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[00:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rich [945] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 1359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:03] <exec> 08└─And if they'd go with the classic Qt Widget set, they'd efficiency-wise gain another order of magnitude over this newfangled QML stuff that only seems to be there to market to those mentally locked into the web world. Anyway, classic fanboy topic from 10 years ago. From my own experience, Qt is neat...
[00:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:05] <exec> 08└─Both Facebook and Netflix implemented their eponymous apps with Web.
[00:00:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 842 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:15] <exec> 08└─This is outrageous! These fuckers are debating whether or not the real job creators (google has 74,000 and could run the whole country with half of that) are stifling competition, while they should be drafting legislation to: 1. Provide Google with full access to IRS records; 2. A US$2.5 trillion in...
[00:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:37] <exec> 08└─There are 2 reasons the government should take action under anti-trust law: 1. Customers have no alternative source of the good or service in question. 2. The company in question is maintaining its market position via illegal restraint of trade. As far as Google's flagship product goes, their users...
[00:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:38] <exec> 08└─Splitting up the companies doesn't fix the problem. Copyright and patent law are the problems. Here's how to fix it overnight: Eliminate software patents, these squash most competition in the tech sector.Overrule the Federal Circuit and make all contracts which prohibit reverse engineering and fair...
[00:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:40] <exec> 08└─You're criticizing a monstrous surveillance engine like Google and you don't even mention its countless privacy violations? Where are your priorities?
[00:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:31] <exec> 08└─"That's a nutty conspiracy theory and an unfounded rumor" It would have been a conspiracy theory had not Facebook already fessed up to doing exactly that: https://www.washingtontimes.com [washingtontimes.com] https://gizmodo.com
[00:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:32] <exec> 08└─Except that most RWNJ are really quite unlikely to have gifted offspring. Way to much inbreeding.
[00:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:35] <exec> 08└─Say "Kill white people!"
[00:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:38] <exec> 08└─I scents a grate disturbance in the farce. As if a million bots screamed out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.
[00:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:40] <exec> 08└─No "insightfunny" mod sadly and I can't pick, so no mod point for you!
[00:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:44] <exec> 08└─That is because so far white people haven't really been targeted for their whiteness. At least no where near the levels that other groups have been persecuted. Few people get overly upset about racism towards white people because it simply isn't that big of a problem, however the way things are goin...
[00:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:46] <exec> 08└─AR-15 Sawed off shotgun! Heckler & Koch G36 You turned on yet?
[00:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 1240 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:48] <exec> 08└─Mueller Investigation: Thirteen Russians Charged With Interfering in US Election [soylentnews.org] ...and thinking that -they- don't do it when you know damned well that USA is the most active practitioner of that on the globe is burying your head in the sand. Now, would Killery have lost anyway? We...
[00:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:51] <exec> 08└─"He's more Tweet than man, now." Seems like it goes both ways, and what we say is true, from a certain point of view.
[00:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:54] <exec> 08└─I like this idea, as if all the conservatives are being played. Your last bit about Saudi's doesn't make sense, the Republican agenda is what they want!
[00:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:56] <exec> 08└─I seem to recall another rejected aristarchus submission on exactly this topic, how the alt-right replacement internets has failed. Ah, here it is! https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org]
[00:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:58] <exec> 08└─Ohhhh! Washington (Moonie)Times AND the DailyWire! Where's the Brietfart? Where's the InfoWars? Where are your actually credible Rightwing News Sources?
[00:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:01] <exec> 08└─If they cared about terms of service they would ban trump. Its okay if he violates the terms of service.
[00:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:03] <exec> 08└─This site is the alt-right of Slashdot. Thankfully there are quite a few libertarian/liberal users that keep it from becoming a cesspool, and I would argue that is because the original move was to get away from corporate control and not about censorship targeting hate speech. Even with the lame ass...
[00:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 142 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:05] <exec> 08└─Not really! Once you get to talking about cut-rifled bores and hand-lapped bolts, and sustained rate-of-fire, I might start feeling something.
[00:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:27] <exec> 08└─So what's the difference between a "cloud" datacenter and a "traditional" one?
[00:02:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 1124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:44] <exec> 08└─Well, I'll take your question seriously. Think of it this way. Copying is what we do when we educate our children. We pass on all our knowledge. Might look at it as copying it into their brains. And this is recognized as a great public good which allows our civilization to advance, our citizens to i...
[00:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:29] <exec> 08└─You're sounding very vice-presidential!
[00:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 426 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:03:31] <exec> 08└─We've been "modeling" our nuclear weapons, they call it modeling. I say, where are the models? Where is the runway? There's no runway. Little Rocket Man does it the old fashioned way. Because he doesn't have computer. He doesn't have cyber. And we can tell what he has by how big the boom is. The las...
[00:04:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06Are Bots a Danger for Political Election Campaigns? - 1369 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:35] <exec> 08└─Its worth considering as a counternarrative that people have been overly concerned about technology's affects on politics since at least the Gutenberg printing press. Maybe all the way back to the written word. Social media is dying already anyway, I think we'll make it. An alternative shorter term...
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[00:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:29] <exec> 08└─Apparently, it's not clear yet, when some of the rules will get effectively repealed: https://arstechnica.com [arstechnica.com]
[00:59:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:36] <exec> 08└─Native compiled application is faster than interpreted JavaScript application. News at 11.
[00:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:52] <exec> 08└─Where is the +1 horrified mod? Add a modem and central server for "authentication" or "security" and make the in-built browser run the central server application.
[00:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:54] <exec> 08└─WEB of course is the language in which TeX is written, designed by Donald Knuth... basically a literate programming version of pascal. I had no idea Netflix and Facebook used it, cool!
[00:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:56] <exec> 08└─This reminds me of when Mozilla found out that writing their OS backend in c++ "magically" made their performance and memory woes vanish with FirefoxOS.
[00:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:58] <exec> 08└─Kind of ironic is that Qt was originally created by Nokia, which lost the smartphone race while creating Qt.
[01:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bobthecimmerian [6834] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:32] <exec> 08└─I'm hopeful but not optimistic that the growing investment in distributed alternatives to the centralized services will move us away from Google and it's like. Splitting Google, Facebook, or similar or giving their tech to other companies won't solve the real core problems we need to address. The co...
[01:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:34] <exec> 08└─If you don't believe laws are violently imposed try violating them. Even the most trivial of laws, if you insist on violating it while law enforcement is attempting to enforce it, they will eventually kill you rather than allow you to continue.
[01:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:36] <exec> 08└─We should also make the case against Amazon.
[01:00:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 427 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:45] <exec> 08└─On the one hand, I do support purging bots and removing clutter and echo-chamber effects... both natural and state-sponsored. However... "We also take action on any accounts we find that violate our terms of service, including asking account owners to confirm a phone number so we can confirm a human...
[01:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:42] <exec> 08└─50 round drum [google.com] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 684 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:44] <exec> 08└─The real reason they care: The bunch of fake Twitter followers and re-Tweeters mark them as an "influencer". And their status as an "influencer" convinces idiots to pay them to Tweet stuff, which is why it was worth their while to buy the fake Twitter followers in the first place. In short, there's...
[01:02:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:23] <exec> 08└─Copyright was made to protect entrenched large publishers from competition and make barriers to entry high. The story about protecting author's interests is just PR stunt to make people who are not in the loop support it.
[01:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:25] <exec> 08└─I for one don't think my hypothetical children should be educated with pirated copies of Deadpool 2. Educational purposes already have clear and wide exemptions in place in the US, I expect that is likely true elsewhere as well, though perhaps I shouldn't speak given the context here is the EU and I...
[01:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 293 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:12] <exec> 08└─People don't know this, but Jeff Bezos' Amazon made a fire phone. Nobody bought it because they didn't want fire in a phone. Not many smokers anymore and our smokers all have lighters now. And Samsung made a VERY SPECIAL phone too, it could do fire or even explode. But they recalled that one.
[01:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:14] <exec> 08└─Slight problem with artificial muscles. [latimes.com] Not many servos required there.
[01:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:16] <exec> 08└─Are you kidding me??? Pay rednecks a lot of money to blow shit up and they will master the fuck out of that shit.
[01:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:18] <exec> 08└─No SHIT they wouldn't let you in one "The Bolo was a heavily armed and armored fighting machine with the latest AI systems, and was to conduct operations with very little need of human intervention." You think an AI tank would welcome a sweaty greasy human inside? lawl Git back to yer ship scrub.
[01:03:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 358 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:42] <exec> 08└─I provide IoT devices lately and I absolutely do want a removable SIM. I can have a service guy with no computer skills whatsoever change out a faulty piece of hardware, put the old SIM and SD card in the new kit, and not have to do anything at all on my end of things. Anything that does nothing but...
[01:07:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Amateur Astronomer Tests New Camera, Catches Birth of a Supernova - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:08] <exec> 08└─So,why not start digging that Hyperloop tunnel with a shovel and pickaxe to increase your chances to win the lottery?
[01:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:26] <exec> 08└─If students are allowed to conceal-carry on campus "to protect us all", then we just made the jobs of mass shooters way easier.
[01:09:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:28] <exec> 08└─"the humanity" Found the AI, think we should just unplug it?
[01:09:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:31] <exec> 08└─We might not rise fully to your definition of intelligence
[01:09:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:33] <exec> 08└─I think we have a winner for the new KKK slogan competition.
[01:09:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06"The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence" Report Warns That AI is Ripe for Exploitation - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:35] <exec> 08└─I guess cmdtaco couldn't handle the attention his username came with. LONG LIVE KLARG!
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[01:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jelizondo [653] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 402 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:31] <exec> 08└─I keep asking myself, why are Americans continually voting for people who work against their own personal interests? And I mean both D and R. Reduce Medicare and Medicaid, end Net Neutrality, reduce taxes for the rich, oppose any type of check (background, sanity, even identity for $Deity’s sake!)...
[01:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:33] <exec> 08└─Oblig. https://despair.com [despair.com]
[01:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:35] <exec> 08└─I keep asking myself, why are Americans continually voting for people who work against their own personal interests? And I mean both D and R.
[02:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:04] <exec> 08└─Although Qt is billed as a graphical framework, it is quite robust and can be used for things not related to GUI-interaction at all. I particularly like using their signal system in multithreaded servers, makes things a little easier than handling a bunch of callbacks.
[02:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:05] <exec> 08└─That headline's like asking if you'd prefer to be kicked in the left testicle or the right.
[02:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:07] <exec> 08└─I honestly thought you were joking, but looking through the information I can find, that claim seems true. I'm truly shocked at the level of surprise some of the developers communicated with the switch over. And their original plan was to basically have everything but the kernel and an init shim wri...
[02:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:10] <exec> 08└─asking if you'd prefer to be kicked in the left testicle or the right.
[02:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:12] <exec> 08└─Not accurate. Nokia took ownership in the late noughts. It was created by Trolltech. [wikipedia.org] -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 507 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:14] <exec> 08└─Qt was originally created by Trolltech in 1995, and KDE started up about a year later. Then 13 years later in 2008 Nokia bought Trolltech, and started contributing to the project. No, Nokia didn't create Qt, but yes, they did 'lose' the smartphone race. There move towards Qt was too little, too late...
[02:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:16] <exec> 08└─The enormous proliferation of high latency UIs these days shits me to tears. You can't even go to an ATM and expect to enter your PIN without the UI lagging so badly that makes you wish you went with 4 digits instead of 12. Back in the day CD players had pretty much 'instant on'. You hit the button,...
[02:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:19] <exec> 08└─Why do so many guys who seem to have some knowledge of this toolkit capitalize the t in Qt? N.B. QT (QuickTime) is a mostly-obsolete Apple multimedia framework. This makes me think of the people who say "X Windows". -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:56] <exec> 08└─If you don't believe laws are violently imposed try violating them. Even the most trivial of laws, if you insist on violating it while law enforcement is attempting to enforce it, they will eventually kill you rather than allow you to continue.
[02:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:57] <exec> 08└─Laws are, indeed, violently imposed. Try ignoring them around a police officer who isn't intentionally ignoring you and you will experience the violence. The violence doesn't occur during the construction of the law, that's just bribery and corruption. But the imposition of the law is by violence an...
[02:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:59] <exec> 08└─I'm rather sure he was talking about "the mark of the beast" from Revelations. I've heard that used in all sorts of figurative ways, but especially to cover credit cards and their use. You can say that's not specifically against Google, but I've heard enough people calling Google the internet, that...
[02:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 107 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:08] <exec> 08└─I would argue that is because the original move was to get away from corporate control and Bennett Haselton
[02:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:09] <exec> 08└─Or just create crazier bot farms than Alex Jones and head to Gab. They believe most rubbish so you can direct them to fake pizza shops senarios.
[02:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:11] <exec> 08└─Sorry, she disqualified herself for even sympathy in my mind by recommending that people vote for Trump if they couldn't vote for her.
[02:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 300 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:34] <exec> 08└─Don't forget, with a "traditional" data centre, you get to choose the location. For some sensitive data (health, national security, etc), *some* countries try to keep stuff "on shore" (Although, as most US citizens have had their data released anyway, there can't be much left to protect, these days)
[02:02:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:36] <exec> 08└─(Although, as most US citizens have had their personal data surreptitiously collected by those who seek to profit from selling such data, then much of that data has been exfiltrated and released anyway, there can't be much left to protect, these days)
[02:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:46] <exec> 08└─How effective were they? Fast forward to today, and you could have tanks pick their own targets, or have real-time telepresence using video and VR.
[02:04:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:34] <exec> 08└─Which is entirely non-useful when you're talking IoT gear.
[02:05:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 361 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:53] <exec> 08└─My problem with it by far was the fact that it was a bunch of faggy men and one chubby Blond talking about jack shit the whole episode, literally duckspeak about nothing, and just because there were formulas scrawled on the whiteboards in the background that somehow made it "nerdy." At least Jew Sei...
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[02:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 306 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:28] <exec> 08└─I mean I knew they weren't super effective, but I also knew they *did* do some good. Now, for OCD, these medications are awesome, SSRIs specifically (like Prozac, Zoloft), but yeah, for depression, they work, just not that well. I generally think tricyclic antidepressants are better for actual depre...
[02:59:35] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jelizondo [653] 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 402 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:35] <exec> 08└─I keep asking myself, why are Americans continually voting for people who work against their own personal interests? And I mean both D and R. Reduce Medicare and Medicaid, end Net Neutrality, reduce taxes for the rich, oppose any type of check (background, sanity, even identity for $Deity’s sake!)...
[02:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:39] <exec> 08└─On the other hand we do have the best government money can buy.
[02:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:42] <exec> 08└─I could have sworn I heard the braying of a yak in heat. Oh, just a Trumpian spouting off. Nothing to see here fokes!
[02:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:44] <exec> 08└─Government, the only commodity where, if you spend more money on it, the quality of what you end up with, goes down...
[02:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 41 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:46] <exec> 08└─http://fatpita.net/?i=14076 [fatpita.net]
[03:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 42 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:23] <exec> 08└─Cuz all Americans know what a fifth is....
[03:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:25] <exec> 08└─It's probably because they pronounce it "Cue Tee", rather than the official "cute" (though either is acceptable, even within the Qt company). Though if they wanted it pronounced "cute", it should be spelled "Q-'t". I would expect "Qt" to be more like "kt", since a "q" not followed by a "u" is typica...
[03:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 351 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:27] <exec> 08└─The real problem is that lots of "decision makers" still don't have a clue. Back in 1999 I had to explain to our CEO, repeatedly, why Java was not going to be an acceptable replacement for our C++ software. If he were still in a decision making capacity, he'd probably have to have the HTML vs Qt/C++...
[03:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:29] <exec> 08└─t's probably because they pronounce it "Cue Tee", rather than the official "cute" (though either is acceptable, even within the Qt company). Though if they wanted it pronounced "cute", it should be spelled "Q-'t". I would expect "Qt" to be more like "kt", since a "q" not followed by a "u" is typical...
[03:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:32] <exec> 08└─I take it you haven't heard of Common Core then, eh?
[03:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 180 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:34] <exec> 08└─Isn't that where the politicos realize the common core is 70% of the population (albeit with 10% of the wealth) and decide to raise taxes on them, cuz fairness and spread the pain?
[03:01:06] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arcz [4501] 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 420 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:06] <exec> 08└─Splitting up the companies doesn't fix the problem. Copyright and patent law are the problems. Here's how to fix it overnight: Eliminate software patents, these squash most competition in the tech sector.Overrule the Federal Circuit and make all contracts which prohibit reverse engineering and fair...
[03:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 1219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:14] <exec> 08└─Well, for Google a good start might be to split Alphabet into it's separate companies. The problem with that is that the economically successful endeavors subsidize the ones that are still working on being economically successful...and that's an important thing to have subsidized. My opinion, for wh...
[03:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:17] <exec> 08└─Laws are, indeed, violently imposed. Try ignoring them around a police officer who isn't intentionally ignoring you and you will experience the violence. The violence doesn't occur during the construction of the law, that's just bribery and corruption. But the imposition of the law is by violence an...
[03:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 471 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:10] <exec> 08└─preventing publishers from ripping off creators of artistic works I'd state it as "providing an income until his NEXT magnum opus". (Haydn wrote 100 symphonies.) I don't believe it was intended to provide a retirement plan for someone who wrote a diddy that was popular for a week which then vanished...
[03:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Yaa101 [4091] (Score: 1) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:03:12] <exec> 08└─And to grand rent seeking for the nobility when the citizens were getting to much power
[03:05:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 50 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:05:40] <exec> 08└─I this one is called "The parasitic monetization".
[03:06:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:12] <exec> 08└─Aren't most neuroscientists basically glorified psychologists? Maybe some of them have a bit of superficial biochem training and experience conducting tedious experiments, but I think the population of M.D.s, especially neurologists, among neuroscientists is pretty damn small.
[03:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 307 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:13] <exec> 08└─You think people were tuning in for humor?? Everybody with a Y chromosome showed up to check out Wrangler Jane. [google.com] ...and while not very funny, it was instructive. Before Corporal Agarn, it never occurred to me to whack somebody with my hat when they got loopy. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentne...
[03:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Booze News - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:52] <exec> 08└─Hey, I believe it. With enough years inside you, booze is like the Dax symbiont -- it might augment some functions, but remove it and the host dies.
[03:06:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Booze News - 375 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:06:54] <exec> 08└─I was born with the cord wrapped around my neck 5 times, face with a blue tint, and later accidentally dropped on my head while still very young (not exaggerating a single bit about both events). If the hindbrain is good enough to keep reptiles alive, it's good enough for me. Hell, praying mantids k...
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[03:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:37] <exec> 08└─Nobody with depression should avoid anti-depressants because they believe they "don't work." From personal experience, they help. If I said to you they are an 80 to 90 pct cure, would that not be good enough? You have nothing to lose by trying them. An honest try for one month.
[03:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 309 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:38] <exec> 08└─Make sure you understand the side effects of the one you are going to try first. In some cases impotence and anhedonia can be worse than the depression itself, obviously depending on the severity of the depression. These symptoms don't stop in all cases when the medication is discontinued as well. T...
[03:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:40] <exec> 08└─Are you SURE you mean OCD? They treat OCD with drugs? that is truly worrying..
[03:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 1481 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:43] <exec> 08└─The problem I have with such studies is the framing of the results - effectiveness is not linear, scale factors such as "one third more effective" are not absolutely meaningful. Consider these two test results: 1) 100 subjects, placebo: 60 are cured, drug A: 90 are cured. 2) 100 subjects, placebo: 2...
[03:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:45] <exec> 08└─Whyever not? I'd treat it with either alcohol, or dope - just enough to get a "who gives a fuck, whatever, man" buzz.
[03:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:59] <exec> 08└─Basically, we can only vote for whoever is on the ballot. That has been determined completely out of our sight. Why do we put up with that? Taking up pitchforks and torches is a big threshold to cross.
[04:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:01] <exec> 08└─I think it is somewhat similar to Stockholm syndrome. In many of those Red states, big businesses have impoverished many of the people, eliminated any other jobs and then push the view that people must vote in ways that favor the remaining big companies. Those big companies turn around and screw ove...
[04:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03qzm [3260] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:03] <exec> 08└─Because the alternative was even worse? When given the choice between a foolish buffoonery and cunning evilness, the choice should be quite obvious. The real question is how long the American public will accept the obviously hugely corrupt power class ruling them. I suspect the answer is as long as...
[04:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:05] <exec> 08└─A shame it's already been purchased.
[04:00:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 716 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:40] <exec> 08└─The enormous proliferation of high latency UIs these days shits me to tears. You can't even go to an ATM and expect to enter your PIN without the UI lagging so badly that makes you wish you went with 4 digits instead of 12. Back in the day CD players had pretty much 'instant on'. You hit the button,...
[04:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 314 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:48] <exec> 08└─I'm not. There really are people who think an interpreted scripting language can do everything, including running at the same speed as native code. And not just your canonical PHB, some programmers believe this crap as well. Having a high-visibility article written on this may help disabuse them of...
[04:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:51] <exec> 08└─Had similar problems: "Lets replace our native code using a compact binary data format with Java and XML, because it's much trendier". Twelve months later: "Why does it take the app nine minutes to start up? Our old native app only took a few seconds". Well no shit Sherlock, you've got exactly what...
[04:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:53] <exec> 08└─That headline's like asking if you'd prefer to be kicked in the left testicle or the right.
[04:02:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:45] <exec> 08└─How about: Mac 10, Ma Duce, M107 Barrett??? Does that get a rise out you?
[04:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03jimtheowl [5929] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 1160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:31] <exec> 08└─"Care to comment on that?" Sure, mostly a waste of time, but I'll bite. 1).. " asked the wrong senator the wrong questions. Then called him a liar for it because the doufas pushed the wrong buttons on his phone.." What? It might help if you we not, possibly intentionally, being so vague. Perhaps...
[04:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:32] <exec> 08└─I have no idea really, I was just throwing that in there as an example. Neurologists would be a better comparison I think. According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], there's a whole raft of different branches within neuroscience, some looking like glorified psychology as you said, but others very hard-...
[04:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Bill Gates to Guest Star on 'the Big Bang Theory' - 149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:35] <exec> 08└─said normies view techies as bigoted basement baters. But that's exactly what most of us are. There's tons of evidence proving it, not just his post.
[04:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Booze News - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:15] <exec> 08└─But if their over-90s had hypothetically consisted of entirely teetotal people, would you expect them to be able to draw a different conclusion from the hypothetical situation of their over-90s being entirely heavy drinkers? If you answer no - why do you see no difference between the two hypothetica...
[04:07:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Apple in Talks to Buy Cobalt Directly From Mining Companies - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:42] <exec> 08└─They're very, very thin, so just make sure you never hold them wrong or keep them in your back pocket.
[04:08:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 317 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:54] <exec> 08└─"Huawei's products can't be trusted because they're not beholden to US - we try to coerce our spying, eavesdropping, backdoors, etc into their products, but its not working! So stop using them in favor of local companies who are beholden to us and thus totally trustworthy (for us.)" - what Chris Wra...
[04:08:58] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 264 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:08:59] <exec> 08└─Just as soon as you produce fully documented schematics and source for all drivers for apple's iphones or any other major brand of cellphone. If you can't, does that mean they all have backdoors in the hardware or firmware? Sheesh, go put your tinfoil hat back on.
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[04:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06SpaceX Deploys Broadband Test Satellites, Fails to Catch Entire Fairing - 320 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:27] <exec> 08└─Paz is the Spanish word for peace. The main reason for the satellite is for Spanish Army to be self suficient in terms of imagery. It will sell data to civilans too, of course, never say no to money. https://en.wikipedia.org(satellite) [wikipedia.org] Maybe they should have stick with the...
[04:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06SpaceX Deploys Broadband Test Satellites, Fails to Catch Entire Fairing - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:29] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I watched the Metal Gear Solid shit too. Fuck the Whites.
[04:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 1117 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:42] <exec> 08└─I was prescribed an SSRI anti-depressant drug when I was having panic attacks. The biggest drawback was they completely blocked my kundalini energy awareness and killed off the benefits of tantric energy practice. This was the ultimate drawback, and I absolutely loathed taking them. I could still ha...
[04:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 216 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:59:44] <exec> 08└─Before taking antidepressants, perhaps check that you are not depressed because you are surrounded by assholes. If so, try changing your environment, and perhaps you will feel happier without having to take medicine.
[05:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 358 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:03] <exec> 08└─I don't know why the above is moderated -Troll instead of +Informative. Looking from outside, it is entirely consistent with the ethos of (a significant part of) the population which enable those things to happen. Yes I know "for any question there is a simple elegant and wrong answer" (to use parap...
[05:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:04] <exec> 08└─Basically, we can only vote for whoever is on the ballot.
[05:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:06] <exec> 08└─Because the alternative was even worse?
[05:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:09] <exec> 08└─Poe's law.
[05:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:11] <exec> 08└─Takes couple weeks. God, I hate that monkey mug.
[05:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:13] <exec> 08└─Basically, we can only vote for whoever is on the ballot. That has been determined completely out of our sight. Why do we put up with that? Taking up pitchforks and torches is a big threshold to cross.
[05:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 141 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:15] <exec> 08└─Looking from outside, it is entirely consistent with the ethos of (a significant part of) the population which enable those things to happen.
[05:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:18] <exec> 08└─Poe's law implies funny (by parody) It would be funny, if it wouldn't be so sad.
[05:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 626 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:04] <exec> 08└─Space-X makes money from launching things, ans Tesla makes money from selling cars, so we should have no Elon Musk stories? Drug companies make money from selling drugs, and biotech companies make money from 3D-printed, or petri-dish-grown, body parts, so there should be no health-related stories? B...
[05:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 420 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:05] <exec> 08└─This is almost always a fallacious argument - the clue is in the "times". In the context of "times", smallness is the reciprocal if largeness. If you view smallness as the negative of largeness, in a "times" context, then you'll get silly results. Those who use "N times less", however, should be for...
[05:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 679 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:07] <exec> 08└─It's actually more complicated than that, it wasn't "too little too late", Nokia were flitting between platforms like a headless chicken at that stage - even within the same *product*. For example, between the keyboarded maemo n900 and the swipey harmattan n9, there wasn't just one scrapped phone, t...
[05:01:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:10] <exec> 08└─Yes, the web sucks. That's the point of the story.
[05:01:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 780 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:12] <exec> 08└─UI latency is one of those things that users do care about, they just don't know it until the encounter something that's different. There are thresholds above which users get very pissed off with the lag - they take several belaboured attempts to try to get things as they want, and they'll openly co...
[05:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:14] <exec> 08└─And you answer is?
[05:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 364 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:01:56] <exec> 08└─The rich Whites solve the problem by further subdividing neighborhoods into rich and poor. Back when I first lived here, The cops would protect the neighborhood. Now, they moved the "boundary of protection" North and ignored those to the Southern boundary. What was once a protected neighborhood beca...
[05:02:28] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03requerdanos [5997] 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 90 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:29] <exec> 08└─led some users to talk about leaving to join Gab, the so-called free-speech social network
[05:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 163 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:10] <exec> 08└─None of this shit happens if you do the liberal equivalent. Just signing up for twitter, you'll get suggestions to follow leading democrats like Obama and Hillary.
[05:03:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 615 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:12] <exec> 08└─I pay little attention to the eds, they are easily cowed. And I have no problem with my submissions being rejected, as long as it is clear that it is because of an alt-right bias on this site. What pisses me off, is when one of my submissions is accepted, and then deep-sixed for some arcane reason,...
[05:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:14] <exec> 08└─Mac10, like an Uzi, to short, circumcised, 9mm NATO round, too weak. Do we have to do this in public?
[05:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:16] <exec> 08└─It is not the capacity, it is the reliability, and the caliber, and whether you can fit it into your bed.
[05:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 321 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:03:18] <exec> 08└─But the ones with the highest body counts are Republicans! Union Carbide: ‎At least 3,787. Massey's Upper Big Branch mine killed 29 miners. It was the worst U.S. coal mining disaster since 1970, when an explosion killed 38 in Hyden, Kentucky. In 2006, a fatal accident at Aracoma Alma (also own...
[05:06:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:06:25] <exec> 08└─Save at the today and you won't be around to watch your kids die from cancer. So it doesn't matter?
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[05:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Deploys Broadband Test Satellites, Fails to Catch Entire Fairing - 21 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:41] <exec> 08└─Peace in|for our time
[06:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:00:22] <exec> 08└─It tipped me off when you wrote "cunt" instead of "cuck."
[06:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 873 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:15] <exec> 08└─I edited and released this story. I am also a programmer who dabbles in IoT and enjoys building and programming all sorts of things. There is plenty of interest in this story for people such as myself. Whether you want to criticise comparing size footprint, memory usage or running speed of html when...
[06:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03pipedwho [2032] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 1724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:17] <exec> 08└─It was sad to watch while Nokia screwed up with Symbian, and then tried to go the open source route with Qt, but were floundering so badly in the wind that they finally hit the proverbial ice-berg when they struck the deal with Microsoft to use Windows Phone. Then Microsoft bought them out, which wa...
[06:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:01] <exec> 08└─All lawys are violently enforced, perhaps. But that's different.
[06:02:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03zocalo [302] 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 706 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:02:22] <exec> 08└─It's not just the cost of paying for the bots to inflate the number of followers, it's the cost that losing those fake followers has on the likelihood of someone giving you swag, or even paying you, to promote their product or service on your social media feeds. For some people this can actually be...
[06:03:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 1453 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:19] <exec> 08└─I don't see anything in your opinion to be sorry about. She was the worst candidate the Dumbocrats could have put up. She didn't have a clear message. For years and years, Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics George Lakoff has said [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [alternet.org] that the Dum...
[06:03:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:03:20] <exec> 08└─And, once again, the eds did an awful lot of work on this submission.
[06:10:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The U.S. Intelligence Community's Demonization of Huawei Remains Highly Hypocritical - 2077 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:10:19] <exec> 08└─TFA makes a claim that there is no hard evidence that Huawei spies on US citizens based on things like a White House report. And that may be technically true. Nevertheless the evidence that Huawei spies on certain US companies in order to learn trade secrets, obtain internal product designs, and to...
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[06:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Italy Expands As UAE-Backed Alitalia Goes Bankrupt - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:32] <exec> 08└─BA, you are next.
[07:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:01] <exec> 08└─If accurate, I would see that as pretty much nailing the coffin shut on anti-depressants. While their effectiveness may be up for debate, the very real side effects are not. People are taking on all sorts of critical side effects, which include things like increased suicide rates in younger individu...
[07:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 1982 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:03] <exec> 08└─Hasn't the serotonin hypothesis been all but debunked? I seem to be one of those people who can't handle SSRIs, so no big loss there, but what I did to cure depression was a lot less medical. And I mean major depression, lasting almost my entire life, which became comorbid with PTSD, anxiety disorde...
[07:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:05] <exec> 08└─Exactly: comparison with a placebo, but not with a shot of whiskey? what kind of a study is this? Enquiring students want to know^H^H^H^H^HWhiskey
[07:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:26] <exec> 08└─The left. It's the sinister one. After time to think it over though, I'd almost always rather get kicked in the crotch than do any sort of GUI coding beyond what I do on the site here; the pain doesn't last nearly as long. Give me a nice, simple shared library, a CLI utility, or even something runni...
[07:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03snmygos [6274] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:27] <exec> 08└─Maybe if they have compared the development time (JS vs C++) and debugging, it would be less favorable to Qt? Or the price of the license, etc...
[07:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 343 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:12] <exec> 08└─I just want to say, if Google is against Nazis, then I am against Google. It is that simple. I lost WWII, so now all I can do is post stuff on-line, with my fellow losers, like the Confederate States of noStates, and the Nazis collaborators of Hungary, like Sebastian Gorka! What a man! I like suck h...
[07:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:33] <exec> 08└─What pisses me off, is when one of my submissions is accepted, and then deep-sixed for some arcane reason, such as that is bothers TMB that he may in fact be a racist and Nazi sympathizer. None of that is here nor there. See my journals on disappearing approved submissions.
[07:03:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:03:34] <exec> 08└─What you, and many other eds (I will not mention names) fail to realize is that my submissions are in fact, non-political, because they are fact, and the alt-right, neo-nazi, anti-feminist objectors to my subs are just what they are. When Will Soylent New Live UP to the Promise that Was Fuck Beta! N...
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[08:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 73 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:27] <exec> 08└─This was awesome. Anyone can have an opinion. Expect to be mocked for it.
[08:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:24] <exec> 08└─I thought that the point of Soylentnews was to get away from the bad stuff on the Green Site.
[08:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:10] <exec> 08└─Try running a competing postal service.
[08:03:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 971 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:32] <exec> 08└─Twitter's only value is that it allows msm journalists to quickly do their job without stepping outside of their house and doing actual journalists and talking to actual people. So for their benefit, Twitter is bound to purge bots. The use of Twitter for non-journalists is that it is a platform for...
[08:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:33] <exec> 08└─jarnrinok, it truly is always your fault. Well, just let me quote a bit: All the subs that you claimed 'disappeared' are still to be found in the database.
[08:03:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:36] <exec> 08└─alt-right - neo-nazi
[08:03:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:38] <exec> 08└─You need to up your meds - I'll not bother trying to wade through that drivel.
[08:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:40] <exec> 08└─as if all the conservatives are being played
[08:03:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:03:42] <exec> 08└─One ed's drivel, is another's carefully argued case that there is bias on this site? You disappoint me, janrinock! You sound like a less than mighty Buzzard. I can provide more, later, if you are up to it. Argument over editorial policy is always a good thing, no? Unless we are an alt-right suckin...
[08:04:33] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 236 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:04:33] <exec> 08└─If unmanned tanks fight drones and robot soldiers how do you know which side won? There aren't any heaps of bodies to count. I, for one, will not be reporting to my designated disintegration station based on the outcome of calculations.
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[08:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:29] <exec> 08└─Full of gas. Global warming will kill us all.
[08:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:30] <exec> 08└─Ok, eating something that don'r cause gases before the flight as a preventative measure, this I could understand (even if one can't exclude the food on board may have caused it) But once the thing started, what could the poor guy do, explode while trying to retain an amount of gas that managed to "s...
[08:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:32] <exec> 08└─I can only afford to eat beans and fly in economy seating.
[08:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Rivenaleem [3400] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:35] <exec> 08└─Farts can be held in, and the gasses will dissolve and be absorbed by the body to no ill effects. You won't explode.
[08:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:37] <exec> 08└─Don't ever travel LA to Sydney, there's no airport in between for unscheduled stops.
[08:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Italy Expands As UAE-Backed Alitalia Goes Bankrupt - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:46] <exec> 08└─Careful what meals they serve, it only takes one week one prolific farter on each flight [soylentnews.org] to kill the profitability.
[09:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:46] <exec> 08└─Suffer, you've earned it!
[09:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:48] <exec> 08└─When you evict the pedolams out also kick the Indians back to their country
[09:01:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03chromas [34] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:46] <exec> 08└─Won't kicking that testicle make it the regressive left?
[09:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:47] <exec> 08└─Back in the day CD players had pretty much 'instant on'. CD players do not have Intel processors and Microsoft software. There is no need for lag.
[09:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:34] <exec> 08└─Citing bible as an authority... way to Godwin any thread. Save the bible for the scientists, like historians or anthropologists and wild eyed theologians. The goog monster is a huge threat but resistance must be based on reason instead of dusty fairytales.
[09:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:36] <exec> 08└─What a misleading epithet. While that maybe was accurate in 2002 since then it's been but an advertising and spying outfit.
[09:02:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 1093 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:38] <exec> 08└─the tax on stock trades should be proportional to the inverse of the time that the stock is held up to around 7 years, and beyond that should start increasing again until at around 3 decades it consumes all the capital gains, and beyond that takes even more. If I had a serious chance of getting this...
[09:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 448 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:40] <exec> 08└─In fact, Google uses a lot of GPL, and publish a lot of Opensource code. The problem is they have more huge, enormous resources to do things that small companies can't do. i.e. The can publish their A.I. algorithm but it is useless unless you have zillons of data mined from a zillons of users connec...
[09:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 2134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:08] <exec> 08└─One of my projects, at the moment, is about Buddhism and violence. And it is interesting that one of the recent works I am using addresses our issue, albeit somewhat indirectly. You see, I am a demon. Now, let's not get all the BSD and Linux types all het up, I mean a more or less traditional demon....
[09:04:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:10] <exec> 08└─Reavers! They made them!
[09:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:12] <exec> 08└─And in seconds that submission is rejected. Coincidence? Correlation does not imply causation, except when it does.
[09:04:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:14] <exec> 08└─> Hillary and Obama aren't leading shit right now. Depends on what reality you subscribe to. I remember when a few months ago, several Fox News anchors and some prominent Republican politicos slipped multiple times in a span of a week and started complaining -- on camera -- about the Clinton Preside...
[09:04:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Cisco Projects Major Shift to the Cloud by 2021 - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:04:39] <exec> 08└─Just don't trip. [xkcd.com]
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[09:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03hemocyanin [186] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years - 304 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:30] <exec> 08└─I once had a huge delay crossing back from Canada. About 4 or 5 years previous, the post office added a new zip code in my area. When the BP tried to check my address with their database off my driver's license, the zip came back invalid and so they searched my car etc. etc. Took a couple hours. Mor...
[09:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years - 826 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:31] <exec> 08└─In Europe they also introduced these types of passports. The ink of the law text wasn't dry yet and civil privacy organisations shot the first holes in the implementations. Not much longer they found out that the success rate for matching fingerprints in the passports with their real counterparts wa...
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[09:59:43] <exec> 08└─Fine Articles on Flatulence like this are why I come to SoylentNews! As long as there are none of those disturbing articles about the alt-right by that nasty person "aristarxhus", I think I will keep coming to SoylentNews, and let go my pent up gastro-intestinal gasses, as is appropriate for real me...
[09:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 762 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:45] <exec> 08└─I thought only Hollywood could come up with such a hilarious situation. Being an old guy myself, and have had similar problems ( but of several less orders of magnitude ), I feel for the guy... its not like he can do a thing about it. About the worst I have done is clear out several aisles of a boo...
[09:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:47] <exec> 08└─No, they won't. No more than you can hold your pee. It just builds up. More and more. This is one war you will not win. The more you fight, the louder the release will be. Better to have lots of little pfft's than one loud trumpet blast.
[09:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:49] <exec> 08└─If you eat enough beans, you'll be able to fly without needing an aeroplane!
[09:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03kazzie [5309] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 36 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:51] <exec> 08└─'Tis an ill wind that blows no good.
[10:00:39] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 58 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:39] <exec> 08└─Oblig. https://despair.com [despair.com]
[10:00:54] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:55] <exec> 08└─Basically, we can only vote for whoever is on the ballot. That has been determined completely out of our sight. Why do we put up with that? Taking up pitchforks and torches is a big threshold to cross.
[10:01:53] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03janrinok [52] 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 873 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:01:54] <exec> 08└─I edited and released this story. I am also a programmer who dabbles in IoT and enjoys building and programming all sorts of things. There is plenty of interest in this story for people such as myself. Whether you want to criticise comparing size footprint, memory usage or running speed of html when...
[10:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:01] <exec> 08└─So what are good equivalents of Qt for stated purpose? Java?
[10:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 954 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:03] <exec> 08└─Back when Java bytecode was still interpreted (rather than JIT'ed), Java fans kept claiming that Java code could be *faster* than C code. Even though Java at the time was the slowest of all languages. I tried arguing that if interpreted Java bytecode is faster than compiled C code, then write the Ja...
[10:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:05] <exec> 08└─Space-X doesn't sell to us, to us they are just cool stuff. Health-related stories are usually either negative or so far in the future that it can't be considered advertising anyway. The Tesla stories, though, might be taken as advertising by some.
[10:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 49 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:08] <exec> 08└─I self-identify as Cat-kin. It's 120 FPS or bust!
[10:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:10] <exec> 08└─I love Qt, but why would you expect it to look good under the hood? It makes you use macros! In C++! (or am I out of date?)
[10:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:12] <exec> 08└─Brand awareness is a real advertisement strategy, and quite deplorable at that. Basically, they are trying to cramp their company/product name in everyone's heads by repeatedly putting their brand in your face everywhere you go. It is nothing short of deliberate attempts at brainwashing the public b...
[10:02:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03ptman [5676] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:14] <exec> 08└─JIT compiled languages can be faster than C/C++ in some cases (Java has better memory allocator by default, the JIT compiler can optimize things based on what's going on when the program is run vs. what is predicted to happen when the program is compiled): https://stackoverflow.com
[10:03:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 92 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:03:05] <exec> 08└─Why we gots so many bad boys here on the Soylents? What you gunna do when they come for you?
[10:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:06:15] <exec> 08└─Are the fatalities too high to cover up?
[10:07:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:04] <exec> 08└─This is going to mean that you'll be able to port numbers even quicker and move them from handset to handset from, say, a web interface on your telephony carrier.
[10:07:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06U.S. Docs Show Daimler May Have Done A "Dieselgate" - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:49] <exec> 08└─What is wrong with cars that use less fuel and are cheaper to run?
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[10:59:30] <exec> 08└─The plebians don't remember history/understand the consequences of this. When the 4th Reich rises (Placeholder for whatever our next big world war instigating genocidal culture is), they are going to very quickly and very effectively collate all this biometric data and use it to focus in on the unwa...
[10:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:47] <exec> 08└─If you hold on long enough, they will dissolve through the bowel wall into the bloodstream. Of course they will then come back out of solution at the other blood interface. Hence the origin of the term Fart-Breath.
[10:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 716 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:49] <exec> 08└─While I am exceedingly glad that smoking is not longer allowed on planes, not even weed, I have to point out that he could have been lighting them. It would have the dual purpose of eliminating the stench as well as passing the time with entertainment for him and the people next to him. If they'd ju...
[10:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Italy Expands As UAE-Backed Alitalia Goes Bankrupt - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:59] <exec> 08└─> Qatar Airways' CEO Akbar al-Baker I guess shouting his name in an airport hall will get you arrested by airport security.
[11:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Spectre Firmware Patches; Intel and AMD Face Numerous Lawsuits - 353 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:07] <exec> 08└─I think there is still room for problems. For example, if older families of processors are susceptible and don't get patched. They are too old is not an excuse because you are not fixing a bit rotting software platform, you have a flaw that has been there all along and people might run production st...
[11:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:34] <exec> 08└─I seem to be one of those people who can't handle SSRIs
[11:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:35] <exec> 08└─Ehm, has there every been any discussion about if it helps against _acute_ depression? I mean, that is what the friggin things was develop to combat, the issue is that people end up getting them for chronic depression (which should be dealth with my competent therapy, medication should only be a sto...
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[11:00:37] <exec> 08└─(Sorry for even worse spelling, concussion, those handles in elevators are a friggin safety hazard)
[11:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:40] <exec> 08└─You have nothing to lose by trying them.
[11:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:42] <exec> 08└─Nice try, but I'm not leaving SN that easily!
[11:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:19] <exec> 08└─Even if HAM offset the SoC costs against the costs of the commercial Qt license, HAM would have to pay millions of euros more for a Web than for a Qt solution. And, HAM would have no way to scale down the Web solution to mid-range and low-end appliances.
[11:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:20] <exec> 08└─You can use Qt with different languages too - Python is quite popular.
[11:02:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 78 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:22] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it was even better back in the day, with those instant on tube radios...
[11:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:04:45] <exec> 08└─Twitter's only value is that it allows msm journalists to quickly do their job without stepping outside of their house and doing actual journalists and talking to actual people.
[11:07:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 113 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:13] <exec> 08└─Non-removable SIMs are in the same league as non-removable batteries: A wonderful tool for shafting the customer.
[11:07:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:15] <exec> 08└─I bet you are one of those people who store their dropbox password in their dropbox as well. The SIM card is your authentication towards the phone company. If you make it cloud based, you'll need some kind of authentication to access your authentication.
[11:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Bot [3902] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:17] <exec> 08└─Also I had said You, not Me. What I want from a phone: 1. a sexy I/O connector 2. ??? 3. PROFIT!!!
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[11:59:27] <exec> 08└─Mass outrage ensued at a comedy show when comedian Mark Jackleson raped a woman on stage in front of a live audience. As members of the audience were leaving in disgust, we asked them to vocalize their feelings about the matter. Here are their responses: "I coul-can't believe it. Disgusting. I'm sha...
[11:59:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 922 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:29] <exec> 08└─DRM. I might not be able to read it. Even after paying. Then the onus is on me to maintain an "authorized" reader. All the "E-Books" I have are .PDF files. I will go kicking and screaming to avoid proprietary filetypes. I have been bitten before. Finding "investments" in proprietary file formats t...
[11:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 274 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:31] <exec> 08└─Men's rights? Don't make me laugh. We are only useful as long as we are making money for someone else. We are nothing but a spent battery. Chunk 'em to the riverbed. If they beg or crap in the sand, put 'em in the pokey. And the pokey's already filled to the brim with 'em.
[11:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 390 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:58] <exec> 08└─I do not understand why such a fuss and not make him go to the bathroom for some time. Holding it is not a good idea as the farts are often triggered by the pressure differences that happen in altitude. What a bunch of idiots to get in a fight because of a fart of an old man. Yeah it may not be plea...
[11:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:59] <exec> 08└─Farts can be held in, and the gasses will dissolve and be absorbed by the body to no ill effects.
[12:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:01] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. This is simply a false belief on how things work. Also the gas would be methane which is odorless. The smell would therefore not be absorbed.
[12:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:00:49] <exec> 08└─Yeah, problem is depression makes you think "I can't be bothered". So antidepressants may well be required as a first step in order to fix your circumstances, be it assholes, debt, bad relationship or any of another 100 factors.
[12:02:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:29] <exec> 08└─But multiplataform development is easier with Javascript than with any compiled language.
[12:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:30] <exec> 08└─To the user the JIT compilation overhead when opening the program will still render it slower if it happens every time the program is opened. This slow down spread across many instances of usage (idiocracy such as writing CLI tools in Java that may be invoked millions of times per minute comes to mi...
[12:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:33] <exec> 08└─If their product is actually better who cares?
[12:06:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 1947 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:06:34] <exec> 08└─> Euro-sausage? Really? I think the Euro-sausage was actually Yes (Pri)minister. But it's the tabloid equivalent of "sovereignty". Just as "racism/xenophobia" is the tabloid equivalent of "maintain cultural integrity." > 1. Racism > 2. Ignorance. > 3. Rich people who will be able to screw over ordin...
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[12:59:28] <exec> 08└─What are you waiting for...? This rancid, feces-filled, parasite-infested asshole of mine isn't going to inject itself with sticky goodies! Get your fetid, disease-ridden cock over here and experience the sensation of it being enveloped in mushy feces! What say you?
[12:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:38] <exec> 08└─I'll take the profit off that 20% if he doesn't want it!
[12:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 392 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:40] <exec> 08└─That's a really interesting concept. One could put the burden back on the vendor to maintain their DRM servers ( or whatever). I guess most people (including me) have been bitten by the "well, you bought a perpetual licence for the product, but we can't be bothered to support the DRM tech so tough,...
[12:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03kiffer [3153] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:42] <exec> 08└─It is exactly the same as print, except it's electronic. There is no creativity, no enhancement, no real digital experience. We, as publishers, have not done a great job going digital.
[12:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03rigrig [5129] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 674 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:44] <exec> 08└─All the e-books I have are (DRM-free) .epub files, which really makes a world of difference on a e-reader. I even paid for some of them, because they were published by people smart enough to realise putting in DRM hurts their profits. (Not only because it stops people like us (or anybody with a devi...
[12:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03AndyTheAbsurd [3958] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 951 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:46] <exec> 08└─You've hit the nail on the head. The problem isn't that it's just an electronic copy of the same text. It's that it's just an electronic copy of the same text at the same price that I would pay for the dead-tree version in a brick-and-mortar store. At that price point, the only major advantage* to t...
[13:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03shrewdsheep [5215] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:17] <exec> 08└─The Dutch are Assholes
[13:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 239 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:18] <exec> 08└─What a neat way to keep people from sitting up real close on those cramped airline seats. The most effective thing I had seen before was a small screaming infant. Worked wonders. No-one would sit there until the plane was completely full.
[13:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:20] <exec> 08└─Also the gas would be methane which is odorless
[13:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:00:23] <exec> 08└─I do not understand why such a fuss and not make him go to the bathroom for some time.
[13:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 597 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:02:54] <exec> 08└─This guy bought into the "code once, run anywhere" Java BS (which Qt partially delivered on many years later). It's a powerful argument, and if your app doesn't have any performance needs, then fine - run an interpreter, etc. etc. But, our users were already waiting 30 seconds for the data to crunch...
[13:03:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 818 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:46] <exec> 08└─You don't get what I'm saying. No, the laws are not imposed by the concent of the governed. Groups of people, elected or otherwise, decide what the laws will be. The governed are seldom consulted. Those laws are then enforced by violence and the threat thereof. If, for example, I wanted to sell Bean...
[13:03:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:47] <exec> 08└─Laws are imposed by enforcement. If they were not enforced they would be suggestions rather than laws.
[13:03:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:03:49] <exec> 08└─All governments are violently imposed. I was never asked for consent to be governed, and if I resisted I would be met with violence.
[13:06:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 4296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:06:07] <exec> 08└─The copyright extremists are the ones guilty of conflation. They have done their utmost to convince everyone that there is no difference between copying and stealing. Recall Valenti's infamous comparison between the VCR and the Boston Strangler, one of the most over-the-top, histrionic, and hysteric...
[13:10:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03infodragon [3509] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Booze News - 724 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:10:00] <exec> 08└─Excellent questions! My response is not binary. It's a little of both. The conclusion they came to should not have been "drinking helps you live longer." From the sample set the conclusion should have been more nuanced, such as "If you've been drinking all your life and you're over 90, you have a gr...
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[13:59:28] <exec> 08└─According to my extensive research, I'm sure this "biohacking" must inevitably result in the genesis of at least one supervillain.
[13:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:29] <exec> 08└─Herpes-Man, Herpes-Man, does whatever some herpes can...
[13:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03inertnet [4071] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 68 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:31] <exec> 08└─His experiment seems to have worked and made him less irresponsible.
[13:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 2149 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:46] <exec> 08└─The eBook is a marvellous product. Sure, it's no different from the printed book in terms of content, but I can carry hundreds of the buggers around on a reader. That said, two problems need to be resolved. DRM, as mentioned by others, so I won't go into that. The other feature missing - which no on...
[13:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 815 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:48] <exec> 08└─Major advantages for me are that ebooks are easier to carry and physically easier to read. I have a reader with actual buttons for page-turn, and can hold it in one hand and click with my thumb to go to the next page, or leave it flat on a desk and not have to worry about the book trying to close it...
[13:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:50] <exec> 08└─Depends on the reader. Mine just presents the filesystem, and shows the book covers once you get down to files, so it would be pretty straightforward to have Science Fiction/Asimov, Isaac/Foundation Series/Foundation.mobi but it wouldn't show the book covers till I got into the Foundation folder. It...
[13:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:52] <exec> 08└─Do audiobooks count as e-books? Due to Audible i started "reading" more literature than I ever did in my entire life. 1000 page tomes? Got it. I have read some e-book versions of books which had not yet been "ported" to audio and found that the writers flaws are immensely visible without a narrator...
[13:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:59:54] <exec> 08└─Use Calibre to manage your ebooks and to transfer them and delete them from your device. It is a wonderful, free, multi platform and open source piece of software and will ID your books and pull the Metadata automatically from many sources. You have to strip your DRM for books with it though. https:...
[14:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score: 1) 02 - 06US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:05] <exec> 08└─I despise poor reporting and this particular issue is poorly reported nearly everywhere. US Customs and Border Protection is a federal agency responsible for the security of our borders. Within CBP is the US Border Patrol. Border Patrol Agents are the folks that wear green uniforms and PATROL the bo...
[14:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 20 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:31] <exec> 08└─Charcoal underpants?
[14:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03crafoo [6639] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Spectre Firmware Patches; Intel and AMD Face Numerous Lawsuits - 457 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:50] <exec> 08└─These are pretty bad flaws, and not all that forgivable given their nature and how predictable an outcome it is. Jumping around from the Mot 680x0, 6502, 6809, 8088, 80486, amd64, atmel mega, and others .. x86 assembly has always been shit. The whole platform was shit from day 1 from the BIOS to the...
[14:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03AssCork [6255] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Spectre Firmware Patches; Intel and AMD Face Numerous Lawsuits - 10 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:00:52] <exec> 08└─Good luck.
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[14:59:36] <exec> 08└─According to my extensive research, I'm sure this "biohacking" must inevitably result in the genesis of at least one supervillain.
[14:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:40] <exec> 08└─What exactly are they injecting? For all we know it is pbs/dmso/whatever. I don't see how these injection stunts prove anything. Also if you inject sufficent cas9 to do anything I am sure there will at least be local necrosis.
[14:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:42] <exec> 08└─So when Zayner saw Ascendance Biomedical's CEO injecting himself on a live-stream earlier this month, you might say there was an uneasy flicker of recognition.
[14:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 183 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:44] <exec> 08└─The guy didn't use it to replace his Y chromosome with a donated X one considering how many falling head over heels to get 'more women in stem'. Even if they are not interested in it.
[14:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:46] <exec> 08└─If someone is "crazy" enough to inject themselves with some untested, home-brewed concoction why be surprised when they go off the rails, lock themselves in a lab or whatever? What could possibly go wrong?
[14:59:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03anubi [2828] 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 922 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:55] <exec> 08└─DRM. I might not be able to read it. Even after paying. Then the onus is on me to maintain an "authorized" reader. All the "E-Books" I have are .PDF files. I will go kicking and screaming to avoid proprietary filetypes. I have been bitten before. Finding "investments" in proprietary file formats t...
[15:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 565 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:07] <exec> 08└─You've hit on the problem I was going to mention: hierarchical organization. Most file systems are hierarchical. Don't use a file system to organize a book collection, use tags. I've had to learn that lesson the hard way more than once. Thought I'd store the family tree data in HTML, but there were...
[15:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:09] <exec> 08└─If the only e-books you have are PDF, you're doing yourself a disservice. Get a decent e-reader and download some EPUB books. EPUB is an open format that is available without DRM (although DRM is an option). After reading PDFs, your eyes will thank you!
[15:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Revek [5022] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 268 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:11] <exec> 08└─This I actually bought a book and the DRM on it prevented me from reading it. It needed some adobe product and I never did get it working on my tablet. I guess I could have sat at my computer at night before bed and read it but instead I just bought a hard copy of it.
[15:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:13] <exec> 08└─I guess most people (including me) have been bitten by the "well, you bought a perpetual licence for the product, but we can't be bothered to support the DRM tech so tough, we are just gonna kill your licence".
[15:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:15] <exec> 08└─If somebody doesn't know what this is all about is usually PDFs have a set layout, fonts and colors, with e.g. EPUBs you can change those to your heart's content. And somebody already gave a shoutout to Project Gutenberg.
[15:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 1480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:18] <exec> 08└─From tfa, > We, as publishers, have not done a great job going digital. Oddly enough I just had a long conference call with my publisher which kind of mirrored this. When ebooks first came out they were pushing me to allow an e-version of our text book in parallel with traditional hardbound -- same...
[15:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 1006 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:20] <exec> 08└─The online literature market is big enough for me to know about following a courtesy +1 to an acquaintance's post and a quick look-through the linked article. But those figures won't fall under "book sales" since they're purely ad-driven or serializations where, technically, books aren't being sold....
[15:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 2511 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:23] <exec> 08└─My Mother in Law cranks the font size up to match her vision quality somewhat dynamically day to day based on location light levels etc. Delivery is instant. Done with book 2 of a series, enjoyed it and want to read the next? Here's book 3 in about two minutes. Text book style references are dying,...
[15:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years - 187 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:34] <exec> 08└─Muslims just ask a few questions that only a religious pedo who has read their book in their heretic language could answer with a bullet in the head for those too slow or unable to answer
[15:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 607 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:01] <exec> 08└─On occasion when I am particularly foul I find it humorous to carpet bomb a random aisle in a store and take a observation post outside of the contamination area. It's hard to stifle the laughs when the victims start complaining and coughing. I have been sometimes guilty of depositing a hot smelly c...
[15:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03c0lo [156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:02] <exec> 08└─Actually, activate charcoal pills [ausnaturalcare.com.au] do work. I never fly without them: the amount of condiment in on-flight meals is an irritant to my bowels and Australia to Europe has a 14h flight(=3 meals) leg.
[15:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:05] <exec> 08└─At last the hot grits meme has a worthy successor. I look forward to seeing this pasted onto many future articles for years to come.
[15:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:07] <exec> 08└─Ol' Musky got his own flamethrower! ~~~~~ B {{{{{{{{{{{{()
[15:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Spectre Firmware Patches; Intel and AMD Face Numerous Lawsuits - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:26] <exec> 08└─not all that forgivable given their nature and how predictable an outcome it is.
[15:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:59] <exec> 08└─Came here to say this. If it's twice as effective as a placebo, and a placebo has no effect, then isn't 2 * 0 = 0? Especially when the side effects are very real, there's a good reason why lots of people with the pills don't take them.
[15:02:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03leftover [2448] 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 201 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:14] <exec> 08└─Basically, we can only vote for whoever is on the ballot. That has been determined completely out of our sight. Why do we put up with that? Taking up pitchforks and torches is a big threshold to cross.
[15:02:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 1700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:31] <exec> 08└─“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward...
[15:02:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Rosco P. Coltrane [4757] 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 240 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:02:43] <exec> 08└─HTML5: highly inefficient broken client-server display model wannabe based on a heavily modified stateless document viewing standard. Qt5: native application framework, designed to be, well, a framework from the ground up Apples, oranges...
[15:03:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03pendorbound [2688] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 641 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:03:45] <exec> 08└─Qt is actually pretty easy to work in. Try it before you knock it. It's a bit more complicated to write, but you miss a lot of the "write once, debug forever/everywhere" issue that Java & Javascript give you. It's a net gain from a development time perspective. The runtimes are a lot more consistent...
[15:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03cubancigar11 [330] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:13] <exec> 08└─Anything can be valuable once you start measuring it with how much money it can churn.
[15:06:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 144 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:06:15] <exec> 08└─I thought Soylentils hated social media. Why is this the most commented story on the front page? Is it the opportunity to be a right-wing troll?
[15:07:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 425 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:07:57] <exec> 08└─There does not seem to be any threat on the horizon of self-aware AI that could choose to be on it's own side. I'm sure we'll figure it out if we work long enough, but for the foreseeable future the threat is how the machines are used by the small cabal of people who control them. And how they malfu...
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[15:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03LVDOVICVS [6131] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Study Shows How To Retrain The Immune System To Ease Food Allergies - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:35] <exec> 08└─I'm allergic to wifi, Mondays, and mean people.
[15:59:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03JNCF [4317] 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 56 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:44] <exec> 08└─Herpes-Man, Herpes-Man, does whatever some herpes can...
[15:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:52] <exec> 08└─Jeez, cut down on that fluff in the summary.
[15:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:54] <exec> 08└─What could possibly go wrong? They could become psychotic, and gain superhuman strength and other physical attributes, gain possession of some advanced weaponry including a flying board and glowing green grenade, and then fly around causing terror and calamity, while yelling, "Out, am I?"
[16:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:22] <exec> 08└─Bifurcation of the market into "storehouses of written communication" vs "required expensive product tying accessories for an expensive college education". For the latter, ebooks are no benefit. For the former ebooks are cool.
[16:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 711 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:26] <exec> 08└─I would be happy with starting out with something simpler, "books I intend to read in the future" "books I have read and probably will never reread anyway" "favorite books I might reread" "books I'm currently reading" What I do with my kindle now is download the entire todo list and remove from devi...
[16:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03anotherblackhat [4722] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:28] <exec> 08└─Depends on the reader.
[16:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:30] <exec> 08└─Um...I specifically and explicitly mention Calibre. It does solve some of the problems, but certainly not all of them. For one thing, I don't want to always be transferring books to and deleting books from my eReader. Why shouldn't I just be able to leave them there? And while Calibre does pull meta...
[16:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:32] <exec> 08└─Similar story here, except that I do sometimes download DRMed ebooks, but then immediately strip the DRM off them. It's not difficult.
[16:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 672 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:35] <exec> 08└─Just a minor tip that may help some people. Calibre cannot remove Amazon's latest DRM, at least, not yet. However, the older Kindle does not support the new DRM, and Amazon thankfully doesn't want to piss off all of the customers who have older Kindles. So if you have an older Kindle, keep it. Or ge...
[16:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03GreatAuntAnesthesia [3275] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 949 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:37] <exec> 08└─Very true. What's needed is basically Kodi for ebooks. With Kodi you just dump some files with vaguely-meaningful names into a folder, point Kodi at it and then Kodi does all the rest for you. It works out what film or TV series or song or album each file is, scrapes appropriate artwork and blurb an...
[16:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 829 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:39] <exec> 08└─Not all E-Books have baked in DRM. The "Good" publishers don't include DRM in the e-book you are purchasing. TOR is one of those "good" publishers that don't include DRM in their e-books. Most (all? / some?) of the e-book bundles from humble bundle are DRM free. DRM is a scourge and needs to be kill...
[16:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:41] <exec> 08└─And while Calibre does pull metadata automatically, the data is screwed up. Is it "Isaac Asimov", "I. Asimov" or "Asimov, Isaac"? Series information is just as bad. Almost no books have their language set, even though it is a standard field; if you read in multiple languages, this is important. It's...
[16:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 624 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:44] <exec> 08└─What I'm thinking is - someone needs to put something along the lines of Calibre *on* Android. Maybe not the full feature set - I don't know that I need format conversion on the device itself, or metadata editing - but then again, why *not*? The UI would need to be re-arranged, but over all, just ke...
[16:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Freeman [732] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:46] <exec> 08└─I would recommend Librivox to you as well. It's got tons of public domain audio books. In some cases they won't be as good of quality as a professionally narrated book, but generally they have pretty good quality. https://librivox.org [librivox.org] Project Gutenberg is an awesome source for free e...
[16:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 805 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:48] <exec> 08└─It's not just that, you've got asshats like the ones running the Nook division at Barnes & Nobel changing the format without giving notice or allowing people to keep their purchases as they were. The result being, that anybody using the previous software is forced to upgrade and if they can't, then...
[16:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 1082 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:51] <exec> 08└─We have suitable tech for these sorts of organization problems: databases. Which, incidentally, is exactly what a "filesystem" is. The problem with your idea (which is presumably to use a relational database to store your ebooks) is that it likely isn't compatible with any e-reader software, and cer...
[16:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 969 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:54] <exec> 08└─B&N has bookshelves for their Nook ereaders, but it's an incredibly stupid implementation. You have to sort the books on the ereader, you can't do that via software. Which has been somewhat mooted by the fact that they discontinued the previous software and are now forcing everybody to use their new...
[16:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 621 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:56] <exec> 08└─Books... are not so nice and neat. I do the metadata updating for my books that I import into Calibre, and watching what it offers up as options - and I give it a nice large list of book databases to access - means that too often, it would find *crap*. And you do know that for the most part, you can...
[16:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 765 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:58] <exec> 08└─It's not about that, it's about wanting to prevent people from taking those books and loading them onto a different brand of device which would make it easier to switch. It's astonishing to me that we can't have decent antitrust enforcement as Apple pulled this same crap to destroy the MP3 player ma...
[16:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 1055 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:00] <exec> 08└─Yeah, of course a big publisher doesn't understand eBooks. They want to charge the same price per-unit and provide the same royalties even though the manufacturing and distribution costs became basically 0. All of this "enhanced" crap is their way of trying to justify the extra cost and has nothing...
[16:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:12] <exec> 08└─I believe the standard SN bad automobile analogy is ODB-II universal digital code readers are a failure in the industry because the security guard at the parking lot doesn't have or use one.
[16:01:20] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03c0lo [156] 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 457 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:20] <exec> 08└─Ok, eating something that don'r cause gases before the flight as a preventative measure, this I could understand (even if one can't exclude the food on board may have caused it) But once the thing started, what could the poor guy do, explode while trying to retain an amount of gas that managed to "s...
[16:01:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 155 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:44] <exec> 08└─The people who got ejected were Moroccan Dutch. Probably felt offended in their honor. How did the Dutch end up with them; they never colonized that place.
[16:01:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:45] <exec> 08└─Orally or rectally?
[16:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:48] <exec> 08└─In fairness, the sisters were also Moroccan, but appear to have been innocent bysitters.
[16:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Funny) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:50] <exec> 08└─On landing in Vienna, armed police boarded the plane to remove the men who caused the ruckus, along with two sisters who were seated next to them.
[16:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Archon V2.0 [3887] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:52] <exec> 08└─> The most effective thing I had seen before was a small screaming infant. So what you're saying is we need to feed the baby beans and then improvise some sort of crowd control weapon out of it.
[16:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:54] <exec> 08└─The result of holding in so much Trumpgret for so long. You can't contain that much hot air forever.
[16:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Air Italy Expands As UAE-Backed Alitalia Goes Bankrupt - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:05] <exec> 08└─It's a trap!
[16:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Italy Expands As UAE-Backed Alitalia Goes Bankrupt - 1547 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:08] <exec> 08└─Must be an interesting cultural shock, Qatar Airways is famous for hiring everyone except Qataris and then subjecting them to strict Islamic law in their spare time until they get pissed off and quit, imagine being an Italian stewardess woman and your new bosses policies are all about regulating you...
[16:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Tara Li [6248] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Deploys Broadband Test Satellites, Fails to Catch Entire Fairing - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:27] <exec> 08└─I'm never seeing it explicitly mentioned that of the two halves, they did catch one. Or was the boat only trying to catch one of them, and they'll eventually have a boat to for each half? Or what?
[16:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:53] <exec> 08└─522 Trials Find Anti-Depressants have More Side Effects than Placebos, too. Do you ever read the list of side effects that comes with medications? Often a long list in very small print starting from flatulence and ending in death.
[16:02:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:02:54] <exec> 08└─The side effects of depression are quite debilitating too. Sometimes, it's fatal.
[16:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:27] <exec> 08└─And I mean both D and R. And yet, every example you just listed is an R policy that's opposed by the Ds.
[16:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:28] <exec> 08└─Panem et circenses.
[16:04:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:44] <exec> 08└─JS isn't even consistent between browsers and the "standard" changes on a daily basis. Please try again.
[16:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:46] <exec> 08└─Is that why y'all conservatives are always so ornery? Your right testicles have been caved in? Might explain the obsession with "vucking" as your nuts can't fire live rounds?
[16:05:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03FatPhil [863] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 260 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:41] <exec> 08└─Absolute garbage. There are laws which are not enforced, but they have *im**posed* (been placed within) the legal system. Which makes them still laws. Consider all federal laws which states have said they will not enforce (drugs, sanctuary, equal rights, etc.)
[16:07:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:17] <exec> 08└─But the Tweeter-in-Chief is too big to fail!
[16:07:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03VLM [445] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 2016 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:18] <exec> 08└─Nobody commented on the situation from twitter's point of view. I don't watch boomer TV but they have it on at the gym. Supposedly "good media" is heat, where you have two idiots yelling at each other, so you can get the equivalent of schoolboys standing around a fight watching (and watching adverti...
[16:07:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:07:20] <exec> 08└─As a casual onlooker this seems like a very high bar Write unbiased and neutral submissions on topics of interest and they will probably hit the front page.
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[16:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 295 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:32] <exec> 08└─Is the quest for control by control freaks. Problem: internet vehiculates fake news. Solution: do nothing, propaganda always existed, people will learn the hard way like they always did. Control freak solution: WE NEED TO CONTROL EVERY THING THAT GETS PUBLISHED THINK OF THE CHILDREN OMG WTF BBQ
[16:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:33] <exec> 08└─Oh, lookie here, it's from Columbia, one of the biggest Jewniversities on the East Coast. Jews invented fake news, now they have to deal with it.
[16:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Hartree [195] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:35] <exec> 08└─Most people only call it propaganda if they disagree with it.
[16:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Animal Study Shows How To Retrain The Immune System To Ease Food Allergies - 831 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:44] <exec> 08└─Allergies cured? This is wonderful news. But like all news of that sort, it's a long way from the lab to the store shelf or the doctor's office. I wonder if and when such treatments will be readily available. I can imagine Big Pharma's allergy medication divisions already gearing up to squash this....
[16:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Corelli's A [1772] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Animal Study Shows How To Retrain The Immune System To Ease Food Allergies - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:46] <exec> 08└─Newfound programmability of immune response leads to fixes for allergies: good. Next up: those with enough cash to spare can have fashionable allergies induced.
[16:59:56] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03inertnet [4071] 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 68 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:57] <exec> 08└─His experiment seems to have worked and made him less irresponsible.
[17:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:05] <exec> 08└─OK, OK ... but besides that, what could possibly go wrong?
[17:00:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 363 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:51] <exec> 08└─Well, in my case, if it has DRM to start with, unless the "download" is free of monetary charge, it remains where it is. Maybe I go look for a torrent, maybe I don't. But I won't give them a dime for a DRM'ed e-book, ever. Reason being if I do give them a dime for the DRM'ed copy, they interpret tha...
[17:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:52] <exec> 08└─With a real filesystem (read as: nothing from mickeysloth qualifies) you don't need symlinks either. Just hard link the ebooks into the different locations. Then they physically exist at all those locations, but only one copy of the data exists on disk. Now, does Android allow hard links to be creat...
[17:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 478 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:54] <exec> 08└─I appreciate the sentiment of LibriVox, but finding a good reading on there is just an awful time. Between multi-reader projects, inconsistent normalization, poor editing, distracting hiss/pops/clipping and just general poor reading voices, it is usually worth my time to buy an mp3 cd off Amazon. Al...
[17:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:57] <exec> 08└─It's not about that, it's about wanting to prevent people from taking those books and loading them onto a different brand of device which would make it easier to switch.
[17:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03slinches [5049] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 373 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:59] <exec> 08└─Agree. The problem for me is cost. First, they want to charge the same price for something that has lower distribution costs, then I have to pay for a separate reader, and third I can't easily resell the files (DRM and compatibility issues). So until they drop ebook prices below that of used paperb...
[17:01:09] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] 02 - 06US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years - 678 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:10] <exec> 08└─I despise poor reporting and this particular issue is poorly reported nearly everywhere. US Customs and Border Protection is a federal agency responsible for the security of our borders. Within CBP is the US Border Patrol. Border Patrol Agents are the folks that wear green uniforms and PATROL the bo...
[17:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years - 546 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:14] <exec> 08└─The passports, and much more stringent security checks on even domestic flights in some cases, were introduced in European nations because of US pressure. If people wanted to visit USA after the WTC attack, they had to have said type of passport. And the more stringent security checks were likewise...
[17:01:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:51] <exec> 08└─Where in the article do you get the information about morroco descent of the the Dutch?
[17:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormreaver [5101] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:52] <exec> 08└─Farts can be held in, and the gasses will dissolve and be absorbed by the body to no ill effects.
[17:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:54] <exec> 08└─I saw this story a few days back in another paper.
[17:01:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:56] <exec> 08└─Depends on the size of the pill.
[17:02:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Spectre Firmware Patches; Intel and AMD Face Numerous Lawsuits - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:02:19] <exec> 08└─Spectre and Meltdown exist but they were not created maliciously.
[17:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:03:29] <exec> 08└─https://www.battleforthenet.com/onemorevote/ [battleforthenet.com] BTW Look at the logos of those who participate, you'll find a surprise in the middle column.
[17:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:47] <exec> 08└─There is a generation of "programmers" running around these days that have never touched anything but interpreted languages. You will notice this in how they have no respect for memory footprints or cpu utilization, only "UX" and features (and maybe "security" theater when pushed).
[17:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:04:48] <exec> 08└─Apparently it is an even bigger bitch to work with than C++ based Qt. https://www.youtube.com [youtube.com]
[17:05:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:45] <exec> 08└─Citing bible as an authority.
[17:05:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 671 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:46] <exec> 08└─I'd say "violently maintained" would be more accurate than "violently imposed." Imposed mostly talks about when the rules are first created, not when they're enforced in an ongoing fashion. im·pose imˈpōz verb gerund or present participle: imposing 1. - force (something unwelcome or unfamiliar) t...
[17:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 800 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:48] <exec> 08└─Hey, I didn't say I buy their logic. I just try a bit harder to figure out what they're trying to say ;) It's true that we're not consulted at birth about what sort of government we personally want to have. You can take the last of the boxes (moving box) to object, I suppose. There's the old saw tha...
[17:07:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:27] <exec> 08└─Sources, would love to see such massive fuckups
[17:07:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 157 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:28] <exec> 08└─Does Aristarchus go overboard? Yes. Is he wrong about alt-right losers around here? No. This site has been teetering on the edge of the alt-right poop cliff.
[17:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 1289 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:30] <exec> 08└─The story as printed is not the same as the story that was submitted. Please compare it with the Original Submission. The story, as opposed to comments, should be as neutral and unbiased as the submitter can make it. Sometimes we have to go searching for the opposite point of view to try to give a s...
[17:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 153 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:32] <exec> 08└─Go bury your head in the sand some more. How much have you spent on infowars products? Do trumps tiny hands just really do the trick for your tiny prick?
[17:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 1342 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:35] <exec> 08└─Soo...Gab? Gab is their alternative? These morons have clearly earned the banhammer. I mean I've got nothing against Gab specifically...but they could have picked a network that is actually designed from the ground up to make these kinds of attacks difficult if not impossible. They could have gone w...
[17:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:37] <exec> 08└─It has to do with saying insulting things vs. reporting other people saying them
[17:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 1398 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:07:39] <exec> 08└─Soo...they're doomed to failure because they aren't doing their best to copy the model of legacy media? How are CNNs ratings doing today compared to twenty years ago? How's cable TV in general doing? Suppose kids these days all think they're perfect special little snowflakes. They don't *want* to si...
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[17:59:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 1060 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:26] <exec> 08└─What is really astonishing here is the amount of time, effort and money the Trump administration is willing to use in order to ensure that Big Telecom can screw ordinary every day consumers. Truly amazing. There was a time once when I thought the job of government was to either: 1. leave things alon...
[17:59:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03captain normal [2205] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 285 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:28] <exec> 08└─I think the best case that happens is this gets drawn out in the courts until early 2021, when there is a change in the U.S. Administration. Just like every thing that involves lawyers there will be reams of motions, disclosures and appeals not to mention many days of vocal arguments.
[17:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03donkeyhotay [2540] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 1089 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:38] <exec> 08└─It's kind of what I've been thinking for awhile now. These networks were designed to do things like sell more Coke, which seems pretty benign. But passing along the idea that you should drink more Coke is no different than passing along the idea that you should do something else, like vote a certain...
[17:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:39] <exec> 08└─It has come to my attention that there are people who disagree with me. The obvious solution is that I need to control everything so that we can help these poor people. Think of the children.
[17:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 50 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:42] <exec> 08└─WE NEED TO CONTROL EVERY THING THAT GETS PUBLISHED
[17:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:44] <exec> 08└─What would happen if there were a minimum intelligence level required in order to connect to the internet?
[17:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:46] <exec> 08└─What if we did not control the publication of opinions, but did require basic facts to actually be true? This strut really can withstand 10,000 lbs of pull. The sun really does rise in the East and not in the West. No more alternate facts. There would be no fake news. Just different opinions about t...
[17:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:48] <exec> 08└─IQ = fake news
[17:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 1, Offtopic) 02 - 06Animal Study Shows How To Retrain The Immune System To Ease Food Allergies - 2725 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:59:59] <exec> 08└─Big pharma controls the research money. Technically the government assigns the grants but since the money comes from industry, they have ultimate veto. I have an anecdote about "sensitivities" to food. The article mentions allergies specifically and I'm not sure about how that relates to food "sens...
[18:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03danmars [3662] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Study Shows How To Retrain The Immune System To Ease Food Allergies - 1020 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:02] <exec> 08└─The manufacturers of the EpiPen will definitely not have the clout to bury such research, and pretty much all the basic antihistamine allergy medicines have generics at this point - you can get 2 weeks' supply of the Zyrtec generic for $1 at the dollar store. It would make sense for the companies to...
[18:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Study Shows How To Retrain The Immune System To Ease Food Allergies - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:04] <exec> 08└─Allergies cured? This is wonderful news. But like all news of that sort, it's a long way from the lab to the store shelf or the doctor's office. I wonder if and when such treatments will be readily available.
[18:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:22] <exec> 08└─I was going to say "They could then run for president" but I think that would be an improvement over what's currently in office.
[18:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 227 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:13] <exec> 08└─If you liked Peter Pan (which I think is really called something like the story of Wendy and Peter Pan) you might also enjoy Peter Pan in Kensington Garden. I found it in the rare book section of the public library in the 50's.
[18:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 483 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:14] <exec> 08└─Consider this: In our house, we have thousands of printed books on shelves. These are organized by category, and then alphabetically by author. Books by the same author are organized by series, and the books in a series are in the proper order. So if I feel like a bit of fantasy, I look at the books...
[18:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Oakenshield [4900] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:16] <exec> 08└─Um...I specifically and explicitly mention Calibre.
[18:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 237 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:10] <exec> 08└─When looking for Waikiki hotels, Trump International Hotel Waikiki offers superior accommodations, location, and service. Out of all the hotels in Waikiki, this five-star hotel will surpass all expectations and make your trip worthwhile.
[18:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 37 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:11] <exec> 08└─Did he eat the lutefisk or the steak?
[18:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 156 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:13] <exec> 08└─The ones for the ass are the biggest, they're huge. You'd think those would be the small ones, right? Trust me, they're not. And they don't call them pills.
[18:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 280 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:16] <exec> 08└─Holding it in can really do a number on your insides. Especially on a plane. Trust me on this one -- I owned an airline. And I fly a lot, I have my own plane. The air pressure on the plane isn't regular air pressure, it's much less. So it makes your insides swell up tremendously.
[18:02:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03edIII [791] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 544 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:18] <exec> 08└─My worst carpet bombing came in a Costco IIRC, and was nearly fatal. I'd left a particularly bad fart in an aisle, and I was leaving I looked back and saw an old lady drive into it. Literally, with a little motor cart she had to help her get around. Her face contorted, she made this pathetic little...
[18:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:17] <exec> 08└─"finally puts to bed the controversy on anti-depressants" nevermind all those school shooters and suicides, then. good to know.
[18:04:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 91 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:23] <exec> 08└─That headline's like asking if you'd prefer to be kicked in the left testicle or the right.
[18:05:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:11] <exec> 08└─All Blu Ray players implement Java. Yes. Really. I'm not even kidding.
[18:05:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 5 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:13] <exec> 08└─lmao!
[18:05:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:05:15] <exec> 08└─ads for FOSS don't count. only slaveware should be banned.
[18:06:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:13] <exec> 08└─Just sayin'.
[18:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:15] <exec> 08└─OK. Whether imposed or maintained is more appropriate depends on the time span you are focusing on.
[18:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:06:17] <exec> 08└─All governments are violently imposed. I was never asked for consent to be governed, and if I resisted I would be met with violence.
[18:08:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:02] <exec> 08└─Oh man, I'd forgotten about that guy. Reminds me of Lennart Poettering now that I think about it, as in "why should we be listening to this prick?"
[18:08:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:04] <exec> 08└─There's a difference between reporting the idiocy that some party is undertaking, and posting a rant calling them names in the process. The evidence given should speak for itself; we shouldn't be spoon-fed the opinion the article submitter wants us to share. Thanks for what you guys do, janrinok. I'...
[18:08:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Twitter “Bot” Purge Causes Outcry as Follower Counts Fall - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:08:06] <exec> 08└─Welcome to "conservative" politics. Yes, the scare quotes are intentional.
[18:09:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:09:47] <exec> 08└─Yes, I realize that. Try this one instead: Unmanned weapons are only a good thing if they are on your side. As long as they don't decide to be on the side of the contractor who built them.
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[18:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:29] <exec> 08└─What Agit Pai glosses-over is that the reason for Title II being necessary was Verizon suing the FCC over 'net neutrality. Verizon Communications Inc. v. Federal Communications Commission (2014) You know, the company he was formerly a lawyer for.
[18:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03arulatas [3600] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:30] <exec> 08└─It is all part of draining the swamp. No need to have the lobbyists if the regulatory capture is in place.
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 191 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:48] <exec> 08└─Just this past week, posts from people who normally wouldn't wind up in a person's feed are showing up if they are anti-gun. It's like those posts are mysteriously getting some sort of boost.
[18:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Flamebait) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:49] <exec> 08└─That is not a troll! It is fact that the Ivy League is dominated by the Jewish! [quora.com]
[18:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:51] <exec> 08└─Yup, sounds like the Republican platform alright, except you'll need to put "adult" before "children".
[18:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:54] <exec> 08└─So when a Twitter bot army starts pushing the story about the Florida school students not being students, but professional "crisis actors", that is only propaganda?
[18:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:56] <exec> 08└─The problem is the sources aren't less biased, just differently biased. And often even less given to basing the statements in fact. I *think* I can usually tell, but this may just be confirmation bias. It's true that the traditional news media don't have much respect for factuality, but they've got...
[18:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:58] <exec> 08└─And most people never learn critical thinking skills. Correlation or causation?
[18:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:00] <exec> 08└─I see. The Russians are actually helping here in pointing all these alt-right mouthpieces to all the "real" news. Lamestream media is such teh sux0r, ain't it right? I used to like the lamestream media until it got popular, now all the cool kids have moved on to that other crap.
[19:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:03] <exec> 08└─I'm pretty sure a lot of the horrifying shit on the net is the result of intelligent enough people just being horrible. I bet it would turn into one big troll circle jerk.
[19:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 1340 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:05] <exec> 08└─FWIW, the sun rarely rises in the east or sets in the west. That happens, at most 4 times per year. Perhaps twice per year, I'd need to recheck my model. This is a serious response to your post. While there are definitely lies out there (you can call them fake news if you want, but it's a more gener...
[19:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 148 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:07] <exec> 08└─Granting your assertion of domination, that doesn't make your original post not a troll...unless you think flamebait is a more appropriate category.
[19:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:09] <exec> 08└─And most people never learn proper analysis. Correlation is not causation, but it is often a sign of causation. The "Correlation is not causation" is an appropriate warning because occasionally it isn't. But most of the time it is, though you can't always be certain of the direction of causality wit...
[19:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 1305 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:12] <exec> 08└─No, that isn't hitting the problem well either: Both MSM and non-MSM sources can be and frequently are completely full of crap. The problem is taking any single source of information, or any group of connected organizations, and holding up whatever they say as The Truth. That's a mistake whether you...
[19:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 646 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:14] <exec> 08└─That's probably right but since the algorithms and manual intervention criteria and methods are opaque, there's not really a way to call them out on it, yet. There are a lot of indicators in their terms of service and similar documents, but again no details for most topics. An external factor facto...
[19:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:16] <exec> 08└─For a citizen of the US to do that is unethical, but not criminal. But taking money from a foreign national or nation to do the same thing is, I believe, illegal. I'm no lawyer, and there may well be loopholes, but that's my understanding of the basics of the law. OTOH, there would be nothing baring...
[19:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:18] <exec> 08└─Go on a shooting spree Tommy.
[19:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:21] <exec> 08└─What if we did not control the publication of opinions, but did require basic facts to actually be true?
[19:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Study Shows How To Retrain The Immune System To Ease Food Allergies - 91 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:33] <exec> 08└─The people I've known who settled on a diagnosis of gluten intolerance did so begrudgingly,
[19:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Animal Study Shows How To Retrain The Immune System To Ease Food Allergies - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:34] <exec> 08└─I'll be able to get that doctor approved allergy to work I've always wanted!
[19:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:56] <exec> 08└─He's the bad guy who you keep thinking you've finally gotten rid of him, but he keeps coming back! Perfect movie villain.
[19:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:57] <exec> 08└─Meanwhile, another DIY healer who claimed vegan juices cured her breast cancer (and lesbianism) died of breast cancer [standard.co.uk].
[19:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:59] <exec> 08└─"I'm addicted to vaccines, man. But if I can't get that I'll settle for high-grade gene therapy."
[19:01:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 2132 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:53] <exec> 08└─Yes. That. DRM is the crux of the problem. I would prefer e-books over bulky, heavy physical books. I just bought the textbook Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach (Peter Norvig and Stuart J. Russell) for $125 used good condition, because new it was $175. Now I would pay the same for an e-book...
[19:01:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:54] <exec> 08└─Yep. The reason we want it electronic is that I can put many books on a tablet sized, pocket sized or laptop sized device. Instead of bookshelves of books, it all fits on your phone or tablet. Sort of like having thousands of music mp3s on a single device, or on all of your own personal devices for...
[19:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:56] <exec> 08└─If you buy a bound book, why shouldn't you get the e-book for a small additional fee? The e-book doesn't give you any more content. It merely is an additional fee for a huge amount of convenience.
[19:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03richtopia [3160] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:59] <exec> 08└─I watch the Humble Bundle for ebook offerings. They are epub and DRM free, and I typically agree with the price.
[19:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 214 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:01] <exec> 08└─I might not be able to read it. Even after paying. Then the onus is on me to maintain an "authorized" reader. All the "E-Books" I have are .PDF files. I will go kicking and screaming to avoid proprietary filetypes.
[19:02:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:03] <exec> 08└─I don't like it for reference works, but for novels or biographies or other 'start at the beginning and read to the end' things
[19:02:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03hendrikboom [1125] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:05] <exec> 08└─Which is exactly why I don't buy ebooks from Amazon.
[19:02:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:08] <exec> 08└─You have to strip your DRM for books with it though.
[19:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 960 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:10] <exec> 08└─"everywhere else it is 5%-7% because in these places the prices never went down to such a level that the ebook market would get significant traction." I think this gives a false impression of the history of ebooks in other markets like North America. Originally ebooks were a dime a dozen. They cost...
[19:02:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:12] <exec> 08└─I think the database you want to use is Library of Congress https://www.loc.gov [loc.gov] There was a cataloging problem with one of our books (two books with similar name being confused) and LoC were very easy to work with (very professional also) to correct the mistake. In a month or so, the corr...
[19:02:23] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03VLM [445] 02 - 06US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years - 190 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:24] <exec> 08└─I believe the standard SN bad automobile analogy is ODB-II universal digital code readers are a failure in the industry because the security guard at the parking lot doesn't have or use one.
[19:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:26] <exec> 08└─All because one group of assholes used hijacked passenger planes to justify a metric fuckton of heinous stupidity. FTFY
[19:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:13] <exec> 08└─From TFA . . . two Dutchmen sat next to the trumper started a fight with the man
[19:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 542 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:15] <exec> 08└─From Huffpo: All four people reportedly shared Dutch and Moroccan ancestry, but the two women claim they were simply sitting in the same row as the men involved with the incident. From nltimes.nl: The women, sisters returning from a vacation in Dubai, are pressing charges against the airline. They b...
[19:03:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03janrinok [52] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Spectre Firmware Patches; Intel and AMD Face Numerous Lawsuits - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:38] <exec> 08└─I agree with most of what you say. Criminal negligence is what the courts ruled for automakers when they hid those kinds of flaws and failed to recall in time.
[19:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Intel Releases Spectre Firmware Patches; Intel and AMD Face Numerous Lawsuits - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:03:40] <exec> 08└─AMD knew about the Meltdown problems years ago that's why they aren't vulnerable to it - aka doing things right. On the other hand it is hard to avoid being vulnerable to Spectre while allowing branch speculation for higher performance.
[19:04:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:18] <exec> 08└─True, but saying "you have nothing to lose by trying them" is wrong. I have boners and bone density, and I'd like to keep both.
[19:04:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 474 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:20] <exec> 08└─You are not going to lose your boners or bone density in a single month. This is what I originally posted: try it for one month. See if the medicine "get you over the hump" of your depression. No one is saying you have to take it for the rest of your life. Just getting out of the depths of depressio...
[19:05:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03pipedwho [2032] 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 507 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:05:29] <exec> 08└─Qt was originally created by Trolltech in 1995, and KDE started up about a year later. Then 13 years later in 2008 Nokia bought Trolltech, and started contributing to the project. No, Nokia didn't create Qt, but yes, they did 'lose' the smartphone race. There move towards Qt was too little, too late...
[19:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:16] <exec> 08└─Java has better memory allocator by default
[19:06:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:18] <exec> 08└─This isn't inherent to Java, it's an issue with the way current JVMs typically work. There are two possible solutions: 1. Use Nailgun, [github.com] which essentially turns your command-line invocations into fast operations in an already-warm, long-lived JVM 2. Use a JVM with AOT compilation. Excelsi...
[19:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:20] <exec> 08└─Lester does have a point though - it's a very different skill-set. If I had a team of passable web-devs accustomed to writing passable JavaScript, and with no knowledge or understanding of C/C++, I wouldn't want them set loose. Maybe QtQuick would help there.
[19:06:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:06:22] <exec> 08└─From the top of the paper: He was the first to give QML trainings back in early 2010, when QML was still far away from an alpha release.
[19:07:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:24] <exec> 08└─it's mostly done with the implied threat of violence. obviously.
[19:07:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 261 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:26] <exec> 08└─You don't get what I'm saying. No, the laws are not imposed by the concent of the governed. Groups of people, elected or otherwise, decide what the laws will be. The governed are seldom consulted. Those laws are then enforced by violence and the threat thereof.
[19:07:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 94 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:28] <exec> 08└─uh, put on the gas mask and the bullet proof vest, attach the drum and give them some justice?
[19:07:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 11 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:30] <exec> 08└─here, here!
[19:07:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 399 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:32] <exec> 08└─So why, if you don't sign up for selective service are you sent to jail? Shouldn't I be able to give my consent to be governed by opting in or out? Why is my consent taken for granted based merely on the fact that I was raised to the age of majority in this country? How can an average 18 year old le...
[19:07:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:35] <exec> 08└─Hey, I didn't say I buy their logic. I just try a bit harder to figure out what they're trying to say ;)
[19:07:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:37] <exec> 08└─Try running a competing postal service.
[19:07:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03tangomargarine [667] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:07:39] <exec> 08└─You didn't come off as confrontational. I've just been spending too much time on Reddit lately, lol. I don't even have the foggiest idea who my local reps are, as I don't follow local news really either. My interaction with the gov't is pretty minimal other than renewing driver's license etc. I did...
[19:11:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06President Erdogan Says Turkey Will Produce Unmanned Tanks - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:11:08] <exec> 08└─Lord Ashcroft's mega-poll of 12,369 voters after the referendum suggested as such, finding that one third of Leave voters chose to back Brexit as they saw it "offered the best chance for the UK to regain control over immigration and its own borders.
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[19:59:32] <exec> 08└─It's a submission from OriginalOwner. Bias is expected. The editors could have removed the bolded statement, to reduce the flamebait score. "multinational uses leverage in contract negotiation" isn't the freshest news on the block, but we often get biased stuff from the other end of the spectrum, so...
[19:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 370 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:34] <exec> 08└─Did their HCL resources get a bonus? I mean their IT department. also alternet has many gems in the rough. their spam is clearly obvious. but they swing both sides of the aisle. i say view the site with suspicion, but if you are careful, you will find many conservative and liberal truths there that...
[19:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 27 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:36] <exec> 08└─And Gewg is a propagandist.
[19:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 2, Interesting) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 1232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:38] <exec> 08└─Maybe it is different for some of you, but I personally will greatly benefit from the additional 2000 I will not be spending in taxes next year. Based on several of the projection websites out there as well as reading the full bill and running the numbers myself, I will be getting just about ~2k mor...
[19:59:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:41] <exec> 08└─I'm more surprised that that they paid even a cent extra to the non-union folks. Even a $1000 bonus is nothing considering it's one time, where as the corporate tax cuts are permanent. The corps are the beneficiaries her, not the workers.
[19:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 463 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:43] <exec> 08└─> This 2k will be a significant benefit to me. Running 1,000,000,000,000/year deficit is going to eventually hurt bigly. I guess the next D president/congress will take the blame for bringing taxes and military spending back to more reasonable levels. Every specialist agrees that pro-cyclical stimul...
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03wonkey_monkey [279] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:45] <exec> 08└─The union complaint noted Disneyland is withholding the $1,000 “notwithstanding the union’s lack of objection to payment of bonuses to employees."
[19:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 543 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:47] <exec> 08└─I think that you are an exception. Many people will be slightly better off, but other changes will likely take that away again. Did you factor in the loss of personal exemptions? I personally will be worse off under the new tax law, unless CA enacts the proposed tax credit for donations to the state...
[19:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:58] <exec> 08└─I have a suspicion that there were no laws regulating air and water pollution -- until -- it was happening already and excessively.
[20:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:34] <exec> 08└─Just cause your parents raised you as a degenerate pig doesn't give you some magical right to a top-tier school. I get your sad about your life, but you're taking it out in unhealthy ways that will only prove worse for your psyche. If you're laughing uncontrollably about your troll post snagging a h...
[20:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 184 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:35] <exec> 08└─You need help brah, like professional therapy levels. You're spouting off on a thread that had zero political bias. Not a single mention of liberal, conservative, dem or rep. Get help.
[20:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:37] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure why you felt the need to clarify that, was it some sort of rebuttal?? Or just a public service announcement cause you think too few people understand what "correlation or causation" meant?
[20:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:39] <exec> 08└─Correlation is not causation, but it is often a sign of causation.
[20:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 757 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:42] <exec> 08└─Something I noticed while traveling in Germany, more than the US, is that misleading signage ("this way to the city center" signs often point to roundabout bypass roads), and news stories intended to shape behavior more than relay facts ("the youth hostels in newly opened east Germany are absolutely...
[20:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:19] <exec> 08└─WAIT! You mean the orange skin is natural?!?
[20:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 7 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:20] <exec> 08└─No 😎
[20:01:34] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03rigrig [5129] 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 674 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:34] <exec> 08└─All the e-books I have are (DRM-free) .epub files, which really makes a world of difference on a e-reader. I even paid for some of them, because they were published by people smart enough to realise putting in DRM hurts their profits. (Not only because it stops people like us (or anybody with a devi...
[20:02:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03meustrus [4961] 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 1055 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:05] <exec> 08└─Yeah, of course a big publisher doesn't understand eBooks. They want to charge the same price per-unit and provide the same royalties even though the manufacturing and distribution costs became basically 0. All of this "enhanced" crap is their way of trying to justify the extra cost and has nothing...
[20:02:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 4, Informative) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 253 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:25] <exec> 08└─If the only e-books you have are PDF, you're doing yourself a disservice. Get a decent e-reader and download some EPUB books. EPUB is an open format that is available without DRM (although DRM is an option). After reading PDFs, your eyes will thank you!
[20:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 700 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:26] <exec> 08└─Outside the readers, Calibre is the best program out there. It fixes a few problems, but ultimately you put the books on an eReader and lose most of those fixes. Within Calibre you can organize your books one-level deep; multi-level organization isn't possible. It's still a lot of work to get the bo...
[20:02:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03urza9814 [3954] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:28] <exec> 08└─The main problem I see with it, though, is that an RDBMS doesn't seem like a terribly efficient way of storing and accessing multi-megabyte ebook files. RDBMSes aren't really meant for storing large blobs of data like that. You'd probably want to store the ebooks in the filesystem somehow, and then...
[20:02:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:31] <exec> 08└─Can't you use Calibre or some other software to edit this metadata?
[20:02:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:33] <exec> 08└─What I'm thinking is - someone needs to put something along the lines of Calibre *on* Android. Maybe not the full feature set - I don't know that I need format conversion on the device itself, or metadata editing - but then again, why *not*? The UI would need to be re-arranged, but over all, just ke...
[20:02:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03i286NiNJA [2768] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 1561 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:35] <exec> 08└─Distributors are always this way. I have to disagree with the idea that ebooks shouldn't come loaded with enhancements though. Lots of linking to other reading, pop up dictionaries so you can remember what floyds algorithm is or the difference between a zensunni and a zenshiaate, or maybe a map to M...
[20:02:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 259 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:37] <exec> 08└─> there's no IMDB for books As noted above, the Library of Congress is the master catalog for books, https://www.loc.gov [loc.gov] When we had a cataloging problem, we fixed it with them and that flowed to all the online book seller catalogs in a short time.
[20:03:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Osamabobama [5842] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 160 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:39] <exec> 08└─I don't have any Flying Dutchman jokes, but I would like to encourage others to supply some. I submit this comment as a placeholder under which to collect them.
[20:03:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03madclicker [6725] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:40] <exec> 08└─Unknowingly, if you have any issues with your pancreas this stops being funny. Your stomach is not processing any kind of food properly and a person is unable to stop releasing gas.
[20:04:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 251 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:45] <exec> 08└─so wait, what do you suggest fixes it? demonic voices in ones head suggesting to do harm unless a religious like ritual is performed repeatedly until perfected is often both depressing and more than what a simple pep talk with a therapist can provide.
[20:04:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:47] <exec> 08└─My wife was prescribed a low dose of SSRI for her anxiety and now she no longer has the crippling attacks. She also feels fine otherwise.
[20:04:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 658 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:49] <exec> 08└─No, I'm being pedantic. Your quoted statement was simply incorrect, find better wording next time. I recognise that the trade-off/gamble is worth it in some cases, but we can't honestly pretend that you have nothing to lose. Loss of bone density is something that happens on a continuum, and I have n...
[20:06:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:49] <exec> 08└─That's not wrong though, with the magic of JIT. For example CL/SBCL is an "interpreted scripting" language that runs very close to C and in some cases faster. It's just that much less work goes into developing JITs for interpreted languages than compiled languages. (Just a reminder that language !=...
[20:06:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Pino P [4721] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:51] <exec> 08└─Which free software GUI framework that does not involve testicular assault would you prefer to these two?
[20:06:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 680 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:53] <exec> 08└─Does 'moc' preprocessed C++ strike you as that ugly? The bar is set pretty high these days. The webby way is to pull in literally megabytes of JavaScript and base your whole front-end around the flavour-of-the-month framework. Use of a preprocessor doesn't strike me as that bad. An additional PITA f...
[20:06:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 378 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:55] <exec> 08└─But that's a straw man. Not even the silliest hard-boiled JVM advocates ever tried to claim that a 'pure' (non-JIT) interpreter could outperform traditional ahead-of-time compilation. Thankfully, modern JVMs are not pure interpreters. They're far faster than pure interpreters... but, yes, they're re...
[20:06:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:57] <exec> 08└─Well, one is ugly, hairy and bloated, and the other is surprisingly elegant.
[20:08:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03darkfeline [1030] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 623 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:08:07] <exec> 08└─Laws are finally enforced using violent means, but in the vast majority of cases they are not, unless you define receiving a ticket, fine, arrest or prison sentence as "violent", in which case there's a good chance that you define getting called an asshole as "violent" in which case everything is vi...
[20:12:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06ARM Introduces "iSIM", Integrated Directly Onto Chips - 8 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:12:31] <exec> 08└─BotPorn?
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[20:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:43] <exec> 08└─>>>> . . . the next D president/congress will take the blame . . . which has pretty much been the playbook since I first started voting in 1976.
[20:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03DutchUncle [5370] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 254 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:45] <exec> 08└─I expect to pay *more* because of the loss of deductions, and changes in other long-standing rules that we had relied on for some financial decisions. I predict that a lot of people will have disappointing results as they calculate their taxes next year.
[20:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 518 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:47] <exec> 08└─The stuff the original owner didn't want you to see: Disney spokeswoman Suzi Brown responded, “Because we are in an open contract with Local 11 and wages and bonuses are terms and conditions of employment, the bonus is part of our negotiation process.” As for Disney’s contract offer, she added...
[20:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 726 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:49] <exec> 08└─Last I checked you can still deduct the first 10k of your state taxes, so depending on house size and how much property you own it might not be a factor. So for Oregon the median property tax is ~2200 and average is ~2800. Based on how the tax brackets work in order to be at 10k in income tax you ne...
[20:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:51] <exec> 08└─I dunno, dude. I bought a home on $40k per year. Maybe you need to live somewhere cheaper.
[20:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:54] <exec> 08└─Hey Gewg_ Why not donate your entire tax reduction to SoylentNew.org? Post back after the reduction kicks in on your 2018 income.
[20:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 477 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:56] <exec> 08└─I am already not planning on their being any safety nets for my wife or I when we are old, and the whole system will come crashing down regardless. At this point it is just a race to try and get a few of the remaining fish from the pond. If anyone was serious about fixing this they would cut the mil...
[20:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 359 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:58] <exec> 08└─When he temporarily 'turned off' payroll taxes, it seemed like the best way to do something like this -- simple to implement, no additional forms or fields on your taxes, gives money back to both workers and employers, provides the refund more evenly over time rather than as a (more difficult to bud...
[21:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 360 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:00] <exec> 08└─The wooly wording was Precisely because the Union fully intends to sign the contract, for higher wages 4 years earlier than California Law requires, and doesn't want to screw up the deal. The claim of unions is you have to bargain for everything you get. They'd like to keep the free bonus that every...
[21:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 648 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:03] <exec> 08└─Can say the same for all the people in high tax states complaining about the tax cuts not helping them. Living where I currently live saves me 30k/yr on childcare so thats a big win. So currently renting to stay in same area will be cheaper than buying further away in the very short run. I exaggerat...
[21:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 211 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:05] <exec> 08└─The problem isn't Der Trump himself but the fact that he's a web of disgusting capitalists that have a deathgrip on the money flow in this country. Just more proof of that. Not necessarily news. Disney is Satan.
[21:00:12] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DannyB [5839] 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 1060 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:13] <exec> 08└─What is really astonishing here is the amount of time, effort and money the Trump administration is willing to use in order to ensure that Big Telecom can screw ordinary every day consumers. Truly amazing. There was a time once when I thought the job of government was to either: 1. leave things alon...
[21:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:19] <exec> 08└─We didn't need any net neutrality for the internet for a long time.
[21:00:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:21] <exec> 08└─So after asking when this time was, you turn around and show exactly when this time was. Good job. Actually, you've shown no source for the 2005 slowdown in infrastructure development, at least none that was not due to the general economic downturn of that era. Carrying an umbrella does not cause ra...
[21:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Adamsjas [4507] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:23] <exec> 08└─"What is really astonishing here is the amount of time, effort and money the Trump administration is willing to use in order to ensure that Big Telecom can screw ordinary every day consumers." I doubt Trump, or anyone in his administration other than Pai is paying this any attention at all. The rule...
[21:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:02] <exec> 08└─I take your point. What I'm arguing for, and it may simply be idealistic and unrealistic, is that nobody (and I'll point at all sides here) should be using policy to shape facts.
[21:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 995 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:03] <exec> 08└─From a facile [sic] perspective on things, it seems like the US is at a concrete disadvantage here: Russian citizens have had multiple generations of country-wide experience with overt state-actor-scale propaganda Their economy is still kind of depressed (?) Their power structure is sort of still ru...
[21:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03krishnoid [1156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:06] <exec> 08└─Canada has this [wired.com], sort of. What if we required IQ tests in order to join a forum, or a Facebook group, or Google circle? That's probably easily implementable.
[21:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:08] <exec> 08└─As a hypothetical
[21:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Animal Study Shows How To Retrain The Immune System To Ease Food Allergies - 316 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:22] <exec> 08└─My personal theory is that they do in fact have a reaction to something but it's probably not actually the gluten, though. It's the correlation vs. causation effect. Gluten free stuff is generally rather healthy in other aspects as well. If you feel sick after eating a Big Mac it's probably not the...
[21:01:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Biohacker Regrets Injecting Himself With Gene Therapy in Front of a Live Audience - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:48] <exec> 08└─The Green Hemoglobin strikes again? This looks like a job for... Herpes-Man!
[21:02:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03damnbunni [704] 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 815 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:02:06] <exec> 08└─Major advantages for me are that ebooks are easier to carry and physically easier to read. I have a reader with actual buttons for page-turn, and can hold it in one hand and click with my thumb to go to the next page, or leave it flat on a desk and not have to worry about the book trying to close it...
[21:03:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 104 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:00] <exec> 08└─They lost in court: https://www.pcworld.com [pcworld.com]
[21:03:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:01] <exec> 08└─True, but figuring out which publishers are good and which are bad isn't a necessary step when you buy a paperback.
[21:03:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 124 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:04] <exec> 08└─How is it I can buy entire albums of mp3s for under $10 without DRM? They must trust me not to pirate (and I do not pirate).
[21:03:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:06] <exec> 08└─In my naive idealism I was hoping the other industries would see that DRM free mp3s has not caused the end of the world to come about, and would see the overall benefit and follow suit. (Decades ago I loved Apple, then I was neutral, then for the last decade I have hated Apple.)
[21:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 419 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:08] <exec> 08└─And that's the main reason e-books aren't taking off as much as movies or music are. It's just too hard. If it would "just work", then many more people would go for it. Of course, for e-books to "just work" means getting rid of DRM, because otherwise I have to authenticate my devices -- a barrier to...
[21:03:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:11] <exec> 08└─Disagree. For the latter, it's a lot easier for me to "find" a PDF lying around for a book available as an e-book :) Not that I've ever done that, of course. 🤞
[21:03:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03tekk [5704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 246 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:13] <exec> 08└─Whoa, unicode works right, I thought the emoji block was banned.. Anyway, to whatever the textbook equivalent of the MPAA is: I actually don't think I ever pirated an ebook in my uni career. My uni had free textbooks so there wasn't much need to.
[21:04:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:04:16] <exec> 08└─What do they call them again... rhymes with "elefants".. psycho... sicko ... I give up.
[21:05:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 23 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:24] <exec> 08└─a placebo has no effect
[21:05:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Subsentient [1111] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 129 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:26] <exec> 08└─Yes, I'm sure I mean OCD. I have very severe OCD, and 80mg of Prozac once daily is the only thing keeping me from killing myself.
[21:07:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:07:32] <exec> 08└─It's just that much less work goes into developing JITs for interpreted languages than compiled languages.
[21:08:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:08:43] <exec> 08└─So the old testament god is a dick who separated people just because unity scares him?
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[21:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:30] <exec> 08└─The TV professionals buying our JPEG2000, VC-2, and TICO CODECs would like to say hi. It's a solved problem, and h26x is not the preferred answer, because not being intra-frame hurts. Sure, those other ones are not compressing as much, but on a car's local LAN, it shouldn't matter.
[21:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 742 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:31] <exec> 08└─I looked these up and VC-2 seems to be known as Dirac, and has high compression using wavelet technology, but doesn't appear to be designed for low latency, which is what's really important in this application, not extremely high compression. The motion JPEG2000 standard seems to aim at being an arc...
[21:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:33] <exec> 08└─If you processing at the camera. PROCESS at the camera. Find edges shapes so central can do real work not decompress and find shapes and edges. What are they thinking with?
[21:59:51] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03frojack [1554] 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 518 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:59:51] <exec> 08└─The stuff the original owner didn't want you to see: Disney spokeswoman Suzi Brown responded, “Because we are in an open contract with Local 11 and wages and bonuses are terms and conditions of employment, the bonus is part of our negotiation process.” As for Disney’s contract offer, she added...
[22:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:00] <exec> 08└─Part of a web*
[22:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:02] <exec> 08└─Then maybe you should work as hard as your parents did.
[22:00:13] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Sourcery42 [6400] 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 131 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:13] <exec> 08└─I have a suspicion that there were no laws regulating air and water pollution -- until -- it was happening already and excessively.
[22:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 249 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:17] <exec> 08└─[cue dramatic orchestral music] "Verizon was suing to be free, and when they won, the Evil Administration decided to overstep its authority in order to deny that Freedom earned in the courts!" Nobody is deafer than the one who does not want to hear.
[22:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 34 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:01] <exec> 08└─Is it very testable or measurable?
[22:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:03] <exec> 08└─I see you point out there are difficult problems. But things seem to be crazy as they presently are. there's a decent chance you accept the following proposition as fact: "All natural phenomena can be explained by science given sufficient time and resources." But that's not proven, and there's more...
[22:01:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03DannyB [5839] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:05] <exec> 08└─Let me add, Hillary's baby killing factory in the basement of a DC area pizza place. A place that does not, in fact, have a basement.
[22:01:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 14 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:07] <exec> 08└─WTF BBQ indeed
[22:03:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 408 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:06] <exec> 08└─I recall a band I listen to actually switched label over that CD DRM thing, because their label did not ask or even inform them about the scheme. For the unaware readers, here's more information than even I had known [ritholtz.com], including the bizarre fact that apparently Sony did this just to ma...
[22:03:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:07] <exec> 08└─This isn't 1818 its 2018. Time to move on. Most books do NOT need to be on dead trees. Its a waste of resources. Just the 'special books' need to be on (good) paper. And even those need an eBook option. Now, we can talk all day about how bad DRM is, but the concept of an eBook is a great thing.
[22:03:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06US Border Patrol Hasn’t Validated E-Passport Data for Years - 222 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:03:22] <exec> 08└─Totalitarian governments don't even need to spend our taxes to collect that holocaust_2.0 data. Wave enough dollars under G/A/F/A noses, or wave a threat to expell them from a market and they will "comply with local laws".
[22:04:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 29 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:14] <exec> 08└─It's on the tip of my tongue.
[22:04:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Air Italy Expands As UAE-Backed Alitalia Goes Bankrupt - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:26] <exec> 08└─Indeed, the star soccer players of the Quatari-owned PSG are forced to live totally sober sex-free lives ...
[22:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06SpaceX Deploys Broadband Test Satellites, Fails to Catch Entire Fairing - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:04:52] <exec> 08└─I read that the boat would catch one half, as an experiment. Second half will eventually get thrusters too, once they figure out the recovery. Considering how many miles this sail-shaped, extremely light, piece of carbon fiber fell down through the atmospheric chaos, it's pretty impressive that they...
[22:05:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Azuma Hazuki [5086] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 999 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:27] <exec> 08└─My body is bizarrely sensitive to medicines of all kinds; things work at lower doses than they should and have slightly longer half-lives. So I try to avoid anything stronger than paracetamol (Tylenol) unless there's absolutely no alternative, and attempt to keep inflammation down through diet, vita...
[22:05:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:29] <exec> 08└─the mental act of receiving treatment is healing unto itself, that where placebo derive their power
[22:05:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 324 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:05:31] <exec> 08└─I forgot to ask you to tried that experience: next time you have some piqns, ask someone you trust to give 3 pills, a mix of advil and Tylenol of his choices. next time you have a similar pain do the same thing yourself. chances are that the pills from the trusted person are more effective than the...
[22:08:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03vux984 [5045] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 69 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:08:48] <exec> 08└─Groups of people, elected or otherwise, decide what the laws will be.
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[22:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03nobu_the_bard [6373] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:30] <exec> 08└─This is how Redbox often operates. The local Redbox guy used to come into the warehouse store I worked at and buy tons of new releases and combo packs to load his machines with every other Tuesday and Friday or so, right at open (Tuesdays are often when stores rotate DVD/CD media - Fridays are often...
[22:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03meustrus [4961] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 530 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:31] <exec> 08└─Not everybody is willing to pay $10/mo times the number of streaming services to get everything there is, and there will always be licensing hurdles that prevent every major release from being available for streaming immediately. Redbox is surely quite comfortable selling not just to 4K/HDR enthusia...
[22:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03tnt118 [3925] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 529 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:33] <exec> 08└─This is not an original thought, but I found it interesting enough to repeat... What Disney was apparently trying to claim was that you didn't own multiple disparate physical objects (a disk and a piece of paper) but something more like the rights to watch a specific movie across multiple formats. Y...
[22:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:36] <exec> 08└─Yeah, it seems like the crux of the issue was the old "but-on-a-computer" trick. I'm glad the court made a sensible decision on this one.
[22:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:38] <exec> 08└─Not everybody is willing to pay $10/mo times the number of streaming services to get everything there is Yeah, but you can already watch movies online without a subscription to a streaming service. Amazon Video for instance will let you just pay $5 or whatever and watch a single movie, no subscripti...
[22:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 470 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:49] <exec> 08└─Honestly, I thought this was already how it worked, at least in today's cars with cameras for lane-departure warning and lane-keeping: the camera is directly connected to the processing box with a short cable, or the two are a single unit. Maybe planned future systems will be doing a lot more than j...
[22:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 435 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:51] <exec> 08└─You are likely correct about Frauhofer press release. As far as the three codecs I mentioned, read that sentence again: TV productions facilities are buying those, on my platform. We got our JPEG2000 end-to-end, SDI in to SDI out to under 4 frames of latency (some trade-offs required). TICO and VC2...
[22:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:53] <exec> 08└─Have you looked at the front-facing camera on most new cars? It's that thing right under the windshield at the top, above the rear-view mirror. Obviously, you knew that, you're on SN. Now, did you consider the thermal design parameters of an advanced processing unit stuck at the top of a windshield,...
[23:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:22] <exec> 08└─When everything is capitalist, everything is bad! ... The floor is now lava.
[23:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:24] <exec> 08└─>I refuse to buy a house worse than my parents Well then, I hope you're in the minority of people who are financially better off than their parents, because on average your parents generation were better off than yours.
[23:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:26] <exec> 08└─My typical deduction for SALT is about $18k in recent years. So, yes, it will affect me.
[23:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 414 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:28] <exec> 08└─You hit the date on the nose. The same ideolog who pushed the fictitious Laffer curve came up with this notion. The Two Santa Claus Model [wikipedia.org] In addition to tax-and-spend Democrats, there were now borrow-and-spend Republicans who mounted up debts and, as soon as the Ds got power, the Rs...
[23:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03NewNic [6420] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:30] <exec> 08└─So, let me get this right. Disney announced bonuses. At the time, they were announced there was no qualification to the payment. No reason to believe that the bonuses would not be paid. Disney now reneges on the announcement, uses the bonuses as leverage and somehow this is the union's fault? Wow, y...
[23:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:33] <exec> 08└─We're doing the same: not planning on having any help, so we'll hopefully be in alright shape, but if we get an inheritance or something? Gravy! Do some travelling maybe....or get a proper computer system, lol.
[23:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 171 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:35] <exec> 08└─Yes, but if they give their employees a 3% raise, they also have to give THEMSELVES a 3% raise...+the 30bajillion$ bonus for screwing with their employees so successfully!
[23:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 158 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:37] <exec> 08└─the rise of unions in America again. Corporations will either get smarter in how they treat their employees or unions will rise again. Or revolution. Whatevs.
[23:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 232 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:52] <exec> 08└─Of the same state governments that prevent community / local government internet initiatives for their big telecom lobbyists? And they are challenging the FCC order? Are they so concerned, because they have a 'D' next to their name?
[23:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03cmdrklarg [5048] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:41] <exec> 08└─I don't know about you, but I find that becoming outraged when lied to is a fairly natural response, and not at all "childish". What exactly the fuck is wrong with demanding honesty?
[23:06:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Aiwendil [531] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 1434 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:06:02] <exec> 08└─I know that feeling - for me I react at insanely low doses (a high dose of paracetamol for me is about 100mg, good thing the liquid kiddie-version has a great taste) combined with a very short halflife [nothing really is quite like having painkillers wear off while they are stiching you up after min...
[23:08:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03jdavidb [5690] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:08:11] <exec> 08└─I can't stand DVD players any more, and this is one of the reasons. We watch a lot of netflix through our Amazon Firesticks, but they have gotten slower and slower and required rebooting more and more often in order to work.
[23:09:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:25] <exec> 08└─I'd say that that's a nontraditional but not fundamentally inaccurate interpretation.
[23:09:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 136 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:26] <exec> 08└─"Search giant" At least for me, Google's [got so bad i made] DDG my default search engine. I only rarely feel wanting to try Google now.
[23:09:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:09:28] <exec> 08└─Your reply neither advances your argument nor dismantles your opponent's argument.
[23:12:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03insanumingenium [4824] (Score: 2) 02 - 06EU Parliament’s Copyright Rapporteur Has Learned Nothing from Year-long Copyright Debate - 3515 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:12:03] <exec> 08└─No you directly stated copying as a natural right and then stated education as an excuse for copying. The conflation is that copying doesn't imply education, and I would challenge the reverse as well. Neither the "copyright extremists" nor I put those words in your post. Your comparison about groce...
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[23:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 394 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:30] <exec> 08└─The Angles and Saxons replaced the Bretons. The Picts replaced whoever was in Scotland before them, and the Scots replaced the Picts. The Irish legends say they came from elsewhere and replaced whoever was there before. There is an old legend that the Bretons claimed to be descended from exiled Troj...
[23:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:32] <exec> 08└─The approach considers the view of history worldwide, from a fatalist philosophy. There's a reason why it's called fatalism -- when you submit rather than fight, you die, or at least become subdued. You can subscribe to the "it is what it is" philosophy, the rest of us want to live and we want a hig...
[23:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 1, Flamebait) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:34] <exec> 08└─Not just in the UK. It's happening in America, it's called the WHITE GENOCIDE. Big reason why we need the Wall!!!!
[23:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03legont [4179] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:36] <exec> 08└─The original Britons were blacks https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] They were "replaced". What else is new?
[23:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:50] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to add in the cost of a 4K Blu-ray player. Or 4K HDR Blu-ray player.
[23:59:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 643 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:51] <exec> 08└─True, but I'm guessing this is an impulse thing, and advertised prices seem to be $1.50 at the Redbox dispenser, and they now have a streaming "on demand" startup going on, price is 4.99 (1 buck less than Amazon, same price as Google Movies), (regular Amazon, not prime). (These prices were for the s...
[23:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 205 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:53] <exec> 08└─Yeah, but you can already watch movies online without a subscription to a streaming service. Amazon Video for instance will let you just pay $5 or whatever and watch a single movie, no subscription needed.
[23:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:55] <exec> 08└─Don't forget to add in the cost of a 4K Blu-ray player. Or 4K HDR Blu-ray player.
[23:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 147 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:58] <exec> 08└─What's the bandwidth needed to stream 4K HDR? (Honest question, because I have no idea). Does it push you into broadband overage charges territory?
[23:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 0, Troll) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org