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[00:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:18] <exec> 08└─What is more confusing, is it was a 50 caliber desert eagle from what I read, and he had shown her a book that wasn't fully penetrated. If he had ever fired it at anything, as he had claimed, he should have known the book wouldn't have been effective. I don't see how that could have been anything ot...
[00:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:19] <exec> 08└─Fun fact about people on unemployment. They HAD a job, and by the letter of the law are usually required to have lost it through no fault of their own, and are usually required to be looking for a new one. Moving when you can't make ends meet anymore is quite difficult. Since they don't cap my contr...
[00:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:21] <exec> 08└─Thanks for having pizza with me. It’s interesting to see how other men don’t have armies of females after them. Valentine’s Day will be complicated for me!
[00:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03ants_in_pants [6665] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:23] <exec> 08└─the places where living is cheap are generally also low on available jobs.
[00:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:26] <exec> 08└─Correct, I remember the story you are talking about, and thought at the time it sure sounded like his way out. Sounded like he went to some lengths to convince her to do something carefully calculated to kill him.
[00:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:59] <exec> 08└─I know it sounds that way, but I didn't mean to say we LEARNED IT from the Chinese Americans, but rather that once you accept as OK doing business with the Chinese commie American Nazi party and helping them implement their oppressive spying regime, it desensitizes you to the fact that it is WRONG....
[00:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:00] <exec> 08└─No one hurts men like women hurt men, either.
[00:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:34] <exec> 08└─I'd argue that they only care when you stop subscribing. Maybe I wasn't clear... My point was that their original content is a one-time cost whereas licensing content is a perpetual cost. They "care" in that it's cheaper for them if a customer watches original content vs. licensed content.
[00:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:36] <exec> 08└─I really don't get all of the hate that Netflix is getting.
[00:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:55] <exec> 08└─The users didn't see it coming! Sorry couldn't resist - SJWs please spare me humble tender hide..
[00:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:11] <exec> 08└─https://www.c-span.org/video/?439822-1/after-words-david-frum [c-span.org] https://www.c-span.org [c-span.org]
[00:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 514 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:13] <exec> 08└─Large concentrated platform may go away, replaced by more smaller ones where a particular social circle deems currently hip, but social media itself won't. It will also open up opportunities for aggregators. So "surveillance capitalism" will not go away as long as the govies can strong-arm organizat...
[00:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 568 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:15] <exec> 08└─Need to remember that Facebook is publicly traded, and highly overvalued. Investors, big and small, are banking on Facebook. Facebook won't implode. Remember "to big to fail"? Facebook may deflate, over a long period of time. But, it has accumulated enough money/power to prevent dying off in any sho...
[00:05:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 1145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:08] <exec> 08└─Fed chairs are given 2 jobs: 1. Keep inflation from going too high. 2. Keep unemployment from going too high. I'm going to have a hard time criticizing Ben Bernanke, and a very very very hard time criticizing Janet Yellen, because by all available measures they did those jobs very well under very di...
[00:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:20] <exec> 08└─With 'Zumi, there is no high road. It's just muck raking, insults, and idiocy.
[00:06:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:22] <exec> 08└─Lol, that's not how it works. If you believe that the comment you're looking it has no value, then YOU take the high road by choosing not to respond. Maybe even downvote it and move on. This is basic stuff, folks.
[00:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:24] <exec> 08└─That's the usual problem with book smart folks isn't it...
[00:06:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:26] <exec> 08└─You obviously haven't been to a Yoko Ono art expo...
[00:06:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:28] <exec> 08└─If it's intelligent, it's not just "a program written by humans", though it could have biases inherited from that legacy. Are you stuck with all the same viewpoints that your parents had?
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[00:59:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:15] <exec> 08└─Only retarded people think uber and similar are car-sharing. It isn't sharing if you have to pay for it. The corporations have a lot of people fooled by this. The corporations want you to call it sharing because sharing is warm and fuzzy and only grinches don't share. "But that's just a saying. Don'...
[00:59:16] <exec> 08*** new score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1267 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:16] <exec> 08└─When richer people give their money to private ride-hailing or carsharing companies, public transit loses money—and that's not good for cities, societies, or the environment. It's better for the environment than all those richer people driving their own personal vehicles, and then needing to find...
[00:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:18] <exec> 08└─growing inequities in the US resulting from the cultivation of individualized transport options.
[00:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1069 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:21] <exec> 08└─Unless you just want to say "Uber/Lyft", it's unfortunately the easy way to label these new services, because we simply don't have a word for them yet. They're not cabs, because they're directly competing with the traditional cab companies, and most Americans don't seem to know what a "black car" se...
[00:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:23] <exec> 08└─While public transit can suck, especially in the US, it is sometimes necessary to take one for the team and vote with your wallet.
[00:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:25] <exec> 08└─It's called a ride-hailing app, or just ride-hailing. It isn't "ride sharing" any more than Walmart is "product sharing".
[00:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:27] <exec> 08└─It's right there in the headline: Ride-Hailing.
[00:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:29] <exec> 08└─It's right there in the headline: Ride-Hailing.
[00:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:32] <exec> 08└─How about "private taxi services". But, 'taxi' implies you're paying money, so it doesn't sound as warm and fuzzy and 'ride sharing'. Same with those 'car share' services where you find a 'car share' car on the side of the street and drive it away. How about calling them 'car hire'. That's basically...
[00:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:34] <exec> 08└─The problem is where you live. Try getting on to the Tube at Bank station in London on any weekday. It is very full, and you will probably have to queue, but it is full of incredibly wealthy bankers in £3,000 suits because the Tube is the best way of getting around. Buses full of sick people is a...
[00:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:36] <exec> 08└─But, your Eminence, the wrecking ball was swinging imminently towards his domain! Motion denied.
[00:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:38] <exec> 08└─Why throw the old pedo bogeyman? Especially, considering 99% of child abuse is perpetrated by someone close or known to the family, not some random dude on the bus offering candy to kids. In a civilised country, where there is decent public transport, everyone uses it, not just the vagrants, derelic...
[00:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:40] <exec> 08└─I brought it up because I was just reading the forth article from this month where someone tried to pull a person into a car or harassed a person on a bus, we had three cases last month as well.
[00:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:43] <exec> 08└─They also speak better English than you or me.
[00:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:58] <exec> 08└─Working as designed. http://www.swaraj.org
[00:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 1967 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:59] <exec> 08└─They are talking about making the reviews public, not losing the reviewers' anonymity. And I think it's a good idea. Reviewers can get lazy, and reject papers because that's less work for them. Just say the authors didn't do enough work, didn't do a validation study, or a survey, or whatever. More w...
[01:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:18] <exec> 08└─You're doomed to fail socially for the rest of your life as long as you ride that high horse and refuse to comprehend human society.
[01:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jasassin [3566] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:19] <exec> 08└─that the patent is completely invalid and Blackbird cannot use it to sue ANYONE in the future.
[01:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:51] <exec> 08└─�What I don't get is, assuming that is the case, how was doing the deed yourself not easier, spare your girlfriend and child the trauma.
[01:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:53] <exec> 08└─Why did they not test the theory first in a controlled and safe experi.... Oh wait, these are morons we are talking about here. Nevermind.
[01:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:55] <exec> 08└─Who can say what was going through his mind though? Might have thought this would somehow make it easier for them. Might have thought she'd make a lot of money off the video, at least. But I guess we'll never know.
[01:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:57] <exec> 08└─Don't fret. Ajit Pai is working on making the Internet inaccessible to more people. You're welcome.
[01:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:59] <exec> 08└─Few hundred dollars a week? If your total rent, food, and bus fare costs more than $1,000 a month, you need to move or get a job.
[01:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03mrpg [5708] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:02] <exec> 08└─http://fortune.com/2017/12/21/youtube-stunt-manslaughter-plea-monalisa-perez/ [fortune.com] A 20-year-old mother of two has plead guilty to second-degree manslaughter in Minnesota, after a planned YouTube stunt ended in the death of her boyfriend. [...] According to a plea deal reached between prose...
[01:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:37] <exec> 08└─I don't personally use Facebook. But I totally agree that, typically, dumber people use Facebook and smarter people don't.
[01:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03lentilla [1770] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:13] <exec> 08└─Linux is notorious for having full-screen video performance issues
[01:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:02] <exec> 08└─That is the normal, simple, easy response to worthless posts, yes.
[01:07:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:03] <exec> 08└─Lenin's attempt at communism lead to cannibalism in 1921-22 due to redistribution of crops, Stalin helped achieve that milestone in 1932-33, and Mao doubled down in 1959-61. Pol Pot dabbled in it off and on from 1963-81. In Venezuelan prisons cannibalism has been occurring. Some of the people who ha...
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[01:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:16] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong? In addition to the potential for increased phishing viability, I imagine this will lock people even further into using Gmail on the web. Heck with e-mail clients! Who uses those these days, am I right? Ahh, the good ol' days when e-mail used to be just plain text...
[01:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:17] <exec> 08└─There are many reasons to avoid Google's AMP pages [ycombinator.com], but in this case I have to assume that once again Google will find some way to screw up Gmail even more than they have. Have they ever made a significant change to Gmail that hasn't made it less usable? Time to check out how Mailp...
[01:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03KiloByte [375] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:19] <exec> 08└─Ahh, the good ol' days when e-mail used to be just plain text...
[01:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:22] <exec> 08└─I'm with ya. gmail is so bad that hotmail and yahoo are starting to look good. Are they operational these days? Doesn't matter - they would still be better than gmail.
[01:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 2122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:24] <exec> 08└─A man was walking down the sidewalk to his workplace. It was a good day for Nickson, as evidenced by his beaming smile. On Nickson's way to work, a woman casually strolled past him. Crash! Slam! Bang! These sounds could be heard coming from inside a certain house, and they seemed to continue endless...
[01:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 366 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:45] <exec> 08└─Quite simply, Uber and Lyft call themselves ride sharing in hopes of pulling the wool over regulator's eyes. They are very much yet another cab service except they want to call the drivers contractors and they don't want to deal with medallions, commercial insurance, or other regulatory measures. Bu...
[01:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:46] <exec> 08└─It's easy to bitch and whine about the state of public transportation. Even easier to complain that some of us have private vehicles, but you can't afford one, or won't make the sacrifice necessary to get one. But, what's the solution? Buses and trains smell bad? Will you authorize vigilante groups...
[01:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:48] <exec> 08└─That is right: personal transit is more efficient for the users. If there are traffic jams, it is because there are too many people, and mass transit will not fix the problem. The only problem that buses or subways solve is to make transit possible for people who don't drive cars. Automated cars wil...
[01:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1019 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:50] <exec> 08└─Yep. You honestly couldn't pay me a million dollars a year to take public transportation. I wouldn't do it. It's loud, smelly, the buses are old, they're cramped, and they add a minimum of 75 minutes to my transit time back and forth to work, each way. That's two and a half hours of my day, gone, st...
[01:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:52] <exec> 08└─It was very expensively printed on a huge sheet of plastic then hung from the side of a large building on Portland's Burnside Street. Burnside is always packed during rush hour. The billboard was flogging the practice of using Uber for your commute to work. I was and still am appalled at Uber's crue...
[01:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:55] <exec> 08└─------V People who drive cars eat their young.
[01:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:57] <exec> 08└─So the problem exists whether they ride the bus or not. At least on the bus, it can't go too far since there is necessarily a witness.
[01:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:59] <exec> 08└─I live a block from a bus stop, where the bus shows up I think 4 times a day. To get to work would take 2.5 hours. Getting home is the same. Driving in rush hour traffic is 30-45 minutes, I get to choose my music, and don't have to deal with my fellow stinky passengers. Oh yeah, can't have food nor...
[02:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:01] <exec> 08└─Sulla, Maybe where I don't live transit isn't disgusting, but with all the pedos trying to pick up kids (plenty of reports recently), the transients assaulting people (three cases this month at bus stops), the flu, etc,
[02:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:19] <exec> 08└─The article also discusses losing the reviewers' anonymity, under the heading To name or not?
[02:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 4, Insightful) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:21] <exec> 08└─I am not in academia, but aren't those peer reviews provided verbatim to the author.
[02:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 2266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:23] <exec> 08└─I completely agree with many of your criticisms of the system. I just question whether this will actually fix them. -- First, why would this "make it a lot harder for a lame review to pass muster"? With anonymity intact (as you assume), if the paper is actually published, a "lame review" will only s...
[02:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 442 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:20] <exec> 08└─For me to come to understand this was a crucial step in my recovery from batshit insanity. That delusion can take many forms. Suicidal people sometimes appear happy, for the reason that they have come up with a solution to all their troubles. If your friend or loved one should start giving away all...
[02:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1, Disagree) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:22] <exec> 08└─If someone has made up their mind to leave this world what right do you have to force them to stay?
[02:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:24] <exec> 08└─As long as we don't attribute the quote to Will Shatner or Abe Lincoln, that's Ok with me!
[02:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 1135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:07:25] <exec> 08└─This is me not responding to Runaway. whom I have never met, by the way. whole intellects disgorged in total recall for seven days and nights with brilliant eyes, meat for the Synagogue cast on the pavement, who vanished into nowhere Zen New Jersey leaving a trail of ambiguous picture postcards of...
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[02:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:22] <exec> 08└─Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! [youtube.com]
[02:59:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 47 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:35] <exec> 08└─It's right there in the headline: Ride-Hailing.
[02:59:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 624 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:38] <exec> 08└─The problem is where you live. Try getting on to the Tube at Bank station in London on any weekday. It is very full, and you will probably have to queue, but it is full of incredibly wealthy bankers in £3,000 suits because the Tube is the best way of getting around. Buses full of sick people is a...
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[02:59:53] <exec> 08└─Tol' ya dint I?
[02:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:54] <exec> 08└─But, your Imminence, the wrecking ball was swinging eminently towards his domain! Motion denied.
[02:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:56] <exec> 08└─Dangerous people inhabit public transportation. Will you authorize concealed carry, so that individuals may deal with those dangerous people? No again?
[02:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:58] <exec> 08└─Bitch, bitch, bitch! Perhaps I could interest you in a Final Solution?
[03:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:01] <exec> 08└─> ... walk thirteen miles Did you stick your thumb out? Yes, I know hitchhiking has gone out of style in the USA. However, there must be plenty of older folks like me that had good experiences when we were young and would consider picking up someone who didn't look too scary. In the early '90s, I pi...
[03:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:03] <exec> 08└─The more you read, the more you learn.
[03:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:05] <exec> 08└─Your pointless insistence that anything you pay for is not sharing must be really irritating to your flat mates.
[03:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:07] <exec> 08└─So - you're afraid of people who can defend themselves. Interesting. Are you a predator, or a parasite?
[03:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:09] <exec> 08└─Do I get a Countdown?
[03:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 875 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:12] <exec> 08└─You really need to get out of the city once in a while son. Its a beautiful world where you can actually open your eyes and see something beside inner city blight and bricks. This whole article is geared toward people who live so deep in the canyons they have anxiety attacks any time the see an hori...
[03:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:14] <exec> 08└─I TOLD you to shut up, Runaway! Stand down, Sir! Do NOT make me fart in your general direction! (This is a test, only a test, to see if Runaway1956 can actually resist responding to a shitpost. So far all our data suggests not. But we want to test the limits, we may have found an infinite suppy of h...
[03:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:16] <exec> 08└─Buses full of sick people is also a symptom of a broken health system. Civilised countries provide proper taxpayer funded healthcare.
[03:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 2122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:18] <exec> 08└─A man was walking down the sidewalk to his workplace. It was a good day for Nickson, as evidenced by his beaming smile. On Nickson's way to work, a woman casually strolled past him. Crash! Slam! Bang! These sounds could be heard coming from inside a certain house, and they seemed to continue endless...
[03:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:20] <exec> 08└─Yes, you told me. A test? You failed.
[03:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:23] <exec> 08└─Oh, most of them are sizing you up to do some driving in your car. Its far less safe these days, but it was never particularly safe unless you knew the thumbs, because you live in the same town with them.
[03:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 379 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:25] <exec> 08└─Private taxi service implies that they're being regulated as such. Uber and Lyft need to die in a fire. Uber in particular blatantly violates the law by treating employees as independent contractors and pays substantially below minimum wage while taking a loss to put taxi companies out of business....
[03:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 559 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:46] <exec> 08└─> publish responses or comments from other scholars on papers in the same issue as new research. I greatly enjoy reading old engineering papers from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers (UK) -- papers were published after they were given in front of an attentive audience, the discussion afterwords...
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[03:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:17] <exec> 08└─A kind man. A merciful man. The type of man who would smile even at the sow he's violating. Such a man discarded the woman's corpse out of his truck window as he was driving by a house, as though what he was doing was no different from a minor act of littering. Indeed, there is no difference.
[03:59:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 455 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:18] <exec> 08└─Middle class still existing by the end of 2020? I think not. A select collection of Masters and a servant class, conveniently divided and expertly played against each other. The systems used to mislead and control us are being automated as we speak. It turns out enough people can be fooled reliably...
[03:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:31] <exec> 08└─You owe it to yourself to go check out Yahoo mail. Super clean interface, and I suspect, can do anything that Google can.
[03:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 1577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:32] <exec> 08└─What COULD go wrong? You can already send HTML emails (and embed JavaScript in them). If your mail reader renders AMP emails, it probably renders HTML emails too. AMP is just a subset of HTML [1], so if you're offended by this and not regular HTML emails, you're barking up the wrong tree. If you are...
[03:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:35] <exec> 08└─Yo dog, remote-executing code in your emails! Let's take a universal system for delivering text communications and just fucking wreck it as hard and as thoroughly as we can imagine. Anyway, how is the javascript annihilation of html going? Good? Good. Crank some "web asm" in that bitch. No sense in...
[04:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:21] <exec> 08└─Nice trolling there. Automated cars have a poor person per square foot rating. Even if you pack a car with the maximum number of passengers, it's still lower than what you'd get with a busy bus. The times when the bus isn't full tend to be times when you don't have as much traffic anyways.
[04:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:22] <exec> 08└─If you get rid of those parking lots in the city core[,] you can put up even more sky blocking apartment buildings ...or turn that space into municipal parks which don't add to the heat island effect. ...or maybe even a community "garden" where food is grown. Stop thinking like it's still the 20th C...
[04:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 283 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:24] <exec> 08└─In Japan, they hire cute girls and at peak hours have them push the last passengers to board into the cars, saying "Excuse me. Excuse me." or something similar, so that the trains stay on schedule. (Hint for any lonely guys needing a human touch.) -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:26] <exec> 08└─Muphry's law [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[04:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:28] <exec> 08└─In the city where I live there are 2 types of buses 'express' and 'local'. The price difference is about 80 cents. It really just depends on where you live. Go north and it is gheto. Go south and million dollar houses and bankers. Your ride will vary....
[04:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 836 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:31] <exec> 08└─This is why I do not believed that Runaway ever served in any navy. If orders are not followed, the vessel is put in danger. You have been ordered (well, as close as it gets to an order on SN, without being sub-suppressed) to take the high road, to not respond to posts that contribute nothing but to...
[04:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:33] <exec> 08└─Bless your cotton socks! Wait, you're not that kid in pre-school that always insisted you really do share things with other kids? He always 'shared' his crayons (for an upfront fee of 5c per crayon per day). And it's true, he let the other kids play with the shitty broken matchbox car from the toy b...
[04:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:35] <exec> 08└─(or just intended amplification of the effect)
[04:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:37] <exec> 08└─Then for pete sake read ALL THE WAY to the end of the sentence, where you would find that part had nothing to do with ride-hailing, but actually did have a lot to do with car sharing serviced. http://www.zipcar.com [zipcar.com] [zipcar.com] There are about a dozen of these shared car services.
[04:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 2368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:40] <exec> 08└─As the AC first responding to you noted, you're clearly trolling. Berlin's beautiful, amazing Metro has already been mentioned in the (meta)thread. Build it, build it nice, and keep it nice and they will come. Japan, China, France, and Germany have figured out mass transit and make USA look like som...
[04:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:42] <exec> 08└─The problem with this term is that, just looking at the two words ("ride" + "hailing"), it doesn't really uniquely describe Uber/Lyft. To get a traditional cab, you have to "hail" it, by standing on the curb and raising your arm, and it stops and gives you a ride, hence, "ride-hailing". Maybe we'll...
[04:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:37] <exec> 08└─Yeah, men do it better. Name me the last time a woman started a war, aside from Boudicca.
[04:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:52] <exec> 08└─Turtle turtle!
[04:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:54] <exec> 08└─I have a nice koala ascii art. Unfortunately Your comment violated the "postercomment" compression filter. Try less whitespace and/or less repetition.
[04:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06‘Internet Shouldn't be Accessible to Just Anyone:’ Russian Nobel Prize Winner - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:08] <exec> 08└─Then whyyyyyyy don't you do it, you triggered snowflake? (I know why, but I wanna see if you're spergtastic enough to flame out again in public and let everyone else know...)
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[04:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 1686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:22] <exec> 08└─Right now the middle class is being systematically drained through a combination of real inflation in double digits, near zero returns on savings, and engineered investment markets. The question is what happens when the middle class run out of funds to drain. Right now the powers that be are happy t...
[04:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:23] <exec> 08└─I'll believe these predictions when I finally get my jetpack that I was promised forty years ago. I want my jetpack, dang it!
[04:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:25] <exec> 08└─If it doesn't, some 0.1%ers will get their heads hacked off.
[04:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:27] <exec> 08└─No, the rich will come in guise of saviors of humanity and restorers of order as the poor slaughter each other with manufactured causes in the chaos.
[04:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 1230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:30] <exec> 08└─And I want my flying car! But surely you realize, capitalism can provide none of these things. It is incapable of actual technological progress, and instead is driven by market progress. This is why Facebook is valued more highly than SoylentNews, even though SN provides more actual value than that...
[04:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:32] <exec> 08└─Initially perhaps, but eventually they figure out who the enemy is and heads roll. That's why some f the wealthy are building bunkers and safe rooms, but they forget that a few yards of concrete will solve the burial in place problem.
[04:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 445 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:47] <exec> 08└─"package for you!" "Why is it ticking?" "No idea, I just deliver them, I don't inspect them" "It has been opening and re-taped shut; I can see the repairs" "Yes, I looked inside" "What? You said you didn't inspect it" "No, I just checked the timer was set on the explosives" "Explosives?!" "Yes, spec...
[05:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:46] <exec> 08└─Public transportation is time consuming, and never on time. Will you agree that management needs to be fired when they can't make a stupid train run on time? No again?
[05:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:48] <exec> 08└─Wait, you're not that kid in pre-school that always insisted you really do share things with other kids? He always 'shared' his crayons (for an upfront fee of 5c per crayon per day). And it's true, he let the other kids play with the shitty broken matchbox car from the toy box, but for the low fee o...
[05:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:50] <exec> 08└─I live a block from a bus stop, where the bus shows up I think 4 times a day. To get to work would take 2.5 hours. Getting home is the same. Driving in rush hour traffic is 30-45 minutes, I get to choose my music, and don't have to deal with my fellow stinky passengers. Oh yeah, can't have food nor...
[05:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 299 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:52] <exec> 08└─What's the route number? To get to work would take 2.5 hours What's the major cross-street near your departure point? What's the major cross-street near your destination? Does that require a transfer? What route number? Be prepared to be fact-checked. [sdmts.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[05:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:54] <exec> 08└─It's, uh, virtual ride-hailing. Over the cloud. With an AI pricing algorithm.
[05:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:56] <exec> 08└─Your pointless insistence that anything you pay for is not sharing must be really irritating to your flat mates.
[05:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:59] <exec> 08└─You really need to get out of the city once in a while son. Its a beautiful world where you can actually open your eyes and see something beside inner city blight and bricks.
[05:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:01] <exec> 08└─Agreed. It's like when some clever spark in the government here changed all the local 'SPEED CAMERA AHEAD' signs to say 'SAFETY CAMERA AHEAD' (and updated the Motor Traffic Act to match). Clever little 'marketing' trick to distract from the real reason those cameras are there. And they always seem t...
[05:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:03] <exec> 08└─Fricking Cockneys!
[05:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 732 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:25] <exec> 08└─The only drawback mentioned in the quoted text essentially boils down to, "judges and lawyers are dumb". I don't necessarily agree but I also don't think it's a reasonable motivation for not making the reviews public. As for "Scientists should work to "make the public understand that [peer review] i...
[05:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:57] <exec> 08└─Considering the computing power required to mine crypto currency, and the challenges of distributed processing, how much money did these people possibly make? Has anyone tried to analyze that part of it? I suspect it wasn’t much and probably not worth the risk/effort.
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[05:59:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:16] <exec> 08└─What was that!? Something just licked its chops. But it was no ordinary "something". It's fetid. It's disease-ridden. It's hideous. And most of all, it's targeting your rancid rectum. A feces fiesta will take place this day.
[05:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:47] <exec> 08└─Is gmail turing complete yet? Is it an operating system yet? The mobile version already runs as a browser without any change to phone permissions or settings.
[05:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 720 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:49] <exec> 08└─if someone sends me non-text email, it shows they're an idiot. or some corporate flunkie who doesn't know a thing and their 'IT' dept has zero clue (or was MS trained, same thing). my apartment complex sends me html email and it bugs me no-end. I don't know of a good mail client for android that is...
[05:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Apparition [6835] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:51] <exec> 08└─R2Mail2 [google.com]. It's not free unfortunately, but it displays text e-mail messages and is the best Android e-mail client I've found.
[05:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 891 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:53] <exec> 08└─You can send HTML emails if you want but don't be surprised if I don't bother to read them. Email is text. HTML is text with a few semantic tags. Heck, if you send me decent HTML I might just read and answer without noticing, though it's still not the thing to do. But then there's bad HTML - that's...
[05:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:55] <exec> 08└─"I don't know of a good mail client for android that is safe from html-bugged emails." A touch screen is only marginally more suited for email use than a toothbrush, but a 'classic' non-javascripted webmail is probably your best bet. Gmail still has one, though it's clearly not maintained. If you ru...
[06:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 0, Offtopic) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:03] <exec> 08└─For those of you viewing the experiment from home, evidently the Runaway1945 has opted not to respond, as ordered, but has dropped a troll mod on the prior directive. Such negative reaction is not unexpected from test subjects. Now we have to see if he can resist this: Runaway! You coward! I called...
[06:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 617 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:04] <exec> 08└─Same, I fucking hate public transportation. I've been threatened by a male and sexually harassed by some crazy woman. It takes for-ev-er to get anywhere. If you miss the bus (maybe because it came _early_), too fucking bad, wait another full cycle in the cold or rain or whatever. I really got into c...
[06:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 925 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:06] <exec> 08└─And, nothing. Experiment concluded. Runaway1956 loses, fails the test, and now we will have to just fund public transportation, and public medical care, and public mental health care, and not allow crazy persons and Republicans to carry weapons concealed upon their bodies as if they were assassins,...
[06:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:08] <exec> 08└─I can see the space savings, but since the car has to drive a while just to get to me, I don't see the environmental benefit compared to the car turned off and waiting for me. Concentrating the wear and tear on a few less vehicles doesn't necessarily mean less cars made over-all. It may even mean mo...
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[06:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:25] <exec> 08└─What was that!?
[06:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 569 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:26] <exec> 08└─I asked my Defense Department -- my Pentagon -- to do a Nuclear Posturing Review. And they said, look at what Russia is doing. Russia is making a very smart move, they're getting baby nukes, they call them low yield, they call them Tactical. They're like Jeb Bush, very low energy. Amazingly QUIET!!!...
[06:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:28] <exec> 08└─BFR will do it in like 30 minutes, under budget and ahead of schedule.
[06:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:43] <exec> 08└─Initially perhaps, but eventually they figure out who the enemy is and heads roll.
[06:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:44] <exec> 08└─Middle class still existing by the end of 2020?
[07:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03coolgopher [1157] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:06] <exec> 08└─Actually, PINE had a steady stream of vulnerabilities found. I recall reading somewhere that the code was rather, umm, haphazard at best, but I never dug into the source. Here are some that got CVEs assigned: https://www.cvedetails.com
[07:01:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1156 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:08] <exec> 08└─I live a block from a bus stop, where the bus shows up I think 4 times a day. To get to work would take 2.5 hours. Getting home is the same. Driving in rush hour traffic is 30-45 minutes, I get to choose my music, and don't have to deal with my fellow stinky passengers. Oh yeah, can't have food nor...
[07:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 489 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:19] <exec> 08└─Oh, dude, conflating "The Final Countdown" with the "Final Solution" is just like when Obama said, about Congress, "It's not like I can do a Jedi Mind Meld on them!" Never cross the streams! Never! It's a goddamned paradox, Louise! Coventry: "A paradox, Louise! You've changed the past! I know damn...
[07:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 376 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:20] <exec> 08└─The entire point is exactly that - anything you pay for is not sharing. The number of reporters, politicians, and regular people that haven't figured it out is staggering. And kinda sad because uber isn't some nice sharing company. Uber is a mean multinational corporation that will out fox, out mane...
[07:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:23] <exec> 08└─That's not what he said. But anything you pay for on an use basis is not sharing. If several people together buy a car and each of them may use it as it fits, that is sharing. If one buys a car and then let's everyone use the car against payment, that is car rental. And if you pay someone else to dr...
[07:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:25] <exec> 08└─This is why I never let frojack on my bus. He keeps thinking like this, and he is a source of public dis-utility. Get off my bus, frojack!
[07:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Touché) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:27] <exec> 08└─So - you're afraid of people who can defend themselves. Interesting. Are you a predator, or a parasite?
[07:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:29] <exec> 08└─have a poor person per square foot rating
[07:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:31] <exec> 08└─I don't buy here that ride sharing is somehow increasing inequity. Lousy mass transit systems, which are the sort susceptible to defeat from ride sharing, never were a serious effort to address any sort of inequality in the first place.
[07:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:53] <exec> 08└─Suicide has frequently been (and in some places still is) illegal, even a felony. [I expect this is a holdover from when a serf's labor was owned by his master.] How the state planned to punish successful "criminals" escapes me, tho I suppose they could always impost a death tax (or penalty) on the...
[07:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:54] <exec> 08└─If all you count is the mortgage, yeah. If you count in property tax, insurance, and maintenance, owning is about half-again more expensive than renting. Apartment buildings hit economy of scale; but single-family rentals, unless already owned free-and-clear, typically make money only when they're f...
[07:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:56] <exec> 08└─Problem is, no one wants to rent to the unemployed. (At least, if they're not eligible for Section 8.)
[07:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:58] <exec> 08└─What is the difference between insane in American and most of the rest of the world? In America, they have guns.
[07:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03MadTinfoilHatter [4635] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:04:12] <exec> 08└─What new FUD is this?
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[07:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:35] <exec> 08└─a plane NASA wants in order to bring back supersonic commercial flights by mitigating their most annoying side effect, the loud sonic boom that accompanies them. That boom has always been the biggest stumbling block for commercial supersonic flight.
[07:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:37] <exec> 08└─In the end, after all the accounting was done, it turns out that the business was profitable. Much of the trouble wasn't greatly related to supersonic flight. The aircraft was small and had low-density seating. Well yeah, even if subsonic that won't be affordable.
[07:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 973 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:54] <exec> 08└─Just today, there are two articles on Soylent about inequality/inequity. The past several years, it has been a steady drumbeat. Stepping back, it's really a purely psychological problem. By any standards you care to apply, the world is making massive strides against poverty [ourworldindata.org]. The...
[08:00:10] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 324 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:10] <exec> 08└─Yo dog, remote-executing code in your emails! Let's take a universal system for delivering text communications and just fucking wreck it as hard and as thoroughly as we can imagine. Anyway, how is the javascript annihilation of html going? Good? Good. Crank some "web asm" in that bitch. No sense in...
[08:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:18] <exec> 08└─It's definitely time for a Googlectomy - my project for the summer. One problem I have already come across: Android will not auto-update apps without a Google account. So one at least has to have "pretend" accounts. That said, one can definitely get rid of Gmail, Calendar, Google Maps, etc. Stop usi...
[08:00:52] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03aristarchus [2645] 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:52] <exec> 08└─Dangerous people inhabit public transportation. Will you authorize concealed carry, so that individuals may deal with those dangerous people? No again?
[08:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:38] <exec> 08└─Doh! Do you think car rental companies are sharing their cars or renting their cars?
[08:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:40] <exec> 08└─Dude, almost all of each of those URLs is noise. Here's all you need for a link to Google Images: https://www.google.com [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[08:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:06] <exec> 08└─As a social worker working with suicidal men, let me say that nobody has 'made up their mind' to commit suicide. Suicidal thoughts come like unbearable wave and the only thing required to save a life is to let that wave pass. Once the wave passes we can work on why it came. Once a guy called me and...
[08:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:45] <exec> 08└─White men are golems of the white woman. They neither know, nor care, what they do. As long as it benifits "muh white wuman"
[08:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:47] <exec> 08└─Who's dumb and how so? Anyone who disagrees with your pro-woman american values?
[08:04:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Thousands of Websites Hijacked by Hidden Crypto-Mining Code After Popular Plugin Pwned - 584 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:46] <exec> 08└─Problem here is NOT Javascript. It's all these stupid-ass morons "content developers" pulling Javascript shit from all over the internet. Just about every non-trivial website on the planet loads in resources provided by other companies and organizations – from fonts and menu interfaces to screen r...
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[08:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's ESPRESSO Combines Light From All Four Unit Telescopes for the First Time - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:30] <exec> 08└─And? We are supposed to trust Astronomers all hopped up on caffeine? What did they see? And how well did they see it? And can it be replicated in a 203mm Newtonian? (Asking for a friend)
[08:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:43] <exec> 08└─NASA uses 450,000 gallons of water to shield launch vehicles from acoustic damage [boingboing.net]
[08:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 614 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:45] <exec> 08└─Profitable or not, it was way more expensive (11 times the cost of subsonic flights between JFK and LHR). And to save what? a few hours? Please. The Concorde was for people with more money than sense or corporate execs who could con their companies into it. All to be able to brag that they flew on t...
[08:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:47] <exec> 08└─I know someone who has developed that technology. You never hear it. A few seconds later, you are bent over double, gagging. Its cheap to fuel too. ( It runs on beans! )
[08:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:49] <exec> 08└─Isn't BFR already like 5 - 10 years behind schedule?
[09:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 722 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:07] <exec> 08└─So, Bradley, if that is your real name, we need to have a talk about your earnings while overseas. Did, perhaps, you not pay your fair share to the rest of your citizens? It is not a matter of relative poverty, so much as it is a matter of comparative affluence. And perhaps you are uppity in this r...
[09:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:31] <exec> 08└─I agree. Gmail used to be a beautiful and clean webmail client. However, the last 5+ years it has turned to crap. Any valuable function in an icon was hidden until the web client became completely useless. Seems to me like their material design means hide every useful button. For years I used to hav...
[09:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 980 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:33] <exec> 08└─I tried this a couple of times. Always had to go back and re-install GAPPS on my phone. Google is ONLY on my phone... But it seems getting really rid of it is impossible unless you can live without some major functionality. Maps for example. Google Maps is really good and there is no real substitute...
[09:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:35] <exec> 08└─For maps replacemeny I use OSMAnd, it's terribly slow and quite a resource hog but the offline maps are great and in much better quality than Googles (at least in my region) for navigation it also works quite well actually
[09:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:37] <exec> 08└─Regarding the html-emails, I have a script that makes the html-usage a bit.. hostile.. in my replies. Or rather - I have three such scripts. 1) Makes sure that no consecutive paragraphs has the same font size nor color (optionally changes font as well) 2) Instead paragraphs we have the granularity a...
[09:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Shimitar [4208] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:39] <exec> 08└─Well, i mostly use google maps to find "places" like a gas station, a specific restaurant or such for which i have no address... And also to check on traffic and decide my route. OSMAnd unfortunately cannot help.
[09:00:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 597 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:48] <exec> 08└─Only retarded people think uber and similar are car-sharing. It isn't sharing if you have to pay for it. The corporations have a lot of people fooled by this. The corporations want you to call it sharing because sharing is warm and fuzzy and only grinches don't share. "But that's just a saying. Don'...
[09:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 2399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:01] <exec> 08└─> Try getting on to the Tube at Bank station in London on any weekday. It is very full, and you will probably have to queue, but it is full of incredibly wealthy bankers in £3,000 suits because the Tube is the best way of getting around. That's because the government deliberately crippled the alter...
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[09:02:02] <exec> 08└─> That is right: personal transit is more efficient for the users. If there are traffic jams, it is because there are too many people, and mass transit will not fix the problem. That is quite insightful. I think that is the fundamental problem. If there are too many people per square kilometer, then...
[09:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 577 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:04] <exec> 08└─You know they have things called headphones, right? You can choose your own music on public transit anywhere, now. Also, when you're on transit you can read, watch videos, play a game to unwind, etc. When you're driving, you frickin' better not be doing any of those things. Now, 2.5 hours vs 30-45 m...
[09:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:46] <exec> 08└─Doesn't have to be a meteor. A big red button will do.
[09:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 657 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:32] <exec> 08└─Well for some it's just a temporary thing. Just like when some people do stuff while they are on drugs (e.g. alcohol) that they wouldn't do at other times. So when they've recovered they might go "Thanks for stopping me from doing that". But if they still say "You shouldn't have stopped me" then the...
[09:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 1241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:13] <exec> 08└─I've heard similar from several sources. One was told to me by someone who had a major argument in the 1950s during college with an avowed Communist and fan of the Soviet Union. The Communist bragged that by playing the long game, they'd be able to grind away at the right end of the political spectr...
[09:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:52] <exec> 08└─Agree completely. After the hoops required became too much for me to jump through, I first experienced a form of withdrawal, but then stopped craving all that shitty media and never looked back. I still watch a movie occasionally, but I'm very picky about what I give my time and attention to.
[09:08:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Predictive Algorithms Are No Better at Telling the Future Than a Crystal Ball - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:08:29] <exec> 08└─If you artificially keep inflation low by manipulation of the money flow through creation of leveraged debt, you're simply pushing the problem to future generations. It's the ultimate in short-termism - fixing the symptoms whilst not addressing the causes.
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[10:00:04] <exec> 08└─like survival during a harsh nuclear winter, for example
[10:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:33] <exec> 08└─> alpine exists This part of your post got drowned in the rest, and was what I was about to post. If you want pine without most of the bugs, alpine's your thing. (But I'm a reluctant mutt user.)
[10:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:35] <exec> 08└─Thunderbird: "Always block remote content". Problem solved.
[10:01:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 503 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:41] <exec> 08└─Agreed. It's like when some clever spark in the government here changed all the local 'SPEED CAMERA AHEAD' signs to say 'SAFETY CAMERA AHEAD' (and updated the Motor Traffic Act to match). Clever little 'marketing' trick to distract from the real reason those cameras are there. And they always seem t...
[10:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:59] <exec> 08└─The corporations want you to call it sharing because sharing is warm and fuzzy and only grinches don't share.
[10:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:01] <exec> 08└─Or, Sulla IS the Pedobear? Possible? Remorse and guilt are a common feature of pedos. Just Saying!!!
[10:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:03] <exec> 08└─The obvious rebuttal is, . . . . I got nothing. khallow just said time is valuable. And yet, he posts on SoylentNews. If I were Republican, my head would explode at this point.
[10:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:05] <exec> 08└─(Note to self: frojack has never hitched. Ever. )
[10:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 3344 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:07] <exec> 08└─Ride-hailing services have shaded in the gaps between mass transit and traditional taxis. Mass transit works great for set paths, but not as well for ad hoc travel between two random points. Traditional taxis have relied on government-granted monopolies to charge excessive rents for those ad hoc tri...
[10:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:35] <exec> 08└─The funniest part about unemployment, is that the government taxes even that pitiful amount, such that you are left with an even more pitiful amount. It's Kafka-esque.
[10:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:55] <exec> 08└─My guess is they artificially limit Linux streams simply because Linux is notorious for having full-screen video performance issues
[10:06:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 930 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:37] <exec> 08└─Really? That's quite sad, if that's how people use it. I created a Facebook account when it first started because I had been watching social media platforms since Yahoo, Meetup, Friendster, and other predecessors and was interested in how Facebook's approach achieved greater viral spread than others...
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[10:59:20] <exec> 08└─I have actually been wanting to do this with FPGAs for a desktop board that could interface with a variety of chips. We will see if it happens or not though.
[10:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:49] <exec> 08└─Profitable or not, it was way more expensive (11 times the cost of subsonic flights between JFK and LHR).
[10:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03iru [6596] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 263 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:51] <exec> 08└─I’m curious about the ТЧ-144. How well did it fared economically in comparison to the Concorde. For those who do not know the Tupolev 144 was the Soviet version of a passenger supersonic airplane. Some even say that the Concorde took some inspiration from it.
[10:59:59] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03qzm [3260] 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 1686 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:00] <exec> 08└─Right now the middle class is being systematically drained through a combination of real inflation in double digits, near zero returns on savings, and engineered investment markets. The question is what happens when the middle class run out of funds to drain. Right now the powers that be are happy t...
[11:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:41] <exec> 08└─I agree, it's really annoying when people misuse formatting tags.
[11:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:10] <exec> 08└─Why do I care? A better question is why do you care? I'm just showing some provincial moron how stupid he is. I'm not going to put effort into editing the URLs Straight up copypasta. It's a waste of my time. Don't like it? Go ahead and edit the rest of them. That's a wonderful use of your time, I'm...
[11:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 863 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:34] <exec> 08└─Couldn't agree more. I believe more transparency in governance is a good thing, and reviews are a governance tool. There are plenty of unsavoury things happening in reviews, e.g.: a reviewer who decided to hate the paper/premise, a reviewer who doesn't get the paper (but overestimates his/her unders...
[11:02:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 528 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:55] <exec> 08└─It would be interesting to see a system where the patent under review is rejected as obvious when during review other entities file a patent for the same idea, especially since those patents (as already mentioned by parent), are already thrown out based on 'prior filing'. These later patents have no...
[11:03:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03srobert [4803] 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 224 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:12] <exec> 08└─3) He wants to continue drawing unemployment insurance a while longer. He has to demonstrate to the state that he's actively seeking employment, so he filled out the app, but left you with a very good reason not to hire him.
[11:06:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 1365 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:06:44] <exec> 08└─There is a formula advertisers use to calculate how many repetitions it takes to move consumers to action. If we as consumers limit our exposure to advertising, it's entirely possible to keep ourselves below that threshhold number. I don't know if there are any other cord cutters around here, but si...
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[11:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Announces "Project Trillium" Machine Learning and Object Detection Processors - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:33] <exec> 08└─Every cellphone has it already, it is called meatbag. I can imagine lots of uses for a battery draining neural net in mobile, but they are mostly user hostile.
[11:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:58] <exec> 08└─BFR was announced last year, are you thinking of the SLS?
[12:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:00] <exec> 08└─Just wait until the USA has a supersonic passenger plane, then it'll be the best thing since sliced bread.
[12:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:02] <exec> 08└─Just wait until the USA has a supersonic passenger plane, then it'll be the best thing since sliced bread.
[12:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:21] <exec> 08└─Middle class still existing by the end of 2020? I think not.
[12:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:13] <exec> 08└─Is there a serious (legal) competitor out there?
[12:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:14] <exec> 08└─It's not Linux, it's Chrome. Even on Windows, Chrome only plays Netflix up to 720P. [netflix.com]
[12:06:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:59] <exec> 08└─i didn't even get why everybody abandoned ICQ. It worked great for its purpose so I had no desire to move off it, but pretty soon no-one else had it and couldn't easily be persuaded to install it. Most people seemed to move onto M$N. Why are people so damn fickle? A lot of people seem to abandon e-m...
[12:07:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 401 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:00] <exec> 08└─Upcoming SN modding options, substituting current modding system: 👍 Like — Thumbs Up +1 ❤️ Love — Beating Heart +1 😂 Haha — Laughing Face +1 ☺️ Yay — Smiling Face +1 😯 Wow — Surprised Face 0 😢 Sad...
[12:07:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:07:02] <exec> 08└─Et tu, bot?
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[12:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:21] <exec> 08└─Wow.... Hat's off to these guys... That thing's so far away that it looks like it will be a 12-hour latency just to ping it. ( Time = Dist/c = 8E9miles/6.7E8mph [google.com] = approx 12 h ) Then, to pick the Earth from the Sun at that distance? And actually get a pixel of Earth? Ummm... kinda speech...
[13:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03therainingmonkey [6839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:24] <exec> 08└─You make a good point regarding the exaggeration of the rate things are changing, but I feel that there's a large portion of humanity ill-equipped to be anything other than servants.
[13:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:26] <exec> 08└─From TFS: As investments peak and then decline—probably around the end of the 2020s to the start of the 2030s—anemic demand growth is likely to constrain economic expansion,
[13:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 2022 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:28] <exec> 08└─Paris has experimented with making the metro free when their pollution levels get too high, to encourage people to use it instead of driving. I wonder what would happen if a city like Paris made the Velib and Metro free at point of use (maybe keep a refundable deposit for the Velib) for an extended...
[13:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:30] <exec> 08└─Decentralising doesn't always help. The big problem with US cities is that they go mad on zoning so that places people live, places people work, and places people go for shopping or recreation are all far apart. The places between these then become bottlenecks.
[13:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 218 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:32] <exec> 08└─No, he's just concerned that someone who has been exploited by people like you will not be able to tell the difference between someone like him and someone like you when they decide to exercise preemptive self defence.
[13:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:34] <exec> 08└─My commute takes quite a long time but I enjoy the ride because I get to listen to head-banging rock and roll music [radioparadise.com] both coming and going.
[13:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:36] <exec> 08└─That sounds like a very inefficient way to structure a country. Why did they do it that way? I mean, sure, you don't want heavy industry/commerce right next to your home, but it is perfectly feasible to have light commerce/industrial and residential together. Light residential and recreational even...
[13:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:38] <exec> 08└─Boy, the BSA, MPAA, and RIAA sure went after sharing.... what a bunch of grinches!
[13:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:11] <exec> 08└─Fun fact about the US economy: if you can afford rent, you can afford a mortgage. Rent is more flexible, just 12 month leases - when you mortgage you basically hand over first, last and two or three additional months' rent deposit for the transaction, but then the monthly payment is roughly the same...
[13:04:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:04:12] <exec> 08└─He didn't even get a call back...
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[13:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03b0ru [6054] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:30] <exec> 08└─Considering our observations of other star systems, and our discovery of so many exoplanets, it might not be the farthest image of our planet, the Earth, or even close!
[14:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 1555 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:33] <exec> 08└─Dont forget demographic replacement via invasion and energy in your list. If you move the residents of Cancun to Mexico City, then they remain the same, which doesn't change much. The propaganda insists if you move the same people from Cancun to Texas, the magic dirt somehow transforms them into tan...
[14:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 990 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:35] <exec> 08└─Not entirely disagreeing but don't forget permanent downward mobility in the west. Dad's uni tuition was $250/semester and the house i grew up in cost $85K for a pretty fancy house in a fancy neighborhood in the 70s and paying for medical insurance was never an issue nor was buying a new car every t...
[14:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 622 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:37] <exec> 08└─"your standard of living is massively higher than your grandparents" Now try that again with your parents... Not so much eh? Where my parents (high school education) managed to raise 3 kids from one (somewhat less than average) income from my dad, my wife and I (both university education) need both...
[14:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:39] <exec> 08└─Ah. yeah... "the poor"... Even if they crawl out of their misery and learn a (some even will learn your) valuable skill they will cost you (part of) your keep. Seems to have something to do with supply and demand... Even TMB just can't seem to get a break these days :-)
[14:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:11] <exec> 08└─Yeah, and Yahoo has only been pwned giving up EVERY account available in 2013 what, once? And then they covered it up. And haven't faced any action for that I'm aware because Verizon. http://money.cnn.com [cnn.com]
[14:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:48] <exec> 08└─That is my understanding as well. Granted my experience is limited to San Jose area, mass transit is a joke for all I care. Places like Germany and France are so much far ahead it is almost like a dream when seen from Silicon Valley.
[14:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:49] <exec> 08└─It seems like there are many folks who are disgusted by the idea of traveling on public transportation with strangers. They want their car. And they don't want to share it with anyone. And there are those who find public transportation to be not only more efficient, but to their liking. As a general...
[14:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:51] <exec> 08└─suburbs, rural areas, and small towns
[14:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:02:53] <exec> 08└─What’s the problem? “Hail” just means “signal.” You send a signal from your phone to the service so the car knows to pick you up. Traditional taxis have done this for decades via the phone numbers printed all over them using radio dispatchers. The only difference — quite literally — is...
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[14:02:55] <exec> 08└─> As a general rule, these two sets of folks are often at odds not only when it comes to transportation but also in terms of urban living vs. suburban/rural living. What's more, they tend to diverge as to whether most people are kind, decent human beings or nasty scumbags who would happily shoot you...
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[14:04:28] <exec> 08└─Turney, 30, was made famous through her video blogs on anime, relationship advice and her life.
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[14:59:34] <exec> 08└─easier to pick off a crow in Atlanta, while sitting in Los Angeles, with some sort of laser
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[14:59:42] <exec> 08└─gee, and I was thinking "oh look we'll be able to be exploited to mine coins for some compromised website much more efficiently than ever before" or that MS will do it as part of a windows update if it thinks your PC is pirated. Or simply running the wrong verison of windows. There are always ways t...
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[14:59:57] <exec> 08└─If this technology could be applied to a swarm of small space-based telescopes, that could have very exciting possibilities. Each individual scope could be compact, cheap to build and launch, but acting in concert they could form a huge optical collector. A continuously funded program could launch a...
[15:00:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 82 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:34] <exec> 08└─Initially perhaps, but eventually they figure out who the enemy is and heads roll.
[15:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:47] <exec> 08└─I'm perfectly okay with supply and demand dictating who gets paid what. If I need to increase my skills pool to continue in the lifestyle I desire, I will. Because I know clean to my bones that the world owes me nothing that I don't earn. Neither communism nor crony-capitalism allow supply and deman...
[15:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 1048 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:48] <exec> 08└─Yeah, you notices that I said "grandparents" and not "parents. In the course of history, one generation is nothing. But it's definitely true: we don't really want to compare ourselves to our parents. I have a lot more education, and in raw currency I earn a lot more than my Dad did. Yet he managed t...
[15:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:22] <exec> 08└─hey did anyone hear that whoosh?
[15:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:23] <exec> 08└─wow you have a lot of dependencies for services I haven't even tried to use. i tend to look up my route before I go and take a printout that I can refer to. I have a foldable paper map in case I am lost and my batteries are dead or dying. sometimes that battery power is best saved for an emergency c...
[15:01:46] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03sjames [2882] 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 366 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:46] <exec> 08└─Quite simply, Uber and Lyft call themselves ride sharing in hopes of pulling the wool over regulator's eyes. They are very much yet another cab service except they want to call the drivers contractors and they don't want to deal with medallions, commercial insurance, or other regulatory measures. Bu...
[15:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:05] <exec> 08└─Try getting on to the Tube at Bank station in London
[15:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:07] <exec> 08└─They are illegal taxi companies. The normal taxi companies have started adopting apps and online scheduling. The only different between them and Uber/Lyft is scale, following their local laws (which hinders their scaling abilities), and being far less corrupt (they used to be just as corrupt, which...
[15:03:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:09] <exec> 08└─Sounds like someone can't handle not having the last say.
[15:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:11] <exec> 08└─khallow just said time is valuable. And yet, he posts on SoylentNews.
[15:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 276 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:13] <exec> 08└─Dumbass. In order to be INsubordinate, I must be your subordinate. That ain't happenin' in this lifetime, or the next ten lifetimes, nor in any of your numerous past lifetimes. And, it is just this kind of screwup that proves that you ain't half as smart as you wish you were.
[15:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:16] <exec> 08└─You nailed that one!
[15:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:18] <exec> 08└─The problem with decentralization is we already invented that and it's called white people living in $800K houses in the suburbs often working at home/remote, and hipster mass transit fans are politically allied with anti-white racists. Its like trying to convince a Klansman that if they want to exp...
[15:03:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 1967 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:34] <exec> 08└─They are talking about making the reviews public, not losing the reviewers' anonymity. And I think it's a good idea. Reviewers can get lazy, and reject papers because that's less work for them. Just say the authors didn't do enough work, didn't do a validation study, or a survey, or whatever. More w...
[15:03:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 84 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:37] <exec> 08└─I am not in academia, but aren't those peer reviews provided verbatim to the author.
[15:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:43] <exec> 08└─They are talking about making the reviews public, not losing the reviewers' anonymity.
[15:05:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 13 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:34] <exec> 08└─Whatever man.
[15:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:17] <exec> 08└─As a long time Linux user I'd have to disagree. Maybe it's just the distros I've used (mostly Ubuntu-based), or some configuration setting it doesn't like, or the fact that my linux devices all use integrated graphics, but I'm constantly running into web streams that simply won't play nice in full s...
[15:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Close are we to Peak Social Media? - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:08:05] <exec> 08└─When you say "Trump sux, amirite?", you are expressing hate. This will create division. The children see him as a superhero who protects them by deporting evildoers and by keeping democrats like Anthony Weiner in prison.
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[15:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:22] <exec> 08└─While this might seem silly, I'm ok with them doing this as long as they are upfront with it. Admittedly, JS miners are probably the least efficient of them all, but if media needs a new way to support themselves, asking visitors to have their computers work for them seems an easier sell than online...
[15:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:24] <exec> 08└─If a company can mine shitcoins instead of ads, they'll mine shitcoins as well as ads.
[15:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 1169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:26] <exec> 08└─So instead of fucking our eyeballs and gray cells, they are gonna fuck our cpus, buses, and network? I said it before, and I'll say it again: fuck JavaScript. Fuck it not as a language, but as an ecosystem. All JS drive-by-downloading needs to be urgently replaced by standardized calls to locally-i...
[15:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Activity After Death Could be Used for Forensic Investigations - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:34] <exec> 08└─Or do we just faint for a very long time? And then wake up in a new suit?
[15:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 16 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:45] <exec> 08└─"Pale Blue Dot."
[15:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 519 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:47] <exec> 08└─If you want to do SETI the interesting way, you broadcast one of those low res dot photos along with "here's a picture of our home, any of you losers able to do better astrophotography than us? I think not, LOL." Now if the Cylons or Necrons or Klingons or whatever transmit back something with Googl...
[16:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:31] <exec> 08└─Not especially sophisticated, are you, Donny? Nukes have always been quiet. You can actually sleep next to a nuke, confident that if it should blow, you will never hear it. That's because you're dead at least a couple nanoseconds before the sound arrives. It may seem noisy to the people five or more...
[16:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:01] <exec> 08└─In the (really) big picture nothing is important... We (as a species) are not going to leave this rock anyway, so this is where we (as a species) will end. That some of us might enjoy (or not) their individual moves on the board does not make it a zero-sum game any less.
[16:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:37] <exec> 08└─Can you include a crypto miner for good measure?
[16:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:38] <exec> 08└─The solution to that is to get the sheeple to only read their mail in the browser.
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[16:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Offtopic) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:17] <exec> 08└─I thought #MeToo made baseless accusations acceptable convictions.
[16:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:19] <exec> 08└─Why are these assholes our allies again? It's really shameful that this despotic nation is a NATO member. NATO should kick them out and ally with the Kurds instead.
[16:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:21] <exec> 08└─Ally with NATO or join NATO? There is no independent Kurdistan yet. Plus we'd have to go to war with Turkey once they firebomb the Kurds.
[16:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:23] <exec> 08└─The most the United States can do for the Kurds for the forseeable future is to let them run oil-rich northern Iraq (Kurdistan province). As the parent said, anything more, and it's Kurdish Genocide 2.0 thanks to the Turks.
[16:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:25] <exec> 08└─He's probably Muslim so that's one less terrorist to worry about. But then again the Pres is big on due process... head... gonna... explode. Help!? Where are the reicht-wing trolls when I need them?
[16:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:36] <exec> 08└─Yes, this is true.
[16:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:38] <exec> 08└─Instead of addressing why their revenue model wasn't working they'll now wear down your GPU or CPU fans instead of infecting you with malware. The issue with ads is not ads, it's the kind of ads and the lack of accountability. You wouldn't buy food from a company that previously "accidentally" inclu...
[16:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 430 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:40] <exec> 08└─I'm also ok with this idea, though I wish there was was something more cost-effective than JS to do this with. And if we could get computers doing some actual *useful* work ala Folding@home, it would be a great way to destroy 90% of the current ad industry. Though the need for blocking such scripts...
[16:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:43] <exec> 08└─They could resort to activeX or not-activeX (asm.JS) or the new DRM components shilled into the HTML standard.
[16:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:45] <exec> 08└─How about a Salon app that mines cryptocoins while you read? For mobile users, it could use your front-facing camera to track your eyeballs.
[16:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Paradise Pete [1806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:47] <exec> 08└─If a company can mine shitcoins instead of ads, they'll mine shitcoins as well as ads.
[16:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 865 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:49] <exec> 08└─In Cascading Style Sheets, there are ways to overcome nefarious styles imposed by coders using specificity and even override a website's CSS altogether to use your own stylesheet as preferred. This logic is built into all web browsers. Why can't web browser devs simply allow a locally installed, and...
[16:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:51] <exec> 08└─So instead of fucking our eyeballs and gray cells, they are gonna fuck our cpus, buses, and network?
[16:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:54] <exec> 08└─Throwing a custom CSS stylesheet into the mix is less likely to break things than custom JavaScript or turning off the site's JS. Especially in cases where so much content or functionality is buried in heavy JS. Firefox and other browsers have made it pretty annoying to customize CSS. Usually you wi...
[16:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:56] <exec> 08└─Aks and ye shall receive: https://addons.mozilla.org [mozilla.org] Stores local copies of major JS libraries so you don't need to download them each time NOR provide a tracking method for every site you visit.
[16:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:58] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer it if it activated an anal dildo so I could get that authentic fucked-in-the-ass experience.
[16:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:00] <exec> 08└─I think it is time to start the next Paetron. People are willing to "pay" for content, but for a website the effective value of a view should be around a cent. Unfortunately any formal credit card transaction with a website is risk prone and time consuming, not to mention the credit card fees would...
[17:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:02] <exec> 08└─Why can't web browser devs simply allow a locally installed, and trusted, JavaScript library to be used by default that cuts this and much of the rest of the crap out?
[17:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 898 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:21] <exec> 08└─I'm generally a big fan of space missions and such, but this really seems like a big waste of time and effort to me, and also a waste of valuable bandwidth. New Horizons is *so* far away now that I'm really skeptical Earth will even show up, and if it does, due to the vastness of space, it's just go...
[17:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:22] <exec> 08└─YttriumOxide (1165) had the opposite complaint of you on the previous story [soylentnews.org]. But yes, considering they admit a risk of damaging the camera(s) by accidentally pointing at the Sun, they should stick to shooting KBOs at oblique angles, something that will be impossible for other space...
[17:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:25] <exec> 08└─Hey, I can see my house!
[17:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:10] <exec> 08└─Except that the TU-144 was based on Concorde and not the other way around!
[17:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:40] <exec> 08└─Amazing. This is so many of my neighbors. Stressed to the max. And two trying to make what one used to make. And if the reports on higher credit card debt are true and it is deeper debt in the south then it will hit that region like a ton of bricks On top of that the psychological battle of work giv...
[17:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:42] <exec> 08└─has lead to some pretty nasty societies, historically. Those who advocate dividing people into "better" and "worse" categories always think they'll be in the "better" class for some reason...
[17:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:44] <exec> 08└─Even if they crawl out of their misery and learn a (some even will learn your) valuable skill they will cost you (part of) your keep.
[17:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:46] <exec> 08└─Now the climate change denial makes sense: Actually they know quite well that it gets hotter, but they hope it will counteract the nuclear winter, so they can't allow people to stop it!
[17:03:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Ride-Hailing Is Deepening Social and Economic Inequity in the US - 1367 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:23] <exec> 08└─Wait, you're not that kid in pre-school that always insisted you really do share things with other kids? He always 'shared' his crayons (for an upfront fee of 5c per crayon per day). And it's true, he let the other kids play with the shitty broken matchbox car from the toy box, but for the low fee o...
[17:04:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rich [945] 02 - 06Bye Bye Blackbird - 93 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:51] <exec> 08└─When I read the title, I was worried something might have happened to a vintage SR-71. Bless.
[17:05:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 442 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:35] <exec> 08└─For me to come to understand this was a crucial step in my recovery from batshit insanity. That delusion can take many forms. Suicidal people sometimes appear happy, for the reason that they have come up with a solution to all their troubles. If your friend or loved one should start giving away all...
[17:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 1762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:47] <exec> 08└─"As a social worker working with suicidal men, let me say that nobody has 'made up their mind' to commit suicide." You're wrong. I even have a link extremely handy for you, courtesy of anon above. http://www.telegraph.co.uk
[17:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:48] <exec> 08└─I stopped reading after 'you are wrong' because I actually got trained by professors of psychology.
[17:05:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:51] <exec> 08└─Fair enough, but what right do they have to force/trick someone else to help them?
[17:05:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:53] <exec> 08└─Suicide being illegal, means helping someone commit suicide would be illegal. I would be surprised, if the law was there just for that purpose.
[17:06:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:06:35] <exec> 08└─well, at least they had their opiate wars over a 100 years ago for us to learn the mistakes from.
[17:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:19] <exec> 08└─I highly doubt that Netflix's "spying on your viewing habits" is any different than any other streaming platform. The only way to keep others from "spying on your viewing habits" is to take it totally offline. Even then, you have Microsoft with their Telemetry data to contend with as well. Going dow...
[17:07:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 475 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:20] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure Netflix doesn't rate their own videos. That's the users who are giving those ratings. Posting their own stuff on the front page is entirely reasonable. There are plenty of options to sort through and find what you want to watch. Though admittedly as the Anonymous Coward replied to yo...
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[17:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:19] <exec> 08└─I think B&N is in for some rough times. They had an advantage in being better than Borders, so they outlasted them to become the only real new-book chain left in America, but that just means they were the winner of a dying business. Thanks to Amazon, they're losing with both ebooks and regular publi...
[17:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:21] <exec> 08└─Which holiday are they talking about? Lincoln's birthday. That's lousy of them to fire bread winners on Lincoln's birthday.
[17:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:23] <exec> 08└─They probably meant the Christmas season, or "nine-week holiday period ending December 30, 2017", as in the previous story. That's the most important time of the year for them.
[17:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:31] <exec> 08└─Whew! It's a good thing they got those desperately needed thoughts and prayers out there so quickly!
[17:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snow [1601] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:33] <exec> 08└─Donald doesn't exactly strike me as a prayer person.
[17:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:35] <exec> 08└─Donald doesn't exactly strike me as a prayer person. Don't tell the Evangelicals that. They might just continue to support him unequivocally!
[17:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:37] <exec> 08└─It was probably just Eric Snowden returning his security card.
[17:59:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 164 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:46] <exec> 08└─Why are these assholes our allies again? It's really shameful that this despotic nation is a NATO member. NATO should kick them out and ally with the Kurds instead.
[17:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:51] <exec> 08└─NATO should kick them out... That's a fairly bipartisan [conservativereview.com] opinion. [huffingtonpost.com]
[17:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:53] <exec> 08└─If it came to that, I'd be all in favor of an all-out war on Turkey. They've already proven they're genocidal assholes (the Armenians in WWI, plus their continual denial of this) and really deserve to be flattened.
[17:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:55] <exec> 08└─My first thought was "that is terrible!" My second thought was "I wonder how many families have said the same thing about the US."
[17:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 689 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:57] <exec> 08└─Ally with, obviously. You can't admit a region to NATO, only an actual country. Hopefully, allying with them would lead to them becoming an independent country before too long. As for firebombing, then sure, we should declare war on Turkey if that happens. What's the problem with that? At least ther...
[17:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:00] <exec> 08└─> They've already proven they're genocidal assholes (the Armenians in WWI, plus their continual denial of this) and really deserve to be flattened. https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Seems they have been at it for quite a while in fact, at least according to Wi...
[18:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:23] <exec> 08└─A lot easier to replace the metal-cpu than the meat-cpu...
[18:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:24] <exec> 08└─I don't know about that. We accept salmonella infested poultry.
[18:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:26] <exec> 08└─I finally found something for which I'll run NoScript for. Installed now. Let's see how I do controlling my script usage.
[18:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Activity After Death Could be Used for Forensic Investigations - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:35] <exec> 08└─That seems to be the general idea with reincarnation.
[18:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:50] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I forgot to mention that bit about the risk to the camera(s), that's important too. I agree, I really don't think this is a wise use of this resource; we don't have any other probes in the Kuiper Belt and it's useful being able to take pictures there of KBOs.
[18:01:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03crafoo [6639] 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 455 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:44] <exec> 08└─Middle class still existing by the end of 2020? I think not. A select collection of Masters and a servant class, conveniently divided and expertly played against each other. The systems used to mislead and control us are being automated as we speak. It turns out enough people can be fooled reliably...
[18:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:10] <exec> 08└─SN is being invaded by nazis!! We gotta kill em' all or deport them back to the moon asap!
[18:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:12] <exec> 08└─Not to hear the various bullshit you've spewed the last few years. On so many occasions I have pointed out that the warming trend may result in global cooling due to more clouds causing a higher albedo, but fools like you only clung tighter to the propaganda. Now that we've had a few years of dramat...
[18:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:14] <exec> 08└─They predict that governments will assume a larger role in markets to combat inequality and boost demand, but will our corporate overlords decide that's in their interests, or continue to squeeze the lower and middle classes forever?
[18:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:16] <exec> 08└─Germany in 2040, for example, isn't going to be Germany from 2000 with a tan, its going to be North Syria in aspects of life including economic activity, or lack thereof.
[18:06:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:20] <exec> 08└─It's possible to be a "celebrity" but only to a subset of the population. Lots of people probably don't know who Hideo Kojima, American McGee, Sid Meier, or Keiji Inafune are, but to certain groups of people they are well known.
[18:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:21] <exec> 08└─What exactly is that appeal to authority supposed to prove?
[18:06:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:23] <exec> 08└─"It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt." No dark humor after. Though, there are some with a warped sense of reality.
[18:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Watch Netflix in 1080p on Linux and Unsupported Browsers - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:07:51] <exec> 08└─I highly doubt that Netflix's "spying on your viewing habits" is any different than any other streaming platform.
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[18:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:23] <exec> 08└─I sure miss going into the mall and spending an hour or two at Waldenbooks, walking to the other end of the mall, and spending an hour or two at B. Dalton.
[18:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:25] <exec> 08└─Firing lead cashiers in a digital age is hardly an indication of longer lines or less sales. Top of the food chain lead cashiers can be replaced by automated checkout. Everything in B&N has a bar code already. Scan and go. Go to any grocery story or even Home Depot. One checkout guy managing 6 or 10...
[18:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:27] <exec> 08└─> The news came abruptly for many workers who showed up Monday morning at various Barnes & Noble locations to be notified that they no longer had a job, the people said. Is that common practice in USA? In EU we have to get notice period.
[18:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 204 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, pretty common here. Many states have laws specifically saying they can terminate employment at any time totally without reason. I wonder why we spend so much on welfare and "unemployment insurance"?
[18:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 167 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:31] <exec> 08└─They don’t use the word "Christmas" because it’s not politically correct. We’re saying "Merry Christmas" again. Merry Christmas. So, MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone!!!!
[18:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:34] <exec> 08└─"But when B&N fires its receiving managers, it means that B&N won't have the merchandise to sell you because the person who was responsible for making sure shelves get stocked does not work there any more." obviously that isn't an issue. :)
[18:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:36] <exec> 08└─You have to have people buying your product to be concerned about restocking. Barnes and Noble, at least the last time I went, was very overpriced when compared with Amazon or Borders (when it existed). Barnes and Noble came in and killed all the small bookstores because they were able to give cheap...
[18:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:38] <exec> 08└─The company cannot trust the employee who had been fired in such circumstances. The standard US practice is to call an employee to an office, announce that he is fired, and next he knows two security guys collect his access card and walk him to the door. If he has any personal things at his desk, th...
[18:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 416 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:40] <exec> 08└─More like Circuit City. Fire the experienced folks who have all the institutional knowledge, leaving the drones to drive away the remaining customers. Will upper management be fired because this really is B&N's to lose - there are many surviving (appearing to be thriving) indie bookstores showing ho...
[18:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:42] <exec> 08└─That has weight only if B&N retains all stores and doesn't downsize. However closing of high rent, low revenue stores should be expected. I don't know where is a nearest book store, as in last decade I read only ebooks. But, say, 25 years ago I knew them all where I lived. The days of the dead tree...
[18:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:45] <exec> 08└─No, they can't. Barnes & Noble is selling an Experience, not "books." Same exact reason that B&N must be in higher scale locations than the mall. You need to feel like this isn't going to Whatever's to find earrings or Gamestop. They're killing off the ONE advantage they had left over Amazon - the f...
[18:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:55] <exec> 08└─How could NSA not know in advance that this would happen? Isn't that the whole purpose of them vacuuming up every possible scrap of information about US citizens? Even without the PATRIOT act, the US government had all the information about 9/11 days before it happened. They just couldn't put it tog...
[18:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:57] <exec> 08└─Donald doesn't exactly strike me as a prayer person.
[18:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:59] <exec> 08└─Much less a thought person! I kid! I kid! I'm sure he's full of thoughts...
[19:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 242 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:01] <exec> 08└─Looks like the guards took potshots at a drowsy NSA rank-and-file suit. Good. It means those bureaucratic criminals will be more stressed and thus easier to deal with when enough of We the People have decided they've overstayed their welcome.
[19:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:03] <exec> 08└─The best thoughts [twitter.com]: As we come together to celebrate the extraordinary contributions of African-Americans to our nation, our thoughts turn to the heroes of the civil rights movement whose courage and sacrifice have inspired us all.
[19:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:06] <exec> 08└─People still drive older vehicles that haven't been utterly pwned.
[19:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:08] <exec> 08└─Edward?
[19:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:10] <exec> 08└─Damn these floor mats.
[19:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:12] <exec> 08└─"Rank and file suit" in a rental car with New York plates attempting to Enter via an EXIT only road? Seems like non suits to me, drowsey or other wise.
[19:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:14] <exec> 08└─Shhhhhh. Don't blow his cover!
[19:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 198 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:17] <exec> 08└─Jokes aside, given the facts it well might be that those three passengers are tourists who lost their way in the road maze. As nobody got firearm wounds, it appears that the passengers were unarmed.
[19:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:19] <exec> 08└─My thoughts and prayers are with all of the victims involved in this mornings shooting at NSA headquarters. I asked Lindsay to send an EMAIL for me. Because the folks at my beautiful NSA always read EMAIL.
[19:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 122 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:21] <exec> 08└─FTA: "Our thoughts and prayers are with everyone that has been affected," said a White House spokeswoman, Lindsay Walters.
[19:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:38] <exec> 08└─What's the problem with that?
[19:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:39] <exec> 08└─> the court's decision must be respected. No, and not even the court in question itself. Respect is something you earn and lose, not granted forever. Decide everything you don't like happens because of one and the same bogus reason and you prety much end with no respect. Stay like this in a monopoly...
[19:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 876 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:41] <exec> 08└─I hate to be a heartless prick (ok, perhaps I don't hate it, I just hate to look like one), but what does working for NASA prove? I get that people rally behind specific examples, but really, what does NASA have to do with anything, would this submission have been newsworthy without mention of NASA?...
[19:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:43] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaLeKw8SSnk [youtube.com]
[19:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:09] <exec> 08└─If the coming abuse ends javascript I say they should step it up. Javascript was a mistake. Anything that makes it annoying to the common user is a huge win.
[19:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:11] <exec> 08└─And here's another reason to continue in that fashion. As for the surreptitious fuckers, I primarily use one browser with JS *disabled*. For sites that I actually want (or need) to use that require it, I use a different browser. Interestingly, since I've been using this configuration, I almost never...
[19:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 571 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:13] <exec> 08└─(to repeat what I posted elsewhere a few hours ago...) Hey Salon, I have an even better offer for you! How about, you run ads and mine cryptocurrency in browsers, and in exchange I'll never visit your site ever again. Ever. Never ever. Even if you change this policy, I won't know about it because I...
[19:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:16] <exec> 08└─Seriously? When have you ever seen them back off running ads? Even in the face of rampant adblockers they just kept piling on more ads. Remember that these sites incur zero costs when running ads. They don't pay that bandwidth, they just include a link to an advertising network. They don't even have...
[19:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03everdred [110] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:18] <exec> 08└─This kind of sounds like Flattr [wikipedia.org].
[19:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:20] <exec> 08└─If there was a fast way to throw a couple pennies at a site when viewing I believe many people would opt into that
[19:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:22] <exec> 08└─Well Folding At Home has the capacitors on my Mobo all bulgeing because my GPU is pulling so much power through the PCI bus. I'm now shopping for a replacement mobo - or a new machine. With 6 or 10 browser tabs trying to monopolize my CPU cores I can see serious hardware penalties, not to mention in...
[19:01:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:24] <exec> 08└─The funny thing is how will they tell the difference between visitors with very slow CPUs (old, mobile etc) and visitors who are throttling the mining greatly? Do you have to mine a minimum amount before you get to view stuff? If you do then some people will weaker machines may be left out. It'll be...
[19:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:27] <exec> 08└─The issue with ads is not ads, it's the kind of ads and the lack of accountability.
[19:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:29] <exec> 08└─That's just another mining scheme. A true micro payment system would only need a tenth or a hundredth of a cent per visit to make money.
[19:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's ESPRESSO Combines Light From All Four Unit Telescopes for the First Time - 1126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:15] <exec> 08└─Synchronizing the distance between the telescopes to in integral number of wavelengths (or figuring a correction factor) when they aren't attached to a stable platform is a bit questionable, though. Radio telescopes have done the equivalent for a long time, and part of the reason they could and opti...
[19:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:39] <exec> 08└─So, no worries about sonic booms from supersonic submarines? That's a relief!
[19:03:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 990 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:04] <exec> 08└─Not entirely disagreeing but don't forget permanent downward mobility in the west. Dad's uni tuition was $250/semester and the house i grew up in cost $85K for a pretty fancy house in a fancy neighborhood in the 70s and paying for medical insurance was never an issue nor was buying a new car every t...
[19:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:18] <exec> 08└─No, this developed world you mention, developed itself mainly by raping Africa. Asia and (mainly South) America lock, stock and barrel.
[19:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:20] <exec> 08└─If the middle class is destroyed, all chance of revolution goes with them. The lower classes don't have the time, education, or resources to stop what they're doing and revolt. A middle class person has something to lose, they have free time to think, they have the education to to see solutions. Wit...
[19:03:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:58] <exec> 08└─If you want to rant, I'd prefer you not rant at me. Your post does not even mention AMP at all, so I'm not sure how it is relevant to the discussion. You hate HTML emails, knowing that HTML emails are in widespread use. Okay. How does that make AMP worse? All that means is that you'll be getting HTM...
[19:06:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 2461 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:11] <exec> 08└─First of all, I am pleasantly surprised a glib comment on my part could lead to so much information. I acknowledge up front, I am talking out my ass here. Thanks for taking your time with me. I had assumed that any request for clarifications (cases 2 and 3) would generate a new draft which gets re-r...
[19:07:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:30] <exec> 08└─No, suicide itself was illegal, even without assistance.
[19:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Reziac [2489] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:32] <exec> 08└─There's your problem!! ;)
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[19:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:21] <exec> 08└─As a US citizen, I not only have the privilege of paying 5000% markup on prescriptions but my taxes also fund an organization that helped discover every drug for the last 6 years. I look forward to someone from Europe telling me how I personally should fix said system and also how their government f...
[19:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:23] <exec> 08└─Socialize the losses, privatize the profits. Until the idiots who keep supporting this idea get it out of their heads that policies that only benefit the super-wealthy don't actually benefit them, things will not change. The US isn't a capitalist country: there is too much crony capitalism.
[19:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:25] <exec> 08└─I hold stock in 2 pharmaceutical companies. Dividend checks from both come in quarterly. Thanks Chumps!
[19:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:27] <exec> 08└─I mean, why is this surprising? When a violently imposed monopoly says it's going to be the source of money for something, then guess what? Every other source dries up, either because that other source chooses to spend its money elsewhere, or because its money is taken by the VIM. It proves the impo...
[19:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:29] <exec> 08└─If you socialize the losses, that's theft. If you socialize the profits, that's theft. The problem is socializing; the problem is socialism; socialism is theft in every case.
[19:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:31] <exec> 08└─First, as noted already, this is a classic case of "socialize the losses". I know a bunch of people believe that businesses will just cough up, if additional burdens like high minimum wage laws are imposed on them. So why wouldn't they cough up, if they have to pay for their own research? Second, t...
[19:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 431 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:55] <exec> 08└─Best I've seen here they arrange it as mutual agreement. You don't get fired, you get the said money (usually notice period +1 month salary) and you quit effective tomorrow. Spares much of the angry feelings as well. Downside is you cannot go ask for unemployment compensation (depends on the country...
[19:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:56] <exec> 08└─Then this becomes a reality [gnu.org]
[19:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 821 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:58] <exec> 08└─Your mocking and irony filled statement is absolutely correct; some people like the interpersonal interactions and experience of going to a place with other humans. However, your cherry-picked quote misses the entire point of the GP. The GP was noting that people don't make a special trip to B&N, so...
[20:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 464 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:01] <exec> 08└─The indie bookstores aren't that easily comparable to B&N: a giant corporation just isn't going to give you the same experience you get with a little bookstore owned and operated by some old guy. Also, there's other differences: those indie bookstores are usually located in out-of-the-way locations...
[20:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:03] <exec> 08└─The existing options don't really do justice to how I agree with that. Not exactly nostalgia. +1 Fond Memories? I miss Waldenbooks too. Used to buy a book every other week and eat a small ice cream in the mall at a small table next to the big fountain while I read. Sometimes look at video games afte...
[20:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 354 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:05] <exec> 08└─Once I almost had the problem I cannot print my CV for the next job because my account was deactivated. I asked a colleague and he printed it for me. You don't have your own printer? You can get one for less than $50 these days. You can even get a laser printer for $50 now. Or you can go to a place...
[20:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:07] <exec> 08└─Yep, my whole team at one company was laid off in one fell swoop (except for one guy who was kept a little while to clean things up), and while we were sent away pretty quickly and not allowed to log in, we were given IIRC 3 months' severance pay, so it was a good amount of time to go look for a new...
[20:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 386 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:10] <exec> 08└─The right to read is not so much about control over books. That's just a side effect. The story is primarily about loss of control over our own computers. That danger comes (so far) only from governments that are obsessed with complete control. If you can do whatever you want with your computer, be...
[20:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:12] <exec> 08└─It wasn't these days.
[20:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:14] <exec> 08└─B. Dalton and Waldenbooks were ok back in the day when they were the only game in town. Then Borders came and disrupted things, with nice places to sit and drink coffee. B&N tried to copy Borders, but they don't have the selection, organization and atmosphere. I miss Borders. I don't care if B&N dis...
[20:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:16] <exec> 08└─Kindle DRM is still trivially breakable. As long as that's true, I'm not especially worried.
[20:00:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 100 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:24] <exec> 08└─Whew! It's a good thing they got those desperately needed thoughts and prayers out there so quickly!
[20:00:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:36] <exec> 08└─Shhhhhh. Don't blow his cover!
[20:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:41] <exec> 08└─It's a lot easier to make someone forget their ethics if they feel threatened. Few people enter the TLAs expecting to massively monitor their fellow citizens. You have to convince them that it's the right thing to do.
[20:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 1141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:43] <exec> 08└─When you talk about George Bush, I mean, say what you want, the World Trade Center came down during his time. He was President, OK? Blame him, or don't blame him, but he was President. The World Trade Center came down during his reign. Personally, I blame him. I think he wanted it to happen. To give...
[20:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:45] <exec> 08└─The irony is he needs it.
[20:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03pkrasimirov [3358] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:47] <exec> 08└─> Yet they can't even make use of the vast amount of data they already are allowed to collect. My hypothesis is they pump up some secret AI with this data to do it for them. The more data they have the stronger the AI will be (is?). And that's why they so confidently say "no person sees your data"....
[20:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 467 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:08] <exec> 08└─I don't think Iceland has much of a history of massacres. To be fair to Turkey, that list includes many, many incidents that were not perpetrated by the government. They can't be rightfully blamed for the recent killings by ISIS, for instance. But their actions against Kurdish peoples listed there a...
[20:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:45] <exec> 08└─Well if the advertising industry could get together an publish an open source add-on that could be installed ONCE, and controlled by the user as far as CPU/CPU resources that would be fair. We could verify there was no tracking. We could verify that bitcoin was the ONLY thing they were mining. We co...
[20:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:46] <exec> 08└─Heh. This sounds dangerously like a road that leads to needing to provide quality content to attract miners with the best hardware or internet connections.
[20:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:10] <exec> 08└─Wait ... you converted c to miles instead of converting the distance to SI ? Ever thought of applying for a job at NASA's martian missions?
[20:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gen-Z Core Specification 1.0 Published for Higher Performance Interconnects - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:20] <exec> 08└─> by allowing new memory types to be supported without altering the processor, and by providing access > to more banks of memory than can be directly attached to the processor's own memory controller Soooo ... they are re-inventing the northbridge ?
[20:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Announces "Project Trillium" Machine Learning and Object Detection Processors - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:29] <exec> 08└─...a brain to be about 10^16cps, this is 4.6*10^12. ~2200 of these would reach that number. The c in cps is probably different to the o in tops, but the argument that whole brain emulation will be prohibitively expensive and will forever remain so just doesn't seem to hold water. It seems to increas...
[20:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's ESPRESSO Combines Light From All Four Unit Telescopes for the First Time - 1233 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:40] <exec> 08└─The great advantage that radio astronomers have is that they can do all of their image formation well after the fact. Their wavelengths are so long that they can digitize the radio waves as they arrive and time-tag them with an atomic clock (each antenna has its own clock and digitizer). Because of...
[20:02:49] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 569 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:50] <exec> 08└─I asked my Defense Department -- my Pentagon -- to do a Nuclear Posturing Review. And they said, look at what Russia is doing. Russia is making a very smart move, they're getting baby nukes, they call them low yield, they call them Tactical. They're like Jeb Bush, very low energy. Amazingly QUIET!!!...
[20:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:07] <exec> 08└─Let me tell you some things not many people know. BFR stands for Big Fucking Rocket. And it's only for cargo, not for people. But if you flew in it you'd get your astronaut wings. And if you had sex in it, it's VERY SPECIAL because of Zero Gravity. Not many people have had Zero Gravity Sex!!
[20:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:47] <exec> 08└─Well great! So long as we're slightly better off than the depths of the Great Depression I guess we're totally fine. Here I was worrying about nothing!
[20:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:49] <exec> 08└─I have a lot more education, and in raw currency I earn a lot more than my Dad did. Yep, countries that embrace the good parts of socialism can brag about that. From what I recall Bradley lives in one of those. We're talking about the US though.
[20:03:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:51] <exec> 08└─this is the main reason why it has been targeted. too much like the ruling class for comfort.
[20:03:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:53] <exec> 08└─Not to hear the various bullshit you've spewed the last few years.
[20:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:55] <exec> 08└─No, this developed world you mention, developed itself mainly by raping Africa. Asia and (mainly South) America lock, stock and barrel.
[20:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03manyon [5835] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:33] <exec> 08└─I prefer my email the same as my women, plain and in text
[20:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google Bringing Accelerated Mobile Pages to Email - 856 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:35] <exec> 08└─"Your post does not even mention AMP at all, so I'm not sure how it is relevant to the discussion" As a direct refutation of your sophistry. "You hate HTML emails, knowing that HTML emails are in widespread use. Okay." No, I *despise* HTML emails, can you not read? And what kind of mental damage mak...
[20:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 4953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:49] <exec> 08└─Going off on a seeming tangent here, but it'll make sense, just bear with me. Once read a critique in praise of email, for eliminating the stilted formality that had become customary in handwritten (or hand typed) letters, stuff such as starting the letter with "Dear". Scientific research is still s...
[20:08:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:10] <exec> 08└─Hilarity and mortality are hardly ever the same thing Wait a sec......am I on the right website?
[20:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:11] <exec> 08└─i don't know why tom green was hiding in the closet. i guess his ironic sweater had used all of it's magic up...
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[20:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RedIsNotGreen [2191] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:33] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, if you want to read any of these studies, you'll probably have to pay journal fees, too!
[20:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:34] <exec> 08└─Herpy derpy doooo! I know, lets play 1-D CHESS!! Gotta give the troll a chance amirite?
[20:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:36] <exec> 08└─Capitalize Everying! It Is The Only Way!
[20:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:39] <exec> 08└─A resource becomes "capital" when the ownership over that resources becomes well defined. The Tragedy of the Commons expresses the importance of having well defined ownership.The desire for voluntary interaction leads one to a philosophy of ownership called "Capitalism".
[21:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Megahard [4782] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:13] <exec> 08└─That's one way to get the lead out.
[21:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:15] <exec> 08└─It is very common. I've seen people try to be "nice" about firings and give prior notice, or even allow people to clean out their own desk, but it's been 50/50 if the departing employee causes trouble (stealing client data, defacing property, rolling back databases, deleting backups, etc). In one pa...
[21:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:17] <exec> 08└─"Kindle DRM is still trivially breakable. As long as that's true, I'm not especially worried." You should be. Of course it's breakable. That's not the point, and shouldn't give you any comfort. The game doesn't rely on unbreakable DRM. We both know that's not possible. What it relies on is the law -...
[21:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 848 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:19] <exec> 08└─I've seen this work out really good for someone once. We were working at a place that was shutting down. Everyone knew the headcount reduction was imminent, and almost everyone was looking for another job. First thing in the morning one coworker is telling me about how he's accepted another job. He'...
[21:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:21] <exec> 08└─Good points, all, Grishnakh. My experience of those indie stores, though, is that they are also all about selling the customer an experience. B&N can't afford to compete with Amazon on price by everything I've read. If they want to survive, they have to keep their niche of people flowing in through...
[21:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 1596 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:23] <exec> 08└─My favorite was Tower Books back during its heyday of weirdly shaped blue bookshelves (It was like two rows of regular shelves with an angled section at the bottom. They weren't always the cheapest, but they regularly had selections of books you couldn't often find anywhere else. Ironically their bi...
[21:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 983 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:26] <exec> 08└─Oh, I agree. And that's absolutely correct about "selling an experience". But I just don't think it's possible for a large corporation to copy the indies and sell an experience like that. You're just not going to get people passionate about books to come work for peanuts at some mega-chain; the indi...
[21:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:28] <exec> 08└─Yep, it was a little like that with my job too: we all knew the axe was going to fall, we just didn't know when. I wasn't as proactive as your coworker, but when I got my severance, I found a new (and higher-paying, but longer commute) job within a month.
[21:00:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 607 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:38] <exec> 08└─How could NSA not know in advance that this would happen? Isn't that the whole purpose of them vacuuming up every possible scrap of information about US citizens? Even without the PATRIOT act, the US government had all the information about 9/11 days before it happened. They just couldn't put it tog...
[21:00:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 52 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:39] <exec> 08└─Donald doesn't exactly strike me as a prayer person.
[21:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:56] <exec> 08└─So what do they expect to do?
[21:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:57] <exec> 08└─[cue orchestral patriotic music in crescendo] support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the office...
[21:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:59] <exec> 08└─1. Why is there not a goddamn roundabout to keep people from driving up to this gate where they could be shot? 2. Why are there not police officers or DHS agents parked before the entrance to pull over vehicles that are not scheduled visitors before they are in a position to be shot? 3. If we can't...
[21:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:02] <exec> 08└─Right, because uttering words in to the air for an imaginary sky being to hear is so productive.
[21:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 339 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:04] <exec> 08└─This attack can be 1. accident- unlikely 2. demonstrative- no, because nobody has taken responsibility for it publicly 3. terrorism- unlikely, because we still have not seen the image of the baddie (altered to make it look whiter than he is) 4. a very stupid lone wolf 5. an inside job - Is there som...
[21:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:26] <exec> 08└─Just as we all are for agreeing to TOSs without reading them. Convenience trumps worst-case considerations, but people then expect to be relieved of their duties if they don't like them. He voluntarily subjected himself to Turkeys laws, he's a fool for doing so, and nothing can be justly done to rel...
[21:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gene Activity After Death Could be Used for Forensic Investigations - 432 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:13] <exec> 08└─Anyone want to wager this'll be used in court prior to the conclusion of studies covering a wide range of people and environments and establishing the uncertainty of the technique with decent confidence? Anyone want to guess how many jurors understand the idea of uncertainty in measurements? Anyone...
[21:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03tfried [5534] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:30] <exec> 08└─it won't be much to look at
[21:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:32] <exec> 08└─Sagan's pale blue dot photograph was worth the time, effort, and risk. I expect this will be to, given they wouldn't attempt it if the risk was too high. https://upload.wikimedia.org [wikimedia.org]
[21:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's ESPRESSO Combines Light From All Four Unit Telescopes for the First Time - 832 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:00] <exec> 08└─I just read the press release. They are not interferometrically combining the light from the four telescopes, just incoherently. That means they've quadrupled their photon collecting capability, but they haven't increased their angular resolution. You wouldn't want to run a swarm of small telescopes...
[21:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's ESPRESSO Combines Light From All Four Unit Telescopes for the First Time - 524 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:01] <exec> 08└─> Synchronizing the distance between the telescopes to in integral number of wavelengths (or figuring > a correction factor) when they aren't attached to a stable platform is a bit questionable It's absolutely amazing the precision that can be achieved: https://arstechnica.com
[21:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's ESPRESSO Combines Light From All Four Unit Telescopes for the First Time - 384 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:03] <exec> 08└─As fine controls improve, the swarm of mirror-sats reflecting light onto a sensor-and-analyzer center sat starts to make a lot more sense than the massively costly and risky business of the Webb. Serviceability and upgrades would be a lot better too: just switch the sat at the focal point for an upg...
[21:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's ESPRESSO Combines Light From All Four Unit Telescopes for the First Time - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:06] <exec> 08└─The small-satellite telescopes could be free floating, that seems to be... ambitious, unless you're willing to accept resolution at a fraction of the digital sensor and use stellar navigation to correct for pointing errors. What seems more practical to me would be for the swarm to dock to itself - c...
[21:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 346 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:33] <exec> 08└─So I get that you exist because you appear to be forever butthurt that Trump is president, and thats fine. But you really need to step up the quality of your posting to how you had it when you first started. The original posts were quite good, and occasionally they are still good. Just try harder be...
[21:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 814 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:34] <exec> 08└─Concorde let you leave Paris at 11AM and have a morning meeting followed by a business lunch in NY. When your CEO is paid more per hour than most people get per year, it can matter. Add rich people, bragging rights ... and you get a break-even flagship for BA and AF. Which is why the US, which was l...
[21:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 2334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:36] <exec> 08└─My Generals told me something very smart. They said, "it's not the size, it's how you use it." Say you want to shoot someone but you're TERRIBLE at shooting. You get a very big gun. North Korea, they shoot people with Anti Aircraft guns. They shoot you in the leg with an Anti Aircraft gun, you die....
[21:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:21] <exec> 08└─Are you saying we have a real vampire on SN? Or maybe its another immortal cave man like from that one movie? VLM care to explain your longevity? Are you still protestant?
[21:04:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:23] <exec> 08└─It usually takes a couple of generations for assimilation to complete, yes. What's your point? Are you still asspained over Cheddar Man being a nice shade of cherry wood rather than "so white he gets capsaicin headaches from afternoon sunlight" or what?
[21:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 479 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:25] <exec> 08└─You somehow think you'd come out on top in that kind of shakeup. It's obvious as the sun. Well have I got news for you, Bobbeh: the elite see you and the poorest blackest gayest disabled-est immigrant-est women *precisely the same.* You got that? To the elite whose shoes you seem to love the taste o...
[21:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 1332 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:27] <exec> 08└─Oh good, glad I'm wrong about you. Must have been all your conspiracy level pushback that gave me the wrong impression. As apparent here your basic grasp of scientific deduction is still shaky, should've taken more general-ed and science courses. If cloud cover increases enough to plummet temperatur...
[21:04:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 468 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:29] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't use such absolutes all the time. People change and grow. Sometimes they change for the better, sometimes the worse, and sometimes they don't change much at all. Being a "leader" doesn't make someone better or worse either. Our society a large number of roles, and good leaders are often...
[21:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:31] <exec> 08└─"developed itself mainly" Keep up Khollow. The US made many advances, go science! However if you think the US empire was the result of hard work and rugged capitalism; well then you really need to educate yourself.
[21:09:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Promotes Onavo, Its Privacy-Killing VPN - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:09:30] <exec> 08└─I don't have a golem :( Where did all the other white women go to get theirs? Did I miss it when they were handing out golems or something? Or do I need to capture a guy and, like, carve instructions onto his forehead or something?
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[21:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:40] <exec> 08└─You don't need this. Just turn it off in your browser's setting.
[21:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:58] <exec> 08└─We really need something new comparable to NIH in funding. They are too big and too dug into decades of bad stats and ir/un-reproducible findings. Real progress won't be made on problems like cancer, Alzheimer's, and stroke until there is a place for researchers to start afresh. NIH as an institutio...
[21:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:59] <exec> 08└─More than 90 percent of the publications were related to the biological targets of the drugs, not the drugs themselves. The authors of the new research say that shows that NIH funding for basic science complements industry research and drug development, which is mainly focused on applied science.
[22:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:02] <exec> 08└─So why wouldn't they cough up, if they have to pay for their own research?
[22:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:04] <exec> 08└─Capitalize Everying! It Is The Only Way!
[22:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 888 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:06] <exec> 08└─If NIH funds are spent badly on stupid research, then guess what? The NIH still gets money, because the NIH's income is by decree, not by voluntary trade. Hell, if the NIH does poorly, it might even get more money, because surely the problem was that there weren't enough resources in the first place...
[22:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:50] <exec> 08└─There's still one bookstore in town. It's run out of an old warehouse. You'd think I'd have been in there, but... There's a huge sign outside. Two stories tall. "WE SHIP TO PRISONS FOR FREE"
[22:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 1674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:51] <exec> 08└─America is harsh that way, and it's very much purposeful. It fits with the state religion, aka the Protestant Work Ethic. Work is virtuous. Unemployed people are losers and slackers who deserve being kicked out of their homes for being unable to pay the mortgage. Some are prone to think that God is...
[22:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:26] <exec> 08└─Just watch all modern TV shows that involve police, you always see them instantly getting access to personal devices and private data. Our entertainment media will steadily normalize this concept so that the population just assumes such tech is necessary and good. At least torture isn't getting as m...
[22:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:27] <exec> 08└─This is how you a lot of bullshit "fake news" gets started. "This attack can be" uh huh, except that the article itself quotes ""We believe there is no indication that anything more than an isolated incident of what happened here today this morning," said Mr Johnson, stressing that it was not terror...
[22:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:29] <exec> 08└─Your suggesting that shots where fired accidental outside NSA headquarters at the same time as a car crashed. This is how you a lot of bullshit "fake news" gets started.
[22:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:32] <exec> 08└─Invisible older vehicles? Driven by people who don't use the internet or telephone?
[22:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:34] <exec> 08└─The reality is he needs it.
[22:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:37] <exec> 08└─Just be sure your time weapon is powered by clean coal. Beautiful clean coal.
[22:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 812 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:39] <exec> 08└─Years ago, I watched a cable TV program where they always instantly could get all kinds of personal info, bank records, medical records, etc; all instantly! And I thought they were the good guys. As the TV series makes them out to be. But then in 2013 after Snowden, I suddenly soured on this show, a...
[22:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:41] <exec> 08└─Now if only they could recognize the 'enemies domestic' part.
[22:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:43] <exec> 08└─That was one of the terrible things about Obama, he promised he would support our coal industry. Support clean coal. So many people voted for him because they hoped he would save our coal industry. Hope and change, right? But when he got into office, he was very strict with our coal power plants, a...
[22:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:45] <exec> 08└─Because the folks at my beautiful NSA always read EMAIL. Really. And what's especially convenient is that you don't even have to address to them
[22:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:10] <exec> 08└─> Why are these assholes our allies again? http://www.openstreetmap.org [openstreetmap.org] https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] You're welcome.
[22:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03budgenator [1529] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:11] <exec> 08└─I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to get Turkey provoked into attacking the US. They've already shot down a Russian fighter near their border. Turkey's downing of Russian warplane - what we know [bbc.com]
[22:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 871 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:19] <exec> 08└─Well, 1) we already have that photo, for what it's worth, and 2) it's not much of a photo: Earth is just a single pixel and you can't make out anything else, as the vague color bands are just an artifact of sunlight scattered by the camera's optics, and there's a ton of noise. There's no reference h...
[22:05:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 603 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:13] <exec> 08└─Perhaps we shouldn't have shut down our education funding, we should have kept taxing the rich instead of making it possible for multi-national corporations to pay zero tax. Perhaps idiots like you should stop voting for morons who repeatedly show they only want to steal from the public and give to...
[22:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 754 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:30] <exec> 08└─-ion. Suppose you were unconscious due to a life-threatening concussion. You have no way to give informed consent. Aren't the doctors who save your life committing a serious crime? No, because all the lawyers assert that were you conscious you would grant that informed consent. It's like that with s...
[22:09:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:32] <exec> 08└─The judge can force you to spend ten days in a hospital but there must be a hearing first. In California there's an informal hearing at the hospital, then a far more serious hearing in a courthouse. In Washington there's only one hearing, also in the hospital, but the procedure is quite formal.
[22:09:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:34] <exec> 08└─One percent of the population is manic depressive, another one percent is schizophrenic.
[22:09:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 545 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:36] <exec> 08└─I introduced a bill in the student senate to establish the Wargamer's Club so we could all get together for DnD. The principal heard about this and asked me in for a private chat. He would not permit the formation of the club until I got him to believe we weren't all going to kill ourselves. Around...
[22:09:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 1197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:09:38] <exec> 08└─"Suppose you were unconscious due to a life-threatening concussion. You have no way to give informed consent. Aren't the doctors who save your life committing a serious crime?" Not necessarily, no. There's a reasonable expectation in that case, barring evidence to the contrary, that the patient want...
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[22:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06US Olympics Luge Team Looks To 3D Printing To Ice The Gold - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:21] <exec> 08└─Just print your own gold medals. Saves time and money and it will pass for the real thing in bars and other social situations.
[22:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Olympics Luge Team Looks To 3D Printing To Ice The Gold - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:22] <exec> 08└─Who decided to invite other nations to the Olympics, and not have the events in prime time, anyway? The World Series organizers are a lot smarter.
[22:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:31] <exec> 08└─Pity that every website just has to have their own copy of jquery in the cache even if it is the same version
[22:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:33] <exec> 08└─We should not be running programs in browsers. ActiveX was a stupid, foolish, insecure idea, and this looks to be worse in some ways.
[22:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 541 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:55] <exec> 08└─All anyone sees is the headline that 210 new drugs came from NIH-funded research. Well, what about what you do NOT see? Maybe the NIH squandered resources on bad projects; under a more rigorous, market-based approach to funding research, maybe those squandered resources would have led to a total of...
[22:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:56] <exec> 08└─Maybe the NIH squandered resources on bad projects...
[22:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 506 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:58] <exec> 08└─All the libertarians immediately point out "socialize the losses, privatize the profits", and complain that this means nothing should be socialized. Well, how about going the other way: Make sure that the government-funded research, whether through the NIH or any funded university, gets a piece of t...
[23:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 656 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:00] <exec> 08└─Red herring. This has nothing to do with the argument at hand; I'm not arguing about the purpose of the NIH. Straw man. I never said medical research should be constrained only to the most profitable conditions. Also, I'm not sure exactly what you think the term "most profitable" means, or why it w...
[23:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:03] <exec> 08└─A redundant comment requires a redundant reply. From here [soylentnews.org]: If you socialize the losses, that's theft. If you socialize the profits, that's theft. The problem is socializing; the problem is socialism; socialism is theft in every case.
[23:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 608 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:05] <exec> 08└─VIM (Violently Imposed Monopoly) guy is back. Nice to have you here again. When did you get out? It's all just "Gimme Free Stuff!" Gimme, gimme, gimme. One entity funds the basic research and another demands the fruits (patents and monetization) of that research. Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! It seems to me...
[23:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:07] <exec> 08└─Isn't it strange how experts in biology are all of a sudden in favor of a monoculture? I mean this post is literally about celebrating that monoculture. Then all the posts here (except my single one on NIH monopoly) are about irrelevant political crap rather than looking at this scientifically (curr...
[23:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:09] <exec> 08└─Actually it wouldnt surprise me if lack of any NIH funded research on a topic would preempt FDA approval...
[23:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:11] <exec> 08└─You absolutely can have indie drug research, there are just major bureaucratic and legal hurdles to manufacturing and distributing.
[23:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:14] <exec> 08└─Seems to coincide nicely with my pointing out that VIM guy was gone but VLM was back shitposting about illegal immigrants "invading" the US.
[23:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us [6553] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:59] <exec> 08└─Yes, I think you're right that if B&N tries to just copy the indie-feel they'd almost certainly fall flat. I have known B&N folks who are true bibliophiles - though you're right that there are plenty who are not, as well. The sad part is that they have been trying... I don't agree with the choices t...
[23:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:00] <exec> 08└─The indie bookstores aren't that easily comparable to B&N: a giant corporation just isn't going to give you the same experience you get with a little bookstore owned and operated by a trio of women who will take you in the back and suck you off if you spend more than $50..
[23:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:44] <exec> 08└─It's a lot easier to make someone forget their ethics if they feel threatened.
[23:02:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 29 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:01] <exec> 08└─What's the problem with that?
[23:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:48] <exec> 08└─Can a js miner even do much, in a browser running on a cpu?
[23:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:50] <exec> 08└─MOD PARENT UP This. Describes the ad revenue situation perfectly
[23:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03PartTimeZombie [4827] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Gene Activity After Death Could be Used for Forensic Investigations - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:00] <exec> 08└─That seems to be the general idea with reincarnation.
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[23:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03EvilSS [1456] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Olympics Luge Team Looks To 3D Printing To Ice The Gold - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:30] <exec> 08└─Ice The Gold? Are they planning to put frosting on it? Or have the mob kill it?
[23:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Olympics Luge Team Looks To 3D Printing To Ice The Gold - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:32] <exec> 08└─Frame it for doing drugs [wikipedia.org], then lock it up for 40+ years. Parade it every four years in front of judges, deny parole, and again pride themselves in having repeatedly secured the gold. NBC is already working on the sob stories to fill the rest of the broadcast. Stats are highly favorab...
[23:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Olympics Luge Team Looks To 3D Printing To Ice The Gold - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:34] <exec> 08└─Same person who decide that riding a sled down hill is an athletic endeavor. As best I can tell it only requires strong sphincter muscles.
[23:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Olympics Luge Team Looks To 3D Printing To Ice The Gold - 330 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:36] <exec> 08└─Apparently they are using the 'printer' to make molds or forms of some kind. I'm guessing these things are being made from fibre (carbon, glass etc?) and they're talking about making molds for that, which wouldn't have to be too strong as long as they're durable and non-stick, HDPE or something simi...
[23:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Olympics Luge Team Looks To 3D Printing To Ice The Gold - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:38] <exec> 08└─Doing 90mph barreling down really hard ice with sharp bits of metal right next to you, with only one shot every 4 years at people paying attention? It's athletic because you'd better run faster than your mommy, when you tell her that's what you'd like to do for a living.