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[00:00:18] <exec> 08└─The NIH can't be allowed to have an income by decree (i.e., through taxation), otherwise that stronger model of property rights will be built atop a very weak model. Maybe there is a compromise, hybrid system for the meantime. The NIH could receive tax-based funding for this year that is tied strict...
[00:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 639 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:20] <exec> 08└─I worked for almost 3 years for a company that was mostly funded by government grants, those grants paid for our efforts to commercialize an academic technology for clinical use. We spent about 6 months transforming the tech from MatLab and Fortran command line processing of data to a C++ based GUI...
[00:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:22] <exec> 08└─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.
[00:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 287 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:24] <exec> 08└─You were doing well, till you let us know about your area of expertise, the gaming industry. FFS, this has nothing at all in common with gaming. There is no government agency providing gate keeping services to the gaming industry!! Sometimes it wise to end your post one paragraph early.
[00:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:26] <exec> 08└─I mean,
[00:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:28] <exec> 08└─I mean,
[00:01:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 1674 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:13] <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...
[00:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:16] <exec> 08└─Honoring the brave decision of losing strategic workforce without warning, and to underline the new long term goals, the firm's new name will be: "Burns and No Bell".
[00:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:18] <exec> 08└─the friendly live helpful person
[00:01:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 812 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:57] <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...
[00:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:03] <exec> 08└─Damn Osama blew up the 7-11, now where am I supposed to get shitty pizza at 3AM?
[00:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 189 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:05] <exec> 08└─Good point, he forgot to mention the people. Oops, I mean the pedos. Ah bugger it, think of children! We need to protect them from the people! Oops, I mean protect them from the evil pedos!
[00:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:07] <exec> 08└─Say you’re driving your car in an unfamiliar area and some dude starts shooting at you. You crap your pants and probably crash the car in your panic. All because some overly jittery gun toting security guard panicked in fear that 911part2 was in progress.
[00:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 708 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:41] <exec> 08└─Many people were surprised that Donald J. Trump was elected President -- and so overwhelmingly! Maybe, probably, they believed the many Fake polls and stories in the Fake News Media. To be perfectly honest with you, I was a little surprised myself. It was the BEST surprise of my life!!!! Believe me,...
[00:04:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Supports NASA's Quieter Supersonic Plane Design - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:42] <exec> 08└─Mexico and Canada might be very happy to tolerate sonic booms if you paid them. London to Seattle can go via Canada. Rome to LA can go via Mexico. Berlin to either can go via a polar route and the Pacific Ocean.
[00:09:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06YouTube Content Creators Survive Break-In by Armed, Deranged Fan - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:09:56] <exec> 08└─A fair number of my friends are millenials who can't afford homes. The issue isn't the loan payment - It's the downpayment. They have enough income to afford the monthly payment, but not enough to accumulate the downpayment in a reasonable period of time.
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[01:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:19] <exec> 08└─NIH is Not Invented Here, why are they inventing? Going to look into this!!
[01:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:20] <exec> 08└─Because they won't do their own research. If you increase the minimal wage, the companies will be forced to pay their workers more or face prosecution. If you stop giving them free research, they are under no obligation to pay for research.
[01:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:22] <exec> 08└─OK, BUT I DON'T SEE HOW THAT IS GOING TO SOLVE ANYTHING. MAKES IT LOOK LIKE I AM SHOUTING.
[01:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 264 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:12] <exec> 08└─In Ontario, Canada, you can be fired immediately, but you have to give severance pay, worth X number of weeks (years?) worked up to a certain amount....if they wanted to get rid of me, it would cost A LOT (but my boss loves me!). Canada...a more sane country, lol.
[01:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:13] <exec> 08└─How many execs lost THEIR jobs?
[01:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:01] <exec> 08└─Thank you, DannyB, for your very LOYAL support!! Not many people know, I believe in God. I think religion is a wonderful thing. I think my religion is a wonderful religion. I am Christian. I'm VERY PROUD of that. I think The Bible is certainly, it is THE book. It is the thing. I was raised a Christi...
[01:03:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06New Horizons Spacecraft Will Take a "Pale Blue Dot" Photo in 2019 - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:36] <exec> 08└─It does seem a waste of propellant if there's other work to be done.
[01:03:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Announces "Project Trillium" Machine Learning and Object Detection Processors - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:54] <exec> 08└─There are probably multiple ways to get it done, such as brute force simulation, a very dense and 3D neuromorphic chip that sufficiently mimics the brain, or brain matter hooked up to computers.
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[01:59:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 635 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:18] <exec> 08└─It simply flags everything and/or cheats. In all liklihood they actually took a huge collection of random videos off YouTube or similar and compared it to known terrorist propaganda. So it's probably a great detector on 'desert' and 'arab dudes'; that won't work at all in the real world. The fact th...
[01:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Mykl [1112] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:19] <exec> 08└─Yes. I have echoes of Theranos here. Prove your effectiveness in objective tests or switch to selling snake oil. Separately, I'd love to feed a copy of Rambo into this to see what comes out.
[01:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:21] <exec> 08└─> the algorithm was trained on thousands of hours of terrorist recruiting videos And then it became really good at telling you which are extremist propaganda, e.g. any video where women don't wear Burqas, any video featuring music, any video showing Christians and Jews not get beheaded, as well as a...
[01:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:23] <exec> 08└─I can only assume... It simply flags everything and/or cheats.
[01:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:26] <exec> 08└─And then it became really good at telling you which are extremist propaganda, e.g. any video where women don't wear Burqas, any video featuring music, any video showing Christians and Jews not get beheaded, as well as any video featuring any elected person.
[01:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 1164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:28] <exec> 08└─Saddam Hussein was a really bad guy. But you know what he did well? He killed terrorists. He did that so good. They didn’t read them the rights. They didn’t talk. They were terrorists. It was over. But George Bush, President Bush, was a very mixed up guy. He said that Saddam Hussein loved terror...
[01:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:30] <exec> 08└─Please stop with this. If 1 in 100 videos are target, then always guess non-target. Now you have 99% accuracy. This is a totally meaningless measure of performance. No news article, press release, or (especially) scientific/technical article should be using it. Ignore all submissions to this site th...
[01:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 393 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:32] <exec> 08└─If there is one thing today's Terrorist Propaganda suffers from, it's lack of subtlety, and of course, poor quality, bad composition, can't hold a steady shot, too much lead in, sometimes cutting out before the climax, wind noise(!), just all sorts of things. With all this 4K stuff out now, I expect...
[02:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:41] <exec> 08└─I MEAN (oh, sorry, I was still trying to capitalize everything), NOBODY EXPECTS the Violent Imposition! Except, about now, we do expect some jock anarcho-capitalist libertariantard to bring it up. Doncha just HATE the smell of violent imposition in the morning?
[02:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:42] <exec> 08└─about irrelevant political crap
[02:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:44] <exec> 08└─You're thinking of No Such Agency, which doesn't exist, unless you try to drive in through the "out" driveway.
[02:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:47] <exec> 08└─Sorry, you're not getting it. Companies are just as "forced" to employ people as they are forced to do research.
[02:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 803 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:49] <exec> 08└─How is it theft, moron? If the funder of the research retains rights to the fruits of that research and then licenses those rights for a profit, that's classic capitalism. So. If the NIH (and by extension, the people of the US) funds the research that's critical to the development of new drugs, how...
[02:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:51] <exec> 08└─Companies are forced to employ people because someone as to do the grunt work, and the CEO ain't doing it.
[02:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:53] <exec> 08└─A redundant comment requires a redundant reply. From here [soylentnews.org] [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.
[02:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:32] <exec> 08└─How could NSA not know in advance that this would happen?
[02:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:33] <exec> 08└─Probably because some unthinking bureaucrat felt the signs saying "Exit Only", "Do Not Enter" and "Wrong Way" we're sufficient.
[02:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:00] <exec> 08└─That's what NATO is for. To shoot down Russians.
[02:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:41] <exec> 08└─You should probably plug in the 6-pin power connector.
[02:03:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:42] <exec> 08└─True, but Adblock. I'd be more inclined to let a site inefficiently mine a buttcoin than deactivate uBlock for it (where 0>0).
[02:03:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:44] <exec> 08└─You can already get that experience just by reading Salon!
[02:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 206 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:46] <exec> 08└─Just start shipping Python with browsers so you get a language with All the Features so you don't have to farm out to chains of remotely hosted third-party libraries. [softpedia.com] import left-pad Or PHP.
[02:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:12] <exec> 08└─You somehow think you'd come out on top in that kind of shakeup.
[02:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:13] <exec> 08└─You shouldn't use such absolutes all the time.
[02:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 516 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:15] <exec> 08└─In other words, weasel words so one can never be wrong. I'll just note here that the African economy is far smaller than developed world economies. For example, the GDP of Africa was $3.3 trillion in 2017 compared to California's $2.4 trillion. Basically, the economy of the entire continent is roug...
[02:06:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:18] <exec> 08└─If cloud cover increases enough to plummet temperatures then we could end up with massive snowfall.
[02:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:20] <exec> 08└─We (as a species) are not going to leave this rock anyway,
[02:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:06:22] <exec> 08└─So long as we're slightly better off than the depths of the Great Depression I guess we're totally fine.
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[02:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:21] <exec> 08└─This will help to institutionalize a proper class system in the US, as well as the rest of the Western world! Like India, of old, people will be born into a class, and they will be forced to stay within that class, all of their lives. Like Japan, the warrior class, the worker class, and the subhuman...
[02:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:36] <exec> 08└─They obviously try to make it big by imitating the most watched type of video on the internet.
[02:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:38] <exec> 08└─More like the Wharton of terrorism.
[02:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Appalbarry [66] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:40] <exec> 08└─* For certain definitions of "recognize" ** For certain definitions of "terrorist" *** For certain definitions of "propaganda" Your mileage may vary. Professional driver on closed course. Prices slightly higher in Canada.
[02:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:42] <exec> 08└─The only way to be sure it works is to input the links to the IMF videos and see it correctly flagging them as terrorist propaganda.
[02:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:44] <exec> 08└─Canada? You sound like a terrorist. Have you smuggled any maple syrup lately?
[02:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:47] <exec> 08└─If there is one thing today's Terrorist Propaganda suffers from, it's lack of subtlety, and of course, poor quality, bad composition, can't hold a steady shot, too much lead in, sometimes cutting out before the climax, wind noise(!), just all sorts of things. With all this 4K stuff out now, I expect...
[02:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:49] <exec> 08└─Given the popularity of YouTube "stars," Today's terroristic propaganda agent is entering a market with a bar set very, very low. Yes, and I do blame youtube for that. They focus too much on content, and not the quality of that content. They should ban poor work, not poor taste.
[02:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:51] <exec> 08└─Maple-syrup-smugglers are freedom fighters, sweet sweet brown sticky freedom.
[02:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 1307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:53] <exec> 08└─-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 close, yet the ultimate test would consist of united states army, marines, and navy commercials. these are propaganda videos for the world's most powerful, wide-spread, damaging, and brazen terrorist force. and we can only hope this filter would also s...
[03:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optalysys, Back in the (Press Release) News - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:01] <exec> 08└─commercializing light-speed optical coprocessors for AI/deep learning,
[03:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optalysys, Back in the (Press Release) News - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:03] <exec> 08└─It could be true. Nobody knows how broad or narrow their optical sauce is.
[03:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:13] <exec> 08└─NIH (Not Invented Here) is a catch phrase used to chastise engineers from re-inventing things that they themselves didn't invent in the first place. Classic examples are internal projects to replace perfectly functional code libraries simply because the current guard didn't understand how the code w...
[03:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:15] <exec> 08└─Maybe the NIH squandered resources on bad projects...
[03:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:17] <exec> 08└─NIH isn't conducive to the monoculture, it is the monoculture. Almost all funding for biomed projects flows through that organization.
[03:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:08] <exec> 08└─Dear Penthouse, I never thought it would happen to me...
[03:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 372 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:02:59] <exec> 08└─The shit those shows pull is scary authoritarian, and the worst examples they play off as "partner was disturbed by the overreaction / line crossing but continues on because they know they are the good guys." The kicker in reality for me was Obama making a joke about droning his daughter's boyfriend...
[03:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should Scientific Journals Publish Text of Peer Reviews? - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:09:34] <exec> 08└─This is an interesting reply; thanks for taking the time. And again, I agree with a lot of what you said -- especially in terms of problems in academic publishing -- so I'm not going to really argue against it (since I already made my thoughts clear in another long post).
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[03:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:22] <exec> 08└─Can I be the guy who shovels poop, forever condemning me and my family to opression and loneliness for the rest of existence?
[03:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:23] <exec> 08└─Dump Facebook and wipe your ass with Zucks smile. While you're there, get that Microsoft hemmoroid (version ALL) excised.
[03:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:25] <exec> 08└─That's just my gut feeling, but I don't wear a ridiculous robe in my day job, so who cares what I think.
[03:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 381 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:28] <exec> 08└─And here I thought it was all so benign. X to y to VPN to this. It is so funny what ai will do with all your help. So long and thanks for the data (fish). Too bad sheep don’t eat fish. What is next? Haha. Will say it again. Turn on tune in drop out. Sheep. Til next. If you don’t I hope you are a...
[03:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 389 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:30] <exec> 08└─Well, yes, of course you may join one of the subhuman classes. It is only the upper classes that insist on exclusivity. The most exclusive, of course, is the Ruling Class. And, you can only buy your way into the Ruling Class with many many millions of dollars. To reach the upper echelons of the Ruli...
[03:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 310 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:32] <exec> 08└─Abstract ideas are more than adequate to justify a course of action that a person has already determined to follow. Less than that, even. If you have already determined to commit patricide, any chance happening on the way to your father's house can be taken as a portent that the gods approve of your...
[03:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03linkdude64 [5482] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:34] <exec> 08└─I hardly use social media, disregard the "fad" gadgetry and software, and have a good income. Yet, in the past, I had noticed people in the welfare line using iPhones (when I had a pay-as-you-go) wearing new, clean, fresh "threads" and "kicks" etc. Without access to a credit report, gadetry, cars, a...
[03:59:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03physicsmajor [1471] 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 635 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:42] <exec> 08└─It simply flags everything and/or cheats. In all liklihood they actually took a huge collection of random videos off YouTube or similar and compared it to known terrorist propaganda. So it's probably a great detector on 'desert' and 'arab dudes'; that won't work at all in the real world. The fact th...
[03:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:59] <exec> 08└─quite. "Never believe a number unless you know the variance and distribution from which it is drawn". This makes many articles unreadable, speculative, dribble.
[04:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:00] <exec> 08└─Many articles? What percent of them?
[04:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:02] <exec> 08└─They focus too much on content, and not the quality of that content.
[04:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 385 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:04] <exec> 08└─pretty much everything not peer reviewed (99/100) :-) And fair number of things that *are* peer reviewed! During my PhD, they made us try and reproduce the graphs of published articles in Nature/Science....so if they are the most prominent, you can imagine the rest... Study panels for the NSF and NI...
[04:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Olympics Luge Team Looks To 3D Printing To Ice The Gold - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:26] <exec> 08└─In this sport, you'll always be a luger.
[04:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:28] <exec> 08└─Make sure that the government-funded research, whether through the NIH or any funded university, gets a piece of the action on the profit side.
[04:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:29] <exec> 08└─Except of course, that taxation is not theft.
[04:01:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:31] <exec> 08└─Capitalize Everying! It Is The Only Way!
[04:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03BK [4868] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:23] <exec> 08└─Fair as that sounds, we all know the answer. And in truth, it doesn't even make sense. Someone still has to be CEO, CFO, etc. In theory, the exec who failed to deliver on his goals should see his job at risk, or at least all of his 'bonus', but it's never structured that way. A more realistic ide...
[04:04:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:24] <exec> 08└─cases where so much content or functionality is buried in heavy JS
[04:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 404 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:56] <exec> 08└─Oh, but the application of bare, bestial human nature to this fragile illusionary castle in the air we refer to as civilization would be, Mr. Hallow :) And you would be just as dead as all the people you mock, if not deader, and all your classcucked ass-kissing would make not one whit of difference....
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[04:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:32] <exec> 08└─Couldn't you just pull a credit report on someone? Plus, what if someone doesn't have a Facebook account [warning, dramatic scene] [youtube.com]?
[04:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:34] <exec> 08└─It was only a matter of time until American Capitalism became a character of itself. Zizek has been right for decades now. Why doubt his wise words?
[04:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:36] <exec> 08└─In India the proper term is Caste System. It implies the "being born into one, stay there until death" part.
[04:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:38] <exec> 08└─use facebook -> have no class. Although, anyone can have a lack of class, with, or without, facebook.
[05:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:06] <exec> 08└─Since they don't give a false positive rate, or define what 99% accuracy means, I am going to declare that MY AI can detect terrorists with 100% accuracy. Unfortunately, the false positive rate is rather high, since the algorithm is to mark every video input as terrorist activity.
[05:00:57] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 40 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:57] <exec> 08└─Capitalize Everying! It Is The Only Way!
[05:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:33] <exec> 08└─Yeah, we all know you're an Emacs guy...heretic.
[05:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:34] <exec> 08└─We really need something new comparable to NIH in funding.
[05:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:36] <exec> 08└─I care about knowing which drugs to take if I have, say, ... or (name any condition)
[05:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheGratefulNet [659] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:47] <exec> 08└─if you travel to the US, you don't expect a 3rd world 'court system'. sure, ours is horribly broken, but we're not a left-behind nation like most of that area of the world (extended middle east). even for business, I'd never travel to or even OVER an arab or muslim-majority country. just not worth t...
[05:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Gen-Z Core Specification 1.0 Published for Higher Performance Interconnects - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:05:11] <exec> 08└─Yep. Sounds like Northbridge 2, Revenge of the Northbridge. According to google site search, looks like http://genzconsortium.org [genzconsortium.org] does not mention northbridge anywhere, despite having a FAQ. I think they really want to avoid being associated with it for some reason. I wonder why...
[05:07:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Great Transformation": Demographics, Automation and Inequality - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:07:06] <exec> 08└─Oh, but the application of bare, bestial human nature to this fragile illusionary castle in the air we refer to as civilization would be, Mr. Hallow :) And you would be just as dead as all the people you mock, if not deader, and all your classcucked ass-kissing would make not one whit of difference.
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[05:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:25] <exec> 08└─why is SLS still on the list? How many others on the list have sub-sub-contracts of gold-rolled pork?
[05:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:44] <exec> 08└─Ah yes, the ol' "if they would just not buy iPhones they might stop being poor!" not surprised to see that meme parroted by your account
[05:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:46] <exec> 08└─It's sad that this is what is considered "innovation" today: how to better monetize people and serve them more relevant advertisements. It's dehumanizing, and really a shame that these presumably smart people can't put their minds to solving the higher goals of humanity. If they categorized morality...
[05:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:48] <exec> 08└─Well said! Anonmodding you way up!
[05:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:50] <exec> 08└─That depends on what country you're in. You can get into the ruling classes with no formal education whatsoever, and even become President of the country. You don't even need to be able to count [youtube.com] or pronounce basic words [youtube.com].
[05:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:52] <exec> 08└─I Swear I'm Not Making This Up: "What kind of phone do you have?" "Android. It's the poor man's phone." Most of Portland's homeless have Android phones. They can be had quite cheaply. However they keep using them well-beyond their expected lifetime. That leads to everyone competing for power sockets...
[05:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:54] <exec> 08└─But I haven't selected any of my favorite books or movies. Sometime I'm going to select a whole bunch of books and movies that's I'd never want to read or see, so as to ensure good money is spent trying to convince me to purchase feminine hygiene products.
[05:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03riT-k0MA [88] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:56] <exec> 08└─He just resigned [businesstech.co.za]
[05:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 4253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:59] <exec> 08└─Another Los Angelino here... ( or in the immediate vicinity ). I, too, have noticed the homeless having a lot of stuff - free phones - SNAP cards - EBT cards - WIC cards - and they have time to ply the social media. Me, its here, and Oilburners.net . One's for techie stuff, and the other is for my o...
[06:00:11] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 309 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:11] <exec> 08└─Please stop with this. If 1 in 100 videos are target, then always guess non-target. Now you have 99% accuracy. This is a totally meaningless measure of performance. No news article, press release, or (especially) scientific/technical article should be using it. Ignore all submissions to this site th...
[06:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:28] <exec> 08└─Best way to spot bullshit is when they provide the sensitivity without giving the specificity as well. Bonus points if there is no detail as to the sample size used to get the sensitivity figure.
[06:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:59] <exec> 08└─In addition, since anyone can use Let's Encrypt to get a (snort) "secure" connection, what the headline should really say is "Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Malware Authors Who Can't Figure out Let's Encrypt".
[06:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:00] <exec> 08└─Would you prefer having to buy a different operating system or a different brand of computer in order to run an application? Even if you get source code, source code designed for Win32 or Cocoa API might not compile, link, and run correctly on a GNU/Linux box.
[06:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:02] <exec> 08└─Firefox protip time: * you can see your situation in about:cache * browser.cache.offline.enable is the master switch * If you just want to be asked for permission for using it there is offline-apps.allow_by_default
[06:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:00] <exec> 08└─A government is no less susceptible to greed and lust for power than a business is.
[06:03:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:44] <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?
[06:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:04:57] <exec> 08└─All JS drive-by-downloading needs to be urgently replaced by standardized calls to locally-installed free+libre software library.
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[06:59:28] <exec> 08└─and sending astronauts to an orbital space station around the Moon
[06:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:29] <exec> 08└─why is SLS still on the list?
[06:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 368 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:32] <exec> 08└─SLS is primarily a pork rocket for Congress, not the current President: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] For Fiscal Year 2015, NASA received an appropriation of US$1.7 billion from Congress for SLS, an amount that was approximately US$320 mi...
[06:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 1148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:58] <exec> 08└─I use an android as well... I did not pay all that much for it, and it meets my needs - or at least as good as the much higher priced stuff I see some of my acquaintances with. ( Kinda hard to call 'em "friends"... I don't really have that many of those. ) What I was looking for was something I cou...
[06:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:59] <exec> 08└─It's the beninggging.. the.. the bini... the begingining.. yah.. the.. ahh.. the... listen properly... the... beninging yeah.. the the beginingih.... eeee... the bengginingi.. the beninggibeningi.. the start of the end.
[07:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:02] <exec> 08└─https://www.voanews.com/a/zuma-pushed-out-of-office/4251210.html [voanews.com] You mean, kicked out?? Like Mugabe resigned too.
[07:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 539 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:31] <exec> 08└─You forget, you can only be a terrorist if you lose. So yes, any pathetic little group is always terrorists, no matter what they do. ISIS are clearly extremists whackoes bent on terrorism, but there are others, better examples. For example, Cuba has been listed as a state sponsor of terrorism for a...
[07:01:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 133 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:02] <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.
[07:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:06] <exec> 08└─Aaaand, to clear the cache open prefs > advanced > network or manually wipe OfflineCache under your profile directory.
[07:01:31] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 506 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:31] <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...
[07:02:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:06] <exec> 08└─https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_research_and_development_spending [wikipedia.org] I'm not sure. It seems that if you order this by chart, US is not exactly spending that much anyway. But yes, your system is fucked up. You are paying 5000% markup to pay for the commercials to sell...
[07:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:08] <exec> 08└─Government does the research hence greatly reduced need for businesses to pay for their own research.
[07:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 782 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:01] <exec> 08└─Actually, I disagree. What they need to do is have lots of really small local stores that have LOTS of single copies of books, and if you buy it they'll ship you a copy to your home for free (i.e., shipping cost included in price). The only way to sell me books I'm not already looking for is to let...
[07:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:03] <exec> 08└─The last time I went into a Barnes&Nobel, it's prices were about like everyone else, but the selection in any category I was interested in was so poor I never bothered to go back.
[07:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Very Large Telescope's ESPRESSO Combines Light From All Four Unit Telescopes for the First Time - 2567 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:06:10] <exec> 08└─Well, my first thought was "I think that's only two independent pieces" and my second was "that sure wasn't any cubesat"... But it *is* an sort of existence proof that the thing should be doable. I don't, however, think it would be doable with cubesats...at least not any way that they're normally la...
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[07:59:22] <exec> 08└─Also, they survive nuking from the orbit.
[07:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Spam) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 525 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:24] <exec> 08└─The man placed the baby in the file cabinet drawer such that roughly half of its head was sticking out. Next, the man tried closing the file cabinet, only to encounter resistance. Anger. "How dare this insolent insect stop me from closing the drawer!" he thought. He pushed harder. The baby screamed....
[07:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:59:26] <exec> 08└─Seem like a noble goal. Perhaps we name this project Skynet?
[08:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:10] <exec> 08└─The (upper-)middle-class marxists hipsters are going to be so angry now when they are outed by Facebook for not actually being working class.
[08:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:12] <exec> 08└─Will the "upper class" meet people like us on facebook? People who actually do this kind of stuff? Not likely. From what I see here, most of us hate that site.
[08:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:43] <exec> 08└─What gave them away? Was it all the talk about the infidels? The decapitated heads? The chanting of Death to America? or the constant references to Allah?
[08:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:18] <exec> 08└─I'd prefer it if programmers stopped writing shitty unportable programs altogether. Ideally, people would stop writing programs for proprietary operating systems as well. If a program wouldn't exist if there were no web "apps", then good riddance to bad rubbish.
[08:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 1171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:20] <exec> 08└─When they are given exclusive access to government research, then it is right change the system. It's not clear to be that the article asserts this. OTOH, the drug release model in the US is horribly broken. I don't have a good way to fix it, but it's horribly broken. The companies that sell the dru...
[08:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:22] <exec> 08└─Except that (theoretically), a govt is something over which the people has some amount of control.
[08:03:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:18] <exec> 08└─The only way to sell me books I'm not already looking for is to let me see it, but I'm usually quite willing to wait a day or two to actually get it.
[08:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 143 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:20] <exec> 08└─You only need 2 week notice. For anything more, you need to have something in your contract. You should read your contract and keep it close ;)
[08:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:40] <exec> 08└─Tell that to the State Department!
[08:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:41] <exec> 08└─Because they control a strategic strait and are close enough to Russia and allow American missiles on their territory.
[08:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:28] <exec> 08└─HWAT? The library could be in the same JavaScript for all I care. There is zero need to port anything.
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[08:59:25] <exec> 08└─*yawn*. Useless "research" that adds no real insight to this world. Probably another of those "publish or perish" crap. Obvious from stuff known ages ago - small creatures like insects don't have to worry about much when they bump into things or even fall. "Their bodies are doing the computing,
[08:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:26] <exec> 08└─the goal now is *not* to avoid obstacles, but to make things that can survive lots of impacts. Tl;dr: Cockroaches are not like NFL* players *or any type of rugby, or AFL, ultimate fighters or boxers.
[08:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Lego for Modular Microfluidics - 342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:34] <exec> 08└─Would be interesting if Lego would actually manufacture these type of bricks (the video shows they make the modifications themselves) for a "science"-set of branch. I think the usage possibilities would be endless. One thing that I don't fully understand is how they prevent capillary between the bri...
[08:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:44] <exec> 08└─"Trump Unreal Estate, Ltd."
[09:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:16] <exec> 08└─home ownership status, education, number of gadgets owned, and how much they use the internet
[09:02:38] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 204 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:38] <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"?
[09:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03tonyPick [1237] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:03:23] <exec> 08└─IME it isn't uncommon in the UK tech/finance/etc for people to be technically employed, but told not to show up during the notice period: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 854 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:45] <exec> 08└─> if you travel to the US, you don't expect a 3rd world 'court system'. Sadly, that's not really the case :/ It's prudent to do similar precautions for traveling to US as for the 3rd world countries. Just last week or so there was an article about a denied extradition request for a European "hacker"...
[09:05:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:33] <exec> 08└─Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
[09:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:05:35] <exec> 08└─Why does JavaScript get a free pass yet devs now block Flash and Silverlight by default?
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[09:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:21] <exec> 08└─blockchains are all about trust. Trust is not something anyone really associates with Microsoft. Maybe this will phone home with "telemetry", too?
[09:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 319 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:23] <exec> 08└─byzantine consensus among fully independent nodes= decentralized unit byzantine consensus among fully controlled nodes, see walled garden= offloading cloud computing to client's hardware guess which one is in m$ execs mind... (cue the guy derailing on use of m$, cue the informative post detailing wh...
[09:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:25] <exec> 08└─cue the guy derailing on use of m$
[09:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:27] <exec> 08└─Blockchain. Blockchain blockchain! Decentralized, distributed blockchain. Cloudscale blockchain. Distributed trust, decentralized itentity cloud! Trust? Blockchain. Identity? Blockchain!
[09:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 884 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:38] <exec> 08└─Cock-a-rooches.... always seem to get into the kitchen, to be discovered when doing a frig raid. You know those things are covered with infrared sensors... they see you preparing to stomp and they skedaddle under impossible little cracks. Tip... hold a large mouthed cup or jar over them and slowly l...
[09:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:40] <exec> 08└─So what you are saying, if I read it right, is that when the boffins design the mini-robots to attack us in our own domiciles, all we need to fight back is a glass jar, cardboard, and some washing-up fluid? Was not this already covered in "The Fifth Element", but all we need is a shoe, and a Fifth E...
[09:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:42] <exec> 08└─Well, depends on what you want. If you are happy with just the car surviving, the strategy may indeed work. If you also want anything in the way of the car to survive, you probably want to employ a more sophisticated control.
[10:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:04] <exec> 08└─Maybe just that they looked Arabic. For all we know, all of the material in the test set that was not terrorist propaganda may have shown people of western origin, and maybe also blacks for racial diversity. Arabs of course are neither.
[10:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:33] <exec> 08└─"[Trump] says his two favorite books are the Bible and The Art Of The Deal. [He] says one is about a perfect God who teaches humanity the right way to live. And the other is the Bible." -- Bill Maher
[10:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:04:34] <exec> 08└─"All because some overly jittery gun toting security guard panicked in fear that 911part2 was in progress." Goddammit, are you telling me that the prototype flying car crashed before it even lifted off?
[10:05:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 412 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:06] <exec> 08└─I fail to see where in TFS or TFA you found the critically important piece of information that he knew he was accused of terrorism before he went to Turkey. Without that, your rant boils down to "guilty until proven innocent" combined with "she asked for it". Of course, the game in the US is crooked...
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[10:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 473 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:20] <exec> 08└─Love the very sexy logo, and the story about it. Maybe I'm the only one who read it? When I picked Mike Pence, I said to my art guy, make a sexy logo for us. But very BORING people whined and whined, they said it was too sexy. I wanted to get my message out. Sexy was part of my message, but there is...
[10:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03gawdonblue [412] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:21] <exec> 08└─Is that a bad thing?
[10:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:32] <exec> 08└─I thought capitals were reserved for respectable entities.
[10:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:34] <exec> 08└─Did you just assume its case? Also, are those white capitalist imperial dollars or are you storing a string in there?
[10:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:36] <exec> 08└─Blockchain. Blockchain blockchain! Decentralized, distributed blockchain. Cloudscale blockchain. Distributed trust, decentralized itentity cloud! Trust? Blockchain. Identity? Blockchain!
[10:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:38] <exec> 08└─Blockchain is the new Beetlejuice.
[10:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Using Lego for Modular Microfluidics - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:59] <exec> 08└─One thing that I don't fully understand is how they prevent capillary between the bricks (that it starts leaking on the sides).
[11:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:17] <exec> 08└─... or switch to selling snake oil.
[11:01:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:18] <exec> 08└─Our AI is 99% accurate at detecting X![1] [1] When the training set and the testing set are the same.
[11:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03TheRaven [270] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:20] <exec> 08└─I would love to see school mathematics curricula replace a load of the calculus that they teach with more stats. Calculus is very useful in a few fields, but even there most of what you're doing is constructing a differential equation that models something and then asking a machine to solve it, so p...
[11:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03KritonK [465] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:01:56] <exec> 08└─Quite predictably, there is no prefs->advanced in Firefox 58, so the offline cache cannot be wiped from there. History->Clear Recent History does have an Offline Website Data entry, though, which I assume does the same thing.
[11:03:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 1438 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:03:57] <exec> 08└─I work in digital printing. If it's done well, then a digital print book (your 'instant printing') can rival a traditional offset book in terms of quality. The trouble is, even with digital, there is a set-up cost, and the run cost is way higher. If you've invested huge amounts in automation, then t...
[11:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:52] <exec> 08└─As shots were fired, you seem to be implying that NSA agents are really really poor shots.
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[11:59:23] <exec> 08└─In 2010 he proposed building a chess center at the World Trade Center attack site.
[11:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:24] <exec> 08└─Or "Check baby, mate"?
[11:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 241 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:27] <exec> 08└─Attention whoring for a game that has been made utterly obsolete by computers. Kind of like the "controversial and trendy" logo. Or is chess reaaaally going to bring humans together in harmony? Perhaps to destroy the computers, AI, and bots.
[11:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:29] <exec> 08└─World chess has been run by organized crime since 1978.
[11:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Unixnut [5779] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:31] <exec> 08└─> Is that a bad thing? Depends if you are trying to overthrow the legitimate government or support it I guess.
[11:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 59 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:33] <exec> 08└─VERY STUPID AND UNFAIR moderators don't read the stories!!!
[11:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:48] <exec> 08└─Maybe this will phone home with "telemetry", too?
[11:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:49] <exec> 08└─INCOMPATIBLE STATEMENTS! DOES NOT COMPUTE! bzzzzzzzzt!
[11:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:51] <exec> 08└─... like I'm going to wipe my arse with sandpaper.
[12:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:25] <exec> 08└─*Unltd. To Infinity and Beyond.
[12:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03opinionated_science [4031] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:34] <exec> 08└─*all* mathematics is better than intuition. Learning how to apply known methods is a key way to investigate the world around us. "soft" subjects like sociology, psychology and economics, get disproportionate political weight specifically because the mathematical treatment is so weak, and the general...
[12:01:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optalysys, Back in the (Press Release) News - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:01:43] <exec> 08└─You pointed me to a wikipedia article that mentions Captain Woo Woo himself - Hal Puthoff. And EmDrive to boot. I feel tainted. You do know that "ex senior" really just means "now senile", don't you?
[12:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 6 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:41] <exec> 08└─Denial
[12:05:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 166 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:05:42] <exec> 08└─Claiming that people ought obey the laws and courts of the countries they choose to visit (I make no statement wrt those born there) is ridiculous to see as trolling.
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[12:59:35] <exec> 08└─Depends if you are trying to overthrow the legitimate government or support it I guess.
[13:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 851 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:00] <exec> 08└─Anecdote, so worthless whinge: I know someone who is working on a nuclear waste storage facility. A Nuclear Waste Storage Facility. Ya know, don't want to screw that up. The senior management don't know the first thing about the design. What is worse, they discourage their staff from learning about...
[13:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:37] <exec> 08└─... what terrorist propaganda looks like. But I know it when I see it.
[13:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Optalysys, Back in the (Press Release) News - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:01:48] <exec> 08└─It could be vandalism for all we know. The source is a geoblocked YouTube video.
[13:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:20] <exec> 08└─NIH will be like the catholic church is today. It will still exist and have a bunch of money and followers, but it's activities will not be considered to be primary.
[13:05:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 534 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:05:15] <exec> 08└─I spoke at the #NationalPrayerBreakfast [twitter.com] in Washington. Great religious and political leaders, and many friends, including T.V. producer Mark Burnett of our wonderful 14 season Apprentice triumph, were there. Arnold Schwarzenegger got "swamped" (or destroyed) by comparison to the rating...
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[13:59:13] <exec> 08└─... it's not like anyone reads those comments anyway.
[13:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 257 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:20] <exec> 08└─I actually read these news in two interpretation modes. - These vendors produce phones in which we have a hard time getting into. - These vendors refused to put backdoors for us in their phones. Either way seems like these phones are the safest ones to use.
[13:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:36] <exec> 08└─> a game that has been made utterly obsolete by computers The game of chess isn't obsolete. Unlike checkers it still is not solved. But we may be obsolete. Computers may soon be better than us at pretty much everything. Better at every game including sports, and better drivers, assembly line workers...
[14:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:08] <exec> 08└─Get an exoskeleton, they said, you'll look great in an exoskeleton, they said...
[14:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:09] <exec> 08└─Ever wonder why Elon sold all those flame throwers? You don't really have to hit them head on and fire is the only way to be certain.
[14:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03eravnrekaree [555] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 727 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:30] <exec> 08└─Absolutely insane. SLS is a bloated white elephant pork that is the sacred cow of the deep state swamp. This is the exact opposite of what any sane person would do which is cancel SLS and put more funding towards the science probes. Many have called for NASA to get out of the rocket business complet...
[14:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:04] <exec> 08└─without even using the usual marker for social class: an individual's income
[14:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:06] <exec> 08└─home ownership status, education, number of gadgets owned, and how much they use the internet
[14:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:08] <exec> 08└─super informal but ... home ownership status
[14:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:46] <exec> 08└─From what I have seen of terrorist propaganda and recruitment videos they tend to not show their actual faces, balaclava and sunglasses etc seems to be the norm. I guess they could have a few different sets -- if they talk a lot about Allah and infidels and all the virgins you get to have sex with t...
[14:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:01:47] <exec> 08└─It's so hard to do multiple takes -- when you yell cut they do and once the head comes off there is just no gluing it back on a again just like with Humpty Dumpty.
[14:05:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:05:58] <exec> 08└─The Russian aircraft had entered Turkish airspace, at least according to Turkey which was backed up by NATO radio recordings and radar data. Every nation has the right to protect its airspace. However, NATO aircraft are not seen as being an enemy and regularly enter Turkish airspace. If you cannot s...
[14:06:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:00] <exec> 08└─But that's in Egypt!
[14:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Salon Asks Ad-Blocking Users to Mine Cryptocurrency - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:50] <exec> 08└─That's just another mining scheme.
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[14:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:21] <exec> 08└─Seriously, what is it anyway? Can't you just summarize the points of all the comments? Do comment spam bringing up the same points over and over again suddenly make it more convincing?
[14:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:22] <exec> 08└─What is a "fake" comment?
[14:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:31] <exec> 08└─Yes, because the Chinese communist party is so ethical, and chinese corporations have such a great track record for doing the right thing.
[14:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 553 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:34] <exec> 08└─Yes, the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese corporations are no angels, but unless they have a reason, they don't care about what you do and will not waste their efforts to do anything to you. If you're an ordinary American who has no direct dealings with them, it is unlikely that they will ever us...
[14:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:36] <exec> 08└─When choosing between two unethical entities, one of which is blatant and clear about it, and another one that poses an angel and denies facts even after being caught red handed countless of times and enough to have become a well known meme all around the world, I would chose the former.
[14:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:52] <exec> 08└─0. Design logo 1. Get vulture capital funding 2. Order T-shirts 3. Design and order packaging, boxes, etc. 4. Develop product feature list 5. Hire underpaid dweebs to write the code 6. Profit
[15:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:48] <exec> 08└─Not disagreeing with your point, but the bloat is moving so slow, that SpaceX and friends are going to pass them up. The government program isn't going to get to the moon until long after the SpaceX colonization program has a major base constructed. Or maybe Mars. Same idea anyway.
[15:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 665 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:49] <exec> 08└─SLS is nothing but pork? So fix it. Fix the process. Because if SpaceX can run circles around the US government, so can Russia, China, maybe even North Korea and Iran. If your answer to broken government is to throw away the government, then guess what? All the bad guys that government is supposed t...
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[15:00:51] <exec> 08└─a multi-year $10.4 billion exploration plan aimed at returning astronauts to the moon in about five or six years
[15:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SpockLogic [2762] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:08] <exec> 08└─I'll be impressed when they identify this YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com] as dangerous propaganda. They are responsible for the death of thousands of Americans annually, another 17 in Florida yesterday.
[15:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:09] <exec> 08└─And what if they talk about how Allah comes in a black helicopter to take the guns away from the Queen because he needs them to kill the infidel whitey, while the protestant ZOG controls all the virgins who want to have sex with potato crackers? :-)
[15:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03ewk [5923] (Score: 2) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:11] <exec> 08└─Then praise Brian, because Monty Python has reunited :-D
[15:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Olympics Luge Team Looks To 3D Printing To Ice The Gold - 197 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:36] <exec> 08└─Is this a sport or is this the technology challenge? Seems that an unfair advantage is given by the equipment. If it were sport wouldn't it be based on skill not who can build the better equipment?
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[15:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:22] <exec> 08└─I have zero damned empathy or sympathy for "protestors" who attempt to block a scheduled speaker from speaking. Don't care if that speaker is a lowlife skinhead, or Latino, or a Communist, or even a pedophile Catholic priest. In this case, Kent State says, "No, we don't want you. You're not invited....
[15:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 1741 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:24] <exec> 08└─Being opposed to a Skinhead does not make one a Snowflake. But name calling definitely helps boost your argument. I am open to listening to opinions that I am predisposed to be opposed to, or that make me uncomfortable. But at my own choosing of whether or not to listen. The university has some form...
[15:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 292 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:26] <exec> 08└─If you want a venue, you shouldn't be able to demand it. It should be given to you willingly, whether that be by a rental or purchase, or simply gratis. Demanding what other people have is despicable behavior, although of course it pales in comparison to this man's other despicable behavior.
[15:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 3690 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:37] <exec> 08└─In a million of the fake comments, they were sourced from the wise denizens of pornhub.com. This is all quite reasonable in the grand scheme of things, until some irritating internet expert points out to the FCC that despite Pornhub being an established fine goods provider of speedy e-commerce paylo...
[15:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:39] <exec> 08└─Oblig: https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[16:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:07] <exec> 08└─They could open an account in a remaining sovereign nation, like Russia.
[16:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:08] <exec> 08└─All Your Pawn Are Belong To Us.
[16:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:27] <exec> 08└─Unless I missed something about block chains. The whole idea behind block chains is that they have built-in tracking functionality, so you don't need a central control system.
[16:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:44] <exec> 08└─Much simpler and less likely to fail. Make sure to clean up the mess afterward with a clorox wipe or something, too.
[16:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:46] <exec> 08└─Thank you, but I was aware of that. I wasn't shooting for correct, or proper - I was appropriating concepts. If everyone knows their station in life, then alles in ordnung, right? My biggest Soylent fan will probably be along shortly to point out how I've abused Japanese culture, as well. ;^)
[16:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:47] <exec> 08└─Credit reports are useful and all, but they lack the granularity needed by Facefook and clients.
[16:02:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Appalbarry [66] 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:05] <exec> 08└─* For certain definitions of "recognize" ** For certain definitions of "terrorist" *** For certain definitions of "propaganda" Your mileage may vary. Professional driver on closed course. Prices slightly higher in Canada.
[16:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03fustakrakich [6150] (Score: 1) 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:31] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but they can review the take before they do the next guy. And allah help the cameraman who repeats his mistakes!
[16:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 789 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:16] <exec> 08└─Funny, that indy feeling is the impression I got in Waterstones in Piccadilly circus. That's 6 floors, but (the way I remember it now) with here and there small cards saying "Why I love this book, by ... reason ...". Dunno if that was completely faked or just company-wide suggestions distributed to...
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[16:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:24] <exec> 08└─SETI and Other Astronomy Projects are irritating the cryptomining industry.
[16:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 325 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:34] <exec> 08└─The types of followers he brings out are in favor of using violence to achieve their goals. The types of protesters he brings out are in favor of using violence to prevent his ilk from achieving their goals. The overall safety of the campus should be the priority. Let him go rent out the Foreign Leg...
[16:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 203 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:36] <exec> 08└─I'm honestly not sure if it's what you meant, but yes, Richard Spencer needs to stop acting like a special snowflake who's entitled to shit all over everyone else just because that's what he wants to do.
[16:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:38] <exec> 08└─Well, yes - that is exactly what I meant. Spencer thinks he is special, that he has some right to spew his version of bullshit - a special little snowflake. Snowflakes don't just come in SJW flavor, LOL! Skinhead epitomize the whole snowflake thing. They're afraid of all the rest of us, so they nee...
[16:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:40] <exec> 08└─More concisely: If you want to pull the trigger on forcing venues to host anyone and foot the security costs, I can definitely think of some ways that you will not like how the shoe fits on the other foot.
[16:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03WizardFusion [498] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:52] <exec> 08└─There was a lot of comments made by people that were long dead. There are twitter posts asking the FCC how someones parent or grand-parent, who had been dead for several years, had logged several comments in favour of NN.
[16:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:54] <exec> 08└─You still haven't addressed the point, why would comment spam be a concern? Just summarize and judge it on its own merits. If strawman has a point, then it has a point. If you can just ignore it because of anonymity, why have a public commentary at all? Why not only have well-known president appoint...
[16:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 265 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:56] <exec> 08└─Why is that even an issue? Can anyone explain why can't the FCC just summarize the points? Why do people believe repeating the same point over and over makes it magically stronger? Don't you have proper authentication than to claim "my great grand mother hates NN"?
[16:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03JeanCroix [573] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 212 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:58] <exec> 08└─Anyone who listened to any of the public statements made by Ajit Payola prior to the the comment period would know that the decision to repeal was already made a priori, regardless of any possible public comment.
[16:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:00] <exec> 08└─Why do people believe repeating the same point over and over makes it magically stronger?
[17:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:02] <exec> 08└─It's only partly about the logical arguments; it's also partially a popularity contest/poll of public opinion. But of course when you ballot-stuff that means you can't get useful numbers out of it. 20 people with the same opinion is 20 votes; one guy submitting the same opinion 20 times should not b...
[17:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 140 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:13] <exec> 08└─Meh. It's just the ruling class getting us ready for World War 3. They've already decided it's going to happen. We don't have any say in it.
[17:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 331 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:14] <exec> 08└─The allegation was not that they would do anything to the owner. The TLAs are worried that these companies may be trying to get their gear onto US networks for nefarious reasons Gee, what could you do with several hundred thousand federated processors hiding on an adversaries network? Who better to...
[17:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:16] <exec> 08└─Chinese Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Cisco and Dell Products
[17:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03OrugTor [5147] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 217 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:36] <exec> 08└─A Swiss bank refuses to support a customer with alleged ties to a nation out of favor with other nations. How times have changed. Great to see a Swiss bank making good on their promises of better transparency theater.
[17:00:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MostCynical [2589] 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 146 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:43] <exec> 08└─blockchains are all about trust. Trust is not something anyone really associates with Microsoft. Maybe this will phone home with "telemetry", too?
[17:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:56] <exec> 08└─All of the information that I am "happy to share" already exists on the internet. No, you can't have my home address, you can't have my real name, you can't have my driver's license number, you can't have any of the zillions of bits of information that will satisfy your curiosity about my identity....
[17:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:14] <exec> 08└─Shoot a nuke down a bug hole, you've got a lot of dead bugs.
[17:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:39] <exec> 08└─HAHAHA! "competing priorities at NASA": going for the moon -OR- observing TEH outer-space universe some more? that's like "competing priorities" when turning left: like this much left, 90 degrees left? no, "this much" left in between this 90 degrees left and this a bit less by one Angstrom left ......
[17:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:40] <exec> 08└─I am pretty sure that is the first thought that popped into his head, and before anyone could explain what it ACTUALLY stood for, he had it shut down and was moving on to the next budget item :)
[17:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:47] <exec> 08└─Government funded research is not focused on revenue projections in the next 10 quarters.
[17:04:48] <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
[17:04:48] <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.
[17:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 273 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:51] <exec> 08└─Anti-shoplifting sign? I mean book welding shoplifters are the biggest danger to America, because THEY STEAL KNOWLEDGE! JUST LIKE THE CHINESE! IN FACT THEY MUST ALL BE CHINESE SPIES!!! (Or is that 'classical American Patriots'... it is hard to tell the difference anymore.)
[17:07:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06NASA Scientist Sentenced to 7.5 Years in a Turkish Prison - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:24] <exec> 08└─Well first off, we don't need to have American missiles on their territory at all. The Cold War is over, and there's always eastern Europe if we really needed a place to put missiles (besides, this is exactly why we have ballistic missile subs, as well as ICBMs). As for the strait, that's mainly of...
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[17:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03looorg [578] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:23] <exec> 08└─I guess this explains why they have not found Satoshi Nakamoto anywhere on this earth. The cryptocurrency boom is an alien scheme to keep us from finding them via SETI.
[17:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:24] <exec> 08└─There's a large line of annoyed computer gamers that would like the cryto-miners to take a long walk off a short pier.
[17:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 250 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:26] <exec> 08└─SETI is a total waste of CPU power, games are a pleasant way to waste time, and cryptocurrencies are a very wasteful way to maybe make money... If only there was a way those GPUs could directly contribute to the advancement of science [stanford.edu].
[17:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Inspired [6565] (Score: 2, Funny) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:28] <exec> 08└─"Prof [Aaron] Parsons' radio telescope, the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionisation Array (Hera), is an American, British and South African project located in South Africa's western plains. " Dr. Evil: The key to this project is the giant radio telescope which was invented by the noted Berkeley astrophysicis...
[17:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:31] <exec> 08└─The cryptomillionaires are all pimple-faced gamers who used their excessive computing capacity to mine coins in the early days.
[17:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:33] <exec> 08└─i mean come on. boinc and seti and the other projects that use GPUs to calculate stuff -- people are donating time to them. This sounds more like they are crying that people are wasting their electricity in a different way, one that actually might pay for itself back. i've donated time to the variou...
[17:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 1268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:35] <exec> 08└─Why can't the two go together? I'm just some dumbass AC with a superficial understanding of proof-of-work algorithms, but I'm wondering if it's not possible to create a cryptocurrency where the proof-of-work is running work units for Folding@Home for example. Of course, that necessarily implies cent...
[17:59:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jdavidb [5690] 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 292 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:44] <exec> 08└─If you want a venue, you shouldn't be able to demand it. It should be given to you willingly, whether that be by a rental or purchase, or simply gratis. Demanding what other people have is despicable behavior, although of course it pales in comparison to this man's other despicable behavior.
[17:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:51] <exec> 08└─Did you even read what he wrote, or did you just kneejerk on "snowflake'?
[17:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:53] <exec> 08└─Skinhead has no recourse. Get over it, Snowflake!!
[17:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 522 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:55] <exec> 08└─The types of followers he brings out are in favor of using violence to achieve their goals. The types of protesters he brings out are in favor of using violence to prevent his ilk from achieving their goals. Last time [soylentnews.org] we talked about a Spencer speech we heard the same types of fals...
[17:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 427 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:57] <exec> 08└─I did read it fully. I did misinterpret something, as I point out further below. The snowflake part could be interpreted to mean two very different things. Still my point that Richard Spencer should not be able to force a venue to accept him. And for those who want that to force that to happen I wou...
[17:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1, Redundant) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 234 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:00] <exec> 08└─There's an issue. The security is the State's responsibility. We don't pay for the police, that's what taxes are for. Spencer is entitled to have the taxpayers pay for security just like anyone else is when violent people attack them.
[18:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:02] <exec> 08└─Sorry, one side is definitely worse.
[18:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:04] <exec> 08└─He pays for security, it's called taxes.
[18:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 2866 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:06] <exec> 08└─Not only he should be able to demand it, but he's demanding it, and he may yet win. The 1st amendment to the US Constitution protects Spencer's right to say absolutely anything, short of inciting people to break the law, or putting them in immediate danger. This protection fully extends to hate spee...
[18:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:08] <exec> 08└─I agree. In addition, it is not only Spencer who is entitled to have taxpayer funded security, but also the venue that might suffer massive property damage or worse. Police security, sadly, may not be adequate (for either Spencer or the venue). So now who pays for security?
[18:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:11] <exec> 08└─That does not mean taxpayer provided security is at all adequate. Maybe you need to bring in the national guard instead of the local police. Maybe other taxpayers have an opinion about whether they should be paying for considerably more security resources just to allow one individual to demand the u...
[18:00:21] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 3690 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:22] <exec> 08└─In a million of the fake comments, they were sourced from the wise denizens of pornhub.com. This is all quite reasonable in the grand scheme of things, until some irritating internet expert points out to the FCC that despite Pornhub being an established fine goods provider of speedy e-commerce paylo...
[18:00:27] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JeanCroix [573] 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 212 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:28] <exec> 08└─Anyone who listened to any of the public statements made by Ajit Payola prior to the the comment period would know that the decision to repeal was already made a priori, regardless of any possible public comment.
[18:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:32] <exec> 08└─The FCC chair is not an elected position, it is not a democracy.
[18:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:34] <exec> 08└─20 same opinions with the exact same points is still a single point, how does it become stronger? I think you are conflating votes with RFCs.
[18:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:48] <exec> 08└─OK, so Chinese and US products are all suspect. What might a secure alternative be? Nokia Asha-based phones perhaps? Assuming of course Microsoft hasn't gotten their slimy tentacles into Asha yet.
[18:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:09] <exec> 08└─s/other nations/the USA/
[18:02:04] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 368 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:05] <exec> 08└─SLS is primarily a pork rocket for Congress, not the current President: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] For Fiscal Year 2015, NASA received an appropriation of US$1.7 billion from Congress for SLS, an amount that was approximately US$320 mi...
[18:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 1503 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:14] <exec> 08└─Isn't it a bit unrealistic to assume that the millions he lied to will vote him into office again to claim this achievement? Not at all. In fact, I would bet money on it. I'm not saying the Democrats can't find a way to screw up 2020, but the most likely outcome here is that Trump loses the white ho...
[18:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Trump Administration Budget Proposal Would Cancel WFIRST - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:16] <exec> 08└─SLS is nothing but pork? So fix it. Fix the process. That's impossible. We're stuck with this process because of the way the government is structured.
[18:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:18] <exec> 08└─i don't really understand all the possibilities of "interception mitigation" security, but it is strange that two computers/devices on the same home-LAN going thru the same NAT-gateway have to both load the same youtube "from-that-far-away-server" at 7pm high-traffic-jam situation TWICE. like: "duh,...
[18:04:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NewNic [6420] 02 - 06NIH Contributed to Research Related to Every One of 210 Newly Approved Drugs - 291 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:26] <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.
[18:06:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:27] <exec> 08└─Like China, Russia, the UK, and the US Governments? :)
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[18:59:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:19] <exec> 08└─http://www.nbc29.com/story/23957865/passing-a-field-sobriety-test-difficult-drunk-or-sober [nbc29.com] Field sobriety tests are bullshit. Why would anyone volunteer to help validate them?
[18:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:21] <exec> 08└─The article doesn't say who bought the pot.
[18:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:23] <exec> 08└─That would be a blast. I've actually volunteered a few times for the local police to help train officers in using breathalyzers. Drink as much as you feel like for an hour (it's tracked) and then go around to each station at least once and get tested. Pretty cool to see your BAC go up, then start co...
[18:59:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Kilo110 [2853] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:25] <exec> 08└─What happens if there's an accident? Did you have to sign waivers?
[18:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:40] <exec> 08└─(Oh, forgot to check who wrote the article. It's BBC. The way to interpret this article is that it's creating a false dichotomy between cryptocurrency and science. The neoliberal policies propaganda outlets like the BBC agitate for are antiscience. Neoliberals want to defund all basic science resear...
[18:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:41] <exec> 08└─Maybe Stanford should be looking for ways to reward folders with cryptocurrencies for all the resources they burn folding. I've had to temporarily suspend my folding machine due to bulging capacitors. That after heating my home office with via folding for months on end,
[18:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 1255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:43] <exec> 08└─"When the inevitable flood of cheap GPUs onto the market happens" oh please do stfu. Instead of gamers and scientists (who evidently just crawled out from under a rock) whining about the cryptocurrency "craze" stealing all "their" GPUs why don't they demand these retarded ass GPU companies do their...
[18:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:45] <exec> 08└─HODL HODL HODL
[18:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 200 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:47] <exec> 08└─Don't be silly. How could Stanford afford to reward the people providing it with free computing power without having to raise student fees? They only have a paltry 22.4 Billion dollars in the bank ...
[18:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 1168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:50] <exec> 08└─I'm all for detecting aliens, but SETI just seems to be a massive waste of time and resources to me. The whole thing is predicated on a huge assumption: that the aliens are intentionally beaming extremely strong, repeating radio signals into space so that we'll find them. However, *we* don't do this...
[18:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:52] <exec> 08└─> Their job is to supply the demand. Their first job is to remain solvent. If/When the crypto craze stops, the market will be flooded with second-hand GPUs. If they matched current demand, they would end up with production overcapacity, and dramatically shrunk demand, which is a recipe for disaster....
[19:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 1174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:15] <exec> 08└─One thing to be aware of is that the university does everything it can to try to make the May 4 commemorations as non-political as they can be. For instance, the victims of the 1970 shooting that were random students on their way to class are given exactly the same attention as the protesters who we...
[19:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:17] <exec> 08└─The university has some form of governance. That governance mechanism should have control of who they invite or even allow to speak.
[19:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:19] <exec> 08└─there will be a violent protest, then the venue should be able to put the burden of paying for security on the speaker,
[19:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 532 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:21] <exec> 08└─Richard Spencer is probably worth supporting. I'd attend his event based on the reaction from aristarchus. Of course, the funny thing is that aristarchus is probably the leftist version of those anti-gay republicans that get caught picking up men in airport restrooms. The hatred that aristarchus cla...
[19:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:41] <exec> 08└─Because 20 people hold that view, not just one. Duh!
[19:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hyperturtle [2824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:43] <exec> 08└─I can't take credit for it, but I think this was great (in reference to your Ajit Payola) Kajit has legisliation... if you have coin
[19:00:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:45] <exec> 08└─Sure, but there is value in not letting him get away with hiding that behind astroturf. Make him stand behind his blatantly anti-democratic corporate brown nosing.
[19:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:47] <exec> 08└─I'm not saying the FCC itself is; it's just the concept of asking for the input of the population before making a decision.
[19:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:49] <exec> 08└─Maybe it's not a literal vote, but I'd still like to see them have the balls to decide against a hypothetical proposition where 99% of the feedback they get is on one side of it.
[19:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 956 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:51] <exec> 08└─And as far as the fake comments go, just about any of us could have written a script to make them happen. It wouldn't even be a big challenge, just a bit of Bash, Curl, route through Tor if they're doing some IP source throttling, and go. If you want to be a bit more clever about it to hide the astr...
[19:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:53] <exec> 08└─Based on prior comments they weren't doing any source throttling, or even validating.
[19:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 1064 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:07] <exec> 08└─supposedly they can eat anything "man-made" but normally cock-a-roach (and ants) only do what they are supposed to do:"clean up". i get them if i get careless in the kitchen. the little cleaning nano bots are totally giving romba a run for the money: free and self-multiplying. anyways, after cleanin...
[19:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 450 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:08] <exec> 08└─I don't think this approach would work for anything very large...unless it was also *extremely* light. it's true that momentum is only linear with mass, but it's also linear with velocity, and since larger things need to move faster, there's essentially a square factor in the scaling. If you moved a...
[19:03:36] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03melikamp [1886] 02 - 06A.I. Algorithm Recognizes Terrorist Propaganda With 99% Accuracy - 77 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:36] <exec> 08└─Maple-syrup-smugglers are freedom fighters, sweet sweet brown sticky freedom.
[19:04:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:40] <exec> 08└─I'm not so sure. As long as browsers could implement secure sand-boxing for each of the "apps", why shouldn't the browser be the GUI under which a web-app runs. Plenty of these "apps" the kids are running are just chromeless browser windows (or at least the portable ones written in HTML5). The first...
[19:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Barnes & Noble's "Bloody Monday" - 1220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:50] <exec> 08└─OK, that's *why* instant printing never took off. And it's a good reason. But shipping from a warehouse should often get the stuff delivered in a day or two (which was what I was proposing). It means you'd need several large warehouses, but that's a lot cheaper than a large store in every city. The...
[19:07:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 111 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:47] <exec> 08└─l3tte3rs reply: "thanks for your email. but next time please tell nancy to ADD a recipient email address in..."
[19:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Several Injured Outside NSA Headquarters in Fort Meade - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:48] <exec> 08└─"and click on "send" too" :D
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[19:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:26] <exec> 08└─I don't think so. They do make sure you're not driving, and ensure that you get into a vehicle as a passenger when you leave. They also even escort you to the washroom. They've covered their asses reasonable well (for Canada).
[19:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:27] <exec> 08└─no, you have to keep the baby.
[19:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:29] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't say they are total bullshit, they measure reaction and coordination times and if someone is sober yet can't pass then maybe their license should be revoked. Why volunteer for this? Because people can be pro-choice with regards to drugs yet still not want people DUI.
[19:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:32] <exec> 08└─"Approximately 75 percent of the DUI arrests that I make nowadays are drug impaired -- more specifically to cannabis than alcohol," said Glendale Police Officer Bryan Duncan.
[19:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:34] <exec> 08└─Gotta work on your heuristic algorithms.
[19:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:37] <exec> 08└─How about whether we scientifically determine whether weed-impaired driving is more dangerous before we criminalize it?
[19:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:39] <exec> 08└─He doesn't need to test to get DUI arrests. All he needs to do is get the driver to incriminate themselves. People talk way too much to the police, making their jobs extra easy. "I only had two beers", "I only had one joint", etc.
[19:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:42] <exec> 08└─I'm in an exercise 3 days a week, one thing we always do is what we call DUI 101. We do the heel-toe walk for a minute, and stand on each leg for 15 seconds each. Even stone cold sober, freshly rested, and 2 years of practice, I'd still fail at least half the tie. Add the stress of a cop telling me...
[20:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:03] <exec> 08└─There are no aliens.
[20:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:05] <exec> 08└─Photonic communications (lasers) could also be detected from afar, although that hardly detracts from your argument. "Optical SETI" is where it's at. So long as the JWST and a successor or two launch without a hitch.
[20:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:07] <exec> 08└─you are not sure you are the mightiest civilization around? then DO NOT advertise your position. you are sure you are? then why advertise your position? go visit the peasants on weekends.
[20:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03julian [6003] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:09] <exec> 08└─It's not just gamers, it's anyone who needs a new GPU for any reason. I've been trying to get a 1070 or 1080 at original MSRP for six months and it's impossible. I'm not paying 100-200% over MSRP for a GPU. This techno tulip mania needs to end.
[20:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 1551 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:11] <exec> 08└─I rarely have the stomach for the overly heated online discussions, but I'll bite: The main issue is that whatever the process is, "cryptocurrency mining", folding@home, SETI, etc, it will generally use a LOT, most, or all of your CPU time. So it's a matter of who gets that CPU / GPU time & computin...
[20:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:14] <exec> 08└─Unfortunately, "advancement of science" is not a compelling enough reason to use proprietary software like folding@home.
[20:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:16] <exec> 08└─I've had to temporarily suspend my folding machine due to bulging capacitors.
[20:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 1520 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:18] <exec> 08└─maybe you could go through a couple of physics books before you start talking about this. 1. the frequencies SETI is looking at are the frequencies that we would use if we wanted to talk to people living around other stars. they are the frequencies for which most of the universe is transparent, whil...
[20:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 885 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:47] <exec> 08└─The problem is this is a state supported school. This is a continual problem. To what extent should government money be used to determine what is available in the way of speech. The answer *ought* to be that it isn't, but this is wholly impractical. Only so many people can reasonably speak at the sa...
[20:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:48] <exec> 08└─I pretty much agree with you up until the very last line. I'd change that to "The problem isn't just the speakers.".
[20:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 1994 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:50] <exec> 08└─And who will be paying for the police work again? Police don't work for free. As you can plainly see, I am all for Spencer's right to express his political views, and I also believe that a university campus, out of all places, is a highly appropriate place to host someone expressing highly controver...
[20:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:52] <exec> 08└─Copy / pasting is fine with reddit, here you just look like a jackass spammer. Look at me look at me! Validate my hatred!!!
[20:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 213 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:56] <exec> 08└─The 1st amendment to the US Constitution protects Spencer's right to say absolutely anything, Not on my property it doesn't. Speak all you want. You don't get to demand the use of a private venue to do it, though.
[20:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 77 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:58] <exec> 08└─That is true, I think, but this discussion pertains to public schools mostly.
[20:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:00] <exec> 08└─The right to free speech does not trump my property rights. That's why the first amendment talks about the freedom of the press. You have the right to use your press, not the right to use my press. You have the right to use your auditorium; you do not have the right to use mine.
[20:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:03] <exec> 08└─And just like that it turns out the piece of shit who murdered 17 kids yesterday was Trump supporter. [standard.co.uk]
[20:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03melikamp [1886] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 35 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:06] <exec> 08└─Kent State is a public institution.
[20:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:08] <exec> 08└─He pays for security, it's called taxes.
[20:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:34] <exec> 08└─Can I get some skooma while yer at it? We need something for the people with IQs over 75.
[20:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:51] <exec> 08└─So the yearly complete and utter humiliation of US spying efforts is a bad thing? Why should anyone care whether they win or lose, when its pretty clear that US intelligence agencies are against everybody, domestic and foreign? If one can't defend own network against a few hundred thousand cellphone...
[20:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:52] <exec> 08└─Reading comprehension much? There was a trial balloon floated to have a nationalized 5G network [documentcloud.org] owned and operated by the government. However, you seem to be the only one that assumes it already exists. Maybe you want to look into who owns and runs the networks in this country (C...
[20:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:54] <exec> 08└─Well that's the easy part. The hard part is telling which one is which.
[20:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 286 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:57] <exec> 08└─Cisco and Dell (eventually) fess up to their vulnerabilities. Sometimes they even fix them. Maybe the NSA/CIA should just leak what they know to some actual hackers so they can suddenly "find" these worry-some back doors and publish sensational articles about zero day vulnerabilities.
[20:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 531 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:18] <exec> 08└─They decided to hold a women's tournament in a country that requires women to cover up. Highly ranked chess players are refusing to attend. One will be losing some sort of fancy best-in-the-world title by not attending. If you want to hold a tournament for women: Canada, USA, New Zealand, Australia,...
[20:02:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:59] <exec> 08└─My house contains: 1. the ensign wasp, Evania appendigaster, which is a parasite of cockroach egg cases 2. wolf spiders, sometimes reaching 2 inches in diameter counting the legs 3. large ants (they seem to defend food or hiding places from cockroaches) 4. the occasional lizard or frog I need to add...
[20:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06How Cockroaches Crash Into Walls And Keep Going - 30 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:00] <exec> 08└─Well, depends on what you want
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[20:59:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 374 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:20] <exec> 08└─Not trolling ... I really, really hope some large advertising company or industry group uses Google over this and loses. This could be the opportunity to get legal precedent that says "we get to decide what code runs in our browsers and on our devices". Malicious advertisers be damned. It's a pipe d...
[20:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:21] <exec> 08└─> I really, really hope some large advertising company or industry group uses Google over this I guess you posted using a Android phone, and the autocorrect spotted "sues Google" as a 4th directive infringing statement.
[20:59:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 660 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:23] <exec> 08└─Chrome, especially Chrome for Android, is awful at handling ads that redirect you to other sites. Lots of us have problems with visiting what should be legitimate web sites, only to find an ad just trigger 5 redirects to a site that says "YOUR ____ MODEL PHONE HAS A VIRUS!" with a Google logo. And o...
[20:59:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 168 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:25] <exec> 08└─Why do you need legal precedent for that? Under what justification would such a lawsuit be filed, anyway? It seems to me like your view of the world is not quite right.
[20:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:28] <exec> 08└─Switch to Firefox
[20:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 428 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:30] <exec> 08└─Google vice president Rahul Roy-Chowdhury wrote in a blog post that the company aims to keep the web healthy by "filtering out disruptive ad experiences." The best way to do this is to use an ad-blocker, to filter out all ads. There's no such thing as a non-disruptive ad experience. (To be fair, the...
[20:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03mobydisk [5472] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:32] <exec> 08└─Oh, they are doing that too! https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com]
[20:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 336 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:34] <exec> 08└─Even if the sun and the planets align and the user base accepts this built in ad blocking capability, it will eventually go down hill when the inevitable occurs and Google takes money to allow ads through the block. Users will continue to install third party less biased ad blocking plugins. Is G try...
[20:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 498 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:36] <exec> 08└─> There's no such thing as a non-disruptive ad experience. Product placement. The next step is NPR's spoken ads, with no music. It still takes you off topic, but in a much less in-your-face way. The web equivalent is a paragraph in a simple font without gimmicks. But obviously, thousands of people w...
[20:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:39] <exec> 08└─You have a point there, though I'd say your "web equivalent" of the NPR ad is basically the text-only google ads I mentioned previously as an exception. But yeah, product placement is the other biggie.
[20:59:50] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Bot [3902] 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 30 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:50] <exec> 08└─no, you have to keep the baby.
[20:59:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 119 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:54] <exec> 08└─How about whether we scientifically determine whether weed-impaired driving is more dangerous before we criminalize it?
[20:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:58] <exec> 08└─He didn't say that those 75% of DUIs were all cannabis, just that cannabis was more than alcohol. It could be 50% of the drug impairment is something else entirely.
[21:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:00] <exec> 08└─... maybe you shouldn't be driving :)
[21:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:31] <exec> 08└─I've recently been wanting to build a new box, but ram and gpu prices are insane! Most estimates on RAM prices give a year or so for manufacturers to get new production up to the point that prices drop, but for gpu there is no end in sight.
[21:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 585 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:10] <exec> 08└─I see absolutely no reason why universities should be a free-for-all, and freedom of speech != given a free soap box. If a student group reserves a location for whatever speaker they'd like then sure, but speakers don't just get to decide they'll have an auditorium on any state campus they'd like. S...
[21:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 441 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:11] <exec> 08└─I want to understand your point better, because I fear I may have misunderstood it. Your second survey question When asked, would it be legitimate for protesters to crash the event and shout so loud that the speaker can't be heard, a decent proportion of students, again around 40%, said yes, which i...
[21:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:13] <exec> 08└─I typed that up fresh. Sure, it resembles previous comments I've made, but it is 100% new text. I'm totally serious too. What is with the obsession with the alt-right? Trying to paint them as KKK (which was democrats) and Nazi (which was socialist) is a pretty darn evil way to distort reality.
[21:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:15] <exec> 08└─Look here mr. "what is hate speech anyway" nazi apologist, there is no reason anyone is guaranteed a speaking location at any school. You seem to be mixing up a pre-approved student group invited speaker with someone trying to force their own approval. If some students invite Spencer to speak and th...
[21:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:18] <exec> 08└─Spencer has no right to security paid for by taxpayers, when he is causing the need for security in the first place! This is like saying that the city has provide me a squad of police officers to protect me when I walk up to a gang of bikers, and call them all "faggots".
[21:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:20] <exec> 08└─The problem is this is a state supported school.
[21:01:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:22] <exec> 08└─I just love it when Runaway agrees with aristarchus! It smells, . . . like victory.
[21:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:24] <exec> 08└─Bringing the National Guard? Onto the Kent State Campus? On May 4? Are you insane, or just incredibly insensitive?
[21:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:52] <exec> 08└─Last I checked, they are asking for input, not for a public vote. Asking the public for permission is for Congress, not the FCC.
[21:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:53] <exec> 08└─Why not? The FCC is not an elected body, it is kind of the point of having appointed positions. If they are doing against public interests, have Congress or the Court Justices reign them in.
[21:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:14] <exec> 08└─Yet none of these companies will stop producing proprietary software and locked-down devices. They are all guilty.
[21:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:15] <exec> 08└─but unless they have a reason, they don't care about what you do and will not waste their efforts to do anything to you.
[21:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:38] <exec> 08└─I don't care enough to read the details, but each article like this or the one's about https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] makes me value them more, despite not holding any.
[21:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bank Accounts of World Chess Body Closed - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:40] <exec> 08└─Our great financial industry is the backbone of our economy. My predecessor did a number on it in many, many ways. Operation Choke Point, Dodd-Frank, the CFPB -- so many DISASTERS. I promised the American people I'd take the shackles off of Wall Street. And I'm fixing it very quickly!!!!
[21:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Major Browser Vendors to Restrict AppCache to Secure Connections - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:53] <exec> 08└─That's a big "if." As it is, I'd prefer something like running each app in some kind of lightweight virtualization container, and even *that's* not foolproof given, among other things, the recent speculative execution bugs.
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[21:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:39] <exec> 08└─There's no such thing as a non-disruptive ad experience.
[21:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:41] <exec> 08└─ADS THAT AREN'T ANNOYING? SURE. IT'S POSSIBLE FOR ALL CAPS NOT TO BE ANNOYING. IT'S EVEN POSSIBLE FOR BLINKING TEXT NOT TO BE AGGRAVATING. IT'S MORE LIKELY THAN PIGS FLYING. AND NOW A MESSAGE FROM OUR SPONSORS: YOUR WINDOWS COMPUTER IS INFECTED WITH A VIRUS. SO IS YOUR BRAIN. IT'S LIKE TOXOPLASMA GO...
[21:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 1224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:43] <exec> 08└─Just the ruling class trying to control who can make money from internet content and who cannot. I guarantee disruptive ads will include certainly some of the worst offenders, but it will also happen to be that ads for companies that aren't international monopolies are "disruptive." It's the same wa...
[21:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03fido_dogstoyevsky [131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:45] <exec> 08└─...But obviously, thousands of people who have to feed themselves ...
[22:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03arslan [3462] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:05] <exec> 08└─Why? because he's not nimble enough to toe walk or agile enough to stand on one leg? I agree on the principle that folks that have bad reaction and awareness shouldn't be driving whether DUI or not, but the tests they do doesn't necessarily prove that. They need better tests than those circus exerci...
[22:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:07] <exec> 08└─No. Authoritarians are not interested in science.
[22:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 602 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:09] <exec> 08└─They've done quite a bit of the science bit. n the Drug and Alcohol Dependence study, within-lane weaving began to occur once the person's blood levels reached about 13 micrograms of THC per liter of blood. In fact, people with that level of THC had the same level of impairment as people with a bloo...
[22:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:40] <exec> 08└─If Folding@home wants to use my CPU/GPU, they can pay me, otherwise they can do their own work and waste their own resources.
[22:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:27] <exec> 08└─Wrong. He has a right to speak. The hecklers are causing the problem, not Spencer.
[22:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 548 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:28] <exec> 08└─The police, not the university, ought to foot the bill. Actually, he should be able to speak regardless of whether there is security or not. And get this, the hecklers that throw objects, etc. should be ARRESTED BY THE POLICE AND SENT TO JAIL. Booing a speaker is fine. Attacking them is not. People...
[22:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:30] <exec> 08└─Faggot!
[22:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 1088 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:32] <exec> 08└─People who think spencer doesn't have the right to speak are suggesting that the police shouldn't protect him from people attacking him. Why should the police not protect anyone? When the national guard had to be deployed to protect the rights of blacks to attend an all white school, was that wrong?...
[22:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 195 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:35] <exec> 08└─Why should a publicly funded university control who they allow to speak? Yeah, screw teachers! We should just let any random nutjob off the street teach classes. How dare they control who speaks!
[22:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 810 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:37] <exec> 08└─Remember when @charlesmurray [twitter.com] -- terrific scholar and one of my biggest fans -- came to Middlebury? The administrators were great, very welcoming. The President introduced him. She said she didn't agree with him. But she wanted him to be HEARD!!!!!!!! But some of the students didn't wan...
[22:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:02:27] <exec> 08└─"Yes, because the Chinese communist party is so ethical, and chinese corporations have such a great track record for doing the right thing." Yes, because the American government is so ethical, and American corporations have such a great track record for doing the right thing. Yes, because the Americ...
[22:04:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Facebook Patents Tech to Determine Social Class - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:41] <exec> 08└─I think Trump already has a spokesperson.
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[22:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 96 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:49] <exec> 08└─Just the ruling class trying to control who can make money from internet content and who cannot.
[22:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:50] <exec> 08└─That woman who does the spoken ads on NPR sounds robotically creepy.
[22:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:53] <exec> 08└─Precedent established in a trial funded by deep pockets would enable inexpensive and low risk suits by small fry. It is a very big deal in the US.
[22:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:55] <exec> 08└─. Plus, there is vastly more censorship coming before the ruling class can start World War 3, and... you know? I think most people want it to happen.
[23:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:19] <exec> 08└─Dangerous driving should be illegal. We shouldn't add on extra penalties just because someone is drunk and/or high. If, theoretically, someone can drive just fine while drunk or high, then they are not hurting anyone and they should not be punished if they are pulled over for an unrelated reason (li...
[23:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03LoRdTAW [3755] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 1235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:20] <exec> 08└─It's the same problem with alcohol: it affects people differently. Two different people drinking three beers can exhibit completely opposite effects. One may be vomiting drunk while the other is stone cold sober asking for more. Many variables come into play such as hydration levels, stomach content...
[23:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:22] <exec> 08└─Not being able to walk heel-to-toe would make me suspicious of a coordination problem; not definitely, but I did say "maybe". Driving tests should evaluate actual skill, vision, reaction times, awareness, and decision making. Some people are much better drivers quite drunk that others are sober. Rea...
[23:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Nerdfest [80] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:24] <exec> 08└─Legalization is only going to change prevalence a bit. People drive high right now.
[23:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06California "Green Lab" Volunteers Smoke Cannabis in Front of the Police - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:27] <exec> 08└─He doesn't need to test to get DUI arrests. All he needs to do is get the driver to incriminate themselves. People talk way too much to the police, making their jobs extra easy. "I only had two beers", "I only had one joint", etc.
[23:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06GPU Cryptomining Hurting SETI and Other Astronomy Projects - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:58] <exec> 08└─You have to drill holes and let them out before they explode and spray genetic goo.
[23:01:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 352 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:07] <exec> 08└─I have zero damned empathy or sympathy for "protestors" who attempt to block a scheduled speaker from speaking. Don't care if that speaker is a lowlife skinhead, or Latino, or a Communist, or even a pedophile Catholic priest. In this case, Kent State says, "No, we don't want you. You're not invited....
[23:01:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 213 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:32] <exec> 08└─The 1st amendment to the US Constitution protects Spencer's right to say absolutely anything, Not on my property it doesn't. Speak all you want. You don't get to demand the use of a private venue to do it, though.
[23:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:52] <exec> 08└─Not many people know, there was something called Widmar v Vincent. Where some students at the State University were religious, they wanted to have religious meetings at the university. But VERY NASTY administrators told them "no." And our MAGNIFICENT Supreme Court gave those administrators a MAJOR S...
[23:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:56] <exec> 08└─He has a right to speak. He does not have a right for force any venue to let him speak there. He can to on FoxNews or InfoWars or wherever like minded people go. I'm sure they will welcome him with open arms.
[23:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 772 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:57] <exec> 08└─I did say: It is a sad reality that there are lines to be drawn. It is sad. But it is true. Do you think the university should allow a person to speak advocating (insert the worst imaginable things I can think of here)? I would agree with you that that line should be pretty far into letting all kind...
[23:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:00] <exec> 08└─You know you are a real soylentil when you get a personalized realDonaldTrump rant. I would love to live in a world where Trump preaches tolerance.
[23:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:02] <exec> 08└─when he is causing the need for security in the first place!
[23:02:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:04] <exec> 08└─That still does not necessarily have to mean that the governing body of a public institution should be required to host any speaker, regardless of cost. If such a person is refused, then maybe you or like minded people should host this speaker that you think has so much to contribute to society rega...
[23:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:06] <exec> 08└─Yep. I have no tolerance for intolerant people.
[23:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:09] <exec> 08└─Insanely ironic. Or ironically insane.
[23:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 540 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:12] <exec> 08└─What does that have to do with anything? The university has a process for inviting speakers, and if someone follows that process, I don't think a public university should be allowed to deplatform them after the fact because they don't like what they might say, or because other people might do violen...
[23:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:14] <exec> 08└─So he needs protection from people heckling? Shouldn't use a public venue then. Damn bigots are the most sensitive little shits around.
[23:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:16] <exec> 08└─I disagree, wholeheartedly. As an example taken to absurdity, I personally consider everything TheMightBuzzard writes to be 100% beyond the pale. I think he should be entirely prevented from speaking in public. How is your line, wherever you draw it, any more objectively true than mine? Can you dra...
[23:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:18] <exec> 08└─There are only two things I can't stand in this world: People who are intolerant of other people's cultures, and the Dutch. - Nigel Powers
[23:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:21] <exec> 08└─Another faggot! Your mother smelled of elderberries!
[23:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:23] <exec> 08└─Freedom of speech is the liberty to speak openly without fear of government restraint.
[23:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:25] <exec> 08└─No need to explain things to a likely troll, and if not a troll then a willfully ignorant fool. Either way no answer for you until you stop being either of the previous.
[23:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:27] <exec> 08└─You might need to look up "morality" and get a clue about universities not being required to host any given speaker. What will you do if you end up being wrong? Will you print out this whole discussion and eat it? Or perhaps just question your beliefs and maybe grow a little? Nah, you'll double down...
[23:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:29] <exec> 08└─"Equal protection under the law"
[23:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:32] <exec> 08└─terrific scholar and one of my biggest fans
[23:02:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:34] <exec> 08└─No law says the uni must give him a soap box to spew his nonsense
[23:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:36] <exec> 08└─IANAL but I believe that the grounds and facilities of the university are not 'public property' in the sense being used here. Note that Spencer is not trying to pull this off in the state capital building or in a state park. He is using the common misapprehension that a university is some sort of op...
[23:02:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:38] <exec> 08└─The problem is this is a state supported school.
[23:02:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:41] <exec> 08└─GENIUS! I'm going to go into every city that voted for trump and trash talk him until someone takes a swing at me. Then I will sue the city and demand that a police squad follow me around to protect me from the violent public. I will repeat this process until I bankrupt the cities. MAGA!@!! I'll jus...
[23:02:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:43] <exec> 08└─I have said this many times before, punching Nazis in the face is self-defense! Especially for white folks!
[23:02:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:45] <exec> 08└─Apparently goes double for arcz. I cannot wait for the day he is vindicated!
[23:02:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 776 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:47] <exec> 08└─I consider everything TheMightyBuzzard writes to be perfectly fine to say in public. I am free to agree or disagree. On SN you can even mod if you wish. Or better yet, reply. I am thinking of a line that is far removed from most posters here on SN. The ones I would put outside the line generally are...
[23:02:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:50] <exec> 08└─https://factba.se/search#tolerance [factba.se] "When we open our hearts to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice, no place for bigotry, and no tolerance for hate." - President Donald J. Trump
[23:02:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Richard Spencer Threatens to Sue Kent State - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:52] <exec> 08└─Even non-tenured can speak. Just somewhere else.
[23:03:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03digitalaudiorock [688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Pressure Mounts On FCC To Provide Answers About Fake Net Neutrality Comments - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:21] <exec> 08└─When the original story about this came out I recall some talk that this would have violated various state laws. If so, it's arguable that the FCC is obstructing justice, and for political reasons, by sweeping this one under the carpet. Par for the course these days I guess, with every federal agenc...
[23:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Intelligence Agency Heads Warn Against Using Huawei and ZTE Products - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:03:45] <exec> 08└─But as mentioned, if you are an ordinary American, who is more likely to eventually have a reason to break into your phone, the Chinese or the US government? Unless you routinely visit China, have business dealings with major Chinese corporations, or are an official of the US government who works on...
[23:04:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03davidjohnpaul [5377] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Microsoft Working to Scale Blockchain for Grand Distributed ID Scheme - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:04:30] <exec> 08└─I thought blockchains were all about a lack of trust - you don't trust the people you're communicating with, nor the network you're communicating over, so have the blockchain to keep things straight. There are typically better solutions if there's some trust in there.
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[23:59:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Blood Test for Concussions - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:21] <exec> 08└─There are a few entries on PubMed for blood markers for concussions, but I was wondering if someone knew of one or two that directly related to the approved test.
[23:59:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FDA Approves Blood Test for Concussions - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:23] <exec> 08└─TFA names the "go ahead" beneficiary as "Banyan Biomarkers": The FDA is permitting marketing of the Brain Trauma Indicator to Banyan Biomarkers, Inc.
[23:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Speed Imaging Of Magnetic Fields - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:30] <exec> 08└─Ouch. What did he do to his left wrist!? At this resolution, I don't see much use for this. At 4 or 10 times that resolution it might be combined with a field of a known shape (such as the one radiated from the end of a metal detector) you might be able to see the object under the dirt without diggi...
[23:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06High Speed Imaging Of Magnetic Fields - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:33] <exec> 08└─To be imaging (in the sense being used) it would need to 'focus' the magnetic fields on to a sensor, It does not. It is just a 2d array of hall effect sensors being read. Not even GMR sensors (which would be rather a lot more sensitive). You can purchase chip level sensors that do exactly this, and...
[23:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Google's Crackdown on "Annoying" and "Disruptive" Ads Begins - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:57] <exec> 08└─Is G trying to shoot themselves in the foot?