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[00:00:00] <exec> 08└─I live in a neighborhood that you might call "urban." Everytime I go to the local 7-11 to watch Blacks do their grocery shopping for cultural anthropological purposes, there is always at least one person at the Redbox kiosk. And they're not always trash, either. Blockbuster video never died, it just...
[00:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 174 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:02] <exec> 08└─The original Xbox One doesn't support 4K Blu-ray [wikipedia.org]. You have to get an "S" or "X" model for that. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[00:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 22 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:04] <exec> 08└─Yes, an S. Exactly so.
[00:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:07] <exec> 08└─But what Disney tried to say was: users must own the disc if they download a copy.
[00:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:09] <exec> 08└─That's proprietary trash that no one should buy.
[00:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 101 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:11] <exec> 08└─I can buy a single movie, on somewhat permanent media, for $5 if I'm willing to live with used media.
[00:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:13] <exec> 08└─Luckily, no one need pay any attention at all to such an opinion. See how that works?
[00:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:26] <exec> 08└─We got our JPEG2000 end-to-end, SDI in to SDI out to under 4 frames of latency (some trade-offs required). That seems slow to me. At 30Hz, 4 frames is 133ms. At 65mph, that's almost 13 feet, and that's just for the compression and decompression.
[00:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 312 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:28] <exec> 08└─And of course there are full-analog HD cameras. You want to examine a frame, capture it (takes exactly one frame time) and have at it. My entire security system is analog 1080p; 16 cameras, no network load at all. What a vehicle needs on top of that is good capture hardware. Not a problem, technical...
[00:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 512 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:00:30] <exec> 08└─Well, you can set JPEG2000 for ultra-low-latency, where it compresses pieces of the image as they are acquired, rather than compress the whole image (which implies 2 frames of latency right there). That would help you. On the other hand, if you're driving 65MPH and 133ms/13ft imager-to-processing la...
[00:01:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03DeathMonkey [1380] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:07] <exec> 08└─According to this poll [thehill.com] most Americans don't report a tax benefit. Just 25 percent of registered voters reported an increase in their pay, compared to 51 percent who said they did not. The number of employed voters who noticed an increase was higher, at 37 percent, according to the poll...
[00:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Joe Desertrat [2454] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 112 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:08] <exec> 08└─Corporations will either get smarter in how they treat their employees or unions will rise again. Or revolution.
[00:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 1291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:11] <exec> 08└─...and the working folks who do see some marginal improvement better enjoy it while it lasts. While the cuts for corporations are permanent, the "improvements" for Joe Average are temporary. ...and as bob_super has already noted, this giant addition to the deficit is going to hurt Joe Average. With...
[00:01:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 2209 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:13] <exec> 08└─Disney is the worst of the worst for employees. You should just be glad you can work there and be sure to smile. They are at the epicenter of that H1B replacement program that helped get Trump elected. Disney is a nice bit of resume filler for a lot of people. But most of the people I ask that used...
[00:01:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:15] <exec> 08└─You mean the laffer curve which was designed to be 'progressive' and help the poor? Designed by a socialist.
[00:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 746 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:17] <exec> 08└─Orange County has a long history of Republican dominance. (Though that has waned in recent years.) The Orange County Register is the traditional Reactionary rag of the OC. When OCRegister prints an article about workers getting screwed, you can bet that workers are in fact getting screwed. The Alter...
[00:01:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:34] <exec> 08└─Actually, you've shown no source for the 2005 slowdown in infrastructure development,
[00:01:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 66 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:35] <exec> 08└─Are they so concerned, because they have a 'D' next to their name?
[00:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 508 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:01:37] <exec> 08└─ISPs did violate net neutrality on numerous occasions. [freepress.net] I'm not sure why people think that was ever a time when we didn't need net neutrality. It also amazes me that some people think that ISPs are spending massive amounts of money lobbying to overturn net neutrality regulations just...
[00:02:05] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 1305 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:05] <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...
[00:02:07] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03HiThere [866] 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 470 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:07] <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...
[00:02:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:02:26] <exec> 08└─What exactly the fuck is wrong with demanding honesty?
[00:04:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:04:27] <exec> 08└─Not difficult, no. But it is illegal. If you're going to to be a criminal anyway, why pay for the book and support such customer-abusive tactics?
[00:05:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:35] <exec> 08└─Could explain why you gained 100lb this year, eh Donny?
[00:05:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Farts Away! Plane Makes Unscheduled Stop After Man Won't Stop Guffing - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:05:37] <exec> 08└─Maybe this story was a plant to find out which users are actually dudes. Proud of farting, check :)
[00:06:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03RamiK [1813] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Intel Releases Spectre Firmware Patches; Intel and AMD Face Numerous Lawsuits - 134 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:06:04] <exec> 08└─I'm not sure that Intel or AMD are guilty of not 'recalling' promptly enough...these things are handled legally in different countries
[00:10:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:10:16] <exec> 08└─Your reply neither advances your argument nor dismantles your opponent's argument.
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[00:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:31] <exec> 08└─WE VOATID LEEEEEV!!!! ENGERLUND FOR VA INGURLISH!!!! FARRIDGE 4 KING?!!!!!
[00:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:33] <exec> 08└─The reasons remain unclear, but climate change, disease and ecological disaster could all have played a role.
[00:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 4, Funny) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:35] <exec> 08└─The thing is, the new Beaker culture has a very different language which sounds something like this: "Meep, meeeep, meep meep meeeeeeeeeeeep! MEEEEEP!"
[00:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:37] <exec> 08└─Now we know how the Brits got their distinctive looks and, possibly, the bad teeth. They got it from the Newcomers [wikipedia.org].
[00:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 740 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:40] <exec> 08└─I suggest anyone who doubts this look at the extinction of the Neanderthals - the model of an egalitarian society where the men, women and children hunted big game together. The Neanderthals were out-competed by homo-sapiens who specialized along gender roles and had the children hunt even smaller p...
[00:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 1663 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:42] <exec> 08└─One recent Pew report says that the Muslim population of (Western) Europe could triple by 2050—just when all those baby Muhammads are coming of age, and when the imams will “call” on them. In Germany alone, nearly 20 percent of the population could be Muslim by 2050; considering that the avera...
[00:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:44] <exec> 08└─Modern Britons "Culturally Enriched" By Newcomers /edge
[00:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 739 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:46] <exec> 08└─They say "climate change, disease and ecological disaster could all have played a role", hmmm? That would be a negligible role for sure. Credibility goes out the window when you blame every random thing on climate change. You're putting down nonsensical keywords in a desperate bid for funding. More...
[00:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03beckett [1115] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 181 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:49] <exec> 08└─if you hadn’t buried the lede and just cited David Horowitz’s fromtpage mag in the first sentence you could have saved a lot of efforts on your part. tryhard trolls are cute tho
[00:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 17 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:51] <exec> 08└─What else is new?
[00:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 388 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:53] <exec> 08└─"the model of an egalitarian society where the men, women and children hunted big game together" Nope. Binford famously argued that they were much more rigidly segregated than any modern human population. I rather think he was probably wrong on that, but the evidence supports his position a lot bett...
[00:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:55] <exec> 08└─The trolls and "White Nationalists" [knowyourmeme.com] are out in force on this posting. You go, girls! And don't forget to starch your brown shirts [wikipedia.org].
[00:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[00:59:57] <exec> 08└─Mainly they "culturally enrich" themselves. [google.co.uk]
[00:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 1053 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:00] <exec> 08└─"The Angles and Saxons replaced the Bretons." Nope. Simply not true. Their language, customs, and law replaced that of the Bretons in a large part of the island, yes, but you're implying biologically and nope, that's simply false. There's plenty of pre-Roman Prydish DNA in the modern "English." Whic...
[01:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 620 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:02] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It's crap like this that makes me take week-long breaks (or longer) from reading SoylentNews sometimes. And no, it's not that my "precious little snowflake" brain can't handle other views. I'm happy to read actual coherent thoughts, even those I vehemently disagree with. I just don't really...
[01:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:04] <exec> 08└─the evidence supports his position a lot better than the opposite position, which you clearly just extracted from your rectal cavity.
[01:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 1066 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:06] <exec> 08└─Although Europe is not part of the Muslim world, many European authorities nevertheless seem to feel obliged to submit to Islam in more or less subtle ways. This voluntary submission appears to be unprecedented: Dhimmi, historically speaking, is the Arabic term for the conquered non-Muslim, who agre...
[01:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 99 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:09] <exec> 08└─Only things that Dems don't like get blamed on climate change. They are ok with browning (so am I).
[01:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 323 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:34] <exec> 08└─You can continue being a fool, but that doesn't make it a good idea. Our world is filled with computers, and it is absolutely insane that people don't care that most of them are essentially black boxes. Who cares about privacy, anonymity, freedom, independence, or education? Not you, apparently, or...
[01:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 255 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:36] <exec> 08└─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. You were sold *access* to the movie.
[01:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 572 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:38] <exec> 08└─It remains to be seen whether the decision was "sensible" if you favor a permissive approach to use of copyrighted materials as you wish. In fact, it actually does sound a bit like the old "but-on-a-computer" trick, since the digital version was considered quite differently from the physical media b...
[01:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:40] <exec> 08└─You can continue being a fool, but that doesn't make it a good idea. Our world is filled with computers, and it is absolutely insane that people don't care that most of them are essentially black boxes.
[01:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03fyngyrz [6567] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:43] <exec> 08└─What's the bandwidth needed to stream 4K HDR?
[01:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:00:58] <exec> 08└─Sure, those other ones are not compressing as much, but on a car's local LAN, it shouldn't matter.
[01:00:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:00] <exec> 08└─how much will you pay for a replacement
[01:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 159 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:02] <exec> 08└─You are forgetting this is Frauhofer. How do you expect them to maintain a revenue stream with their expired patents unless they introduce stupid new encoding?
[01:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:04] <exec> 08└─You nailed it. A few grams of copper and rubber don't impact cost/performance/design. Dollars/megabyte when the car manufacturer is paying for the connection, though, sure add up.
[01:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 334 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:06] <exec> 08└─Forget copper and rubber. It should be glass and rubber. High bandwidth (10 Gbps) and immunity from everything. Laughably cheap. Reliable. Simple SERDES with well known transceivers, decades of experience with. Direct injection of camera signal into the FPGA that processes it (through GTX etc. - Xil...
[01:01:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:50] <exec> 08└─We're seeing another rise of Fascism worldwide
[01:01:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:51] <exec> 08└─Republicans are going to use the larger deficits as an excuse to cut programs like Social Security, Medicare, etc. while using terms like "reform" to hide what they're really doing. It's a common trick.
[01:01:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 897 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:53] <exec> 08└─I'm torn whether to start by calling you a fool or calling you ignorant. I guess I'll just have to call you an ignorant fool. The Laffer Curve wasn't "designed" at all. It was a thought experiment, scribbled on a cocktail napkin. It used no database as a source of its "data points". Further, it only...
[01:01:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 52 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:55] <exec> 08└─Citation needed. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[01:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Sulla [5173] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 297 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:01:58] <exec> 08└─Just 25 percent of registered voters reported an increase in their pay, compared to 51 percent who said they did not. The number of employed voters who noticed an increase was higher, at 37 percent, according to the poll. Still, 53 percent said they haven't noticed an increase in their paychecks.
[01:01:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:00] <exec> 08└─Nah, fake news bruh
[01:02:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:02] <exec> 08└─Originalowner had the balls to submit.
[01:02:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:04] <exec> 08└─From each according to his ability, to each according to his need Worthless thieves. "From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." (Luke 12:48) [gotquestions.org] AKA The Bible
[01:02:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 269 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:02:24] <exec> 08└─Water pollution is all fun and games until the Cuyahoga River catches fire...at least 13 times...over the course of ~100 years. It took the US a long time to finally step in and make that situation better. Hopefully it isn't a model for how this situation is addressed.
[01:03:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 499 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:14] <exec> 08└─It's never been tried or even conceived of before. This is how it works: Whenever you're presented with something (an event, an idea, a trend, anything newsworthy), always ask the following questions about it: Who? What? Where? When? How? Why? It's amazing to me that no one has ever, in the entire h...
[01:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:15] <exec> 08└─That doesn't do anything when the sources you are reading are either genuinely mistaken about the answers to those questions, lying about them, or simply making things up to fill in gaps in their knowledge in order to get the story to press faster.
[01:03:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 248 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:03:17] <exec> 08└─That doesn't do anything when the sources you are reading are either genuinely mistaken about the answers to those questions, lying about them, or simply making things up to fill in gaps in their knowledge in order to get the story to press faster.
[01:05:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 226 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:05:19] <exec> 08└─No, not a criminal - rebel. I am paying for amazon prime yet I have not seen a single movie using the service. I pirate all my movies. As per legality, blacks and jews were on the other side of it. Not much changed since than.
[01:07:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Meta-Analysis of 522 Trials Finds that Anti-Depressants are More Effective than Placebos - 748 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:07:46] <exec> 08└─Nobody seems to argue that taking magic mushrooms, just once, might alter one's mind and even be an effective depression treatment for some. This is because of changing the mind, regardless of mechanism. Otherwise nothing would be different after. Why then would it be hard to imagine that trying an...
[01:08:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06FCC Officially Publishes Net Neutrality Repeal - 753 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:08:21] <exec> 08└─Yes you can write in names and I do that when I can't tolerate voting for either of the main two. Votes for third-party candidates are generally considered as wasted, write-ins even less important than that. I do believe that our Federal Constitutional republic is the best governmental form in histo...
[01:09:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03The Mighty Buzzard [18] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 90 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:09:55] <exec> 08└─I wouldn't. I'm smart enough to not try running idiotic GUI bullshit on a microcontroller.
[01:11:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 15 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:13] <exec> 08└─Chill out, bro.
[01:11:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 409 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:15] <exec> 08└─I'm very relaxed. Where did I say anything that made me seem exercised by your statement? I view this as a discussion, not a debate. Please don't project your views on me. I have my own that suit me quite well, thanks! You are welcome on my lawn. I do kind of wish that you'd add to the topic at hand...
[01:11:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 86 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:11:17] <exec> 08└─So the old testament god is a dick who separated people just because unity scares him?
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[01:59:28] <exec> 08└─Not even directly on-topic. However, it's certainly possible that some folks back then may have had similar sentiments [youtube.com] and similar reactions [youtube.com].
[01:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 068,000-Year-Old Heads on Spikes Found in Swedish Lake - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:29] <exec> 08└─Druids were known for human sacrifice and making "ghost fences" which scared the Romans to bits when they invaded. These "ghost fences" were, indeed, heads on spikes. So it's possible that the later ritual evolved in part from this earlier one.
[01:59:42] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Thexalon [636] 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 151 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:43] <exec> 08└─The thing is, the new Beaker culture has a very different language which sounds something like this: "Meep, meeeep, meep meep meeeeeeeeeeeep! MEEEEEP!"
[01:59:55] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 620 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:55] <exec> 08└─Indeed. It's crap like this that makes me take week-long breaks (or longer) from reading SoylentNews sometimes. And no, it's not that my "precious little snowflake" brain can't handle other views. I'm happy to read actual coherent thoughts, even those I vehemently disagree with. I just don't really...
[01:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 636 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[01:59:59] <exec> 08└─It's a recent minority interpretation but that doesn't mean it's wrong. The problem is that it doesn't say what you need it to say! "Hunting large game at close range is perilous, and Neanderthal skeletons bear copious fractures. Dr. Kuhn and Dr. Stiner argue that Neanderthal women and children took...
[02:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:01] <exec> 08└─So the newcomers had pots and brewed some beer. Back in those days, a girl only needed a few swigs before she'd spread her legs.
[02:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 154 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:04] <exec> 08└─You are splitting hairs here; Neanderthals engaged in communal hunts while homo-sapiens specialised and out-competed them. Exactly as I originally stated!
[02:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Behindmyscreen [6856] (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 39 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:06] <exec> 08└─As an Atheist.....Fuck off racist fuck.
[02:00:07] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 4, Interesting) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 1649 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:08] <exec> 08└─This appears at first glance to be a good example of the lowest, foulest, and most despicable form of propaganda. The kind that mixes truth and fiction freely in a manner quite cynically calculated to cause as much division, as much dehumanisation, as much hatred in general, as possible. "This submi...
[02:00:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:10] <exec> 08└─I'm not splitting hairs at all. "Neanderthals engaged in communal hunts while homo-sapiens specialised and out-competed them. Exactly as I originally stated!" Drastically overgeneralizing at best. Incoherent at worst. You don't think HSS engaged in communal hunts? Huh? Did you even read your sources...
[02:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 128 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:13] <exec> 08└─So the newcomers had pots and brewed some beer. Back in those days, a girl only needed a few swigs before she'd spread her legs.
[02:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03idiot_king [6587] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:15] <exec> 08└─So the British Empire was indeed a dish served very, very cold then, I suppose? (Still doesn't make the Empire okay from an ethical standpoint- just funny in retrospect.)
[02:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:17] <exec> 08└─Any time the comment count goes up rapidly, it's all trolling.
[02:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 58 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:19] <exec> 08└─Drastically overgeneralizing at best. Incoherent at worst.
[02:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:22] <exec> 08└─Of course, Religions are the same! Have fun in your Muslim dominant society. I’m sure it will be just as peaceful as you predict. If it turns out to not to be the case, tell me, will you bow towards Mecca or will you show these unenlightened individuals the same videos?
[02:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 326 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:24] <exec> 08└─but wait a sec. More, but again, it's a mix. Agricultural societies produce higher population densities than hunter gatherers pretty nearly across the board, so this is not at all surprising, and again 'replaced' turns out to be an inappropriate, even deceptive, choice of words. There was a mixture,...
[02:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 146 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:55] <exec> 08└─Netflix's help page states 25 Mbps, which would exhaust my data cap of 250GB (base 10 because my ISP sucks) in just under 22 hours and 15 minutes.
[02:00:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 120 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:57] <exec> 08└─I'm not paranoid about corporations, game companies, etc., learning what games I play, my scores, or what video I watch.
[02:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:00:59] <exec> 08└─Well, they did pull out of the Canadian market. Damn shame, too. I loved renting from Redbox.
[02:01:32] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 463 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:01:32] <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...
[02:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:10] <exec> 08└─The editors could have removed the bolded statement That was the article's headline, rendered intact. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
[02:02:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 175 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:12] <exec> 08└─I am already not planning on their being any safety nets for my wife or I when we are old [...] If anyone was serious about fixing this they would cut the military and welfare
[02:02:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 703 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:02:14] <exec> 08└─Not every swing was a total miss, well done, but I'm going to have to jump in here cause you're way too open. "...and taxing Capitalists isn't a "Socialist" thing. Redistribution is a Liberal Democracy thing." It's actually a both thing, to a degree, but with different justifications implying very d...
[02:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:26] <exec> 08└─What exactly the fuck is wrong with demanding honesty?
[02:03:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:28] <exec> 08└─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 without more information. The times when there i...
[02:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 201 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:30] <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.
[02:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:32] <exec> 08└─(And by the way, I just realized I wrote two very long replies to your posts, but I wasn't intending to target you for any particular reason. I actually thought your comments were both interesting and included stuff I wanted to flesh out. I didn't even notice until now they were both written by the...
[02:03:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 133 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:03:34] <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.
[02:04:37] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03DaTrueDave [3144] 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:04:37] <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!
[02:05:19] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 253 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:05:19] <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!
[02:11:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 449 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:11:30] <exec> 08└─You are completely missing the point. I'm not passing judgement on the laws themselves or who decided what they are, only pointing out that every law in every country is imposed by violence and the threat thereof. If you continue to violate a law despite enforcement's attempt to stop you, they will...
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[02:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 291 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:30] <exec> 08└─The day I purchase a car with a SIM in it, that SIM will come out. Or, at the very least, the antenna will suffer some injury, rendering the SIM incapable of reporting on me. What are they gonna do - pass a law that I can't do that? Screw them. I owe the corporations nothing by way of data.
[02:59:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 068,000-Year-Old Heads on Spikes Found in Swedish Lake - 223 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[02:59:39] <exec> 08└─Now, it is their puritan White heads which are impaled by the spikes of Black men. Big Black men. Those large filthy cocks are impregnating your women!!! And you lily-liverred punks aren't gonna do a Goddamn thing about it.
[03:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 102 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:22] <exec> 08└─"Or maybe it was just a straightforward genocide." Except that's completely inconsistent with the DNA.
[03:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 367 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:24] <exec> 08└─That was one of the more famous things that Kaddafi said during his vile little life. https://www.mirror.co.uk [mirror.co.uk] He will be remembered for it long after other things he said or did will have been forgotten. You may not like to h...
[03:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 272 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:26] <exec> 08└─If only 10% of the current gene pool came from the original inhabitants, I think it would be interesting to know the % of X and Y genes that came through. I would guess that the the higher the difference between X and Y the more likely it is that the takeover was violent.
[03:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 1281 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:28] <exec> 08└─"I see, so can you now tell us why mass immigration occurs only in Western nations and not in Israel?" Wow. You must have really had quite the singular experience, if reading my post convinced you that I am the person that can explain everything and anything. I'm not sure the confidence is well-plac...
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[03:00:30] <exec> 08└─> Binford famously argued that they were much more rigidly segregated than any modern human population. That was likely the case as the bone structures show, on the rare occasions that bones are available. Density, thickening, and microfractures all combine to tell how the body moved and what kind o...
[03:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:33] <exec> 08└─"Of course, Religions are the same!" Not at all. But there are deep currents that are shared. The most despicable of each religion have world views that are nearly mirror images of each other. And the most enlightened, the same.
[03:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0, Informative) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 521 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:35] <exec> 08└─Are you suddenly an expert on islam [thereligionofpeace.com]? Try checking up on that book of theirs. It requires the killing of non-moslems [thereligionofpeace.com]. all of them [thereligionofpeace.com]. So either they follow the koran and are moslem or they don't follow the koran and cannot be cal...
[03:00:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:37] <exec> 08└─it's all trolling.
[03:00:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 1, Troll) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:00:39] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not an expert on Islam. But I don't need to be an expert to notice your attempt to deceive me, it's a very old tactic and a very common one. What you're doing is denying credibility to legitimate traditions and imputing that credibility to modern regressives. It's transparent, dishonest, and...
[03:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03frojack [1554] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 80 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:13] <exec> 08└─HDR TV owners would consume 675GB of bandwidth to watch just one Netflix stream.
[03:01:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:15] <exec> 08└─Well, jeez. I never suspected that the Soylentnews crowd hated cultural anthropology. The White male STEM bias is real.
[03:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03sjames [2882] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:36] <exec> 08└─The processor doesn't have to be right there at the camera, it just has to be between the camera and the rest of the car's network.
[03:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 137 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:37] <exec> 08└─Multi-second human reaction-action times are a lot longer, so that should leave a decent amount of time for computer processing/decision.
[03:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 678 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:01:40] <exec> 08└─What's so hard about reading? I wrote "reaction-action". Idiot jumps in your lane, you need to see the problem, recognize the problem, choose a solution, and move your hands and feet to execute the chosen response. That takes seconds (1, 2, 4... how focused were you?), yet people drive safely every...
[03:10:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03driverless [4770] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 282 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:10:26] <exec> 08└─The really crazy thing about this is that while the initial argument was "code once, run anywhere", what they ended up with was "code once, run on Windows 7 or 8". I don't think that stuff has ever been run on anything else (well, used to run on XP and Vista when it was supported).
[03:11:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 554 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:47] <exec> 08└─Try this: stop paying taxes and attempt to go about your business ignoring all attempts to collect said taxes. Eventually someone will attempt to arrest you. If you refuse to be arrested the force applied to you will increase until you are subdued or dead. The same holds true for every enforced law...
[03:11:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 311 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:49] <exec> 08└─Issuing a ticket is a threat of "Pay up or we will arrest you". And of course if you don't pay up and refuse to be arrested the force used against you will increase until you are subdued or killed. If you are arrested and attempt to escape you will be forcibly subdued or killed. It's all backed up b...
[03:11:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 686 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:51] <exec> 08└─"Impose" does not mean "put in". Note the word "force". im·pose imˈpōz/Submit verb past tense: imposed; past participle: imposed 1. force (something unwelcome or unfamiliar) to be accepted or put in place. "the decision was theirs and was not imposed on them by others" synonyms: foist, force, in...
[03:11:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:53] <exec> 08└─That makes it a debate. You have once again neither advanced your argument nor dismantled your opponent's argument.
[03:11:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 429 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:55] <exec> 08└─No. I'm not missing the point. Words have specific meanings. If you mean to say that "government has the *legal* monopoly on violence." you won't get an argument from me. If you mean to say the words you actually used: "Laws are violently imposed," that means something different, and I'll argue that...
[03:11:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:11:58] <exec> 08└─Fair enough.
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[03:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 421 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:34] <exec> 08└─And all to serve single purpose: squeeze even more money out of everything and everyone around... It's never enough, is it? There's always that extra drop to be squeezed out of that husk of a lemon-corpse before it should be thrown out. And when /you/ can't squeeze anything out of it anymore, you se...
[03:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 417 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:35] <exec> 08└─And thus, insurance will no longer be insurance but it becomes a savings account because when you know how much 'insuring' X will cost you, you'll make damn sure that the owner of X contributes more than that because like heck are you ever going to repay him more than what you made him contribute. W...
[03:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03bob_super [1357] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 802 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:38] <exec> 08└─People who know that their car tracks them will not drive recklessly, for fear of fines and insurance costs. By not driving dangerously, they are likely to save the children. All should want to save the children. Enjoy your future tracking, and your info being sold to the highest bidder, for it help...
[03:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 734 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:40] <exec> 08└─And no-one will rebel, because they will all be told that 'by letting us track you, you save 5 bucks on your insurance premium' and everyone will wet their panties right then and there. Short term gain for the win! Are you telling me that I can save 5/half-year bucks now even though it'll cost me 10...
[03:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 145 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:42] <exec> 08└─Since car insurance is mandatory in many states, governments have a responsibility to outlaw such abusive behavior. Yeah, I know, it's too funny.
[03:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 1284 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:44] <exec> 08└─Not sure if I'm reading your post correctly. An insurance policy basically is a "savings account" today. That account is in the insurance company's name, and the insurance company invests that account into it's portfolio. That is, your money doesn't sit around in a coffer somewhere, the company is u...
[03:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03leftover [2448] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 957 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:47] <exec> 08└─I seem to have once again forgotten the tortured logic of a company owning my behavioral information collected using a product I paid for. Google profiting from ads and information I accept because they provide services of some value to me. Fuck Facebook with a cactus. For all the other parasites ou...
[03:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Interesting) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 2230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:49] <exec> 08└─I have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) [wikipedia.org] which has been well controlled for fifteen years through the use of a CPAP [wikipedia.org] machine. For most of the time I've been using such machines, they've had an SD card which recorded my usage patterns (to aid in treatment, as explained by m...
[03:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 317 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[03:59:51] <exec> 08└─"40000 people are killed on the road every year in the US, despite the highest density of cops in any civilized country." It's almost as if you didn't realize that simply having cops does nothing at all to reduce the causes of negligent driving? Oh, what's that? Genuine retard. Geeze, sorry, carry o...
[04:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 98 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:53] <exec> 08└─I'm not alt-right or anything, I just have an inkling you may have the answers to these questions.
[04:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 338 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:55] <exec> 08└─I was somewhat surprised at how overt the racism and xenophobia is in this post. Even for Soylentnews, it's over the top. I should not be surprised at the xenophobia: probably most of the GOP and Libertarian supporters here rarely get out of their mothers' basements and have rarely been out of their...
[04:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 2256 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:57] <exec> 08└─Hi anon, "It is not the case that I will not challenge Zionist arguments or that you didn't understand where the Neanderthal extinction point was heading." Shut it down, the goyim know? My sides, anon, my sides. No, I swear, I did not understand where that was heading. You could say I caught the fai...
[04:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:00:59] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, I can't find a thread where TMB was owned and his hypocrisy was made plain for all to see. Is he deleting discussions from the database?
[04:01:26] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 255 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:01:26] <exec> 08└─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. You were sold *access* to the movie.
[04:02:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 718 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:52] <exec> 08└─Socialism is the collective ownership of the means of production by The Workers. If you're not describing an ownership model, you're describing *something*--but it's NOT Socialism. redistribution Now you're talking about taking stuff from Capitalists. Capitalism is the OPPOSITE of Socialism. ...and...
[04:02:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 231 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:02:53] <exec> 08└─Umm ok. Look, at best, we're using slightly different models of what they mean by this, and both of us are right in some cases, and the game is roughly the same in either case. Let's try not to let them confuses us quite so easily.
[04:04:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:04:11] <exec> 08└─One more question (I suppose it can be derived from the Five W's) is, Follow the Money.
[04:06:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 773 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:15] <exec> 08└─PDF sucks to read on screen because that is exactly NOT what it was designed for. It was meant to be a Portable/Printable Data Format, that would look the same on any screen and when printed on paper. It was basically meant for the print industry, and early versions (less than Acrobat 4) did a brill...
[04:06:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 590 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:06:16] <exec> 08└─Yes they are idiots for charging the same for dead-tree and e-book versions, but the difference is not as big as you think, Production and shipping on a paperback is a max of $2, more likely under $1. For a large format 1000 page hardcover textbook with a print run of 5000 copies, the cost per unit...
[04:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases Spectre Firmware Patches; Intel and AMD Face Numerous Lawsuits - 517 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:53] <exec> 08└─I believe these papers are from about 2005 and they clearly describe issues with cache hardware. http://www.daemonology.net [daemonology.net] http://www.daemonology.net [daemonology.net] https://www.kb.cert.org [cert.org] Also note that "affected...
[04:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Intel Releases Spectre Firmware Patches; Intel and AMD Face Numerous Lawsuits - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:07:54] <exec> 08└─see this comment below: https://soylentnews.org [soylentnews.org] How are you so sure that "but they were not created maliciously"? Can you cite something for support?
[04:10:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Qt Or HTML5? A Million Dollar Question - 536 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:10:56] <exec> 08└─I've run Java on Linux and OS-X, but only with great pain - special attention to environment details, etc. Some of my least favorite technologies are the "Java based" cross platform ones: red5 media server and Mirth Connect are the two most recent, but it seems like every couple of years I encounter...
[04:12:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Redundant) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:24] <exec> 08└─That makes it a debate. You have once again neither advanced your argument nor dismantled your opponent's argument.
[04:12:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06The Case Against Google - 262 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[04:12:25] <exec> 08└─That monopoly on violence is used by some people to make impositions on other people. Also, you are begging the question (using circular logic) by calling that monopoly "legal"; you are assuming that which is to be proved; you are assuming that there is consent.
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[04:59:46] <exec> 08└─I removed the spy box from my car. It was receiving two antenna lines, I assume one was GPS, the other was a mobile connection to do the manufacturer's OnStar like thing. It was manufactured by Continental, and I opened it up to see what was inside, but nothing I knew. The car operates fine, but I c...
[05:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 74 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:53] <exec> 08└─Apparently not. http://www.nerdware.org [nerdware.org]
[05:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:00:54] <exec> 08└─Can you tell us why the majority of individuals supporting the mass immigration of sub-Saharan Africans into the West happen to be Jewish? I'm not alt-right or anything, I just have an inkling you may have the answers to these questions. Thanks in advance...
[05:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 48 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:02:50] <exec> 08└─Why would anyone be submitting their balls here?
[05:04:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 687 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:04:09] <exec> 08└─There has to be some kind of plausible mechanism for you to be able to conclude that correlated variables are truly causally connected, and even then you have to also be able to figure out the direction of causality. Much of science is dedicated to the determination of which observed correlations ar...
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[05:59:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:29] <exec> 08└─I wish I did. But I see no reason at all to doubt her words at this point. So I'm wishing her the very best.
[05:59:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 79 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:49] <exec> 08└─I regard not availing myself of discounts the price I pay for not being tracked
[05:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 387 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:50] <exec> 08└─Plenty of people will rebel. Those who buy new cars won't be concerned about $5, and those who buy old cars will likely find these boxes out of service or previously destroyed. My car insurance offers those add-on boxes already. Maybe some people opt in, but they likely have a facebook account as we...
[05:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[05:59:53] <exec> 08└─It's not a discount when they raise the non-card price when the introduce the cards.
[06:01:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Weasley [6421] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 54 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:00] <exec> 08└─You are mistaken. The first Britons were Neanderthals.
[06:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:02] <exec> 08└─"We peppered those groups with highly trained, arab looking Mossad operatives to sow discontent among the refugees and the europeans, putting them at each other's throats." Shibboleth Sibelit. If European agencies are competent such plans would likely come to naught. An occasional partial success do...
[06:01:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:04] <exec> 08└─Except that's completely inconsistent with the DNA.
[06:01:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 173 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:06] <exec> 08└─Or the newcomers were mainly men. They could have just met some locals and started mating like rabbits. Somehow they displaced the natives. It doesn't mean they killed them.
[06:01:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 100 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:09] <exec> 08└─I see, so can you now tell us why mass immigration occurs only in Western nations and not in Israel?
[06:01:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 1383 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:11] <exec> 08└─"Inconsistent how?" In that both y and mt dna strands believed to date from that original population are still found in the current population of the island, as well as in other populations derived from it at an earlier date, a result that clearly shows that no 'replacement' ever occurred? Yeah, tha...
[06:01:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 152 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:01:47] <exec> 08└─It cannot be legally binding if it violates the 1st sale principle. Considering they lost on principles, I don't see them winning with revised language.
[06:06:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 56 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:31] <exec> 08└─Physical books are mostly for certain kinds of reference
[06:06:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03cykros [989] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 405 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:06:32] <exec> 08└─DVD copying was a bad example; DVD's use encryption for a DRM scheme; it just happened to be cracked years ago to the point where people basically forget it exists anymore. Not sure about how court precedent may have gone with this, if there is any, but as far as I am aware, it is technically illega...
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[06:59:34] <exec> 08└─Resistance is futile.
[06:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 85 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:42] <exec> 08└─How about a shift towards even greater technical perfection in the face of attackers?
[06:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 1655 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:44] <exec> 08└─The unstated (in TFS) story is that she was brought in as Appelbaum [wikipedia.org] was being transitioned out: Jacob Appelbaum Leaves the Tor Project [soylentnews.org] Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that. Many cried foul when he left, but a project that is all about decentralizati...
[06:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 347 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:46] <exec> 08└─https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2018-January/000149.html [torproject.org] They've been doing that, as ever, with every release. What should leave you cold is that U.S. taxpayers fund people who will find, hoard, and exploit any security issue found in the Tor network/Browser/etc....
[06:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 403 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:48] <exec> 08└─Your post appears calculated to provoke me ;) So I'll skip most of it. "One unfortunate (?) thing is that Firefox never ended up directly integrating [soylentnews.org] Tor into the main browser." If I am not badly mistaken, Firefox is a trademark. On owned by the Mozilla Foundation. An organization...
[06:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 744 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[06:59:50] <exec> 08└─Well, I was more optimistic about it four years ago. I even thought that Firefox OS [wikipedia.org] might have a life on $10-50 smartphones. Fast forward to today and usage share [wikipedia.org] of the browser has declined from about 15-25% to 9-12%. Firefox OS is dead. Mozilla has managed to get an...
[07:00:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03mhajicek [51] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 51 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:13] <exec> 08└─Is there a site that rates new cars in this regard?
[07:00:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 236 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:15] <exec> 08└─Somebody did something bad. A car was involved. You know where. You know approximately when. You do not know who. Database query: Give me list of all cars in this spot between these times. Helps narrow down the search quite a bit... eh?
[07:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 322 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:17] <exec> 08└─And thus, insurance will no longer be insurance but it becomes a savings account because when you know how much 'insuring' X will cost you, you'll make damn sure that the owner of X contributes more than that because like heck are you ever going to repay him more than what you made him contribute. W...
[07:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03MostCynical [2589] (Score: 2) 02 - 068,000-Year-Old Heads on Spikes Found in Swedish Lake - 55 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:28] <exec> 08└─And their reasons are not quite what you might imagine.
[07:00:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 068,000-Year-Old Heads on Spikes Found in Swedish Lake - 1588 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:00:30] <exec> 08└─It's a jump to conclude that these were from sacrifices. It was so long ago that for all we know it might have even been how they announced the death of someone notable. Or maybe they just were on the wrong side of a larger fight. After all, another group not that far away, the Celts, were renowned...
[07:01:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Arik [4543] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 62 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:36] <exec> 08└─Not gullible enough to think that your offer is worth my time.
[07:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:38] <exec> 08└─(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uia2EzrZMTE)
[07:01:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 270 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:01:40] <exec> 08└─In that both y and mt dna strands believed to date from that original population are still found in the current population of the island, as well as in other populations derived from it at an earlier date, a result that clearly shows that no 'replacement' ever occurred?
[07:02:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03deimtee [3272] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 491 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[07:02:40] <exec> 08└─I stand by my figures above. A tenth of a second is a fast reaction, on the order of a professional racedriver. Half a second is slow, not uncommon, but a poor driver. If you have multi-second reaction times you should not be driving. Or are you using the unusual term 'reaction-action' to indicate t...
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[07:59:31] <exec> 08└─Embrace the musk. [wikipedia.org]
[08:00:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 743 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:09] <exec> 08└─I will pay you $10/year for exclusively using my .MP3 player. Terms of Business: 1) You have no other program capable of playing .MP3. You hold this application harmless for any damages resulting from going through your computer to delete any programs it finds that may abrogate this agreement. 2)...
[08:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:11] <exec> 08└─I claim ownership and copyright on it.
[08:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 177 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:13] <exec> 08└─Commercial insurance providers operate like that, but the concept of risk sharing started with shipments split over different boats to lessen the individual risk of one sinking.
[08:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:15] <exec> 08└─But if company X doesnt squeeze, then company Y will, and company X will go bust...
[08:00:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 2, Insightful) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 562 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:17] <exec> 08└─That is probably the main reason I no longer shop at my local "Card Price" grocery store and drive out of my way to get to WalMart. I now get even my pharmacy through WalMart. That started when CVS went "Card Price". I did not want anyone tracking my prescriptions, and I know that the Card is a way...
[08:00:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03PiMuNu [3823] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 230 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:20] <exec> 08└─It seems that such data should be 1. owned (copyright) by the person about whom the data is concerned 2. legally mandated opt-in for data collection (not opt-out) Is there another way or better way to control "This Sort of Thing"?
[08:00:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:22] <exec> 08└─AFAIK, the easiest way is to just remove the fuse that powers it. On GM/Onstar it used to be on a separate fuse from everything else making this easy to do by popping one fuse and not affecting anything else. Your owner's manual should have the list of fuses in your car with their affected systems.....
[08:00:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 701 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:24] <exec> 08└─I'm with you, but you'll have great difficulty finding it. If you ever look inside a very small, recent cell phone, you'll realize how small the needed circuitry is, including antenna: strip circuit or ceramic resonator. So it can be hidden anywhere, and it could be integrated onto any auto electron...
[08:00:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 645 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:27] <exec> 08└─Sure, you can say that. Let's say it applies to cars, and let's say there is no universal boycott of these things - people dislike being told what to do. A lot. Where is my motorcycle then? That argument can be downshifted as necessary to electric bicycles and then human-powered bicycles. At some in...
[08:00:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 604 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:32] <exec> 08└─Runaway! Check the back of your neck. A slight, very slight, lump that has been there since you were "in the Navy", as Village People say? Have you ever been around an RFID reader? There is only one way to be sure. Put your entire head into a microwave. You will have to defeat the door safety switc...
[08:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03RS3 [6367] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 219 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:34] <exec> 08└─Arik, I think you completely missed bob_super's point. He was being sardonic (mostly). He was mocking the tracking and excessive policing by pointing out the absurd justifications being given for govt. heavy-handedness.
[08:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 127 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:36] <exec> 08└─but the concept of risk sharing started with shipments split over different boats to lessen the individual risk of one sinking.
[08:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 068,000-Year-Old Heads on Spikes Found in Swedish Lake - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:00:47] <exec> 08└─I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike, as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I want to look up into your lifeless eyes and wave like this
[08:01:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 382 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:57] <exec> 08└─Given an average carryover of 10% of genes : A biblical scenario of 'kill all the men rape all the women' would result in Y being almost zero. X being almost 15%. A completely non-hostile, move in and interbreed scenario should have X and Y at 10%, same as the rest of the genome. A group composed so...
[08:01:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03SanityCheck [5190] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:01:59] <exec> 08└─the imams will “call” on them
[08:02:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:02:01] <exec> 08└─But what if it was an army of Amazons? You know, like Xena the Social Justice Warrior Princess? With free shipping if you sign up for Prime? Then they could have almost completely replaced the original inhabitants. Right?
[08:05:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 730 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:05:17] <exec> 08└─In Europe most town centers were built long before people traveled as much as they do now and long before they had cars to do it with. Municipalities design and implement traffic flow plans to prevent the town turning into a huge traffic jam. The signage you think of as misleading is part of that. P...
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[08:59:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 1655 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:41] <exec> 08└─The unstated (in TFS) story is that she was brought in as Appelbaum [wikipedia.org] was being transitioned out: Jacob Appelbaum Leaves the Tor Project [soylentnews.org] Not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that. Many cried foul when he left, but a project that is all about decentralizati...
[08:59:41] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03takyon [881] 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 347 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:42] <exec> 08└─https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-announce/2018-January/000149.html [torproject.org] They've been doing that, as ever, with every release. What should leave you cold is that U.S. taxpayers fund people who will find, hoard, and exploit any security issue found in the Tor network/Browser/etc....
[08:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:46] <exec> 08└─What should leave you cold is that U.S. taxpayers fund people who will find, hoard, and exploit any security issue found in the Tor network/Browser/etc., instead of reporting them to The Tor Project.
[08:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 277 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:49] <exec> 08└─Cute. That has about as much as relevance as the draft [wikipedia.org] does today. If you want privacy and security, the U.S. government is your enemy, even if you are an American citizen. Possessing "irresponsible encryption" [soylentnews.org] is soon to be a terroristic act.
[08:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03jmorris [4844] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:51] <exec> 08└─And USG runs almost all of the Tor exit nodes. Connect the dots.
[08:59:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[08:59:54] <exec> 08└─If you're concerned about that then you should stick to hidden services.
[09:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 357 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:32] <exec> 08└─I'd happily accept someone else's loyalty card if they offered it to me. I don't use them myself, and when asked for one by cashiers, I cheerfully inform them that loyalty cards are against my religion. Which isn't strictly true (I'm an atheist and, as such, have no religion), but expresses my feeli...
[09:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:33] <exec> 08└─Telling cashiers I didn't want to be tracked led many of them to regard me as a conspiracy theorist. I'm not but I do experience paranoia from time to time. To know that I'm being tracked makes that paranoia far worse. You might regard that as my problem and not theirs. How would you feel if cashier...
[09:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 349 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:36] <exec> 08└─Telling cashiers I didn't want to be tracked led many of them to regard me as a conspiracy theorist. I'm not but I do experience paranoia from time to time. To know that I'm being tracked makes that paranoia far worse. You might regard that as my problem and not theirs. How would you feel if cashier...
[09:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 704 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:38] <exec> 08└─Incidentally, speaking of fuse boxes, if you are in a position where you have to abandon your car for a few days in a questionable area ( say, the parking lot at the airport ), removing the fuse for your fuel pump and powertrain control module will greatly frustrate a thief that just wants to hotwir...
[09:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 469 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:40] <exec> 08└─I have trackers on some of my stuff. ( actually Android primitives. ). They are for MY use. I have seen them for quite some time to tell parents where their kid is... ( or where their spouse is! ). If you have an account with TING, you can add extra SIM cards cheap. They have a modest - something...
[09:00:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03EETech1 [957] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:42] <exec> 08└─Usually you can just enter a phone number. Just pick one at random, and get the discount. If it doesn't work, they'll have a card to scan at the register. Cheers!
[09:00:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 068,000-Year-Old Heads on Spikes Found in Swedish Lake - 57 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:00:55] <exec> 08└─Good one! But I beat you to it [soylentnews.org], friend.
[09:01:29] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 1649 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:01:29] <exec> 08└─This appears at first glance to be a good example of the lowest, foulest, and most despicable form of propaganda. The kind that mixes truth and fiction freely in a manner quite cynically calculated to cause as much division, as much dehumanisation, as much hatred in general, as possible. "This submi...
[09:02:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 45 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:08] <exec> 08└─Is he deleting discussions from the database?
[09:02:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 488 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:10] <exec> 08└─Hey Khallow. I hope you realize by now that the AC to whom you replied is either an honestly anti-semitic piece of shit with poor rhetorical skills or a troll who isn't very good at trolling. Personally, I think he's the latter. Then again, both you and Arik did respond seriously to him, so maybe he...
[09:02:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 938 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:47] <exec> 08└─Often, when I watch movies, it's more or less a spur-of-the-moment thing. If that happens while we're in a store that (also) sells movies: great, we might pick one up. But not for full price, it has to sufficiently cheap. Often, the stars don't align and when the idea hits us, there's not a movie we...
[09:02:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03FakeBeldin [3360] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 290 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:49] <exec> 08└─Aren't those DVDs prohibited from being rented? Or is Redbox skirting that by "selling" dvd's to their customers and then "buying" them back? That trick could fall within first-sale doctrine. Redistributing dvds without a license to do so seems to fall afoul of a law here or there, though.
[09:02:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 989 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:02:51] <exec> 08└─" It'd have been interesting if this went in FAVOR of Disney because that'd ultimately mean a copy of something I own on VHS also grants me the rights to watch a modern, high-res version as well." Why would you think that? Disney (or fill in any other big name movie producer here) will immediately b...
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[09:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Informative) 02 - 06Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory Saved From Uncertain Fate - 294 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:30] <exec> 08└─It's still making discoveries: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Comparison to China's big radio telescope: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[09:59:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 82 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:55] <exec> 08└─Cute. That has about as much as relevance as the draft [wikipedia.org] does today.
[09:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:57] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sorry for calling it "cute", I'm tuned for aggressive e-fighting right now.
[09:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 81 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[09:59:59] <exec> 08└─Yeah, sorry for calling it "cute", I'm tuned for aggressive e-fighting right now.
[10:00:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 72 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:44] <exec> 08└─I'd happily accept someone else's loyalty card if they offered it to me.
[10:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:45] <exec> 08└─One of my neighbors gets scores of application blanks at Ralphs. He is always "losing" his card. Turns out Ralphs is the cheapest place nearby to get alcohol if you have a card. So, he gets the cards, and hands them out to the homeless. They buy the alcohol, he gets credited, then uses the bonus poi...
[10:00:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:47] <exec> 08└─Usually you can just enter a phone number. Just pick one at random, and get the discount. If it doesn't work, they'll have a card to scan at the register. Cheers!
[10:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 31 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:00:50] <exec> 08└─He was being sardonic (mostly).
[10:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Dr Spin [5239] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 131 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:17] <exec> 08└─More realistically: they brought various diseases the natives had no immunity to. So far, the evidence suggests measles and plague.
[10:02:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:02:57] <exec> 08└─Once the "you can't rent these videos/DVDs/etc" clauses got tested in court, it turned out that first sale doctrine allowed anyone to do anything with the physical media. Back in the day, they used to sell new release Videos to rental outlets for $100, while the for-sale consumer versions were $20....
[10:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03NotSanguine [285] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 633 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:39] <exec> 08└─While I'd encourage skepticism of news sources as you do, I'm also hesitant to recommend the idea that individual fact-checking is going to be an adequate solution. In the same way we depend on experts like scientists or doctors or even car mechanics to see the broader context of individual facts, p...
[10:05:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 193 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:05:41] <exec> 08└─Nothing. Expecting it, on the other hand, fits the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result even when the observed results never change.
[10:07:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03Lester [6231] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 1165 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:07:49] <exec> 08└─The goal od PDF was to keep the format across devices, screen, printer etc (In fact, that was PostScript format, PDF came latter). But is the format so important? No usually, no. In a novel, format it more a matter of aesthetic. So eReader converted to a free-flow text with minor style sets (titles,...
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[10:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03realDonaldTrump [6614] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Puerto Rico's Arecibo Observatory Saved From Uncertain Fate - 109 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:31] <exec> 08└─We've spent a lot of money on Puerto Rico. And that's fine, but it's thrown our budget a little out of whack.
[10:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 1792 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[10:59:59] <exec> 08└─Resulted in the entire board resigning. The replacement board included Steele as well as Bruce Schneier and a few other 'reputable' members of the security community. However as I've recently discovered during a spate of security issues with I2P, Tor's outproxies number only a few thousand. Its numb...
[11:00:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 1406 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:48] <exec> 08└─I expect that if I didn't have Schizoaffective Disorder I wouldn't care about being tracked. Many linux fanbois dislike being tracked because that's the Libertarian way to feel, but I don't share that attitude. I have to take great care to avoid becoming symptomatic. None of my medicines are complet...
[11:00:49] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 1005 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:49] <exec> 08└─That might sound just like web server log file analysis, but the difference is that analytics correllates one's use of many different services such as websites. Some websites use more than one analytics vendor. Political candidate web sites are by far the worst. It's straightforward to blackhole the...
[11:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 308 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:00:51] <exec> 08└─I need to add... on some cars, the powertrain control module may be sensitive to loss of power. On mine, it is not, but yours may be. If you have one that is sensitive to power loss, best not pull that one.. you may have to rely on fuel pump alone. Even then, the car won't start.. just crank, crank...
[11:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 162 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:20] <exec> 08└─Muslims are members of a religion, not an ethnicity. You can become Muslim without your genes changing, and you can stop being Muslim without your genes changing.
[11:02:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:02:22] <exec> 08└─I suggest anyone who doubts this look at the extinction of the Neanderthals
[11:07:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 581 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:53] <exec> 08└─Trouble is once you give them a dime, you have to provide your banking info. The info to me is worth far more than a dime. Every time I provide account info, I am assuming a risk that it be used not in accordance with my wishes, then the onus falls on ME to straighten it out. Paying anything incurs...
[11:07:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03anubi [2828] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:07:54] <exec> 08└─Thanks.... I thought .epub was business-speak for "sucker-level" .pdf.
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[11:59:29] <exec> 08└─If I remember correctly that's the title of a Fantasia spoof. Ravel's Bolero was the music for one of its animations, in which I space probe lands on a desert planet. One of the astronauts tossed an empty coke bottle out of his craft. Well not quite empty: the residue of soda pop starts fermenting,...
[11:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 87 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[11:59:30] <exec> 08└─https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8gm14zMY0U&t=783s [youtube.com] (NSFW: cartoon nudity)
[12:02:02] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Arik [4543] 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 380 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:02] <exec> 08└─No, I'm not an expert on Islam. But I don't need to be an expert to notice your attempt to deceive me, it's a very old tactic and a very common one. What you're doing is denying credibility to legitimate traditions and imputing that credibility to modern regressives. It's transparent, dishonest, and...
[12:02:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03fritsd [4586] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 76 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:02:28] <exec> 08└─Why automatically select the meanest thing you can possibly argue for, hrmm?
[12:04:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03NotSanguine [285] 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 66 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:47] <exec> 08└─Are they so concerned, because they have a 'D' next to their name?
[12:04:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 476 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:51] <exec> 08└─That's Nitric Oxide. To breath it will turn your blood into Nitric Acid. I was therefore confused when my friend Ted started posting photos of Los Angeles. Always there was a clear blue sky, or at night you could see the stars. I inquired about this and he said there's never any smog there. I attend...
[12:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 161 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:53] <exec> 08└─He should know: he has a Nobel Prize. While he never specifically mentioned umbrellas, he made quite a good case for his arguments that "Wet streets cause rain."
[12:04:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 164 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:55] <exec> 08└─Now that Google has reneged on "Don't Be Evil" I make a point of not saying "Google it". Rather I say the far-more cumbersome "Use the search engine of your choise"
[12:04:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 1084 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:04:58] <exec> 08└─When Bonita and I bought a house in Owl's Head, Maine we just assumed that our house being wired for cable TV surely meant that we could get cable Internet. To my dismay we didn't look into Internet service until after we bought the house. Bonita called the cable company and was told that there were...
[12:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:08:09] <exec> 08└─There is one good thing about paper books: They can take quite a bit of abuse without getting unusable.
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[12:59:32] <exec> 08└─If there is microbial life on Mars, it is adapted to its habitat - which is like nowhere on Earth. Too cold for liquid water, mostly there's no water anyway, with an almost nonexistent atmosphere consisting mainly of CO2. Any microbial life we transport to Mars will almost certainly die; at worst it...
[12:59:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03bradley13 [3053] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:33] <exec> 08└─Yep, a Fantasia spoof - the only thing is, it's actually better than Fantasia. More fun, and better music.
[12:59:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03stormwyrm [717] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 921 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[12:59:35] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of extremophile organisms [wikipedia.org] that live in conditions that would make Mars look like paradise. There have been experiments on certain types of lichen and cyanobacteria [planetary.org] that have been subjected to conditions as harsh as Mars and still managed to thrive aft...
[13:08:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 667 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:08] <exec> 08└─The other thing that is often provided by publishers is editing. If you think that doesn't matter, then you don't know any real authors. There is a reason most author intros thank their editors, and it is because a good editor will vastly improve an authors work. Everything from spelling and grammar...
[13:08:09] <exec> *** new comment: 03damnbunni [704] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[13:08:10] <exec> 08└─I have Calibre. However, it won't help with the organization of ebooks on the reader itself. The best I can get it to do is sort them into folder by author. For anything more, I have to manually manage the folders on the device.
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[13:59:39] <exec> 08└─I attended a talk about Viking back in the days of my misspent youth. Each lander was heated to 400 degrees. I don't recall whether that was F or C. In any case, they waited until the core temperature had reached equilibrium before they started the timer. Again I don't recall how much time was spent...
[14:03:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03bzipitidoo [4388] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 1919 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:03:16] <exec> 08└─Why are you all ignoring torrenting and public libraries, the elephants in the room? Are you afraid? $1 for a used DVD is an okay price, but it can't compete with $0 for a torrent. Yes, yes, I know, that's usually illegal. But it's also $0 to check out a copy from the public library. You do know tha...
[14:04:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 302 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:38] <exec> 08└─Unions have zero overlap with Socialism. Where unions exist, they are part of a Capitalist system. Had I wanted to include something about Socialism, I would have said that the ownership model there is all wrong. You are a nitwit. I refute him all the time Prove it. -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.or...
[14:04:47] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03arulatas [3600] 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 106 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:04:48] <exec> 08└─It is all part of draining the swamp. No need to have the lobbyists if the regulatory capture is in place.
[14:06:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03canopic jug [3949] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Animal Study Shows How To Retrain The Immune System To Ease Food Allergies - 785 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:06:20] <exec> 08└─Poorly written but certainly not off topic from the subject of allergies. Even 30 second turns up fresh material, though maybe not on food allergies specifically. A multicenter, randomized, controlled trial testing the effects of acupuncture on allergic rhinitis [nih.gov] (2013)Acupuncture in Patie...
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[14:59:29] <exec> 08└─While one may disagree with Trump's rhetoric, it's not even on the same planet as what's happening in Venezuela. Or take the new South African president, who is promising to confiscate white property and redistribute it to blacks (shades of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe). Or Turkey, where anyone Erdogan doesn't...
[14:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 28 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:31] <exec> 08└─LOL extrajudicial executions
[14:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 105 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:33] <exec> 08└─It sounds like they are naming governments as the organizations responsible for undermining human rights.
[14:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 38 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:35] <exec> 08└─Sounds like you'd blame somebody else.
[14:59:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03Walzmyn [987] (Score: 3, Touché) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:38] <exec> 08└─We have an article about human rights violations published in the state run propaganda arm of a culture that makes women wear bag over their head and refuses to let them drive?
[14:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 902 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:40] <exec> 08└─Yet if you want to lead the Western world, like the US always claims, you are expected to take the moral high ground. As a Western European I can tell you that the US currently doesn't have that. Not even a tiny little bit. In my opinion this is not caused by Trump, by the way. After even a presiden...
[14:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 238 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:42] <exec> 08└─I notice from the past 15 years that if my government has the choice to support the economy (read: making sure the 1% or big international corps are well catered) or protecting human right (in own country or abroad) they choose the first.
[14:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 88 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:44] <exec> 08└─https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/POL1067002018ENGLISH.PDF [amnesty.org] (3 MB)
[14:59:46] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 190 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:47] <exec> 08└─Or Turkey, where anyone Erdogan doesn't like gets locked up. Yet they're still good buddies of the US and the rest of NATO. If Italy started acting this way, would they still be as friendly?
[14:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[14:59:49] <exec> 08└─I'd expect criminals, corporations, the rich, taxpayers, etc.
[15:00:45] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bob_super [1357] 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 285 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:00:46] <exec> 08└─The privilege of not being tracked will cost you 5x the mandatory insurance premium, citizen. You seem to want to hide something about your driving, why would we want to insure you? Make that 15x, because I could have to pay for your stolen car, when others would just be found easily.
[15:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 208 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:28] <exec> 08└─"an insurance policy basically is a "savings account"" No it isn't. An insurance policy is a ponsi scheme, where you've agreed in advance to loose all your money except in certain very specific circumstances.
[15:01:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03Grishnakh [2831] (Score: 3, Funny) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 220 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:30] <exec> 08└─You don't have to worry about your car getting stolen at the airport. Your car can sit there for many months with your corpse inside [nypost.com] and no one will notice. It can even sit there for many years [kplr11.com].
[15:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 228 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:32] <exec> 08└─They already do this in Australia. "Plug in our tracker box to receive X discount" not mentioning that the price is raised by X if you refuse. They want to force drivers under 25 to always use them. Be tracked by GPS everywhere.
[15:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 199 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:01:34] <exec> 08└─I gave them my old postcode from another city once. The cashier challenged me on it. I named all the major local roads, shopping centers and told her to look it up. Then she asked for my phone number
[15:05:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:05:32] <exec> 08└─"search that shit"
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[15:59:42] <exec> 08└─People are a commodity. Most just are too naive, too stupid, or too busy to realize it. Unless people threaten the means of wealth for the upper class they will gain nothing for themselves among the lower to middle class. That is how it has always been, that is how it will always be. Complacency can...
[15:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 2, Informative) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:44] <exec> 08└─It's not Al Jazeera that's saying this, but Amnesty International [amnesty.org]. They're just reporting what Amnesty International is saying. If you prefer, here's an alternate link [npr.org]. Says just about the same thing.
[15:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 1673 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:46] <exec> 08└─I'm not going to waste time badmouthing AI - they're a pretty decent bunch, as progressives go. But, the whole progressive thing? Mankind isn't "evolving", and there is no clearly delineated path "forward". History tends to be more cyclic, than linear. The world has come a long way "forward" in the...
[15:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[15:59:59] <exec> 08└─If there is microbial life on Mars, it is adapted to its habitat
[16:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03acid andy [1683] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 454 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:00] <exec> 08└─Those damn scientists! They always have to over-complicate everything! Why can't they ever keep to a deadline and budget? Some shit about the spaceships have to be extra clean or something. Are they fucking OCD or what? And they expect me to read a two page report on it! I've got no more time for th...
[16:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 380 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:02] <exec> 08└─I say we should ship them some smallpox blankets BEFORE we ever attempt to settle there. That way, the Martians will never get to make a good impression on impressionable earthmen. We can eradicated them with disease, go in and kill the last few thousand with muskets, and we've gained an entire PLAN...
[16:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 33 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:05] <exec> 08└─Just send blankets with smallpox.
[16:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 609 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:07] <exec> 08└─Whoever came up with that idea was baked, for sure. Start with the fuel. Heat it up to 400 anything but Kelvin, and that shit's either gonna start cooking off, or react unpredictably when you try to fire it. Rubber seals won't fail? Glass - well, maybe glass is safe, it begins transformation at 580...
[16:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 266 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:00:09] <exec> 08└─That means a population of organisms which lives in a warmer climate can reproduce faster, breed larger populations per unit volume with greater competition, and hence, evolve faster than organisms in colder climates (and less available solar and geothermal energy).
[16:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03redneckmother [3597] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 63 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:40] <exec> 08└─The phone number I give is (area code of your choice)-555-1212.
[16:01:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 75 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:01:41] <exec> 08└─It will also neutralize the chip the aliens put in when they kidnapped you.
[16:03:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 601 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:13] <exec> 08└─Perhaps you should study more. Islam is founded on deception. Their main prophet was a pedophile. To this day they rape and murder everyone including their own. Their book can be downloaded. Read it. I never understood why people of one religion felt the need to kill people of another religion. I un...
[16:03:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Runaway1956 [2926] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 47 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:03:15] <exec> 08└─"Owned" is probably in the eye of the beholder.
[16:04:21] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 150 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:04:22] <exec> 08└─How is that going to work in -30C temperatures with vibration as you drive? Just asking, cause i don't have any experience. Just sounds a bit fragile.
[16:05:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 210 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:20] <exec> 08└─Look into building your own - upfront costs are higher, but overall you're getting a better deal, and spending a little extra on materials will give you something that can be kept in the family for generations.
[16:05:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 44 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:47] <exec> 08└─'Evil-Search it' is moderately more compact.
[16:05:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 0623 Attorneys General Refile Challenge to FCC Net Neutrality Repeal - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:05:49] <exec> 08└─Wtf? Where are the off-topic posts re. Trump when you need them?
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[16:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03FuzzyTheBear [974] (Score: 1) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 502 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:32] <exec> 08└─Content providers , studios and everyone concerned producing media are just ( and some not even started ) to offer 4k that you want them all to abandon the format to swap again to another format ? LOL They're nuts . How much money does it cost a broadcaster to switch a format ? .. ask them and be me...
[16:59:44] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 902 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:44] <exec> 08└─Yet if you want to lead the Western world, like the US always claims, you are expected to take the moral high ground. As a Western European I can tell you that the US currently doesn't have that. Not even a tiny little bit. In my opinion this is not caused by Trump, by the way. After even a presiden...
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[16:59:53] <exec> 08└─extrajudicial executions
[16:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 2186 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:55] <exec> 08└─Qatar is not Saudi Arabia: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] Women and men are expected to dress in a manner that is modest, but the dress code is generally driven by social customs and is more relaxed in comparison to other nations in the region. [...] Societal values of...
[16:59:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03therainingmonkey [6839] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 423 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:57] <exec> 08└─You're probably thinking of Saudi Arabia. Al Jazeera is based in Qatar. While Qatar is hardly a paragon of Human Rights (particularly for migrant laborers), there is no law requiring women to cover their heads nor banning them from driving. Al Jazeera runs stories from diverse journalists with a div...
[16:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 2691 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[16:59:59] <exec> 08└─While some of your rhetoric may make sense, like the fact that mass migrations will always trigger frictions and a huge social upheaval, other parts sound like you are trying to drum up excuses for things to regress. Progressist/Regressivist does not need to be a dichotomy. Why not keep with what ha...
[17:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 683 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:02] <exec> 08└─In its Emergency Room, Oregon Health & Sciences University has some holding cells in which they lock psychiatric patients so as to keep a lid on their demands that their rights be respected. The holding cells have no toilets. Even death row inmates get toilets. Why not the mentally ill? I first lear...
[17:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03https [5248] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 106 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:04] <exec> 08└─Your "state within a state" has a name: the military-industrial complex. Say it aloud while you still can.
[17:00:05] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 12 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:06] <exec> 08└─Enough said.
[17:00:08] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 1179 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:08] <exec> 08└─Rome kept its populace happy by giving them "bread and circuses". One such circus was the Coliseum. At first it could be flooded so as to facilitate mock naval battles, then later without water where highly-trained gladiators duked it out with swords. The losers of the naval battles as well as the g...
[17:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 377 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:27] <exec> 08└─Thanks for the link, which is cued to the beginning of the specific segment brought up by GP. And for others who may be concerned about the NSFW warning -- unless I was missing something, there's no "cartoon nudity" in the segment discussed by GP and which is cued here. Earlier in the cartoon (befor...
[17:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:29] <exec> 08└─I skimmed through the thing and I think I found some nudity in later portions as well. The warning had to be made because it could appear on screen, someone could rewind it, the boss could access the page and watch from the beginning (slow day at work), whatever the case may be.
[17:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 97 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:31] <exec> 08└─Some shit about the spaceships have to be extra clean or something. Are they fucking OCD or what?
[17:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 697 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:33] <exec> 08└─On second thought, the article doesn't mention the exact conditions under which they opened the sterilized box. Perhaps there is more to the story and the engineers thought they were following adequate protocols if they did it in a very controlled environment or something. The text of that paragraph...
[17:00:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 915 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:35] <exec> 08└─While the soda-pop cartoon above is unlikely in the extreme, redirecting an ice-rich asteroid or comet for Mars-intercept and then sending a cargo of 10,000kg of assorted photosynthesizing microbes as a followup drop on the same crater could be enough to get something started. A small sea of microbe...
[17:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Invent Tiny, Light-Powered Wires To Modulate Brain's Electrical Signals - 19 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:00:52] <exec> 08└─This will end well.
[17:01:13] <exec> *** new comment: 03fishybell [3156] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 436 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:01:13] <exec> 08└─That graph is slightly misleading. Tor usage is down from its late 2013 peak. That page has only been tracking usage since mid 2011. A more complete [torproject.org] graph shows what I'm talking about. As for why the usage rocketed up in 2013? I haven't the foggiest. I would have thought it was rela...
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[17:01:14] <exec> 08└─*dons tinfoil hat* ...then again, the huge uptick could have been the real mechanism that was used by the FBI to find the real IP address of the Silk Road. Instead of leaked data from a CAPTCHA or PHP information linkage, they instead set up a huge amount Tor relays and clients to statistically dete...
[17:05:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 70 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[17:05:51] <exec> 08└─It sure is, when they take away $2000 worth of services away from you.
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[17:59:59] <exec> 08└─The era known as The Enlightenmint was hundreds of years ago. You'd think that three or four hundred years of enlightenment would lead to web analytics being illegal. Consider the challenges faced by closeted gay Republican politicians.
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[18:00:00] <exec> 08└─To me, taking the moral high ground means: People get freedom of speech. Europe doesn't have this. In the UK, say anything negative about muslims, and the police will come for you. In Germany, a simple "Heil Hitler!" is all it takes to put you in prison. In France, there has even been an effort to p...
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[18:00:25] <exec> 08└─Not even close: https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org] the Viking spacecraft were heat-treated for 30 hours at 125°C (five hours at 125 °C was considered enough to reduce the population tenfold even for enclosed parts of the spacecraft, so thi...
[18:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 439 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:27] <exec> 08└─Yeah, I didn't watch the whole thing, so maybe there's nudity later too. I wasn't objecting to your warning, by the way -- just noting that the segment under discussion doesn't contain any nudity that I noticed. (I'd note that some people don't watch things labeled as NSFW because they actually are...
[18:00:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 126 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:29] <exec> 08└─MDC was talking shit. It was 125°C/257°F dry heat for 30 hours, which is bad enough for most materials used in a spacecraft.
[18:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 3, Insightful) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 480 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:31] <exec> 08└─Another environment where life could thrive on Mars is within an underground ocean. Now what's the mechanism for getting the source of contamination from the seemingly barren surface to miles below? I don't know. Maybe an impact that adds some heat and penetrates the crust? There's also a lot of (sa...
[18:00:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 224 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:34] <exec> 08└─How hot is the Mars core? These guys are living deep underground on Earth, but it's pretty hot in their neighborhood: https://www.newscientist.com [newscientist.com]
[18:00:35] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:36] <exec> 08└─125 Celsius (°C) = 257 Fahrenheit (°F)
[18:00:53] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Researchers Invent Tiny, Light-Powered Wires To Modulate Brain's Electrical Signals - 151 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:00:53] <exec> 08└─Now to gene therapy light sensitivity into our neurons for a BCI to a computer. Lifechanging for some disabled, and a great upgrade for the rest of us.
[18:01:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03takyon [881] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 504 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:01:16] <exec> 08└─Edward Snowden's disclosures were in June 2013. What you see is a massive but temporary spike in interest in Tor as ordinary people tried the software out but grew tired of it. However, when it fell back down, it remained at a significantly higher level than pre-June 2013 (~500k vs. ~2 million), and...
[18:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03noneof_theabove [6189] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 301 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:15] <exec> 08└─If you are not the customer then you are the product. Welcome to the United Corporations and Churches of America [UCCA ex-USA] Where the real product is the stock and The true customer the stockholder. In god we trust all others pay foreign loan shark interset. F*CK YOUR "BETTER CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE"...
[18:02:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 67 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:16] <exec> 08└─Here, you either have the card, sign up for the card or you're SOL.
[18:02:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 400 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:19] <exec> 08└─Well, I do not have your described disorder. And I can speak for a lot of people -- we don't want to be tracked, not by the government, and not by companies looking to sell our data repeatedly so they can advertise to us better to try to get us to buy more things. Some of us just want to be left alo...
[18:02:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03AthanasiusKircher [5291] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 3004 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:02:21] <exec> 08└─I could be wrong, but I think AC's point is that in the past, insurance was often used for exceptionally unlikely events -- the kind of events that, for example, not every person would expect to occur within their own lifetime. For example, let's say the chances of having your house burn down to hav...
[18:03:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03khallow [3766] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 178 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:03:55] <exec> 08└─I hope you realize by now that the AC to whom you replied is either an honestly anti-semitic piece of shit with poor rhetorical skills or a troll who isn't very good at trolling.
[18:04:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney's Lawsuit Against Redbox May Have Backfired - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:04:38] <exec> 08└─I note that many DVDs also contain a prohibition of Public Performance, (anything beyond home use). I wonder if that also gets kicked out?
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[18:59:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 114 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:31] <exec> 08└─Like roads, perhaps even more importantly than roads, internet access should be universally provided to residents.
[18:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 116 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:33] <exec> 08└─Mesh networks will fix everything. All of the techbro dudes living in my apartment complex agree with me. Mesh, bro.
[18:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 487 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:35] <exec> 08└─Where is the affordable housing? Why are Facebook employees sleeping out of their cars, why are entire families having to live in rented garages and basements? ISP competition doesn't matter at all if you can afford 5000 a month for a studio apartment, because in that case even relatively expensive...
[18:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 202 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:37] <exec> 08└─Even more important than roads? What the hell are you smoking? How do you expect your below minimum wage (plus tips) delivery driver to deliver your rich people toys to your giant mansion without roads?
[18:59:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 43 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:39] <exec> 08└─You forgot to mention you are a gay faggot.
[18:59:41] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 446 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:42] <exec> 08└─Yes roads are important, but if you think the most people in SF are living large you've got another thing coming. If you want to get the high SF tech salary you'd better be comfortable paying $1100 for a single room in a 2br/1ba apartment. $1500+ for a tiny studio if you're lucky, more like $2k+ for...
[18:59:43] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: -1, Troll) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:44] <exec> 08└─Grow your infrastructure through voluntary trade, not imposition.
[18:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 486 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:46] <exec> 08└─Gee I wonder why people dislike San Francisco. Oh right!! Because it is known as a very gay friendly town, and a large minority in the US is homophobic and bigoted. I lived there for a short bit and every person over 50 I met in different areas had to make a wisecrack about gay people and SF. Pretty...
[18:59:48] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 437 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:49] <exec> 08└─It actually would work quite well if enough people ran nodes. There is still the problem of the fiber lines connecting cities, unless those are turned into dumb pipes then mesh networks won't change a whole lot. The only feasible method I can imagine is to have caching nodes that reduce the demand o...
[18:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 288 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:51] <exec> 08└─Why do you assume I'm not living in a big city and paying $1000 to rent a room? No, I don't live in SF. Maybe you should pull your fucking head out of your fucking ass and comprehend that SF isn't the only place in the world with a high cost of living, you fucking stupid elitist techbro.
[18:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03JoeMerchant [3937] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 497 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[18:59:53] <exec> 08└─My delivery drivers make it down 1/4 mile of unpaved potholes and dirt to drop packages at my door every day. I feel like I'm paying Comcast $80 per month (or whatever the hell they want to charge) for similar internet access - flakes out when it rains, craps out my voice connections every few minut...
[19:00:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 60 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:02] <exec> 08└─Panels still have idiotic display latency compared to CRT's.
[19:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 196 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:04] <exec> 08└─I doubt it will take off. Indeed, I'd be surprised if anyone sees the difference between 4K and 8K at normal viewing distance. But probably a few people will buy it so that they can boast with it.
[19:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03aiwarrior [1812] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 278 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:06] <exec> 08└─You might be right if it were not the case that display sizes are also scaling up significantly. 2018 normal size is 55, and these displays are already targeting bigger ones. Of course I think there will be a time where not body has a big enough wall to put such monster panels.
[19:00:14] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03bradley13 [3053] 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 321 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:15] <exec> 08└─While one may disagree with Trump's rhetoric, it's not even on the same planet as what's happening in Venezuela. Or take the new South African president, who is promising to confiscate white property and redistribute it to blacks (shades of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe). Or Turkey, where anyone Erdogan doesn't...
[19:00:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 64 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:37] <exec> 08└─In a democracy, the voters are responsible for their government.
[19:00:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Insightful) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 870 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:39] <exec> 08└─I was content to treat people fairly. Now? Fuck it. If your idea of "progress" hurts me and my kind, I'm going to fight it. I do this everywhere I can. For example, my workplace shows a preference for hiring women and minorities. As soon as this became clear, I stopped referring them for employment....
[19:00:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 352 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:41] <exec> 08└─Running a trial in the USA is incredibly expensive. Usually it costs society many times more than the original crime. Poor countries simply can't do that. They can do extrajudicial executions, or they can let organized crime grow until it is able to wipe out government. To suggest that extrajudicial...
[19:00:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Immerman [3985] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 1024 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:43] <exec> 08└─>an admission that America gave up on meritocracy of some kind It never has been. Capitalism and meritocracy are very nearly diametrically opposed - in capitalism, possession of substantial capital is the overpowering "merit", and capital passes almost exclusively down the lines of family dynasties....
[19:00:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 235 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:46] <exec> 08└─Agree. This illustrates the problem with affirmative action. Affirmative action results in animosity towards the favored race. It breeds more racism. Maybe we should end discrimination based on race by not discriminating based on race?
[19:00:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03arcz [4501] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 135 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:00:48] <exec> 08└─That's quite concerning. Maybe we should get this information to a relevant attorney. I have some contacts. Care to share more details?
[19:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:01:18] <exec> 08└─I saw several candles shaped like naked ladies. And, one female Martian was stroking a goat-like being in a suggestive way.
[19:02:15] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 2230 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:15] <exec> 08└─I have Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) [wikipedia.org] which has been well controlled for fifteen years through the use of a CPAP [wikipedia.org] machine. For most of the time I've been using such machines, they've had an SD card which recorded my usage patterns (to aid in treatment, as explained by m...
[19:02:18] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 79 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:02:18] <exec> 08└─I regard not availing myself of discounts the price I pay for not being tracked
[19:04:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 1583 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:04:34] <exec> 08└─It's not all that modern. The violent wing of the Muslim faith has been rather dominant ever since Tamerlane wiped out the civilized branch. This isn't to say that the peaceful Muslims aren't the majority, they just haven't been dominant. This is also, of course, true of Christianity. They've been p...
[19:08:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 953 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:13] <exec> 08└─I agree with almost all you say. The only problem is I've been on scene with events that were later reported, sometimes with photos. The news was always heavily biased in favor of being dramatic. This is sort of like your comment about mercury. What they were reporting was actually true, but present...
[19:08:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 303 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:14] <exec> 08└─And this is an example of our disagreement. The causation is that the same kind of mental process interested you each time, even though you didn't notice it. This wasn't even that indirect a causation, just one that you didn't happen to notice. So it's an example of correlation stemming from causati...
[19:08:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Fake News is Part of a Bigger Problem: Automated Propaganda - 1696 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:08:16] <exec> 08└─Not knowing what the causal connection is is not itself evidence that there is no causal connection. I will agree that it's often quite useful to know the causal connection, but I will assert that it's often rather indirect, along the lines of: A is necessary for B to happen. C is necessary for D to...
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[19:59:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 918 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:42] <exec> 08└─I don't hate San Francisco, just the people in it. As a libertarian, I have no problems with the 'Mo's having naked parades down the streets and jacking up in broad daylight. What I do have a problem with is the amount of control over tech and culture the area holds, and worst of all, they're every...
[19:59:44] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 83 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:44] <exec> 08└─Ah, so you're just an idiot with an axe to grind. Got it you slack jawed inbreeder.
[19:59:45] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 444 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:46] <exec> 08└─When you grow up, kid, you will realize mesh networks will never work outside of your fantasy land. Here in the real world, nobody runs the nodes. Bart: Hey everybody! Let's all turn our desks backwards before Mrs. Krabappel comes in! [everyone agrees vociferously] Bart: [laughs...
[19:59:47] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:48] <exec> 08└─high-speed fiber that would make Internet access cheaper and better for city residents This is why the utilities have been working for decades to make community/co-op access illegal.
[19:59:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 176 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:51] <exec> 08└─I get that reading comprehension isn't really your thing, but c'mon, 1st fucking sentence "It actually would work quite well if enough people ran nodes" What is wrong with you?
[19:59:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 345 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:53] <exec> 08└─Thank you for admitting you are a lazy rich asshole. I don't have delivery drivers, because when I want to buy something, I walk to the goddamned store myself. I have exactly zero packages delivered to my house. I pay $20 a month for internet since I'm not a stupid moron who says, "Duh, I gots to pa...
[19:59:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 244 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:55] <exec> 08└─Yeaaah, nothing like generalizations and stupidity coming out of EF to really indict a story. Get a grip you crazy triggered fuck, you really want to talk about self-reinforcing circle-jerk with a lack of self-control? The hypocrisy is amazing.
[19:59:57] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[19:59:57] <exec> 08└─You fucking stupid piece of shit, can't you even tailor your insults to your audience? We don't have slack jawed inbred redneck hicks here in the inner city urban ghetto.
[19:59:59] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 125 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:00] <exec> 08└─MESH WILL NEVER WORK. NOBODY WILL EVER RUN THE NODES. STOP DREAMING. Why don't you vote for Hillary a few more times, cretin.
[20:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 84 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:11] <exec> 08└─find me a 27" 8k CRT monitor, and I'll find some room on my desk to test it for you.
[20:00:12] <exec> *** new comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 118 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:12] <exec> 08└─But with a bigger display, you have to sit farther away to comfortably watch. Which compensates the larger pixel size.
[20:00:14] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 185 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:14] <exec> 08└─https://displaylag.com/asus-mg24uq-4k-gaming-monitor-review/ [displaylag.com] https://displaylag.com [displaylag.com] Some are as low as 9-10 ms. How much is too much?
[20:00:51] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:51] <exec> 08└─hate sessions against me
[20:00:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Informative) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 1215 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:52] <exec> 08└─Double standard. You want to let people discriminate based on their own opinions, but trying to balance that by using legal discrimination is bad? I'm not sure how what would be a better method to fix the problem, and I can only hope that soon enough we can remove affirmative action as it is no long...
[20:00:54] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 717 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:54] <exec> 08└─Right to a toilet is covered under 8th amendment: http://jailhouselaw.org [jailhouselaw.org] Below are some of the most common Eighth Amendment challenges to prison conditions. Remember, to prevail on a claim for any of these, you must show bo...
[20:00:56] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 1, Touché) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 139 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:57] <exec> 08└─Hatred and fear . . . . stay home where people who are like you will be more likely to like you!! There's no need to come here to be hated.
[20:00:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03turgid [4318] (Score: 3, Interesting) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 1296 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:00:59] <exec> 08└─You often hear many an ignorant bigot saying things like, "I don't need human rights because I haven't done anything wrong." They seem to think that human rights are some kind of conspiracy to stop criminals being punished. I have just googled the European Convention on Human Rights [coe.int]. In su...
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[20:01:30] <exec> 08└─It's a bit more than a +15 psi pressure cooker (121 °C/250 °F), but without the pressure or steam obviously.
[20:01:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03requerdanos [5997] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 53 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:32] <exec> 08└─That's hotter [than] people use to make beef jerky...
[20:01:33] <exec> *** new comment: 03JNCF [4317] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 108 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:01:34] <exec> 08└─Heating ice is generally good for water. Heating water is generally good for steam. Equilibriums are tricky.
[20:02:15] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Tor Director Shari Steele Will Step Down at the End of the Year - 229 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:02:16] <exec> 08└─That doesn't seem like a tinfoil hat type scenario, I would say that sounds incredibly plausible and a reasonable course of action for them to take. Not a conspiracy level thing where people get murdered for finding out about it.
[20:03:40] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03legont [4179] 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 209 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:03:40] <exec> 08└─The original Britons were blacks https://www.theguardian.com [theguardian.com] They were "replaced". What else is new?
[20:04:52] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 440 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:53] <exec> 08└─More to the point, before automatic weaponry genocide over a large area was a nearly impossible undertaking, requiring centralized organization. The Greeks couldn't even exterminate the Trojans. (Troy was beleaguered, not besieged.) So genocide is quite unlikely. OTOH, population restriction due to...
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[20:04:54] <exec> 08└─I'm still confused about what this has to do with either Neanderthals *or* the Beaker People. (As an old card-carrying member of "The Beaker People Libation Font" [a drinking group] I find this of interest.)
[20:04:55] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 783 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:56] <exec> 08└─I'd be surprised if this weren't so. I was certainly true among H.Sapiens. The men took to risky jobs, because the tribe could better afford losing men than women. And everyone helped as best they could. When you're living near the edge, this is important. Neither Neanderthals nor H.Sap were far eno...
[20:04:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 194 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:04:59] <exec> 08└─You had me going until the last line. You have to go back, to whichever imageboard you crawled in from. Read a book for once in your life; Britain has always been a predominantly Muslim country.
[20:05:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 959 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:05:01] <exec> 08└─An interesting point is that while the Neanderthal genes are with us (and who knows how many, since most genes were identical between the two (three?) species, the Neanderthal mitochondria don't appear to be. (If they are, I haven't heard any evidence.) My reading on that was that it was generally f...
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[20:05:44] <exec> 08└─Interesting. This makes me very curious to know how it works in Europe. What I know is that the Berne convention led to some harmonisation of copyright internationally. What I also know is that in Europe, you used to have these "not for public viewing" warnings. From a little googling, it seems that...
[20:06:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03tftp [806] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Camera Technology In Vehicles: Low-Latency Image Data Compression - 172 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:06:11] <exec> 08└─Civilian and military aircraft are full of fiber. Vibrations are taken care of by plugs. You can have fiber even in armored jacket, good enough to roll up on a battlefield.
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[20:59:57] <exec> 08└─The people are fighting back against the Silicon Valley cancer: https://www.theverge.com [theverge.com] http://www.bbc.com [bbc.com]
[20:59:58] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 258 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[20:59:58] <exec> 08└─Mesh networks are inherently high latency. This is true even if everybody and his dog and *his* guinea pig are running nodes. That's because there are so many hops. The only way to solve this is to increase the switching speed, and that has its own problems.
[21:00:00] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 170 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:00] <exec> 08└─You fucking stupid piece of shit, can't you even tailor your insults to your audience? We don't have slack jawed inbred redneck hicks here in the inner city urban ghetto.
[21:00:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 225 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:03] <exec> 08└─It sucks to be poor, huh? Is that how you make what little money you have, by sucking? Based on your writing, I'd say that was a much better use for your mouth that spewing the bullshit you're spewing here. Kissy Kissy honey!
[21:00:16] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 138 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:16] <exec> 08└─8K?! I mean my 10 years old camera can do 5 MEGA pixels!!1 For the unwashed masses https://en.wikipedia.org [wikipedia.org]
[21:00:18] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 25 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:00:18] <exec> 08└─You're an unwashed loser.
[21:01:01] <exec> *** new comment: 03aristarchus [2645] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:01] <exec> 08└─But, the whole progressive thing? Mankind isn't "evolving", and there is no clearly delineated path "forward".
[21:01:02] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 121 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:02] <exec> 08└─But not just now, I was up all night getting the bad news that Free As In Freedom is synonymous with "Russian Roullette".
[21:01:37] <exec> *** new comment: 03MichaelDavidCrawford [2339] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 32 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:37] <exec> 08└─asdjnsad as;ljcnaskl; sdacnm;.kj
[21:01:38] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 46 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:39] <exec> 08└─IIRC, Mars' core is cold and no longer molten.
[21:01:40] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 103 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:41] <exec> 08└─You've got at least one metric fuckton of anecdotes and tidbits, but their accuracy is questionable. -t
[21:01:42] <exec> *** new comment: 03SvenErik [2857] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 130 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:01:43] <exec> 08└─According to this article [newscientist.com], the core is still liquid and have a temperature up to 1500 Kelvin (1225°C/2240°F).
[21:03:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 71 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:26] <exec> 08└─People who know that their car tracks them will not drive recklessly...
[21:03:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 61 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:28] <exec> 08└─I just say no. It works every time. No explanation necessary.
[21:03:29] <exec> *** new comment: 03HiThere [866] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 182 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:30] <exec> 08└─The thing is, WalMart is attempting to become a monopoly, and you are supporting them in that. I *think* that is probably even worse. (And don't think that Amazon is an improvement.)
[21:03:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Car Companies Are Preparing to Sell Driver Data to the Highest Bidder - 26 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:03:32] <exec> 08└─Nancy Reagan, is that you?
[21:05:01] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03maxwell demon [1608] 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 162 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[21:05:01] <exec> 08└─Muslims are members of a religion, not an ethnicity. You can become Muslim without your genes changing, and you can stop being Muslim without your genes changing.
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[21:59:32] <exec> 08└─And the Records Department, after all, was itself only a single branch of the Ministry of Truth, whose primary job was not to reconstruct the past but to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels — with every conceivable kind of informat...
[22:00:03] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 18 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:03] <exec> 08└─lazy rich asshole.
[22:00:04] <exec> *** new comment: 03stretch611 [6199] (Score: 2) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 115 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:05] <exec> 08└─Slight Correction... This is why the telecoms have been working for decades to make community/co-op access illegal.
[22:00:06] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 245 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:07] <exec> 08└─Unless you made mesh the product - hyperlocal social media as a front for internet revolution? Write a halfway decent app, get your botnet to push the new hotness on the existing network until you get some momentum, and everyone wins in the end.
[22:00:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03corey [2202] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 333 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:22] <exec> 08└─As per title. Planned obsolescence in full swing on TV's, its been going a while. I suppose 3D is out the door and curved LCDs are too. Like another commenter said, hardly anything is available in 4k yet even, unless you consider everything Netflix. Seems like the manufacturers don't respond to user...
[22:00:24] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 221 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:24] <exec> 08└─People want "8K" for computer monitors or VR (not really 4320p in the case of VR since you also want an ultrawide 200 degree FOV). Unless your TV is utterly gigantic, even 720p is probably good enough from some feet away.
[22:00:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Spamalope [5233] (Score: 2) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 759 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:26] <exec> 08└─Wall. Screen. That's what I want. CES 2016 they had 98 inch 8k screens everywhere. 1/4 inch thick, perfect viewing angles. Some of the vendors were struggling to get anything to animate though. It was obvious the screen driver chips/data interface weren't there yet for at least some of them. The scr...
[22:00:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 123 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:28] <exec> 08└─These displays all use hacks (such as degrading output quality) to accomplish these low refresh rates. Incomparable to CRT.
[22:00:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 65 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:31] <exec> 08└─i kick ass in a FPS using a 512mb 3D card driving a 1024x768 CRT.
[22:00:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06AU Optronics to Ship 8K Panels to TV Manufacturers in H1 2018 - 188 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:00:33] <exec> 08└─If you don't sit next to the screen you have trouble telling fullhd resized to hd from original fullhd. 4k monitors, cool. 4k TVs meh, 8k useless unless you want a video wall or something.
[22:01:17] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 24 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:17] <exec> 08└─Mankind isn't "evolving"
[22:01:19] <exec> *** new comment: 03Thexalon [636] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 1889 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:19] <exec> 08└─As far as I can tell, it comes down to this: Some people enjoy the prospect of hurting and even killing other people. Even if only by proxy. Even if the people in question in no way deserve it. These kinds of sadists can't be satisfied with consensual S&M, they're looking to do these terrible things...
[22:01:20] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 40 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:21] <exec> 08└─Geography isn't your strong suit, is it?
[22:01:22] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 169 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:23] <exec> 08└─One of the nearby counties charges inmates for razors and haircuts. I wonder if that would apply? AFAIK they have no contingency for the indigent to access these things.
[22:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 418 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:26] <exec> 08└─Liberals are not less racist than conservatives, judging by their actions. The real difference is that conservatives are a lot more honest about their prejudice. Non-whites are also not less racist than whites; the notion that only whites are racist is a great conceit that is misused for political p...
[22:01:27] <exec> *** new comment: 03shortscreen [2252] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 1391 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:01:28] <exec> 08└─Let's say that uncontrolled population growth and migration are at odds with sustainable and harmonius coexistance. I think this should be obvious but there is unfortunately a shortage of people from the progressive camp willing to acknowledge the issue. I guess they are assuming that any objection...
[22:10:22] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03Anonymous Coward 02 - 06Hachette CEO: "The eBook is a stupid product." - 221 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:10:23] <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.
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[22:59:33] <exec> 08└─"An AI-generated Hollywood blockbuster may still be beyond the horizon, but in the meantime, we finally know what "kitesurfing on grass" looks like." Well .... A lot of hollyweird scripts and movies are really shit so it might not be noticeable that it is written by an AI. I'm sure some critic will...
[22:59:34] <exec> *** new comment: 03SomeGuy [5632] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Algorithm Creates "Movies" From Text Descriptions - 110 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:35] <exec> 08└─Video generation could lead to better compression if a movie can be stored as nothing but a brief description.
[22:59:36] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06Algorithm Creates "Movies" From Text Descriptions - 883 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[22:59:37] <exec> 08└─MIDI was a godsend for getting files of songs and opening them in the score editor to learn how to play them. Considering that the official books were over 20 bucks an album (more for larger or more rare ones, my then-girlfriend paid 40 for an official Tori Amos book which wasn't even accurate) the...
[23:00:11] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06San Francisco's Community Broadband Could Solve Net Neutrality and Privacy Issues - 279 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:00:11] <exec> 08└─"If you want to get the high SF tech salary you'd better be comfortable paying $1100 for a single room in a 2br/1ba apartment. $1500+ for a tiny studio if you're lucky, more like $2k+ for decent yet still tiny studios." Boo fucking hoo. Can't afford it? Move or shut the fuck up.
[23:01:23] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 941 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:23] <exec> 08└─The massive declines were not due so much to direct action by the Europeans. The best candidate for the steep drop in population is disease, because thanks to lidar and other new techniques we know for certain that native civilizations in the Americas were far more populous and advanced than what th...
[23:01:25] <exec> *** new comment: 03Gaaark [41] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 329 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:25] <exec> 08└─But, you're heading down that slippery slope: absolute power ...and all that. Just watch: until you kick out of power all the people who have grabbed this power, you will continue to head downhill. (Of course the new people will eventually take you there again because absolute power ....etc etc and...
[23:01:26] <exec> *** new comment: 03Phoenix666 [552] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 355 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:27] <exec> 08└─Anyone looking to China for enlightened global leadership or as a safer/better place to invest is an utter fool. They have codified xenophobia as a way of life for thousands of years. It's in their very DNA. The name of their country is "the middle kingdom," (zhongguo) and means more exactly "the co...
[23:01:28] <exec> *** new comment: 03unauthorized [3776] (Score: 2) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 252 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:29] <exec> 08└─What Wikipedia will not tell you is that many Qatari women face informal community-enforced laws that force them into this exact position. Sharia is widely adhered to in Qatar and the government makes no effort to stop it, if not silently condoning it.
[23:01:31] <exec> *** new comment: 03Ethanol-fueled [2792] (Score: 1) 02 - 06World Leaders Abandoning Human Rights: Amnesty International - 809 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:32] <exec> 08└─True Story: A very religious Christian I knew from a former job attended one of those radical churches. Every Halloween they would have one of those "fright night" or whatever they are called plays which show graphically that sinners (in their case explicitly depicting homosexuals as hellbound among...
[23:01:43] <exec> 08*** score 5 comment: 03stormwyrm [717] 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 921 chars - 04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:01:43] <exec> 08└─There are plenty of extremophile organisms [wikipedia.org] that live in conditions that would make Mars look like paradise. There have been experiments on certain types of lichen and cyanobacteria [planetary.org] that have been subjected to conditions as harsh as Mars and still managed to thrive aft...
[23:02:10] <exec> *** new comment: 03Wootery [2341] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Should We Loosen Bacterial Limits on Robotic Mars Exploration Before It's Too Late? - 93 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:02:10] <exec> 08└─Neat. The next question then is whether it would be moral not to introduce such life to Mars.
[23:05:39] <exec> *** new comment: 03Whoever [4524] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Ancient Britons ‘Replaced’ By Newcomers - 119 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:05:39] <exec> 08└─Apparently I owe TMB an apology. Some more searching and I was able to find the thread that I thought had gone missing.
[23:07:50] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Disney Holds $1000 Bonuses Hostage As Leverage In Contract Negotiations - 1271 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:07:50] <exec> 08└─Up in the (meta)thread, an AC has accused me of using the submission to push Socialism. I replied, noting that unions have zero overlap with Socialism. Now, here's where I show him to have just a bit of insight. Professor of Comparative Economics Richard Wolff recently published an item where he not...
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[23:59:30] <exec> *** new comment: 03Snotnose [1623] (Score: 2) 02 - 06Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement - 207 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:31] <exec> 08└─If you can read my encrypted communications with my bank then so can the Russian/Chinese/Iranian/Norks. Not to mention the 12 year old script kiddie the street that my kid was babysitting a couple years ago.
[23:59:32] <exec> *** new comment: 03Anonymous Coward (Score: 0) 02 - 06Report On Device Encryption Suggests A Few Ways Forward For Law Enforcement - 89 chars -04 http://soylentnews.org
[23:59:32] <exec> 08└─I dunno about your bank communications, but I'm having trouble with your second sentence.
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[23:59:34] <exec> 08└─down. I edited that and sat on it for a good 30 minutes. Left out the word down. If you can't figure out where 'down' should have been then, well, whatever.