction. They whisper something amongst themselves, and then say to you, "Ah, so you're the one, huh? I can't wait for the event....
[01:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 830 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:58] <exec> 08└─'roided up "tactical police" with hand-me-down military toys and a progressively more peaceful populace is the problem. Not swatting calls. Inappropriate tactics, complete failure of leadership, absolute vacancy of responsibility or accountability at ALL levels, and most of all a poisonous and misgu...
[01:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:16] <exec> 08└─Did you ever see On the Beach? Funny old movie from the '50s.
[01:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:18] <exec> 08└─Israel already has all of Europe in its cross-hairs. Israeli Professor: We Could Destroy All European Capitals [sweetliberty.org] It might be that Australia will also be targeted. We do know they have nuclear armed submarines. No human is safe from jewish nuclear weapons.
[01:01:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 1171 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:27] <exec> 08└─"a risk of no more than 1 in 500 for launch and reentry." This is the problem. Western society has become totally risk averse. An astronaut flies a mission, what, once every two years? So assuming a 20 year career, that means at most 10 missions? So they are aiming for less than 2% mortality over th...
[01:01:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 97 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:35] <exec> 08└─With 2 fatal failures in 135 missions, the Space Shuttle didn't even come close to those figures.
[01:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:46] <exec> 08└─Safety panel raises concerns about Falcon 9 pressure vessel
[01:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 929 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:48] <exec> 08└─You don't understand the problem. An assertion has been made about the reliability of the coin. How do you check that the assertion is correct - particularly when cutting corners and deception can be involved? N coin tosses would be enough to verify the coin is with about 100%/sqrt(N) of 50%, so a r...
[01:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:50] <exec> 08└─Depends whether the first launch is manned or not. That's still up in the air.
[01:04:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:04:19] <exec> 08└─Sure Norman, sure.
[01:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ecuador Grants Citizenship to Julian Assange - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:06:32] <exec> 08└─ORLY? The polls done by the same pollsters that had polls predicting a Clinton win?
[01:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fears of Nuclear War Lead to Increased Sales of Potassium Iodide - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:56] <exec> 08└─Hmmm. Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer Daddy was career Air force and I never heard the term used. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:08:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Will Taps Run Dry? - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:41] <exec> 08└─Instead of banning certain uses of water, just raise the price. Dumb socialists. Raise the price and if people really really want to wash cars you can afford more plants to purify seawater.
[01:08:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Will Taps Run Dry? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:42] <exec> 08└─If there's one reason white people suceed maybs it's because we don't fight with eachother. hummm
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[02:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:57] <exec> 08└─You are a little grandiose with your title. Assbabbler maybe.
[02:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:59] <exec> 08└─Forbid rolling swat without GPS coordinates of a phone device on the scene. Swat can not approach within half a mile until called by an patrol officer on the scene. Forbid taking a 911 call from other than an actual phone, geolocated to the address of the request. This quote from the story: The curr...
[02:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:01] <exec> 08└─orbid caller ID spoofing in the hardware.
[02:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:03] <exec> 08└─I might suggest a 3 Strikes and You're Out policy for police departments. 3 killings of unarmed citizens and the department is dissolved with all members barred from re-entering law enforcement in the United States. I think we would see a whole lot less "swatting" incidents and smoke grenades tossed...
[02:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:06] <exec> 08└─It wasn't a smoke grenade, it was a "flash-bang". Basically a concussion grenade with lots of magnesium in it to make it very bright. Amazing the kid survived at all really.
[02:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:08] <exec> 08└─There is no consistent public pressure to put an end to swattings.
[02:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:10] <exec> 08└─How can a lawsuit be expensive to the city if it is other people's money?
[02:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:12] <exec> 08└─Keeping it simple is why making a call to an easy to remember number has been the emergency system almost everywhere since Adam played fullback for the disciples.
[02:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 348 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:00] <exec> 08└─I may have given SLS a bit too much credit. Maiden launch date is no earlier than December 15, 2019. So very likely to be delayed into 2020. I would still be surprised if BFR flew before SLS Block 1. I think BFR will face its own delays, just as Falcon Heavy did. But if it did manage to do so, that...
[02:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 595 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:01] <exec> 08└─20 times? There were 135 space shuttle missions. About 146 Soyuz missions counting all Soyuz models. With SpaceX bringing the price of a launch down you can expect the capsules being developed now to have a long service life, including flying multiple missions in the same vehicle. Just after the Cha...
[02:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:03] <exec> 08└─You counting deaths or vehicle here?
[02:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:05] <exec> 08└─Bashing SLS does not necessarily mean bashing NASA. SLS is a wasteful pork rocket designed primarily to appease Congress by spreading money around.
[02:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:08] <exec> 08└─10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1... blastoff Your whole body will now be subjected to massive tingle.
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[03:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:51] <exec> 08└─Good for her. I'd vote for Chelsea Manless if I could, but Mary-Land is not the state that I'm in. Does she still listen to Lady Gaga?
[03:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:52] <exec> 08└─Ungrateful TRAITOR Chelsea Manning, who should never have been released from prison, called President Obama a weak leader. Terrible!
[03:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:55] <exec> 08└─She also said that Obama was the "most ignorant president in our history", "a disaster as a president", "the founder of ISIS", "weak", and "ineffective". Deplorable!
[03:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:57] <exec> 08└─Heh, What did you call him? Shithead?
[03:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:17] <exec> 08└─Because the other people whose money it is are the same ones who elect the people making the policy decisions. And the ones who pay big bucks in particular, who just happen to be the biggest source of campaign funds for the folks in city governments, are not going to be happy about seeing their mone...
[03:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:18] <exec> 08└─Keep It Simple Stupid.
[03:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:20] <exec> 08└─Because you can run out of Other Peoples' Money.
[03:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 981 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:22] <exec> 08└─Ironic subject choice. I used to live not far from Yngwie Malmsteen's Miami home, and next door to a SWAT cop. Seems that one night Yngwie's girlfriend's mother went off on a rant and called the police swearing that Yngwie was threatening her daughter's life, then somehow she managed to stir up the...
[03:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:25] <exec> 08└─Nah, toys are fun... we used to supply drone surveillance to raid teams before they'd roll on a house, check around back, etc. and reduce the unknowns going in, it tends to take the edge off a little and help the cops make better decisions. Now, there were plenty of cops on the force who had complet...
[03:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:45] <exec> 08└─Col McKenzie is a cunt, yes, but he's not actually killing much reef by exploiting it - in fact, he may be helping to save it by churning as many tourists as possible through there, giving them an appreciation for what's being lost. If AGW and ocean acidification had hit the reefs 100 years ago, nob...
[03:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 1056 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:47] <exec> 08└─In 2011, I wrote some thoughts in a lame blog, and tried halfheartedly to promote the concept: https://5050by2150.wordpress.com [wordpress.com] In 2016, E.O. Wilson and his organization published the same concept in a book, with much better promotion and credibility than I ever could have managed e...
[03:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:20] <exec> 08└─It's an example. NASA has had 171 manned missions since the beginning, 2 which resulted in loss of crew. That's nowhere near 1 in 270.
[03:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:22] <exec> 08└─This just in: Expert Genius Scientist Panel states that strapping people onto rockets laden with explosive fuel and shooting them into the atmosphere is dangerous. More news at eleven.
[03:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liver-Branding Surgeon Fined and Ordered to do Community Service - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:43] <exec> 08└─MDC is misunderstood. I've met him, and I see the good in him.
[03:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liver-Branding Surgeon Fined and Ordered to do Community Service - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:44] <exec> 08└─What a coincidence. I've met me too.
[03:03:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Geezer [511] 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 916 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:26] <exec> 08└─I grew up a half mile from a SAC B-52 base in the early 60's. My dad worked at a major missile engine factory five miles away. The state capitol and a major USAF maintenance base were 15 miles away. Us kids thought the big bombers were cool, and when they had practice MITO alert drills it was the aw...
[03:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:49] <exec> 08└─What does someone pressing a button at a shift change have to do with North Korea?
[03:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:58] <exec> 08└─I have the feeling that if the wild colors would sell, they would be offered for sale. We bought a bright yellow Dodge Caliber from the first year or two of production, I think they did that one to get attention for the model - but by the third year of production the brightest color on offer was a s...
[03:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:04:59] <exec> 08└─Panoz does different for the sake of different - they make some hot stuff, but usually get shut out by the rules committees because of their differences...
[03:05:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:01] <exec> 08└─After a while, car design would have to morph into a level of self-similarity to avoid decapitation of the passengers type problems, can't have mismatched bumper heights or other creative configurations - even if the configuration is safe in a collision with itself, it's probably not as safe in a co...
[03:06:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Canadian Navy Ends "Draconian" Ban on Warship WiFi. - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:05] <exec> 08└─I believe it. My iPhone turns on completely randomly. Having my engagement picture as a wallpaper, this is a problem when I date!
[03:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06With ‘Downsized’ DNA, Flowering Plants Took Over The World - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:07:36] <exec> 08└─The advantage flowering plants have is using insects to spread their DNA. Maybe plants that have difficulty spreading DNA have to partly compensate with more complex DNA. Therefore, a small genome may be more a result of their reproductive method than simply a "better" strategy.
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[04:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 612 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:50] <exec> 08└─A few weeks, Kickstarter recommended the Save Gawker Kickstarter campaign [kickstarter.com] to me. After laughing out loud for a good couple of minutes, I looked into it. Apparently, a group of a bunch of former Gawker Media employees got together to attempt to crowdfund a bid to "save" Gawker. Than...
[04:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:02] <exec> 08└─If Trump dislikes shithead countries so much, why does Trump allow so many blacks to live in DC? Why does Trump allow so many blacks to live in America? Why isn't Trump building walls around every black ghetto and making the shitheads pay for them?
[04:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:03] <exec> 08└─So out of curiosity how hard is it to win a senate seat? Is it very expensive, require a lot of resources and the right connections? One would thing there is enough weird shit and a very problematic background in the case of Manning that should more or less disqualify him as a candidate.
[04:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 1063 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:05] <exec> 08└─"most ignorant president in our history" I really doubt it. First of all, none of our presidents were ignorant compared to the general population. You don't get to be president without being clueful. Obama is probably nothing special. It's hard to judge this one, because motivations play a role, and...
[04:01:07] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 815 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:07] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, after Grabby McOrangewig getting elected president, I don't think anyone has a right to bitch about someone else's qualifications. On the other hand, she could potentially be a long-lived, long-lasting gadfly (read: relentless pain in the ass) to the creepy surveillance-obsessed cry...
[04:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:10] <exec> 08└─To determine the cost of winning a seat, do this rough calculation: Start with 250 million dollars. Multiply by the number of years the seat is good for, then divide by the total number of equivalent seats. President+VP: 250000000*4/1 = 1000000000 which is a billion Senator: 250000000*6/100 = 150000...
[04:01:11] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Kell [292] 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 257 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:12] <exec> 08└─Whistleblowers are inherently unpopular to those whose misdeeds they reveal, but it shows that they genuinely are prepared to put the public good ahead of their own good. Chelsea paid a heavy price for her actions - rightly or wrongly. I would vote for her.
[04:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 849 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:14] <exec> 08└─What qualifications are actually needed? I'm pretty sure anyone with half a brain can pick up parliamentary procedure with a few days of study. Almost everyone is opinionated enough to choose a position on an issue and vote, although you could just follow the party line (Democratic in this case). Be...
[04:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:16] <exec> 08└─Those numbers are pretty accurate, although they may be rising: https://www.washingtonpost.com [washingtonpost.com] ($2.4 billion divided by two) https://www.opensecrets.org
[04:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:19] <exec> 08└─I want to say lack of qualifications, but she can't possibly be worse than anyone the Republicans are running.
[04:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:21] <exec> 08└─"Terrible!" I love these Trump wannabes that end their statements with a single adjective. Sad!
[04:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:23] <exec> 08└─I've been feeling and thinking the exact same things, but what can we do? The two party system has a stranglehold on the US's elections, and when Sanders, who would probably have been the best choice and would have kicked Trump's fat ass up and down the eastern seaboard, tried to run, the Democratic...
[04:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 411 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:25] <exec> 08└─Trump actually has a history of getting shit done. What other president had that? Looking back, I suppose Teddy Roosevelt might qualify. Eisenhower might. Mostly, we have along history of electing people whose primary skill is bullshitting. Trump of course has the bullshitting skill, since you can't...
[04:01:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 830 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:36] <exec> 08└─'roided up "tactical police" with hand-me-down military toys and a progressively more peaceful populace is the problem. Not swatting calls. Inappropriate tactics, complete failure of leadership, absolute vacancy of responsibility or accountability at ALL levels, and most of all a poisonous and misgu...
[04:01:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 390 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:38] <exec> 08└─Forbid rolling swat without GPS coordinates of a phone device on the scene. Swat can not approach within half a mile until called by an patrol officer on the scene. Forbid taking a 911 call from other than an actual phone, geolocated to the address of the request. This quote from the story: The curr...
[04:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 905 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:50] <exec> 08└─A mentally disabled man is walking out onto I-5 next to the Janssen Beach Safeway. Can you give me a cross street? No because there are none within view. The best I can say is that he's next to the Janssen Beach Safeway. Is that in Washington or Oregon? I don't know. This went on for a while as the...
[04:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:52] <exec> 08└─Keeping it simple is why making a call to an easy to remember number has been the emergency system almost everywhere since Adam played fullback for the disciples.
[04:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 1898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:14] <exec> 08└─Thank you for the reply; I will get the E.O. Wilson book. Somehow I believe that fundamentalist Christianity and unbridled Capitalism is killing the very world we need to live. They tell you how God made Man (Genesis 1:26) and put him in charge: “And God said, Let us make man in our image, after...
[04:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 1731 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:16] <exec> 08└─It's possible - pretty screwed in a lot of places, one shock I had when we moved to Houston was the ban on eating caught fish... makes sense when you think about it (mostly mercury levels, but other fun stuff around Houston, too...) but, with a little care and preservation, there can be crystal clea...
[04:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:51] <exec> 08└─Bah dum pish!
[04:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:53] <exec> 08└─SLS pork rocket prototype: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[04:03:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production - 653 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:03:31] <exec> 08└─I mostly agree. You can't have any single roof rectangle be too big in high wind areas. There has to be a high pitch and broken roof plan or the roof will generate enough lift to pick the house up in a hurricane. So it is useful to have the roof a more complicated shape. The roof segments must overl...
[04:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 513 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:21] <exec> 08└─I always kind of saw NK as not a real threat. The elite in Russia could have survived a full exchange and the country is large enough that there should still be some usable land, NK on the other hand would be completely destroyed if we had an exchange and they would get little out of it but a couple...
[04:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:22] <exec> 08└─Well, you see, the Cold War is over. INCOMING BALLISTIC MISSILE! Where do you suppose it would be coming from? New Zealand? Iraq? Tahiti? China? Burma? No, there was only one plausible source of an attack, and that is what caused it to be a plausible warning, and it is only Trump's precedency t...
[04:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:24] <exec> 08└─It was the North Koreans with the hacking app in Hawaii? No, WTF!? The USAnians with the "let's test the citizens" plan in Hawaii? Too many conspiracies? The USAnians with the clumsy fingers in Hawaii. Boring!
[04:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:27] <exec> 08└─Just a hundred Hiroshima-sized bombs in a regional nuclear war seems like it would be sufficient to cause a small nuclear winter [rutgers.edu] that would result in catastrophic famines worldwide. Lil' Kim would have a few minutes of satisfaction thinking that he had, with the help of the United Stat...
[04:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:29] <exec> 08└─I wonder if he still keeps around Harry Truman's old sign [wikipedia.org]. The President is supposed to have ultimate responsibility for even something like this. We'd thought that we put the threat of imminent nuclear annihilation behind us, but then he goes into a dick waving contest with North Ko...
[04:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:31] <exec> 08└─I always kind of saw NK as not a real threat.
[04:04:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 121 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:42] <exec> 08└─It doesn't matter how the vehicle looks as long as it can leave a light ribbon that destroys anything that runs in to it.
[04:05:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:43] <exec> 08└─Around here, a lot of Harleys are actually illegal noise wise. It seems to be a hard law to enforce as it is hard to measure the sound in such a way that it stands up in court.
[04:05:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:05:45] <exec> 08└─It seems to be a hard law to enforce as it is hard to measure the sound in such a way that it stands up in court.
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[05:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03archfeld [4650] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:51] <exec> 08└─In a non homosexual way this is how do you say... GAY ...
[05:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 327 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:52] <exec> 08└─They should have launched it on Indiegogo. You can select a "flexible funding" option where Indiegogo takes a larger cut, but you get to keep all the money raised even if your campaign is unsuccessful, so you can blow it at the bar. Such as Raines Law Room at 48 W 17th St, New York, NY 10011, a 2 mi...
[05:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anal Pumpernickel [776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:16] <exec> 08└─He's also a warmonger and an awful authoritarian who is continuing many unconstitutional policies of previous presidents, such as the NSA's mass surveillance. I don't want to hear about how the vast majority of politicians are corrupt authoritarians, since that just means they are evil along with Tr...
[05:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 413 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:17] <exec> 08└─> When the Paris accords were set up to financially drain the USA, was Obama being weak or malicious? I'm still struggling to understand how you get financially drained by an agreement where you say "we'll try to do better", determine your own goals, and there are no penalties for failing to meet th...
[05:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:45] <exec> 08└─Luckily for Yngwie your SWAT neighbor had the restraint to not pull that trigger. It could have just as easily gone the other way.
[05:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:47] <exec> 08└─SWAT neighbor used to wear "Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out" T-shirts, but he was actually a really level headed and cool dude, even if he did clean his guns on the kitchen table. He and his wife would volunteer across the Boulevard in Little Haiti to help the kids get better education, etc. A bi...
[05:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:49] <exec> 08└─I called 9-1-1 because I was experiencing aphasia. That led to my concern that I'd had a stroke "I'm at the blanchet house of Polly wigs" "I need a street address" "Cant you just geolocate my marimba?" "No. Can you give me a cross street?" "It's dark. I can't see the street signs" Finally I wandered...
[05:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 668 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:50] <exec> 08└─So, while I generally agree with the water-skiing cliche': if you never wipe out, you're not trying hard enough... on the other hand, you wouldn't catch me boarding any vehicle that puts LOx in contact with composite materials as described in the summary - that's un-necessary risk. There's plenty of...
[05:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 625 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:51] <exec> 08└─I moved to Houston in 2003, the tasteless joke of the day was: What does NASA stand for? Need Another Seven Astronauts. 14 deaths in 135 missions is not a great track record. I'd much rather see a heterogeneous program flying multiple designs and continually refining for improvement, instead of fixi...
[05:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:53] <exec> 08└─You're right that we're ignorant of the "true" (better stated as "statistically reliable") rates of failure in use: insufficient data. You're wrong that attempting to design for high standards of reliability is senseless. It's quite expensive to train new astronauts and build replacement vehicles, n...
[05:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:32] <exec> 08└─I'm in Florida, on the coast. Our houses are concrete. Insurance companies like complicated shapes because the simple shapes were badly done. Simple shapes are strong when done right. Consider the traditional 2-pane shape, a pair of rectangles joined at the top. The durable and obvious way to constr...
[05:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03dwilson [2599] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Canadian Whisky's Long-Awaited Comeback - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:14] <exec> 08└─It is Scotch. And it is made from malted Barley. There is no finer whisky.
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[06:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:47] <exec> 08└─My grocery store hasn't required a signature for purchases under $50 for years now, even back when they used mag-swipes. I'd be absolutely shocked to find out that those signatures are used for anything at all in 99,999/100,000 transactions. Maybe once in a blue moon they might pull out a signature...
[06:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:49] <exec> 08└─Why, it's my ass! The only reason they're removing the signature requirement is so there's less potential evidence for a card holder to be able to dispute a charge.
[06:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:51] <exec> 08└─R u conjuring the Assteller?
[06:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:53] <exec> 08└─The assteller offends my sensibilities less than someone abbreviating a three-letter word.
[06:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:55] <exec> 08└─Aiming for convenience always sacrifices security.
[06:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:58] <exec> 08└─What ever happened to Chip AND Pin? Not only do they not Ask for a signature, they never even ask for a pin. So all they know is that the card is valid. But is it stolen?
[06:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 629 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:00] <exec> 08└─In Australia, the default limit without signature is $100 (AUD) This is configurable by the vendor, but most don't know that, or bother) disputed transactions under the limit are likley both minimal in number and easier to refund (by the bank) than pay someone to investigate. Few will bother stealin...
[06:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:02] <exec> 08└─Gas stations have never asked for signatures at the pump... I don't think it's the signature so much as the lack of human interaction that emboldens card thieves and forgers to make gas stations one of the highest fraud venues for credit cards. Some retail, like WalMart, actually asks for photo ID t...
[06:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:04] <exec> 08└─Who knew Jack chick would be right, we truly do live in the fucking end times, next up payment by any method but your cell phone forbidden
[06:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:15] <exec> 08└─Lame submission! Where is the cutting sarcasm? The mention of meetings with the "Donald", the sucking in of the blood of youth, you know, all the good stuff? Hey, SoylentNews could out Thiel as a Girardian new Age hoax! And then he could buy out us! Profit?
[06:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:17] <exec> 08└─They are out of business?, he is the one that funded the hulk hogan thing, or I mis remembering?
[06:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:42] <exec> 08└─It's just so short sighted for both US tribes, red and blue,
[06:02:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 981 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:06] <exec> 08└─Ironic subject choice. I used to live not far from Yngwie Malmsteen's Miami home, and next door to a SWAT cop. Seems that one night Yngwie's girlfriend's mother went off on a rant and called the police swearing that Yngwie was threatening her daughter's life, then somehow she managed to stir up the...
[06:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 1691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:36] <exec> 08└─Oh God! I hate Houston. I haven’t been there in some years but it was (is?) full of crazy drivers and always under construction. I lived for a few years in San Antonio and had to go to Houston kind of often, always by car. Hated it. You’re quite right, we are too many but we still don’t cover...
[06:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 2204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:37] <exec> 08└─Houston lasted barely 3 years for us, after Hurricanes Rita and Katrina the air really turned foul, tar dust everywhere (around Seabrook), all the time, in addition to the summer ozone that was literally killing people. We're back in Florida now. We don't have to cover the whole earth to exploit the...
[06:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:18] <exec> 08└─2 which resulted in loss of crew. That's nowhere near 1 in 270.
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[07:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Decorated" Cardiac Stem Cells Could Repair Heart Injuries More Effectively - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:51] <exec> 08└─On my heart my left (what the bottom one ventrical?) will stop beating out of turn and making me almost pass out? that would be nice
[07:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:08] <exec> 08└─We've only been doing chip-and-pin for 30 years in Europe, usually on terminals that accept the transaction fast, then dial home later, without the card ever leaving your sight. The official answer from the a\banks was that chip-and-pin was too "confusing" for the Americans (really). Which is either...
[07:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:09] <exec> 08└─You won't believe what you can learn on S/N: TMB is in not way different by the special snowflakes. Not only that TMB has an ass at the bottom of his back, but he also has sensibilities!!! Remember guys, you can learn this kinda things only on S/N! (so maybe it's a good time to pay some subscription...
[07:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:11] <exec> 08└─2 to 3% transaction fees seem more than adequate to cover fraud. I invested in Visa shortly after they went public. They're up about 700% in the last 9 years, sustained 24% annual growth isn't bad...
[07:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:14] <exec> 08└─Almost time to start adding ⚠TRIGGER WARNINGS⚠ just for TMB.
[07:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:16] <exec> 08└─Hmm, I could have sworn that Walmart did no such thing. I don't remember signatures or photo ID being checked (for chipped credit cards). It has been a while since I went there though. Wal-Mart exec: Credit card upgrade a 'joke' [cnn.com] Everything about the rollout has seemed haphazard to me.
[07:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:28] <exec> 08└─Don't worry. I think Thiel can't help himself from clashing with regulators over his biomedical pursuits. In fact, his tendencies will probably get worse as senescence looms (he's only 50 today).
[07:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:29] <exec> 08└─Pretty much: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] On June 10, 2016, Gawker announced its bankruptcy filing as a direct result of the monetary judgment against the company related to the Hulk Hogan sex tape lawsuit. [...] Hogan filed a lawsuit against Gawker and Denton for violating h...
[07:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:31] <exec> 08└─So this is definitely nothing to do with getting a well known brand for pennies on the dollar...
[07:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:33] <exec> 08└─Ha! sorry to respond to myself but sucked them dry them bring them back as a slave! Ha! no vampire jokes there...
[07:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:36] <exec> 08└─In which case, my dear and particular takyon, what can you think of my submissions, now that I am coming up on 2400 years old? Remember, it is not craziness that is correlated with age, nor is it age that is correlated with craziness, but it is craziness that is correlation with conservative politic...
[07:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:38] <exec> 08└─It was brand built on its "journalists", who have already scattered into the wind and who will react very negatively to Thiel taking over. Sure, he'll get a site near the bottom of the top 10,000 Alexa ranks, but I doubt Thiel would try to make it profitable or build a new platform of journalists th...
[07:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:40] <exec> 08└─You should get your τ protein count checked out, as well as your midi-chlorians.
[07:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:07] <exec> 08└─Trump actually has a history of getting shit done. What other president had that?
[07:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:08] <exec> 08└─So I would support her but I don't think this is about commitment, she is not like snowden, her and Winning did what they did on impulse, which I respect but I don't believe they have any commitment to freedom, I suspect(perhaps unjustly I don't know) AW or Stockholm syndrome
[07:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:10] <exec> 08└─Does it hurt to be this completely, utterly, fractally wrong? Because if not, that's a good argument for atheism or maltheism right there...
[07:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:13] <exec> 08└─In that case, let's just look at her platform, whatever it turns out to be. I assume that it would at least be anti-surveillance. Whereas Democrats and Republicans alike tend to support pro-surveillance bills or "less bad" pro-surveillance bills.
[07:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:43] <exec> 08└─You can order fire or ambulance from 911 but not cops for that you have to call a local traceable number problem solved, there are not really any emergencies cops can deal with anyway, it's not wrong to say that when seconds count the cops are minutes away or you know maybe they just won't show up a...
[07:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:44] <exec> 08└─...ps. How bad has the situation gotten that I can write "their own people" and none of you even questioned it until you read this ps. The police are no longer part of your society.
[07:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:46] <exec> 08└─Just look at the language your using, If I said I had rolled someone what would you think I had done?
[07:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:12] <exec> 08└─It's not completely unfair, I mean blaming climate people is a problem but oil company scientists are actually to blame
[07:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:54] <exec> 08└─Apollo 1 doesn't count, I guess?
[07:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:05:28] <exec> 08└─Which completes the evil plan : The bad Chinese commies don't line our modern cheap fridges with lead. You thought you were safe...
[07:06:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:43] <exec> 08└─Non-boring colors reduce resale value.
[07:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:45] <exec> 08└─> if you are willing to accept different shapes. Those shapes are going to cause major mutilation in the event of an accident. No manufacturer wants those headlines.
[07:06:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:47] <exec> 08└─A higher nose is better so your car is less likely to dive under the rear of the SUV or similar and get you decapitated. Most cars are designed to handle bumper vs object crashes not windshield vs object. So a windshield vs object crash doesn't even have to be high speed to kill or maim you.
[07:06:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:49] <exec> 08└─Slap the latest JavaScript UI framework on it if you want a fadmobile
[07:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:51] <exec> 08└─It's not so much the total amount, but the directedness. A panel shines light in all directions. The reason for the normal lights' shape is that they send the light in a very directed way; most of the light goes down to the street. With undirected light emission, you either have too much light up to...
[07:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Whisky's Long-Awaited Comeback - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:07:25] <exec> 08└─Maybe that's true for whiskey or vodka but the process for whisky is different from what you mentioned: https://www.whisky.com [whisky.com] The smoky aroma in whisky results...
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[08:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 424 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:00] <exec> 08└─I personally find the problem not "picking up parlipro" but rather "willing to follow parlipro" . This is a condemnation of most politicians and not this person in particular. State jobs have an additional difficulty of not paying a high enough wage to make it worth doing unless you really care or a...
[08:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:01] <exec> 08└─This is what is going to propel Oprah to become president one day. It's just so short sighted for both US tribes, red and blue, to compromise so hard on basic qualifications of leadership just so they WIN.
[08:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:43] <exec> 08└─We need an alien enemy. Then we can throw military assets in space without worrying about a Cold War on Earth, and it will be totally OK if 1.4-3.3% of the astronauts die, or even ten times that. #JWST #SETI #Search4EnemiesToIncinerate
[08:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:45] <exec> 08└─Vehicles. With deaths, it would be an even worse statistics because IIRC both times there were 7 astronauts on board, while there were plenty shuttle missions with less than 7 astronauts.
[08:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:47] <exec> 08└─You're wrong that attempting to design for high standards of reliability is senseless. It's quite expensive to train new astronauts and build replacement vehicles, not to mention politically difficult to fund a program that makes us look foolish and incompetent.
[08:04:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liver-Branding Surgeon Fined and Ordered to do Community Service - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:10] <exec> 08└─I suppose a pro boner could help with fertility issues. I hope he does the work pro bono, though.
[08:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:24] <exec> 08└─Well it's a top to bottom Democratic party state. Based on democratic shenanigans to date, why would anyone put this past them?
[08:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Navy Ends "Draconian" Ban on Warship WiFi. - 835 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:07:50] <exec> 08└─Worrying about wifi signals on a warship is like worrying about the brightness of 10W bulbs next to a bonfire and super bright search lights. These aren't nuclear submarines that mostly sneak about blind with no active sonar or active anything. Warships often have some radar on even if it's not thei...
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[09:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Engineers Demonstrate Fully Autonomous X-Ray Navigation in Space - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:52] <exec> 08└─We have precision navigation for intragalactic travel... Too bad that the propulsion technology makes that navigation moot, by the time we get anywhere those pulsars will be useful, anyone on board of the ship would have forgotten what those frequencies and positions mean.
[09:01:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 478 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:58] <exec> 08└─I've been feeling and thinking the exact same things, but what can we do? The two party system has a stranglehold on the US's elections, and when Sanders, who would probably have been the best choice and would have kicked Trump's fat ass up and down the eastern seaboard, tried to run, the Democratic...
[09:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:09] <exec> 08└─What really matters is policy. The fact that she supported the Iraq war, among other horrendous things, does not give me confidence in her ability to oppose the military industrial complex or the surveillance state. Too bad there aren't real penalties for violating the Constitution, like prison time...
[09:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 2089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:11] <exec> 08└─And either resettle somewhere else, or create a new country of your own. Neither will be easy choices, but the problem is that right now there are essentially no choices in American Politics. In order to gain choices we need people to stop campaigning as either Democrats or Republicans, and we need...
[09:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:13] <exec> 08└─Voting for him would knock a fairly senior Democrat out of office. Since so much goes by seniority that would be a significant loss of influence just to advance a man-in-a-dress for the sake of advancing a man-in-a-dress with no qualifications. It's not a fair trade. Don't be a chump.
[09:03:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 1117 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:33] <exec> 08└─Bashing SLS does not necessarily mean bashing NASA. SLS is a wasteful pork rocket designed primarily to appease Congress by spreading money around. https://www.nextbigfuture.com [nextbigfuture.com] Falcon Heavy can...
[09:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:57] <exec> 08└─t can also create moral hazards
[09:05:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 371 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:36] <exec> 08└─They have a reason to be. They know the orange one is unpredictable, and he appears to have his mind set on North Korea becoming his Afghanistan / Iraq. Mr. Kim, on the other hand. Unpredictable, sure, but everything he does seems to be with the purpose of ensuring that he will continue being in pow...
[09:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:06:56] <exec> 08└─That doesn't explain it. The least stolen car color is pink. To make it even better from an insurance point of view, pick a highly visible pink, rather than the standard "same color as the fog" gray metallic.
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[10:00:54] <exec> 08└─Good on Russia. Who knew they were American patriots?
[10:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 2301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:55] <exec> 08└─Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This future... I've never seen anything like it! Deeper, deeper! I can see into the deepest future! I can see the future of your ass. I'm the Assteller. You walk outside your home. Nothing seems to be out of the ordinary, but you feel as if something is watching you, as if...
[10:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Engineers Demonstrate Fully Autonomous X-Ray Navigation in Space - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:04] <exec> 08└─anyone on board of the ship would have forgotten what those frequencies and positions mean
[10:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Engineers Demonstrate Fully Autonomous X-Ray Navigation in Space - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:07] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately that requires that people remember the lettering used back then. And the language. There are enough examples of historic writings that we cannot decipher. And for others which we can, it took a long time (and a Rosetta stone or equivalent). The only way for information to reliably surv...
[10:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:26] <exec> 08└─Our voting system works wonders for celebrities as there are only votes for, not against. Hence no such thing as negative publicity. Now when it comes to Chelsea, I'd certainly vote for her. She has something most politicians lack, a spine.
[10:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:12] <exec> 08└─Correct, it wasn't a launch.
[10:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03choose another one [515] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:14] <exec> 08└─I think BFR will face its own delays, just as Falcon Heavy did.
[10:05:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Newspaper, Journalist under Criminal Investigation for India Database Breach Story - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:04] <exec> 08└─How the fuck would those clowns know? We can only ever prove that there _was_ a leak. In this case all it might take is $8.
[10:07:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:14] <exec> 08└─Why? Over here, motorcycle buyers pay a lot less taxes than cars. At one point I considered getting a drivers license for a motorcycle and checked the prices. I could get a brand new Hayabusa for the same price I paid for an 11 year old Toyota MR2.
[10:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:15] <exec> 08└─Man, I loved my MR2. Such an awesome car. Eventually became a single father with 2 kids. This resulted in me selling it, which was a real shame after all the effort I put in (Engine swap, lots of mods) I'm going to put a deposit down with the local import garage in a few months and ask them to find...
[10:07:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pav [114] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 458 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:18] <exec> 08└─Aptera [youtube.com] was certainly futuristic. Watch and weep as one of their beautiful prototypes [youtube.com] is destroyed by the "b team" guys who were brought in by the new company owners after the "a team" was sacked. Listen to their mealy mouthed comments, saying that the entire program could...
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[11:00:56] <exec> 08└─That's your misfortune. I was taking a shit when you posted that.
[11:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Engineers Demonstrate Fully Autonomous X-Ray Navigation in Space - 1227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:06] <exec> 08└─Related: Voyager's 'Cosmic Map' Of Earth's Location Is Hopelessly Wrong [soylentnews.org] In essence - the pulsars (fast rotating neuron start) emit into a narrow cone - what we see as pulses are in fact the brief moments in which this code points towards Earth. Give it enough of a distance and you'...
[11:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:34] <exec> 08└─Snowflakes can suck a dick. I've been yelling at the ones out front to get off my lawn for days now and their hippie asses are still there in the millions. The only good thing about them is they're fun to piss on.
[11:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:36] <exec> 08└─We've only been doing chip-and-pin for 30 years in Europe,
[11:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 243 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:38] <exec> 08└─Except, mister snowflake, they have cameras. So, if you are right there buying shit and then say it wasn't you, then trouble. But if vendor has no proof you were there (and especially if you report card stolen), then CC just charges them back.
[11:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:57] <exec> 08└─IIRC, Thiel also funded a bunch of other people suing Gawker, no matter how questionable the lawsuit. His goal was to destroy Gawker, and that's what he did. In the process, he invented a strategy that anyone rich enough can use against any publication. This is not an imaginary or theoretical danger...
[11:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:33] <exec> 08└─I know the Orange Clown doesn't know how to read but for those who can I suggest the original https://en.wikipedia.org(novel) [wikipedia.org]
[11:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:34] <exec> 08└─How do you think all those tourists arrive? By air. And that will further global warming that is killing the reef.
[11:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:36] <exec> 08└─Cried the marketing rep in horror and righteous anger.
[11:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:04] <exec> 08└─Don't be too quick to blame. Some therapists refuse to treat anonymous cowards.
[11:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:28] <exec> 08└─You forgot the worst one of all, the Nissan Joke err, sorry I meant Juke. Seriously, why the FUCK are these cars so popular?
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[12:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:53] <exec> 08└─Sounds like the same bullshit rehashed. What exactly was proven and what definition of 'scientifically' are we using here? All I see is that he managed to trick two people to do something stupid.
[12:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:04] <exec> 08└─The way it looks, it's more like some posturing agencies, deluding themselves that having means to exploit a vuln is more valuable than defending US by patching it as soon as possible. And this idiocy is called... wait for it... intelligence!
[12:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:05] <exec> 08└─It's okay if countries use American made and bought weapons to KILL Americans, but using American made "hacking manuals" against Americans is bad, m'kay! Cuz, no profit......? American intelligence, indeed!
[12:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:46] <exec> 08└─I suspect by 'Europe' you mean 'France'. A French bank owned some key patents on the chip-and-pin system and most countries waited until they'd expired before rolling out compatible systems.
[12:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 986 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:47] <exec> 08└─Here, the problem is that adding the inconvenience doesn't actually increase security. This was the same problem as CACert: they attempted to create a web of trust by requiring everyone to validate that they'd seen two pieces of government-issued ID from other people, until enough people had seen yo...
[12:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:43] <exec> 08└─"the founder of ISIS" Literally no, but figuratively yes.
[12:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 1500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:45] <exec> 08└─i think you have the overall strategy corralled: get the money out of poiltics. On a direct action level, work through the existing infrastructure on a municipal and state level. Use the Tenth Amendment leverage States' Rights for something other than a dog whistle for segregation and against gay ma...
[12:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:47] <exec> 08└─Ah, but *that* disaster in Iraq only came about because of the actions and inactions of the previous George Bush. You can try to shift blame the all you want to point out causes-of-causes, but before (and for the majority of) Obama's tenure "Al Qaeda" was all the rage, and America's "big bad" only m...
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[12:02:49] <exec> 08└─He's also a warmonger
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[13:00:58] <exec> 08└─When he comes up with a way to actually "grow a larger penis", then even I will sit-up and take notice.
[13:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 1208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:11] <exec> 08└─Snowden has confirmed that NSA has broken world's security and infiltrated everywhere using software, hardware and services American companies. NSA has played its cards. So Russia and China have. They have shown that they have skilled hackers, as NSA has. They can use Twitter and Facebook as politic...
[13:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:54] <exec> 08└─Not quite 30 years, but we've had fish and cushion payments here in the UK for at least a decade, and it doesn't seem to have brought about the end times.[1] [1] We have various other things we can blame our current mess on.
[13:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:56] <exec> 08└─most countries waited until they'd expired before rolling out compatible systems
[13:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:58] <exec> 08└─Your definition of "they" needs work. Not remotely every place you can use a credit card has cameras.
[13:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:57] <exec> 08└─You don't get to be president without being clueful.
[13:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:31] <exec> 08└─It's not the call that is the problem but everything that happens after it. Mostly the shoot first ask later mentality and the complete impunity for doing so, sometimes repeatedly.
[13:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:32] <exec> 08└─Forbid caller ID spoofing in the hardware
[13:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:51] <exec> 08└─BFR launches are supposed to be cheaper than Falcon 9 launches. That can only be achievable because part of it is designed to be reusable, as opposed to F9 and FH that throw away the second stage.
[13:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liver-Branding Surgeon Fined and Ordered to do Community Service - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:16] <exec> 08└─Pretty sure you're trolling, but anyway: For that he is hated and punished.
[13:05:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liver-Branding Surgeon Fined and Ordered to do Community Service - 692 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:17] <exec> 08└─No I'm not trolling I'm completely serious, and completely disgusted with the hate mob reaction. If I ever need a surgeon this would be the guy I want. "As for 'harmless' - it left a mark on someone's insides." It left a mark, a mark that by all accounts caused no distress, no loss of function, and...
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[14:00:51] <exec> 08└─His name was Wilson. His appearance was the exact opposite of beautiful. In fact, it would not be much of an exaggeration to call him an abomination. Yet, his personality betrayed his physical appearance: He had a strong sense of justice and would never allow a wrong to go unpunished. There are coun...
[14:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 509 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:01] <exec> 08└─Don't know. The summary provides no useful information and offering something isn't the same thing as actually doing it. Still, autonomic nervous system, immune system, brown fat cells, and the pain response all have been shown to be influenced by self-hypnosis, so nothing he's claimed can be simply...
[14:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:03] <exec> 08└─Impressive achievements. How about crossing Antartica [wikipedia.org] via the south pole, alone?
[14:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 1177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:05] <exec> 08└─It is, of course, nothing new... Buddhists have been demonstrating this kind of thing for centuries. Through self-hypnosis and acupuncture, the Chinese have done open heart surgery (successfully) without anesthesia. The twist here is that this guy is teaching westerners to learn and practice some of...
[14:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:07] <exec> 08└─There are limits of physics and physiology, and Antartica can challenge those. Also, from what I gather from the video, Hof didn't summit Everest in his shorts without oxygen, but he did mention going from 5000 meters up past 7700 meters (25,000 feet)...
[14:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 537 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:04] <exec> 08└─Not "the Americas". We've used chip and PIN in Canada for a long time. I can't remember the last time I was asked to sign a credit card purchase. Going to the US and using my credit card makes me feel like I'm going a couple decades back in time. The statements attached to this article from the cred...
[14:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aclarke [2049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:06] <exec> 08└─Oops, I read "too confusing for the Americans" as "too confusing for the Americas". I also think that Americans are very suspicious of and resistant to any sort of change, which leaves them stuck with antiquated ideas like magnetic stripe credit cards, health insurance for basic needs, dollar bills,...
[14:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:08] <exec> 08└─I think Wal-Mart is pretty haphazard in their implementation of corporate policies. I don't go there often, but I have been since they put in the chip readers, and at that time, at that store, they asked for drivers' license.
[14:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:08] <exec> 08└─You win the analogy of the day award. I almost choked on my toast just now. xD
[14:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:43] <exec> 08└─Forbid caller ID spoofing in the hardware.
[14:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:14] <exec> 08└─What's the solution? Hyperurbanization? Arcologies? Space colonization? Population control? Throwing away modern conveniences? Manufacturing and supply chain refinement (more renewable energy, less resource-demanding industrial and chemical processes, more recycling)?
[14:04:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:15] <exec> 08└─Yes. (all of the above, and more, in moderation, combination - no homogeneous solutions) And, don't forget to save space for wildlife: http://www.half-earthproject.org [half-earthproject.org]
[14:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03terryk30 [1753] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liver-Branding Surgeon Fined and Ordered to do Community Service - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:30] <exec> 08└─"Liver-signing surgeon sentenced to perform community service now charged for tagging"
[14:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Liver-Branding Surgeon Fined and Ordered to do Community Service - 774 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:32] <exec> 08└─And if he spent an extra three hours in surgery tattooing an elaborate signature design because he was even more proud of his work, where do you draw the line? More time under increases costs and risks. Burning initials causes cell damage which the body then needs to spend resources repairing. The r...
[14:06:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:51] <exec> 08└─It's trending, so anything with income based on ads will be focused on it. No tin hats needed, unless you want to buy my super shiny hat. It reflect more brain signals than any other and restricts blood flow to the brain in case you've injested or inhaled an agency chemical.
[14:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06False Alarm: Emergency Alert in Hawaii Claimed "Missile Inbound" - 1139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:53] <exec> 08└─Based on the information I gathered - There's a confirmation screen on sending the warning. The user was doing a routine test of the system and had intended to use its built-in testing mechanism. The confirmation screen doesn't specify whether it is sending a live warning or a test warning. The styl...
[14:08:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:18] <exec> 08└─The Corvette and Viper (and especially the GT-40) are sort of Unicorns to the Camaro and Mustang's pony - they sort of stand on the bridge between production and concept. But, even the Corvette and Viper never managed to do production scissor doors.
[14:08:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:08:19] <exec> 08└─Yep, I've been fortunate enough to hang on to my mod-toy, a 1991 Miata bought new, turbocharged in 1996, and still with us. See, the secret is: if you're a family of 4 with 2 drivers, you just get a 2nd 2 seater... Also, living like a redneck on a big piece of land gives more room to park the toys.
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[15:01:01] <exec> 08└─We need a way to protect the people making this equipment. Copyright deserves only contempt, and we need a technical means to defeat it once and for all. At least software can be distributed in an anonymous fashion. We need the same for hardware so that nobody can stop it. Then we can watch the tyra...
[15:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:14] <exec> 08└─sounds like you're a blind and quite uneducated unreflected person, doesn't it?
[15:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Disagree) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:16] <exec> 08└─There is a documentary "In the beginning there was light". The original name is "Im Anfang war das licht" etc. It is about people who live on light. No food, just light. You might need to open your mind just a tiny little bit. The medical establishment tells us that we are all sick and we all have d...
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[15:01:18] <exec> 08└─Where does the answer lie? Living from day to day If it's something we can't buy There must be another way We are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world Are spirits in the material world
[15:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:20] <exec> 08└─"It is about people who live on light. No food, just light. You might need to open your mind just a tiny little bit."
[15:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:56] <exec> 08└─Give the public an extra way to contact emergency services? Please make sure you inform the responders of the quality of the "call". Was it anonymous? Did they block or spoof their ID? Then let the police know, so they can make a reasoned response ... yeah, right who am I kidding?
[15:04:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 451 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:04:29] <exec> 08└─Oops, you threw a ringer in there - throwing away modern conveniences... I don't think the conveniences need to go away, perhaps some of our contemporary extravagances, like regular global jet-travel for all, but if population control can get to a reasonable number (reasonable dependent entirely upo...
[15:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Liver-Branding Surgeon Fined and Ordered to do Community Service - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:47] <exec> 08└─"And if he spent an extra three hours in surgery tattooing an elaborate signature design because he was even more proud of his work, where do you draw the line? " Do you really have such a hard time drawing boundaries? If he billed an extra three hours there would be harm. He didn't do that. He spen...
[15:08:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Webweasel [567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, the MX5/Miata is a great car. A colleague at bought one as his first sports car, we went out one lunch so he could show it to me. "Hey why not drive it back to the office?" Game on! By the time we got back he was white with fear and just kept repeating "Ive never taken a car to its redline befo...
[15:08:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:35] <exec> 08└─I've got two now, picked up a '99 for $2500 - it's got mismatched tires, and a general case of not being owned by a driving enthusiast for many years, but it's still easy to toss into a nice, controlled 4 wheel drift on the 270 degree on ramp every day, rain or shine.
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[16:01:05] <exec> 08└─I think that the making of the devices are safe, its all in how they are marketing that is burning them. Ford makes trucks that can be used to carry drugs and have no issue. If they started marketing "you can hold x kilos of pot", the DEA would be on them in a heartbeat.
[16:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 634 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:07] <exec> 08└─If they started marketing "you can hold x kilos of pot", the DEA would be on them in a heartbeat. If Ford did that, maybe, but if their customers make the promotion, you can't jump on Ford's bones for it. This is what the government is trying to do. Either way, the issue is the ability to keep thing...
[16:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:09] <exec> 08└─Why shouldn't artists be paid for their work? Are you somehow entitled to it, free of charge? Please explain your argument.
[16:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:25] <exec> 08└─"You might need to open your mind just a tiny little bit" Be careful your brains don't fall out.
[16:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:27] <exec> 08└─sounds like
[16:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:40] <exec> 08└─I would call a fight where the bullets are ones and zeros flying around optical fiber networks the best kind of fight. Now, if we could reduce our dependency on the almighty dollar, those ones and zeroes would have a lot less potential to do real physical harm to people.
[16:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Engineers Demonstrate Fully Autonomous X-Ray Navigation in Space - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:51] <exec> 08└─With today's technology, I don't think we're too far from frozen embryo thawing and robotic raising / education of the children. If we were really into it, we could start today with the first generation prototypes and start working out the kinks.
[16:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:30] <exec> 08└─I'm in Denmark, and while the chip is new-ish, we've been doing magstripe and pin ever since the first credit card was introduced more than 30 years ago. But Germany... I'm not surprised, it's actually rare to be able to pay with credit card in Germany, even when ordering online.
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[16:06:35] <exec> 08└─> "It was a mistake made during a standard procedure at the change over of a shift, and an employee pushed the wrong button." I hope they won't do the same in North Korea.
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[17:00:54] <exec> 08└─Hurry and call the Spanish Inquisition! They will never expect it!
[17:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 1253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:55] <exec> 08└─So the Satanic Temple is an activist group and not necessarily a religion, so I'm not sure he can sue for religious discrimination. Not for not but shouldn't Satanists like fire? It feeling all homely and warm and stuff. There is humor in this somewhere. Satanists talking to lawyers ... of cause the...
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[17:00:58] <exec> 08└─The Satanic Temple basically exists to call out right-wing religious nutjobs whenever they think that pushing religion into the public sphere is the same as pushing Christianity into the public sphere. For instance, when Oklahoma passed a law welcoming religious displays in the state capitol, with t...
[17:00:59] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 364 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:00] <exec> 08└─See here, kiddies, this is why we must standardize on protocols instead of platforms. Whoever controls your platform controls your speech and the ideas you can receive. Someone tries to take control of your protocol... just route around the damage. But the stampeding hordes are too busy eating the c...
[17:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:02] <exec> 08└─It's a giant troll hive, something like a much snarkier Church of the Sub-Genius. Ironically, this makes them closer to the actual definition of Satan (s[h]'t'n - adversary, one who challenges at law) than what most people think of when they hear "Satan." In any case, I'm glad they're here, as they'...
[17:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:04] <exec> 08└─If you want to allow religions legal protection, then you have to provide a legal definition of what constitutes a religion as opposed to a cult or successful troll. That definition can't include whether people believe it, unless you can objectively measure belief. It can't constitute adherents to d...
[17:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:22] <exec> 08└─Copyright deserves only contempt
[17:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:23] <exec> 08└─Don't even try that bullshit line. Virtually all copyrights today are held by corporations. Those corporations have no problem with starving artists. They will cheat and swindle any way possible to avoid paying out royalties.
[17:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:26] <exec> 08└─“Don't programmers deserve a reward for their creativity?” If anything deserves a reward, it is social contribution. Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results. If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the s...
[17:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 908 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:28] <exec> 08└─did you just now find out about the internet? noone is talking about not paying an artist for his/her/pronoun's work. what we are against is the digital slave trade whereby someone who thinks himself my master attempts to use technical means to take away my rights over what i buy. a musician can pla...
[17:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 750 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:30] <exec> 08└─I could claim the problem is with how they are making money by selling pirate devices. Would they simply give the devices away for free then there could be no argument that they were profiting from copyright infringement. Yet the real problem is entirely with the buyers who are the kinds of people w...
[17:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03pe1rxq [844] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:49] <exec> 08└─His way of working has been the same for years: Make claim that is just a little bit incredible, parade some sciency types who are supposedly doing research but just not ready to present a proper well researched paper. And of course: invite a few to join him and provide nice anecdotes. As for his ex...
[17:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:50] <exec> 08└─You might need to open your mind just a tiny little bit.
[17:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:52] <exec> 08└─You know that we are living in a material world And I am a material girl
[17:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:55] <exec> 08└─Um... yeah, except for the whole missing the thematic similarity with the article and stuff. One of the recurring themes in the videos is: there was no cure for what had him down, he had to find his own. What he found is nothing that can be packaged in a pill and sold to the millions, so there's not...
[17:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:57] <exec> 08└─is just as bad as praying to mystical spirits...
[17:02:03] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 53 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:04] <exec> 08└─Good on Russia. Who knew they were American patriots?
[17:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:12] <exec> 08└─Evidence or insinuation? Seems a bit light on the first and heavy on the second. I'm not saying it ain't true but the article is by itself quite light on evidence of anything. “the Israelis have screenshots and keylogger dumps of this activity happening. To me that says they were watching it in r...
[17:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:03] <exec> 08└─I use a credit union in Washington state Some the merchant doesn't have a chip reader. For those I can still swipe
[17:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:04] <exec> 08└─Contact and contactless chip-enabled points of sale are taking over, of course, for their enhanced security and convenience for retail transactions
[17:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:06] <exec> 08└─This is configurable by the vendor, but most don't know that, or bother)
[17:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:09] <exec> 08└─1. Having multiple credit cards and using them frequently doesn't mean that you actually have any debt. Just keep all those cards paid down to zero. Never use the card unless you were prepared to write a check for it as soon as you get home and pay off the card online. Get all of the huge rewards of...
[17:04:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 494 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:57] <exec> 08└─it couldn't possibly be that people don't want to see dead reef, and the fact that not *all* of it is dead doesn't change the fact that half, or more is bleached. No, must be the messenger, not the message! http://www.news.com.au
[17:06:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 1552 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:09] <exec> 08└─"NASA concluded that it would be feasible to move the crewed flight forward to EM-1" Flying humans on a first flight seems to be ignoring Murphy. The safety sim and analysis addresses things from one viewpoint, but as good as it is, it will never get everything. A real, honest flight test increases...
[17:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Canadian Whisky's Long-Awaited Comeback - 500 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:10:00] <exec> 08└─As the posters below the parent have stated, this is not true at all. Otherwise, all distilled spirits would taste the same unless you added things after the distillation process. For example, tequila, rum, whiskey, brandy would all taste the same. The ones without barrel aging would all taste like...
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[18:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:59] <exec> 08└─I agree entirely. Everyone needs someone who is happy to call them on their bullshit; preferably with mockery. Pity you think this means everyone but yourself.
[18:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:00] <exec> 08└─> ... legal definition of what constitutes a religion... No reason to reinvent the wheel, the IRS will guide you, relative to US non-profit tax laws: Publication 1828, Tax Guide for Churches and Religious Organizations https://www.irs.gov [irs.gov] [pdf warning] Go...
[18:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:03] <exec> 08└─The real ball and chain is the ISP. They can *drop an anchor* on your connection at the drop of a hat, just for using an "unauthorized" protocol for instance (*cough* bittorrent). The internet should be only wires and switches, a dumb pipe, all QoS issues are to be dealt with at the end points.
[18:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 275 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:05] <exec> 08└─A satanic group on Twitter? I didn't know Twitter worked in Microsoft Internet Explorer 4. :P BTW, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOD! Sky fairy, underground fairy, or otherwise. The scary thing is if someone were to say that on Twidder now they might get their account suspended.
[18:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:07] <exec> 08└─I like mockery, but if you have noticed over the last few years, people who are mocked just dig in their heels, and will act (vote) out of pure spite. Pretty much how it went down. "Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball."?
[18:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:09] <exec> 08└─The technical advantages of protocols rather than platforms are well understood by now. The business advantage of platforms over protocols are also well understood by now. As long as the western world is under the control of business, the business rules will be what matters. I'm amazed that Twitter...
[18:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 904 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:11] <exec> 08└─I'd say a belief becomes a religion when: 1. miracles happen because of it 2. normal people which haven't undergone any special preparation freely choose martyrdom because of it. Probably all major religions apply. Suicide missions do not count because the perpetrators/their families are groomed/com...
[18:01:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 32 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:28] <exec> 08└─Copyright deserves only contempt
[18:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03tibman [134] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:34] <exec> 08└─“Control over the use of one's ideas” really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult.
[18:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:58] <exec> 08└─Did you even watch the documentary? I know you did not and never will.
[18:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:00] <exec> 08└─There are those who will not believe anything unless it is supported by a scammer in a white lab coat who calls himself a doctor. For those who will not watch the documentary, it also includes the story of an old man in India who does not eat or drink and hasn't done so for 70 years. The investigati...
[18:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:02] <exec> 08└─Mind is the "thinking" thing. Brain is a physically existing biological organ. Presence of brain does not guarantee or imply presence of mind.
[18:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:04] <exec> 08└─Reality is stranger than fiction. No one is asking you to stop eating or drinking. Go ahead, eat up the whole forest, drink up the whole sea. "Absurdities" until you are converted to that way of thinking and then they are no longer absurdities to you and the rest of your kind calls you absurd. Or do...
[18:02:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Lester [6231] 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 1208 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:15] <exec> 08└─Snowden has confirmed that NSA has broken world's security and infiltrated everywhere using software, hardware and services American companies. NSA has played its cards. So Russia and China have. They have shown that they have skilled hackers, as NSA has. They can use Twitter and Facebook as politic...
[18:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:19] <exec> 08└─> I would call a fight where the bullets are ones and zeros flying around optical fiber networks the best kind of fight. My only problem with this, is that idiots have decided to put vital infrastructure controls at the end of some of the fibers. And some asshole has decided that it was cheaper to r...
[18:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:15] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure your 1. is compatible with your 2., which is kind of the point for credit card companies. :)
[18:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:16] <exec> 08└─An ass whisperer might be able to tell me how many people have a subscriber badge but keep it hidden from view. Alas, guidance on this does not seem to be forthcoming from anyone in the shite white house. Single letter typos almost too easy to make are they by adjacent keys almost resulting in sharp...
[18:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:18] <exec> 08└─What happened when someone a few years ago lifted the chips from stolen high limit cards and 'retrofit' them onto lower limit stolen cards? They didn't use no steenkin' cameras! They subpoenaed the cell phone carriers for data to locate all phones in the vicinity of each fraudulent purchase, within...
[18:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:21] <exec> 08└─Jack Chick didn't know about RFID chips. But forget RFID chips. Imagine that you could get a nice personal PDA and payment device "tattooed" to your skin. At least it looks that way. But it is on the surface and wears off after about a month. It's handier than a phone. You can't lose1 it. It may not...
[18:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:23] <exec> 08└─That 2 to 3% transaction fee, plus, I suppose, the outrageous interest paid by people who actually borrow money on their credit cards, is what pays for a significant chunk of my personal flights, disney dollars, amazon dollars, etc.
[18:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:25] <exec> 08└─I have done the 1 for years. But I didn't vote for the 2. So maybe they are mutually exclusive.
[18:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:27] <exec> 08└─3. Clown who has never heard of a debit card presumes to lecture others on how to run their country.
[18:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bart9h [767] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:29] <exec> 08└─Here in the Third World I'm using credit (and debit) cards with chips, PIN required, for decades. Even my first credit card was like that, and that was some 20 years ago.
[18:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:32] <exec> 08└─Debit cards don't pay you for using them. Airline points. Disney dollars. Amazon dollars. Cruise ship dollars. But be sure you use a CC as if it were a debit card.
[18:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:34] <exec> 08└─I hear playing Slayer at high volume is the way to remove a hippie infestation.
[18:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 95 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:36] <exec> 08└─There's a billions-of-dollar industry based on 2. We the members of the 1. club are a minority.
[18:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Peter Thiel Makes a Bid for Gawker.com - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:56] <exec> 08└─you really belong to your shithole country
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[19:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biomechanical Robotic Stingray Created - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:55] <exec> 08└─I'm confused. How does the biomechanical stingray intercept my IMEI.
[19:01:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 432 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:06] <exec> 08└─It's a giant troll hive, something like a much snarkier Church of the Sub-Genius. Ironically, this makes them closer to the actual definition of Satan (s[h]'t'n - adversary, one who challenges at law) than what most people think of when they hear "Satan." In any case, I'm glad they're here, as they'...
[19:01:17] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 424 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:17] <exec> 08└─It should be pointed out that the definitions are remarkably loose, as John Oliver demonstrated by creating the completely legal church, Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption. Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption met weekly in his show's studio in New York, engaging in a form of worship of a brief silent medit...
[19:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:18] <exec> 08└─Is under no obligation to be 'fair'.
[19:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:20] <exec> 08└─I deny that any church has actual, as opposed to fraudulent, miracles. I'm willing to accept disproof, but the proof of the miracle has to be more reliable than the doubts against it. If I said I levitated last week, you wouldn't believe me, and if you say someone else said several people witnessed...
[19:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:23] <exec> 08└─Can't make money off of dumb pipes and thus is why the ISP industry is lobbying so hard, NN bites into their scalping profit making
[19:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:25] <exec> 08└─> BTW, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOD! Sky fairy, underground fairy, or otherwise. Shhhh ! It's cheaper to let people go to some big building to assuage their fears, and perpetuate their peaceful delusions of talking to some omnipotent being, than to deal with the damage the worst ones do cause when...
[19:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fnord666 [652] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:27] <exec> 08└─Is under no obligation to be 'fair'.
[19:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:29] <exec> 08└─I'd say we're reaching diminishing returns on that strategy of "if one fourth of Americans are Retarded, let them be!" The retards have learned politics and it's not pretty one effing bit. One fourth of the populace is no insignificant amount. Gee that's about where the current presidential approval...
[19:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:53] <exec> 08└─"Piracy" is illegal regardless if its for profit or not. they just need to change their marketing tactics and tell the 'industry' to go to hell.
[19:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:54] <exec> 08└─And in addition to insane copyright term lengths it's almost impossible to figure out when something does finally get into the public domain. Just look at this fucking mess https://copyright.cornell.edu [cornell.edu] The only way to get out of this guagmire is to require for copyright t...
[19:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:57] <exec> 08└─Cute tirade, but it's not the 50s anymore. It now takes almost no investment to take one song/movie/stream and literally broadcast it to the whole world, within seconds of it being first made public. If they don't keep stamping out the most obvious and egregious cases of instant free redistribution,...
[19:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:25] <exec> 08└─Google jelq: http://www.google.com [google.com]
[19:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:41] <exec> 08└─It doesn't take much evidence to make me think probable things that I already consider plausible. OTOH, the sources aren't exactly trustworthy, and aren't exactly known for honesty, and I wouldn't say fabricating even more convincing evidence was beyond them. It's not like it's unreasonable to doubt...
[19:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Engineers Demonstrate Fully Autonomous X-Ray Navigation in Space - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:53] <exec> 08└─The thing about a generation ship is by the time they get to their destination, they won't be interested in it. They'll have adapted, in some way, to living in space. What they'll probably want to do is build another few copies of the ship and set off for elsewhere various elsewheres, because that'...
[19:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03number11 [1170] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:50] <exec> 08└─Some retail, like WalMart, actually asks for photo ID to go with the card
[19:04:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 538 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:53] <exec> 08└─I agree with your electoral assessment. Republicans would count Manning being elected as a win. They'd prefer a Republican Senator, but a weakened Democrat would be an improvement for them. Obviously we don't want that. I am modding you -1 troll because of the pointlessly inflammatory rhetoric about...
[19:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:53] <exec> 08└─It's an economics term and while it has some relevance to morality and ethics, it's just a label. Moral hazard [wikipedia.org] means merely that when someone is protected from the consequences of risk, they tend to engage in riskier behavior. For example, people who drive rental cars tend to be more...
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[20:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biomechanical Robotic Stingray Created - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:57] <exec> 08└─I was thinking the same thing, apparently this isn't about that. It's about the flappy flatfish with the nasty barbs at the base of their tail that the cell traffic interceptors are named after.
[20:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biomechanical Robotic Stingray Created - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, I was wondering what the FBI had come up with now.
[20:01:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:22] <exec> 08└─I deny that any church has actual, as opposed to fraudulent, miracles. I'm willing to accept disproof, but the proof of the miracle has to be more reliable than the doubts against it. If I said I levitated last week, you wouldn't believe me, and if you say someone else said several people witnessed...
[20:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:28] <exec> 08└─Can't make as much money off of dumb pipes
[20:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:30] <exec> 08└─You're wrong about that. Satan's aim is to pull people away from God. So, yes, they are actually doing exactly what they believe.
[20:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2, Disagree) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:32] <exec> 08└─How unscientific of you, "I deny". According to what experimental data and what scientific theories? but we derail. I'd rather say that given the incomplete (and technically unachievable) understanding of the universe from the inside of it, we cannot tell supernatural miracle from intimate knowledge...
[20:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:34] <exec> 08└─and will act (vote) out of pure spite
[20:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:37] <exec> 08└─> religious people are so because fear of death or loneliness let us examine a dual sentence > atheists are so because it enables them to act in immoral ways Do you spot the fallacy?
[20:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 570 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:39] <exec> 08└─If you can prove a miracle, does it also become science? I don't wan't the mark of a true religion people needing to die for it, seems terribly arbitrary and pointless to me. At what point do you make the argument that there a Flying Spaghetti Monster true believers are willing to choose martyrdom,...
[20:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:41] <exec> 08└─I spotted a strawman.
[20:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:43] <exec> 08└─That's where people always do it wrong : Religious discrimination only applies if you don't dismiss all religious claims as equally and uniformly irrelevant.
[20:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 396 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:45] <exec> 08└─When you say god, I'm going to go right ahead and assume you mean the Christian one, one of the many, many thousands of gods men have created over our history. I have been pulled away from any belief in your god because the evidence for his existence is so poor, and I stopped believing in magic whe...
[20:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 459 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:48] <exec> 08└─Online businesses do not accomodate in general but some do, being banned from paypal can be a hindrance. Info exchanging sites like twitter (for some definition of info) cannot be likened to public accomodation, if they are then off topic speech cannot be banned, and the sites collapse. What I would...
[20:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 337 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:50] <exec> 08└─- religion is assertions on supernatural - atheism is assertions on supernatural - no purely scientific proof of the absence of the supernatural can be given. Note, "absence" is not even defined in the hypothetical supernatural domain. Atheism is a religion, deal with it. So you discriminate against...
[20:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:52] <exec> 08└─The definition MUST be loose. In fact, loose enough for things like Our Lady of Perpetual Exemption to exist in order to minimize the chances that a genuine religious belief gets excluded simply for not being sufficiently mainstream. I have met a few members of the Church of the Sub-Genius and I ass...
[20:02:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 1177 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:29] <exec> 08└─It is, of course, nothing new... Buddhists have been demonstrating this kind of thing for centuries. Through self-hypnosis and acupuncture, the Chinese have done open heart surgery (successfully) without anesthesia. The twist here is that this guy is teaching westerners to learn and practice some of...
[20:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hawkwind [3531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:47] <exec> 08└─Well said. I'm not clear on what the complaint is. The video is pretty straight forward. Wikipedia has academic citations. Maybe pe1 needs to rtfa, or at least provide a link to a debunking.
[20:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03cyrano [1034] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:05] <exec> 08└─2 years ago, the Mirai botnet was said to be Russian and set out to influence US elections and take down US online business. By the same sources as these rumours. Today we know the Mirai botnet was started by a couple of American students. The first was widely reported by MSM. The second fact was ha...
[20:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:06] <exec> 08└─I feel the same way about paper, but... what happens when my paper 401(k) statement says I have $350K saved up at the end of the last month, and then the electronic transactions show $9999 per day being transferred to various numbered Swiss accounts starting the day after the statement was printed?...
[20:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 611 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:08] <exec> 08└─That;s when you grab your paper, and have a face-to-face discussion with a human being until they admit that it's highly implausible that you suddenly decided to drain your 401k into some Nigerian-Nork-Russian prince's bank account without warning. If someone goes Gitlab at the bank's database, it's...
[20:03:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 170 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:39] <exec> 08└─What ever happened to Chip AND Pin? Not only do they not Ask for a signature, they never even ask for a pin. So all they know is that the card is valid. But is it stolen?
[20:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:16] <exec> 08└─I used to think they made their money on interest and service charges, but I wonder (not enough to actually dig into a quarterly report)... on balance, those same people who incur the interest and service charges are probably the source of most, perhaps nearly all, of their late-payment, non-payment...
[20:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:18] <exec> 08└─US paper money is also some of the easiest in the world to counterfeit... I'm wondering if any vested interests are actively keeping it that way...
[20:05:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:22] <exec> 08└─If he wants to ponce about in women's clothes, technically that's his right. If you want him to run for office, that's your right. Just don't ask the world to pretend he's qualified. Worse don't show off how much biology and logic you missed in school by pretending he's other than a man in a dress....
[20:05:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:23] <exec> 08└─I essentially share your stance, with some reservations; the difference is I don't feel compelled to articulate my views with mean-spirited insults. And seeing as I am a biologist by education I would wager I have a deeper and more nuanced understanding of this than you do. But this isn't a question...
[20:05:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:26] <exec> 08└─I could do without the prayer, but Trump has to give it lip service. Even Obama pretended to be Christian. I voted for Trump. I figured he wouldn't try to keep his promises, but Hillary would, and her promises were pure evil. Much to my delight, Trump has been getting promises fulfilled.
[20:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 496 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:28] <exec> 08└─I see you left out the ice rink. President Trump wrote about it in one of his books. You should buy all his books. That tax bill is a disaster... for rich people in high-tax states. Can't we tax Madonna a bit more? I think so. I think it's a fine idea. Middle class people are struggling, and they ne...
[20:05:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:30] <exec> 08└─Since when should lying be equated to decency? Since when should the truth be construed as an insult? He's neither qualified, nor experienced, nor other than a man in a dress. As mentioned he's within his right to run, but in the unlikely chance that he wins, chalk on up for the Republicans. They'll...
[20:10:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Why Don't Electric Cars Look Like the Future? - 484 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:10:44] <exec> 08└─A panel is composed of many tiny elements. Each can be designed to have a narrow beam, a wide beam, or a flattened beam. Put those together and you can get what you want. You can even get an beam that can be aimed without any moving parts. Simply install an excess of elements, all with narrow beams...
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[21:00:55] <exec> 08└─A garbage article, verbal diarrhea with no actual content.
[21:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 599 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:56] <exec> 08└─That theme is ugly as fuck. It looks like Android 7.x/8.x, and to me, that is not a good thing. When and why did the flat, anti-functional, user-hostile "Material Design" aesthetic take over? Even the melodramatic skeumorphism of mid-period OS X is better than this. The rest of the review boils down...
[21:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:59] <exec> 08└─as the article (yup read TFA) points out, integrating hardware and OS can make users' life pretty good, no matter their power level. Let's hope the parable is not like apple's orcommercial unix's, where integration leads to walled gardens because you have enough users under your belt.
[21:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06SPARCS CubeSat Will Assess Habitability of Red Dwarf Stars - 1536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:07] <exec> 08└─If this type of star, with exoplanets are far more common, it is obvious to wonder if this might be the dominant type of life bearing planet and ours is a less common type. Suppose life already evolved to a high level on that type of planet before it did on earth. Maybe life on all those red dwarf s...
[21:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biomechanical Robotic Stingray Created - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:18] <exec> 08└─A stingray of these killed Steve Irwin. Should we be building more powerful ones?? The man wrestled with crocodiles for TV! (Sorry I just didn't want the previous comment to be the only one.)
[21:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:58] <exec> 08└─Where is our -1 Heretic mod?
[21:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:59] <exec> 08└─You, my friend, are splitting hairs.
[21:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 4, Touché) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:02] <exec> 08└─Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
[21:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:04] <exec> 08└─How many boxes of halogen bulbs do you go through a week with that level of projection?
[21:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:06] <exec> 08└─For a Bot you're exceedingly illogical sometimes, you know that? Prior probabilities, Bayes' theorem (yes, I know it's been abused, but the basic idea still holds), etc. The null hypothesis is "nature is more or less uniform." Backing it up is thousands and thousands of years of experimental data. Y...
[21:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:08] <exec> 08└─Energeian Planēs
[21:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:11] <exec> 08└─So might makes right? Thanks for admitting it. When and if someone kills you just for the sheer hell of it, I'm gonna just laugh; you will have gotten what you deserve under your own belief system because, hey, you weren't strong enough to prevent someone from offing you. Here's something to run thr...
[21:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:13] <exec> 08└─> Atheism is a religion, deal with it. I have. Was raised with no organized religious activities, was only slightly curious about what my childhood playmates were doing on Sunday morning (but not enough to tag along with them). A few times I was asked, "Are you atheist or agnostic" and my confused a...
[21:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:15] <exec> 08└─Riiiight....
[21:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:17] <exec> 08└─It might be "Bot" as in "bottom." I sat on my bot.
[21:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:19] <exec> 08└─The botty has spoken.
[21:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:46] <exec> 08└─"If they don't keep stamping out the most obvious and egregious cases of instant free redistribution, how do you propose that the millions of people working in the entertainment industry will get paid?" Most of them would have to (shock, horror) get a job I suspect. Not the worst thing that could ha...
[21:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:47] <exec> 08└─" how do you propose that the millions of people working in the entertainment industry will get paid?" Same way I do. They tell me what they want. I tell them how much it will cost. They pay me. I do it. This is basically the kickstarter model. Or the Patreon model. Its also very common in software;...
[21:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:49] <exec> 08└─You're saying every product you can buy in a store is usually used to make people's lives more difficult.
[21:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 350 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:51] <exec> 08└─Legal or not, the 'enforcement' racket is only able to work because there are commercial profit centers to attack. If the same number of machines were being produced and used, but it was all cottage-industry with no central profit-seeker raking in the cash, then enforcement would be impossible and t...
[21:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 566 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:21] <exec> 08└─TFA's link "Buddhist breathing techniques", should be Chapter 1 [ocoy.org], which actually describes the Buddhist breathing techniques as opposed to the latter chapters which primarily focus on the history and philosophy. The Meditative Mind [youtube.com], channel is good. Last year I tried to find...
[21:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:23] <exec> 08└─You should reconsider the bullshit your peddling, which has led to the deaths of gullible idiots like yourself.
[21:03:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Crash [1335] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:25] <exec> 08└─Doh. I rephrased to take out the ill-fitting YouTube channel line, then forgot to take out that line.
[21:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:27] <exec> 08└─Don't take this too lightly, several people who tried his methods have drowned. If you really want to try, make sure you understand his methods and have someone watch over you. Just lookup "Wim Hof deaths" for more information.
[21:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:47] <exec> 08└─Don't trust war will stay in the ones and zeroes world too long if one of the contenders is defeated in that zone. If one destroys other's cybernetic defenses, next, it will take advantage of it. So, just the minute before being defeated in cyberworld, it commit a sneak attack in real world. Perhaps...
[21:03:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 965 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:48] <exec> 08└─The best is everybody buying in to that old Coca Cola ad from the '70s "I'd like to teach the world to sing, in perfect harmony, I'd like to buy the world a Coke, and keep them company...." or something like that. The more Chinese we have commuting to/from the US, the more Americans we have commutin...
[21:04:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03etherscythe [937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:59] <exec> 08└─They also don't have the consumer protections that a credit card does. Woe to thee whose debit card number is stolen and on which big charges are piled up.
[21:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:01] <exec> 08└─Just all the signs that the US hasn't been a functioning democracy or free market capitalism in 40 years.
[21:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:10] <exec> 08└─Are you sure you're an atheist? Remember, you can worship something and not be religious in the traditional sense, but still have a God. Even if it's money, power, or "haha take that, everyone who doesn't think like me."
[21:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:11] <exec> 08└─Saying that a woman is a man-in-a-dress doesn't make her a man.
[21:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:06:14] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_State_Project [wikipedia.org]
[21:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03dry [223] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Safety Panel Raises Concerns Over SpaceX and Boeing Commercial Crew Plans - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:14] <exec> 08└─It showed a lot of design problems that would have in all probability led to flight failures. In some ways it was lucky that it failed when it did as it forced the engineers to consider things like is it smart to use a 100% oxygen environment combined with lots of flammable materials as well as simp...
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[22:01:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pretty much. He avoids actually reviewing anything meaningful, and explicitly points out that he's focusing only on the trivialities and gloss, as if that was something to be proud of.
[22:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:02] <exec> 08└─Now, System 76 says directly on their site that this is a distribution for scientists, engineers, creators, makers, etc. It is designed for people who need to get things done on a technical level. The reason I say that this is that though we know who System 76’s target market is I see no reason wh...
[22:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:04] <exec> 08└─... not the decor. Apple forgot that.
[22:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:06] <exec> 08└─Masochist beginners? That covers pretty much *any* linux beginner, though, so maybe they do have potential users!
[22:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:08] <exec> 08└─A scientist will use Scientific Linux. An engineer will not find his engineering tools there (they are 95% on Windows.)
[22:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SPARCS CubeSat Will Assess Habitability of Red Dwarf Stars - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:17] <exec> 08└─Facinating. We've finally got a unit of scientific volume that is more granular than the Olympic swimming pool. Now if only we knew *which* Cheerios box it was, we could get a unit of astronomical scientific discovery per Cheerio [google.com], and then we'd *really* be making skme headway!
[22:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biomechanical Robotic Stingray Created - 9 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:28] <exec> 08└─crikey.ai
[22:01:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Fnord666 [652] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 36 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:56] <exec> 08└─Is under no obligation to be 'fair'.
[22:01:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 42 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:58] <exec> 08└─Can't make as much money off of dumb pipes
[22:02:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 396 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:07] <exec> 08└─When you say god, I'm going to go right ahead and assume you mean the Christian one, one of the many, many thousands of gods men have created over our history. I have been pulled away from any belief in your god because the evidence for his existence is so poor, and I stopped believing in magic whe...
[22:02:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Justin Case [4239] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 60 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:14] <exec> 08└─Atheism is a religion like not collecting stamps is a hobby.
[22:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 1526 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:24] <exec> 08└─You're on to something there. I looked at that miracle working thing, a few decades ago. Yeah, prior to the internet. I actually dug into some of canonical law, and read some of the "authorities" on the saints and their miracles. I finished with the idea that if enough people swore that something ha...
[22:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:26] <exec> 08└─The vibrating one I guess?
[22:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Fluffeh [954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:28] <exec> 08└─You're wrong about that. Satan's aim is to pull people away from God. So, yes, they are actually doing exactly what they believe.
[22:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:30] <exec> 08└─Yes, yes, yes, there WERE ignorant voters, stupidity, and habitual party voters, and selfish bastards - ON BOTH SIDES!! And, few of those who are left actually "supported" Trump. Many voted for the lesser of two evils. And, yes, Trump remains the lesser of the two evils that were offered to us. You'...
[22:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:33] <exec> 08└─I am intrigued that this idea seems so foreign here. Do you not know who Satan is?
[22:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2, Flamebait) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:35] <exec> 08└─Oh that's hilarious. I put my shit out without filter in front of this bunch nearly every day and (this part's key) do not become a rabid cunt if someone mocks me for it. It's a rare occasion but sometimes they're right. Rabid cunt is your default setting though. It's a common failing in weak women...
[22:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:37] <exec> 08└─Don't forget the separate drinking fountains.
[22:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:39] <exec> 08└─I'd say we're reaching diminishing returns on that strategy of "if one fourth of Americans are Retarded, let them be!"
[22:02:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:41] <exec> 08└─It would make sense if miracles were defined in that way, before, they helped forming the catholic church itself. If you think Mass hysteria fits occurrences of miracles, good to you. To me it's bad pseudo science. Still wondering why meatbags desume from my comment that miracles have to be proven b...
[22:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:44] <exec> 08└─If now a god comes from above and is visible to all mankind and does godlike things, have you proven anything at all? you must be outside the universe to prove something miraculous as having some supernatural meaning.
[22:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 1125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:46] <exec> 08└─Nope nope nope. Not even close to being remotely true or logical. I do like the stamps reply you got. Religion is an organized set of beliefs, typically based on assertions about the unexplained (natural or not), shared by a group of people. Atheism is the statement that the unexplained does not req...
[22:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:48] <exec> 08└─> So might makes right? non sequitur, more like eating own dogfood.
[22:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:50] <exec> 08└─well done, you should have spotted two.
[22:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:52] <exec> 08└─> Trump remains the lesser of the two evils that were offered to us. *Citation needed*
[22:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:55] <exec> 08└─Saddam Hussein's submissive bitch if South Park is any indication, which is just about as authoritative as any other source....
[22:02:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:57] <exec> 08└─Mass hysteria? But that is very clearly Jesus' face on that toast.....
[22:02:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:59] <exec> 08└─You, my friend, are splitting hairs.
[22:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:01] <exec> 08└─How unscientific of you, "I deny". According to what experimental data and what scientific theories? but we derail.
[22:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:04] <exec> 08└─That's agnosticism. An agnostic does not say "there is no proof of god, but bring me evidence and I will believe your own particular god" Which is like "I don't want to give you this candy but bring me that object over there, called the moon, and you will have it" An agnostic says "proof of god? LOL...
[22:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:06] <exec> 08└─Having a chip on your shoulder doesn’t make you weak. I know the southern types you speak of. Strong enough to vote Roy Moore. Azuma really gets under your skin. Easy to do for such a weak woman.
[22:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:08] <exec> 08└─How the hell is that dogfooding? Talk about non-sequitur. Explain yourself, please.
[22:03:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:10] <exec> 08└─Is it related to Our Lady of Perpetual Collections?
[22:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:12] <exec> 08└─He thinks if he says it enough it'll become reality :) The best part is, he does 3/4 of my work for me. All I have to do is point out where he's full of shit and he'll go into the kind of frothing, rabid spin cycle I've only ever seem from the cartoon Tasmanian Devil before. In the process, he'll ma...
[22:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:15] <exec> 08└─Oh, honey, just because you're a colossal dildo doesn't mean you're worthy of being a vibrator. It just means you're a gigantic fake prick.
[22:03:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 225 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:34] <exec> 08└─Don't even try that bullshit line. Virtually all copyrights today are held by corporations. Those corporations have no problem with starving artists. They will cheat and swindle any way possible to avoid paying out royalties.
[22:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Two New Lawsuits Against Makers of "Pirate Streaming Devices" - 1100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:46] <exec> 08└─I've been feeling a similar sentiment for a while now. I'm in the USA, and often I think to myself that if every single person who doesn't vote were to vote this year but instead vote either Libertarian or Green, we'd have a revolution on our hands. Most people don't vote not because their precinct...
[22:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Iceman Checks Out, Scientifically - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:21] <exec> 08└─Two recent drowning deaths in the Sacramento area have been traced to submerged meditating and breathing practices
[22:05:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:57] <exec> 08└─I just had the occasion to go shopping in a midwestern Walmart for a close friend using his credit card: an authorized user that no one but the cardholder knew about, over $100, no signature and no photo ID.
[22:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 591 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:58] <exec> 08└─I would also point out that Credit Cards have a dispute process for dealing with bad merchants or bad products. We've never had to use this, but it's nice to know it is there. The reason for this is that the CC companies DON'T WANT bad merchants in their payment network. Sometimes CCs also offer oth...
[22:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:06:00] <exec> 08└─You must be disciplined to treat a CC as if it were a debit card. Sadly, that probably is a minority.
[22:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03ilsa [6082] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Next Generation 911 Could Lead to Next Generation "Swatting" - 192 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:50] <exec> 08└─I can't speak for the parent, but I certainly don't. Is it tied to IMEIs or some other kind of internal identifier that the average joe can't change without the phone company getting involved?
[22:07:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Tourism Representative Blames Scientists for Downturn in Great Barrier Reef Visits - 461 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:07:58] <exec> 08└─He hasn't done "tens of millions of damage to our reef", this guy's profiteering scheme is suffering a bit. The fact that he calls the tourism industry "our reef" clearly indicates he doesn't care about the actual reef at all! Defunding one of the leading researchers also doesn't exactly suggest you...
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[23:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:56] <exec> 08└─> "Prohibiting it in school would be the same as prohibiting other medications such as Ritalin, Adderall or Concerta." How about prohibiting those three, and once again letting teachers scare the "ADHD" kids into behaving? There are very few "ADHD" kids who wouldn't be magically cured by a few publi...
[23:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ellis D. Tripp [3416] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 267 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:57] <exec> 08└─"What people seem to misunderstand here is that medical marijuana is a prescription like any other drug," [the family's attorney, Steven Glink, said]. "Prohibiting it in school would be the same as prohibiting other medications such as Ritalin, Adderall or Concerta."
[23:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:00] <exec> 08└─uses a patch on her foot and an oil extract on her wrists. "No one's saying she wants to fire up a bong in math class," the judge said, reported the Chicago Tribune.
[23:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 1000 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:02] <exec> 08└─I assume she isn't smoking it, that would be a bit odd since you have to be 21 to legally smoke tobacco in Illinois, as far as I know, so one would assume weed would be the same. So it's probably in pill or eatable form? If she gets it via the school nurse I'm not sure there is an actual problem, th...
[23:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:04] <exec> 08└─So in some regard I'd be more worried about it being easy access to other kids then for the employees at school. After all if they are now allowing legal medical cannabis in the state and all the paperwork is in order etc I don't see why a school nurse shouldn't be able to administer that as needed.
[23:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 688 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:06] <exec> 08└─I'm fairly sure that wouldn't be an issue here since her parents seem to be on board, so I assume they would sign any required paperwork for their kid to get a patch or some oil applied. I was also left wondering about the Disneyland vs world. Can't she just go to Disneyland instead? They have (medi...
[23:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Judge Allows 11-Year-Old to Use Medical Cannabis at School in Illinois - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:09] <exec> 08└─Fun contrast: France had a big polemic a few years back, on whether a middle-school nurse handing a day-after pill to a minor should be required to inform her parents.
[23:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:23] <exec> 08└─I'm curious, what kind of engineering are you doing? What Linux tools work for you? In my area (mechanical and electronic design) there are no top notch Linux tools.
[23:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 1402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:25] <exec> 08└─I know the answer. System 76 is thinking to differentiate their product from other Linux hardware by offering a custom Linux OS. But they are not thinking about what the customer actually wants. As a customer, I want standardization. I don't want almost standardization. Windows guys, try this: Buy b...
[23:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:27] <exec> 08└─Millennials who have time to waste will like this. It harks back to the day when there were more Linux distributions than there were Linux users. Ah, to be that young and have the illusion that you've got infinite time ahead of you. Clue: life goes by fast. Don't waste it. Before you know it, your 2...
[23:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:29] <exec> 08└─Software mainly including embedded systems and now something a bit different with many in-house tools and FOSS.
[23:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:31] <exec> 08└─Pink Floyd wrote a good song about that.
[23:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:34] <exec> 08└─So your lesson is to use Windows.
[23:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 662 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:36] <exec> 08└─Apple is about Form over Function. Symptom: you're holding it wrong! It's that way so we could use a certain material for the back cover that looks really cool but impedes the operation of the antenna. Engineering takes a back seat to design. It's all about design. (What is meant by this is fashion...
[23:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:38] <exec> 08└─I also should have mentioned the courage to get rid of the headphone jack.
[23:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:40] <exec> 08└─No, actually I use Linux. I have never owned a Windows box. Linux systems have become simple and dependable. At work I have Windows, but I am not responsible for maintaining it. And they do an excellent job BTW. I run the same open source development tools and other applications on Windows as on Lin...
[23:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hands on With System76’s Beautiful Linux Distro Pop!_OS - 798 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:42] <exec> 08└─Thanks! I sometimes do AVR (32) projects, but using Windows GUI. I am aware that there is a Linux toolchain, but never explored it. Don't even know if there is a debugger (gdb+Eclipse, perhaps? It was one of earlier official IDEs.) There is Xilinx, though. They always had portable tools, and they s...
[23:02:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 438 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:21] <exec> 08└─The technical advantages of protocols rather than platforms are well understood by now. The business advantage of platforms over protocols are also well understood by now. As long as the western world is under the control of business, the business rules will be what matters. I'm amazed that Twitter...
[23:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 1921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:18] <exec> 08└─Not really neede, but I cite Obama. Seriously. Specifically the administration and agenda. We would've got four years (maybe eight), of the same toxic anti-consumer, anti-American, anti-privacy bullshit we had under Obama. Civil rights would've continued to erode, the globalist agenda would've been...
[23:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 578 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:19] <exec> 08└─The problem here is that internet access is a natural monopoly, much like actual, literal pipes as in the case of water and electricity. Yet, somehow, the telecoms have bribed^W *convinced* the regulatory powers that be that they deserve all the advantages of a monopoly with none of the regulations....
[23:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:21] <exec> 08└─It's precisely the kind of silliness that appeals to the masses, though. Twitter is just the "sound bite" in Web 2.0 (3.0? 3.11? 3.11 for Workgroups?) form.
[23:03:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:24] <exec> 08└─You cannot deny the undefined. Deny means X is false. You can NOT ACCEPT something as proof. It's like you people did not read the second paragraph. There is your escape hatch, nuke proof.
[23:03:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 661 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:26] <exec> 08└─More or less uniform, is the key. Your parameters, brought to some ancient time, conclude the eclipse is a miracle and justify the guys who probably became the first sacerdotal caste because they figured out how to get an advantage out of it. Does not matter, we did not have advanced scientific know...
[23:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:28] <exec> 08└─TOASTER, it's a TOASTER
[23:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:30] <exec> 08└─Zeno: nothing moves *slap* Zeno: who did it? NOBODY, of course. Satanist: satan is our lord. Good we'll make your life like hell Satanist: WHY YOU PERSECUTE ME
[23:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:33] <exec> 08└─You're reading anger where there isn't any. She's a toy I enjoy playing with, nothing more.
[23:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:35] <exec> 08└─Well, according to the Bible (book of Job, specifically), the satan (it's not a name, but rather, a common noun) is sort of a prosecuting attorney in the court of heaven, who acts to tempt humans into abandoning their faith. How the satan turned into Satan though is a strange matter, mostly tied up...
[23:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:37] <exec> 08└─Must be in this context. Most other gods have a distinct name. Except the god of evil who has several inc Lucifer, Beezlebub, Allah ,Satan et
[23:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:39] <exec> 08└─...you, um, don't actually know what the Satanic Temple is, do you? Actual believing theistic Satanists are very, very rare; these guys are trolls with a purpose, like the Discordians but way more pissed off. Why don't you shut up and stop embarrassing yourself, huh? You're making me cringe with sym...
[23:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:41] <exec> 08└─^ This, this, all of this. I wound up following your thought process almost exactly, and have since been in grieving for a nation that was fated to die no matter who won. We can only hope that enough people are jarred out of their apathetic slumber by 2020, if not 2018, to right the ship of state be...
[23:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:44] <exec> 08└─Keep telling yourself that, Uzzard :D Here in the reality-based community, everyone can see you've got your head so far up your ass you can see your grandpa's last meal all the way down in Hell. I don't even need to do anything; you tear your own flesh and spill your own blood unbidden.
[23:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:46] <exec> 08└─And, yes, Trump remains the lesser of the two evils that were offered to us.
[23:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:48] <exec> 08└─> Religion is an organized set of beliefs, typically based on assertions about the unexplained... Nope this does not take into account the possibility that a god actually revealed stuff to man, and reduced all to "i dunno how therefore god". Which has factually happened, but is independent to the fi...
[23:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:50] <exec> 08└─Translation: "Whaaaa, whaaaaa, I'm so persecuteeeed! Stoooooooop making people examine my belieeeeefs!" You don't deserve the name "Bot." That implies a level of coolheaded, consistent rationality you have so far failed to display even once.
[23:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:53] <exec> 08└─Which God, how do you know it's God, how do you know this God itself isn't being simulated or manipulated by something higher, how do you know what it said, how do you know you can trust what it said, etc etc etc? You really suck at this. I'm no atheist, but I know demons and myths when I see them,...
[23:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 797 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:55] <exec> 08└─Belief itself isn't really a necessary aspect of a religion anyway. What do Taoists believe? Religion tends to rather be a set of shared traditions held by a people that binds them together as such (religion is derived from Latin "religare" meaning "to bind"). Many of those religions have shared bel...
[23:03:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:57] <exec> 08└─"Satan" is past, like "Lucifer". It is now called "Allah".
[23:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:59] <exec> 08└─Very good. Yes, a fallen angel, cast down to Earth. In opposition to God, and tempting humans into sin. Also equated with the serpent who beguiled Eve into eating of the fruit of the forbidden tree of knowledge, leading to mankind being cast out of the Garden of Eden.
[23:04:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:02] <exec> 08└─About the super god, BTW, please define creation without using spacetime, because you can't prove there is one in the domain of the hypotetically meta-created creator. After that please prove believers are not believing in the super god, by definition, if there were one.
[23:04:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:04] <exec> 08└─> Nope this does not take into account the possibility that a god actually revealed stuff to man, and reduced all to "i dunno how therefore god". > Which has factually happened, but is independent to the first. Would you mind rewording ? The terrible formulation gets in the way of my impression that...
[23:04:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:06] <exec> 08└─Well said.
[23:04:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:08] <exec> 08└─You two should take this offline.
[23:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Justin Case [4239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:10] <exec> 08└─Web 3.11 for Workgroups
[23:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:12] <exec> 08└─Trying the flattery card, huh? won't work.
[23:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 563 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:15] <exec> 08└─I, um, read the first comment after the story. You fail to decouple the intention from the consequences. But then, when a guy says MAGA, he's a true patriot, and all that happens contrary to his stated goal is mere bad luck eh? Satanic temple complaining about (one of their own likely) menacing them...
[23:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Satanic Temple Threatens to Sue Twitter Over Religious Discrimination - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:17] <exec> 08└─If you put spots on your strawman, that just signals that is is not real, and therefore ineffective as a scarecrow. I think we are dealing more with a fallacy of ambiguity here, or possibly an argumentum ad ignoratiam advocatus diaboli.
[23:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bright And Stable: New Acid-Tolerant Green Fluorescent Protein For Bioimaging - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:25] <exec> 08└─Typically, red proteins (e.g. mCherry) are used for this application as their structure is more acid stable. Not revolutionary, but it is still useful to have more options.
[23:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Experts Link Shadow Brokers and Russia - 664 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:47] <exec> 08└─If anything, being hacked by a foreign government rather than your own might be preferable, as foreign governments rarely care to use parallel construction in order to press criminal charges over domestic infractions. All the better if it's a foreign government with no interest in sharing what it le...
[23:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"Decorated" Cardiac Stem Cells Could Repair Heart Injuries More Effectively - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:07] <exec> 08└─No, cardiomyocytes do not control their beating independently.
[23:07:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:05] <exec> 08└─I've heard that there are billions of dollars in US paper currency around the world, much of it representing the secret life savings of relatively poor people in countries with autocratic governments and currency restrictions. They can spend their money on black markets, but changing an entire life'...
[23:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:06] <exec> 08└─Why is there a sharp key on my keyboard but no flat key? What do they have against trumpet players?
[23:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Visa Will Make Signatures Optional for Chipped Credit Cards - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:08] <exec> 08└─That trumpets don't have MIDI interface? Or USB port? If not that, then I don't know.
[23:08:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:20] <exec> 08└─How many X- and/or Y- chromosomes does this woman or man-in-a-dress have?
[23:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Chelsea Manning Seeks U.S. Senate Seat for Maryland - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:21] <exec> 08└─Well, that first Iraq war wouldn't have happened had it not been for Jimmy Carter propping up Saddam in the first place in the fight against Iran. No need to make this a one-party problem.
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